POLL Me Up Up Up Up Up Up Up Up – TALKING HEADS – ILM Artist Poll #82 - (The Results Thread)

23 Solo Ballots
84 Solo Songs
Full Results

Top Solo Songs:

1. Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club 841 Points, 19 Votes, 6 Number Ones
2. Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club 558 Points, 13 Votes Number Ones
3. Regiment Eno/Byrne 382 Points, 9 Votes 1 Number One
4. The Jezebel Spirit (David Byrne/Brian Eno) 295 Points, 7 Votes, 2 Number Ones
5. America is Waiting (David Byrne/Brian Eno) 229 Points, 6 Votes
6. Help Me Somebody Eno/Byrne 205 Points 5 Votes 1 Number One
7. Strange Overtones - Byrne and Eno 186 Points, 4 Votes, 2 Number Ones
8. Mea Culpa Eno/Byrne 184 Points, 5 Votes 1 Number One
9. Qu'ran Eno/Byrne 171 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One
10. What A Day That Was 170 Points 4 Points
11. Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) Bryne 163 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One
12. The Carrier Byrne and Eno 156 Points 4 Votes 1 Number One

Lorelei Tom tom Club 149 Points, 4 Votes
The Red House - David Byrne 125 Points, 3 Vote
On, On, On, On... – Tom Tom Club 122 Points, 3 Votes 1 Number One
Big Business (Byrne) 119 3
As Above, So Below – Tom Tom Club 114 3
Make Believe Mambo 110 3
Mountain of Needles - Eno/Byrne: 85 2 1
A Long Time Ago (Byrne) 78 2
Pleasure of Love 78 2
Two Soldiers David Byrne 73 2
Life is Long (Byrne-Eno) 72 2
Rev It Up 72 2
Moonlight in Glory – Byrne Eno 69 2
Cloud Chamber David Byrne 67 2
Don't Want to Be Part of Your World 50 1 1
Eggs in a Briar Patch 50 1 1
Roadrunner (Modern Lovers) 50 1 1
They are in love 50 1 1
A soft seduction 46 1
Girls on My Mind 46 1
L'éléphant - Tom tom Club 46 1
Very, Very Hungry – Byrne Eno 46 1
A self-made man 43 1
Crash (Byrne) 43 1
Lazy - X-Press 2 43 1
Someone I Care About (Modern Lovers) 43 1
Toe Jam - The BPA ft David Byrne 43 1
Under the Boardwalk" - Tom Tom Club 43 1
Optimist 40 1
She's Mad (Byrne) 40 1
Who 40 1
Bonzo Goes To Washington 38 1
Carnival Eyes 38 1
His Wife Refused 38 1
Modern World (Modern Lovers) 38 1
The dream police 38 1
the man with the 4-way hips 38 1
Dirty Old Town 36 1
Just the Motion - David Byrne 36 1
Marching Through the Wilderness 36 1
The Great Intoxication 36 1
Angels 35 1
Astral Plane 35 1
Don't Fence Me In David Byrne 35 1
Ice Age 35 1
Ade 34 1
Dark Sneak Love Action 34 1
Hanging Upside Down 34 1
happiness can’t buy money 34 1
Hospital (Modern Lovers) 34 1
In the Future 34 1
My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks) 34 1
Old World 34 1
Suboceana 34 1
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Thievery Corporation 34 1
The last emperor main theme 34 1
A Walk in the Dark 33 1
Girlfriend (Modern Lovers) 33 1
I know sometimes a man is wrong 33 1
Lazarus 33 1
She Cracked 33 1
Strange Currencies 33 1
sunshine and ecstasy 33 1
A Secret Life 32 1
Booming and Zooming 32 1
I Should Watch TV 32 1
innocent sex kiss 32 1
Light Bath 32 1
Like Humans Do 32 1
Pablo Picasso 32 1

pplains images: Here are all 50 images in one place on Imgur

bye

My unfinished ballot but I sent it in anyways (Unranked):

And She Was
Girlfriend is Better
The Great Curve
Don’t Worry About the Government
The Book I Read
I’m Not In Love
Memories Can’t Wait
Mind
Wild Wild Life
With Our Love
Stay Hungry
The Lady Don’t Mind
Perfect World
Television Man
Born Under Punches
Houses in Motion
Listening Wind

Swamp 221 9
I Get Wild/Wild Gravity 177 6
Moon Rocks 140 5

everybody, i disagree with something in this poll. i throw myself upon the gears. wtf is swamp doing above anything in the poll results, let alone "moon rocks"? i double dare anyone to listen to swamp, then moon rocks, then swamp again, then moon rocks again, and argue that swamp is better. gtfo, i need an explainer

disclaimer: i walk the dog to moon rocks. i am the legal guardian of moon rocks and have been for over a year now. moon rocks and me go to the balloon store and moon rocks gets whatever it wants. moon rocks still sounds unbelievably fresh, it's amazing

(i get wild is also better than swamp, but it placing below swamp is not a crime against nature in the way that moon rocks is.)

moon rocks >> i get wild/wild gravity >>>>>>>>x2 swamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFUH4L3ZTUk

i mean the "I got wild imagination / Talkin' transubstantiation" is just the beeeest

No dust and no (moon) rocks
The whole thing is over

i listen to this Spotivy playlist quite a bit. ILM did such a good job at the order.

swamp is brilliant, Karl wtf?

the SMS version especially. they out-Tom Waits Tom Waits on that one

I'm not that into Moon Rocks, maybe my least favourite on SIT

It sounds like "Coming Up" to me.

Swamp makes me feel like i just downed 7 miller lites in the food court of a mall (not the worst) but now I can't find the restroom in sears. Where is the goddamn restroom? Interminable. It just goes and goes. It was written in 25 minutes (I made that up)

Then moon rocks comes on and it's like realizing you can per wherever you want in sears, it's gonna close anyway, then walking straight out to your car and driving like Out Run before you crash.

The vocals in moon rocks are like the platonic ideal of David Byrne vocal stylings.

As the inhabitants of Swamp choke on the swamp goo, again, they notice this wicked cartwheeling apparition peeling back the leaves of the canopy blurting out nonsense about the moon, flying saucers, levitation. I could do that, they think. However, the swamp goo.

lol I'm just messing around, and I really dislike the keyboard breaks in moon rocks fwiw. I just can't imagine a situation where I'd rather hear swamp

Hiiiii High High High High Hiiiiiiiiggggh GO! Whoop-whoop-whooop!

Ok I have to admit that's one situation! ;)

can we at least agree that Pull Up The Roots is the best thing on SIT?

did I imagine there was a stop making sense outtake of that song?

listening to Moon Rocks for the third time today in order to 'give it a chance'. not sure I love it yet but pplains is right, it does sound a bit like Coming Up

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/david-byrne-holds-old-suit-show-how-far-hes-come-w-56478

ha

just discovered you can write the entire plot of 'mother!' using only david byrne songs pic.twitter.com/OrC4uLu9TB

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) January 13, 2018

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haha <3

I think this is my favorite poll that has appeared on ILM. Such greatness, Bee OK and pplains did a masterful job with this one.

I finally ranked my albums and annotated my picks!

I now agree that The Name of This Band is Talking Heads is their best album. At the time of this poll I didn't know it but also didn't submit an albums ballot.

In “Cities” he recants “The Big Country” and embraces the tumult and dirt

Isn’t the narrator of The Big Country saying that cities are the only places worth living?

the narrator of 'the big country' loves the small towns so much that he wouldn't - couldn't, even - accept payment for the honor of living in one. he expresses admiration for the way that people do things there, and the way that they live, which again, he claims is beyond his capabilities. but just to make clear his allegiance, he addresses them as "siree!", his attempt to meet them halfway

I hope you’re a Genius contributor

what i hope to do is combine my opinions with more extreme certainty before adding a final dose of mild but persistent antagonism toward anyone who hears it in a different way

there was a big discussion on big country on some thread, cannot remember it now or find it, but it was prairie rose vs. big country in terms of perspective

"Hey, listen. I'll do some driving, ok? You go ahead and get some sleep."

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Two questions:

- Have you ever seen David Byrne perform in drag?

- What about in blackface?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51RdZBsv0w

lol that place is around the corner from my work

Watch out!

or you might get what you're after!

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