Stiff Records BUY11 to BUY20: Welcome to the working POLL

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Option	Votes
BUY 13 The Adverts - The One Chord Wonders / Quick Step	11
BUY 20 Elvis Costello / Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Watching The Detectives / Blame It On Caine (live) / Mystery	7
BUY 17 Ian Dury Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll / Razzle In My Pocket	7
BUY 16 Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World / Semaphore Signals	7
BUY 14 Elvis Costello - Alison / Welcome To The Working Week	4
BUY 18 The Damned - Problem Child / You Take My Money	1
BUY 15 Elvis Costello - Red Shoes / Mystery Dance	0
BUY 12 Max Wall - England's Glory / Dream Tobacco	0
BUY 19 Yachts - Suffice To Say / Freedom (Is A Heady Wine)	0
BUY 11 Elvis Costello - Less Than Zero / Radio Sweetheart	0

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

wreckless eric

― 69, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

Adverts, easily.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

By the way, aren't there a couple of Stiff Records box sets? Any reason to go for one versus the other?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

It's odd, they don't have the same track listing but they serve a similar purpose.

Umm, maybe the cheaper one? I got the first one, the "Big Stiff Box" came later...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 06:46 (fifteen years ago)

Wreckless Eric for me, loved it then, still love it now.

― Bill E, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:32 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah this is the Adverts or Wreckless Eric. I'm not much of an Elvis Costello fan. The Damned single is OK - I like the B side best.

I hear Wreckless Eric won't play that song live?

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:49 (fifteen years ago)

Not so fond of "Problem Child", but the rest of these are all Very Good Indeed. Bought at the time: Max Wall, The Adverts, Sex & Drugs. Sex & Drugs just nudges ahead of Wreckless Eric's Kevin Ayers-inspired classic.

Was there a BUY1 to BUY5 poll? Did I miss it?

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)

Ah, found it.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:03 (fifteen years ago)

I hear Wreckless Eric won't play that song live?

that's a nonsense.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I've heard him play it live, c.2004, supporting The Magic Band.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:38 (fifteen years ago)

A much better list than the first 10. Voted "Alison", but most of the Elvis Costello titles are very strong here, as is also "Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll"

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 16 July 2010 08:57 (fifteen years ago)

Well, the only real clunker is the Damned one, so OK i take yr point.

Although the best ones from Buy1 to 10 are better....

― Mark G, Friday, 16 July 2010 13:52 (fifteen years ago)

Wasn't "So It Goes" by Nick Lowe on Stiff?

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 16 July 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

Adverts

― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

I hear Wreckless Eric won't play that song live?

that's a nonsense.

What I'm basing this off is anecdotes of someone asking him to sign their copy of it recently and him sneering and writing "Ancient History" on it, and someone eles saying he threw a strop because too many people were shouting out for it. To be fair that doesn't mean he doesn't play it, but he certainly doesn't seem too happy about doing it.

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)

He's a bit pissed off with it because he continues to do good stuff even now. His new songs are as good as his old stuff (last time I checked anyway, "Bungalow Hi" to be fair...)

It's not a given that people continue to do good stuff.

Anyway, last time out he did a "I'd go the whole wide world for England" footie themesong. For Fierce Panda. It wasn't entirely serious.

― Mark G, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

All great, but had to go for Watching the detectives.

― Richard Merrick, Sunday, 18 July 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

adverts

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 18 July 2010 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

I ran this one for too long, didn'i?

― Mark G, Friday, 23 July 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

band = adverts
these choices = ian dury

― jabulani hands (S-), Friday, 23 July 2010 16:08 (fifteen years ago)

ian dury

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Watching The Detectives 4EVA

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Saturday, 31 July 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

The poll results are fair enough. But please don't overlook the splendor of "Suffice To Say" and "England's Glory" amid this pile of unusually brilliant records!

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 1 August 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

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