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

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)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt03_zpsolw8kj90.jpg

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)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt02_zpssadgm7dk.jpg

#1. 573 points. 23 votes. 4 1st place votes
Tom Courtenay (Electr-O-Pura)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt01_zpsv8hzmz3y.jpg

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)

I'm also a little worried that my ballot wasn't counted, but what can you do. Fun poll, amazing images. I voted for four songs from Fade, which I'm pretty sure makes me unique.

Damage
Our Way to Fall
Ohm
Tom Courtnenay
Autumn Sweater
Black Flowers
Cherry Chapstick
Decora
Nowhere Near
Sugarcube
Tears Are In Your Eyes
Sudden Organ
Blue Line Swinger
Mr. Tough
You Can Have It All
Pass The hatchet I Think I'm Goodkind
Deeper Into Movies
From a Motel 6
Here to Fall
Before We Run
Pablo and Andrea
Well You Better
Sometimes I Don't Get You
Center of Gravity
Stupid Things

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

GRRRRRRRRRRR

thx VHS, Clemenza!

^ This.

Seems my only tracks to miss out were two covers I should have just moved across to that sub-poll, plus

Shaker
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
Beanbag Chair
Superstar-Watcher
Spec Bebop
Here to Fall

cool poll, feels like my ballot isn't super contiguous with the consensus in that I favor non-album tracks except for the big two albums

Night Falls On Hoboken
Deeper Into Movies
Blue Line Swinger
Tom Courtenay
The Whole Of The Law
Stockholm Syndrome
Don't Say A Word
Big Day Coming #1
Somebody's Baby
Little Honda
From A Motel 6
A Worrying Thing
Barnaby, Hardly Working
I Heard You Looking
Be Thankful For What You Got
Autumn Sweater
You Can Have It All
Rock N Roll Santa
Demons
Pablo and Andrea
(Straight Down To The) Bitter End
Tears Are In Your Eyes
Everyday
My Heart's Reflection
Needle of Death

Good poll, thanks VHS & Clemenza.

Hope this got counted:
1. From a Motel 6
2. We’re an American Band
3. Sudden Organ
4. Upside-Down
5. Autumn Sweater
6. Double Dare
7. You Tore Me Down
8. Night Falls on Hoboken
9. Spec Bebop
10. Cherry Chapstick
11. Sugarcube
12. Sea Urchins
13. Tom Courtenay
14. I Heard You Looking
15. Last Days of Disco
16. Saturday
17. Deeper Into Movies
18. Barnaby, Hardly Working
19. Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
20. Madeline
21. Moby Octopad
22. Tears Are in Your Eyes
23. Oklahoma USA
24. Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
25. Big Day Coming #1

I wonder if I'm the only one who voted for a track from the Sounds of the Sounds of Science.

I had From a Motel 6 as my #1 too, only 1 got counted.

I was afraid of that.

Another Motel 6 #1 here.

1. Tom Courtenay (Electr-O-Pura version)
2. From a Motel 6
3. Cherry Chapstick
4. Autumn Sweater
5. The Summer
6. By the Time It Gets Dark
7. Sugarcube
8. You Can Have It All
9. Moby Octopad
10. Our Way to Fall
11. Madeline
12. False Alarm
13. The Hour Grows Late
14. Upside-Down
15. Little Eyes
16. Decora
17. Pablo and Andrea
18. Little Honda
19. Stockholm Syndrome
20. Mr. Tough

picked my #1 without a moment's hesitation. Best thing they've ever done.

1. Sleeping Pill
2. Sudden Organ
3. I Heard You Looking
4. False Alarm
5. From A Motel 6
6. The Hour Grows Late
7. Don't Say a Word (Hot Chicken #2)
8. My Heart's Reflection (alternate take from Tom Courtenay EP)
9. Out The Window
10. Always Something
11. Shaker
12. Sunsquashed
13. Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
14. I Was The Fool Beside You For Too Long
15. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
16. Decora
17. Some Kinda Fatigue
18. Deeper Into Movies
19. Barnaby, Hardly Working
20. Drug Test
21. Swing For Life
22. Autumn Sweater
23. We're An American Band
24. Detouring America with Horns
25. From Black To Blue

I feel like I might have counted ranked ballots as unranked. I will have to check.

It's definitively the case for Albert R. I'm so sorry.

1. Flying Lesson
2. You Can Have It All
3. Little Eyes
4. Stockholm Syndrome
5. Cherry Chaptstick
6. Autumn Sweater
7. Hanky Panky Nohow
8. (Straight Down to the) Bitter End
9. Moby Octopad
10. Sugarcube
11. Season of the Shark
12. Little Hond
13. Ohm
14. The Room Got Heavy
15. Big Day Coming
16. I Should've Known Better
17. Deeper Into Movies
18. Madeline
19. From a Motel 6
20. Our Way to Fall

ALBUMS

1. I Can Hear The heart Beating as One
2. And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
3. Electr-O-Pura
4. Summer Sun