POLL YR. IDOLS: The official SONIC YOUTH RESULTS thread!

Ha, actually, who knows what would happen if I actually sat down and listed 75 Sonic Youth songs?

I didn't vote for this, but I approve this placement. It's a great song

I voted for androgynous mind, it's catchy

"Waist" is another one of these tossed-off punky songs that I can enjoy.

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82. (TIE) Flower
Bad Moon Rising, 1985
(81 points, 6 votes)

That's not on the original album, right?

Nope

I don't know if I voted for "Flower"! I hope i did

everything's falling in very sensibly. "genetic", "i'm insane", "androgynous mind" and "nyc ghosts & flowers" = good tracks that tend to get overlooked in favor of the classics, but not top 50 material imo.

"flower", otoh, deserves a lot more fuck love. like, for instance, i should have voted for it.

xp That's why I wanted to do a top 100 - too many songs that would otherwise get overlooked.

"I'm Insane" way too fucking low. My number one SY tune since I first heard it in 1990.

Yeah, nothing yet has seemed "too low" to me for the most part other than maybe "(She's In A) Bad Mood" and "Flower".

Sorry EZ

"Androgynous Mind" is not a particular favorite but it's good to see some Jet Set love. For a while Eddie Vedder used to throw some lyrics from it into improv tags in Pearl Jam shows!

Last one for today...
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82. (TIE) 100%
Dirty, 1992
(81 points, 6 votes)

RECAP:

100. Secret Girl (50 points, 4 votes)
99. Saucer-Like (52 points, 3 votes)
98. Paper Cup Exit (55 points, 4 votes)
97. Computer Age (57 points, 4 votes)
96. The Neutral (58 points, 4 votes)
95. Pattern Recognition (60 points, 5 votes)
94. Little Trouble Girl (60 points, 6 votes)
93. Anagrama (60 points, 8 votes)
92. In the Kingdom #19 (62 points, 3 votes)
91. (TIE) The Wonder (63 points, 3 votes)
91. (TIE) Dude Ranch Nurse (63 points, 3 votes)
89. She's in a Bad Mood (64 points, 6 votes)
88. Reena (64 points, 7 votes)
87. (TIE) Stones (72 points, 6 votes)
87. (TIE) Genetic (72 points, 6 votes)
85. I'm Insane (74 points, 4 votes, 1 #1)
84. NYC Ghosts & Flowers (79 points, 6 votes)
83. Androgynous Mind (80 points, 4 votes)
82. (TIE) Flower (81 points, 6 votes)
82. (TIE) 100% (81 points, 6 votes)

<3<3<3 the 100% pic

very surprised that 100% does not do any better. there is so much happening in those 150 seconds, the song takes so many turns. i like my sonic youth when they come to the point and do not jam...

well Flower should be about 50 places higher, but I did my part and voted it up pretty high. I'm Insane would be in my top 40.

Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/gcwright/playlist/5n1D8eMZlFwx8Rf8xBjOWR

Yeah, "Flower" was a late cut, think I regret it a little. Seems like a single vote woulda helped out quite a bit.

i forgot about "flower" until nearly the end (didn't have a copy handy for some dumb reason). thought abt making last minute space for it on my ballot, but figured it'd do fine w/out my help.

^ blame this guy

Hey Gavin, thanks for the playlist! I've been jamming the bottom 30 all day, it's a great listen so far.

I didn't even forget about it, just made some hasty decisions right at the end.

Cannot be stressed enough that 182 DIFFERENT songs were voted for, so a lot of good stuff is going to have pretty low point totals. Pretty cool that the band can have so many appreciated songs. Will also be interesting to see when the point totals start to rise significantly.

First comment was in re "Flower" placement

If we'd done a top 50 countdown, i'd be sitting here the whole time waiting for "Flower" and "100%" to show up

"Schizophrenia" #1, "Teenage Riot" #2?

#1 better be Ca Plane Pour Moi or I'm going to cry.

I'm betting teen riot number one though I voted for nothing off that record

"Schizophrenia" was the highest-ranking SY song in the 80s heavy rock poll.

"Teenage Riot" may well be my least-favourite song on Daydream Nation.

I'm really shocked that 100% came here. My first exposure to Sonic Youth and placed in my top ten. I think I also gave Paper Cup Exit a fair percentage of its points I reckon. Good stuff so far, awesome images.

#1 better be Ca Plane Pour Moi or I'm going to cry.

― scintilla (seandalai), Monday, May 13, 2013 2:25 PM (30 minutes ago)

butt shit, i completely forgot! probably wouldn't have voted for it anyway, but it would have been nearly as hard to cut as "my new house".

dead 2 me

don't wanna hear no sounda you

(ooh woo ooh ooh)

Love the Flower pic.

i missed that one, but otm

i think "Schizophrenia" is pretty much a lock ("Teenage Riot" may have the edge in the general public but "Schiz" seems to be by far more popular among people with 30 favorite SY songs). most likely next competitor is "Expressway," although do I dare to dream of a "Shadow Of A Doubt" or "Eric's Trip" upset?

i forgot to submit my ballot but "flower" would have been in my top 7.

I for one got off the wagon (at least temporarily) upon hearing "100%". (Something of a "Judas!!!!" moment as a schoolkid, LOL.) Listening to it for the first time since the '90s, I'm finding it no less cringeworthy.

I don't get that Nag! - why? can you explain more? I first fell in love with SY with the 100% and Sugar Kane CD singles which I played to death - even more so than Dirty itself.

Is Sugar Kane a surprise number one chance?

xp

never got the love for that song myself, although It does do the brevity thing really well as Alex mentioned. I'd rank it as one of Dirty's weakest tracks - and I like that record way way more than most people seem to.

I really should have voted for Sugar Kane.

"Sugar Kane" was the last song i cut from my ballot, just had a lot of Dirty on there already.

i feel like it should be pretty plainly obvious why "100%" is divisive, just based on its essential differences from most of their songs or even most of their singles or album openers.

Yeah, at the time, the shiny production of much of Dirty came as a shock and the singsongy-ness of "100%" was irritating. Came across as a unabashed, if failed, attempt to make a, er, party anthem, with lyrics that are just screwed-up enough to be bad-ass. These are rather cornyindief*ck/"I hate fun" sort of reasons, admittedly, but I can't shake it off in this instance. :)

Right. Well I was 15 when 100% came out so maybe I was the target audience. I don't really hear lyrics much a lot of the time so despite hearing the song a thousand times I couldn't really say what it is supposed to be about. It sounded cool and squally to me then and still does now.

Confusion is Sex and Bad Moon Rising came much, much later for me and I guess I do love that sound more now. But yeah, y'know, the first time and all that.

Man, Thurston's vocal melody on "Sugar Kane" really brings down an awesome musical track for me. Psych classic otherwise.

maybe that's why it didn't make my cut, never thought about it that way.

No. Oh god, I don't want to be That Guy on this poll.