"Poll Simon" - The "There Goes Rhymin Simon" Poll

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Was about to name it "There Goes Pollin' Simon", but try to avoid poll titles that mean the search function doesn't work.
Alternative title was also "When I think back on all the crappy poll titles we used to come up with" ;)

But a great album nevertheless.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
American Tune	10
Kodachrome	9
Something So Right	4
Loves Me Like a Rock	2
Take Me to the Mardi Gras	1
St. Judy's Comet	1
One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor	0
Tenderness	0
Was a Sunny Day	0
Learn How to Fall	0

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 3 August 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

And this is seriously hard. So many great tracks here. Voting for "Something So Right", but also love "American Tune", "Take Me To The Mardi Gras" and "Something So Right".

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 3 August 2009 02:53 (sixteen years ago)

"Kodachrome."

― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:58 (sixteen years ago)

"American Tune" is fantastic though.

― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:58 (sixteen years ago)

voted "american tune," but of the less-obvious favorites i have a big soft spot for "was a sunny day."

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 3 August 2009 03:41 (sixteen years ago)

Something So Right....but wasn't an easy choice

― Cyberdune Butt (Elvin Wayburn Phillips), Monday, 3 August 2009 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

This is a really nice record. Sentimentally leaning towards "Was A Sunny Day," as my mother used to insist that either I or my brother, as a small kid, sang along about "all the people passing pies." But it's "St. Judy's Comet" that pops into my head more often, and I really like that song.

'Cause if I can't sing my boy to sleep,
well it makes your famous daddy look so dumb.

Awww!

Crap cover art though.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

In '86 USA Today ran a semi-serious op-ed piece floating the idea of a new national anthem. They suggested several rock-era songs as candidates -- S&G's 'America' was on the list, but I thought 'American Tune' was a much better idea.

― Jeff Wright, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:12 (sixteen years ago)

Actually "American Tune" was written very much the same way a lot of European National anthems were. You take an already existing classical work (in this case, a carol composed by Bach) and write a modern lyric, obviously about your country, to it.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

cover art is atrocious

gotta go with Kodachrome tho

― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

American Tune is amazing - Grady Tate! and the bit where the strings come in on 'And I dreamed I was dying'

― sonofstan, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

always have a place for Paul Simon

― Cyberdune Butt (Elvin Wayburn Phillips), Saturday, 8 August 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

the cover is so bad it's like "was there a contest involved?"

― OCONDOR (Pt.1), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 06:14 (fifteen years ago)

the five winning designs were cut and pasted together

― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Voting "American Tune". I also love "Something so Right" but the mid-paced tempo and shuffly feel seem wrong for it, somehow -- I actually prefer the Annie Lennox cover. [Fine, bring on the Suggest Bans!]

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago)

Kodachrome

― Dan Landings, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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