No One Is To Blame POLL: 1985 vs. 1986?

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Howard Jones recorded one version for <i>Dream Into Action</i>. Howard Jones recorded a second version with Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham for release as a single. The first is small and intimate. The second is glossy and big (with Phil on bg vocals, even).

Will anyone vote for the second version?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1986	11
1985	4

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:00 (twelve years ago)

1985:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uze7nDImakU

1986:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekhxxngQ3s

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:01 (twelve years ago)

Prefer the second version.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:14 (twelve years ago)

i never knew the first one existed. sounds like a demo.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:16 (twelve years ago)

1986 version is my favorite Howard Jones single

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)

I may have overestimated the original's popularity. I prefer it, though.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:18 (twelve years ago)

ASPIRATIONS IN TEH CLOUDS
AS YOUR HOOPES GO DOWN THE DRAIN

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:19 (twelve years ago)

saddest couplet poll

― check your privy (ledge), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:20 (twelve years ago)

I guess I don't have any real problems with the arrangement in the single version, but the vocal in the original makes more of an impact imo.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:25 (twelve years ago)

he's such a wuss. NO ONE EVER IS TO BLAME eh? It's like he works for a university department of student affairs.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:28 (twelve years ago)

One of the first songs I heard on MTV, in the same block with Locked In by Judas Priest, Let's Go All the Way by Sly Fox, and Innocent Eyes by Graham Nash. I wish I still had the tape I made of that with my little hand-held cassette deck.

― how's life, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:57 (twelve years ago)

I saw that Nash song in an early '86 Hot 100 chart recently: a total flop.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:47 (twelve years ago)

But there was an awesome video with Jack Tripper as the dad!

Dad (to kids going on a date): Where are you going tonight?
Boy: Bowling!
Girl (at the same time): Movies!
Dad and Mom: Bowling Movies?!!?

― how's life, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:12 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 19 April 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Definitely the second version. I like the tick-tock percussion, and the production is so much richer.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 19 April 2013 02:05 (twelve years ago)

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

― System, Saturday, 20 April 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

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