The God Machine : Survey March/April 1997
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:52:25 +1000
From: Edward Frew
Hi everyone, the survey is finally finished. Thankyou very much to everyone
who voted, there were 32 voters (including me) by the deadline which is a
quite good turnout and makes the results have some relevance and accuracy.
Thanks again to everyone involved, Edward.
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THE GOD MACHINE + SOPHIA MAILING LIST
SURVEY 1997
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Q1. Favorite Album:
1: "Scenes From the Second Storey" - 25 Votes
2: "One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying" - 7 Votes
Well, on the last survey I was the only person who voted for 'One last laugh..'
so it seems we have either gained a few fans of it or more people now own the
album. A good question which could have been on the survey would have been:
Do you own 'one last laugh..'? because a few people meantioned that they
didn't and that they would like to.
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Q2. Favorite Songs:
1: IT'S ALL OVER - 21 Points
2: Seven - 20 Points
3: Pictures of a Bleeding Boy - 19 Points
4: The Desert Song - 18 Points
5: Purity - 15 Points
6: Ego - 12 Points
7: Dream Machine - 11 Points
7: The Blind Man - 11 Points
7: Home - 11 Points
7: Boy By The Roadside - 11 Points
8: In Bad Dreams - 8 Points
8: The Hunter - 8 Points
9: Painless - 7 Points
10: The Train Song - 5 Points
11: The Tremelo Song - 2 Points
11: The Flower Song - 2 Points
11: I've Seen the Man - 2 Points
11: She Said - 2 Points
11: All My Colours - 2 Points
11: Prostitute - 2 Points
12: Out - 1 Point
12: Commitment - 1 Points
12: 'Hypocrite' (Live and Unreleased) - 1 Point
OK, the voting system worked by your first preference getting 3 points, your
second 2 points and your third 1 point. These results were very, very close,
so although 'it's all over' won, I think the top 4 can all be blocked
together and called our favorite songs. A few people distinguished between
versions of
songs (in particular: 'The Desert Song' and 'The Blind Man') but I took them
all as one song because it would have got a bit complicated.
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Q3. Least Favorite Song:
1: None - 8 Votes
2: The Sunday Song - 7 Votes
2: Temptation - 7 Votes
3: Home - 3 Votes
4: Fever - 2 Votes
5: The Train Song - 1 Vote
5: Seven - 1 Vote
5: The Life Song - 1 Vote
5: Evol - 1 Vote
5: The Tremelo Song - 1 Vote
Well, this Question was a bit silly, but I think it was also interesting to
see that 4 of 'our' least favorite songs were also 4 of 'our' most favorite!
Obviously some people said they have no least favorite and that all GM songs
are good which shows them as 'true fans' etc. but I think that there are a
couple of bad songs and they were basically represented here.
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Q4. Favorite Lyric:
1: "Why do all the things have to change..
just when they mean the most?" - 3 Votes
1: "And she said life could be painless
I'm sorry but that's not what I've found" - 3 Votes
2: 'I stand dead in the center with nothing at all' - 2 Votes
The rest have 1 Vote
3: "Cut myself cause I can't see the beauty,
feel myself because I can't see the light,
tell myself that I do not deserve this,
tell myself that I do not deserve this,
i'm just a simple man"
3: "It always happens that way"
3: "Ego is beast, Ego is Evil"
3: "Oh, what do you do when you feel like you're living a lie?"
3: "If I show you the pain, will you show me the Purity?"
3: "i can't find my way to heaven"
3: "If I show you my scars, will you show me yours.
3: "I wanna go where the sun goes...
3: "I wish I could fly ... so I could fly away but
come back again and again ..."
3: "Did you ever hold something precious and know that it was eventually
going to die."
3: "All the bad things, that all the bad things, are in my mind"
This question was the most misunderstood question but that was my fault because
I didn't explain it properly. A lot of people put song names as favorite
songs lyrically which is a fair enough answer but I was looking more for
particular lyrics. Because of this error though, I just split the results up:
1: Boy by the roadside - 2 Votes
The rest have 1 Vote
2: It's all over
2: Pictures of a bleeding boy
2: Seven
2: Purity
2: In bad dreams
2: I've Seen the Man
2: All of 'Scenes...'
2: Painless
3 People either didn't have a favorite lyric or didn't vote for one.
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Q5. Favorite Band Member:
1: Robin Proper-Sheppard - 16 Votes
2: None/All - 10 Votes
3: Ronald Austin - 3 Votes
4: Jimmy Fernandez - 2 Votes
5: Hate them all - 1 Vote :)
This Question was the most controversial but... I think that it has its
merits. A lot of people put reasons why the member they voted for was their
favorite, such as 'I like the drumming/singing/bass playing/guitar playing'
or 'I like Robin because he continues making good music' etc. and although
everyone likes the band as a whole, not as individuals, it is fine to point
out particular aspects of the music you like, and for me, this makes the
question one worth
putting in.
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Q6. E.P's/Promos
1: None - 20 People
2: Home E.P (CD) - 10 Owners
3: Desert Song E.P (CD) - 7 Owners (Why can't I get one then!)
4: Ego E.P (CD) - 5 Owners
5: Home 7" - 4 Owners
6: Purity E.P (12") - 3 Owners
6: Lost Weekend Compilation feat. 'Pics of a bleeding boy' - 3 Owners
6: Ego E.P (12") - 3 Owners
6: Desert Song E.P (12") - 3 Owners
7: Home 4 Song Polygram Promo - 2 Owners
8: Home E.P (12") - 1 Owner
8: Home 3 song Polygram Promo - 1 Owner
8: Hybrid Compilation feat. 'Home'? - 1 Owner
8: Glastonbary Comp. feat. 'She said' - 1 Owner
8: Ego T-Shirt - 1 Owner
8: Promo Post Cards and Stickers - 1 Owner
Some people neglected to include formats so I presumed they were CD versions.
I was very suprised that there are so many people with copies of this stuff
when they are all so hard to find. Remember though, that if you ever see
something which you already have, offer it to everyone else on the list
because a lot of people are looking for the E.P's/Promos.
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Q7. Live?
Yes: 10 People
No: 22 People
Venues:
Windsor Old Trout, UK 26 Feb 92
After Dark Reading, UK 28 March 92
Reading Festival, UK 28 August 92
Windsor Old Trout, UK 15 October 92
Jerico Tavern, Oxford, UK 24 October 92 + 22 Feb 93
Buzz Club Aldershot, UK 27 Feb 93
Brussels, Belgium @ VKClub 06 April 93 - 2 People
Oslo 13 August 93
Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium 28 August 93 - 2 People
LA2 London, UK 11 Sept 93
Paris Rex Club 2 December 93
Hultsfred '93 - 2 People
Lausanne, Switzerland Spring '94
Pretty Interesting, no one got to any USA shows which is a bit of a pity.
Also, does anyone know when their last live show was? It would have been
close to that Switzerland show, I'd think but I was wondering if there were
any others.
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Q8. Sophia?
Own the Album:
Yes: 18
No: 14
Favorite Song:
1: So Slow - 5 Votes
2: The Death of a Salesman - 4 Votes
3: Is it any Wonder - 2 Votes
3: Another Friend - 2 Votes
3: I Can't Believe the Things I Can't Believe - 2 Votes
3: Are You Happy Now? - 2 Votes
4: Last Night I Had a Dream - 1 Vote
4: When You're Sad - 1 Vote
Well, All the songs represented there! Just shows how good an album it is!
Again, it looks like a lot of people are still looking for this album,
especially in the USA and Canada so keep a look out.
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Q9. Favorite Album of all time?
The Afghan Whigs - "Gentlemen" - 3 Votes
The Pixies - "Doolittle"
Pig - "Praise the Lard"?
Foetus - "Nail"
Skinny Puppy - "VivisectVI"
Puressence - "Puressence"
Catherine Wheel - "Chrome"
The Clash - "London Calling"
Simon and Garfunkel - "Sounds of Silence"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Mellon Collie & Infinite sadness"
Korn's first Album
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Diary"
Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster album (A GREAT ALBUM whoever that was! ED)
Radiohead - "The Bends"
Straitjacket Fits - "Hail"
Nick Drake - "Introduction to Nick Drake"
Catherine Wheel - "Ferment"
Nick Cave and the bad seeds - "let love in"
Dinosaur jr - "where you been"
Cranes - "forever"
Chris Isaak- "wicked game"
Dirty Three - "Self titled"
Tool - "AEnima"
Blind mr jones - "stereo musicale"
Organic cloud - "self titled"
The Cult - "Love"
Jeff Buckley - "Grace"
Thinderstics - Selftitled (i presume, ED)
U2 - "Boy"
Both first album of Velvet Underground and Stooges
Buffalo Tom - "Let Me Come Over"
Man Deadbolt - "Tiki"
Dr. Phibes And The House Of Wax Equations - "Whirlpool"
Grant Lee Buffalo "Fuzzy"
Pink Floyd - "The Wall"
Neil Young - "Rust never sleeps"
Charlatans - "Up to our hips"
Fugazi - "In On The Kill Taker"
Pavement - "Slanted & Enchanted"
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Q10. Favorite band/artist?
Joy Division - 4 People
Afghan Whigs - 3 Votes
Nick Cave - 3 Votes
The Pixies - 2 Votes
Flaming Lips - 2 Votes
Red House Painters - 2 Votes
Catherine Wheel - 2 Votes
Jim Thirwell
Pearl Jam
Tom Waits
Sunny day real estate
King Crimson
Veruca Salt
Motorpsycho
Perry Farrell
Tindersticks
Cure
radiohead
Nick Drake
Girls Against Boys
Neurosis
The Clash
Jeff Buckley
Lou Reed
The Smiths
reload
Slowdive
smog
Jimi Hendrix
Echo And The Bunnymen
Grant Lee Buffalo
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Pink Floyd
Rocket From The Crypt
Spacemen 3/Spiritualized
Neil Young
P J Harvey
Pavement
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Q11. Favorite Song?
"Atmosphere" - Joy Division - 2 Votes
"Black" -Pearl Jam - 2 Votes
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
"Desire Lines" - Lush
"God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" - Moby
"The Nude" - Catherine Wheel
"Milez is dead" - Afghan Whigs
"Cadence and Cascade" - King Crimson
"Je f'ait une promesse" - Anathema
"Sear Me" - My Dying Bride
"Take Me Out" - Red House Painters
"Like a hurricane" - Neil Young
"Drown" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Idiot's prayer" - Nick Cave
"Whisper" - Morphine
"A Moment of clarity" - Therapy?
"The Last Night" - Dirty Three
"Precious Things" - Tori Amos
"Revolution" - The Cult
"Perfect day" - Lou Reed
"The Aroma Of Gina Arnold" - Trumans Water
"Small Caravan" - blind mr jones
"The Biosphere (global communication mix)" - Reload
"Original" - Leftfield
"Starless" - King Crimson
"Crime in the city" - Neil Young
"Can't you hear me knockin'" - Rolling stones
"Hole" - Zaibatsu
"Not Too Amused" - Sebadoh
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Q12. Favorite book?
"Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" by Douglas Adams - 2 Votes
"The Magus" by John Fowles - 2 Votes
"The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker - 2 Votes
"Junkie" by W Burroughs
"Less Than Zero" by Brett Easton Ellis
"Trainspotting" (the book) by ?
"The Wasp Factory" by Iain banks
"MicroSerfs" by Douglas Coupland
"Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby Jnr
"Lila" by Robert M. Pirsig
"Belgarion" by David Eddings
"Journey to Ixtlan" by Carlosr Castaneda
"Life after God" by Douglas Coupland
"A Guide For The Perplexed" by E.F. Schumacher
"Immortality" by Milan Kundera
Book about Adrian (unsure of title) by Margerite Yourcenar
"Dune" Frank Herbert
"A clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess
"Black spring by Henry Miller
"The beastly beatitudes of balthazar b and the ginger man" by JP Donleavy
"1984" by George Orwell
"The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice
"With fire and sword" by henryk sienkiewicz
The Bible by Various Artists :)
How to cook forty humans ... :)
"Mysterious skin" by Scott Heim
"Queer" by William S Burroughs
"The Inferno" by Dante
"High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby
"Duell i Tombstone" by Louis Masterson
"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
"C 'era una volta in America" by S.Leone
"Steal This Book" - A. Hoffman
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Q13. Favorite movie?
Pulp Fiction - 4 Votes
Apocalypse Now - 3 Votes
Blue Velvet - 2 Votes
Lost Highway - 2 Votes
Trainspotting - 2 Votes
37.2 Le Matin (aka Betty Blue)
Were the day takes you
Threesome
Akira
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Seven
Alien 2
Better Off Dead
Fargo
Forrest Gump
Ed Wood
Night On Earth
Hard Boiled
Miller's crossing
His girl friday
A Clockwork orange
The Prophecy (aka God's Army)
Shane
Twelve Monkeys
C'est arrive pres de chez vous (aka Man Bites Dog)
Brazil
Wild at heart
Slave girls in the avocado jungle of death
La Divina Commedia
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Death Race 2000
Caddyshack
Eraserhead
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WHO VOTED:
Christophe Demunter
Dave C Boyle
Soens Marcel
jubal
Andy Otter
ChkingHzrd
Nuno Oliveira
Johan
Richard D. James
Edward Anthony Casey
K.T.B. van 't Veer (AKA Titus)
Ramon de Louw
Mattias Oscarson
Brian Fenton
Steven Galbraith
Marco Cerri
Didier
David Dufresne
Yaz
P Robson
Philippus Baalman
Robert V. Tremblay
Joeri Verfaille
Sarah Staelraeve
AK-Centraal
brion sutherland
Roberto Moroni
Bobby Sherman
Thor Herman Christensen
Dave Gardin
Brenda Jolliffe
Edward Frew
Thanks!
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Where the voters were from:
USA - 9 People
Belgium - 6 People
UK - 4 People
Netherlands - 3 People
Canada - 2 People
Sweden - 2 People
Italy - 2 People
Australia - 2 People
Ireland - 1 Person
Norway - 1 Person
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THE END
Congratulations! You have got to the bottom, remember to get in touch with
me if you have any queries or if you want to know who voted for something in
particular etc. THANKYOU for voting (If you did) and reading! See ya, Edward.