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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Part-Time Lover	4
Do I Do	4
Master Blaster (Jammin')	2
Lately	2
That Girl	2
Get It	1
I Just Called to Say I Love You	1
I Ain't Gonna Stand For It	1
Ribbon in the Sky	0
Go Home	0
Overjoyed	0
Skeletons	0
You Will Know	0
Love Light in Flight	0

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:03 (ten years ago)

No Ebony and Ivory, huh?

― Darin, Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:23 (ten years ago)

No.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:24 (ten years ago)

I'm looking at eric.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 February 2015 01:46 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 6 March 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

lots of interest

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2015 00:04 (ten years ago)

i missed this!

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2015 00:13 (ten years ago)

those hotter than july/musiquarium singles at the top make it hard to vote for "get it" but uh i'm voting for "get it"

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2015 00:15 (ten years ago)

someone has to!

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2015 00:20 (ten years ago)

"That Girl" for me

― col, Friday, 6 March 2015 00:39 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

Wait...this isn't Master Blaster? By a mile?

― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 7 March 2015 01:42 (ten years ago)

I ain't gonna stand for taht

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 01:48 (ten years ago)

Zero votes for "Overjoyed" makes zero sense since it's his best 80s ballad.

― vmajestic, Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:03 (ten years ago)

love light in flight is sick

― spacemindy, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:30 (ten years ago)

six years pass...

Overjoyed by a mile

― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 June 2021 02:49 (four years ago)

Love Light in Flight totally got robbed!

Someone in another thread (maybe on "I Just Called To Say I Love You") compared this era to Wendy Carlos, and I always think of this now and enjoy it even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLqumdxG93s

― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Thursday, 10 June 2021 02:53 (four years ago)

Positive I voted "Do I Do" but I genuinely like all of these songs outside of the obvious dud.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 12:43 (four years ago)

"Do I Do" and "That Girl" still remain two of the best new tracks recorded for a comp.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:06 (four years ago)

It's mind-blowing that "September" and "Do I Do" both fall into that category.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:09 (four years ago)

I've loved "Master Blaster" since it came out. Most of the other songs here have "skeletons" of good melodies/chord progressions, but the arrangements/productions sap the energy. He also started dragging songs out a couple of minutes too long.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:24 (four years ago)

"That Girl" should have won in a walk. And the poll should have had many more voters. (This comes from a guy who didn't vote, of course. But I missed the poll!)

There should also be a poll for best songs recorded for comps. Thinking "Sidewalking" by the Mary Chain, maybe "Sound of Crying" by Prefab Sprout. Surely countless others but how to track them all down. Maybe just a thread.

― henry s, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:58 (four years ago)

I think I did that once.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:06 (four years ago)

yep: Best Song Recorded Specifically For a Compilation

― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:34 (four years ago)

I strongly disagree with those results.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:42 (four years ago)

With Overjoyed I was never able to get past the usual schmaltzy production criticisms of Stevie's 80s output, but I've really come to deeply love it as a jazz standard. lots of great covers

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:55 (four years ago)

I strongly disagree with those results.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.

a good to great top five tho!

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:19 (four years ago)

Not much love for the top two on my part.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:42 (four years ago)

Oh. I had not seen Echo. *rends garments*

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:44 (four years ago)

skeletons is a tune. i would have voted for it.

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:49 (four years ago)

aka the song that argyll is listening to in the limo in the basement while on the phone in die hard

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:50 (four years ago)

the live version of Ribbon in the Sky is superjoyous when you get to the "sky falling" breakdown at 5:45 and would've gotten my vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHETurMoVVo

kind of amazing how many great tracks he put out after the 70's and how that stopped more or less completely in the 90s

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:36 (four years ago)

I prolly would of voted for ‘Skeletons’ too…v underrated…I found this the other day…I’m sure it’s been posted before but it made my week…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3dzazukDE8

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 11 June 2021 01:03 (four years ago)

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