Senses Working Poll-vertime: The XTC Poll Nominations and Discussions thread

aaaaaany kind of vote is aaaaalriiiiiight

IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHERE YOU PUT YOUR VOTE
COS SOMEONE ELSE (OUTIS) WILL COME ALONG AND MOVE IT

xp that is a hella awesome snare sound

fwiw if no one wants to help me with graphics prepare for results plus youtubez

when the poll is over, that is. not right now

just find an appropriate GIS result

unless 'my love explodes' makes it

Conversely, I think Frank Zappa will go down more as a composer, though he certainly liked playing solos.

He referred to his soloing as "instant composition," so I think you're on the same page he was on there.

don't sully my XTC poll with Crappa

beggin yr pardon

have compiled a top 40, ordered. only issue remaining is which song takes the suddenly-disputable #1 spot. there are two candidates, and they practically couldn't be more different in outlook, disposition & style :D (although they BOTH begin with the same quiet-to-loud thing. now you know what they are, lol)

biscuit shaped.

Can I vote for the ecstatic high note that connects summers cauldron to grass?

i have very few complaints about iPods but not being able to easily play this bit over and over is one of them

first 100-entry ballot received. step up your game folks

13 ballots so far

votar

Tomorrow, I'm going to knock together an XTC care package (via WeTransfer) with the aforementioned Underwater Film soundtrack and some other rare goodies that I've dug out, anybody who would like the link, mail me on themanwhosailedaroundhisoul at gmail (note the missing 's')

Messaged u

the man who sailed around his owl

The snail who manned his roundy oil

100-song ballot is actually making me REDUCE my ballot only to songs I rly rly rly rly adore, otherwise I'm handing out 60something points to something I threw on just because

let this be a lesson

I guess most ballots are now grossly inflated though, so it doesn't matter

never gonna get my head around this

gonna submit now I think

sent; 35 tracks

been gazing admiringly at my top 10. god it's magnificent

from 7 different albums too

fuck, I've decided to change something & am resending

nah doesn't matter

18 ballots so far - get those votes in folks

I'm working on it.

Only one track from drums and wires makes it for me... it's weird I just don't feel that record. All the ingredients are there but the cake don't rise.

Long as it's the right one ;)

(Mostly agree tbh but I have 4 from it I think)

Voted for 40. Tried to do 20 and couldn't live with leaving Then She Appeared off.

funny seeing votes for songs I never really paid attention to at all, like Paper and Iron

I pray the kids aren't STARRRVING

Voted -- as low-information a ballot as you're going to get, no doubt, but I definitely wanted to give my #1 that extra hundred points.

Oh Christ, I'm going to have to finish my ballot on my lunch hour tomorrow! Damn you endlessly listenable XTC!

Last day for voting!

c'mon we can do better than just 20 ballots people

dude, it's earyl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiyn0_m2LZQ

I hate that song.

Sent!

I don't really like it either but it seemed appropriate

most dissonant album opener?

Shakey-- I just finished mine on my phone in the Notes app. The songs are numbered with their ranking but are not in numerical sequence-- that is to say, I listed all my must have songs first, and then I went through and put each one's ranking at the beginning of each line. But bc I am on my phone I don't have the ability to sort by number. Can I copy this into an email to send u or is that too annoying? (It's just a top 30 btw)

I can sort by number - just send it in and don't worry about it

Ok just listening to the single disc selections from fuzzy warbles to make sure i didn't forget anything.

Maybe we should have just balloted every single XTC song but only presented everything above Fruit Nut.

Fuck it I can't listen anymore. Sent!

Fruit Nut almost made mine!

there's a single disc Fuzzy Warbles...?

Fruit Nut is great

mine is a gloriously savage ballot with one b-side and no fuzzy warbles at all, also I neglect the fabled forgotten midperiod

Xpost I downloaded it off a blog maybe 5 years ago, it may have been that bloggers distillation of the best of fuzzy warbles or it may have been an official promo, I can't recall. Anyway it's the only fuzzy warbles I have.