Best Severed Heads Single

Can't remember any one but Hot With Fleas so there goes my vote. Was one of the more Skinny Puppy-like numbers if I recall correctly.

HANG YOUR HEAD
HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME

Another vote for Hot With Fleas!

Although looking over that list made that harder than I expected.

If it was just songs, I'd probably go with "Harold and Cindy Hospital".

Mae West.

I'm in the unexpected position of being the only advocate for Dead Eyes Opened. It feels good.

That would have been my second choice.

Petrol

Actually, the only one I actively dislike is "Big Car (remix)"

1st half of list >>>>> 2nd half

although I haven't heard those Dead Eyes Opened rmxs ... am i missing anything?

No, the remixes are nowhere near as good. Special fact: one of the remixes on the Twister ep is mine. Was an American in Paris ever released as a single? That track invented the Bomb Squad. Kinda.

i want to vote gashing the old mae west, but of course im not going to

Actually, the only one I actively dislike is "Big Car (remix)"

STONE THE INFIDEL

so difficult. so so difficult. but it's gotta be petrol.

on a given day it could be almost any of the first twelve.

also major props to 'hot with fleas' b-side CANINE

WHO WILL TELL MY DRUNKEN FRIEND
THAT SHE WILL DIE AND GO TO HELL?

Petrol is technically my favorite song, but lately it's because of all the crazy early versions I've been hearing. I'll decide later.

THERE WAS A LOVER
AND HIS LASS
WITH A HEY HEY NONNY NONNY NO

Coping with Tom's vocals vs not coping very well at all. That's what it comes down to.

i love tom's voice like i love vini reilly's voice. lots.

he was ace when i saw him live last year, but by god i wish his tracks still had pop vocals.

EVERYBODY MEET MY MAKER

Heart of the Party. BUT Gashing... is the only one I own as a single...

WE'RE STOPPING AT DENNY'S ALONG THE WAY

that's right, right?

Yes, I think that's right.

I think I've only ever heard Heart of the party, Dead Eyes Opened and um.. what is the hey nonny nonny no song?

I think I'll vote for Heart of the Party, first Sev Heads song I heard.

Once "Dead Eyes Opened" was on Rage at ridiculous o'clock in the morning when I was very drunk and tired, and the strobey horrible video clip completely destroyed me. I shut my eyes and I could still see the strobing. I put a blanket over my head and I could still see the strobing. It was at this point I realised thats what these bastards like to do to people's minds. Kind of awesome.

btw, a few weeks ago I posted something about the severed heads to my little blog which is acuterecords dot com / blog

I typed it out because everytime I try to post a link it goes all screwy.

On that classic clip, the video guy Stephen Jones is a real treat. Met him at an arty event last night - he is just as dry and urbane as he was back then, and still has that twinkle in his eye.

this is impossible. it is tough to beat "big car" (though original >> remix) or "all saints day" as much as i love the early stuff. out of all of the first/second wave industrial groups that went "pop" i don't think any of them did it better than severed heads. they lost me after rotund though.

Cuisine was really fucking awesome, though!

PS Trayce: what is the hey nonny nonny no song? = "Halo"

yes

'petrol'.

I think I need to get me some Severed Heads albums. I don't know why I don't own any.

i will have to check out cuisine again. i am pretty sure i own a copy, but it just never clicked.

out of all of these, the one i have most recently been completely hooked on is "goodbye tonsils". i can't listen to it without playing it several more times. it doesn't feel right to vote for a vocal-less song in this poll though.

OK so it seems theres this new 2 disc compliation coming out called ComMerz. It is up for advabce release on emusic, unfortunately however they've fucked up disc 1 and all the tracks are some other (classical music) thing. Disc 2 is ok though so I've been able to nab a copy of "Heart of the Party". Is this new release remixed/remastered in any way?

"Heart of the Party" is even more awesome than I had remembered.

amazon sez it's remastered.

do you guys rate that joakim edit of 'dead eyes opened'? it's faithful to the original but it replaces the distortion bit with these akufen-style glitchy edits. so good.

Is "Greater Reward" supposed to break up rapdidly at the end like that, like yr PC is crapping out? Weird.

(rapdidly? I appear to have turned into Flanders)

i don't think so..

yes commerz is newly remastered

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Ack. You sort've HAVE to vote for "Dead Eyes Opened", don't you? It's their "Hot On The Heels Of Love". What version of "Hot With Fleas" was the single - same one as on Bad Mood Guy, or Bulkhead?

Actual Severed Heads track I listen to the most - "Pilot In Hell".

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

Good showing for Mae West there.

gah i missed this!

"we have come to bless this house" is my favorite severed heads song!

Disc 1 of ComMerz got pulled from emusic for some reason dammit :( I wanted the older singles!

bless THE house, sorry

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jgxj9o

I can't believe no one voted for "Propeller", "Twenty Deadly Diseases" or "Goodbye Tonsils"!

TOO MUCH CHOICE!

commerz disc 1 is missing from emusic due to the wrong album being ripped, so it should be back soon

EVERYBODY MEET MY MAKER!

^_^

"Big Car" is the foundation for one of my better iTunes Genius playlists; thank you Sevs!

(another album track I need to give a shout-out to: "Legion")

The best non-single single is "Rental Heart" from Ops 2.0

It's too bad the 2000-era stuff i.e. laptop-pop era isn't talked about enough. :( The hit/miss ratio isn't as good as the early days, but there are GRAET songs in there.

been talked about.

Also the Red Martian Remixed By Severed Heads stuff is underrated.