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

Here are the Top 45. I left things with the numbers that VHS passed on to me. I suspect he's right that some ranked ballots--the ones where people didn't actually fill in the points themselves--were counted as unranked. I say that because that's what I did; I ordered my ballot but didn't fill in the corresponding points, and my #1 ("Moby Octopad") wasn't noted either, until I noticed myself. If this is true, I'm sure a few songs would have shifted around, possibly even at the top. But that's better than if the ballots had been missed altogether. And by and large, the world goes on as before.

1. “Tom Courtenay” (573 points/23 votes/four #1s)
2. “Autumn Sweater” (555/24/x)
3. “Blue Line Swinger” (539/22/3)
4. “From a Motel 6” (484/22/1)
5. “Deeper Into Movies” (412/21/1)
6. “Pablo and Andrea” (397/18/2)
7. “Our Way to Fall” (392/19/x)
8. “Little Eyes” (352/16/1)
9. “Sugarcube” (349/18/x)
10. “Cherry Chapstick” (340/15/x)
11. “Stockholm Syndrome” (328/17/x)
12. “Nowhere Near” (328/15/1)
13. “Let's Save Tony Orlando's House” (324/17/2)
14. “Damage” (295/15/x)
15. “Big Day Coming” (first version) (289/14/x)
16. “I Heard You Looking” (285/15/1)
17. “Sudden Organ” (278/12/x)
18. “Decora” (276/16/x)
19. “Moby Octopad” (276/15/1)
20. “Everyday” (265/12/1)
21. “Nights Fall on Hoboken” (258/10/3)
22. “You Can Have It All” (243/10/x)
23. “We're an American Band” (212/11/x)
24. “Saturday” (211/10/x)
25. “Detouring America with Horns” (209/11/x)
26. “Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)” (208/11/1)
27. “Double Dare” (202/11/x)
28. “The Summer” (189/9/x)
29. “Last Days of Disco” (181/9/x)
30. “Black Flowers” (164/9/x)
31. “Today Is the Day” (EP version) (164/5/x)
32. “False Alarm” (163/9/x)
33. “Barnaby Hardly Working” (162/8/x)
34. “Upside Down” (141/9/x)
35. “Shadows” (138/8/x)
36. “Today Is the Day” (Summer Sun version) (136/5/x)
37. “Center of Gravity” (132/7/x)
38. “Tears Are in Your Eyes” (130/9/x)
39. “(Straight Down to the) Bitter End” (129/7/x)
40. “My Heart's Reflection” (129/5/1)
41. “Madeline” (128/6/x)
42. “Season of the Shark” (124/8/x)
43. “Pass the Hatchet” (118/7/x)
44. “Stupid Things” (117/4/x)
45. “Ohm” (116/6/x)

thanks, clemenza.

I missed the rollout while I was traveling, but thx VHS and clem for putting this together! Nice graphics clem!

My ballot (ranked, FWIW, although I didn't fill in the numbers or points):

COVERS
Speeding Motorcycle
The Whole of the Law
You Can Have It All
Rock the Boat
Nuclear War

ALBUMS and EPs
Painful
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Danelectro

TRACKS
Nowhere Near
Sugarcube
From a Motel 6
The Story of Yo La Tango
Nothing To Hide
Deeper Into Movies
Speeding Motorcycle
Our Way to Fall
Tears are In Your Eyes
The Weakest Part
A Worrying Thing
The Whole of the Law
Center of Gravity
The Crying of Lot G
Cherry Chapstick
Autumn Sweater
One PM Again
Nuclear War
Decora
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven
Everyday
Here To Fall
Flying Lesson
Beanbag Chair
We're an American Band

Sorry I missed this poll, but what a nice invitation to listen to the old records again. I would have said 1) Electropura 2) Heart Beating as One 3) Nothing Turned itself etc.

Did anyone remark on the fact that on the list of songs on the back of Electro-Pura, the times are all messed up (deliberately, I'm sure): So that the 9 minute "Blue Line Swinger" is listed at being 3+? Pretty funny.

I'm back. Canadian forests don't have wifi. Rest of the list.

46 Green Arrow 6 115
47 The Hour Grows Late 6 115
48 The Whole of the Law 7 112
49 Little Honda 6 101
50 The Ballad of Red Buckets 5 100
51 Before We Run 4 95
52 Beanbag Chair 5 92
52 I Feel Like Going Home 5 92
52 I'll Be Around 5 92
55 Don't Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2) 6 87
56 Paul Is Dead 5 86
56 Shaker 4 86
58 Cornelia and Jane 4 83
59 Drug Test 4 81
60 Did I Tell You (Fakebook Version) 5 78
61 The Crying of Lot G 4 77
61 The Race Is On Again 4 77
63 Big Day Coming #2 5 76
64 The Weakest Part 4 68
65 Five Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) 4 67
65 One PM Again 5 67
67 Mushroom Cloud of Hiss 4 65
68 The Lie and How We Told It 3 62
69 Here To Fall 4 60
69 Nuclear War (Version 1) 4 60
69 Sleeping Pill 2 60
72 By the Time It Gets Dark 2 59
73 Periodically Double or Triple 2 54
73 Tom Courtenay (acoustic) 2 54
74 Always Something 2 52
75 I Was The Fool Beside You 2 49
76 Spec Bebop 3 48
77 Mr Tough 3 46
77 The Love Life of the Octupus 4 46
79 Alyda 2 45
79 Can't Forget 4 45
80 Lewis 2 44
81 A Worrying Thing 3 40
81 Sometimes I Don't Get You 2 40
82 The Room Got Heavy 2 38
83 Satelitte 2 37
83 The Sea Horse 2 37
83 You Tore Me Down 2 37
86 Barnaby Hardly Working (PYLT) 3 36
86 Nuclear War (Version 2) 1 36
88 Demons 1 35
88 Somebody's Baby 2 35
88 Sunsquashed 2 35
91 I Should've Known Better 3 33
91 Nutricia 2 33
91 Style of the Times 1 33
91 The Story of Yo La Tango 2 33
95 Griselda 2 31
95 How Some Jellyfish Are Born 2 31
95 Let's Be Still 2 31
95 Swing for Life 2 31
99 Tiny Birds 2 29
100 By Two 2 28
101 Alrock's Bell 2 23
101 Out of the Window 2 23
101 Outsmaterner 1 23
101 Too Late 1 23
105 Cherry Chapstick (Today is the EP) 2 22
106 And The Glitter is Gone 1 20
106 A Shy Dog 1 20
106 Don't Have To be So Sad 1 20
106 Fog Over Frisco 1 20
106 Oklahoma, USA 1 20
106 Hanky Panky Nohow 1 20
106 Is That Enough 1 20
106 Leaving Home 1 20
106 More Stars Than There Are In Heaven 1 20
106 Speeding Motorcycle 1 20
106 Well You Better 1 20
106 What Comes Next 1 20
118 Enough 1 19
118 The Asparus Song 1 19
118 Whatch Out For Me Ronnie 1 19
118 What Can I Say 1 19
122 All Your Secrets 1 18
122 Needle of Death 2 18
122 Superstar-Watcher 1 18
122 The Evil That Men Do 1 18
126 Be Thanful For What You Got 1 17
127 Avalon Or Something Similar 1 16
127 No Water 1 16
129 Some kinda fatigue 1 15
130 Rock'n'Roll Santa 1 14
130 Yellow Sarong 1 14
132 If It's True 1 13
132 My Little Corner of the World 1 13
134 Nothing To Hide 1 12
135 Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop 1 11
135 Moorock Mambo 1 11
135 Return To Hot Chicken 1 11
138 Danelectro 1 10
139 From A Motel 6 (G+L=YLT) 1 9
140 Isolation Tank 1 8
140 Nothing But You and Me 1 8
142 From Black to Blue 1 7

first number: number of votes.
second number: point totals.

Songs with a #1 vote that did not place:

Sleeping Pill
Nuclear War
Paul is Dead

Red Buckets wuz robbed!

so was drug test

And then nothing POLLED itself inside out.