High five fellow Crucify At Number 1 gang. Thought it’d be at least top 3 for sure!
― piscesx, Friday, 14 September 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
“tear in your hand” was my no. 2
no hopes for my no. 1 placing at this point despite the low ballot count
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
Tear In Your Hand coming after Mother is such a fantastic moment on Little Earthquakes. it's such a generous song, it's overflowing with melodies
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/hFuX2RL.jpg10. Spark242 points, 9 votes
one on Choirgirl Hotel where she takes a song that could have easily been on one of her earlier albums as a mostly solo piano song and gives it a perfect full band arrangement that really elevates it to being the peak of that sort of song
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YzSzNYE.jpg9. Precious Things258 points, 9 votes
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WYUtb9f.jpg8. Caught a Lite Sneeze262 points, 10 votes
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
So far, top 11 is my-tastes-inclusive. Let's keep it going.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
Caught a lite sneeze is such a perfect song
― Ross, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LkcrDQd.jpg7. Liquid Diamonds264 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Fuck yeah!
― Ross, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Everything about this song screams water The drum beat is essential n this has some of my favourite jazzy Tori playing
― Ross, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
one thing that's really missed from Scarlet's Walk onward is how unconventional her percussion sounds were, especially in Boys for Pele and Choirgirl Hotel. the last two songs really highlight this
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
lol yeah my no. 1 ain't placing
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
The drum beat is essential n this has some of my favourite jazzy Tori playing
― Ross, Friday, September 14, 2018 8:27 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed. i'm also a sucker for live drums over drum machine patterns
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
the percussion on Caught a Lite Sneeze reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong Country percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qp0_NE8M1c
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yrkWB6U.jpg6. Hey Jupiter268 points, 11 votes
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
first tori song that made me cry lol
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
Hey Jupiter is nice and obviously the little Purple Rain reference rules but it feels relatively ordinary as far as Boys for Pele tracks go so I was a little surprised to see it so high. I'd assumed I'd vote for it but it didn't end up making my ballot
Dakota Version is so much better though and listening to it again now maybe I should have tried to squeeze it in after all
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Nj6sRi7.jpg5. Winter270 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote
*pours one out for Take to the Sky*
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
og "hey jupiter" >>> dakota version but i know i'm pretty alone there. that opening chord is so tense and frail and the rest of the song's construction responds to that
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
shouts out to mick foley's favorite tori song ("winter")
https://i.imgur.com/8sNYPki.jpg4. Mother284 points, 8 votes
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
really happy to see this one so high, it's the heart of Little Earthquakes
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FSFvv1k.jpg3. Father Lucifer292 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
my #1
the bridge is her overlapping vocal lines at its very best and the way the first chord of the bridge hits is perfect
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
WHOA
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
my no. something but this song has the lightest possible touch for something so devastating
hey
https://i.imgur.com/GRhKhvh.jpg2. Pretty Good Year370 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote
https://i.imgur.com/ypLyieG.jpg1. Silent All These Years404 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
i didn't have much idea what would be #1 before doing the poll but Silent All These Years was my best guess and it's completely deserving. the song that got me into Tori, i was completely blown away the first time i heard it
years go by!
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
Pretty Good Year was my #1
Wonderful to see "Mother" so high
It's so weird to see Tori's catalogue ranked like this, I'm starting to think she's not a "singles" artist nor an "albums" artist but this kind of "zeitgeist" artist, it's more her entire existence and strategies toward music-making as a whole that I find so important
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
The first time I listened to "Little Earthquakes" my take-aways from "Crucify" were "the line about 'dirty sheets' is really good and might mean something to me when I'm not 14" and "that clave is really mixed loud" and "this song has one too many choruses". My take-aways from "Girl" were "this snare drum is really boring" and "those MIDI strings are frustrating" and "what do flying pigs dream about?" Then "Silent All These Years" came on for the first time and I just was floored, I don't think I'd ever been so immediately sure that a song was perfect upon first listen as I was when I heard that song.
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
"silent all these years" if anything is MORE powerful now than when i first heard it
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
which, i first heard it driving home from the airport with my mom, after visiting my (internet) girlfriend for the first time and it was a nice trip but it was full of the same tensions that would eventually cause me to run away from home at 15 to live with my girlfriend for 10 months and essentially trap myself in a very mentally abusive relationship. but before all that, it was just my mom driving us back home, it was 2001 and for some reason a radio station in las vegas was playing "silent all these years," who can say why, thank god they were though, bc it was the most beautiful song i'd ever heard and it still is
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
god that paragraph is a mess but y'all get it
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
"pretty good year" is apparently about a tori fan who was way too dramatic about his own life in his letters to her, but as a way-too-dramatic person it has been a personal anthem this year. which despite a lot of [redacted mental illness], still, pretty good
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
don't want to be a boy today
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
the dynamics on Pretty Good Year are so good and the way it drifts between beauty and darkness only to eventually explode is wonderful
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
anyway here are the full results, thank you to everyone for voting and for all the discussion this has generated. it's been great to poll one of my favourite artists ever
1 Silent All These Years 404 11 02 Pretty Good Year 370 12 03 Father Lucifer 292 10 04 Mother 284 8 05 Winter 270 8 06 Hey Jupiter 268 11 07 Liquid Diamonds 264 8 08 Caught A Lite Sneeze 262 10 09 Precious Things 258 9 010 Spark 242 9 011 Tear in Your Hand 242 6 012 Crucify 232 6 013 Hotel 230 8 014 Doughnut Song 218 8 015 Marianne 216 6 016 Cornflake Girl 208 10 017 Jackie's Strength 192 5 018 iieee 190 6 019 Icicle 176 5 020 Beauty Queen/Horses 160 6 021 Blood Roses 144 4 022 Playboy Mommy 142 4 023 Raspberry Swirl 140 6 024 Girl 122 3 025 Honey 120 5 026 In the Springtime of His Voodoo 118 5 027 Cooling 118 4 028 Putting the Damage On 114 4 029 Northern Lad 114 3 030 Bells for Her 96 3 031 Twinkle 96 4 032 Concertina 92 4 033 God 92 3 034 Cloud On My Tongue 90 6 036 Taxi Ride 88 4 036 Baker Baker 88 4 037 Space Dog 86 6 038 The Waitress 86 3 039 Little Earthquakes 86 2 040 Yes, Anastasia 84 2 041 China 70 3 043 Black-Dove (January) 68 2 043 Real Men 68 2 044 Dragon 66 3 046 Past the Mission 64 4 046 Bliss 64 4 047 Happy Phantom 62 2 048 Not the Red Baron 60 2 049 Datura 58 2 050 Leather 52 2 051 Take to the Sky 50 1 052 Cruel 46 2 053 Talula 44 2 054 A Sorta Fairytale 42 1 057 Carry 40 1 057 Wings 40 1 057 I'm on Fire 40 1 058 The Wrong Band 38 2 062 Upside Down 38 1 062 Alamo 38 1 062 Hungarian Wedding Song 38 1 062 I Can’t See New York 38 1 063 Gold Dust 34 2 065 1000 Oceans 34 1 065 Pandora's Aquarium 34 1 066 Purple People 32 2 070 Promise 32 1 070 Spring Haze 32 1 070 Night of Hunters 32 1 070 Cool on Your Island 32 1 071 Carbon 30 3 073 Bouncing Off Clouds 26 2 073 Mr. Zebra 26 2 075 Sugar 26 1 075 Cloud Riders 26 1 077 Wild Way 24 2 077 Here In My Head 24 2 080 Juarez 24 1 080 The Pool 24 1 080 Weatherman 24 1 081 Graveyard 22 1 084 Father’s Son 20 1 084 Your Cloud 20 1 084 Time 20 1 085 Me and a Gun 18 1 087 Pancake 16 1 087 Siren 16 1 088 Suede 16 2 090 Sister Janet 12 1 090 Josephine 12 1 091 Secret Spell 10 2 093 Toast 10 1 093 Snow Cherries From France 10 1 094 Frog On My Toe 8 1 095 Strange 6 1 099 Wednesday 4 1 099 Lust 4 1 099 Butterfly 4 1 099 Flying Dutchman 4 1 0102 Rose Dover 2 1 0102 16 Shades of Blue 2 1 0102 Reindeer King 2 1 0
definitely a few I was surprised to not make it - Datura, Sugar, and Here In My Head are probably the main ones
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
49 Datura 58 2 0
motherfucker. my no. 1
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
psyched "dragon" made it to 44
oh whoops I didn't copy the #1s properly there lol
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Father Lucifer was a shock. Surprised people don’t love Cornflake Girl more. Great poll all round. Does seem, as I thought, that everything after the ‘ .. Choir Girl’ era is much more of an acquired taste.
― piscesx, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
and fixed results:
1 Silent All These Years 404 11 12 Pretty Good Year 370 12 13 Father Lucifer 292 10 14 Mother 284 8 05 Winter 270 8 16 Hey Jupiter 268 11 07 Liquid Diamonds 264 8 18 Caught A Lite Sneeze 262 10 09 Precious Things 258 9 010 Spark 242 9 011 Tear in Your Hand 242 6 012 Crucify 232 6 213 Hotel 230 8 014 Doughnut Song 218 8 015 Marianne 216 6 016 Cornflake Girl 208 10 017 Jackie's Strength 192 5 018 iieee 190 6 019 Icicle 176 5 020 Beauty Queen/Horses 160 6 021 Blood Roses 144 4 022 Playboy Mommy 142 4 023 Raspberry Swirl 140 6 024 Girl 122 3 125 Honey 120 5 026 In the Springtime of His Voodoo 118 5 027 Cooling 118 4 028 Putting the Damage On 114 4 129 Northern Lad 114 3 130 Twinkle 96 4 131 Bells for Her 96 3 032 Concertina 92 4 033 God 92 3 034 Cloud On My Tongue 90 6 036 Taxi Ride 88 4 036 Baker Baker 88 4 037 Space Dog 86 6 038 The Waitress 86 3 039 Little Earthquakes 86 2 040 Yes, Anastasia 84 2 141 China 70 3 043 Black-Dove (January) 68 2 043 Real Men 68 2 044 Dragon 66 3 046 Past the Mission 64 4 046 Bliss 64 4 047 Happy Phantom 62 2 048 Not the Red Baron 60 2 049 Datura 58 2 150 Leather 52 2 051 Take to the Sky 50 1 152 Cruel 46 2 053 Talula 44 2 054 A Sorta Fairytale 42 1 057 Carry 40 1 057 Wings 40 1 057 I'm on Fire 40 1 058 The Wrong Band 38 2 062 Upside Down 38 1 062 Alamo 38 1 062 Hungarian Wedding Song 38 1 062 I Can’t See New York 38 1 063 Gold Dust 34 2 065 1000 Oceans 34 1 065 Pandora's Aquarium 34 1 066 Purple People 32 2 070 Promise 32 1 070 Spring Haze 32 1 070 Night of Hunters 32 1 070 Cool on Your Island 32 1 071 Carbon 30 3 073 Bouncing Off Clouds 26 2 073 Mr. Zebra 26 2 075 Sugar 26 1 075 Cloud Riders 26 1 077 Wild Way 24 2 077 Here In My Head 24 2 080 Juarez 24 1 080 The Pool 24 1 080 Weatherman 24 1 081 Graveyard 22 1 084 Father’s Son 20 1 084 Your Cloud 20 1 084 Time 20 1 085 Me and a Gun 18 1 087 Pancake 16 1 087 Siren 16 1 088 Suede 16 2 090 Sister Janet 12 1 090 Josephine 12 1 091 Secret Spell 10 2 093 Toast 10 1 093 Snow Cherries From France 10 1 094 Frog On My Toe 8 1 095 Strange 6 1 099 Wednesday 4 1 099 Lust 4 1 099 Butterfly 4 1 099 Flying Dutchman 4 1 0102 Rose Dover 2 1 0102 16 Shades of Blue 2 1 0102 Reindeer King 2 1 0
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
the first four albums are the classics obviously but it's definitely worth digging into some of the later ones even if they aren't quite as special. Scarlet's Walk, American Doll Posse and To Venus And Back are all solid, and I like Native Invader a lot too
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Sister Janet is so low! and Here In My Head! and Carbon! so interesting. I guess it was a poorly showed voting process tho, that's not a lot of points!
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
thanks for running this ufo, great images throughout
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
my ballot, bolded didn't place in the rollout
Songs:
DaturaTear in Your HandiieeeIcicleLiquid DiamondsSilent All These YearsCoolingHey JupiterDragonRaspberry SwirlTalula (The Tornado Mix)GirlDoughnut SongHoneySparkCaught a Lite SneezeFather LuciferPretty Good YearSuedeCarbonCloud on My TongueIn the Springtime of His VoodooSecret SpellSpace DogCornflake Girl
Albums:
To Venus and BackBoys for PeleUnder the PinkFrom the Choirgirl HotelAmerican Doll Posse
Remixes:
Ambient Raspberry Swirl (Scarlet Spectrum Feels)God (The Thinking Mix 2)Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)God (The Rainforest Resort Mix)Talula (BT's Synethasia Mix)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 14 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link