Interractive Poll #? - Oldies rocking goldies

^ My pleasure, really! I'm glad you like this album that much. I actually think it may be one of their better albums... Their previous one, Angst is a bit in a similar vein, maybe slightly less experimental.

Personally, of their albums I also like Les nuits (2005) very much - it's a bit darker - and of their earlier work you should give their album Omsk a listen; apart from one or two average new wave pop tunes (we're in 1983!) you will find some of their experimental tendencies already there.

They have their youtube channel, so you can give them all a listen before buying (but you probably already found that one).

I knew four of these and will not vote for them this time just to make my choice easier. That's the ones of Joe Jackson (one of my Big X anyway, was thinking of nominating it myself - still liked to read what Lorenzo has to say about him), David Bowie (what a monster of an album!), Van der Graaf Generator, and The Fall (very good choices though - I think I heard that Fall song just once, played live, and could well have voted for it but ruled it out to make the task easier).

The honorable mentions are: tv-2, Iggy Pop, Kaleidoscope

These three really hit me - I know all of these bands but not the tracks and am stunned how good they are:

Pearl Jam - Nits - Deep Purple

1) Iggy Pop - Loves Missing (Nick)

2) Joe Jackson - Fool (JD)

3) David Bowie - Dollar Days (Logan)

Honorable mentions:

Nits - The Electric Pond (suitkees)

Van Der Graaf Generator - Manuelle (I prophesy disaster)

Almost honorable mentions:

Kaleidoscope - Ghost Riders In The Sky (Nickie)

Pearl Jam - Dance Of The Clairvoyants (mathman)

MY PODIUM:

Gold metal

1) Manuelle, by VdGG, absolute masterpiece of their maturity

The other songs follow, from afar:

Silver medal

2) Nits - The Electric Pond, a song that in my opinion has the merit of combining experimental electronic sounds with singing and with the melodic musical part arranged with pleasure. Good choice of Suitkees, which I always suspect is the same person as Christian-Lewian ...

And here we come to the painful notes, the bronze medal: barely excluding David Bowie, I remain undecided between the classic but irregular rock song by The Anders, and the minimalist and instrumental song by Christian, which in itself lacks just what I appreciate in The Electric Pond, i.e. mixing experimental sounds with melody and singing, but after all I cannot deny that it intrigued me very much and therefore, although if I stick to simple musical pleasure, I should choose The Anders, for this time I reward Christian's coherence. 

3. Friedman and Liebezeit - "182-11"   / but very close is Tv 2 - "En mand og hans hund"