Replacements - Let It Be POLL

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i think we've done this before, but i'll say sixteen blue

Androgynous

or Unsatisfied. This is difficult.

yeah kid it's a-really hip: replacements LET IT BE poll

I listened to the first four songs off this at the gym this week because of this thread, and let me tell you it made me run like hell on that treadmill! I can't figure out if I should choose "Answering Machine" for purely sentimental reasons or if I should try to be more objective. Thank goodness I've still got time before the poll ends.

― Bimble, Friday, January 11, 2008 8:21 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also another thing I'll always remember is the splotch of white paint that was on the sleeve of my vinyl copy somewhere around Tommy Stinson's legs in that photo. One of those charming imperfections of pressing you would never see now. (and no, no jokes about him cumming please) Anyone else have a botched pressing of the sleeve of this?

― Bimble, Friday, January 11, 2008 8:26 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

;-)

yeah this has been done but iirc "seen your video" was robbed, i'll rep for it this time and i think sarge has my back

Androgynous, but Unsatisfied is great too.

^^ #'s 3 and 2, respectively

this album finally opened up to me this weekend after like a year of *appreciating* it but not really loving it. now i love it. and i vote "we're coming out"

Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out

Answering Machine

"seen your video" def

"Androgynous" seems to get better year after year for me, really a pretty profound and empathetic song for a straight dude to write about sexual ambiguity/confusion

"i will dare" simply because it's such a great album opener. there's something about it that, when i hear it, makes me excited to be listening to the record.

"favorite thing" last time, "favorite thing" still

Answering Machine, because after all these years I still don't have a fucking clue how to play it on geetar. I've figured out US Maple songs more easily.

i think it's an actual answering machine in the background, could be wrong

Favorite Thing 4EVA!!!!!!

favorite thing" last time, "favorite thing" still

― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Monday, June 8, 2009 3:15 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

could easily have voted androgynous or black diamond or answering machine or unsatisfied or favorite thing tbh i'm just feelin we're comin out most right right now

"i think it's an actual answering machine in the background, could be wrong"

That voice at the end -- "If you'd like to make a call....", etc., does that still come on? I haven't had a land line in a few years and I can't remember. That woman must have the most listened to voice in U.S. history.

yeah i get her for busy lines and automated voicemails

nobody likes "Gary's Got a Boner." Will one of the contrarians on here just vote for it already?

i like "gary's got a boner". but it's one of their bar-band rock numbers, which work fine as album cuts, they just don't jump out as anybody's favorite song. (see also "dose of thunder," "shooting dirty pool," etc.)

Answering Machine, because after all these years I still don't have a fucking clue how to play it on geetar.

rumor has it Open A with a capo on fret 2 will be a good place to start

i have voted 'unsatisfied' in both of these polls. has there ever been a TIM poll?

i will dare

Sixteen Blue

could easily have voted androgynous or black diamond or answering machine or unsatisfied or favorite thing tbh i'm just feelin we're comin out most right right now

^^^^rEAL tALK.

on the previous poll i voted i will dare
this time ill go with androgynous.

My prediction: Current vacillation will lead to me listening to this album, like, ten times in the next few days, going from one option to another as if my vote really matters, then ultimately forgetting to vote at all and yet feeling OK about whatever wins.

Voting once again for "Favorite Thing."

Now we're talking! (never mind fuckin' Tim).

There really isn't a bad track on this record. I'm going with "We're Comin' Out."

Eh, Tim's not so bad song-wise. It's the production that sucks.

favorite thing

Kidding about the bad track thing? "Gary's Got A Boner" is one of the most cringe-worthy songs I've heard in my life.

i can think of a lot cringier songs from Tim or Don't Tell a Soul

Kidding about the bad track thing? "Gary's Got A Boner" is one of the most cringe-worthy songs I've heard in my life.

....yet still better than most of Tim.

People, people, dudes. Your sense of propriety is completely gayass! Gary's Got A Boner is an high quality rockin jam.

for real, plus duh it sounds like "cat scratch fever"

cringe-worthy sort of implies that it's done in earnest; but this is a joke song, top to bottom.

no--it's a metaphorical exploration into the journey of a young man's wrenching, yearning struggle with priapism

Answering Machine v. Unsatisfied. Thinkin' the latter.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Androgynous is one of the best examples ever recorded of the "less is more" minimalism style in pop/rock.

nah its just a song where they played piano

maybe, but it's not the initial meaning but the result that counts.

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

who besides a sarge voted for seen you video??

hey, i will dare did better in this poll. maybe by the third poll it will win!

I think I voted for Seen Your Video since I voted for Favorite Thing in the first poll. I used to use SYV as background music when I did a halftime scoreboard show on the radio for the local D-I basketball team.

previous poll results:
unsatisfied 17
favorite thing 16
i will dare 14
answering machine 14
androgynous 7
sixteen blue 6
tommy gets his tonsils out 5
we're coming out 5
black diamond 5
gary's got a boner 3
seen your video 1

the rolling stones would be happy

Someone should add them together.

Well, my profession is accounting so...

Unsatisfied 35
I Will Dare 29
Favourite Thing 28
Answering Machine 24
Androgynous 14
Sixteen Blue 10
We're Coming Out 8
Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out 6
Black Diamond 6
Gary's Got A Boner 4
Seen Your Video 4

Every time I get to Androgynous in the list as I go down, I think "wait! that song got short shrift" and then I look at the ones before it and think "oh yeah, that's why" LOL

No way to be androgynous and not unsatisfied.

Well, in this context.

Really incredible album if something as lovely as "Sixteen Blue" is the sixth-best song