Split Enz "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" vs. XTC "All You Pretty Girls"

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Nautically themed sea-shanty-ish 80s new wave tunes. I loved the xtc song at the time but maybe the production lets it down a bit, the split enz one goes on too long but i think it holds up better than most of that band's stuff.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Six Months In A Leaky Boat	20
All You Pretty Girls	5

― velko, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

the song was "discouraged from airplay" in Britain during the Falklands crisis by the BBC for reasons of morale

ffs

― velko, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

Aside from the pretty introduction, "All You Pretty Girls" is annoying as hell.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

it's that relatively rare 80s song featuring a mellotron

― velko, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

love XTC, but six months. "when i was a yoooouuuung man, i wanted to sail round the world..." = so beautiful

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

could've gone for yacht dance as the xtc song i suppose but it wasn't a single

― velko, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

wau -- I just deleted "Yacht Dance" from my iTunes playlist.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

"no need to look back"

― velko, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

Best Enz song or middling XTC? Hmmm…

― THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS! (I eat cannibals), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

not even close to the best enz song!

― electrodribble sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

ok maybe top 5

― electrodribble sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:37 (seventeen years ago)

"Six Months." Is that where Ted Leo got the title "The Tyranny of Distance" from? I know he's covered that song in the past.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:09 (seventeen years ago)

― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:21 (seventeen years ago)

Mitigating factor: Andy P's Oscar-nomination worthy performance in the All You Pretty Girls vid.

― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

I love both XTC and Split Enz, but neither of these songs are their best ones... perhaps 'Six Months' a bit better.

― zeus, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

Not so keen on the "Time & Tide" album in general, but love "Six Months In a Leaky Boat". So I pick that one over the highlight on one of XTC's generally weaker albums.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

I love XTC, but I've always thought this song was just plain daft and I'm voting against it. I'd never heard the Split Enz song before, it's alright I guess.

― Coffee Table LP's Never Breathe! (Bimble), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

Although XTC are my favourite band, it's like their 100th best song vs one of two or three greatest Split Enz moments. No real contest.

― kuba a, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 22 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

― System, Monday, 23 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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