Results to Poll
WHOODOO AND HOODON'T ?

The Poll section will be updated each time we have a poll, which I'll put up in the What's New Section. If you haven't been here before, below is a poll which took place recently. The poll details are here. Don't Vote In This Poll...We'll have a poll again in the future.

I can't wait to compare between the results of this poll and Living Colour Super Hits, a CD to be released on January 27th 1998.

Previous Polls

1. Living Colour Poll

Here are the final results to the internet poll as decided by Living Colour fans on the web. I got a reasonable amount of votes which took a while to process, and the reults are interesting. Thanks to everyone that voted. There were some restrictions, though, such as only the songs from their LPs; this cuts out some great tracks like their covers of Burning of the Midnight Lamp and Final Solution, but I felt it would be better to find Their greatest hits. However, Memories Can't Wait was still made a selection. I think most people took this into account anyway. So here they are:

The Living Colour Top Ten Songs of All Time as voted by the Living Colour fans on the web keeping the colour alive 1 Auslander 2 Leave it Alone 3 Nothingness 4 Type 5 Go Away 6 Cult of Personality 7 Bi 8 Desperate People 9 Solace of You 10 Funny Vibe 11 Ignorance is Bliss 12 Love Rears its Ugly Head 13 This is the life 14 Pride 15 Never Satisfied 16 Postman 17 Fight the fight 18 This Little Pig 19 Wall 20 Information Overload

One thing that's obvoius straight away is that 5 out of the top ten songs were from Stain. Most of the songs in the top 20 (11/20) came from Stain, which possibly shows a trend that fans going for the new(er) Living Colour. Eleven Stain songs is not bad considering only WTFF and Mind Your Own Business didn't make the top 20.

There were 2 tracks which didn't make anyone's top ten: Tag Team Partners and Ology1 (both great tracks none the less), and there were also a lot of tracks which only one person voted for. Open Letter (To a Landlord) was not voted for in the first stage of the poll, then some fans of the song decided to vote in.

The song which most people voted for in their top 10 was Bi, followed closely by a three-way tie for 2nd place of Nothingness, Go Away, and Cult of Personality.

Leave it Alone had the most votes for number 1, followed by Type.

Another interesting point is that Pride, supposedly their Greatest Hits, failed to include some 'vital' songs from the top ten; maybe this was because Pride was targeted at a new Living Colour audience, and thus included the more commercial songs.

People that voted for songs outside the restrictions had their votes still counted but without the missing songs. Thanks for being early birds, though!

Here's a comparison of the songs of Pride and the songs from our vote. I'll replace the missing Pride songs with the ones from above and keep in the new Pride songs. (14 songs in no order)

I guess if they kept "What's your Favourite Colour?" since it's the theme songs, and possibly the live Memories Can't Wait because it's a live version, they (or we) weren't far off.

Best Living Colour Album

Stain was the album voted by most people as their best, followed by Time's Up and then Vivid.

Here are my top 10 (These seem to change each week though)!

My Living Colour Top 10 1 Solace of You 2 Nothingness 3 Never satisfied 4 Desperate People 5* Memories Can't Wait 6 Leave it Alone 7 Sacred Ground 8 Type 9 Postman 10 Elvis is Dead 11 Auslander

* = not counted ???

2. The Vernon Reid Mistaken Identity Poll

Well, here are the results of this poll.

Best Tracks from Mistaken Identity as voted by internet fans 1 CP Time 2 What's My Name 3 You Say He's Just a Psychic Friend 3 Lightnin' 5 Uptown Drifter 5 Signed Fictitious 7 Important Safety Instructions (Mutation 2) 8 Mistaken Identity 8 Saint Cobain 10 The Projects 11 Unborne Embrace 12 My Last Nerve 13 Freshwater Coconut 14 Who Are You (Mutation 1) 14 Mysterious Power

Number 1, CP Time, was far and away the most popular song. Most people gave it their number 1, and almost everyone else put it in their top 5. As for the rest, we can't say too much. Some people voted for tracks which others didn't, but it was fairly consistent. Noone voted Call Waiting to Exhale in their top 5 tracks. Here's my top five:

My Top 5 1. You Say He's Just a Psychic Friend 2. What's My Name 3. Uptown Drifter 4. CP Time 5. Freshwater Coconut

However, I think every track on that album's an experience!