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ive been late catching up on the 1981 boxset. incredible obviously. i like this one best.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
young marble giants - final day	4
the go go's - our lips are sealed	3
orange juice - poor old soul	2
pylon - crazy	2
scritti politti - the sweetest girl	2
elvis costello - strict time	1
robyn hitchcock - love	1
the teardrop explodes - falling down around me	1
REM - radio free europe	1
martha and the muffins - this is the ice age	1
romeo void - myself to myself	1
the dB's - black and white	0
altered images - happy birthday	0
xtc - respectable street	0
the ramones - its not my place	0
the stranglers - golden brown	0
the church - too fast for you	0
the go betweens - your turn, my turn	0
squeeze - is that love	0
neccesaries - more real	0
pretenders - message of love	0
barracudas - dont let go	0
suburbs - spring came	0
magazine - the honeymoon killers	0
marine girls - tonight	0

― Michael B, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 16:52 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 28 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, why no activity on this thread? As much as there is some great stuff on this, I think that Young Marble Giants song will forever touch my soul in a place that little other music even comes close.

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Monday, 29 June 2009 08:57 (sixteen years ago)

Guess no-one saw it, I know I didn't.

― Mark G, Monday, 29 June 2009 09:27 (sixteen years ago)

I went for Scritti, similar reasons to yours for YMG.

Truth be told, possibly I've overheard it, and would rather put "Final Day" on the jukebox, followed by "Poor old Soul", but hay.

― Mark G, Monday, 29 June 2009 09:29 (sixteen years ago)

Strict Time, from my favorite Elvis C record, Trust.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 29 June 2009 13:22 (sixteen years ago)

Whoa, neat. Glad you enjoyed it, Michael! I don't think I can vote--whole reason there ended up being so many mixes was because I couldn't narrow it down much more!

Just in case anybody wants this or the other mixes, they're all available for download here.

― Soundslike, Monday, 29 June 2009 13:49 (sixteen years ago)

Are the rest of the songs on that Scritti Politti album anything like 'Sweetest Girl'? I love hat song but any albums of theirs I've tried to listen to have been not at all like that song.

I chose Teardrop Explodes.

― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

Trust me, you'll love it.

― Mark G, Monday, 29 June 2009 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't get 'Songs to Remember' the first time I heard it many years ago, probably because I was too in love with the disjointed post-punk style Scritti. But now I love them both equally. Still not quite as sold on 'Cupid & Psyche,' but it's good, too.

― Soundslike, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

crazy. about the best song rem ever recorded. and it wasn't even by them.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

Put up another one of these and I promise I'll vote for something cool and obscure that I learned about from this box set, but nothing beats "Radio Free Europe" for me.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 June 2009 21:41 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, this is a great mix. not sure if it should be radio free, strict time, final day, love or homeymoon killers ...

― tylerw, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

final day, i think

― tylerw, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

ive listened to this mix more than any of the rest of the lot. cant choose. yet.

― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 June 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)

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

― System, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

wow, i thought i had more than 5 mins to consider my choice :/

― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 June 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

I voted "Sweetest Girl," but I could've gone with the Necessaries, YMG, others. It's funny--I don't think of this mix as often as some others, and it's definitely less definitively "post-punk" in sound, but I think that's why I like it--one of the mixes that best reveals the breadth of quality music that could (at least tangentially) be considered post-punk.

― Soundslike, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 04:21 (sixteen years ago)

Surprised no votes for "Golden Brown". . .

― Soundslike, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 04:22 (sixteen years ago)

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