Interactve Poll: Let RateYourMusic choose the song

Choose the track I mean, it does not have to be a "song" -- the word "track" had one two many characters to fit in the topic line as is.

RateYourMusic has a feature which various self-respecting album oriented Proggers might dislike, which is a top songs list feature with rankings and ratings of an artists/bands tracks. Now I am an album person, but i also like to focus on individual tracks and sharing tracks can have some benefits over sharing full albums -- like less time to check out the music.

I thought it might be fun to list the top rated track at Rate Your Music of a current (one you are very into now) favourite act of yours, and provide a listening link or embed of it please for a new Interactive Poll.

It's simple, just search for a favourite act of yours here https://rateyourmusic.com/ and then see a panel for Songs on the left side, then click on See artist song chart below the initial list of songs and choose the top song from that list. The page should say "Top [insert name here] songs of all time". Please provide the link to the page as well, including the song name and rating, and an embed if possible of the track itself.

I have been hugely into Sufjan Stevens over the past months, and while I likely would choose "Impossible Soul" as my very favourite (off Age of Adz) because it is over 25 minutes long for a one track desert island pick, I also love the top track (the number two ranked might be my choice of its album, but I love the whole Illinois album).

Here is Sufjan Stevens page at rateyourmusic: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/sufjan-stevens
And here is the relevant songs chart page for him: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:sufjan%2dstevens/

The number one Sufjan Stevens song at RYM is "Chicago" with a 4.63 rating.



Do this for as many artists as you like, maybe in a week or even two, we can decide on our nominations. How many we each might add to the poll will depend on the number of participants. Later on we might decide if we want to limit the length of songs because the first part of this is the nominations round and then the next part is voting where we are expected to listen through all of the choices in the poll and then choose three of them.

So this is the mention stage, then the official nominations stage, then the voting stage. Remember to check what is the top-rated songs at RYM for the act of your choice to be included and provide link to that page. Thanks.

God, managed to stay away completely away from the news for some days, what an absolute gong show... But this is a no politics zone I must remind myself.

Speaking of Gong... Actually no, doing Swans.

Rate Your Music's number one track for Swans is "Helpless Child" (off Soundtracks for the Blind, 1996) with a 4.73 rating. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:swans/ That's a fine choice for me and maybe was the first Swans track that I loved.



Edited by Logan - Yesterday at 12:28

^ I did not know that; it is superb! Thanks.

I was going to do a lesser-known one now and then decided to cover an act that I have often mentioned at PA over the past few years. It has been very important to me. That my choices thus far have been well known, especially to those who know my tastes, is okay with me. The act is the Scottish Boards of Canada. My favourite Boards of Canada album is Music Has the Right to Children from 1998. If I were to choose just one track off that, then it would be "Aquarius" at number eight. The number one BoC track at RateYourMusic is "Roygbiv" which I also really like but works less well outside of the context of the album, I feel. It's short.
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https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:boards%2dof%2dcanada/



Edited by Logan - 21 hours 5 minutes ago at 19:37

^ Hadn't heard it, I really love that, thanks, Cristi!

Only posting the url in case others miss the brief, which of course you did not, and forget that that RYM song chart chooses the selection. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:the%5famazing%5ff1/

Here's one from a band that I often talk about, although I'd rather just focus on The Amazing. It's a humbling experi4ence often in a way in these things, like to hear your and Lewian's great music selections, and it makes me feel like what I've been listening to is not so amazing. Another way to think about it is that there is so much amazing music out there for so many tastes to discover and maybe not to put things on too high a pedestal sometimes as the ultimate shizz as some are wont to do. But as segue, that The Amazing lives up to its name for me. I have a new obsession. :)

In this case, it's like both of your choices were made specifically for me. And that The Amazing is as representative as anything of what I so very much love and want to listen to now. Wow.

Anyway, I slightly deflatedly (rather like a too soft beach ball, a clue there) shall mention a track from another band that I have been listening to an awful lot over the past two years, and have again mentioned many times at the forum, which is Beach House. It's one my eldest likes music by because a couple of its songs were prominently used by various Tik Tokkers. RYM's top song is "Myth" -- I do love this. It's off 2012's Bloom, which is my favourite Beach house album and I have listed as my number one album of that year. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:beach%2dhouse/




Incidentally, I originally wasn't going to this RYM top songs of acts we like topic idea as an Interactive poll.

^ Thanks so much, George. I also love that with its jazzy folk and ethnic sounds. And and am happy to support music from the Ukraine. It did give me some Charming Hostess vibes.