xpost to some previous comments: For as much as some might say 'KIng of Rock and Roll' is Prefab Sprout's 'My Ding a Ling,' the lyrics are ace!
― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 16 March 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
^ They are rather!
Given that I already said they were first-place votes up there, this is clearly how this bit should have read:
#8 (TIE)Score: 5Votes: 1 (1)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 16 March 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
#5Score: 5Votes: 3 (0)
You surely are a truly gifted kid But you're only good as the last great thing you did- Moving The River
- Moving The River
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 16 March 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
#4Score: 6Votes: 2 (0)
Paris, any music worth its salt is good for dancingParis, but I tried to be the Fred Astaire of words - Paris Smith
- Paris Smith
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
Both of those are great lyrics and both feature in songs that have some serious clunkers in them too
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
#3Score: 10Votes: 2 (2)
Here she is with two small problemsAnd the best part of the blameWishing she could call him ‘Heartache’ But that’s not a boy’s name - Appetite
- Appetite
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
The top 2 form another tie, perhaps unsurprisingly. I'll not attempt to build suspense...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
#1 (TIE)Score: 10Votes: 3 (0)
I’ve got six things on my mind You’re no longer one of them - Desire As
- Desire As
"We were songbirds We were Greek gods We were singled out by fate We were quoted out of context It was great - Electric Guitars
- Electric Guitars
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
oh lol i voted for that "electric guitars" lyric too
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link
I didn't vote, but this line from Moving the River was robbed!
But I'm turkey hungry, I'm chicken freeAnd I can't breakdance on your knee.
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
I've just been fiddling with the final tracks results. I think a top 60 is feasible, but I'll spread it out at fairly long intervals between now and Friday. Interested parties can tune in and out without much risk of missing massive chunks of concentrated posting. Besides, I can't do as many late nights for disparate timezones this time!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
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― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
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#60TIFFANYSfrom Protest Songs (1989)Points: 59Votes: 3 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
The Spotify playlist is also being updated now. (Massive spoiler, for maybe three people: the dummy track that was in it originally is not going to place!)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
Feels like I shouldn't use up my, too low straight away but I really love this one and I would have liked to see it higher. It's my favourite song on Protest Songs.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
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#59COULDN'T BEAR TO BE SPECIALfrom Swoon (1984) Points: 61Votes: 6 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
Imagine making an album as great as Jordan: The Comeback and it legit definitely not being your best album.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 07:26 (four years ago) link
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#57 (TIE)MACHINE GUN IBIZAfrom Jordan: The Comeback {1990)Points: 62Votes: 4 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link
Hi, this is God here...
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#57 (TIE)ONE OF THE BROKENfrom Jordan: The Comeback {1990)Points: 62Votes: 4 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Wow i thought Tiffany's might be a Top 10 contender.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
One of the broken is way too low, it’s a beautiful lyric and it arrives at the point of the album where you might actually believe paddy is singing with the divine provenance
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
it's also one of paddy's own favorites, and who am i to argue with the man himself
Here's Paddy talking about 'Jordan: The Comeback' (available as a double LP for the first time) and how the tracks at the end helped define the final sound of the album. What's your favourite track from the album? Pre-order your copies here: https://t.co/uKNWtH6Kkq pic.twitter.com/jL47lTKGG7— Prefab Sprout (@Prefabsprout) September 5, 2019
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
lol i can’t tell you how baffled i was the first time i listened to jordan and heard “hi, this is god here...”
beautiful song i didn’t vote for
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
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#56WEIGHTLESSfrom Andromeda Heights (1997)Points: 64Votes: 4 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link
it's a hilarious line on its face--i mean, if god were really addressing you, you'd probably know it. but he says it like a radio dj would.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
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#55DIANAfrom "When Love Breaks Down" single (1984), re-recorded for Protest Songs (1989)Points: 65Votes: 4 (0)Youtube audio - single versionYoutube audio - album version
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
Definitely preferring the Protest Songs version here. They single version sounds too much like The Smiths were the backing band.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
"weightless" sounds better outside of the context of andromeda heights
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
Love the breadth of the lyrical nominations.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
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#54GOD WATCH OVER YOU from Let's Change the World with Music (2009)Points: 68 Votes: 5 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
my first vote to show up!
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
the chorus is wonderful and i love the synth strings
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
Hi, this is God here, watching over you, with my majestic grey beard.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
I might have to retire at #51, I'm afraid. My brain is *really* saying no to a late night!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
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#53CORNFIELD ABLAZEfrom The Gunman and Other Stories (2001)Points: 71Votes: 5 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
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#52BILLYfrom Crimson/Red (2013)Points: 74Votes: 4 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
"cornfield ablaze" may be the best later-prefab sprout song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
billy is a nice song, glad it placed around here
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
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#51DONNA SUMMERfrom "When Love Breaks Down" single (1984)Points: 75Votes: 6 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
^ Last one for the moment. Give me maybe 7 hours and should be able to drop a few more!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
donna summer is the first from my ballot to place! really amazing b-side, feels like a slightly softer and dreamier cousin of "hallelujah"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
I didn't end up voting for any B-sides. If I'd had another 20 places I would have found room for Donna Summer and a couple of others.
Couldn't Bear To Be Special is one of the songs that really stood out when I first got Swoon about 15 years ago. I'd already had Steve McQueen for years, but weirdly it was Swoon that made me get obsessed with them. This song in particular just got into my head. It's brilliant they put such a strange downbeat song out as a single (although it I guess that was fairly common in the early 80s). I love the way he sings, "I couldn't bear.. RIGHT!" with that noise that follows.
Cornfield Ablaze just missed my list. Definitely the standout from their weakest album.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
"You overwhelmed agricultural man,/You wild pyromaniac daughter of Pan"Magnificent.
― woof, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
Billy was a late cut for me. Was scrambling around for reasons to trim, and it feels a bit lopsided - third verse hasn't got much new, and the coda strolls along amiably enough for too long. BUT it's brought SO much joy by then - the flickering between bill, billy, william, "her smile is like a fairground", and that "Trumpets come and trumpets go/Amazing what gets left out in the snow".
― woof, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Glad to see Donna Summer placing. I put it in my top 10. As much as I love the slow lounge version, the thrashy version they did as a three-piece live is great.
― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
Gave points to 59, both 57s and 55 in the lower half of my ballot. Pleased they all made it.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
Billy and Cornfield Blaze are both major late-career highlights for me - placing so low probably indicates there's not a whole lot more to come from the post-Andromeda Heights albums.
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
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#50'TIL THE COWS COME HOMEfrom Protest Songs (1989)Points: 76Votes: 5 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Choosing period-matched band portraits is amusing when the composition, recording and/or actual commercial release were so often a decade apart. :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link