POLLography: The Cure poll results, ILM artist poll #23

who were the other 3 people who didn't put "A Forest" on their ballot? Looks like I am 1 of 4?

i have said this before on this board, my favorite Cure song i feel is the peak from this band. it has everything i love about the Cure: a great story, great music and really long. they have never reached that high again and sadly the never will again.

#67 - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, 165 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 votes

my ballot:

Disintegration
Plainsong
Just Like Heaven
Other Voices
The Same Deep Water As You
Prayers For Rain
The Top
Killing An Arab
Primary
A Forest
All Cats Are Grey
At Night
Grinding Halt
Fire In Cairo
Lullaby
Closedown
Lament
The Funeral Party
Untitled
Charlotte Sometimes
One Hundred Years
Bananafishbones
Cold
The Drowning Man
Boys Don't Cry
Lovesong
The Caterpillar
Last Dance
The Upstairs Room
Dressing Up
In Between Days
Push
The Walk
Wailing Wall
The Hanging Garden
The Baby Screams
10:15 Saturday Night
Pictures of You
Six Different Ways
Subway Song

albums:
Disintegration
Faith
Boys Don't Cry
Seventeen Seconds
Head On The Door

who were the other 3 people who didn't put "A Forest" on their ballot? Looks like I am 1 of 4?

― sarahell, Saturday, August 18, 2012 8:58 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

me -- casual fan who decided to listen to a bunch of stuff on Spotify and toss in a short ballot at the last minute. had never heard "A Forest" before and it left no impression when i played it once or twice.

so for Today's Top 10 (8 of 10)it went something like this:

35 Boys Don't Cry
19 Primary
24 In Between Days
22 Plainsong
13 10:15 Saturday Night
7 Close To Me
5 Just Like Heaven
4 A Forest

. Let's Go To Bed
3. High
4. Throw Your Foot
5. A Forest
6. Sinking
7. Just Like Heaven
8. Shake Dog Shake
9. Inbetween Days
10. This Twilight Garden
11. Untitled
12. The Upstairs Room
13. Lullaby
14. Boys Don't Cry
15. Close To Me
16. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
17. Disintegration
18. 10:15 Saturday Night
19. How Beautiful You Are
20. All I Want
21. Speak My Language
22. A Man Inside My Mouth
23. Pictures of You
24. Open
25. The Blood
26. The Lovecats
27. The Hanging Garden
28. Snow in Summer
29. 2 Late
30. Kyoto Song
31. Friday I'm in Love
32. The Top
33. Faith
34. The Caterpillar
35. Three Imaginary Boys
36. To Wish Impossible Things
37. Mr. Pink Eyes
38. Primary
39. Push
40. Icing Sugar

so i got 28 out of 50, full list:

Bee OK's list:

1 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

2 Siamese Twins

3 Lullaby

4 A Forest

5 Just Like Heaven

6 Three Imaginary Boys

7 Close To Me

8 Lovesong

9 Faith

10 The Upstairs Room

11 How Beautiful You Are...

12 Open

13 10:15 Saturday Night

14 Let's Go to Bed

15 A Man Inside My Mouth

16 Fire in Cairo

17 A Night Like This

18 Disintegration

19 Primary

20 The Figurehead

21 Friday I'm in Love

22 Plainsong

23 The Love Cats

24 In Between Days

25 Fascination Street

26 A Strange Day

27 Harold & Joe

28 Play for Today

29 Jumping Someone Else's Train

30 Give Me It

31 Never Enough

32 One More Time

33 Kyoto Song

34 The Walk

35 Boys Don't Cry

36 End

37 Shake Dog Shake

38 Babble

39 Play

40 Hot Hot Hot!!!

Albums:

Disintegration
Pornography
The Head on the Door
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Wish

Video:

Lullaby
Close To Me
Lovecats
Let's Go To Bed
The Caterpillar

sorry about the extra spaces, blame gmail.

my short impulsive ballot:

Close To Me
Boys Don't Cry
Cut
Pictures of You
Lovesong
Why Can't I Be You?
Just Like Heaven
Give Me It
To Wish Impossible Things
The Walk
Siamese Twins
It's Not You
The Baby Screams
Grinding Halt
A Letter To Elise
Push
A Night Like This
In Between Days
A Thousand Hours
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Pornography
Disintegration
Three Imaginary Boys
Breathe
From The Bottom Of The Deep Green Sea

really did not expect to vote for so much from Wish!

didn't vote in this, not sure what i would've had #1 ("disintegration"? "inbetween days"? "primary"? "high"? "the walk"?), strangely happy to see "a forest" win though. the nouvelle vague cover of it is one of the few times where i think the nouvelle vague concept is worth it.

Didn't vote in this because I wouldn't have voted for anything post-Disintegration (because I'm not familiar with it, not because I don't like it.) Looks like I would have been in the mainstream of this poll so I guess I should have voted!

who were the other 3 people who didn't put "A Forest" on their ballot? Looks like I am 1 of 4?

hi dere

!

Gah, things like this make me wonder if I should rethink my "not having ILM in my site new answers" stance. Would love to have voted in this. May even have given "Lament" #1. Or "all cats".

Are you familiar with this thread? Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Yeah, I didn't vote for A Forest either.

Tracks:

The Figurehead
Siamese Twins
Faith
The Drowning Man
Play For Today
Seventeen Seconds
Pictures Of You
The Funeral Party
Kyoto Song
Just Like Heaven
Grinding Halt
Pornography
Sinking
Fire In Cairo
Charlotte Sometimes
In Your House
Splintered In Her Head
Another Journey By Train
Other Voices
Throw Your Foot
Forever
Six Different Ways
One Hundred Years
Wailing Wall
A Man Inside My Mouth
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
A Strange Day
M
Shake Dog Shake
Plainsong
The Upstairs Room
Piggy In The Mirror
Prayers For Rain
A Night Like This
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Primary
Stop Dead
A Letter To Elise
Let's Go To Bed
New Day

Albums:

Faith
Pornography
Seventeen Seconds
Three Imaginary Boys
The Head On The Door

I was really surprised to see "10:15 Saturday Night" and "All Cats Are Grey" finish so high (but surprised in a good way).

"Just Like Heaven" and "A Forest" finished way ahead and were the clear "consensus" favourites even though they got just zero and one first place vote respectively. I'm not sure this happened in any of the other polls, where the first place votes were so spread out and weren't concentrated at the top of the list. Two-thirds of the first place votes went to songs that finished outside the top ten!!

Thanks for the poll, Nate, this was a lot of fun.

My ballot:

Tracks:

Plainsong
Just Like Heaven
Fascination Street
One Hundred Years
In Between Days
A Forest
Primary
Prayers for Rain
The Exploding Boy
Shiver and Shake
Pictures of You
Friday I'm In Love
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
The Kiss
New Day
Want
Faith
(I Don't Know What's Going) On
End
Never Enough
Disintegration
Lost
Shake Dog Shake
The Figurehead
Forever
Push
Give Me It
One More Time
Labyrinth
Close to Me
The Only One
Going Nowhere
Underneath the Stars
In Your House
Out of This World
10:15 Saturday Night
Descent
Catch
All I Want

Albums:

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Disintegration
Pornography
Wish
The Cure

Videos:

Close to Me
Friday I'm In Love
Pictures of You
In Between Days
Primary

I didn't vote for A Forest either and I also didn't vote for anything after Disintegration. I never let not knowing the complete catalogue put me off voting in these polls.

So long as I know 20 (or 40) songs well enough to put them in some kind of order I usually vote.

"Wailing Wall" is at #97 and #150, so added up it should be at #85.

Gah, I can't believe that happened! I ran through the list 4 or 5 times looking for vote splitters before doing the final tally.

Missed the final rundown, but many thanks Nate.

My Ballot
TRAX

#1-Plainsong
#2-In Between Days
#3-Boy's Don't Cry
#4-Why Can't I Be You?
#5-Close To Me
#6-Killing An Arab
#7-A Few Hours After This
#8-Faith
#9-A Forest
10-A Man Inside My Mouth
11-10:15 Saturday Night
12-Disintegration
13-A Night Like This
14-Jumping Someone Else's Train
15-Shake Dog Shake
16-Like Cockatoos
17-Prayers For Rain
18-A Strange Day
19-The Perfect Girl
20-One Hundred Years
21-The Exploding Boy
22-Six Different Ways
23-I'm Cold
24-If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
25-Do The Hansa
26-At Night
27-Stop Dead
28-Happy The Man
29-Plastic Passion
30-Accuracy
31-Never Enough
32-In Your House
33-The Same Deep Water As You
34-Speak My Language
35-Bananafishbones
36-Fear Of Ghosts
37-Harold And Joe
38-Throw Your Foot
39-Lullaby
40-All Cats Are Grey

ALBUMS

#1-Disintegration
#2-Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
#3-Seventeen Seconds
#4-Three imaginary Boys
#5-The Head On The Door

VIDEOS

#1-In Between Days
#2-Lullaby
#3-Why Can't I Be You?
#4-Close To Me
#5-Boy's Don't Cry

Thanks, Nate!

Nerdiest poll results thread ever, but still fun.

Haven't got my ballot handy but I voted for 24 tracks, most of which placed. The ones that didn't:

The Blood - in my top 5. Genuinely surprised more people don't rate this.
Screw - again, in my top 5.
Seventeen Seconds - my #10 or thereabouts.
Accuracy - ditto.
Carnage Visors - mid table or just below.

10.15 was my #1

Also fist bump to the other 'fear of ghosts' and 'do the hansa' voter.

my ballot, non-placers bolded

1. Close To Me
2. High
3. Just Like Heaven
4. Primary
5. A Night Like This
6. One Hundred Years
7. Why Can't I Be You?
8. Boys Don't Cry
9. Love Song
10. Pictures Of You
11. In Between Days
12. A Forest
13. The Caterpillar
14. Three Imaginary Boys
15. The Funeral Party
16. Friday I'm In Love
17. Let's Go To Bed
18. Hot Hot Hot!!!
19. Play For Today
20. Killing An Arab
21. Jumping Someone Else's Train
22. A Strange Day
23. The Lovecats
24. Other Voices
25. Doing The Unstuck
26. Give Me It
27. At Night
28. End
29. Charlotte Sometimes
30. All I Want
31. The Exploding Boy
32. Disintegration
33. The 13th
34. The Hanging Garden
35. The Perfect Girl
36. Cut Here
37. Open
38. Fascination Street
39. Mint Car
40. Catch

Primary
Play For Today
Boys Don't Cry
M
Let's Go To Bed
Lament
Plainsong
In Between Days
The Same Deep Water As You
Catch
The Upstairs Room
Lullaby
A Forest
One Hundred Years
Love Song
Doubt
Dressing Up
10.15 Saturday Night
The Lovecats
Closedown
The Figurehead
In Your House
The Drowning Man
Killing An Arab
The Walk
The Caterpillar
Close To Me
Just Like Heaven
Disintegration
Accuracy
Fire In Cairo
The Hanging Garden
A Night Like This
Charlotte Sometimes
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Fascination Street
Pictures Of You
Plastic Passion
Jumping Someone Else's Train
At Night

I didn't vote for A Forest either

here's just the non-placing entries from my list:

5 Never Enough
9 The 13th
10 Burn
11 Wrong Number
12 Doing the Unstuck
13 Harold & Joe
14 Cut Here
15 How Beautiful You Are...
16 Homesick
17 Hey You!
18 Breathe
19 So What
20 Forever
21 The Exploding Boy
22 Throw Your Foot
23 Stop Dead
26 Mr. Pink Eyes
27 Babble
30 Shiver and Shake
33 Hot Hot Hot!!!
35 2 Late
38 End
39 Last Dance
40 Closedown

the full page has fallen off the page so i'm re posting it here as i hate when you have to load the full page to see the results

The results in full:

#1 - A Forest, 938 points, 30 votes, 1 #1 votes
#2 - Just Like Heaven, 845 points, 26 votes, 0 #1 votes
#3 - Close To Me, 692 points, 23 votes, 3 #1 votes
#4 - All Cats Are Grey, 663 points, 22 votes, 3 #1 votes
#5 - 10:15 Saturday Night, 628 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 votes
#6 - Plainsong, 619 points, 19 votes, 4 #1 votes
#7 - Inbetween Days, 616 points, 24 votes, 0 #1 votes
#8 - Primary, 600 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 votes
#9 - Boys Don't Cry, 593 points, 24 votes, 0 #1 votes
#10 - Charlotte Sometimes, 591 points, 23 votes, 0 #1 votes
#11 - Jumping Someone Else's Train, 587 points, 25 votes, 1 #1 votes
#12 - A Night Like This, 564 points, 25 votes, 2 #1 votes
#13 - Disintegration, 563 points, 23 votes, 2 #1 votes
#14 - One Hundred Years, 536 points, 23 votes, 0 #1 votes
#15 - Play For Today, 516 points, 21 votes, 0 #1 votes
#16 - Fascination Street, 506 points, 21 votes, 2 #1 votes
#17 - Pictures Of You, 497 points, 19 votes, 2 #1 votes
#18 - Let's Go To Bed, 473 points, 20 votes, 2 #1 votes
#19 - Lovesong, 461 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#20 - Lullaby, 443 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#21 - The Funeral Party, 433 points, 16 votes, 0 #1 votes
#22 - Fire In Cairo, 414 points, 20 votes, 0 #1 votes
#23 - Killing An Arab, 409 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#24 - Faith, 403 points, 16 votes, 0 #1 votes
#25 - Push, 387 points, 15 votes, 0 #1 votes
#26 - The Love Cats, 378 points, 19 votes, 0 #1 votes
#27 - Like Cockatoos, 368 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 votes
#28 - A Strange Day, 366 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 votes
#29 - The Kiss, 364 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 votes
#30 - The Drowning Man, 361 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#31 - Siamese Twins, 360 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#32 - The Hanging Garden, 352 points, 18 votes, 0 #1 votes
#33 - The Upstairs Room, 350 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 votes
#34 - Untitled, 344 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#35 - Shake Dog Shake, 330 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#36 - M, 325 points, 14 votes, 0 #1 votes
#37 - The Caterpillar, 323 points, 16 votes, 0 #1 votes
#38 - Lament, 311 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#39 - The Figurehead, 307 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 votes
#40 - The Walk, 295 points, 15 votes, 0 #1 votes
#41 - High, 286 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#42 - Why Can't I Be You?, 277 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#43 - Three Imaginary Boys, 275 points, 13 votes, 0 #1 votes
#44 - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, 272 points, 14 votes, 0 #1 votes
#45 - Six Different Ways, 259 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#46 - Grinding Halt, 258 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#47 - Open, 257 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#48 - In Your House, 255 points, 14 votes, 0 #1 votes
#49 - Other Voices, 255 points, 13 votes, 0 #1 votes
#50 - A Man Inside My Mouth, 253 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#51 - How Beautiful You Are, 249 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#52 - Prayers For Rain, 245 points, 13 votes, 0 #1 votes
#53 - A Few Hours After This, 241 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 votes
#54 - The Exploding Boy, 226 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 votes
#55 - Friday Iím In Love, 212 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#56 - Sinking, 208 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#57 - The Same Deep Water As You, 200 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#58 - At Night, 192 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#59 - Catch, 186 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#60 - Never Enough, 183 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#61 - End, 181 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#62 - The Blood, 177 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#63 - Bananafishbones, 176 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#64 - Throw Your Foot, 172 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#65 - Harold & Joe, 167 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#66 - Last Dance, 165 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#67 - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, 165 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 votes
#68 - The Baby Screams, 159 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#69 - Give Me It, 153 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#70 - The Top, 152 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#71 - Seventeen Seconds, 146 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#72 - Cold, 146 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#73 - New Day, 144 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#74 - 2 Late, 133 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#75 - Just One Kiss, 133 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#76 - Kyoto Song, 132 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#77 - Hot Hot Hot !!!, 127 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#78 - This Twilight Garden, 126 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#79 - Piggy In The Mirror, 126 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#80 - To Wish Impossible Things, 121 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#81 - Doing The Unstuck, 118 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 votes
#82 - Burn, 107 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#83 - A Letter To Elise, 106 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#84 - Accuracy, 94 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#85 - Apart, 90 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#86 - To The Sky, 89 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#87 - Secrets, 88 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 votes
#88 - Closedown, 86 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#89 - Mr Pink Eyes, 84 points, 5 votes, 0 #1 votes
#90 - Pornography, 84 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#91 - The 13th, 79 points, 5 votes, 0 #1 votes
#92 - So What, 76 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#93 - Stop Dead, 75 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#94 - Splintered In Her Head, 74 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#95 - One More Time, 73 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#96 - Homesick, 72 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#97 - The Wailing Wall, 69 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#98 - Breathe, 69 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#99 - A Thousand Hours, 69 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#100 - Another Day, 66 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#101 - A Short Term Effect, 64 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#102 - Want, 63 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#103 - Screw, 63 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#104 - Dressing Up, 60 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#105 - The Holy Hour, 59 points, 5 votes, 0 #1 votes
#106 - Forever, 59 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#107 - Plastic Passion, 56 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#108 - Hey You!, 54 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#109 - Watching Me Fall, 53 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#110 - Halo, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#111 - It's Not You, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#112 - (I Don't Know What's Going) On, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#113 - A Chain Of Flowers, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#114 - Birdmad Girl, 50 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#115 - Speak My Language, 48 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#116 - Mouth To Mouth (The Glove), 47 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#117 - The End Of The World, 46 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#118 - Shiver and Shake, 44 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#119 - Carnage Visors, 44 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#120 - Mint Car, 43 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#121 - Cut, 43 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#122 - Lost, 42 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#123 - All I Want, 39 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#124 - Before Three, 39 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#125 - Out of This World, 39 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#126 - The Big Hand, 39 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#127 - Underneath The Stars, 38 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#128 - Wrong Number, 36 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#129 - Perfect Murder (The Glove), 36 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#130 - Jupiter Crash, 36 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#131 - Cut Here, 34 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#132 - Uyea Sound, 34 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#133 - I'm Cold, 32 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#134 - Gone!, 32 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#135 - The Snakepit, 31 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#136 - Do The Hansa, 31 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#137 - Another Journey By Train, 30 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#138 - The Perfect Girl, 30 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#139 - Punish Me With Kisses (The Glove), 30 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#140 - Labyrinth, 29 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#141 - Maybe Someday, 29 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#142 - 39, 29 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#143 - Doubt, 26 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#144 - Happy The Man, 25 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#145 - Fear Of Ghosts, 25 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#146 - Play With Me, 25 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#147 - I'm a Cult Hero, 25 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#148 - Us or Them, 24 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#149 - A Japanese Dream, 23 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#150 - Wailing Wall, 22 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#151 - Descent, 21 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#152 - Babble, 19 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#153 - The Promise, 19 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#154 - Torture, 18 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#155 - A Foolish Arrangement, 18 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#156 - Last Day Of Summer, 14 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#157 - Snow In Summer, 14 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#158 - Numb, 14 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#159 - Pillbox Tales, 12 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#160 - Home, 12 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#161 - Play, 10 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#162 - Mr Alphabet Says, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#163 - The Dream, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#164 - Switch, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#165 - The Only One, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#166 - Temptation Two (aka LGTB), 9 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#167 - Going Nowhere , 9 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#168 - It's Over, 6 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#169 - Alt.End, 3 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#170 - Three, 3 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#171 - Bloodflowers, 3 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#172 - Subway Song, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#173 - Object, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#174 - Fake, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#175 - Icing Sugar, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes

Wow I am really surprised by #4 - All Cats Are Grey, 663 points, 22 votes, 3 #1 votes

huh.

nothing in that top 5 surprises me, tbh

This would have been my ballot had I gotten my act togher on time:

In Between Days
Jumping Someone Else's Train
10:15
Grinding Halt
Close to Me
A Forest
Boys Don't Cry
Killing An Arab
Fire in Cairo
Three Imaginary Boys
Primary
Love Cats
The Walk
Just Like Heaven
Push
Six Different Ways
Fascination Street
Love Song
Pictures of You
The Perfect Girl
Why Can't I Be You
Let's Go to Bed
One Hundred Years
Play for Today
Charlotte Sometimes
Catepillar Girl
A Night Like This
Catch
Hot Hot Hot
Plain Song
Lullaby
Disintegration
Closedown
High
A Letter to Elise
Plastic Passion
The Hanging Garden
The Figurehead
M
Never Enough

nothing in that top 5 surprises me, tbh

closest thing to a surprise in the top 20 is Play For Today

BTW all nothing-past-Disintegration listeners should check out 2001 anagrammatic single Cut Here posthaste, it's one of Robert's most open and honest and touching songs ever, and a great pop tune, and can make you blub too.

I feel like ppl need to dive more deeply into Join the Dots

it's a bit of a mess tbh, especially disc 4. but if you rip it as mini-albums based on eras and leave out a bunch of the latter stuff it's a wonderful resource

oh disc 4 is clearly the weakest, but it has "Home", "Waiting" and "A Pink Dream" on it (btw any one of those songs should have replaced "Mint Car" on WMS)

I'm surprised by "Close To Me" in the top 5. I didn't realise it was a bigger single than "In Between Days" or "Boys Don't Cry". "Primary" beating "Boys Don't Cry" is kind of a surprise too.

the thing about "Primary" beating "Boys Don't Cry" is "Primary" is super bad ass

Weird that all the Disintegration singles are basically lumped together at the bottom of the top 20. Would have figured Fascination Street to break out from the pack.

And thanks Nate, great poll! I voted The Exploding Boy #1. Others from my ballot that didn't make top 50 were Sinking, Descent, Harold and Joe, A Few Hours After This, and Screw (and I proudly voted for the Charlotte Sometimes video).

A Few Hours After This was my #3 U think. Surprised that it didn't crack the top 50.

I had "A Few Hours After This" at #19.

I never would have guessed "Primary" would be in my top 5 until I started making the ballot. It really is just kick-ass and learning it's bass-bass-drums just makes it cooler.

The Top 50 was divided like this:

Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry: 7
Disintegration: 7
Faith: 6
Seventeen Seconds: 5
Pornography: 5
Japanese Whispers: 4
The Head On The Door: 4
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: 4
The Top: 2
B-Side: 1
Stand-alone single: 1

I had 'piggy,' 'a few hours after this,' 'six different ways,' and 'catch' way higher than the poll did.

Close To Me
Just Like Heaven
Piggy In The Mirror
A Few Hours After This...
Six Different Ways
Catch
10:15 Saturday Night
Primary
Play For Today
A Forest
Hot Hot Hot!!!
In Between Days
Give Me It
High
The Lovecats
The Hanging Garden
Fire In Cairo
The Caterpillar
The Blood
Mint Car
Never Enough
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Seventeen Seconds
A Letter To Elsie
Shake Dog Shake
Why Can't I Be You
Lullaby
How Beautiful You Are...
The 13th
New Day
Friday I'm In Love
One Hundred Years
Lovesong
Pictures Of You
Kyoto Song
Boys Don't Cry
Killing An Arab
A Strange Day
All I Want
Sinking

Actually, I inverted the numbers for 17 seconds and KMKMKM, so it's

Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry: 7
Disintegration: 7
Faith: 6
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: 5
Pornography: 5
Seventeen Seconds: 4
Japanese Whispers: 4
The Head On The Door: 4
The Top: 2
B-Side: 1
Stand-alone single: 1

I know this is super nerdy, but I thought it would be interesting. I counted how many points each album received:

1. Disintegration: 3433
2. Boys Don't Cry: 3164
3. Faith: 2715
4. The Head On The Door: 2518
5. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: 2126
6. Seventeen Seconds: 2034
7. Pornography: 1921
8. Japanese Whsipers: 1807
9. The Top: 653
10. Wish: 543

In the top 50.

Interesting that SS finished second in the albums poll but only sixth in cumulative points (even with the #1 song).

A case of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts etc.

Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry: 7
Disintegration: 7
Faith: 6
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: 5
Pornography: 5
Seventeen Seconds: 4
Japanese Whispers: 4
The Head On The Door: 4
The Top: 2

B-Side: 4
Stand-alone single: 6