Best song on Galaxie 500 - On Fire

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the greatest album ever told..

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Blue Thunder 8
When Will You Come 7
Decomposing Trees 6
Strange 6
Snowstorm 5
Isn't It a Pity4
Tell Me 2
Another Day 1
Leave the Planet 0
Plastic Bird 0


poortheatre, Friday, 27 July 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Blue Thunder and it should win this thread easily. Now "This Is Our Music" would be quite competitive I'd think.

Cunga, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

I suspect there would be much love for Tell Me and Strange too.

Drooone, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

2nd "Blue Thunder". Still like their first record more.

Alex in SF, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

Another Day.. with a bullet!

poortheatre, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Plastic Bird sounds like me trying to write/play a G500 song.

poortheatre, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

I like Tell Me a lot more than Blue Thunder. I listen to this album less than This Is Our Music or Today though.

Drooone, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

the way a man might climb fuji or mckinley over everest..

poortheatre, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

ha yeah.

Drooone, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

there will be love for decomposing trees

mookieproof, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

When You Will Come Home was my introduction to the band, via a video on 120 minutes and it's always touched me the most.

dan selzer, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

decomposing trees for me

stephen, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Snowstorm

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

which is the one with all the la-la-la's?

sexyDancer, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Snowstorm

latebloomer, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Snowstrom or Another Day...

i'll go with Snowstorm.

Zeno, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Blue Thunder

dean ge, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

tough call:

"Strange" (I stood line line, and ate my Twinkie")

or

"When Will You Come Home" ("watching TV all alone, watching Kojak on my own")

henry s, Friday, 27 July 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'm voting for Isn't It A Pity" and I don't give a damn that it's a cover.
But I could have gone with "strange" or "snowstorm."

Romeo Jones, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

Blue Thuder w/out sax = awesome
w/ sax = very painful

Romeo Jones, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

Strange is wonderful. It sounds like it could easily have been a Today song, played more breezily. I love that it ended up how it did.

I could have chosen Snowstorm, for being the first Galaxie 500 song I ever heard, a live version from some gig, broadcast on Snub TV. I remember Antoine De Caunes saying something about The Velvet Underground and then this band just tearing it up through a strange, slow haze.

Decomposing Trees and Blue Thunder both start off so great but there's something not quite right about where they go. Maybe with Decomposing Trees it's just that final tinkle that undersells it.

I went with Isn't It A Pity.

I haven't listened listened to this album in the longest. Five years, I guess, seeing as it wasn't on my computer. Thanks for reminding me.

Alba, Sunday, 29 July 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

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

ILX System, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

oh, when will i come

mookieproof, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

i think everyone needs to give 'another day' another listen!

poortheatre, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

It is a great song.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

seriously this album is the very definition of a "grower". on the surface you have a verging on tone-deaf singer whining over extremely simplistic songs which cause you to ponder whether the band got their guitars for christmas. but if you're latching onto the surface, you're listening for the wrong things. this album strikes a resonating blow when you listen to it unconsciously and let its homogenous plaintive tones wash over you. being patient and undemanding will reveal the spoils of this album over time.

charlie h, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

Kind of shocked by "Isn't It A Pity" placing only in the middle. Sure, it's a cover but come on people! One of those bands that gets called seminal over and over again but, surprise, it's all true. Would like to see Uncollected pressed on wax at some point in time...

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 9 September 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

i'd probably place "decomposing trees" as the stand-out

charlie h, Monday, 13 September 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

my toes
can talk

"Decomposing Trees" all the way for me. It's the ultimate "explosion in slow motion" song. The way the drums bring the guitars to the surface after which they take off at you all know which point in the song. And all that is augmented by the AWESOME ("Absolute Beginners") saxophone part after which it's "Lift off" and so long earthly worms...

God I love this band so much it could make me cry if I'd put some effort in

willem, Thursday, 15 November 2012 08:56 (thirteen years ago)

put some effort in! be a man!

nostormo, Thursday, 15 November 2012 09:24 (thirteen years ago)

Decomposing Trees, Another Day or Snowstorm - dunno if I can choose past narrowing it down to those three. This album is one of my all-time favorites.

mod is my co-pilot (Pillbox), Thursday, 15 November 2012 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

'Decomposing Trees' is definitely my favourite, thanks to that shoegaze/dreampop poll someone ran a while back. 'Explosion in slow motion' is otm.

Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 15 November 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

And all that is augmented by the AWESOME ("Absolute Beginners") saxophone part

Hilarious but true. The sax brings the song into a whole new atmosphere.

... (Eazy), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:18 (ten years ago)

<3 the sax
hey, while we're here, something very cool -- Magic Hour (featuring damon & naomi) is on Bandcamp now! Checkin out the comp of singles/rarities: https://magic-hour.bandcamp.com/album/magic-moments
reunion?!

tylerw, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:26 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

Wareham & band were terrific in SF performing this LP last night. I haven't followed his career at all but for Galaxie, and it was remarkable to me that he sounded pretty much exactly the same 30 years on. Great show.

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 26 July 2019 16:46 (six years ago)

oh hey some of my bandmates were there too. honestly I thought it was kind of a dick move to do that album without Damon and Naomi but eh whatever (wouldn't be the first Dean Wareham dick move)

how were the Papercuts?

Οὖτις, Friday, 26 July 2019 16:55 (six years ago)

I only caught their last couple of tunes, but very pleasant psych-pop I guess I'd call it. I'd give an album a spin.
As for playing the album w/o D&O, I don't know much about their history but I assumed it was a "never play together again" kind of relationship.

the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 26 July 2019 17:17 (six years ago)

oh it is v much that kind of relationship

Οὖτις, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:20 (six years ago)


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