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

"i'm a cuckoo" was my #1, on its own merits (avalanches remix is perfect too)

the thin lizzy meets highlife thing works so well

*whispers* “like dylan in the movies” 4 no. 1

This is the song I always forget is on IYFS and it's always an awesome surprise

No #1 votes!

Classic song, one I’ve probably taken for granted.

I could kill you sure, but I could only make you cry with these words

Wow, we're in the top 5.
If you're feeling sinister has jumped mightily in my esteem as a top track, when I thought I was mildly annoyed by the silly chorus lyrics. I love that long intro that makes you think it's an instrumental. Mesmerizing track. I wish I had put it even higher.
Get me away from here I'm dying I'm not very objective on. My original favorite, it's so unique and deceptively simple I sometimes doubt its perfection. Their best lyrics maybe (at least the lines I know). It is mightier than swoords. I could... only make you cry!... with theeese woords.

Before anyone sent any ballots I thought this a likely #1. But only because it won some poll I participated in, in maybe...1998. LOL. (Not sure where though. Did the Sinister list do polls?)

I get that—I’ve always thought of it as their “signature song,” as much as a band as prolific as this one can have one

Yeah, 'signature song' captures the vibe. It might have been clearer when they'd only released 32 songs or whatever.

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4. Like Dylan in the Movies
From If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
'Fans Only' segment
Points: 812
Votes: 34
#1 Votes: 4

this was my highest IYFS track, undeniable vibe

I realized while assembling my ballot that the early albums are associated with a time in life I don't care to think about anymore, which probably contributed to my preference for the more recent stuff (DCW and onwards) and b-sides / stray tracks

Heard it on the radio a while ago and yes went back to another time. I know I said I voted Me and the Major my top Sinister track but really this can't be beaten.

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.