Interactve Poll: Let RateYourMusic choose the song

Siouxsie and The Banshees has been one of the most significant acts to me over the past few years. The number one track choice in the "Top Siouxsie and The Banshees songs of all time" chart is "Cities in Dust" (off the album Tinderbox) with a 4.54 rating and 661 ratings. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:siouxsie%2dand%2dthe%2dbanshees/



On a general note: feel free to mention choices even if you don't plan to participate in the actual nominating, listening and voting part of the process.

Again, to mention ones please visit the artist page at rateyourmusic. As an example, The Monkees: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the-monkees

Then look to "Songs" on the left-hand side of the page. Instead of automatically choosing the top song you see there (in The Monkees case it is "I'm a Believer" under Songs), scroll down to the end of the "Songs" list and under it you will find a "See artist song chart" hyperlink that take you to the, in the case of The Monkees, "Top Monkees songs of all time". Here is that link: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:the%2dmonkees/

There the top song listed is "Daydream Believer" and that should be the choice for The Monkees.

One quick way to navigate to the song chart is to copy and paste this url in your browser's address bar, bookmark if looking up many, https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a: ,and then manually type in the name of the band or artist after a: (the a: asks for artists name).

Please try to provide a youtube video or other listening link to go with your track. I guess if you think it's super well-known it's not as useful.

Yo manually add a video from youtube is easy. Search youtube for the track, then copy the unique identifier (letters, numbers) in the url after v= in the youtube url. Using that... Banshees example, the full url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOHvP1XnRg but it is only wsOHvP1XnRg that you need to copy. Then add tube tags around it. I am using spaces to break the embed, but without spaces it works. By quoting posts with such BBcode you can see how it works.

[tube ]wsOHvP1XnRg[ /tube]

Saw the Brass Against show that I referenced earlier and it was fantastic. Some great covers of Rage Against the Machine, Tool, and others. Thought I would check on the bands covered.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:tool/

Parabola is a great song but not one of the ones covered. "Forty-Six and 2", "stinkfist", and "The Pot" were. Ranked 4, 5, and 10 on RYM.

^ Nice to see PJ Harvey mentioned even if that is not one of preferred songs by her. I have been very into music of hers for some years, with Let England Shake and White Chalk being the album I have played the most.

Just to mention one of my favourites, and as there has been talk of Canada becoming the 51st state...

^ That potential problem is one of the things I thought would be most interesting about the topic. For instance, I love music by PJ Harvey, but I'm not keen on the RYM top song. I'm happy for people to share both what they like as well as the RYM pick. That contrast is interesting to me. When it comes to the actual nominations, then we might want to suggest the RYM picks we actually like.

Originally I did not conceive of this is an Interactive Poll topic and was going to ask for people to share their favourite song and the RYM song choice.   

Actually, I now favour nominating both of those (RYMs fave and your fave), unless your fave is RYMs fave (or once mention one's second fave then), then let others decide to vote on which they prefer. I do like those kinds of duos, although this time I would give each track its own space (poll option).

Logan wrote: Siouxsie and The Banshees has been one of the most significant acts to me over the past few years. The number one track choice in the "Top Siouxsie and The Banshees songs of all time" chart is "Cities in Dust" (off the album Tinderbox) with a 4.54 rating and 661 ratings. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:siouxsie%2dand%2dthe%2dbanshees/