The Cure Survivor - The Top

[bono_212]

Please vote for your THREE FAVORITE SONGS!

Sorry for the delay, I had a lot of stuff going on today.

Anyways, ONWARDS!

It almost looked like there was going to be a six-way tie for Pornography, but even with all of the write-in votes, there were four obvious winners:

Moving on to the Tier 1 survivor:
One Hundred Years - 9 Votes
The Hanging Garden - 9 Votes
A Strange Day - 9 Votes
The Figurehead - 8 Votes

Now we arrive one of my five favorite albums, The Top. However, I'm in the minority opinion there, this being the last album to make the tier 2 cut

I know it's confusing, guys, but please vote for your THREE FAVORITE SONGS!

There, maybe that will help

 

[bono_212]

Liam, Nannerfishbones?

 

[LemonMelon]

Might as well have titled this one The Caterpillar + Friends.

I voted for Dressing Up and The Top as well, because they actually know what they want to be. The former is catchy and the latter is a pretty good Pornography leftover.

 

[bono_212]

I'm so torn on this one, I really like this album.

I can't chose between The Caterpillar, Dressing Up, The Top and The Empty World. The only song I'm sure about is Wailing Wall. That's one of my favorites songs by The Cure, period.

(apologies for the typo on The Caterpillar in the poll)

 

[Axver]

Absolutely none of them.

 

[LemonMelon]

I actually tend to agree, but I wasn't just going to vote for The Caterpillar and leave it at that, though it's the only song here I really love.

Meanwhile, narrowing down Head on the Door to just four excellent tracks will be nigh on impossible.

 

[liamcool]

Liam, Nannerfishbones?

Yes, actually!

Nannerfishbones, Birdmad Girl (which is just beautiful), and...maybe Give Me It? Yeah, let's do that.

 

[nielsgov]

I like this album as well. Bird Mad Girl, The Top and Dressing Up.

 

[iron yuppie]

How long will you leave this poll open, 212?

 

[bono_212]

48 hours, so, til tomorrow night.

 

[bono_212]

Geesh, I had no idea how unpopular this album was .


Anyways, ended up going with Wailing Wall, The Caterpillar and The Empty World.

 

[Danny Boy]

Caterpillar and Shake Dog Shake, easy.

I also like Birdmad Girl

 

[liamcool]

Geesh, I had no idea how unpopular this album was .


Anyways, ended up going with Wailing Wall, The Caterpillar and The Empty World.

I think another problem is that this album was just not played live that much; only Shake Dog Shake really exists in the recent repertoire, and about half the album didn't survive The Top era lineup.

Then again, The Caterpillar, Dressing Up and NANNERFISHBONES have been played in 2012, so maybe it's coming back into vogue?

 

[bono_212]

The Top does bare similarities to what The Cure are doing now, so I'm not shocked that they're playing more of it.

I'm amused that the wiki page for the album used to have that little factoid on it (about them pretty much abandoning the album live after the era ended), but obviously it's gone now.

 

[bono_212]

Speaking of The Cure live, I went to go look at the setlist for The Cure in Orange and it reminded me...I totally left Japanese Whispers out of this competition. However, being a "compilation" album, it would not have been in the original poll anyways. I think I'll have enough room in the tier 2 or 3 survivor to throw two tracks from it in, so at the end of this, when we're wrapping everything up, we'll have a poll for that one as well.

 

[iron yuppie]

Good, because The Walk is bloody awesome.

 

[bono_212]

The Lovecats

 

[Danny Boy]

I totally left Japanese Whispers out of this competition.

JAPANESE WHISPERS IS DELETED

-RS

Spoiler

I actually have a Japanese Whispers playlist in iTunes; 5 tracks from Join The Dots and 3 from Greatest Hits. I still have my original CD around somewhere, too.

 

[Danny Boy]

P.S.

Let's Go To Bed

 

[bono_212]

Danny Boy, you're aware of the RS?

He hasn't written us any love notes in a while

 

[Axver]

I'm so apathetic towards this album that I can't even be bothered to listen to it for the purposes of casting a vote. Why vote for any of these songs when I would vote for almost all of the songs from the previous rounds ahead of this album's best offerings?

I'm amused that the wiki page for the album used to have that little factoid on it (about them pretty much abandoning the album live after the era ended), but obviously it's gone now.

Can I be that pedantic arsehole who points out that a factoid is actually something unreliable/unverified/untrue that is repeated often enough that it becomes accepted as fact?

 

[bono_212]

 

[iron yuppie]

Eventually went with Shake Dog Shake, Dressing Up, and The Caterpillar.

 

[LemonMelon]

Good man. That breaks the three-way tie.

No way that 5 songs needed to go through from The Top. Hell, only The Caterpillar really has a chance.

 

[bono_212]

If 5 songs tie, I'll do a run-off poll.