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haha wow, I didn't notice that it placed based on two wildcard votes! I'd likely have voted for it, not particularly highly but it would have gotten a lot of not-super-high votes, enough to push it high on consensus.

Cracking version of Disturbance At The Heron House on the new REM live album. Sticks pretty close to the album version, but a bit more rough and ready and all the better for it. I didn't get round to voting in this poll. My bad. Will be interesting to see how it turns out and how many lesser known tracks make it. I'm hoping Pilgrimage makes an appearance...

I would have thrown "End of the World" a few points on my ballot if it'd been available as a non-wildcard...it's a good song that I used to LOVE but I think I'm kind of worn out on it. Particularly the opening - the drums suggest something really exciting is about to happen, and then when the actual song kicks in, it's a little, I dunno, less astounding than promised. They're happily loping along when the opening promises a breathless gallop. They gradually pick up steam and the song does end up pretty exciting though - I have no complaint whatsoever with the last verse. Totally classic Mike Mills vocals on this too.

This song would have totally made my ballot if it had been nominated. That opening drum riff! All those lyrics to be memorized and sung! That video with the weird broken house you always see off the highway and you're like, how does that ever happen? with the shirtless kid and skateboard because abandoned house+junk=shirtless kid with skateboard! The harmonies in the last minute of the song! Seeing them play it as the last song at my first REM concert in 1995 in Baton Rouge and everybody going crazy and rushing up to the stage! Not shouting "Leonard Bernstein" because your too cool to be like everybody else and of course there are better songs on Document everybody likes that one and I can find something unique and awesome in "Disturbance at the Heron House" I've been there since the beginning not like all these sellouts!

Its a fun song.

I can't be the only one who hates this goddamn novelty tune.

You're not.

Doing a "Subterranean Homesick Blues" rewrite

More like a We Didn't Start The Fire prequel.

btw I don't mean to take issue with anyone voting for it, it just drives me crazy that for a disturbingly large percentage of the population "people who have heard of R.E.M" this is the song they are known for

Yeah I can see why thats annoying, but I got into this band because of "Stand", so any gateway will do.

What bugs me is they used this song in the trailer for Chicken Little or some such animated movie. Which is lame, not because its some animated movie, but due to the fact that I always thought REM were against selling songs to commercials. I even remember them having to release a statement when some ad used "Superman" (different recording, maybe the original?) saying that commercials weren't a thing that they did. I guess the commercial nadir of Around the Sun changes things a bit?

Amazingly there are TWO threads at hand on this pressing issue:

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It" vs. "We Didn't Start The Fire": which is more annoying, and why?
TS: Billy Joel's "I Didn't Start the Fire" v REM's "It's the End of the World"

So is this song their "My Ding-A-Ling" for some? I have no fan's resentment against it, just a little tired of it as I said...none of the surprises are surprises anymore. But that's not really the band's fault.

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#28: Shaking Through
5 votes, 30 points
Highest position: #2 (contenderizer)
Position in Murmur poll: tie for #1 (10 votes)

I've always been a sucker for:
'What if this one small voice, doesn't count in the world...'
<...> can't understand a word he says after the first line tho. geisha girls?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, December 5, 2005 8:56 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

don't really get the love for "Shaking Through" as it's kinda an embarrassing Stipe vocal but maybe that's the appeal?
― Euler, Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:56 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think "Shaking Through" has to be just about my favorite R.E.M. tune -- the interplay between the piano and guitar makes me feel like a little kid running through a wheat field.
― christoff (christoff), Friday, November 7, 2003 10:29 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Never tire of the Hail-Mary vocal Stipe delivers on this: "Shaaaaayyyeeeeeaaaayeeeekeeeiiin through...."

Yeah, it's *that* vocal that makes me cringe, but if it really is the hook, then I understand the love better.

Ha! I never really payed attention to song titles, and I always sang along "she given". Now looking at the lyrics, its somehow even more of a mystery than my nonsense syllables interpretation. This didn't make my ballot, but thats mostly because Murmur is such a consistent album that I just picked another song to represent it. Its probably the one REM album I play start to finish most often these days.

The consistency of Murmur actually kind of envelops this track for me - I like the song OK but it really loses something taken out of context. Listening to the whole album, I hear it as part of the weave and really enjoy it; looking at my ballot I passed right over it. Good song though - I like Stipe's singing, including the key change at the end!

Have you heard the deluxe re-issue of Murmur? The second disc -- which is a recording of an early live concert -- has some smokin' versions of the Murmur songs. It gives them a much edgier, harder-hitting vibe.

The consistency of Murmur actually kind of envelops this track for me

Yes, and that does make it more of an anonymous track, but I hear "Shaking Through" - with the concision of its verses and with its chorus - as the climax of the album, too.

(Meaning to say that this has always made it stand out for me a little bit, too.)

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Yeah that live disc is really great, with a bunch of Reckoning and Chronic Town stuff on it too. More muscular Stipe vocals than the albums. It makes me want to get a bunch of bootlegs from different REM-eras, but I think thats a rabbit hole I don't want to start going down. The re-master of Murmur itself seems kind of pointless though, it doesn't make enough of a difference to justify the expense. ALthough I'd probably still pick up the Reckoning one if I found it cheap in a shop.

This has always been my least favorite song on Murmur. Can't quite see what all the fuss is about.

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#27 (tie): Turn You Inside Out
4 votes, 33 points
Highest position: #2 (dad a)
Position in Green poll: #3 (7 votes)

Good groove, that one; but this sonic cousin of "Finest Worksong" is totally unconvincing: the only thing Stipe can turn inside out is his mattress in looking for his glasses.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, January 19, 2009 7:19 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I used to be fascinated by the structure of REM's "Turn You Inside-Out," which is sort of like Verse / Chorus 1 / Chorus 2 / Chorus 3 / Chorus 1 / Chorus 2 / Chorus 3. There's only one verse.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, May 3, 2005 1:31 PM Bookmark

Wouldn't you think of the "I believe in watching you" part of "Turn You Inside-Out" as being more of a pre-chorus/bridge leading up to the chorus?
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, May 3, 2005 2:06 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK, so it's verse / bridge / chorus 1 / chorus 2 / bridge / chorus 1 / chorus 2. that's even better!
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, May 3, 2005 2:17 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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#27 (tie): World Leader Pretend
4 votes, 33 points
Highest position: #2 (sonnypike, kuba a)
Position in Green poll: tie for #2 (12 votes)

I never undestood why Stipe felt the lyrics were strong enough to print. This song is no "I Believe" or "Begin the Begin."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

I propose this song as their biggest wtf moment.
― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

"world leader pretend" is a great song.
― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

Our first tie - and it's a Green showdown! Neither of these songs means a lot to me personally, and the pull quotes would suggest ILX doesn't have much to say about them either - but they got votes and I would love to be converted....

the fuck is this thread and why does it exist?

"Turn You Inside Out" is one of the only R.E.M. songs that they really sold me on live; never cared for its insistent one-notiness on the record, but it turns out to be a great stadium track by a not-that-great stadium band.

Much better than "World Leader Pretend," which seems to be written in the voice of a faux-naive and stunted persona, like "The Wrong Child," the other bad song on this record.

re: this poll in general. I put all of the nominees on my iPod and listened to them several times over the last week, and wound up unable to choose and basically just listening to a lot of R.E.M., which was awesome. Wish I had voted though.

No love for the little instrumental coda at the end of "shaking through"?

I have never heard either of these two Green songs.

"Turn You Inside Out" was my favorite deep cut off Green. I love how Buck gets the guitar at the start to sound like a harmonica. The song is no blues but it flirts with being one. I don't love the drum sound on it. Mills is great on it!

Someone voted "World Leader Pretend" #2? I'd like to hear something from them about why.

I certainly didn't vote for "World Leader Pretend" but that steel guitar backed bridge into the piano backed chorus(verse?) is pretty powerful. On the other hand "Let me make it good" I find both annoying and extremely hook-y. Not a fun combo.

I like eephusl's idea of it being the same narrator as "The Wrong Child". Then later in "Orange Crush" he sees a commercial for soda pop and gets his mom to buy him some. Taking this new-found consumer confidence out into the world and rules the neighborhood playground with a can of Crush in his hand. His leadership ability makes him such a pimp that he doesn't just start turning his playmates out, he turns them "inside-out".

I forgot, one of the things I really like about "Shaking Through" is when Stipe holds the note longer on the first syllable of "shaking" in the first chorus. I also really like the bridge. Great song!

re: WLP, I always liked the odd, medieval-sounding discussion of practicing weapons, "I fitted them myself." Stipe the Armorer.

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#26 (tie): Leave
6 votes, 38 points
Highest position: #8 (Euler, Doctor Casino)
Position in New Adventures poll: #3 (8 votes)

<…>like REM produced by the Bomb Squad or something.

emo memory: my first kiss was to "Leave"
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:28 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I once had the idea that I wanted "Leave" played at my funeral.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:34 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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#26 (tie): Ages of You
5 votes, 38 points
Highest position: #1 (contenderizer)
Position in Dead Letter Office poll: #2 (7 votes)

After "Crazy" I'd go for one of the VU covers or "Ages of You", which is kinda like "Sitting Still" but not as good.
― Euler, Saturday, February 7, 2009 10:39 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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#26 (tie): Daysleeper
6 votes, 38 points
Highest position: #4 (dad a, brontosaur)
Position in Up poll: #1 (9 votes)

<…> then their best single since "Drive".
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:25 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

<...> one of their best ever singles.
― Gavin in Leeds, Friday, November 14, 2008 6:17 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Stipe is fantastic, truly underrated, when his lyrics hint at a story and you're left to fill in a lot of blanks ("Daysleeper," "Sad Professor," "So Fast So Numb") <…>
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:37 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sorry for the spam - we're in the midst of a big block of tie votes. These are three very very good songs though. Daysleeper is one of maybe five CD singles I ever bought. Fabulous song, I think, and I really wish Stipe had been able to maintain that level of lyrical quality across the last few albums. They're more directly sympathetic than IRS-years lyrics but they've re-acquired some of the odd-word-choice poetry that made him great as a lyricist ("I'll squeeze into Heaven and..Valentine!") Not crazy about the "bull and the bear" part, but I love this section:

I cried the other night; I can't even say why
Fluorescent, flat, caffeine light
It's furious balancing
I'm the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen - I work at night!

I'm surprised that Leave made the list. I wouldn't put it in the top-half of NAIH-F.

I once had the idea that I wanted "Leave" played at my funeral.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:34 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK, this is making me 100% sad right now.

Oh my. I hadn't put 2 and 2 together on that comment.

"Leave" is terrific. The album was a crushing disappointment to me, but "Leave" wasn't. Stipe's vocal sounds frail, ugly and sweet (in contrast to his harsh, barky vocals elsewhere on the album). Was it an Automatic outtake? The riff sounds a bit like an electric "Monty", sad and clear, filtered through the ongoing grief and confusion of the Monster era.

I forgot, one of the things I really like about "Shaking Through" is when Stipe holds the note longer on the first syllable of "shaking" in the first chorus. I also really like the bridge. Great song!

Yes, that specific bit is great. I think Mills or Berry do something similar in the last chorus as well. It's such a shifting harmonic chorus!

Acc. to Wikipedia re. "Ages of You": "It was intended to be a track on the band's EP Chronic Town, but producer Mitch Easter felt it let down the tracklist – "Gardening at Night," "Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)," "1,000,000," and "Stumble." Easter felt that the song "Wolves, Lower" was a better and stronger song in the context of the EP."

I'd never heard this, but yay youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFcaxmxkR-k

I like it, though I'd like to hear a better fidelity version. The bass sounds chunky, and Buck and Stipe take turns spitting out notes on their respective instruments. It's a more frantic version than the one I'm familiar with.

Finally, some songs on my ballot! "Daysleeper" at #4 and "Leave" at #9, "Ages of You" was on my short list too.

"Daysleeper": Love those lyrics that Doctor Casino posted. Also, the 6/8 time signature and the slide guitar on the chorus really make this song swing, glide, and soar. In the context of Up this song really seemed like a cop out at the time. "Bill Berry's gone. We brought in all these synthesizers. But we can still sound like the REM you know and love." And it does, and its great.

"Leave": It has always seemed significant that the intro ends exactly on the one minute mark. I would love to know at what point the the songwriting process they decided to use the car alarm sound. I'm not as into this song as I was when the album first came out, but I let teenage brontosaur vote this one in.

"Ages of You": That Chronic Town outtake is super. I too want a better fidelity version. "whoo-ooo"

Man. How did I miss this poll during the summer? What was I doing? Hmph. Ah well, it'll be fun watching the results roll in, at least.

looking for a better version of that Chronic Town "Ages of You" I stumbled across this "Shaking Through":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0uo3kPmDfc

re: Daysleeper - also really like the opening lines:

Receiving department, 3 AM
Staff cuts have socked up the overage

The first gives us time and place efficiently, and the second clarifies the tone: within a web of corporate BS and doubletalk, this guy is working, at night, alone, the cameraderie of coworkers having been purged by the bottom line. Very nice.

re: Ages of You, I can only get the first three seconds to load on my crap connection but they've got me intrigued! Thanks for sharing, Euler.

Leave: There's a really crap version without the siren and a lot of spacey/floaty synth pad stuff in the background. I want to say it was on the Life Less Ordinary soundtrack or something like that.

I also didn't put it together concerning the funeral comment - really sorry if anybody was upset, that wasn't my intention at all in quoting it.

re: Leave, despite having my first emo kiss to this song, it didn't make my ballot. I've always thought it was one of the textbook examples of a song that's just too damn long. I'm sure plenty of people would disagree, but if it was 4:17 instead of 7:17 long, I'm sure it would have placed higher here.

So far only one of my picks (Shaking Through, my #15) have made the list, so I'm really looking forward to the rest!

Turn You Inside Out? Daysleeper? World Leader Pretend? Y'all need an REM refresher course.

Leave and Daysleeper are among R.E.M.'s finest achievements. Both would have made my top 10 if I had actually voted.

A 7:17 long emo kiss sounds great!

"Daysleeper" really did sound great on Up. I like that album a lot still but it has a lot of mid-tempo songs that don't leave much of an impression (e.g. "The Apologist", "Sad Professor", "You're In The Air", "Diminished", "Parakeet")---"Daysleeper" stands out among that bunch, even if it's an obvious nod to the earlier days.

"Sad Professor" almost went on my ballot in the 15th-place slot - I think it's a pretty good little character study. Maybe a bit clunky in places but I like the range of Stipe's sympathies.

I think it's their tempos---they just don't make an impression on me. It's my own lazy listening fault, and I ought to try to pay more attention on next listen.

But of course the records used to make you listen!

"Sad Professor" jumps out more than anything else on Up for me. Mainly just the strange juxtaposition of words, a whole story in a noun phrase. Not enough for me to vote for it, though.

Still my preferred Up listening experience

Overall, if it's not exactly the mix CD I'd make to hook a friend on the band, it IS a pretty umimpeachable "best of" list if you're not concerned about getting all the singles and so on. Nice picks, everybody.

No "The One I Love," no credibility. ;)

In a shocking twist, it turns out to be one we don't love.

In hindsight, I do regret the "use the album polls to seed the main poll" approach - - - too many good songs thrown out of contention by the cruel logic of the ILX "one vote per poll" system. But overall, not bad results.

Good point. Maybe you should re-do the poll.

Alas, no showing for my wildcard, my #3 vote, "Letter Never Sent". That's a jam, & basically "essence" of the band, or at least early band: the riff, the moaning, the explosion of drums from verse into chorus. & it's the last of these that's crucial imo about getting the early band: they took choruses really seriously for an "art rock" band; even if they weren't sing-along-able, they resolve tension, let you cut some rug a little differently. You could certainly dance to "Letter Never Sent"; it's almost kicker-danceable! Oh, and the bridge too!

Good list! "Daysleeper" is the only latter-day track & that seems about right (I'd swap "Hope" for it but one is enough). Maybe the list is a little more downtempo than I like to think of the band, but then again my ballot ended up being pretty early-band-centered (I didn't set out that way!) & they were more a dance band then than they'd become circa Fables and onward (when I love them too, but for different reasons).

Best R.E.M. poll I've ever seen and I've seen lots (spent a lot of time browsing rec.music.rem back in the Usenet era.)

Delightful #1. I would never call "Harborcoat" R.E.M.'s BEST song, but pace Euler I think it's the one that best sums up what R.E.M. sounds like, at least between 1982 and 1985.

Yeah, I didn't mean to knock "Harborcoat"; it was my #5. I remember getting Reckoning after having Eponymous, Document and Murmur, and thinking within about 20 seconds that this was the real deal. It's still my favorite REM album.

Although apparently I called it the second-best song on this poll:

#1 (15 pts) Radio Free Europe
#2 (14 pts) Harborcoat
#3 (13 pts) You Are The Everything
#4 (12 pts) Cuyahoga
#5 (11 pts) These Days
#6 (10 pts) Driver 8
#7 (9 pts) Shaking Through
#8 (8 pts) Pretty Persuasion
#9 (7 pts) Moral Kiosk
#10 (6 pts) What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
#11 (5 pts) Finest Worksong
#12 (4 pts) Sitting Still
#13 (3 pts) Disturbance at the HEron House
#14 (2 pts) Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
#15 (1 pts) Perfect Circle

If I were doing this today I'd put Cuyahoga and These Days above it, I think.

I too was reflexively disappointed not to see "The One I Love" on here, but there's only a handful of songs in the top 25 I don't rate higher. Nobody can make us play the hits!

For that matter, their very best big hits -- "Stand" and "Shiny Happy People" -- weren't even nominated.

You show yours, I'll show mine.

#1 Sitting Still

#2 Disturbance at the Heron House

#3 WILDCARD Letter Never Sent

#4 Near Wild Heaven
#5 Harborcoat


#6 Drive

#7 Gardening At Night

#8 Leave

#9 So. Central Rain
#10 Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)

#11 Nightswimming 

#12 Driver 8

#13 Turn You Inside Out

#14 What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

#15 Find the River

haha I totally belie myself by having a ballot full of ballads; having recently listened to the whole REM oeuvre in completo, including every single (!), I'd vote differently now.

Just noticed I still have the playlist I made featuring all the nominated songs. It was the only thing I listened to for several days as a racked my brain to come up with a ranked list. Never achieved it.

I had no idea what my ballot was, but I've just managed to find it:

1 So. Central Rain
2 Sitting Still
3 7 chinese brothers (wildcard)
4 Fall On Me
5 Turn You Inside Out
6 (Don't go back to) Rockville
7 Driver 8
8 Cuyahoga
9 The One I Love
10 You Are The Everything
11 Harborcoat
12 Feeling Gravitys Pull
13 Moral Kiosk
14 Orange Crush
15 Drive

I'm assuming 'We Walk' wasn't nominated, because I love that one too.

Harborcoat feels a bit slight for a #1 until that amazing transition into the chorus when the low chord kicks in. I would have found some room for a Monster track or two in my top 10 but that is quite a countdown.

I would have found some room for a Monster track or two in my top 10

^^^^^

Harborcoat! I had no idea it was so well liked. Even though I only voted it #2 I think it's the best #1 there could be.

My ballot is a little sleepy looking back on it:

#1 Nightswimming (15pts)
#2 Harborcoat(14 pts)
#3 Why Not Smile(13 pts) WILDCARD
#4 Daysleeper(12 pts)
#5 Electrolite(11 pts)
#6 These Days(10 pts)
#7 Gardening At Night(9 pts)
#8 Driver 8(8 pts)
#9 Leave(7 pts)
#10 Beat a Drum(6 pts)
#11 Country Feedback(5 pts)
#12 Radio Free Europe(4 pts)
#13 E-bow the Letter(3 pts)
#14 Losing My Religion(2 pts)
#15 Let Me In (1 pts)

btw, for the uninitiated (?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADFJGENj92E

Nice to see Life And How To Live It on the list. It was one of my favorites and it always irked me that a couple reviews at the time specifically called it out as a bad song.

my ballot:

#1 (15 pts) Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
#2 (14 pts) Wolves, Lower
#3 (13 pts) Electrolite
#4 (12 pts) Radio Free Europe
#5 (11 pts) Country Feedback
#6 (10 pts) Sitting Still
#7 (9 pts) Find The River
#8 (8 pts) WILDCARD -- All The Right Friends
#9 (7 pts) Ages Of You
#10 (6 pts) Gardening At Night
#11 (5 pts) Moral Kiosk
#12 (4 pts) Crazy
#13 (3 pts) Near Wild Heaven
#14 (2 pts) Harborcoat
#15 (1 pts) World Leader Pretend

unsurprisingly, early tracks and oddball entries populate my list.

Thanks for doing this Doctor Casino. Is there anyway you could post a full list with everything below 30th place and their points? And how many people voted in this?

There were twenty-five ballots... as for the rest of the entries, I'd actually love to, but I actually can't find the Excel sheet that has all the data! I know it exists at one point, because I compiled the countdown list from it, but the only Excel sheet I can find is definitely incomplete in terms of ballots. So.... oops? Might have been on a flash drive that I lost a couple of moves ago. Sorry, everybody!

#1 (15 pts) Gardening At Night
#2 (14 pts) Sitting Still
#3 (13 pts) Drive
#4 (12 pts) Moral Kiosk
#5 (11 pts) Radio Free Europe
#6 (10 pts) Wolves, Lower
#7 (9 pts) Losing My Religion
#8 (8 pts) Feeling Gravitys Pull
#9 (7 pts) Hope
#10 (6 pts) Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
#11 (5 pts) Country Feedback
#12 (4 pts) E-Bow The Letter
#13 (3 pts) So. Central Rain
#14 (2 pts) Cuyahoga
#15 (1 pts) Shaking Through

thanks for doing this, btw, dr. C! my apologies for complaining about the timing earlier, I was kinda drunk and was being a smartass, but putting all this together is a significant effort and I appreciate what you did. :)

I didn't remember to vote, but would have added another #1 to harborcoat

haha, no worries Z S! Thanks for all your contributions on all the related threads etc.

I didn't vote either but Harborcoat is my favorite REM song so well done guys!

looking back, i'm surprised I didn't have a song from maybe my favorite r.e.m. disc -- fables -- on my ballot.

I didn't remember to vote, but would have added another #1 to harborcoat

― iatee, Friday, September 3, 2010 3:44 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

What he said.

Great to see Sitting Still high up as well. No serious arguments with this poll - good choices folks!

1 Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
2 These Days
3 Strange Currencies
4 Cuyahoga
5 So. Central Rain
6 Try Not To Breath - WILDCARD
7 What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
8 Losing My Religion
9 Country Feedback
10 Perfect Circle
11 Radio Free Europe
12 Fall On Me
13 The One I Love
14 Gardening At Night
15 Near Wild Heaven

Near Wild Heaven made my ballot only bc i couldn't vote for Half A World Away...

i going to listen to these songs in order and see if i appreciate them a bit more.

Still regret not voting in this.

gardening at night
gardening at night
gardening at night
gardening at night