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

Top five for me, and Georgia Hubley's closest Moe Tucker moment.

Nice to see Little Eyes finish so high. This must be their highest-placing song post-And Then Nothing....

#7. 392 points. 19 votes.
Our Way To Fall (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
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I love this song too.

Damage was my number one, Our Way to Fall my number two

#6. 397 points. 18 votes. 2 1st place votes.
Pablo and Andrea (Electr-O-Pura)
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Top five incoming!

Our Way To Fall is one of those songs that gives me so much hope about love and relationships. The opposite of Cherry Chapstick which can be crushing.

surprised to see Pablo and Andrea so high, it's nice but never stood out as a highlight

Pablo and Andrea was on the lower part of my ballot. It's a good song with a master guitar solo.

#5. 412 points. 21 votes. 1 1st place vote.
Deeper Into Movies (I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)
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i've been getting messages from outer space

Very happy to have "Pablo and Andrea" place so high... Top 3 for me - love the guitar sound on that track.

Y'all like "Little Eyes" and "Our Way to Fall" a lot more than I do.

#4.484 points. 22 votes. 1 1st place.
From A Motel 6 (Painful)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt04_zpsmonl7rgf.jpg

Pablo and Andrea was my #1

Deeper into Movies was mine.

There go my 2 & 1, respectively.

Wondering if Green Arrow is top 3

I don't think my #1 is gonna place. Pablo and Andrea was my #3, beautiful song and my favorite Ira solo.

So I take it The Ballad of Red Buckets is not going to show up. What's the matter with all you Red Buckets haters?

what's left of the big ones? Autumn Sweater?

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) hasn't placed yet.

#3. 539 points. 3 1st place votes
Blue Line Swinger (Electr-O-Pura)
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22 votes.

That was the song I predicted up thread would win, iirc I used the phrase "set in stone" lol

Every song in the top 10 is monumental imo.

I voted for both "Blue Line Swinger"s, the long one and the short one.

Where the fuck is Shadows.

#35

(my bad)

Actually Shadows came up late in the polls. I'm very glad it's there.

I've long since abandoned my hopes of The Asparagus Song placing

Barnaby not placing is a surprise. I voted Drug Test off President YLT.

Barnaby is #33.

I meant Spec Bebop.

#2. 555 points. 24 votes.
Autumn Sweater (I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)
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#1. 573 points. 23 votes. 4 1st place votes
Tom Courtenay (Electr-O-Pura)
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Kinda surprised "Shaker" is nowhere to be seen. Seemed fairly prominent at the time. Or at least a "heard it in a Hal Hartley film" level of prominent.

XP: Ooooh

Thanks for doing this, VHS! Great rollout! And great images/idea, clemenza!

Also, Tom Courtenay got 2 votes for the acoustic version, if people wondered about its dominance.

I'll bring in more stats tomorrow.

"Tom Courtenay" was a complete surprise to me. I wasn't even remotely aware that was a key YLT song.

Another huge thanks to Clem and Bee OK.

And of course thank you to anyone who participated! Sorry for the endless typos. Dyslexia at work. I'm still pretty damn proud.

I wish the text on the images had been sharper...I don't why they weren't. Anyway, I figure this was the least contentious countdown ever. Can you imagine two Yo La Tengo fans getting into a heated argument?

VHS thanks for running this-and Clemenza these images were so great. Thanks again.

Y'all I think Fade is a good album, truthfully above the overly long I'm Not Afraid Of You...

1 Paul Is Dead Electr-O-Pura
Our Way To Fall
Pablo And Andrea
You Can Have It All
Sudden Organ
6 Before We Run Fade
Deeper Into Movies
Big Day Coming (slow)
Today is the Day (rock)
10 Spec Bebop I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Summer
Black Flowers
Moby Octopad
From a Motel 6
15 I'll Be Around Fade
16 Avalon Or Someone Very Similar Popular Songs
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
18 Drug Test President Yo La Tengo
19 Styles of the Times Today Is The Day! EP
20 I Feel Like Going Home I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
Tom Courtenay
23 Let's Be Still Summer Sun
Little Eyes
25 Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) May I Sing with Me

Not surprised at the top 5, but a little dismayed at the high placings of Summer Sun and ATNTIIO tracks. I think what I love about YLT doesn't match up with the aspects they valued/tried to focus on the most in their own work.

great poll!

love deeper into movies, they've just done another version of it for their new album - www.vulture.com/2015/06/yo-la-tengo-premiere-deeper-into-movies.html

thx VHS, Clemenza!

Pablo and Andrea was my #1

― JoeStork, Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:05 PM (2 hours ago)

Deeper into Movies was mine.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:05 PM (2 hours ago)

uh... Deeper Into Movies was my #1 vote too and the results said it there was only one #1 vote for it... ?

Welp, now I think my ballot wasn't counted, but here it is (note to all the matador-n00bz: lots of great 80s tracks here y'all should check out):

Deeper Into Movies
Last Days Of Disco
A Shy Dog
Pablo & Andrea
Lewis
Drug Test
The Summer
Blue Line Swinger
Tears Are In Your Eyes
A Worrying Thing
Barnaby, Hardly Working (Fakebook version)
Nowhere Near
Avalon Or Someone Very Similar
Detouring America With Horns
Did I Tell You (Fakebook version)
I Heard You Looking
Tom Courtenay
From A Motel 6
Saturday
Green Arrow
Center Of Gravity
Big Day Coming (version 1)
Can't Forget
What Comes Next
Don't Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2)