a small randy newman poll pt 3

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
burn on	11
lonely at the top	5
rider in the rain	0

― and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

he still needs to release 'The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2' You can do it Randy :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Randy_Newman_Songbook_Vol._1

voted for lonely at the top

― Ludo, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

Burn On

― Jazzbo, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

such a tough choice

― and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

"Burn On". I was hoping for "Kingfish" would be make this poll.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 5 May 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

i'm having trouble. it's most definitely not rider in the rain.

― will, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

rider in the rain is best drinking song on any of these polls so far

― and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

unless youre really comfortable with drunkenly singing along to rednecks

― and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

i think Little Criminals is where the magic wore off for me. The song writing's still there for the most part, but it all that henley & frey (and I'm far from an Eagles hater!) and gloopy production kind of maims it.

― will, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

BALTIMORE

― and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

― will, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

easy there, submit response.. I mean, I DO like Baltimore and several of the others a lot. Just not as much as burn on or lonely.

― will, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

jesse & jim - rider in the rain http://www.zshare.net/audio/115831587a299bd2/

― and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

"lonely at the top" my fave randy newman song (just over "marie"), and I think one of my top 2 or 3 songs period.

― Dominique, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

"Burn On", it's got that classic Newman queasy-sounding string arrangement, like the song is about to puke or something.

― Euler, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

Went with "Lonely at the Top" because it's the only one of the three that has anything resembling a light touch.

"Rider" fails by trying to be a little too yee-haw cutesy (using the Eagles does not help). And "Burn On" is an (atypical) one-joke song ripped from the headlines of...when did the Cuyahoga first catch fire, like the '40s? It proves that topical material isn't Newman's strength.

"Lonely" has just the right recipe of arrogance and self-pity.

― The Deacon, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

are you seriously faulting randy newman for doing a song about something in the 40s? when did dude ever say he was trying to be topical? yeah dayton 1903 is such bullshit its not even 1903 nice job being "ripped from the headlines" homie

― and what, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Thursday, 15 May 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

weird results

― and what, Thursday, 15 May 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

What's on the next one? "Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues"? "Christmas in Capetown"?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 16 May 2008 05:03 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85jKhNWQdE

wtf

― and what, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

wasn't that the beginning song on the movie?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:43 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

"so long dad" is my favorite song in the world today

― and what, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

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