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Very Important HoJo Poll

Which Howard song do you jones for?

"Life In One Day"	0 votes
"Like to Get to Know You Well"	1 votes
"Look Mama"	0 votes
"New Song"	2 votes
"No One Is to Blame"	6 votes
"Things Can Only Get Better"	4 votes
"What Is Love?"	1 votes

Edgy DC May 25 2007 02:33 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on May 26 2007 01:11 PM

Dickshot is with his family in Miami, but I'm sure, if he we're here, he'd be polling you about your favorite Howard Jones single. Oh, I'm sure there are acts from other eras and genres with notable but limited legacies that we need to poll. How about America? Gerry and the Pacemakers? Gin Blossoms? The Commodores? Run DMfuckinC! But I'm similarly sure that Dickshot wouldn't want to leave the techno eighties behind without revisiting the man who sacrificed his hairline for our moussing entertainment. Oh, you may think, it's just gimmicky eighties technopop. I'm going to ask you to bend your brain, to see both sides, and to throw off your mental chains "Life In One Day" --- crappy visuals from Top of the Pops "Like to Get to Know You Well" --- the favorite of the Better Off Dead crowd. "Look Mama" --- I met Howard's mother. She didn't think I was very funny. "New Song" --- apologizing in advance for the mime action "No One Is to Blame" (so we'll blame Armando) "Things Can Only Get Better" --- way to choose a title that can thrown back at you by critics. Oh, and more mime action here. "What Is Love?" Check him out singing at the Parisian art nouveau metro stop. Singles that didn't really contribute to his legacy and so were discluded: "You Know I Love You... Don't You?" "The Prisoner" (sounded like Van Halen to me) "Everlasting Love" (something of a hit, but forgettable suck nonetheless)

TransMonk May 25 2007 03:32 PM

Thanks Edgy...I was jonesin' for my Friday poll... I blame Armando. He's the hardest thrower but he's not allowed to win.

cooby May 25 2007 06:30 PM

Things Can Only Get Better. I always liked that song

MFS62 May 26 2007 07:36 AM

I can agree that the weekly music polls can be fun, but what makes every one of them so self-titled bloody important? Let us be the judge of that. For most of the artists so far, all I have is dynamic ennui. Later

seawolf17 May 26 2007 12:33 PM

Finally, one of these polls that I care enough about to vote in. I LOVE "No One Is To Blame." Hands-down winner, don't even need to listen to the others.

Johnny Dickshot May 30 2007 07:44 AM

I was thinking of "doing" Howard Jones in fact. He's so cute in his scarves and stuff. I'm going with "New Song" although at the height of Howard-mania, I probably was a "What is Love" guy. New Song has those cool fake handclaps and a real organ.

Johnny Dickshot May 30 2007 07:45 AM

Who on Earth voted for "Know You Well"?

metirish May 30 2007 07:48 AM

I'll go with "Things Can Only Get Better",how in the name of Howard Jones did I miss this poll before.

Edgy DC May 30 2007 08:04 AM

I swung between "New Song" and "What Is Love?" going eventually for the former. Now I feel sad that the latter has no votes. I think Ms. Edgy gave a non-binding vote to it, however. Meanwhile, I'm still not certain "New Song" isn't a naked ripoff of "Solsbury Hill."

AG/DC Feb 12 2008 09:30 AM

I was tooling around the back pages and found that this needs a tiebreaker.

soupcan Feb 12 2008 09:37 AM

HA!

RealityChuck Feb 13 2008 07:30 AM

And here I thought this was about Howard Johnson, the world's greatest tuba player (on the far left). That's him in the middle: And here on the left:

AG/DC Feb 13 2008 07:55 AM

Two new votes slam this into the win column for "No One Is to Blame."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 13 2008 08:06 AM

A 9-month travesty I tellsya.

AG/DC Feb 13 2008 08:12 AM

It's a pretty ballad, but he doesn't know where to take it. Those synth block chords at the end of the refrain are just the biggest copout. I was revisiting some of these because I thought, if I could find all the polls, we could creat the actual mix tape as an iTunes iMix and see how it came out.