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

yah, great roll-out so far Van Horn Street!

Can someone edit the titles into the precedent albums please? It would be very appreciated.

you will have to use this board: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=56

Oh how I wish for an edit option.

So sorry it's

#5. 15 points. 2 votes. 1st place.
You Tore Me Down (Fakebook)
(Flamin' Groovies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GF4qI0N3Mg

#4. 15 points. 3 votes.
Cast A Shadow (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
(Beat Happening)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyhRc_2eisw

#3. 22 points. 4 votes. 1 1st place
Little Honda (I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)
(The Beach Boys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyiZFlHuPqg

I don't think I ever heard the Beach Boys original, don't think I ever will.

#2. 25 points. 3 votes. 2 first place
By The Time It Gets Dark (Little Honda)
(Sandy Denny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5gbp8adho

pam-pam-pam-pam-pam pam-pam

#1. 40 points. 6 votes. 2 first places.
You Can Have It All (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
(George McCrae)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQW7jZJY9s

Aside from #1 & #3, I am 100% on board with these covers results!

I voted for:
"Oklahoma USA" - Kinks
"I Threw It All Away" - Dylan
"Yellow Sarong" - The Scene Is Now
"It's All Right The Way That You Live" - VU
"Griselda" - Pete Stampfel

Voted for You Can Have It All in the main tracks poll. Glad the Sandy Denny placed so high, it was my last cut on covers.

1 You Tore Me Down Flamin Groovies
2 It's ChristmasTime Sun Ra
3 Gentle Hour Snapper
4 For Shame of Doing Wrong Richard & Linda Thompson
5 Ashes on the Ground Jad Fair

Songs tomorrow, I'll only be able in the early afternoon that being said.

Didn't vote, but wow. I can't believe the "Speeding Motorcycle" cover couldn't crack the top 10.

Also, their cover of Blondie's "Dreaming" is superb.

They have so many great covers. I am surprising either Needle of Death and Be Thankful For What You've Got.

Dump's "Raspberry Beret" is excellent--almost put that on my regular ballot.

I didn't vote for it, but still surprised that May I Sing With Me placed lower than President YLT (though I guess there wasn't a tremendous point difference between the bottom 5 anyway). I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed Electr-o-pura while compiling my ballot. I always think of it as a lesser album, but then wanted to put a load of tracks from it on my ballot. I can't help but feel that ICHTHBAO is a little overrated, while ATNTIIO is comparatively underrated.

All of my picks ended up in the covers results so YAY!

Popular Songs placed lower than the Danelectro EP LOL.

ALBUMS
1. Painful
2. Fakebook
3. I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
4. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
5. May I Sing With Me

COVERS
1. Speeding Motorcycle (Johnston)
2. Take Care (Big Star)
3. Big Sky (Kinks)
4. Oklahoma USA (Kinks)
5. Andalucia (John Cale)

Before I started working on my ballot, I would have thought the cover of "I Threw It All Away" would make my 5, but these jumped way ahead.

Albums:
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Fade
Painful
Electr-o-Pura

Covers:
You Can Have it All (George McRae)
Nuclear War (Sun Ra)
Little Honda (Beach Boys)
Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens)
I Wanna Be Your Lover (Bob Dylan)

ALBUMS/EPs
1. President Yo La Tengo
2. Little Honda
3. Electr-o-pura
4. Summer Sun
5. Fakebook

COVERS
1. Be Thankful for What You Got
2. Take Care
3. Blitzkrieg Bop
4. Somebody’s Baby
5. Cast a Shadow

I find that "President Yo La Tengo" is their most solid album and seriously underrated. Almost every song on it is phantastic. There are other albums like "Electr-o-pura" which have higher highs but at the same time they also feature a couple of weaker songs. I seriously don't understand why "Be Thankful for What You Got" didn't place in the covers poll. By far their best cover, imo. And the EP "Little Honda" it is on is such a fun cover feast.

Albums:
Painful
Electr-O-Pura
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

Painful had always been my favourite but I think Electr-O-Pura has just edged ahead since submitting my ballot. I was really surprised by it when re-listening to everything, it had never stuck in my mind as much as some of the others before.

Albums/EPs:

1. Painful
2. Electr-O-Pura
3. Shaker EP
4. May I Sing With Me
5. I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

1 & 2 could switch places easily, though.

Funny timing on this: http://store.matadorrecords.com/stuff-like-that-there

Don't get me wrong, I voted it as my #4, but Painful suffers from the curse of the sound of those late 80s/early 90s BOSS digital guitar pedals. That record would have been so much better if they had played with vintage gear.

think i know what you mean, but man, i love the guitars on painful.

pretty psyched for this Fakebook sequel -- sample tracks sound amazing. schramm really is a wonderful guitarist.

I do too. I'm not hearing those pedals, or at least, nothing that sounds out-of-line with Kaplan's usual sound.

In fact, I'm not even sure which pedals those are, and the only digital stuff I saw them use in '94 were the DigiTech PDS delays (to astounding effect, I should add).

xp

the guitars on Painful do sound worse than the later albums but it doesn't really bother me much

i am v disappointed the new record does not seem to include a cover of the song it references

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_-EinTErdQ

ALBUMS
1. Electr-O-Pura
2. And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
3. Painful
4. Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
5. May I Sing with Me


COVERS
1. By the Time It Gets Dark
2. You Can Have It All
3. Little Honda
4. Emulsified
5. Cast a Shadow

http://thebestshow.net/#news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3NhI6VOuo

I'll start rolling the tracks in 10 minutes.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt45_zpsf0umlrpi.jpg

(i might echo the request to add the information as text above or below the image, so those on phones can see them, and also just in case the image links ever break)

ah yes!

also, i request that all of the images continue to be dick allen baseball cards

I don't think a baseball player needed to listen to Ohm more than Dick Allen.

#44. 117 points. 4 votes.
Stupid Things
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt44_zpsparvbx0w.jpg

Dick got a bad rap xp

Butch Huskey or R Ashburn cards more appr

oh, i get it now.

#43. 118 points. 7 votes.
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind (I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt43_zpsreq7wv5m.jpg

#42. 124 points. 8 votes.
Season of the Shark (Summer Sun)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt42_zpsp9hroqr0.jpg

oh holy crap these are amazing guys.

For what it's worth, the songs are not connected to the players, unless I hit upon something accidentally. They were matched according to length of song/album title and how much available space there was--Yo La Tengo sometimes have very long album titles. Every card is from the '70s.

I didn't even think to match Dock Ellis with "Sugarcube."

#41. 128 points. 6 votes.
Madeline (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt41_zpscvyvtm5j.jpg

I personal favorite of mine. I grew up with the Madeline books. Listening to the song, I always picture her as a grown up.

JR Richard was one of my favorite players growing up.
Madeline however did not make my final ballot.

#40. 129 points. 5 votes. 1 1st place.
My Heart's Reflection (Electr-O-Pura)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt40_zpsenwwetun.jpg

YLT is on Tom Scharpling's Best Show tonite at 9 EST if you are interested...

#39. 129 points. 7 votes.
(Straight Down to the) Bitter End (Electr-O-Pura)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt39_zpsv0ppqqve.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt39_zpsv0ppqqve.jpg

"Madeline" in my top ten. So casual that it almost drifts away. I love the organ and lead guitar line.

#38. 130 points. 9 points.
Tears Are In Your Eyes ((And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt38_zpsb10mp0ld.jpg

I didnt vote bcz the only album I'm super-familiar with is Electr-o-pura (even though Blue Line Swinger is still my favorite song of all time) but here have this: European stoner metal band doing a YLT tribute on the last thing they released before breaking up. Obv the drummer is stiff compared to Georgia (what drummer isn't?) and the guitarist can't wig out like Ira (only a few can) but I was still struck at how well they nailed it against the odds:

https://youtu.be/DBE1oIlUO4A

there is a new album coming in august. a kind of sequel to fakebook. aquarium drunkard has the details including two mp3s.

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.