Best Track on 4AD's 'Lonely Is an Eyesore' Compilation

Muscoviet Mosquito

damn - what a choice...

For me it's got to be either of the two DCD tracks, or Throwing Muses or Wolfgang Press..

I even like the Cocteau Twins track and they usually annoy the shit out of me!

Ok - decision time..

Throwing Muses - Fish

no motion

Oh god, Tough choice. As much as I love that Throwing Muses track, I'm going to have to go with "FWONTIERS!!!! FWONTIERS!!!" for Lisa Gerrard's utterly otherworldly lisp. I'm a sucker for a hammer dulcimer.

"acid, bitter and sad" >>> everything else in the world, ever.

Funny, I never liked this record, I listened to it back when it was very difficult to get your hand on 4AD material where I lived and to this day it sounds wonky and weird to me, despite all the talent involved. Dated, too.

dcd or muses, not sure

Colourbox, anyone?

colourbox are an awesome band, yeh. but this is one of those albums where i always felt one track eclipsed everything else.

i'm completely and utterly alone here, though, i'm guessing?

I think everyone feels like one track eclipses the rest. That's the nature of compilations like this. It's just a question of which track... thus, the poll.

I'm probably going to vote for Dif Juz but I'll think it over for 24 hours or so.

i meant: i'm alone in choosing the track i have, yeh?

Wait for the poll results, dude!

"Fish" for me, though I've always liked the earlier version that showed up on a split flexi (1985, I think--it came with the BOB fanzine?). A little more direct, less produced, and with fewer parts and sounds worked in. Still, 98% the same thing--it's a great song either way.

Great compilation, but "Crushed" is one of Cocteau Twins' best songs. "Frontier" is second.

then: hot doggie

now: no motion

i sold my deluxe limited edition vinyl of this recently on ebay but i didn't get much for it.

well, i got £35 i think.

not that there's any wrong answer here, but "No Motion" or "Crushed" does seem like the rightest. looks like another coin-toss.

Fish

Throwing Muses - Fish

Alright, I'll bite on "No Motion," finally.

So many great songs here but "No Motion" is something really special and transcendent. "Acid, Bitter and Sad" is a distant second and sometimes my favorite This Mortal Coil track. "Muscoviet Mosquito" is definitely my favorite Xymox.

i have this on cassette somewhere, Clan of Xymox wins today.

1-10

Dif Juz - No Motion
Colourbox - Hot Doggie
Throwing Muses- Fish
The Wolfgang Press - Cut the Tree
This Mortal Coil - Acid, Bitter and Sad
Dead Can Dance - The Protagonist
Cocteau Twins - Crushed
Dead Can Dance - Frontier
Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Mosquito

i used to have this on vhs o_O

Still have my VHS, wondering if they'll ever do a DVD or Blu-Ray.

lol didn't know I was going so deeply against the grain here. "No Motion" is my other fav from this album though. The rest I enjoy well enough but Xymox & Dif Juz are the only two that are memorable to me.

Bimble is thinking of giving out cold hard cash for Dif Juz votes. I think that Wolfgang Press song doesn't get enough love, though.

Dif Juz's "No Motion" was always my favourite when this album came out, both the song and it's clip (and it was what got me to chase up the rest of their sadly very small collection). I'd vote Fish but I prefer the rough, rather odd demo on the video.
Suprisingly for me, the Cocteaus song on here isnt really a fave.

So hm. Hard. I'm going for Dif Juz, but "The Protagonist" and "Muscoviwt Musquito" are close seconds.

I am kicking myself I never bought the wooden box that came with the album, a VHS of all clips, and assorted art gumf back in the day. It seemed so expensive (it was 100's of $).

Suprisingly for me, the Cocteaus song on here isnt really a fave.

Couldn't agree more, Trayce!!! I knew a guy at the time it came out who was really crazy about that song, but to me it was like this odd, once-in-a-lifetime case of the Cocteaus not quite blowing my mind.

I never bought the wooden box either, honey. Tragic in this day and age to admit it. But yeah.

Hey at least I bought the original Cocteaus single box though :)

of course thee 4ad box to have is the liliput set

I knew a guy at the time it came out who was really crazy about that song

Maybe that was me! ;-) I always assumed every Cocteau fan loved it as well. To me it sounds like it could have been on Love's Easy Tears, which is my favorite EP of theirs.

Never liked "Muscoviet Mosquito" as much as the rest of Clan Of Xymox's output though.

Couldn't agree more, Trayce!!! I knew a guy at the time it came out who was really crazy about that song, but to me it was like this odd, once-in-a-lifetime case of the Cocteaus not quite blowing my mind.

I agree with this. I'm a huge Cocteaus fan, which means they have so many high points that this is not too exciting in comparison. On the other hands, the guys with small catalogs such as Dif Juz and Colourbox have a stronger showing here... relatively speaking, that is.

Dif Juz had so much potential. They could have been like Talk Talk. I was so bummed they stopped after Extractions.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

At first, I was really fucking pissed that I missed this poll, but then I got a perspective and realised how impossible it would have been to pick a best track on such an amazing compilation, so I thought long and hard about how much I loved this era of 4AD in general and how, really, that Colourbox song just had to be a template for the Avalanches Since I Left You, right?

Yes, it's been a template for a ton of great music over the next two decades.

Yeah but I mean...why should Throwing Muses trump Dif Juz? Don't get me wrong, I adore Throwing Muses, but...why?

This kind of shit will probably keep me awake at night. Thanks, gothtards.

I imagine a lot of ppl who arent remotely "that era" 4ad fans wd only like either Colorbox or TMs of this comp's contents. Thus.

That Throwing Muses song should win, it's probably their best song and maybe the best song released by 4AD. It's got everything and whatever one might argue it's missing is just another thing that it's got.

I admit I forgot how good a song "Fish" was. I'm surprised to find it on my iPod, really, it's from In A Doghouse, though, so I think it's a different version than the video/compilation.

Just picked up a nice used copy of this comp. It's amazing what a consistent sound 4AD was able to curate back in the day. With the exception of Colourbox and maybe the Throwing Muses track, everything else here sounds entirely of a piece.
(though i'm casting a belated vote for the cocteau twins track)

This must have been absolute catnip for the goths back in '87.