Could we please be objective cause the other POLLS are queuing up behind us - Artist Poll #94 - Belle & Sebastian - RESULTS

For this poll I had decided (very unoriginally) that this was my favorite B&S song. Can't complain even if it misses the top 3. I'm still happy with my choice, it's the most perfectly balanced in everything: bassline, vocal lines, piano, impressions of "rising" and accelerating, guitars, details, xylophone-triangle whatever it is.
You can concentrate on the one you love...
I will love you over, I will love youuuuu
If they foooollow you
Seriously, it's perfect. We said the songs with 4 #1 votes win right. Right.

a great song but still only middle of the pack in IYFS to me

Please don't let LLPJ beat The State I Am In.

I hope it does tbqh

Oh yes did anybody compliment you on the blue - red - green - yellow color thing ? I swear I only actually noticed today, great idea.
LLPJ doesn't deserve it.

imagine thinking that "lazy line painter jane" isn't one of the best b&s songs and would be a totally excellent no. 1

wouldn't*

Comes back to preference for his personal songs over the character ones, I guess. TSIAI just means everything to me and I've never really got a handle on this Jane person.

seeing other people as the highest-ranked sinister track?

also I feel like it's one of the few early-ish songs that predicts just how big and bold they'd let themselves get from DCW onwards which would make it a nice capper

(Jane that is)

this is tearing us apart!

(go Jane!)

I've never really got a handle on this Jane person

idk i think that first verse is as distinct a character study as they did in their whole career.

You're working the village shop
Putting a poster up
Dreaming of anything
Dreaming of the time
When you are free
From all the trouble you're in

"Like Dylan In the Movies" was my #1, one where you can hear the VU influence. I switched it to my #1 at the last second from "Marx & Engles" on which...you cannot hear the VU influence

LOL

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3. Seeing Other People
From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
Live at Bowlie Weekender, 1999
Points: 816
Votes: 39
#1 Votes: 4

damn

We go 3 2 and start to slow..

(Arbitrary image, admittedly. Decided minutes ago that I didn't like the one I'd had all week.)

Pacific Time zone awake let's do this!

there's something really incredible about the verse chord progression on this one

the top 2 is pretty perfect no matter the order

yeah agreed

i also love that it's down to their very first song or their very best single

seeing other people has an amazing piano part, but i left it off my ballot for some reason. maybe cause i had already voted for 7 sinister tracks and i like em all just a little bit more than this one.

wow, four points apart !
I bet The State I am In has like 900 points.

These top 3 are all such perfect songs. And I'm perfectly fine with them at the top, though I had them at 8, 11 and 12 on my own list (with State I Am In highest).

I only voted for two Sinister tracks and this is one of them. So... well done, people.

and LLPJ has 1400 (xposts)

i voted for both songs in the top two though they were not very high on my ballot bc i rightly assumed they didn't need me

Pretty interesting that the (presumably) top Sinister song is only #3, after it demolished the album poll

#1 has a VERY convincing lead. Actually, so does #2 over #3.

xp idk even without number 1, sinister put in a pretty dominating performance, with 8 of its 10 songs placing and the lowest coming in at #12

Yeah, even though the album dominates the top of the ranking there's been a lot of splitting between the songs. 39 votes for Seeing other People and 24 for Me and the Major or 26 for Judy. TSIai was my 9th. Ok I change my prediction to 950 points (is 1000 even possible).

He'll post Big John Shaft anyway

i am sort of surprised that there was such a split between "mayfly" and "the boy done wrong again" not placing at all, and all the rest placing extremely high. they're the weakest tracks on sinister, sure, but not by that much.

XP: Apparently 1000 is possible, yes.

xp yeah for sure it still crushed

"Mayfly" did okay-ish. "TBDWA" definitely didn't. I was surprised too. I'll show the details shortly.

you will have a POLL tonight

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80. Winter Wooskie
From Legal Man (2000)
Points: 64
Votes: 4
#1 Votes: 0

Too high!

The three songs I voted for which didn't make it were I Could be Dreaming, Nobody's Empire, and The Boy Done Wrong Again.

the first two made it in the 20s, iirc

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2. Lazy Line Painter Jane
From Lazy Line Painter Jane (1997)
Original promo video
Points: 956
Votes: 39
#1 Votes: 4

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1. The State I Am In
From Tigermilk (1996)
Youtube audio track
Points: 1041
Votes: 43
#1 Votes: 3

well, yeah

two perfect songs

thanks for running this, it's been a great poll and rollout

my ballots:

Tracks:
I'm A Cuckoo
The State I Am In
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Judy And The Dream Of Horses
Your Cover's Blown
If You're Feeling Sinister
I Could Be Dreaming
Seeing Other People
The Stars Of Track And Field
Electronic Renaissance
I Didn't See It Coming
Stay Loose
Sleep The Clock Around
Step Into My Office, Baby
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Me And The Major
Wrapped Up In Books
Dirty Dream Number Two
Like Dylan In The Movies
She's Losing It
String Bean Jean
The Fox In The Snow
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
Mayfly
We Rule The School
Sweet Dew Lee
The Boy Done Wrong Again
The Rollercoaster Ride
Slow Graffiti

Albums:
If You're Feeling Sinister
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Tigermilk
Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
The Boy With The Arab Strap

EPs:
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
Books
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Dog On Wheels
3.. 6.. 9 Seconds Of Light

Amazing. I love this poll. Thank you so much.

oh MAN i just listened to "The State That I Am In" for the first time in ages and I got goosebumps and then my eyes started leaking. The chord changes -- what is it about them?!!?

Thanks Nag! Those handclaps in LLPJ, my god.

Rank Name
1 Dirty Dream Number Two
2 Lazy Line Painter Jane
3 If She Wants Me
4 The Rollercoaster Ride
5 Is It Wicked Not to Care?
6 Mayfly
7 It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career
8 The State I Am In
9 If You're Feeling Sinister
10 The Boy With the Arab Strap
11 I Know Where the Summer Goes
12 We Rule the School
13 Seeing Other People
14 Fox in the Snow
15 To Be Myself Completely
16 Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying
17 Funny Little Frog
18 Judy and the Dream of Horses
19 You're Just a Baby
20 She's Losing It
21 Photo Jenny
22 Sukie in the Graveyard
23 I Fought in a War
24 Seymour Stein
25 Winter Wooskie
26 Scooby Driver
27 Ever Had a Little Faith?
28 Stars of Track and Field
29 Act of the Apostle
30 Beyond the Sunrise

thanks for running this, great job!

my ballot:

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/2vhPcdKKkFpMYlMsFldf48?si=IhX65UBtShWE3TWTXv_SRQ