Your POLL's got a little machine: ILM Artist Poll #71 • Pixies (Voting Thread)

poll my songs into the ocean

Hold my head / we'll tramPOLLine

poll running on this panamanian schooner

Break my body, POLL my bones

I like Lou Reed, she said, slipping her poll in my ear

Oh my POLLy

tbf though nate's suggestion is the clear winner

Remember, tomorrow's the last day to vote! 24 ballots at present, so it will be a successful poll regardless, but if you're out there and on the fence about voting, just do it.

I should be able to finish my ballot today.

Trying to organize mine now. I've got my top 5-6 in place, so the rest is kind of arbitrary, just need to work it out.

crack crack crackity POLL

I guess I should vote to make sure that Gigantic finishes #1. Though how it could not, I have no idea.

Something against POLLS

ballot sent. man the past few years of the reunion tour made me forgot how the Pixies rocked my teenage years, them reuniting in 2004 was everything to me.

My ballot's on its way but I realize how much of a soft spot for the songs that mention that album's title.

Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a POLL

― nate woolls

One thing that I left off my ballot is the cover of David Lynch's "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)" which they covered live back in the day in an extremely heavy way, maybe as heavy as they got, and for much, much longer than the short snippet that appeared as a B-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qkoGA_ewic

Poll sent.

er Ballot

Just voted after taking 10 minutes and sorting through my favorites.

vote doesn't count unless you clearly over-thought things.

This is a song about a war criminal named Kony. It's called Kony's theme!!!!!

One thing that I left off my ballot is the cover of David Lynch's "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)"

Never fear, it's on mine

Alright, just voted.

voted! Listening was fun (and EDUCATIONAL!) & I don't know if it's something bred in the times or what, but for me the falloff between Doolittle and the two after that is drastic. It's like... there's quality there but I can't crawl through the production to hear it.

lol this pivot table is vexing me something hard. I'm making it identically to the one I used for the Elton John poll last year, but I'm still not seeing the "# of votes" column. GAHHH

Sent!

We're at 33 ballots now, btw. Thanks everybody! Still accepting until midnight my time (EDT) Friday night.

I can send you a link to the spreadsheet I used for my Radiohead poll if you like, it works really well.

Great, plz send to the email in the OP.

I didn't get to finish my ballot but my #1 was going to be Letter from Memphis fwiw.

you still have over 12 hours Phil D. get cracking.

I didn't get to finish my ballot but my #1 was going to be Letter from Memphis fwiw.

― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Friday, October 24, 2014 8:31 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my #1

OK, ballot sent!

I really like Lovely Day, but I can't help feeling the fact he's singing to an alien detracts from it a bit

― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just noticed this. I was under the impression that he's singing to his girl back on earth. She will be his "Martian Honey" when she gets there after he sends the money.

Letter from Memphis narrowly missed my final cut, but I've had it stuck in my head all day. I might not have even listened to Trompe Le Monde for 20 years until this poll.

just put together a quick ballot and sent. I already regret some of the songs I cut.

I've overplayed all the pixies albums but for some reason Trompe Le Monde is the one I never really tire of. It's also the one that works best as an album, on all the other ones I tend to skip around a lot, even if I pretty much like all the songs.

Yeah, it's very well-sequenced. Feels almost like a concept album or soundtrack.

TLM was my favorite for many years and it still has the highest peaks and
I love how some of the songs fit together especially Palace of the Brine, Letter to Memphis, Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons. But as a whole I think Bossanova is more consistent.

What I like about the last two is that Santiago is all over them basically.

I fully expect Alec Eiffel in the top 5 by the way.

twas my #5!

Distance = Rate is the big stunner for me. I had forgotten about that one.

I HAD ME A VISION!

After Letter to Memphis, that's always been my favorite track on TLM.

Distance = Rate was one that I kept on my ballot to the expense of some better known tracks. I barely even remembered how it went before listening to TLM again yesterday, but it rocks

I cut distance = rate, but now I wish I didn't

Just banged a crazy ballot together. Made me realize that in the last few years I basically only listen to Bossanova and Trompe le Monde, had to actually look up some of the Surfer Rosa/Doolittle songs. Love all of them when they're on, but I went with the ones that pop into my head the most often or which really make me stop and look up from what I'm doing and go "damn."

This polls made me realize that I strongly prefer body horror Pixies to sci-fi Pixies.

How much time is there still? Is there time? What is time anyway?