Poll: TMBG's "Apollo 18" - Side 1

My favorite TMBG album!

Can we have either an "ignore poll" option or a None of the Above option? I have no clue about any of TMBG's albums and don't want to skew the results, but I also don't want to see these polls every time I look at the page.

It's in the works.

how are you going to handle side 2? 'fingertips' or 'everything is catching on fire', 'banjo fingertips', etc....

Fingertips will be the one option as a whole.

I line up fairly well with most of the general TMBG fan opinions, but I've never quite understood the fascination with "Statue". For some reason, I really dislike that song, and find it strange that I live in a universe where it's tied with "I Palindrome I".

see, for me the choice was really hard between statue and spider.

I can't fathom how spider is fairing so poorly.

I used to be really into Spider (and Hall of Heads, for some reason). Never more than Statue or Palindrome, but I thought it was a fun little song. But that's really all it was. It's 45 seconds long. Not a lot to work with, you know?

I think it's only doing 'poorly', though, because of the way the poll is constructed. If it weren't for Statue and Palindrome, Spider might get a few more votes, but I suspect that its votes are otherwise split between those, and even without one of them, many people would pick Mammal or Dinner Bell as a close second.

Put Spider up against most of The Spine and it might have a chance. :)

Am I an oddity in that I really like The Spine?

I like some songs on "The Spine", like ''Experimental Film', 'Bastard Wants to Hit Me', and Prevenge', which got me into TMBG.

My guess is that several folks voted for it because of the mention on Live Noise.

that'd be... scary? weird?

No, totally expected and typical human nature.

well, that pretty much clinches it... I'm not human.

But as a result of the tie, Palindrome will be an automatic participant in the wild card round.

I am scoring each of these polls by means of # of votes x % of votes x 100.  In this case, both Palindrome and Statue posted scores of 280 (8 votes x 35% x 100).  All non-poll winning songs involved in tie-breakers will be involved in the wild card round.  The remaining slots in the 10-slot wild card poll will be filled in by the highest scoring non-winning songs.

All scores will determine seeding in the playoffs.