I Heard You Polling - The Yo La Tengo Poll Results Thread. (ILM Poll #61)

Who is he?

Oscar Gamble--most famous Afro of the '70s.

(Baseball Afro...Angela Davis and Pam Grier and a few other people had even more famous Afros. I had a decent white-guy Afro myself.)

#26. 208 points. 11 votes. 1 1st place.
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) (Electr-O-Pura)
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I voted for "Return to Hot Chicken," but not this one. I can't think of the connection off-hand...both instrumentals, right?

Never understood the hot chicken thing either, if someone with the knowledge could tell us!

http://www.roadfood.com/Photos/9370.jpg

They (used to) record in Nashville a lot. Nashville-style hot chicken is a regional thing, and Prince's is a legendary joint. Wait times of several hours reported...it's like getting brisket at Franklin's.

#25. 209 points. 11 votes.
Detouring America With Horns (May I Sing With Me)
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#24. 211 points. 11 votes.
Saturday (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
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Black Flowers is lovely, was in my top 10 or maybe just outside? Easily my favourite sung by James

#23. 212 points. 11 votes.
We're An American Band (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt23_zps7adxqpuv.jpg

"out of tune, out of tune..." <dissonant piano stab out of nowhere>

I probably should have given "Saturday" even more points.

American Band was my #2. Such an epic track.

#22. 243 points. 10 votes.
You Can Have It All (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
http://s854.photobucket.com/user/Maax_Seguela/media/ylt22_zpsd5fitxyy.jpg.html

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt22_zpsd5fitxyy.jpg

#21. 258 points. 10 votes. 3 1st place votes.
Night Falls In Hoboken (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
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there goes my #1

rip jim palmer

it has put me to sleep more than any other song ever, probably by an order of magnitude, and i mean that in the most complimentary of ways

Yeah, Night Falls (and the next one) being outside of the top 20 was a huge surprise to me. Probably the two biggest of the poll.

#20. 265 points. 1 1st place vote
Everyday (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
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I mean, Everyday is in top 20. But I thought it would be higher. I scream a traditional TOO LOW at both.

So many songs from Inside-Out made it--seemed like almost every one except for the song I voted for.

these quiet songs are nice and i like them, but i guess what has made the band special to me is when they make the loud songs just as intimate

#19. 276 points. 15 votes. 1 1st place vote.
Moby Octopad (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)
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I totally get how someone made this their #1.

earl weaver is universally intimate, however

Just catching up with this. I had Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken) In my top 5. It looks as if Judy about everything from Electro-Pura will place. Very cool. Also nice to see Detouring America With Horns so high.

The last two hit my ideal for YLT, totally enveloping and intimate but also with a lot of momentum and not lulling me to sleep (though the latter is totally fine, see "Night Falls on Hoboken")

#18. 276 points. 16 votes.
Decora (Electr-O-Pura)
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had no idea until a second ago that "Armenia City In the Sky" is the source of the high-pitched sample in "Moby Octopad"

i feel like i should have noticed that but of course never did

"Moby Octopad" was my #1. A friend taped I Can Hear the Heart for me, I played it in the car on a lengthy drive to a cottage, and I kept playing "Moby Octopad" over and over. It was so strange and so melodic, and it didn't seem at all like what they were doing on New Wave Hot Dogs, the last I'd heard of them at the time. (I probably wasn't remembering very well--I imagine there's some continuity there.) I think I picked out the Who sample right away.

Everyday was my first place vote. Glad to see it sneak into the top 20. Love the arrangement - it really sets the mood beautifully for that album.

Yeah Moby Octopad works very well on repeat, I remember playing the song over and over driving through BC with my parents, it reminded me of a rainy night in the city for some reasons.

Want to be Paul Le Mat in 1980.

turns the volume up for mooksies*

#17. 278 points. 12 votes.
Sudden Organ (Painful)
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I was way too stoned on my fifth listen to "Moby Octopad" in the summer of 2000 to attempt a sixth. On my ballot though.

#16. 285 points. 15 votes. 1 1st place vote.
I Heard You Looking (Painful)(
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See you tomorrow with the top 15!!

Had no idea about the Who sample! It always brought Seefeel to my mind. Amusingly non-OTM.

this is thee quintessential YLT song imo

TOO LOW

(cobra, tho)

my #1, narrowly

surely the live #1

several years ago my ex-wife got us tickets, for my birthday, to a small-room conversation/performance with ylt. then, mortifyingly, she mentioned that fact during the q&a session and asked them to either play happy birthday or i heard you looking for me. they chose the latter, thank god

the rollouts happening when i'm not home kind of a bummer, frankly

but i don't remember what half these songs are

people don't believe me when i tell them you forget when you don't PLAY RECORDS for YEARS

however, "Moby Octopad" is the only song thus far (i think) that mentions an actual baseball player:

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/10313/10313-10Fr.jpg

had no idea until a second ago that "Armenia City In the Sky" is the source of the high-pitched sample in "Moby Octopad"

I don't think I realized this, either -- I thought the sound was similar, but didn't think it was a sample.

Also, I always found it odd that the most Who-like live band I've ever seen never covered a Who song.

they def have on the WFMU fundraisers.

"Night Falls" was my #1. my fav vocals on a YLT song.
I like to take the title literally and hear it like a summer day ending, collapsing into crickets.
the best YLT show I saw, they opened with it, went on like 45 minutes, had a gong player. there was really nowhere else to go after that.

they def have on the WFMU fundraisers.

Hm, didn't know that. I scanned a list of all known YLT covers and didn't see any Who.