The League Of Extraordinary Tracks II: 6. NOT THAT ONE! – Poll

It’s Week 6 of our second season and the theme this week is “NOT THAT ONE!” – you know these titles, but not these songs… Well, probably not.

Listen to the tracks over at the playlist post. Then vote below for UP TO FOUR favourites. But remember – you can only vote for tracks you didn’t know before the poll!

League Of Extraordinary Tracks S2E6: NOT THAT ONE!

Please pick up to FOUR of these tracks.

DO NOT PICK TRACKS YOU ALREADY KNEW!

Spotify and YouTube playlists in the playlist post.

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Tom

16 January 2024 17:13

I suspect my tie-break criteria here are going to involve i) how audacious is it? (i.e. “Sometimes” is not as daring a title to use as “Monster Mash”) and ii) do I like it more than the ‘original’?
On both these factors “Kick Out The Jams” is starting with a significant advantage.

Jeff Worrell

16 January 2024 17:41

Heh, my tiebreaker was, to some extent: is it TRUE that I know another song with this title (without Googling)? Apparently, “Circles” was a minor hit for Adam F? *shrug emoji* Anyway, these are all good to great. In the end, went for Fatback, LRD, Plastiscines and Machineheart. Would love to find that Sarah Webster Fabio LP in the wild though.
P.S. The website is now completely hopeless on a phone. Constantly crashing. Better on a laptop (which is what I’m using to type and post this).

actualee simpson

22 January 2024 11:02

Reply to Jeff Worrell

Did Soul Coughing’s “Circles” make it to the UK?

healingandy

22 January 2024 14:49

Reply to actualee simpson

Not as I recall – they didn’t make too much of an impact over here, although they did play Phoenix Festival in ’97 and Reading in ’98.

vinnycrackers

17 January 2024 15:31

Reply to Jeff Worrell

Circles = Huge hit for Post Malone? Guess its up to the nominator to let us know!

Leo Breebaart

16 January 2024 20:27

A while back I’d pretty much given up on the LoET polls as simply being too esoteric for my tastes, but the most recent few have been better, and this one especially turned out to be a very welcome surprise.
Kate Davis and the Fatback Band are my favourites, but Lovebites was a fun discovery, and even more fun was recognizing Nik Kershaw’s voice on the Les Rhytmes Digitales track. And most of the other entries are enjoyable, too. A very accessible poll — my thanks to all the submitters.

vinnycrackers

17 January 2024 15:33

LOSER stomped all over the DO I LIKE IT MORE THAN THE ORIGINAL question.

A few songs I suspect I might have heard but not sure, so the tie break was don’t pick those. Great group!!

Last edited 8 months ago by vinnycrackers

Baltimore Jacks

19 January 2024 10:23

Kate Davis is the big winner for me here. Don’t know her; doesn’t sound at all like Monster Mash; does sound great. Then Barbara & Ernie and (very much to my surprise) Lovebites. Lil’ Kim jumped out of the speakers on the first listen, but Machineheart is pulling even for the fourth spot after repeats.
Thanks, all!
Echoing Jeff’s comment about site performance on the phone, I’ve found the twitter login not working at all on mobile for whatever reason.

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup ?

19 January 2024 13:09

I’ll echo the sentiment: This is a good round.
I am once again puzzled *my* nom isn’t doing better: I am sufficiently mainstream that I voted for 4 in the top 5.

Edward Still

19 January 2024 20:16

This one was both a lot of fun, and ultimately surprisingly hard to research and pick. The amount of mediocre Song 2s (Songs 2?) I sat through on anonymous mixtapes doesn’t bare thinking about….
The playlist does however, a really strong set of tracks, and I’m still undecided beyond Plasticines who win the gold star even though I presume they are mocking me to my face!

Last edited 8 months ago by Edward Still

Helene Hoffman

20 January 2024 16:21

I already knew “Kick Out the Jams” from the excellently titled glam obscurity comp Velvet Tinmine (hat tip to the fellow picker who may also own it) & “Stand & Deliver” from Apple Music’s algorithm or they would’ve been contenders.
“Loser” and “Play with Fire” were the immediate adds to my streaming library this time; as usual it was tough to pick after that due to overall high quality, but landed on “Circles” and “Night Fever” round out my ballot.

Mark G

22 January 2024 10:46

Reply to Helene Hoffman

It wasn’t that one, it was the “Kenny Everett’s Worlds Worst Record Show” LP, which contains such terrible things as “Surfin’ Bird”, “Paralysed” and the eventual winner of the original poll “I want my baby back”..
Strange thing, that radio series – I got a bunch of recordings thanks to various sites on’tnet and some of the inclusions are somewhat outrageous – a bunch of perfectly fine doo-wop tracks for a kickoff….

Anyway, seeing as I have a potential for a “theme” in the future, should we do a “worst”?

No. One mans meat and so on…

Pop-o-matic

22 January 2024 14:48

These are all great! Was already familiar with this “Monster Mash”, voted for Kim, Tub-Thumper, Barbara and Ernie and the “where have they been all my life” Plasticines.

healingandy

22 January 2024 14:51

Another indication of how basic my tastes are (or in tune with the PPP masses, hem hem): I voted for the tracks that were then revealed as the top 4.

koganbot

23 January 2024 07:22

The best League Poll yet. Wouldn’t mind any one of these winning. I love “Sometimes” from the get-go; feels very nineties in its dance versatility despite (or because of) a melody that harks back to Richard Rodgers in a pensive mood, and a garage rock beat right out of 1966. DQ’d though, ’cause I’d heard it before, one of the albums that Chuck Eddy made sure I listened to in 1999.

koganbot

23 January 2024 07:28

Reply to koganbot

Lovebites “Stand And Deliver.” Instruments promise a dark ride, but the vocals are surprisingly up and glam.

Lil Kim “Fuck You.” After a while she just sounds mean, but the guitar finds more heat, tension, twists, and barbed wire in Jerry Bock than the original fiddler had.

Last edited 8 months ago by koganbot

koganbot

23 January 2024 07:27

Reply to koganbot

Barbara & Ernie “Play With Fire,” makes me feel sudden nostalgia for my teen FM listening, but does so in six different ways at least, the ambitiousness of funk horns, meanwhile a bass and keyb that could ride the snake out west with Jim Morrison, churchy background singing, all this pulled together by sensitively warm folk-rock singing.

Kate Davis, whoever she is, “Monster Mash,” a winsomely vulnerable Marit Larsen type sounding knocked about by life and by the instrumental accompaniment, but quietly prevailing.

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