The Cure - Standing on the Beach/Staring at the Sea

A Forest is my least favourite of all these. I think I've been scarred by sitting through 25 minute live versions.

Yeah I'm a bit puzzled by these results. Only one vote for "Night Like this"?; OTOH, it's nice to see how evenly spread the votes are.

"Night Like this"
one vote
saxophone

'a night like this' is beautiful and magnificent. even the sax sounds alright in it.

and 'other voices' is right there at the bottom too? i prefer it to 'primary' as far as the represented tracks from faith go.

Didn't most people have the cassette of this at the time? Which wouldn't have had the non single tracks like PfT, OV and ANLT on it. Anyway the B sides on the cassette version are better. 'A Few Hours After This' number 1 forever in an alternative universe.

I certainly did. I think I played the video more though.

The next video on tried to repeat the informal approach with bits of "video diary" between, but they made the mistake of making them too long, and, well, dull.

I didn't bother 'cos I already had all the singles (and had probably taped most of the videos off the telly!)

I had the cassette forever precisely because of the B-sides.

Yeah - same as 'Concert'

Is this the first album tracks poll where every song got a vote?!?

Everything got a vote on the Portishead S/T poll, didn't it?

still the best comp

or single disc best of, whatever

It covers the best era of the band, too. 1978-1986 > 1987-1993 > 1994-present.

pretty much.

I'm supposed to like Pornography all the way through?

oh man

One for the 'posts out-of-context' thread