SF0208 Songs from our poll that got one vote

SF0208 Songs from our poll that got one vote

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Before we bring the curtain down on our Bicentennial Poll, following up from a suggestion by Ian Moore, here is an episode featuring songs from our patrons and sponsors that only attracted one lone vote.

Mark Sampieri, aka Sampers, chose ‘Desire Lines’ by Deerhunter. I recall listening to this in a bookshop, of all places, and experiencing that syndrome, quite a pleasurable one, wherein you tease your mind by trying to identify a song you vaguely know. Not having access to Shazam I asked the store assistant who checked her Spotify.

To Australia where Paul Siedle, aka Seeds, went for the post-punk outfit Love of Diagrams’ ‘Double Negative’. I once saw them perform and the guitarist took forever to tune up between songs. And they had zero banter. So, marked down for stagecraft, but an excellent song.

Our website maestro Jamie Pond of Plexus Media chose Fountains of Wayne’s ‘Hackensack’. Apparently, it’s a real place west of New York. (Certainly not east.) Lovely vignette, reminiscent of The Kinks, the episode not coincidentally where we first played it.

And talking of New York, there’s St Vincent’s paean to the dirty old town, chosen by Luke Finley.

When Gillian Welch wrote “Everything Is free’ she could surely have had no idea how unerringly prescient her song would become. The choice of Joanne Frances – thank you, Joanne.

Steven Pilling is an inveterate runner and I’m delighted to include his choice, the obscure band Harpans Kraft’s chirpy ‘Canal Side Running’.

Conor Tonra, on the other hand, is definitively Irish, and I believe all his ten tracks were from the Emerald Isle. I’ve chosen ‘Happiness isn’t a fixed state’ by Kynsy, who seems to be a solo artist. Artiste? probably not.

The bloke whose idea the episode was is next – Ian Moore up in Newcastle, UK (not Newcastle, Australia). He wanted to know why no one else had chosen Ballboy and I had to break it to Ian that he hadn’t chosen them either. However, he did choose iconic ’60s track ‘The first cut is the deepest’ by PP Arnold, which sounds evergreen.

Gerry Frizelle included Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Pictures on my wall’ amongst his selections and no one followed suit. Or so we thought, until I was contacted recently by old school pal and playing pal in the victorious Hales House cricket team in 1979, Stuart Galvin. He asked for the group to be played under the illusion it was a request show. It’s not, but, killing two birds with one stone, this is for him as well as Gerry.

My friend Mog has been badgering me to place Throbbing Gristle at Number One for some time now, with which for obvious reasons I could not comply. However, here’s ‘Hot on the heels of love’ just for him.

Old FOSF pal David Hughes included ‘No aloha’ by The Breeders amongst his ten, so here it is.

Two dub songs next – ‘King Tubby meets Rockers uptown’ by Augustus Pablo, chosen by Pinko Fowler and the lesser known ‘Drum song’ by Scientist from 4 years later, chosen by Mike Weiss. An episode like this affords the opportunity to play a wider variety of genres, which is the main weakness of a ‘GOAT’ style poll.

And finally to our most inimitable Steve, the Pringle, and his choice of ‘The first big weekend’ by Arab Strap. I sometimes hear myself saying “I shouldn’t have bothered” which is one of the opening lyrics from this charming one-off tribute to a wasted weekend.

Thank you for listening to the last 200 episodes, many thanks to all our patrons, sponsors and volunteers, including the ones whose songs I didn’t have space for here, and let’s do it all again in 2033.