POLL: Best Track on Walker Brothers' "Portrait"

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Generally considered their best album. This is the expanded CD edition, with all the singles/bonus tracks. Will it be the sensual jazz-cum-harpsichord version of "Summertime"? The pipe organ drenched darkness of "Archangel"? The Beatles-emulative "My Love Is Growing"?

This is near-impossible one for me. Still scratching my head over the possibilities...I am even tempted to vote for "The Gentle Rain".

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore	3
After the Lights Go Out	2
Archangel	1
Summertime	1
Come Rain or Come Shine	0
(Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me	0
My Love Is Growing	0
Another Tear Falls	0
Saddest Night in the World	0
Gentle Rain	0
Sunny	0
Deadlier Than the Male	0
In My Room	0
No Sad Songs for Me	0
Saturday's Child	0
Just for a Thrill	0
Hurting Each Other	0
Old Folks	0
People Get Ready	0
I Can See It Now	0
Where's the Girl	0
Living Above Your Head	0
Take It Like a Man	0
Mrs. Murphy	0

― Joe, Friday, 18 July 2008 12:20 (seventeen years ago)

Always loved "Archangel" which again demonstrates the seamless continuity in Scott's work from start to end; the dragging chains reappear, at the same tempo and in the same key, halfway through "Lullabye" by Ute Lemper nearly forty years later.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:00 (seventeen years ago)

"Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" is just too perfect to avoid.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 18 July 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

"After The Lights Go Out" is great.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 18 July 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

The version of "Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" on this extended CD, however, sounds like a different, flatter-sounding mix than another version I much prefer.

― Joe, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

I had to give it to "Summertime". Just excellent.

― Joe, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

"After the Lights Go Out", splendidly perky.

― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

"Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" obviously but "Mrs. Murphy" is perfect Scott nonsense

― Tom D., Monday, 21 July 2008 09:06 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 26 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

― ILX System, Sunday, 27 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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