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

satisfactory, given that it had to be top 5

which will be the four remaining songs? i have no clue. i wanted to put nic fit as my number but in the end i only put it at #10, it's the highest rated song left on my ballot now.

Yeah, my #13, though I think it deserves top 10 for sure (for the riff alone ....) Top 5 I am fine with, but I knew at least two of the songs left would beat it, at least on ILM. Thanks for not letting me down btw.

Also, thanks for the "Mote" thoughts Contenderizer. Doesn't sway me, but I totally get the feeling you are describing, and yeah, EVOL is like an album long meditation on it.

i wanted to put nic fit as number 1...

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4. Shadow of a Doubt
Evol, 1986
(656 points, 28 votes, 3 #1)

Let's not guess the songs please! Maybe we will be surprised?

Shadow of a Doubt would have been my #1.

nah there is no suspense about the top 3 if you think about it for a minute

i am definitely in suspense about the order, though

i know for sure what 2 of them are

cool results, lotsa twists. I voted Brave Men Run (never realized it shared initials with Bad Moon Rising), and Kotton Krown was my #1.

also, another big point jump there

i know for sure what 2 of them are

― Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge),

Yeah. Tell it like it is.

schiz
diamond
expressway

uh...

shadow?
purr?
brother james?
bull in the heather?

shadow it is

i don't get the love for shadow of a doubt. it is really nothing special, a track which just meanders and never really gets started. what's the deal?

it is beautiful, sexy, haunting and terrifying in equal measure

^^this. i put it on a mixtape for the first guy i ever dated

also, like, explosive crescendo, how can you miss that

I think the biggest point jump so far. My #8, such a cool song. Love it for all the reasons Contenderizer lists.

can't fathom how you could get to "must have been a DREAAAM!" and still be waiting for the song to start

Plus it has the best music video of all time iirc

blew me away as an encore in 98

i was definitely like "KIM TOTALLY LOOKED AT ME DURING THAT SONG"

One of those songs the makes guitar harmonics seem like about the best thing in the world sonically.

wtf alex

The quiet, unsettling parts of A Thousand Leaves are more sophisticated iterations of those quiet, unsettling guitar ripples in "Shadow of a Doubt."

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3. Expressway to Yr Skull
Evol, 1986
(685 points, 29 votes, 4 #1)

Cross the Breeze was my #1, was hoping for top 5 and to beat out TAR, but still v satisfied w 'almost' in this case...

xp so it has nostalgic value, i get that. the crescendo is pretty tiny, understated, maybe that's the point? but still the song is extremely repetitive and not very inventive. too boring, def not my cup of tea. sorry.

xp anyways, Expressway.

'That's gotta be the greatest song ever written.'

-Neil Young

yes my mixtape anecdote means that's the only reason i like it

always wondered whether Neil was being nice. Had he actually heard it?

Too low! What's wrong with you people. This epic is way cooler than that other super-long epic you all voted so high.

Vinyl, with the lock-groove repeating for 10 minutes or so, is the only way to experience Expressway.

idk, I assume SY still ended p much every set with it back in those days...

(xp to Alfred)

(those days = when they were opening for Neil)

And the last two... Gotta run, I will see the post-poll reactions when I get back!

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2. The Diamond Sea
Washing Machine, 1995
(707 points, 33 votes, 5 #1)

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1. Schizophrenia
Sister, 1987
(909 points, 34 votes, 5 #1)

thanks ArchCarrier!

Schizophrenia in a different stratosphere

Kidding, but yeah, "Expressway" my #1. Can handle #3 but love it to death. So glad that I got to see this song live at least once in my life.

sadly I am at work and cannot participate in the obligatory post-yr-ballots section for another seven hours.

thanks ArchCarrier, it was pretty rad.

man i'm relieved Diamond Sea didn't take it all, the right rose won

lol the right HORSE

I didn't expect "The Diamond Sea"! Guess I should have concentrated harder on the results.

Good job ArchCarrier. Thanks.

"Schizophrenia" my #2, but really would have preferred to weigh it equally with "Schizophrenia". Two songs that have meant a ton to me for a long long time.