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Poll Question: Favorite song on "The Crane Wife" by The Decemberists?
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    Posted: June 09 2010 at 03:21
Originally posted by Scrub Scrub wrote:

I went for The Island.  One of my favorite songs.  The only BAD song on the album in my opinion is "The Perfect Crime."

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, it was the perfect CRIME!

Am I the only one that gets annoyed by that?


Same here LOL Although O Valencia! is a bit of a bore too...
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The Island for sure. Shortly followed by the Crane Wife 3 and The Shankill Butchers
A song I wrote, please listen!
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^^My wife's favorite, but she ain't voting.
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Since "The Island" will get enough votes, I went with the album's closer.
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Originally posted by Scrub Scrub wrote:

I went for The Island.  One of my favorite songs.  The only BAD song on the album in my opinion is "The Perfect Crime."

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, it was the perfect CRIME!

Am I the only one that gets annoyed by that?


I assure you that you are not the only one, but I find the album as a whole a lot less consistent than most people. The ratio of good to bad songs (to my ears) is about 1:1.

My vote goes to "O Valencia!"
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The Island is a classic Decemberists song so it gets my vote, Shankill Butchers is my second choice
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...


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What the hell's going on here?  Is there some strange conjoining or alignment of planets or other orbs?  My wife insisted, I mean insisted, that I play The Crane Wife yesterday.  And so we listened.  I love The Island.  I love the Crane Wife triptych.  But more than all I like Summersong.  I could, and sometimes do, listen to it all day.
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I went for The Island.  One of my favorite songs.  The only BAD song on the album in my opinion is "The Perfect Crime."

It was the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, the perfect, it was the perfect CRIME!

Am I the only one that gets annoyed by that?
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I have not heard this
 
any tunes online i can listen to????????
 
very interesting


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3np9rcdFvsE

I would highly recommend picking up the album; actually, all five of their albums.
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I was just thinking someone should do this as a poll just yesterday.  Shocked

I love the entire thing- probably my favorite album from this wonderful and thoughtful band.

I have a soft spot for "Yankee Bayonet."  Embarrassed
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I have not heard this
 
any tunes online i can listen to????????
 
very interesting


The album is sort of folkish indie alt with prog leanings. It's definitely worth a listen.

Off the poll, I'd say, The Island.
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I have not heard this
 
any tunes online i can listen to????????
 
very interesting
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Not a bad one in the bunch, and some nice diversity of songs.  The Island has its power and grandeur, but there are parts of Crane Wife 1 & 2 which send chills down my spine - and that doesn't happen very often, so that got my vote.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Points: 65766 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2010 at 00:18
I'm sure Whistler will post here if he sees it
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Man it is a great album, very consistent. And Shankill Butchers is always great to sing along to. But I went with The Island
'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan
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Favorite song on "The Crane Wife" by The Decemberists?
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