I POLLED the Megahertz - ILM Artist Poll #100 - Prefab Sprout - RESULTS

^ I care. Yours were the only other votes for "The Yearning Loins" and "Radio Love". Which means you roolz!

It just occurred to me that this is the first poll for which I've done the number-crunching where absolutely everyone submitting tracks also submitted an albums ballot. The latter is usually a smaller pool. This is surely a crucial and significant outcome, hinting at some deep truth about the artist but I'm not entirely sure what!

My ballot. Albums vote was tactical / applied EOY poll conventions.

LPs
01 Swoon
02 I Trawl the Megahertz

Songs
01 Goodbye Lucille #1
02 Jordan: The Comeback
03 Faron Young
04 Nightingales
05 Cruel
06 When the Angels
07 Horsin’ Around
08 Moon Dog
09 Here On the Eerie
10 Cue Fanfare
11 Moving the River
12 We Let The Stars Go
13 I Love Music
14 Desire As
15 Walk On
16 The King of Rock’N’Roll
17 One Of The Broken
18 Couldn’t Bear To Be Special
19 Scarlet Nights
20 Mercy
21 Appetite
22 Diana
23 Maching Gun Ibiza
24 Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
25 Don’t Sing
26 Paris Smith
27 The Ice Maiden
28 Wicked Things
29 Wild Horses
30 Looking For Atlantis

My main regret is not voting for "Technique".

TRACKS, RANKED
Appetite
Goodbye Lucille #1
Bonny
Desire As
Faron Young
When Love Breaks Down
Moving the River
Cue Fanfare
Jesse James Symphony
Jesse James Bolero
We Let The Stars Go
I Remember That
Nightingales
Scarlet Nights
Lions in My Own Garden
Enchanted
Carnival 2000
The End of the Affair
God Watch Over You
The Ice Maiden
Weightless
All The World Loves Lovers
The Sound of Crying
Life Of Surprises
Sweet Gospel Music
The Best Jewel Thief in the World
If You Don't Love Me
Wild Horses
Hallelujah
When the Angels

ALBUMS
Steve McQueen
Jordan: The Comeback
From Langley Park to Memphis
Andromeda Heights
Let's Change The World With Music

Has anybody heard the Jimmy Nail version of ‘Blue Roses’...I’ll stick my neck out and say it’s better the Prefab Sprout version...*sees people with pitchforks amassing on doorstep...

The fourth episode of the Netflix series I Am Not Okay With This opens with a teenage boy bouncing around his bedroom singing along with "The King of Rock and Roll." If I wasn't in love with the show before that point, I definitely am now.

i didn't vote in this, sorry, but i appreciated it. 'when love breaks down' might be their best song. might be the best song

I just realized Blueberry Pies only landed at 81 here. Absolutely ridiculous.

At least it's one track we know isn't modestly ranked due to being hopelessly under-heard. :)

Oh, dope! I didn't vote or follow the rollout, but I'm over the moon about "Appetite" winning.

I didn't post a ballot in March, but this will do.

The more I think about it, the more futile ranking PS songs is...my top ten is an ephemeral beast that could contain ten different songs from one day to the next.

...it's telling that a quarter of your top twenty didn't make the top forty in the ILX poll!

good list, but ya can’t quote ice maiden without including it dammit

I went to sleep with Spotify shuffling 2020 releases and woke to this conspicuously not-so-2020 sampled loop. Freaky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgGkr6Qi8ro

"life of surprises" is just the greatest goddamn song of all time

"We Let The Stars Go" will fight you for that title.

It's "The Sound of Crying" for me, but we're splitting hairs here

1) this goddamn band.
2) I now have an earworm mashup from Life of Surprises to Forever by Charli.

I went through a period of listening to "Elegance" a lot after this poll. Not sure I'd parsed the lyrics properly beforehand but I was suddenly really digging it as a class warfare anthem. Secretly their best song. Maybe. Sometimes.

Nah. Cue Fanfare is the zenith.

When everyone comes in at the start of “Life of Surprises” is the best