images are a lot of work, ok to skip them imo
― WilliamC, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
agree with this too
― niels, Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
18 ballots in so far, not nearly enough!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
so far there's not a single song that's made every ballot
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
shh!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
waiting until the last minute as usual, you'll get mine tomorrow
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
and there never will be!
i'll have mine tonight! i only made it to 70 or so but i'm trying to do some extra listening to get to a clean 77
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
^^ a worthy goal
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
ha haaa:
Sylvia Patterson: Were you aware, back in the ’80s, of the full title that Smash Hits used to give you?Paul McCartney: Wacky? Thumbs aloft? Macca… Wacky Thumbs Aloft?SP: “Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft.”PM: Is that the full thing? You learned it! I loved that, Thumbs Aloft. And funnily enough it was coined by the guy at the time who looked a bit like me. Mark, the editor. So I thought there was something deep and psychological going on there.
Paul McCartney: Wacky? Thumbs aloft? Macca… Wacky Thumbs Aloft?
SP: “Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft.”
PM: Is that the full thing? You learned it! I loved that, Thumbs Aloft. And funnily enough it was coined by the guy at the time who looked a bit like me. Mark, the editor. So I thought there was something deep and psychological going on there.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
I aimed for 77 but tapped out at 72 or so :(
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Thursday, 31 May 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
where my ballots at
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
They're not due til tomorrow right??
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
yeah but it's easier on me if I don't get like a dozen ballots at 4:55pm (or later) on a Friday
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 May 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
Sent! Eighty tracks!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 May 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Sent. It's been over 40 years since I've willingly listened to any of the Postfabs as much as I did in the past week. In the end only 14 out of 100 songs on my ballot were released after 1979.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
if i want to make a list of my top 20 can i do that? how does the point allocation go in that case?
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
it goes as if you would have filled in the other 80.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
kinda wish there was an albums side poll with this one!
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
i nearly made an albums list anyway but if anything it’s even harder to rank
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
yeah, i think i'd know my top 5 but have no idea where anything would rank within it
also, just submitted my ballot! only ended up with 70
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
tbh i could be wrong but i feel like a lot of albums lists would have the same top three
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
made it 30 seconds into "Temporary Secretary" before bailing. I've heard better production and sound on boombox tapes, dear god. I'll try a few more Wings songs but right now I'm listening to "Mind Games" deep cuts
― sleeve, Friday, 1 June 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
xpost
ATMP/Imagine/POB? or maybe Ram or BOTR in there?
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
yeah basically, feels like it'd be a shuffle of those exact albums
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
plus me aggressively voting for london town or whatever
me registering nine sock puppets to vote for McCartney II and nothing else
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
wait, I like a track from Off The Ground ("Golden Earth Girl")
what is happening
― sleeve, Friday, 1 June 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
16 seconds into "Say Say Say" - NO NO NO
― sleeve, Friday, 1 June 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
could be a good time to listen to the no song
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
kiss kiss kiss > wah-wah > well well well > say say say >
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
the no no song is pretty good imo
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
I loathe "No No Song."
I love "Say Say Say."
Consensus!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 June 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
Of the many ways one could chart the general cultural shifts wrought by "The Sixties," the ten years' journey from "she loves you, yeah yeah yeah" to "then she held out a ten-pound bag of cocaine" might be one of the swarthiest but most revealing.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 June 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
First line of your essay, please.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 June 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
Sent! 31 songs strong
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 June 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
xpost no no, no no, I can't take it no further
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 June 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
say, say, say what you want
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
it's always a good time to reread the 1980 playboy interview
PLAYBOY: "Many people feel that none of the songs Paul has done alone match the songs he did as a Beatle. Do you honestly feel that any of your songs on the Plastic Ono Band records will have the lasting imprint of 'Eleanor Rigby' or 'Strawberry Fields'?"LENNON: "'Imagine,' 'Love' and those Plastic Ono Band songs stand up to any song that was written when I was a Beatle. Now, it may take you 20 or 30 years to appreciate that, but the fact is, if you check those songs out, you will see that it is as good as any fucking stuff that was ever done."
LENNON: "'Imagine,' 'Love' and those Plastic Ono Band songs stand up to any song that was written when I was a Beatle. Now, it may take you 20 or 30 years to appreciate that, but the fact is, if you check those songs out, you will see that it is as good as any fucking stuff that was ever done."
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
I love that book
finished a 77 ballot, very enjoyable thread, thank u all
― sleeve, Friday, 1 June 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
sent an 81-song ballot
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 June 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
Sent my 100 song ballot. Phew. Forgot to double-check if George's instrumental version of The Inner Light from the Wonderwall Music bonus tracks was eligible, being a Beatles track too and all, and this thread is now crashing my browser so couldn't scroll back to look there! Anyway.
― Alba, Friday, 1 June 2018 06:11 (six years ago) link
Now, it may take you 20 or 30 years to appreciate that, but the fact is, if you check those songs out, you will see that it is as good as any fucking stuff that was ever done."could not help but read this in the voice of Liam Gallagher
― niels, Friday, 1 June 2018 06:46 (six years ago) link
Sent! 40 songs
― bunny slopes, Friday, 1 June 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
Thanks to this poll I have It Is 'Him' (Jai Sri Krishna) going round my head on endless repeat. Do earworms count towards the reawakening of original spiritual consciousness?
― Alba, Friday, 1 June 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
Dammit, I really want to put Loneliness by Yoko on this list, but Lennon doesn't play on it.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 1 June 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
ugh flagging ate my post but: gonna try my best to get home in time to make a ballot today, and I just threw a last dozen tracks onto the playlist, moooostly stuff that's gotten at least partway namechecked here (e.g. second-tier-but-basically-liked-em cuts from my ringo marathon), plus a couple of big ticket items (Mother, original Maybe I'm Amazed). shockingly not on Spotify: Girls' School, and any of the FitD-era b-sides (Loveliest Thing!!).
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 June 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
just sent my ballot, 77 tracks
― sleeve, Friday, 1 June 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
I'm voting for the Unplugged version of "That Would Be Something" - will you lump that in with the studio version or is it counted separately?
― CrabalockerFishwife, Friday, 1 June 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
just realized i didn't include "maybe i'm amazed" at all, whoops. i like it enough to include it near the bottom of my ballot, but in general it's my least favorite popular solo paul song
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 June 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
i like that song a lot but it didn’t survive the second draft of my ballot
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 1 June 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link