Judy is only #11?!! Judy where did you go wrong?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 17 December 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Cuckoo is catchy, sure, but one of these (remaining) things is not like the others....
― enochroot, Monday, 17 December 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
I thought maybe I would kick Cuckoo out of the top 10 but then I listened to it again
― Dan S, Monday, 17 December 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
Perhaps I'm easily amused but the declaration, in a Scottish accent, that B&S "have no time for dumbfucks and fucknuggets" has had me chuckling like an idiot for several hours now.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
Here are some fun facts which may or may not help with predictions:
The forty-nine first-place votes (3 ballots were unranked) were distributed across 27 different tracks in total. "Stay Loose" has received the greatest number (4) of first-place votes so far, but nothing in the top ten exceeds that number. In fact, #1 received fewer such votes and another track received none at all!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
so "stay loose" is the true winner, makes sense
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 17 December 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
LOL. Wouldn't rule out a tie, but yeah, basically.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
Sounds like we can just end the poll now. Great job everyone
― Vinnie, Monday, 17 December 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
Judy at #11 is a dick slap
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 17 December 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
Monday has arrived almost everywhere so best get this done. I'll return in an hour or two and see if anyone's about...
http://i67.tinypic.com/2111ati.jpg10. Sleep the Clock Around From The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)Live at Lowlands, 2006Points: 583 Votes: 33 #1 Votes: 1
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
I'm here! And that was my #1. So glad I pushed it into the top 10. I remember when I first heard it in radio session form it didn't do much for me but it opened up so much in the album version. "And the memory will shine"
― Alba, Monday, 17 December 2018 06:48 (five years ago) link
YES
I love the motorik (sorry) pulse of this one. My #3 and a song that's grown a lot in my estimation over the years
Would love to stay up for the entire top 10, but it's 1:30a here in the midwest states and I'm to bed soon
― bunny slopes, Monday, 17 December 2018 07:22 (five years ago) link
I'm going to start fairly slooowly, with the US in mind. Might still be at #7 or something by dawn. :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
this is pretty close to the most dead time of day for ilm with it being middle of the night in the us
'sleep the clock around' is lovely but i wasn't quite expecting it to make top 10. between it and the title track i always think of boy with the arab strap as their electric piano album, although it's not really as prominent on the rest of the album
― ufo, Monday, 17 December 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
Love it when the bagpipes kick in, need more bagpipes in pop.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 17 December 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
Never read this before, Stuart Murdochon Sleep the Clock Around:"That song was about walking over the brow of a hill, away from the two people I loved most, when I had betrayed them somewhat: after they cast me out of their confidence and out of the cafe. So it’s a song that cries out for recovery."♥️
― Alba, Monday, 17 December 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
Aww, that's lovely. StCA is a song that's become part of me, molecular.
I don't think I've ever heard the background sound effects on this used anywhere else - the little burbles and whirrs. They sound like the dreams of mouldering instruments.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 17 December 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
That's brilliant, yes.
― Alba, Monday, 17 December 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link
Assume they're Chris Geddes's work. He hasn't been mentioned enough on this thread.
― Alba, Monday, 17 December 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
His work is so understated yet utterly crucial to their sound.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 17 December 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
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9. The Boy With the Arab Strap From The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)Groovy, meandering rendition at Glastonbury, 2015Points: 623 Votes: 32 #1 Votes: 3
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
I can barely even remember what I voted for now. Apart from perhaps "Judy" or "Fox" any of the last dozen could plausibly have been on my shortlist.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
Ooh, thought that would be higher. Maybe we've all heard it to much.
― Alba, Monday, 17 December 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
That a song THIS good could be number nine in a discography is quite a thing.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 17 December 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
So, which song is going to be their "Hey Bulldog"?
― Mark G, Monday, 17 December 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
I think this was my #2. Every time I play it I have to resist dancing like a loon to it. But then think, fuck it and go for it.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 17 December 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
This poll is reminding me how much I love this band. Thanks Nag.
― Nabozo, Monday, 17 December 2018 10:05 (five years ago) link
:)
I'll wait another hour or so for the next one. Really don't want to rush too far ahead of the western hemisphere...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
Too low. The Boy With The Arab Strap is my #1.
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_.)/ (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 17 December 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
Naming an album and a song after another band is just another way B&S have managed to confuse me over the years. Others: having their own eponymous song, putting photographs of people on the covers who for a few years I (a casual fan) thought were actually in the band, having too many members, etc.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
Assuming that's the band Arab Strap in the image for this one?
― enochroot, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
We used to dance often to "The Boy..." in the early 2000s.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
XP: Yeah, photographed in approximately that same era IIRC.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
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8. The Stars of Track and Field From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)Amateur choral performance by Flash Chorus of Durham, North Carolina!Live at the Barbican (audio track)Points: 711 Votes: 35 #1 Votes: 1
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian Coe, see. Brilliant.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
:D
Enjoying the rollout NNN!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 17 December 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
ah the points are really starting to jump now
― ufo, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
Make a new cult everyday
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 December 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Never a big fan of "Sleep the Clock Around" but love the other two tracks. Thought "Stars of Track and Field" had a good chance to be #1
― Vinnie, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
first B&S song i ever heard, and I can still remember the feeling, something akin to "i have found my new favorite band"
― rip van wanko, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
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7. If You're Feeling Sinister From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)At Austin City Limits, 2014Points: 723 Votes: 34 #1 Votes: 2
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
People don't reference this song enough! Glad it did so well. The playground noise is a weird masterstroke; "the vicar or whatever" similarly.
― Alba, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
In a discography full of prettiness, this is their prettiest song.
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 December 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
the playground noise gives it this weird sense of 'passing through' if that makes any sense? i really like the effect it has, it's sort of breezy
― ufo, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
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6. I'm a Cuckoo From Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)Original promo videoAvalanches remix, audio trackPoints: 728 Votes: 31, including 2 votes for the Avalanches remix.#1 Votes: 2
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 December 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
awesome
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 December 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
brilliant song, voted for it, the Avalanches remix is overrated
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
Still good though.
― Mark G, Monday, 17 December 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Great song. That moment when the brass section goes into overdrive is deliciously over-the-top and perfect.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 17 December 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
XP: Sinister, the album, has so many songs with these long melodic phrases, and the title track is a good example:"He'll try in vain to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever" comes out in one long stream where you keep expecting the melody to resolve but it keeps pushing on just a little bit further.
(see also: "Well if I remain passive and you just want to cuddle then we should be ok and we won't get in a muddle cause we're seeing other people, at least that's what we say we are doing")
― enochroot, Monday, 17 December 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link