Poll: Best Song From Destroyer's Rubies

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I've always loved the loose, almost bluesy 70s sound to this disc, and the sly references to other rock songs and acts. It's also one of the most consistent rock discs of the decade. What's your favorite song, and why?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Rubies	6
Your Blood	6
Painter in Your Pocket	5
Looters' Follies	5
Watercolours into the Ocean	3
European Oils	2
Priest's Knees	0
A Dangerous Woman Up to a Point	0
3000 Flowers	0
Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever	0

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 27 September 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago)

Your Blood

― extremely demanding on the hardware (ciderpress), Sunday, 27 September 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago)

My favorite is an unlikely choice, I think: Watercolors Into The Ocean.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 27 September 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

oh and my reason why: it's the catchiest, that's all

Sick Priest is a close #2 i think

― extremely demanding on the hardware (ciderpress), Sunday, 27 September 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

There's this "falling downhill" quality to the curling guitar notes in Watercolors that I love.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 27 September 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago)

European Oils because driving around at night and "THE FUCKING MANIAC"

― een, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:22 (fifteen years ago)

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

"painter in your pocket" beating out "watercolours" - gonna play this out soon - much luv

― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:45 (fifteen years ago)

Painter In Yr Pocket.

― Simon H., Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:52 (fifteen years ago)

title track yo.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 27 September 2009 07:18 (fifteen years ago)

This line, from this morning's ranking of Destroyer's Rubies as P2k's No. 158 best disc of the decade (ranked too low imo, but whatevs.), nicely captures the essence of the disc: "the shaggy jazz and folk-rock, the coy glam posturing, and the swatches of lives cast in abstruse metaphors."

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 September 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago)

title track, yes.

― cutty, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Looter's Follies is the strongest track on this album.
esp. from it's 2nd part - the la,la,la...coda till the end.

― Zeno, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

Between title track and painter in your pocket for me. Wicked album.

― Moka, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

painter in your pocket for the "... hoo" followed by that bendy guitar line

― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 8 October 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

"Bendy" is a great way to describe that guitar line.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 October 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

Between title track and painter in your pocket for me. Wicked album.

― Moka, Thursday, October 8, 2009 6:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

but went with rubies

― rent, Friday, 9 October 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago)

"Rubies." Love love the part where Bejar sings: "Dock of the BAY" and then the electric guitar line kicks in.

― kshighway1, Friday, 9 October 2009 05:38 (fifteen years ago)

European Oils because driving around at night and "THE FUCKING MANIAC"

― een, Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:22 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i saw him do a solo acoustic set last saturday in a church, and like half the audience laughed when he sang this part, and my girlfriend said "wow."

― samosa gibreel, Friday, 9 October 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

this taps into the same nerve that albums like songs of leonard cohen hit in me. contemplative warm shit you can listen to for hours.

― samosa gibreel, Friday, 9 October 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Friday, 9 October 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Between title track and painter in your pocket for me. Wicked album.

― Moka, Thursday, October 8, 2009 6:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

but went with rubies

― rent

Well... it's longer and you can't have enough of a good thing. How did you knew I picked Rubies?

― Moka, Saturday, 10 October 2009 06:58 (fifteen years ago)

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