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

Here's my ballot. Many thanks to VHS and Clemenza for running it.

From A Motel 6
Deeper Into Movies
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Decora
Damage
Autumn Sweater
Paul Is Dead
The Ballad Of Red Buckets
Detouring American With Horns
Blue Line Swinger
I Heard You Looking
Stockholm Syndrome
Tom Courtnay
Upside-Down
Little Eyes
Double Dare
Did I Tell You
Our Way To Fall
Pablo and Andrea
The Summer
I’ll Be Around
Season Of The Shark
Beanbag Chair
By Two’s
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House

Top 5 albums

Electr-o-Pura
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Painful
May I Sing With Me
I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Covers

Little Honda
Somebody’s Baby
By The Time It Gets Dark
Too Late
Barstool Blues

I wonder if I'm the only one who voted for a track from the Sounds of the Sounds of Science.
― WilliamC

I did a 100-favorite-songs list on Facebook a few years ago, and "Jellyfish" was in my Top 10; considered it for #1 here.

1. “Moby Octopad”
2. “Satellite”
3. “How Some Jellyfish Are Born”
4. “Blue Line Swinger”
5. “I’ll Be Around”
6. “Positively Jeff Oliphant” (Dump)
7. “I Heard You Looking”
8. “Detouring America with Horns”
9. “Sudden Organ”
10. “International Airport” (Dump)
11. “From Black to Blue”
12. “The Race Is On Again”
13. “(Thin) Blue Line Swinger”
14. “Return to Hot Chicken”
15. “The Ballad of Red Buckets”
16. “Always Something”
17. “Nutricia”
18. “Before We Run”
19. “Living in the Country”
20. “Little Eyes”

i put "the love life of the octopus"at #6

Was also lucky enough to see them perform the whole album live, with the films projected alongside.

Glad to see some Before We Run votes.

There was a few SOSOS placings.

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Was also lucky enough to see them perform the whole album live, with the films projected alongside.

― clemenza, Friday, June 5, 2015 10:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how was it??!

what I have learned here is that I like YLT's covers and instrumentals much more than most people seem to

(xpost) It was something to see--very contemplative, very much like what I imagine a '60s Warhol-type mixed-media happening to be. Some or all of the films are online:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jean+Painlev%C3%A9

After the show, everyone autographed a vinyl copy of And Then Nothing... I'd bought that day.

thanks for the poll, vhs and clemenza. here is my song ballot. bold titles didn't make it into the top 45. could you please post the complete results (or at least the top 45 in a list), that would be cool.

1. Blue Line Swinger (Electr-o-pura)
2. Today Is the Day (Summer Sun)
3. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1), (Electr-o-pura)
4. Always Something (May I Sing with Me)
5. Autumn Sweater (LP version) (Autumn Sweater)
6. Detouring America with Horns (May I Sing with Me)
7. Can’t Forget (Fakebook)
8. Black Flowers (I Am Not Afraid of You…)
9. Shadows (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
10.The Summer (Fakebook)
11.Did I Tell You (New Wave Hot Dogs)
12.Stockholm Syndrome (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
13.Fog over Frisco (Genius + Love Yo La Tengo)
14.The Evil that Men Do (Craig’s Version) (President Yo La Tengo)
15.I Should’ve Known Better (I Am Not Afraid of You…)
16.No Water(New Wave Hot Dogs)
17.Night Falls on Hoboken (And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
18.Nowhere Near (Painful)
19.Barnaby, Hardly Working (President Yo La Tengo)
20.Sudden Organ (Painful)
21.How Some Jellyfish Are Born (The Sounds of the Sounds of Science)
22.Moby Octopad (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
23.From a Motel 6, Pt. 1 (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
24.Isolation Tank (They Shoot, We Score)
25.Double Dare (Painful)

Thanks a lot!
Fantastic results for the most part. Slightly dismayed by the lack of pre electr-o-pura stuff. But I didn't vote for much of it either, so what can you do?

1. Tom Courtenay (Electr-o-pura)
2. Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
3. Stockholm Syndrome
4. You Can Have It All
5. Blue Line Swinger (Electr-o-pura)
6. Sudden Organ
7. Detouring America With Horns
8. Damage
9. Shaker
10. Did I Tell You (Fakebook)
11. Autumn Sweater
12. Our Way to Fall
13. What Can I Say
14. Periodically Double or Triple
15. Satellite
16. Shadows
17. I Heard You Looking
18. (Straight Down To The) Bitter End
19. Little Eyes
20. Black Flowers
21. Moby Octopad
22. Here to Fall
23. Lewis
24. Alydia
25. The Whole of the Law

(xpost) I can post the top 45 later today, but VHS would have to put up the full results.

I never thought to check They Shoot, We Score, which I have--some of the Old Joy stuff on there is excellent.

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.