Poll At Your Feet - the "Woodface" Poll

"Four Seasons In One Day" is IMO the best song Neil Finn has ever written, so that one is pretty much hard to escape here.

"Weather With You" towers high on this very good album.

Walking 'round the room singin' Stormy Weather
at 57 Mount Pleasant Street

Voted for "It's Only Natural."

obviously "Don't Dream It's Over" would walk the first one

O RLY?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXArBZItqGc

"She Goes On" is pretty much a perfect song. So are "It's Only Natural," "Fall at Your Feet," "Whispers and Moans...."

This album has my favorite Mitchell Froom production; it's got a smokey fireplace-and-pine-trees vibe matched by the songs. The only dud is "Chocolate Cake," which goes on the short list of albums whose worst song is the first.

Not that much of a fan of "Chocolate Cake" myself, but it starts with some brilliant lyrics at least.

Not everyone in New York would pay to see Andrew Lloyd Webber
May his trousers fall down as he bows to the queen and the king

The lyrics are the worst part! Besides, the Finns didn't have the kinds of voices suited for Costello snark.

4 seasons

^^ melbourne-centric bullshit

EVERYWHERE YOU GO ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER

I yelled out for "Italian Plastic" at one of the shows last year. No response. Someone coughed.

had to vote for "Four Seasons" just because it's the one that gets stuck in my head the most. and lord knows t does get stuck in my head. often.

"smiling as the shit comes down/you can tell a man from what he has to say" is one of my favorite lines to sing along with

4 seasons in one day is kind of a perfect song, so that

"It's grim down south"

(bonus point for..)

I think I'll vote for Fall At Your Feet, which I love, although the piano riff at the very end annoys me because it sounds just like "Who Loves You" by Frankie Valli.

i don't think the finns think too much of chocolate cake either, even though it was probably their second biggest hit, they left it off the greatest hits album.

"Fall at Your Feet" just edges out "It's Only Natural" for me.

I have to think about this some, but my first inclination is As Sure As I Am, because it's got a kind of hopeful, redemptive feel that I am a total sucker for, plus I think the line "I want everything you throw out" is so sweet and simple.

But then I also have a real soft spot for She Goes On and Four Seasons in One Day and Fall at Your Feet...

(So happy about this poll, btw. I catch some flack for being a big Crowded House fan and sometimes it gets lonely.)

"It's grim down south"

(bonus point for..)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:08 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

When Crowded House were on Top of the Pops, following the Justified Ancients of MuMu doing "It's Grim up north", they introduced "Fall at your feet" with "It's Grim down south!"

I think the last time we did this poll I voted for "It's Only Natural" - so this time I'm voting for "Whispers and Moans".

So many fantastic tracks on there. I absolutely love this record. Played the fuck out of this when it came out (as did my husband).

The "Woodface" poll!

note that I am consistent

Strangely I didn't find that one when I searched for "woodface". Found no threads at all actually.

Yeah, same thing happened to me - but I knew it was there somewhere, so I tried again, this time searching for words in the posts rather than thread titles, and then I found it.

obviously "Don't Dream It's Over" would walk the first one

whut, "Something So Strong" crushes it like a lite-rock Hulk

'Four Seasons In One Day' is pretty much the perfect piece of songwriting and a really beautiful recording. I learned more about how songs work from listening to that than any other tune I think. I've written a lengthy eulogy for it elsewhere on the boards, so I won't repeat myself - but it gets my vote, obviously.

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Whispers and Moans i'd say.

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