http://i68.tinypic.com/jj8sps.jpg7. I'm Waking Up To Us (November 2001) Points: 24 Votes: 8 #1 Votes: 2
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Sorry, that's actually 3 first-place votes. I can respect that position. All three tracks are possibly a tad under-rated. (Or under-heard?)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
agreed. voted for two of these on my traxx poll and the third barely missed the cut.
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
5. (TIE)
http://i66.tinypic.com/30ml9au.jpgJonathan David (June 2001) Points: 32 Votes: 14 #1 Votes: 0
http://i65.tinypic.com/309ncs9.jpgBooks (June 2004) Points: 32 Votes: 12 #1 Votes: 3
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
A tie on total points, at least. The former was on more than half of ballots. The latter received several first-place votes. Pick your own winner if you wish.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
judy and her dream of dickslaps
ha
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
a lot of people who don't like "winter wooskie" itt
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
you're all wrong
jonathan david is my vote for the best non-classic single. "carriage clock" AND "middle distance runner"???? my god
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
^ Yeah, what he said.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
http://i68.tinypic.com/ix5unc.jpg4. This Is Just a Modern Rock Song (December 1998) Points: 67 Votes: 20 #1 Votes: 6
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 3:33 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this isn't me correcting you angrily or anything, it's extremely not a big deal and hard to figure out even from context, but for future notice i go by they/them
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
Oh, indeed! I was in furious agreement about Jonathan David! :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
And then I didn't even read that properly. Now I have!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
books was my number 1 and all three original tracks made my top 12 (i do love cover (version) too, consider it lumped in with your cover's blown)
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
http://i68.tinypic.com/j6udld.jpg3. 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (October 1997) Points: 75 Votes: 23 #1 Votes: 6
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
Books was my number one, Jonathan Davis my number two, Modern my number three. I really love the first two EPs but they each strike me as one stellar song with a couple good ones and a bad one.
― avoid drinking on an empty liver (fionnland), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
Incidentally, I think the tracks rollout shall start at #60, because:
(i) everything has >10 votes out to around that point(ii) there's an interesting mix of stuff between 50 and 60(iii) more opportunity to annoy ILM's unbelievers than with 50
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
i think 369 seconds of light is easily the best of the first three eps, ok i guess they’re all hits so it doesn’t matter
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
Oh Nag can you also disclose which album track from pre-hiatus didn't get a vote (assuming it didn't in the final ballots)? That's been bugging me.
― avoid drinking on an empty liver (fionnland), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
369 was my #1 too, even though the lead track (or at least the one that got a promo video) was probably my least favourite of that era.
I'll disclose right now which track missed out, because it's probably more of a technical thing than a quality thing: "Act of the Apostle II." Some votes for "AotA" might have implied support for both parts.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
http://i67.tinypic.com/5000i9.jpg2. Dog on Wheels (May 1997) Points: 77 Votes: 24 #1 Votes: 4
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/3463rep.jpg1. Lazy Line Painter Jane (July 1997) Points: 84 Votes: 25 #1 Votes: 5
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
These last few kept swapping places right up to yesterday. There ultimately wasn't a huge amount it.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
"IN it."
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
369 was my favorite too. couldn't decide which songs from it to put on my tracks list, ended up with Beautiful and Put the Book Back on the Shelf but it could have been any of the four
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
I need to perform some last minute quality control checks on the tracks ballot. And I've only just grasped the final positions for the first few. I shall endeavour to commence that bit some 9-10 hours from now. (Perhaps late morning, Greenwich Mean Time!?!)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
Amazing work so far. I'd had 3..6..9 top too and it wasn't really a tough decision. Can't wait for the tracks results.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
http://i68.tinypic.com/11qiqf5.jpg
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
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60. I Don't Love Anyone From Tigermilk (1996)Live at Bowlie Weekender, 1999Points: 156Votes: 11 #1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
I should arguably have had someone competent do graphics, but it turns out I *really* like adding tints to dorky band portraits.
I get the impression at least one person will find this placement disappointing.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
That would've been my number 1, if I'd voted. Way too low obv.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
damn... forgot to vote!
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:10 (five years ago) link
I like it a lot, but do find it to be one of the weaker tracks on a really great albums.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
How can multiple people have forgotten to vote and yet we have so many ballots?
I didn't forget but hadn't time
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
one of the more minor tracks on Tigermilk but that means it's still really quite good
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/2dl17i8.jpg
59. If You Find Yourself Caught in Love From Dear Catastrope Waitress (2003)Live at Glastonbury, 2015Points: 157Votes: 9 #1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
the whole end section of this one is a delight
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
Is this one Stuart's coming-out-as-a-christian song?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
noh, we always knew..
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
I recognised all the religious metaphors from my Catholic upbringing, but imagined he was just using them as a source of vivid imagary, right up to this point.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
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58. I Want the World to Stop From Belle and Sebastian Write About Love (2010)Original promo videoPoints: 158Votes: 11#1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:42 (five years ago) link
My Tigermilk choices were a bit more arbitrary than those for other albums. In retrospect I should maybe have picked I Don't Love Anyone, just on the basis of how often I've found myself singing it since relistening to the album.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
All songs in the countdown so far have started with the letter I. How long can this carry on?
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Love Sarah Martin's vocals on Caught in Love, especially the 'give up your will' bit. The simple village girl verse is far more embarrassing than anyone's religion though.
― Brand Slipper, Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
I think some of Write About Love is very much in the same vein as their early stuff. I Want The World To Stop probably is my favorite 2010’s B&S next to I Didn’t See It Coming
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
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57. The Blues Are Still Blue From The Life Pursuit (2006)Original promo videoPoints: 168 Votes: 13#1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:02 (five years ago) link
^ I was generally avoiding front covers for this bit, as we've seen a lot of them already, but then I saw this charming TBASB promo CD cover.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:03 (five years ago) link
Can I put in the first "too low!" here?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link