Look What I Polled For Us, Darling (pick the best Cathal Coughlin recording)

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The true heir to Scott Walker, or simply Paddy McAloon with a bad case of the Mondays?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Everybody Is Fantastic (Microdisney)	3
Crooked Mile (Microdisney)	2
Viva Dead Ponies (Fatima Mansions)	2
We Hate You South African Bastards! (Microdisney)	1
Lost In The Former West (Fatima Mansions)	1
The Sky's Awful Blue (solo)	0
Black River Falls (solo)	0
Grand Necropolitan (solo)	0
20 Golden Showers (Bubonique)	0
Valhalla Avenue (Fatima Mansions)	0
Bertie's Brochures (Fatima Mansions)	0
Against Nature (Fatima Mansions)	0
39 Minutes (Microdisney)	0
The Clock Comes Down The Stairs (Microdisney)	0
Foburg (solo)	0

― henry s, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Great Poll Idea - it was between Lost in the Former West and Viva Dead Ponies for me - went with the later ... need to hear a lot of the microdisney stuff ...

― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

full disclosure: I also went for Viva Dead Ponies, but flirted with Bertie's Brochures for a second...

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Proabably "The Clock Comes Down The Stairs". Haven't listened to any of that stuff in years.

― Tom D., Wednesday, 12 December 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Valhalla Avenue is extremely underratred, and at the time a bear to find. Foburg is his best & most consistent solo album - he adds back some of the Fatima bile for great effect.

But I've gotta pick Lost In The Former West. One of the best demonstations of the quiet/loud/quiet asthete.

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 17 December 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

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

― ILX System, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

it's a damn shame that the Cracker-Cake-Soul Coughing poll is getting more action than this one got...

― henry s, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

wow Viva Dead Ponies -- hadn't thought of that album in ages.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

I think Everybody is Fantastic.

https://coughlanohagan.com/

― weirwrite, Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:30 (five years ago)

Is he still making new music? "Rancho Tetrahedron" came out in 2010 and a good one it was.

I never got any of the Microdisney albums, preferring the two disc anthology.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 6 March 2020 18:48 (five years ago)

1. 39 Minutes
2. Valhalla Avenue
3. Viva Dead Ponies
4. Crooked Mile
5. Lost In The Former West

I can't get into his solo material really. There's something a bit austere about it, not so much musically but spiritually. Maybe austere is the wrong word, but whatever.

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:22 (five years ago)

He has three song features on the new Sean O'Hagan album and did an album called North Sea Scrolls with Luke Haines a few years ago.

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 6 March 2020 20:27 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X40gQlkVv14

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 6 March 2020 20:28 (five years ago)

That reminds me of something off of XTC's "Apple Venus".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 7 March 2020 03:39 (five years ago)

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