Here are the final results of the Quench album poll.
1. The Table (404 points)
2. Your Father & I (394)
3. Look What I Found In My Beer (336)
4. Perfect 10 (327)
5. The Slide (313)
5. Window Shopping For Blinds (313)
7. Lure Of The Sea (298)
8. How Long's A Tear Take To Dry (291)
9. Dumb (269)
10. Big Coin (242)
11. I May Be Ugly (211)
12. Losing Things (175)
13. Pockets (148)
The poll is of 41 LFW members and ranks each track based on 13
points for top place down to 1 for bottom place.
Number of top & bottom placings for each track:
|
Top |
Bottom |
| Table |
10 |
1 |
| Father |
6 |
0 |
| Beer |
7 |
0 |
| Perf 10 |
3 |
1 |
| Slide |
6 |
1 |
| Window |
3 |
0 |
| Lure |
1 |
0 |
| How Long |
0 |
4 |
| Dumb |
1 |
3 |
| Coin |
2 |
5 |
| Ugly |
2 |
11 |
| Losing |
0 |
7 |
| Pockets |
0 |
7 |
Since only five people voted for the B-Sides
(and of course Chris and Joel hadn't heard Suck & Junkman at the time) the most
sensible thing was to eliminate them and adjust their placings accordingly (i.e. any album
track placed below a Bside moved up!)
For the record:
If (34)
Loving Arms (26)
Suck (from 3 votes!) (14)
Junkman (ditto) (12)
So proportionally the Bsides may well have figured higher than
a few album tracks though of course the figures are pretty meaningless.
A few thoughts and observations;
Table and Father were virtually neck-and-neck all the way and
it was pretty much always between those two for top place. The top tracks, naturally
enough, nearly always received high placings while Ugly varied wildly from high to low.
You either love it or hate it.
The showing of Dumb, and perhaps its subsequent chart placing,
would seem to confirm that most considered it a poor choice as a single, and so maybe
sometimes the fans know better than the band/record company.
This may be a strong case for Table, Father, etc. as the next
offerings. Of course, Perfect 10 and to a lesser extent Dumb have been aired so often that
a little fatigue may have affected their showing. It'll be interesting to hear what
conclusions you draw from this. 41 is hardly a huge sample of course and perhaps the
results are not to be taken too seriously, but it represents some 13% of the people of the
list who are presumably the most committed BS followers and I'm betting a larger survey
would produce much the same result. |
