POLL Me Up Up Up Up Up Up Up Up – TALKING HEADS – ILM Artist Poll #82 - (The Results Thread)

with the exception of Pleasure of Love I didn't think it was all that memorable

too bad "As Above, So Below" won't make it here, it's my favorite track on this album.

but the one that (I assume) will make it at the top is iconic so...

Ok, that's about it for now. Bee will be back this American afternoon to roll out the album rankings. And then crossing over into tomorrow, he'll begin the rundown of the Top 50.

Oh, and speaking of crossovers....

1. Genius of Love
By: Tom Tom Club
From: Tom Tom Club
Released: Single, September 1981; Album, October 1981
841 Points, 19 Votes, 7 Number Ones
Also: Official Video
Soul Train clip of guy dancing to this with a basketball.
Stop Making Sense version
Extended DJ Mr. Ice Remix (15 minutes long!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECiMhe4E0pI

Ok, that's it for the Tom Tom Club and solo acts! Happy to be here! We're gonna change back to the Talking Heads soon! See ya then!

thank you pplains!

so when i say bye, we gotta go!

okay bye!

will never forget walking into a record store and overhearing an already in progress convo about why Genius of Love is the greatest song ever recorded. "That first line... 'Whatchu gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some fun!'... it's all there. it's everything."

Some of the vocals in the Stop Making Sense performance are... unfortunate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIW4skg3Ceo&feature=youtu.be&t=250

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIW4skg3Ceo#t=250

ILX doesn't do Timecodes I guess, so skip to 4:10

wow, lorelei got robbed. i left on,on,on,on off of my ballot because it always seems like the lesser cousin of lorelei.

no offense to people who have high-achieving cousins and feel as if they are somehow "less than" them in some ways

but lorelei is here...

oh, whoops! i missed it during the rollout somehow. thanks!

i know it's been discussed at length but what happens in genius of love at 4:10 is enough to ruin the song, permanently

i still put it on my ballot, in the way that jessie's parents on breaking bad fondly remember their son's life up through adolescence

genius of love at 4:10 in the SMS video whiney g posted, i mean.

yeah I agree, I had not seen that before

I remember seeing SMS in the theater as a kid after wearing out the cassette version and being utterly perplexed and horrified by the Tom Tom Club segment. Still, I love the album version.

Will also say that the SMS version of What A Day That Was is wayyy better than the original.

Thought Lazy by X-Press 2 would've placed, had it fairly high up my ballot.

I didn't submit a ballot, finally decided I couldn't quantify and rank all my favorite tracks, but it's been fun listening to all these today.

yeah and some of them are HILARIOUSLY nineties

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:53 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can you explain this to me please? Bush of Ghosts was 1981, so I'm not understanding the description.

the live version of "help me somebody" being talked about there was from 1998.

wonder if tina had a hendrix vs. buddy miles moment in the studio with frantz

Ah, totally missed that hyperlink to the live clip, thanks. xp

Yay it's here. Like dl I'd embarrassingly slept on The Catherine Wheel before - got The Red House on just now and it's pretty great.

i was just about to post about the red house as well. it was my #2.

So is My Life's reputation as this ancestor of hip-hop sampling warranted? Was this thing really a touchstone?

It came out around the same time as Ant Rap so there's a bit of debate about which of these white guys invented hip-hop.

xps: i can vouch for TTC album 2. this is the hipster's choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf7xZBHVik4

James Rizzi's artworks for TTC's stuff was crazy good, and his animations in the Genius Of Love video are the best thing ever.

sorry, finally back.

Top 12 Albums

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IXN5A2FJTo1-RZBj53fi48J4AJTtIYJJS1PQxsRYOG2n-5eQe3qjmR02FRAenF6EwpKlQSKztEplSgthfjhOl9Tl509riErKLk_E6rqdDVgse8_PLE6y7YOsEJEKG30BPscTQjiaotIY0y1Q4hjrq1upAaAD5it1uEMRtl_ctCsjyogwMXK2TZT883D25r8WPoF04p5IhudD_4kwplrD2HpFO3CEr2oKDt_GQXuLcn233J_whvLCOaxVpQLH2t-3VID46nJ7P2BgemEpXqgihB16ea6_ljYCfBlVUVA21B7tLqzZ7cg1sAGQ2y-RjJ3t75KmTIfrEefMiwUDQ22DQAemPq4Bss3PD983pOPTX9Kw44f_8LWTw0SQqXpQUo3LSmc8a_moHuI48qN0qvoIQ3hf5axrSjGKGGkLfSwNbpCcU06qdc127XpnOETmDtIsCIKd-Qk7bBIaKlVwt3oT_1hEVAPoQc_MT0gBOljMVsIsTM9WU1nV2Yyx21b_dYFPo1FPsGly9bZiPjWA73y_Zyli0qfaqs1Fhzvmvi7IJgJIJS-AkkBtEjFeoFbpYixQMhzCY-WHTht6YP7tdqAELhlekWIpVnD9FALqFkeSRsCdYXUT27Y=s500-no

12. The Catherine Wheel
356 Points, 10 Votes
By: David Byrne
Released: December 1981

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rR4Au_fs8MHIVfJTFwHd3x4XGXdjOa8Pve-ZxiwC-iiifT43d_IiQja31h5GwZI_QwY_z2pB-eALCPqaMknWdl9UjiA2j8S9SRktwQJRsBEmceNmKncub7iYyUynUG34E3RGXYUWY79PXWGle8m6sareVf5prmPw9RZSzodEtVYOHj5bK0pmemaFUHwtS7B-nLHhzIH0zzehkF3AwLyK-ndybC2LDjSP9_v4oJ9wtS5Ve276Hadq14iFUqE1YciOHT32yV7kwfUC4Wy9Vfahvyiduz-XAFMWDHdDWyw3w0mSbPAn8bTOo0G19M0pUe6zpfqHBDb4EVeux7HImAxs6Gy0l8gHoVXxE3nRP_SowAMCWiEru81GV273qPDa6F6U_b5LeIKXj1kTzZ6LpqnII3c8nj8PguJKRa90gtiUI9DOaC65zLciukenEEn0w0CftqfX62_19ZhwxMf-n_qKIrjWRP1kDVsN84El_v2vSR44ks-7kRqz8gJMtZlHMpDL2EI0cIJKEcPZCE_o_j6vkAcCPwWUeBsyq7EtIHfOsS5m3AIXn8QeaxBlnJklkqMQ2_7est7d2fcUItsELb9N8fFxfqIz_G48RECSc8cBW2XXRrDnfgg=s500-no

11. Little Creatures
497 Points, 14 Votes
Released: June 10, 1985

whoa, that seems low

would also have thought The Catherine Wheel would be higher! it's hard to believe there are 11 TH albums/side project albums better than it

Listening to my #1 right now

xp yeah I was expecting the later Byrne/TTC albums to be in these places

They had 8 studio albums and 2 live albums as a band. Even if 1 or 2 don't make this list, that doesn't leave many more slots.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9rhixhf9-0Hh7CZj13DJuA-XCCn1nAkjz8fWR71y5c4ENZPseaHniRIUmhyzPCRAOMpQXyO2iHpLp8wuirDI02vn85wp9UgsI7ao7zyDTDdPtAseSJ8N0zICyRqztMHpQ5AhgkGxjzDpEFzNUrUMLy99drLHx-8zIOv51dhNxdFOqkqq8_PPJnSYUZrCQQLEv45itBcdOwWNdthq1Mhf6xxlpZ-ZJKWzVcZJJ8tqYqQFBVFFWRlrXCKmeKDqiLcMb11sIvjCMxeRrMoCttcN1X4BsfDRmCa4jMQ-jThhm22Cd7gNLQ_DqWTQvglTefKDYLPPNCzstWQ4S9KM9UD1JtFq2nYd-Qdp9fjaH3Lb2sVCW2HiOaL5lCTFMnT7iAYy2hJimVIgTmCqdNKpL-_oWI3dIgw9zdyo5_yoneerVNOxuHARYWafo2jeF1wu_tqeYLcNGMG1Y91EHNp_jvMOFACD9EJDAcf1HcNaG4x07Th8N9cxm_8JU-sqKoBKyYrYqtmu397foyragZerOcV8RhKXWPlRrtRmd4nOpwKcaDtS9Pq5lyU84Rlg4L6PP2XXBF04TKq22decVZZYdBHQnHTqUvCkWi_j7cOJMaOKrogwLjA_42k=w500-h495-no

10. Naked
Released: March 15, 1988
560 Points, 15 Votes, 1 Number One

i can't believe Naked beat Little Creaqtures.

that is a surprise

Dammit, now I wished I'd done an albums ballot. Little Creatures would've been my #3 or #4.

There was a time in my life when i would have called Naked my all-time favorite album.

TCW > LC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Naked

There was a time in my life when i would have called Naked my all-time favorite album.

― Moodles, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:49 PM (twenty-one seconds ago)

and you said to yourself MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE

I still like it and think it's quite underrated

I also liked Little Creatures when it came out, but lost interest in it a long time ago. I really related to Stay Up Late because my little brother had just been born around this time.

i can't believe Naked beat Little Creaqtures.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:37 PM (eleven minutes ago)

prior to the conversation in the poll announcement thread, i'd have been surprised. now, not so much. it's smooth, i guess? that seems to count for a lot with certain folks.