Heavenly Pop POLL: The Chills' "Submarine Bells"

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This album is kinda sublime.

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
"Heavenly Pop Hit"	6
"Submarine Bells"	3
"Effloresce and Deliquesce"	2
"Don't Be - Memory"	2
"The Oncoming Day"	1
"Familiarity Breeds Contempt"	1
"I SOAR"	1
"Tied Up in Chain"	0
"Singing in My Sleep"	0
"Part Past Part Fiction"	0
"Sweet Times"	0
"Dead Web"	0

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 March 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

Gotta listen to this tonight, but pretty sure I'll end up voting for "The Oncoming Day."

The whole thing is great though.

― crazy ass between (askance johnson), Monday, 8 March 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

Effloresce and Deliquesce for me. Classic album.

― ithappens, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)

Unbelievably classic album. Strength to strength, it's almost as if it gains steam as it goes along.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

"Part Past, Part Fiction" sure is an earworm.

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

i havent heard this album except for the opening track. i was going to put up a 'kaleidoscope world' (listening to it constantly over the last couple of months) poll but i think 'pink frost' would have walked away with it. what a great band, i was playing the album in the car recently and my friend in the passenger seat went, 'Yo La Tengo!'. i had to remind him it wasnt, i didnt see the similarity myself...

― Michael B, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

I've always loved the title track.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, me too.

― Jazzbo, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:03 (fifteen years ago)

"Familiarity Breeds Contempt"

great album front to back.

― mizzell, Monday, 8 March 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

title track is perfect, got my vote

― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Monday, 8 March 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)

the whole record is nearly perfect. i can't pick one

― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Monday, 8 March 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

The title track is this mournful, fabulous mix of Tom Waits sea shanty and a late Velvets ballad.

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 March 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

the whole record is nearly perfect. i can't pick one

― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Monday, March 8, 2010 8:51 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)

there are some dogs, it is hardly perfect, 'singing in my sleep', 'familiarity breeds contempt', 'oncoming day' are all pretty meh but i am not much for his unconvincing rock side i suppose. no votes for 'i soar'? i'll vote for it though 'part past part fiction' is the best track. the single had the nice version of 'water wolves' on it too.

― keythhtyek, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

'sweet times' had it been fleshed out into a real song could have been marvelous, it almost is already.

― keythhtyek, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Downloaded this when I first got on Soulseek 15 years ago, played it, filed it, and forgot about it. I grabbed this and some other CDs this morning for a drive up to where I'm moving next month, and three songs--"Tied Up in Chain," "I Soar," and "Effloresce and Deliquesce" were perfect for driving lost in rural Ontario.

― clemenza, Friday, 25 October 2019 19:44 (five years ago)

Pretty perfect pretty record.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 October 2019 20:06 (five years ago)

not as good as the early stuff but one of their best albums.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 25 October 2019 20:09 (five years ago)

I like all their stuff, but by early stuff I assume you mean singles and what not?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 October 2019 20:13 (five years ago)

yes, the kaleidoscope world comp.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 25 October 2019 20:16 (five years ago)

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