The Boy with the Arab Strap #1's Unite!
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
What is TABBYWARS?
― enochroot, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
I've never liked Boy with the Arab Strap, kind of mystified by the high placement. Girls in Peacetime and The Life Pursuit deserve to be higher.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
will concede that 'it could have been a brilliant career' is an incredible way to start a record
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
xp ufoI think The Boy with the Arab Strap is their most consistent album so...
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
For a lot of people (myself included), it was their first real exposure to the band, which counts for a lot.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
I tend to think a lot of the post-two-classics albums from B&S are about equal to each other, they all have some really good, some good, quite a lot of mundane, and a few questionable numbers. Which is partly why it's a great band to poll imo. The later albums are also just less known / familiar.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
TWATTYBUS was my highest ranked conventional album (Barman was #1) after a cold scientific calculation of the raw number of favourite tracks on each. Didn't feel quite right somehow, but I went with science anyway.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
these acronyms are killing me lol
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
TWATTYBUS!
TUBBYBEERS has a couple classics but also a lot of riff raff.
― SA, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
I didn't vote in the albums poll but don't get the distaste for FYTCHYWALLOP
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
did anyone ever ask the Glaswegians from the band Arab Strap what they thought of this album title? (or "Space Boy Dream," which deliberately cribs their whole deal)
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
they're from Falkirk, not Glasgow, my bad
i thought they were supposed to have been annoyed by it because people kept thinking it was a collaboration?
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
When questioned about it, Arab Strap's leader/singer, Aidan Moffat, said "They have a sense of humour." Malcolm Middleton, the band's instrumentalist, added, "Because Arab Strap is quite an interesting name. The words go well together. That's why we chose it as a band name. We're friends with them, but there's a limit to putting someone else's name on an album. They're taking away something from us." He also mentioned that the album had been confused as a collaboration between the bands
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
I didn't vote in albums, I had to hustle to get tracks in. But no controversy here.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Nor here, I suspect:
2.http://i68.tinypic.com/2088nch.jpgTigermilk (June 1996) Points: 116Votes: 38#1 Votes: 7
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
1.http://i63.tinypic.com/2wd6cev.jpgIf You're Feeling Sinister (November 1996) Points: 159 Votes: 38 #1 Votes: 20
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Tigermilk has IDLA which is super classic. SM really HIOOTP with that one.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
GOAT
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
20 #1 votes out of 40 total. That's what politicians call a "mandate"
― enochroot, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Ha! I just looked on eBay to see how much original copies of Tigermilk were going for these days, and the actual stuffed animal from the album cover just sold for $18,500. LOL fans.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
BBCODTV
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
I am one of the two non-Sinister-voters, who are you, other misfit?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
LOL @ enochroot.
Being in a silly timezone I will pause at this point and endeavour to resume with EPs on Thursday morning, AEDT. (so...probably not before 8PM Wednesday, GMT.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
Stoked for this!
I can't see the images!
I had Arab Strap at #1! (I don't objectively think it's the best but I can't shake the feeling of what it did to me at the time.)
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
Easy Chinaski, I thought we had an agreement we'd be objective.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
Fallen at the first (tartan) hurdle.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
Your favorite between sinister v tigermilk comes down to which one you heard first, I’d guess.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
No, I heard Sinister in full before I heard Tigermilk
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
I voted Sinister but not Tigermilk. Heard Sinister first FWIW.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Fold Your Hands was the album that rose the most in my estimation while re-listening, though not enough to place top 5.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
I think I first heard Tigermilk, Sinister and Arab Strap within the same week or month
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
52 ballots! wtf this band isn't *that* good
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
incorrect
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
but seriously has anyone else put out as many deftly crafted pop songs in the last quarter century?
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
they’re that good
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
they're grrrrrrrrreat!
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Shall we post our albums votes then?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
I actually had (have!) a cassette taped from the original Tigermilk vinyl release by Pam from Chickfactor, beat that, hipsters.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
speaking of chickfactor, solo stevie jackson then the softies was probs the best show i saw last year
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 4:27 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is like the second or third ILM poll I’ve ever voted in!
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I... didn't know you could vote for MC Push Barman for LPs!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
that one I never bought since I already had the EPs
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
push barman was the only two cd's in my car for a good year
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
I've never actually owned Push Barman. It arrived today.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
― avoid drinking on an empty liver (fionnland), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Who didn't vote for Tigermilk?
Apart from Dan.
― avoid drinking on an empty liver (fionnland), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
I totally think it is 'up the mountain' but other days I hear 'author author' - both have resonance. Anyway, what a song and would probably be my number one if I were to vote today.
Let's fill the glass and light to share the sunThe backstage of your life.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
The lyrics on the sleeve are "author author" but my ears refuse to hear it as anything but "up the mountain".
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 13 April 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
The backstage of your life.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link