Monday’s Top 6@6 Week #18: Your Blur Faves & Blue Öyster Cult Results From Week 17

[JohnBckWLD]

Another Monday, Another Closed Poll. Thanks to all the Dopers who responded. Last Week's Blue Öyster Cult Tally: 10 Voters / 52 Selections. On to business:

1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides

• Everyone who voted this week…there are some really great selections
• Corbomite, Newton Meter & SisterCoyote: Newcomers to the 6 @ 6.
• Requests for Band Polls: All will be honored in supplemental polls as they come up. Keep an eye on the “Tentative Schedule” for details.
• elfkin477 & Sister Coyote: Who inspired the new discography link section in the weekly poll.

2nd: Venus Fly Trap
More “high search count” words secretly e-mailed to me by another anonymous moderator who’s privy to classified message board information:

SPOILER:

bang, blow, boff, bonk, hummer, lay, plow, poke, pork, shag.

_{Warning: Do Not highlight this cheap, tawdry search gimmick used by the pay sites}

3rd: Increase the Hit Count
The Voters, Past & Present List – Designed for those who do vanity searches:

• Voting In 11 Polls: astorian.
  
• Voting In 7 Polls: dead0man & WSLer.
  
• Voting In 6 Polls: grendel72.
  
• Voting In 5 Polls: chief, Labdad & Mudshark.
  
• Voting In 4 Polls: 5 time champ, elfkin477, Fish42, Hugh Jass, RealityChuck & tourbot (well actually 3 1/6 polls for tour).
  
• Voting In 3 Polls: Dragon Phoenix, galt (2X Posthumously), gex gex, K364, Minor Irritant, Narrad, scout1222 & Skijumper
  
• Voting In 2 Polls: Dryga_Yes, epeepunk, essvee, Fenris, gonzoron, Interrobang!?, John Carter of Mars, jolemale, Leifsmama, Living Dead Girl, Manduck, pepperlandgirl, plnnr, thermalribbon,Wartime Consigliori.
  
• Voting In 1 Poll: 5-HT, Airbeck, andrew Dupont, andros, arachnidlove, ArchiveGuy, auntie em, bibliophile, bouv, bristlesage, bugg, cainxinth, capybara, Chastain86, Cherry_Blossom_, ChristmasEve, Chrome Spot, Corbomite, da_pope, dinahmoe, easy e, Futile Gesture, gallows fodder, hajario, Happy Lendervedder, hardygrrl, hawthorne, hazel-rah, HenrySpencer, HoldenCaulfield, horhay_achoa, Jeremy's Evil Twin, Jonathan Chance, Kyomara, lawoot, Leechbabe, Leechboy, LindyHopper, Lockz, LunaSea, matt_mcl, minty green, Mr. Blue Sky, Mr. Green Fool, MsWhatsit, Newton meter, panamajack, pldennison, Reeder, saoirse, Sigmundex, SisterCoyote, stankow, Supernate, tavalla, ThePyroWeasel, Treviathan, Ukulele Ike, vinryk, waterj2, widdershins & -zorch.

4th: Past polls and Results:
The ever-growing scrap-heap of past band polls: § Blue Öyster Cult § Blondie § Blink 182 § Black Sabbath § Black Crowes § Bjork § B-52's § Chuck Berry § Beastie Boys § Jeff Beck § The Band § Beach Boys § Beatles § Animals § Tori Amos § Allman Brothers § AC/DC & Aerosmith polls.

5th: Week 15 Results:
Here are your Blue Öyster Cult Selections:

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(Don't Fear) The Reaper: With 7 Votes

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Burnin' For You ¤ Godzilla ¤ The Revenge Of Vera Gemini: Tied With 4 Votes

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Cities On Flame With Rock-n-Roll ¤ Dominance and Submission ¤ Then Came the Last Days of May ¤ Veteran Of The Psychic Wars: Tied With 3 Votes

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Before the Kiss, a Redcap ¤ Death Valley Nights ¤ I'm on the Lamb, But I Ain't No Sheep ¤ Vengeance (The Pact): Tied With 2 Votes

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7 Screamning Diz-Busters ¤ Astronomy ¤ Deadline ¤ E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) ¤ Flaming Telepaths ¤ Goin' Through the Motions ¤ Hot Rails to Hell ¤ In Thee ¤ Joan Crawford ¤ Mistress Of The Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) ¤ Stairway to the Stars ¤ The Red and the Black ¤ This Ain't the Summer of Love: With 1 Vote Each…If you see some tracks here you didn’t pick and can’t remember, it’s your duty as a Café Society Denizen to give some of these selections another listen to.

6th: Disclaimers & Tentative Schedule
Based on requests and the like:

• Week 19 will feature: Bon Jovi with a Boston supplemental poll.
• Week 20 will feature: David Bowie.
• Week 21 will feature: James Brown with a Jackson Browne supplemental poll.
• Week 22 will feature: Bush with a Kate Bush supplemental poll. Followed by...
• Week 23 featuring: The Byrds with a possible Buffalo Springfield supplemental poll if someone requests them.

Speaking of requests, this is a democracy, so once again; if you feel I’ve alphabetically passed over a band, speak up. If I don’t hear to the contrary, we’ll be passing by bands like: The Blues Brothers, The Breeders, Brinsley Schwartz, Jimmy Buffet, Butthole Surfers and The Buzzcocks…just to name a few.

7th: Week #18’s Supplemental Poll (In another, as yet unknown thread)
I can’t post a link to it because the featured poll and results get posed first. There will however be a link back to this thread in the supplemental poll but you can still access it one of 3 ways:

1. Click the link on my signature
2. Access it through the Café Society page
3. Bog down the server and do a search on:

gex gex’s requested band poll Belle and Sebastian.

8th: Week #18’s Featured Poll
If your memory or knowledge of the featured artist isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to our featured artist’s discography with 30 second cuts of some of their tracks when you drill down through some of their albums: 13 � Blur � Great Escape � Parklife � Modern Life Is Rubbish � Leisure

Without further ado, those lads from England & the 14th “B” band. At gex gex & Treviathan’s request: The group known as Blur

Here are my 6 Blur picks:

6. For Tomorrow
5. Chemical World
4. Country House
3. There’s No Other Way
2. Girls And Boys
1. Song 2

Thanking you all in advance. Have a great week.

[Dryga_Yes]

This is a Low
I'm Just a Killer for Your Love
Parklife
Trimm trabb
Coffee & TV
There's No Other Way

[gex gex]

Country House - Blur's brilliance is that they make wonderful pop (well, they did... now they make wonderful, skewed pop). It's their simple songwriting abilities that make this fab four special, and Country House is one of the finest examples of this talent. It's typical early period Blur, and I gotta say... they sure were better than Oasis.

Parklife - Like Country House, Parklife's hook is so big and catchy that you can't help falling in love with it from listen number one. Even better, this has a delightful rambling monologue about modern day living. And it's so very British, it makes you feel like having a cup of tea, donning a monocle and going for a brisk walk round the shire.

Girls + Boys - you can't help but love this song. One listen of that chorus and you're guaranteed to be singing 'girls who like boys who...' to yourself for the rest of the day.

Song 2 - it might have been used to advertise pretty much every product imaginable. it might be the 'hit'. it might even feature some of the dumbest lyrics in modern music, (I got my head checked/ by a jumbo jet) but Song 2 had a dirty garage riff, shouted woohoo! and tore down the Country House that Blur had built for themselves. And who can't love that?

Tender - And then Blur decided that they wanted to be extraordinarily unaccessable, and did so by writing a beautiful, seven minute crooner, and released it as the first single from their new album. Remember the first time you heard this? It was like, 'Woo... hoo?'

Coffee And TV - Another lo-fi acoustic strum from the end of any record executive's dream of the band making it big in America. A great tune, but this makes the list for the video alone. Believe it or not, milk cartons in love are very moving.

[Tit Whistle]

Coffee & TV
End of a Century
Charmless Man
M.O.R.
Jubilee
Beetlebum

[Jervoise]

Ooh, lots to chose from here.

5. Music is My Radar
4. Charmless Man
3. Coffee and TV
2. Tender
1. Boys and Girls

[Treviathan]

Guess I probably should weigh in...

Beetlebum
Tender
No Distance Left to Run
Country House
Girls and Boys
Country Sad Ballad Man

[Jervoise]

Oops, forgot my # 6.

6. Country House

[Skip]

Charmless Man
The Universal
Song 2
Parklife
Boys and Girls
Beetlebum

[Hugh Jass]

I call for, nay, DEMAND, a Buffalo Springfield poll. And not a supplemental poll either. The real deal, baby, the whole shebang. They are too freakin' important.

[Mudshark]

6. Colin Zeal
5. Miss America
4. Country House
3. Coffee and TV
2. Lot 105
1. Chemical World

[elfkin477]

1. Boys & Girls
2. song 2
3. No other way
4. Parklife
5. Chameless Man
6. Coffee and TV

[Skijumper]

1. No Distance Left to Run
2. Chemical World
3. Essex Dogs
4. Stereotypes
5. Parklife
5. No Other Way

[Skijumper]

...and could I could out on a limb and ask for a Bananarama poll? C'mon, they had some pretty good stuff. Okay, while Siobhan Fahey was still around...

[Skijumper]

...and could I go out on a limb and ask for a Bananarama poll? C'mon, they had some pretty good stuff. Okay, while Siobhan Fahey was still around...

[bluecanary]

Bet no-one else charts my no.1 (well, maybe they might now):

6 Song 2
5 Coffee & TV
4 Country House
3 Stereotypes
2 Charmless Man
1 Sunday Sunday (M.L.I.R)

[pldennison]

6. There's No Other Way (just for being a great debut single)
5. It Could Be You
4. End of a Century
3. Girls & Boys
2. Coffee & Tv
1. Chemical World

And I'll weigh in with a vote for a Buzzcocks poll (at least a supplemental), as well as a suggestion for Belly.