Interactive Poll: Whatever Floats Your Boat

Here's a couple of things to battle the anglophone tyranny. 

Radiopuhelimet are a Finnish cult band who started in 1986 and are still active. Radiopuhelimet means "the Radiophones" or "the Walkie-Talkies". Jäämeri is title track of their 1992 album and it means "The Arctic Ocean". Lyrics describe the Arctic Ocean in almost nature mystical way. Dig the beefheartian drumming. 

Here's another one from them, titled Merellä, which means "at the sea" and it's another nature mystical song. They have other kinds as well. 

Einstürzende Neubauten - DNS Wasserturm. Title means "DNA Water Tower" and some sounds of the track were recorded in a water tower. Yes, it's a bit far fetched for the topic. 

Here's something to chill out with and with universally understandable language. Marc Ribot is the most bestest guitar player in the world.

Hello fellow Pollsters.  Time for another poll.  This time, the topic is anything to do with "water".  The songs can be vocal or instrumental.  They must not be from artists in the ProgArchives database.  Other than that, the only rule is that the songs be somehow connected to water, not the word, but the element.  

1. Post some songs (usually about 3 or less) that have to do with the subject in the poll.  Unless stated otherwise, the songs cannot be by artists listed in ProgArchives and typically be lesser known songs.

2. Listen to the songs posted by the other participants and, if you want to, post comments.

3. From the songs that you posted, pick one that you want everyone else to vote on and tell us all which one you picked.  

4. After about a week, we will open up voting.  At this time, vote on your favorite three songs that are not your own and preferably not songs that you were already familiar with.

5. List the songs that you voted for and leave a comment if you want about why you voted for them. 

6. Keep all your comments polite and non-personal.  It's the music we're voting on, not the members.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.  Everyone is invited and we are always happy to have newcomers join in.

Here are three songs that I have picked to represent the topic.  As you can see they are varied, but all follow the common theme of "water".  Hopefully these will help give you an idea of just how wide this topic is.

1. Patrick Watson - "Here Comes the River"

This is a song I discovered about 6 months ago.  I heard it on a TV show (don't remember where) and fell in love with it immediately.  It's from a fairly new singer/songwriter from Canada.  It has recently become a very important song for me and helps me deal with my recent tragedy.  I post it with the artists video as I feel it expresses the lyrics and the song quite well and helps you feel the hope tied to what otherwise seem like hopeless times.

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2. Grandaddy - "Crystal Lake"

This one is a bit more upbeat and poppy, but it's the one that introduced me to this band a few years back.  I have posted a Grandaddy song in these polls a while back that was quite melancholic, but this one is much more peppier than that one, sounding somewhat similar to The Flaming Lips and it's quite catchy to me at least.

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3. The Stone Roses - "Tears"

Yes this one counts because there is water in tears, right?  Use your imagination and you can come up with songs that might not seem obvious at first, but still have to do with the element of water in one way or another.  Even if it's obscure, but let us know how it's tied to the subject.

I love this track from this band that came from the same mold as Oasis and others, one of the first bands with that style of music.  This is a lesser-known track from the band, but I think it is one of their best.