Interactive Poll: Your Boat Is Burning!

Is the title a loose Midnight Oil refrence / easter egg

My heart is telling me that of my four it's between Mandy More's "If Not by Fire" and Mandingo's "Black Fire". It will help to know what other peoples final selections are so that I can add something that I think would help make for an interesting and diverse playlist. For me often it's not just about my selection, but how well I think it works with other people's choices/ how it fits in the playlist (sometimes in more of a counterpoint way or in a more complementary way). If it gets no votes, well the votes themselves are not the most interesting part of this -- just that we're listening to and thinking about each other's choices is what matters the most to me.

By the way, Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust was one of the first CDs I ever bought.

Edited by Logan - May 14 2021 at 09:28

My nomination is Mana Mana - Totuus palaa. 

Page Three, first thoughts:  

wiz_d_kidd:  Welcome to these polls (I think this is your first time entering, if not, welcome anyway, of course)  RÊVE “Moths”  Violin opens with a semi-plaintive sound to the vocalist.  Really enjoy the sonic swirling here, between the music and her voice.  Plenty of passion and tension-building.  Dies down near the end, and cuts to solo violin, bookending the start, then another sonic build and goes out, with a wind-down. Great track, right up my alley! 

Tigerfeet:  I believe first time I’ve seen you post in here, too.  Welcome!  Link Wray “fire and brimstone” Remember his name, but don’t believe I’ve ever heard anything by him.  Wrangly guitars and drums in an alt-country kinda vein (although this is really before that term).  Rough-edged vocalist.   I had to look him up, interesting career he had, even played with one of my fave guitarists of all time, John Cippolina.  Tindersticks “This Fire of Autumn”  Second thing I will have heard from them, thanks to these polls.  Laid back kinda vocals with more wrangly guitar, hard to describe the piece, but there is a sense of melancholy.  Vibes join in with the organ underpinning everything.  Haunting song.  Suns of Arga “Baylondon’s Burning”  High, high vocal and soft sounds, that move pretty quickly into drumbeats and an almost-accordionlike sound, then some blips and waaaaa  whaaaa whaaaa wewewewe sounds.  Trancy-hypnotic piece.  Violin-type keys or real violin dance with the vocalist.  Another haunting one, more kinda sorta electronic than I generally go for, but an interesting way to blend styles. 

Scott:  Glenn Tipton “Baptizm of Fire”  Right outta the box, a rocker.  Gets right to the point with heavy keys, guitars and drums.  Lots of adrenalin and fire here.  Pretty complex for such a rocky piece, not surprising, though, with the Judas Priest connection.  Kinda spooky vocal enters quite a bit in. The pyrotechnics continue on to the abrupt conclusion. Big Head Todd and the Monsters “City on Fire”  This is a band of locals I just loved, I lived in Colorado when they were starting to get attention.  Pretty affected guitar starts the piece, with some harmonica.  Nice alt-rock/country feel to this song.  I would vote for these guys if I didn’t know them already.  The Winery Dogs “Fire”  Pretty acoustic guitar and keyboards are a bit to the fore in this mix, with drums and bass back to the rear.  Well-produced singer-songwriter with band kinda piece, very solid acoustic lead in it.  I like this one a lot, better than where these guys all come from, actually.  Lots of understated emotion in the vocal. 

Ok thanks for the tips everyone.....Gotye is my nomination.

tigerfeet wrote: Snicolette wrote: OK, I think I've decided on 3.  I honestly had a hard time thinking of anything that wasn't prog-related, or would be way too familiar.  Here are two that use fire to describe love and the third, quite literally, is about the Camp Fire of Paradise.  Astounding that my first thought was a great all-instrumental world/Latin/jazz fusion band called, "Incendio," and looking through their full-length releases (13 of them!), discovered not a single one is named for fire!  Almost gave up....but, I'm stubborn and persisted.   Thanks for your reviews of others choices. As for Incendio, I have seen them live twice and they always put on a great show, the bassist is amazing and of course Jim Stubblefield... need i say more. Yes, it would be fitting for a band called Incendio to at least have one song about Fire or something related to it.

Cristi wrote: I nominate Sfinx - Focuri Vii if a small prog band is allowed. If not, Semnal M - Roata de Foc.

I'll pick the Scriabin/Horowitz "Vers la flamme."