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

#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)

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

Non-placers bolded

TRACKS

1. Blue Line Swinger

2. Barnaby, Hardly Working (President YLT)

3. Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss

4. Moby Octopad

5. Tom Courtenay

6. The Summer

7. Saturday

8, Black Flowers

9, Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House

10. My Heart’s Reflection

11. False Alarm

12. Big Day Coming #2

13. Nowhere Near

14. Our Way To Fall

15. (Straight Down To The) Bitter End

16. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)

17. The Whole Of The Law

18. Autumn Sweater

19. Decora

20. Somebody’s Baby

21. Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop

22. Paul Is Dead

23. Too Late

24. Pablo And Andrea

25. Sunsquashed

ALBUMS

1. Electr-O-Pura

2. Painful

3. I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

4. Facebook (a sic from my e-mail for posterity)

5. President Yo La Tengo

Here's my ballot. Many thanks to VHS and Clemenza for running it.

From A Motel 6
Deeper Into Movies
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Decora
Damage
Autumn Sweater
Paul Is Dead
The Ballad Of Red Buckets
Detouring American With Horns
Blue Line Swinger
I Heard You Looking
Stockholm Syndrome
Tom Courtnay
Upside-Down
Little Eyes
Double Dare
Did I Tell You
Our Way To Fall
Pablo and Andrea
The Summer
I’ll Be Around
Season Of The Shark
Beanbag Chair
By Two’s
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House

Top 5 albums

Electr-o-Pura
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Painful
May I Sing With Me
I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Covers

Little Honda
Somebody’s Baby
By The Time It Gets Dark
Too Late
Barstool Blues

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

I did a 100-favorite-songs list on Facebook a few years ago, and "Jellyfish" was in my Top 10; considered it for #1 here.

1. “Moby Octopad”
2. “Satellite”
3. “How Some Jellyfish Are Born”
4. “Blue Line Swinger”
5. “I’ll Be Around”
6. “Positively Jeff Oliphant” (Dump)
7. “I Heard You Looking”
8. “Detouring America with Horns”
9. “Sudden Organ”
10. “International Airport” (Dump)
11. “From Black to Blue”
12. “The Race Is On Again”
13. “(Thin) Blue Line Swinger”
14. “Return to Hot Chicken”
15. “The Ballad of Red Buckets”
16. “Always Something”
17. “Nutricia”
18. “Before We Run”
19. “Living in the Country”
20. “Little Eyes”

i put "the love life of the octopus"at #6

Was also lucky enough to see them perform the whole album live, with the films projected alongside.

Glad to see some Before We Run votes.

There was a few SOSOS placings.

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Was also lucky enough to see them perform the whole album live, with the films projected alongside.

― clemenza, Friday, June 5, 2015 10:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how was it??!

what I have learned here is that I like YLT's covers and instrumentals much more than most people seem to

(xpost) It was something to see--very contemplative, very much like what I imagine a '60s Warhol-type mixed-media happening to be. Some or all of the films are online:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jean+Painlev%C3%A9

After the show, everyone autographed a vinyl copy of And Then Nothing... I'd bought that day.

thanks for the poll, vhs and clemenza. here is my song ballot. bold titles didn't make it into the top 45. could you please post the complete results (or at least the top 45 in a list), that would be cool.

1. Blue Line Swinger (Electr-o-pura)
2. Today Is the Day (Summer Sun)
3. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1), (Electr-o-pura)
4. Always Something (May I Sing with Me)
5. Autumn Sweater (LP version) (Autumn Sweater)
6. Detouring America with Horns (May I Sing with Me)
7. Can’t Forget (Fakebook)
8. Black Flowers (I Am Not Afraid of You…)
9. Shadows (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
10.The Summer (Fakebook)
11.Did I Tell You (New Wave Hot Dogs)
12.Stockholm Syndrome (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
13.Fog over Frisco (Genius + Love Yo La Tengo)
14.The Evil that Men Do (Craig’s Version) (President Yo La Tengo)
15.I Should’ve Known Better (I Am Not Afraid of You…)
16.No Water(New Wave Hot Dogs)
17.Night Falls on Hoboken (And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
18.Nowhere Near (Painful)
19.Barnaby, Hardly Working (President Yo La Tengo)
20.Sudden Organ (Painful)
21.How Some Jellyfish Are Born (The Sounds of the Sounds of Science)
22.Moby Octopad (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
23.From a Motel 6, Pt. 1 (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
24.Isolation Tank (They Shoot, We Score)
25.Double Dare (Painful)

Thanks a lot!
Fantastic results for the most part. Slightly dismayed by the lack of pre electr-o-pura stuff. But I didn't vote for much of it either, so what can you do?

1. Tom Courtenay (Electr-o-pura)
2. Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
3. Stockholm Syndrome
4. You Can Have It All
5. Blue Line Swinger (Electr-o-pura)
6. Sudden Organ
7. Detouring America With Horns
8. Damage
9. Shaker
10. Did I Tell You (Fakebook)
11. Autumn Sweater
12. Our Way to Fall
13. What Can I Say
14. Periodically Double or Triple
15. Satellite
16. Shadows
17. I Heard You Looking
18. (Straight Down To The) Bitter End
19. Little Eyes
20. Black Flowers
21. Moby Octopad
22. Here to Fall
23. Lewis
24. Alydia
25. The Whole of the Law

(xpost) I can post the top 45 later today, but VHS would have to put up the full results.

I never thought to check They Shoot, We Score, which I have--some of the Old Joy stuff on there is excellent.

I didnt vote bcz the only album I'm super-familiar with is Electr-o-pura (even though Blue Line Swinger is still my favorite song of all time) but here have this: European stoner metal band doing a YLT tribute on the last thing they released before breaking up. Obv the drummer is stiff compared to Georgia (what drummer isn't?) and the guitarist can't wig out like Ira (only a few can) but I was still struck at how well they nailed it against the odds:

https://youtu.be/DBE1oIlUO4A

there is a new album coming in august. a kind of sequel to fakebook. aquarium drunkard has the details including two mp3s.