Interactive Poll # 15: Yes, I did say catchy - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I've updated the poll

let's have our final nominations today and start voting tomorrow. Is that ok?

Edited by Cristi - August 11 2020 at 02:30

Lewian wrote:

Foals have at the very least half a dozen insanely catchy songs that shout "nominate me!" at me. Here's Exit.

My favourite track from that album is "Syrups".

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Snicolette wrote:

I prophesy disaster: Yello “Domingo” Heavy electronic sound, pretty ominous sounding to my ear.

That's to be expected from someone whose username is "I prophesy disaster".

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

I'll go with the Slave Raider song.

Out of the three I originally selected, I guess I'll go with The Waterboys “Be My Enemy”.

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

I think this time I'm going to go with "Instant Karma Coffeehouse," because it most resembles what would traditionally be a "hit" record, with a catchy chorus. I do love my other two choices though, though perhaps they aren't quite as "catchy" to some as to me.

"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp

I nominate the one that gets stuck in your head and won't come out anymore (if that ain't catchy... Hip hip hooray!):

De Staat - Blues is Dead

The razamataz is a pain in the bum

Let's try and have our final nominations tomorrow (Monday), if not possible then Tuesday the latest. It's hard, I don't know which one to pick from my 5 choices. LOL

Today I listened through the playlist and I will give some general impressions (there are too many songs to comment them all...). First, I think there is some confusion between" up-tempo" and "catchy", but please (no, please...) don't ask me to define "catchy". Ermm

I liked most of the songs put up here. There are some rock-ballads, some beautiful songs, some real surprises, and a few real catchy songs, to my ears. Some tracks that were good surprises to me (Jarboli, Paola Turci, Eye to Eye), some good songs, but not necessarily of the catchy kind (Raf - very romantic-, Nik Kershaw, Portishead, Loud Sugar, Pinback...), some good (hard) rock (with a nod to BAND-MAID and the party-rock of Slave Raider, when it comes to the catchy kind), some catchy songs that make you want to be in a pub with a beer in the hand (Modena Ramblers, Young Dubliners, Enter the Haggis - but these last deserve better than that), and some real catchy songs. Of the catchy kind I note Rosu si Negru, Gogol Bordello (I love this one!), Gorillaz (they were made to be catchy...), Everything Everything and Imperial Teen (very much like both You're One and Everything - kind of King Missile meet The Kinks (or something).

Too much to see straight Smile

But I'm waiting for more and for the nominations ! Beer

The razamataz is a pain in the bum

I apologize, I am on holidays, and so I have no time to follow the thread the way I would.

I will come back in September.

My nomination is PAOLA TURCI: VOLO COSì

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Poll Question: Choose three songs out of these
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
PAOLA TURCI: VOLO COSì	1	[2.63%]
Portishead - "Sour Times"	3	[7.89%]
De Staat - Blues is Dead	1	[2.63%]
Imperial Teen - You're One	3	[7.89%]
Instant Karma Coffee House - Loud Sugar	2	[5.26%]
Eye to Eye - "Mermaid Man"	3	[7.89%]
Yello - Domingo	1	[2.63%]
The Waterboys “Be My Enemy”	2	[5.26%]
Jarbol - Nista	4	[10.53%]
Slave Raider-Make Some Noise	1	[2.63%]
Foals - Exit	2	[5.26%]
Rosu si Negru - Cu fiecare vis	1	[2.63%]
Salada de Frutas - Se Cá Nevasse	1	[2.63%]
Glen Adams Affair - Just A Groove	4	[10.53%]
Enter the Haggis “Casualties of Retail”	4	[10.53%]
h	1	[2.63%]
y	1	[2.63%]
songs	1	[2.63%]
are there gonna be that many nominations?	1	[2.63%]
dunno but I hope so	1	[2.63%]
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