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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30252 |
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I've always liked them. Israel is my favourite but they are one of the few goth/punk bands I could do a Top Ten quite comfortably.
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30252 |
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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill ( A Deal With God)
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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^ That potential problem is one of the things I thought would be most interesting about the topic. For instance, I love music by PJ Harvey, but I'm not keen on the RYM top song. I'm happy for people to share both what they like as well as the RYM pick. That contrast is interesting to me. When it comes to the actual nominations, then we might want to suggest the RYM picks we actually like.
Originally I did not conceive of this is an Interactive Poll topic and was going to ask for people to share their favourite song and the RYM song choice. Actually, I now favour nominating both of those (RYMs fave and your fave), unless your fave is RYMs fave (or once mention one's second fave then), then let others decide to vote on which they prefer. I do like those kinds of duos, although this time I would give each track its own space (poll option). |
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Lewian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 15494 |
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The problem with this topic is, what if I'd like to play somebody, but I don't like the rym-picked song that much?
Would've hoped for something different from Mick Karn, but this is what we get: I mean, it's OK, not that I hate it, and the bass is nice as always.
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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^ Nice to see PJ Harvey mentioned even if that is not one of preferred songs by her. I have been very into music of hers for some years, with Let England Shake and White Chalk being the album I have played the most.
Just to mention one of my favourites, and as there has been talk of Canada becoming the 51st state... |
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mathman0806 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6849 |
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Brass Against did cover the top ranked Rage Against the Machine song, "Killing in the Name Of."
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:rage%2dagainst%2dthe%2dmachine/ |
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mathman0806 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6849 |
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Saw the Brass Against show that I referenced earlier and it was fantastic. Some great covers of Rage Against the Machine, Tool, and others. Thought I would check on the bands covered.
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:tool/ Parabola is a great song but not one of the ones covered. "Forty-Six and 2", "stinkfist", and "The Pot" were. Ranked 4, 5, and 10 on RYM. |
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mathman0806 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6849 |
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Been listening to some PJ Harvey lately. Got into her to first few albums back in the 90s and didn't continue in the 2000s
Top song on RYM is "A Perfect Day Eliae" and one my favorites. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:pj%2dharvey/ |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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Siouxsie and The Banshees has been one of the most significant acts to me over the past few years. The number one track choice in the "Top Siouxsie and The Banshees songs of all time" chart is "Cities in Dust" (off the album Tinderbox) with a 4.54 rating and 661 ratings. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:siouxsie%2dand%2dthe%2dbanshees/
On a general note: feel free to mention choices even if you don't plan to participate in the actual nominating, listening and voting part of the process. Again, to mention ones please visit the artist page at rateyourmusic. As an example, The Monkees: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the-monkees Then look to "Songs" on the left-hand side of the page. Instead of automatically choosing the top song you see there (in The Monkees case it is "I'm a Believer" under Songs), scroll down to the end of the "Songs" list and under it you will find a "See artist song chart" hyperlink that take you to the, in the case of The Monkees, "Top Monkees songs of all time". Here is that link: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:the%2dmonkees/ There the top song listed is "Daydream Believer" and that should be the choice for The Monkees. One quick way to navigate to the song chart is to copy and paste this url in your browser's address bar, bookmark if looking up many, https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a: ,and then manually type in the name of the band or artist after a: (the a: asks for artists name). Please try to provide a youtube video or other listening link to go with your track. I guess if you think it's super well-known it's not as useful. Yo manually add a video from youtube is easy. Search youtube for the track, then copy the unique identifier (letters, numbers) in the url after v= in the youtube url. Using that... Banshees example, the full url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOHvP1XnRg but it is only wsOHvP1XnRg that you need to copy. Then add tube tags around it. I am using spaces to break the embed, but without spaces it works. By quoting posts with such BBcode you can see how it works. [tube ]wsOHvP1XnRg[ /tube] |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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Now I feel like Doing Richard Dawson (not the Family Feud guy who played Killian in The Running Man -- loved that character) but the English Avant-Folk/ Progressive Folk artist. I have enjoyed several of his albums very much, especially The Ruby Chord (2022), Peasant (2017), Henki with Circle (2021) and 2020 from (2019), and his End of the Middle released last month is one of only three albums from this year that I have listened to in full thus far. I have not given it enough time in the right setting yet.
The number one song at https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:richard%2ddawson/ with a 4.39 and 476 is "Ogre" and I do love this, and it is one where I also appreciate the music video. I do think that would be my number one choice for this poll. "The Hermit" which is second on that list off The Ruby Chord is a monster opening track at 41 minutes, and I love it. Bit long for suggesting for an Interactive Poll methinks. Here is "Ogre" which I have shared in another tropic before. Love it. |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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Here's a band that does not get much attention at PA. I have mentioned the band before. It's the Neofolk, Post-Punk and Darkwave band Death in June. The first album I heard of theirs was 1992's But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? within the past few years. That remains my favourite Death in June album. The top song is the same on both the main band page and the artist song chart you can click on from there. It's "Little Black angel" with a 4.24 from 363 raters.
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:death%2din%2djune/ Ultimately for my nominations I will go for less-known ones, like this, but again I almost made this as a general topic without consideration for a poll. But I do like how Interactive Polls can get us listening to and considering music suggested by people instead of so many topics where it's just people mentioning music without anyone checking it out or commenting on it and without discussion of the music in many cases. Thanks for all of the input thus far. It is appreciated. :) |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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There is a list of songs on the front page of the artist/band page at RYM but also a link on that page under those Songs called See artist song chart, that leads you to "Top Rush songs of all time" and it is from that chart that I wish to use the top result.
For ELP it still is "Tarkus" https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:emerson%2dlake%2dand%2dpalmer/ For IQ is still is "Sacred Sound" https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:iq/ But for Rush it becomes "Spirit of the Radio" with a 4.49. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:rush/ Maybe my favourite, "Subdivisions", is in second place with a 4.49. "Tom Sawyer" there is in third place with 4.44. There are some changes to the algorithm and I prefer to use the "Top [whoever] songs of all time" lists overall. So instead of this: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/rush I want to use this: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:rush/ |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30252 |
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Rush - Tom Sawyer
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30252 |
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IQ - Sacred Sound
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30252 |
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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Thanks for the entries. The Sieges Even is a good album; listened to it years ago. I enjoyed that Rage Against the Machine cover; good one to play when I find myself in some alternate virtual reality (instead of the usual Matrix).
One local, as in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, act that I quite recently have been playing is Destroyer. I got into it first not very long ago with the album Destroyer's Rubies from 2006, and earlier today I decided to play 2015's Destroyer Season. I looked up the rateyourmusic song chart, https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:destroyer/ , and the top two songs are "Kaputt" (2011) described as sophisti-pop off the same-named album, and "Rubies" off Destroyer's Rubies which is Indie Rock and probably my favourite Destroyer track of what quite little I know. I had not heard "Kaputt" before, at least that I recall, and just played it. Quite the music video. |
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Cristi ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Offline Points: 46730 |
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They got this one right
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Cristi ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Offline Points: 46730 |
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Some more songs, that were not predictable popular choices
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mathman0806 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6849 |
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Probably not going to suit most tastes here, and I have posted Brass Against before. They are a brass band that covers hard rock songs (many from the 90s by bands such as Tool and Rage Against the Machine) with a rotating group of vocalists. I am seeing them Friday so have been listening and very much looking forward to it as what they cover is a good bit of the music I listened to in the 90s when I wasn't listening to as much prog.
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/brass-against https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:brass%2dagainst/ Top song is their cover of Rage Against the Machine's Wake Up. My current favor is their mash up of White Stripes' Seven Nation Army and Curtis Mayfield's Pusherman. And I admit there are intentional political undertones to my selections. |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38658 |
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Okay, another from me, no limits there although I do prefer one per post. and sorry for the long, boring post, easy to skip, but it's helping to put some things in context and place for me (writing can help me to put and fit my thoughts together and remember some things that are meaningful to me. I should do a blog or have a diary).
One band that has got huge playtime from me since 2019 is Stereolab. I have done Stereolab in past Interactive Polls. I really got into Stereolab and Portishead and a lot of 90s music due to a radio program called Blue Jam which had been put up as a podcast. It is a surreal and often very dark comedy sketch program that has songs as an integral component to the format (so a music/comedy program). The two complement each-other. You will have a sketch, and then a Bjork song plays. It creates more of a "boozy woozy atmosphere". I already was a big fan of Chris Morris for things like the TV series The Day Today and Brasseye (Phil Collins was featured in it to his chagrin), as well as his comedic take on terrorism with Four Lions. I learned about Blue Jam (well actually, I had looked for it years before but it renewed my interest) thanks to a favourite podcast called The Rule of Three which hasd people who worked in comedy talking aboiut comedy. One person's topic was Blue Jam, and I grew to adore Blue Jam and the music/songs it played. Stereolab was represented with the songs "Cybele's Reverie" and "The Flower Called Nowhere" both of which made a huge impression on me and both of which songs rate highly at rateyourmusic. And I adore the albums those come from. The number one song at rateyourmusic is "Cybele's Reverie", which is the first Stereolab song I really loved, it is played in the first episode of Blue Jam, and it remains my sentimental favourite. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:stereolab/ Despite being one of my favourite songs I got into over the past ten years, that is the first time I have seen the official video. |
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