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

(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

Rank  Title                                    Source          Pts      Votes    #1 Votes
 61   Mayfly                                   IYFS          155       11        0
125   The Boy Done Wrong Again                 IYFS            8        2        0

That was splendid.

ballot:
1. Like Dylan in the Movies
2. Get me away from here I'm dying
3. Judy and her dream of horses
4. Me and the Major
5. If you're feeling sinister
6. Dirty Dream Number Two
7. The Fox in the Snow
8. Dog on Wheels
9. The State I am in
10. Sleep the Clock Around

11. The Model
12. Slow Graffiti
13. She's losing it
14. Seeing other people
15. Seymour Stein
16. The Stars of Track and Field
17. The loneliness of a middle distance runner
18. Piazza, New York Catcher
19. Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
20. Beautiful

21. You're just a baby
22. I want the world to stop
23. We rule the school
24. I know where the summer goes
25. I Could be Dreaming
26. Electronic Renaissance
27. Nobody's Empire
28. The Boy Done Wrong Again
29. Ease your Feet into the Sea
30. I didn't see it coming

lol I missed the top ten due to an aborted attempt to sleep the clock around. Great poll nag nag nag!!

so my first b&s record was barman, so the first song i really heard was "dog on wheels," which is kind of like a world gently unfolding, and then "the state i am in" happened right after and i was like "this is the best song i've ever heard in my fucking life" and the rest is history. good no. 1

and i went through several phases of thinking i was too cool for this band or like i had heard everything basically worth hearing and every time i went back the strength of the songs humbled me incredibly

great poll for a great band. thanks so much nag! it's been a great couple weeks diving back into the discography and re-learning some of these songs on the piano

Tracks:
I'm A Cuckoo
Your Cover's Blown
The State I Am In
Judy And The Dream of Horses
My Wandering Days Are Over
Dress Up In You
The Rollercoaster Ride
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Like Dylan in the Movies
Your Secrets
The Boy With The Arab Strap
If You're Feeling Sinister
Wrapped Up In Books
Expectations
Dirty Dream 2
The Stars of Track And Field
The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner
If She Wants Me
Another Sunny Day
Stay Loose
Me and The Major
I Love My Car
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
I'm Waking Up To Us
The Fox In The Snow
Mornington Crescent
Nobody's Empire
We Are The Sleepyheads
I Fought In A War

LPs:
If You're Feeling Sinister
The Boy With the Arab Strap
Tigermilk
The Life Pursuit
Dear Catastrophe Waitress

EPs:
Books
I'm Waking Up to Us
3...6...9... Seconds of Light
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Dog on Wheels

Good morning all, sorry to have missed the top-10 rollout!

"Boy with the Arab Strap" -- so weird to see them being rock stars and doing "everybody get up on stage" at Glastonbury in that clip. I still, all these years later, think of this as music to be listened to by yourself. But what a song. Everything in the top 10 is so good I hear each song and think "how could this not be top 3?"

"Seeing Other People" and "Stars of Track and Field" my #2 and #3. Had the same reaction as rip van wanko, "I can still remember the feeling, something akin to "i have found my new favorite band" Sad, pretty, dirty all at once, I didn't know you could do that in one song. "Seeing Other People," all these years later, still one of the songs I sing to myself most often when riding my bike, walking down the street, etc. Pretty surprised neither of these is #1.

I'll post the full results in the morning (Melbourne time) if there's interest. I need to proceed directly to bed now. :)

Thanks everyone for voting and reading and discussing, etc, etc

very interested in the full results

Here's mine. Fool me for thinking placing it as #3 might be enough to get Fickle Season to place. A somewhat more popular poll thank I'm used to.


TRACKS

Sleep the Clock Around
The State I Am in
Fickle Season
Me and the Major
Like Dylan in the Movies
Shoot the Sexual Athlete
A Summer Wasting
I'm a Cuckoo
Don't Leave the Light On, Baby
Expectations
There's Too Much Love
Put the Book Back on the Shelf/Songs for Children
Seymour Stein
Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying
If You're Feeling Sinister
The Boy with the Arab Strap
Waiting for the Moon to Rise
Everything is Now (Part Two)
The Model
The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
Sunday’s Pretty Icons
Desperation Made a Fool of Me
I Didn’t See It Coming
Your Cover's Blown
Seeing Other People
We Rule the School
Stay Loose
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Electronic Renaissance
Simple Things

ALBUMS
If You're Feeling Sinister
Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
The Boy with the Arab Strap
Tigermilk
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant

EPs
3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light
Dog on Wheels
This Is Just a Modern Rock Song
Lazy Line Painter Jane
How To Solve Our Human Problems (part 1)