Red Hot + Bothered: The Poll

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There are three or four classic songs on this thing that are going to make it all but impossible for me to vote.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Freedom Cruise - 'Sensational Gravity Boy'	3
Gastr Del Sol - 'Quietly Approaching'	3
Lisa Germano - 'The Mirror is Gone'	2
The Verlaines - 'Some Fantasy'	2
Folk Implosion - 'Indierockinstrumental'	1
Future Bible Heroes - 'Hopeless'	1
East River Pipe - 'Miracleland'	1
Flying Nuns - 'Servicing Man'	0
Heavenly - 'Snail Trail'	0
Grifters - 'Empty Yard'	0
Jay Farrar + Kelly Willis - 'Rex's Blues'	0
Cradle Robbers - 'Sotto Voce'	0
Built to Spill + Caustic Resin - 'Still Flat'	0
Juicy - 'Mainland China'	0
Babe The Blue Ox - 'Hazmats'	0
Liquorice - 'Little League'	0
Noise Addict - 'Mouthwash'	0
The Sea and Cake - 'The Fontana'	0

― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 13:29 (seven years ago)

Perhaps I've overestimated the appeal of this music compilation.

― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:31 (seven years ago)

haha! i think i owned this on ... double 10-inch records? is that right?
ummm, I remember the pollard /deal thing being great ... the farrar/willis TVZ duet is killer. trying to remember "still flat".

― tylerw, Thursday, 1 March 2018 17:21 (seven years ago)

i LOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEDDDD this compilation for a couple of years. Many of these tracks went onto mix tapes and maybe even mix CDs.

― christopher.ivan, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:02 (seven years ago)

it's me, the only vote for "The Mirror is Gone"

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:21 (seven years ago)

It's a fine song but I was so heavy into that era of Lisa Germano that it feels somewhat minor in context.

The blend of Rebecca Gates and Lois Maffeo's voices on the Cradle Robbers track is so inspired and perfect that every time I hear it I feel bereft that that's all we ever got.

― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:28 (seven years ago)

i had a 10" that only had 5 of these songs. sensational gravity boy the only one i can remember. it's a good hook.

― mizzell, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:42 (seven years ago)

I bought the two comps around the same time so I can't remember if 'Sensational Gravity Boy' or one of the tracks off of What's Up Matador were the first time Pollard grabbed my attention and kicked off my extended obsession with his work.

― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:02 (seven years ago)

whenever i listened to "sensational gravity boy" it made me hope that there was a full album of Pollard / Deal duets sitting in Bob's basement. he probably would've put it out by now, I guess.

― tylerw, Friday, 2 March 2018 16:13 (seven years ago)

Breeders cover of 'Shocker in Gloomtown' is about as close as you'll get, unfortch.

― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:16 (seven years ago)

What's Up Matador

Now *that* was a big compilation album. Apparently not been polled here either.

― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 2 March 2018 19:12 (seven years ago)

Yeah, that one and this thread's titular comp sent me down numerous previously-unexplored musical byways. And they both were way better than any V/A odd and sods collections had any right to be.

― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 March 2018 19:26 (seven years ago)

do not know this one, but please poll "offbeat: a red hot sound trip" and "america is dying slowly" next

― the late great, Friday, 2 March 2018 19:29 (seven years ago)

East River Pipe gives me all the feels.

― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:18 (seven years ago)

it made me hope that there was a full album of Pollard / Deal duets sitting in Bob's basement

probably 3 full albums and an EP, and this would be the only song you like.

― campreverb, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:33 (seven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 31 March 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

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

― System, Sunday, 1 April 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

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