"Going Down To Liver Poll" - The Poptopia 80s Poll

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Volume 2 of one of the best compilation series ever.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
There She Goes - The La's	5
Places That Are Gone - Tommy Keene	3
Behind The Wall Of Sleep - The Smithereens	3
Every Word Means No - Let's Active	3
I Want You Back - The Hoodoo Gurus	3
Whenever You're On My Mind - Marshall Crenshaw	3
She Goes Out With Everybody - The Spongetones	3
Tell That Girl To Shut Up - Holly & The Italians	2
Baby It's You - Phil Seymour	2
She's So Young - The Pursuit Of Happiness	1
Lisa Anne - Bill Lloyd	0
Whatever Happened To Fun... - Candy	0
Love Is For Lovers - The DB's	0
Going Down To Liverpool - Bangles	0
Crybaby - Utopia	0
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls	0
Hold On To Something - Great Buildings	0
What I Like About You - The Romantics	0

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

While The Spongetones are completely in a league of their own here with their genius early Beatles pastiche that is one of the best singles ever, there are still other gems too. Phil Seymour, Marshall Crenshaw, Hoodoo Gurus, Bangles, The Pursuit Of Happiness and The La's are all represented with great tracks.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

Lots of great stuff, went with Hoodoo Gurus.

Does have one of my least fave dBs tunes, so many betters ones.

― that's not my post, Sunday, 31 August 2008 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

"every word means no"

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 31 August 2008 02:58 (seventeen years ago)

Lots of good stuff here but in the end the choice was easy:

Hoodoo Gurus: I Want You Back

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 31 August 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

I guess this is the decade that "powerpop" lost its power (at least if you leave out Bryan Adams and 38 Special.) After the first volume, this is just sad.

Went with Holly and the Italians.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 31 August 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

Phil Seymour.

― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 31 August 2008 04:35 (seventeen years ago)

Crenshaw, the production notwithstanding.

― Pancakes Hackman, Sunday, 31 August 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

Btw. I know this is a horrible poll title, but using it was too tempting. :)

(Hmmm.. "Automatic For The Pee Poll" next, maybe?) :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:47 (seventeen years ago)

oh your poll titles are the worst!

(keep going tho)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

no, stop going right this second

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 09:00 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

that Let's Active song is the best

― Zeno, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 23:04 (seventeen years ago)

Ugh -- power pop.

Voted for Marshall Crenshaw over the Bangles.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

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

― System, Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Going Down To Liverpool - Bangles 0
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls 0

Only moments ago the Gummo poll restored my faith in humanity, however now I'm less optimistic.

― billstevejim, Friday, 12 September 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

ridiculous that the bangles would get no votes. good to see hoodoos love though, that's one of my favourite tracks of theirs..

― give me some peppermint freddo (electricsound), Friday, 12 September 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

OK. I notice this thread got dominated by jangle pop and indie-type bands from the late 80s. Well, fine, although the earlier, more obvious powerpop material on this CD is better. :)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 September 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

(But "There She Goes" and "I Want You Back" are of course a fantastic songs, so no complaints about that)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 September 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

"A Million Miles Away" is one of the 20 or so best songs ever recorded.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 13 September 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

is there a more boring "perfect pop" song than "there she goes"?

― donna rouge, Saturday, 13 September 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think The La's were shooting for "excitement"... more like dreamy happy-heroin land.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 13 September 2008 04:23 (seventeen years ago)

Who was the other Seymour voter?

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 13 September 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

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