Here's a final 'Saturday' post while America, at least, is still experiencing Saturday. Leaving three for Sunday...
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14. Stay Loose From Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)Live at Benicassim, 2004Points: 489 Votes: 26 #1 Votes: 4
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
YES. I also ranked this at #14. One of their best genre exercises.
― bunny slopes, Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
The twin guitarwork is fucking unreal
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
From the quiet acapella part to the end is all fantastic, reminds me of The Who in a weird way, and the verses are perfect Squeeze pastiche.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 16 December 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
HOLY SHIT
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 December 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
i had given up on "stay loose" placing, the best song in the WORLD
"dirty dream" was my no. 1 but that's beside the point (it's better than every sinister song)
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 December 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
(i'm just kidding that's probably not true but i still think it's the objectively perfect b&s song)
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 December 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
4 #1s! Three other ilxors are pretty cool
― Vinnie, Sunday, 16 December 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
I threw a bucket load of points at "Stay Loose", for some reason this fucking dress up shit means more to me than "Your Cover's Blown" or I dunno most of their latter career.In other news I woke up at ungodly hour and listened to The Life Pursuit. I had "Another Sunny Day" and "Dress Up In You" on my ballot when it was down to 31, then drunkenly decided to ditch them both in some sort of misguided attempt at PURITY and added... "Big John Shaft" in the last spot? That can't be right...'Another Sunny Day" is phenomenal and should've made the cut. "Dress Up In You" I was enjoying, it resolved itself perfectly and oh wait we're still going? It fair outstayed it's welcome. And nothing else on this album really stood out. "Funny Little Frog" was better than I remembered, still, naw.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Sunday, 16 December 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
That statue:
http://www.kelvingrovepark.com/heritage-tigress.html
― koogs, Sunday, 16 December 2018 07:21 (five years ago) link
Aaaaaaaah! Thanks!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
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12-A (Another tie) The Fox in the Snow From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)Live at Barrowlands, with bonus coughing fit.Points: 509 Votes: 26 #1 Votes: 1
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
Missing definite article innit. Whoops.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 08:22 (five years ago) link
Dirty Dream Number Two deserved an even higher placement, it's indeed perfect.Never noticed Stay Loose, I guess I don't understand "genre exercises" (though I did discover your cover's blown miaou miaou with pleasure).The Fox in the Snow... so finally we have a track from IYFS, I'm not surprised it's this one. But it's also the arch-fragile B&S song. Some hurting memories with this one, and for my ex even more probably. For a long while I could not listen to it, now I find it beautiful again.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
Sinister! The appearance of If She Wants Me has meant at least one of my 20 dead certs isn't actually a dead cert after all. I can't believe that there's a third song on Sinister in the same bracket of unpopularity as Mayfly and The Boy Done Wrong Again so I reckon I must have miscounted Arab Strap instead: no Simple Things is my revised guess. I guess I only had it at #30 so I can't complain.
Have no idea what Sinister track will be highest. Could be one of at least three. Am guessing that The State I Am In and TBWTAS will be the top 2 not very confident of that!
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
Nothing about DD#2 surprises me, which is I guess why I don't love it. Stay Loose, on the other hand, well, I guess I just have my prejudices when it comes to which strands of genre pastiche we'll accept and I love it to bits.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
The "Boy On The Bike" verse of Fox hits pretty hard because I started racing bikes and then became ill and needed treatment and then once "healthy" tried returning to racing and realized that my treatment sucked much more life out of me than I initially realized. Painted the song in an entirely new light for me.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
What a run of songs! The longer this goes on the more it becomes apparent that my ballot was essentially arbitrary.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 16 December 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
I remember being surprised by "DD#2" the first time I listened to TWATTYBUS: the sudden quasi-orchestral immensity of the first few bars alone likely induced an audible 'whoa!'
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
And there's my #2. "Fox in the Snow" affects me more than anything else in their catalog, perfect pairing of music and lyrics
― Vinnie, Sunday, 16 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
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12-B (Tie) Me and the Major From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)Live in Rio, 2001Points: 509 Votes: 24 #1 Votes: 2
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
I'll post #11 in a few hours and then get back to a decent pace to finish things on Monday.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
Me and the Major ended up being my top ranked Sinister track, which I wouldn't have guessed prior to relistening. I love the way it ends.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Both #12s too high for me, Clive
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
Isn't the next one #10 ? Otherwise I ask that you start a new thread with the correct numbers, and we'll pretend to discover the ranking again.Can't hide my pleasure to see IYFS "haters" complain at IYFS high placement :D (My top-5 was IYFS tracks so I'm a main culprit)Me and the Major has this intoxicating fast-paced free-rolling piano speed that I love on the album. There's very few left now. I predict Sleep the Clock Around is next.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, actually you went 14, 12, 12.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
both perfect songs, the way 'me and the major' spins out in to the 'yeah the snow is falling' refrain is transcendent.
― devvvine, Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
XP: LOL. Yeah, the other ties are similar.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Slow Graffiti is fantastic and I love that the emotion in the lines from “It doesn’t matter...” to “...it’s worse to wake up with her falling round the room” isn’t lessened by having “I stay in to defrost the fridge” in the middle of it.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 16 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I still remember the first time I heard The Fox in the Snow, being startled by the third line, "Cause the word out on the street is you are starving"
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
God I love the stuttery harmonica at the beginning of "Me and the Major."
I always kind of mentally mix it in my mind with the Housemartins' "Me and the Farmer."
That said, it's one of 4 Sinister songs I didn't vote for and so is "Fox." But I think in part I felt embarrassed to vote for all 10 Sinister songs, I can't deny I like this better than some songs I voted for (like "Stay Loose," sorry fans)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
I love the lyrics, melody and vocals on Slow Grafitti. I guess in the end it just missed my ballot because I'm not mad about the chugga-chugga rhythm that doesn't go anywhere.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Graffiti! Could have done with checking over a lot of my posts on this thread.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
“Me and the Major” was my #1! I just love that darn harmonica so much.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 16 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
alba, if i ever make you a mix, i'm going to make a special note to NOT include CCR's Keep On Chooglin' :)
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 16 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
"Fox" my #1, and the first B&S song I ever heard
― bunny slopes, Sunday, 16 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Guess what I'm now listening to, Karl? No, I don't think it's for me.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
i regret to tell you that you are contractually obligated to keep on chooglin' for the full 7:40
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 16 December 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
"i'm a cuckoo" 4 no. 1 btw
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Stuart Murdoch had better appear at some point. xpost
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, December 16, 2018 12:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh yeah one of the best uses of the harmonica in the history of recorded sound
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
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11. Judy and the Dream of Horses From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)Live at BarrowlandsPoints: 564 Votes: 26 #1 Votes: 1
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
Too low, best track on Sinister.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Oh this top 10 is going to be so good.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
thanks everyone for voting "desperation made a fool of me" into the top ten j/k
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
yung alex kapranos there, right?
― J. Sam, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Re: Desperation, I'm looking forward to seeing the full list past 60 as much as I'm looking forward to the top 10.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
I'll post #10 pre-dawn, Glasgow time (maybe 9 hours from now) and gradually increase the pace as the bulk of ILM settles into Monday.
Summary of stuff since the last summary:
Rank Title Pts Votes #1s20 This Is Just a Modern Rock Song 400 23 119 She's Losing It 412 25 018 Dog on Wheels 413 20 017 If She Wants Me 442 21 015= Slow Graffiti 486 23 215= Dirty Dream Number Two 486 26 214 Stay Loose 489 26 412= The Fox in the Snow 509 26 112= Me and the Major 509 24 211 Judy and the Dream of Horses 564 26 1
20 This Is Just a Modern Rock Song 400 23 119 She's Losing It 412 25 018 Dog on Wheels 413 20 017 If She Wants Me 442 21 015= Slow Graffiti 486 23 215= Dirty Dream Number Two 486 26 214 Stay Loose 489 26 412= The Fox in the Snow 509 26 112= Me and the Major 509 24 211 Judy and the Dream of Horses 564 26 1
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
A few facts here I didn't know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fso8D9lgJVY
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link