Bimble has a favourite Durutti Column album and it is Another Setting POLL

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This is your favorite Durutti Column album? Really?

Haha. Did I stutter?

i chose amigos. portugal & vini fit well together. he is a fado kind of guy. the main advantage of that track is that there is lots of trembly piano and not so much guitar. vini's new age sounding guitar repeating more or less the same motive all over gets really on my nerves after a while. definitely not my fave of dc. that would be probably lc.

This is my favorite Durutti Column album by a mile. Of the early stuff it has the most Factory-esque moody new wave songs balanced by a variety of pop-classical/new age interludes. My favorite song is probably Spent Time. Could be a Joy Division single.

What is wrong with it being anyone's favourite Durutti Column album? (This is not my favourite Durutti Column album.)

"Prayer"/"Response" is a killer 1-2 combo to lead off the album and if they could combine them, I'd definitely think about that. "For A Western", "The Beggar" and "Spent Time" are all wonderful fantastic tracks but I'm voting "Second Family" today because of its emotional impact following an incident with an iPod and a devastating sub-tropical storm while travelling on a train back in December. And because it's utterly beautiful.

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I voted for Bordeaux but could have voted for 4 or 5 others just as easily.

Aw, man, Bimble's humble poll which hardly no one will vote in. Electricsound to thread, at least?

would love to contribute, but... heresy alert.. i have never actually heard this album ;_;

i've heard some of the live versions on domo arigato, which i dig, so this is an oversight i will seek to correct

Yo.

Alright, well I'll give you a pass this time.

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Repoll?

Haha! Oh man, that's kindof beautiful though! Zeroes & ones!

Told you.

what is the order there? why isn't amigos tops?

i'm gonna play purist and say Amigos shouldn't even be on the poll. First of all, it wasn't on the album, second of all, I can't sing along with it. And prayer shouldn't beat Spent Time. Jesus, people, go listen to Spent Time. And Bordeaux, and The Beggar, and Smile in the Crowd and You've Heard it Before and Dream of a Child...these are great Vini vocal songs!

Dan Selzer! Holy shit, I've been meaning to email you lately. I'm dead serious about this, I wanted to email you so bad last night or whatever. Give me a day or two to work it out, you'll hear from me, okay?

I was just gonna say...Spent Time should have won this poll. Shame on you all.

alright, Dan, I wrote you an email, if you don't get it, I'll try an Acute Records email address. Thanks.

Yeah the Amigos Material shouldn't be in this poll. But yes, it's a great album - possibly my second favourite after Without Mercy. I would've voted for The Beggar if I'd have known.

Spent Time, again, still, forever.

Spent Time is beautiful. Previously my favourite was Bordeaux but listening again today has changed my mind.

I love Bordeaux...and the updated version on Guitar and Other Machines.

i still have my factory tape box of this! just thought i'd share that.

God, I disappear for a few years and someone polls my second favourite Durutti album... There are so many good songs on here, and if I'd known about it I could have tipped the scales for a winner. I love how "Second family" starts so hopeful then after a minute or so goes through these lovely sad descending chords and suddenly turns deeply melancholy at the end. I want "Spent time" played at my funeral - those high sustained guitar notes that float through the song. That lovely Fender Rhodes that is all over the record. I'm going to go back to this album and play the hell of it again.