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

A tie on total points, at least. The former was on more than half of ballots. The latter received several first-place votes. Pick your own winner if you wish.

judy and her dream of dickslaps

ha

a lot of people who don't like "winter wooskie" itt

you're all wrong

jonathan david is my vote for the best non-classic single. "carriage clock" AND "middle distance runner"???? my god

^ Yeah, what he said.

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4. This Is Just a Modern Rock Song (December 1998)
Points: 67
Votes: 20
#1 Votes: 6

^ Yeah, what he said.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 3:33 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this isn't me correcting you angrily or anything, it's extremely not a big deal and hard to figure out even from context, but for future notice i go by they/them

Oh, indeed! I was in furious agreement about Jonathan David! :)

And then I didn't even read that properly. Now I have!

books was my number 1 and all three original tracks made my top 12 (i do love cover (version) too, consider it lumped in with your cover's blown)

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3. 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (October 1997)
Points: 75
Votes: 23
#1 Votes: 6

Books was my number one, Jonathan Davis my number two, Modern my number three. I really love the first two EPs but they each strike me as one stellar song with a couple good ones and a bad one.

Incidentally, I think the tracks rollout shall start at #60, because:

(i) everything has >10 votes out to around that point
(ii) there's an interesting mix of stuff between 50 and 60
(iii) more opportunity to annoy ILM's unbelievers than with 50

i think 369 seconds of light is easily the best of the first three eps, ok i guess they’re all hits so it doesn’t matter

Oh Nag can you also disclose which album track from pre-hiatus didn't get a vote (assuming it didn't in the final ballots)? That's been bugging me.

369 was my #1 too, even though the lead track (or at least the one that got a promo video) was probably my least favourite of that era.

I'll disclose right now which track missed out, because it's probably more of a technical thing than a quality thing: "Act of the Apostle II." Some votes for "AotA" might have implied support for both parts.

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2. Dog on Wheels (May 1997)
Points: 77
Votes: 24
#1 Votes: 4

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1. Lazy Line Painter Jane (July 1997)
Points: 84
Votes: 25
#1 Votes: 5

These last few kept swapping places right up to yesterday. There ultimately wasn't a huge amount it.

"IN it."

369 was my favorite too. couldn't decide which songs from it to put on my tracks list, ended up with Beautiful and Put the Book Back on the Shelf but it could have been any of the four

I need to perform some last minute quality control checks on the tracks ballot. And I've only just grasped the final positions for the first few. I shall endeavour to commence that bit some 9-10 hours from now. (Perhaps late morning, Greenwich Mean Time!?!)

Amazing work so far. I'd had 3..6..9 top too and it wasn't really a tough decision. Can't wait for the tracks results.

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60. I Don't Love Anyone
From Tigermilk (1996)
Live at Bowlie Weekender, 1999
Points: 156
Votes: 11
#1 Votes: 0

I should arguably have had someone competent do graphics, but it turns out I *really* like adding tints to dorky band portraits.

I get the impression at least one person will find this placement disappointing.

That would've been my number 1, if I'd voted. Way too low obv.

damn... forgot to vote!

I like it a lot, but do find it to be one of the weaker tracks on a really great albums.

How can multiple people have forgotten to vote and yet we have so many ballots?

I didn't forget but hadn't time

one of the more minor tracks on Tigermilk but that means it's still really quite good

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59. If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
From Dear Catastrope Waitress (2003)
Live at Glastonbury, 2015
Points: 157
Votes: 9
#1 Votes: 0

the whole end section of this one is a delight

Is this one Stuart's coming-out-as-a-christian song?

noh, we always knew..

I recognised all the religious metaphors from my Catholic upbringing, but imagined he was just using them as a source of vivid imagary, right up to this point.

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58. I Want the World to Stop
From Belle and Sebastian Write About Love (2010)
Original promo video
Points: 158
Votes: 11
#1 Votes: 0

My Tigermilk choices were a bit more arbitrary than those for other albums. In retrospect I should maybe have picked I Don't Love Anyone, just on the basis of how often I've found myself singing it since relistening to the album.

All songs in the countdown so far have started with the letter I. How long can this carry on?

Love Sarah Martin's vocals on Caught in Love, especially the 'give up your will' bit. The simple village girl verse is far more embarrassing than anyone's religion though.

I think some of Write About Love is very much in the same vein as their early stuff. I Want The World To Stop probably is my favorite 2010’s B&S next to I Didn’t See It Coming

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57. The Blues Are Still Blue
From The Life Pursuit (2006)
Original promo video
Points: 168
Votes: 13
#1 Votes: 0

^ I was generally avoiding front covers for this bit, as we've seen a lot of them already, but then I saw this charming TBASB promo CD cover.

Can I put in the first "too low!" here?

Too high!

That will be my last piece of carping about my dislike of The Life Pursuit. Sorry.

the blues rock thing they do on this one really does nothing for me

I'm generally down with The Life Pursuit but I seem to get the least mileage out of the Bolan-esque bits.