Your top 10 Elbow songs?

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sat 28 May 2011, 00:20

Aww, thanks guys! Was so nice to play out 2 hours of Elbow on the radio! I'd been playing two tracks each week on my normal show, but this was something special. Smile

The full run down, from 1 to 61, was:

1 Scattered Black And Whites
2 Fugitive Motel
3 Grounds For Divorce
4 Newborn
5 Great Expectations
6 Mirrorball
7 The Birds
8 Station Approach
9 One Day Like This
10 Powder Blue
11 The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
12 Switching Off
13 Lippy Kids
14 Leaders Of The Free World
15 Forget Myself
16 Any Day Now
17 Weather To Fly
18 Asleep In The Back
19 Red
20 The Bones Of You
21 Friend Of Ours
22 Starlings
23 Some Riot
24 The Stops
25 Ribcage
26 My Very Best
27 George Lassoes The Moon
28 Grace Under Pressure
29 A Mexican Standoff
30 An Audience With The Pope
31 Jesus Is a Rochdale Girl
32 Dear Friends
33 I've Got Your Number
34 Puncture Repair
35 Coming Second
36 Crawling With Idiot
37 Open Arms
38 Neat Little Rows
39 The Fix
40 Fallen Angel
41 Can't Stop
42 The Everthere
43 Little Beast
44 Whisper Grass
45 An Imagined Affair
46 Picky Bastard
47 McGreggor
48 Buttons And Zips
49 High Ideals
50 The Night Will Always Win
51 Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)
52 Teardrop
53 Not A Job
54 Working Class Hero
55 With Love
56 Bitten By The Tail-fly
57 Lucky With Disease
58 The River
59 Don't Mix Your Drinks
60 Snooks (Progress Report)
61 Running To Stand Still

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sat 28 May 2011, 21:33

I adore The Birds as much as Lippy Kids but was surprised to see it attain a higher place given the extra air-time Lippy Kids had, the band giving us that live version on YouTube.

Disappointed to see Weather to Fly not in the top 10, and Friend of Ours missing out just about the Top 20. Well deserved places though for Great Expectations and Fugitive Motel - wow at its getting to no. 2! 'Tis typical Elbow beauty though, so, unsurprising.

I wanted Loneliness higher too and was surprised by Red coming in at 19. I thought it was more popular than that.

Top 20 album stats:

Build a Rocket Boys and Cast of Thousands - 2 places each.
Leaders - 4 places
Asleep in the Back and Seldom Seen Kid - 6 places each! Very Happy

Asleep in the Back's weighting (aside from its being a very strong piece of work, especially for a debut) comes from the appreciation of die-hard long-time fans I think and Seldom Seen's from the newer fans, the novelty and brilliance these newer fans were experiencing... Leaders was a solid album but not their best, Build a Rocket is still too new to fully behold, and Cast of Thousand's shining beacons were the two songs it hit home with in the top 20....both are divine but the album as a whole was weak and I feel the results reflect this. Ribcage would have been the next best offering from Cast. Great song, so very Elbow, sadly missing out on a top 20 place, but hardly by a long chalk, which is something. Smile

Just my thoughts. Smile

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sun 29 May 2011, 00:35

elbowismymuse wrote:

I... was surprised by Red coming in at 19. I thought it was more popular than that.

It only made the top 20 due to the final voter having it as their favourite, otherwise it was below Friend of Ours.

Of all the Top 20 shows we have done this spring, this was the closest contest - most others had a clear leader - and also the second highest number of votes. I think that high number's due mainly to the forum members, but perhaps Elbow are 3 times more popular than Blur... Wink

Dan

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sun 29 May 2011, 01:06

I didn't expect GFD to get no. 3.
Newborn & Mirrorball are much better songs clearly!

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sun 29 May 2011, 01:15

HattyMarris wrote:

I didn't expect GFD to get no. 3.
Newborn & Mirrorball are much better songs clearly!

Clearly others disagree! Smile

Not me though, my top 10 was:

01:Scattered Black And Whites
02:Mirrorball
03:Powder Blue
04:The Bones Of You
05:Newborn
06:The Birds
07:The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
08:Fugitive Motel
09:Weather To Fly
10:Forget Myself

Dan

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sun 29 May 2011, 20:21

No Hotel Istanbul, Loss, Long War Shuffle or Ticker Tape? That's a shame.

Anyways, were all these songs just the studio versions? Because sometimes the live versions are exceptional--to the point of even topping the studio version. (The live version of Scattered Black and Whites at the Astoria, for instance.)

Sometimes the live versions are very disappointing, too. Like any live version of George Lassoes The Moon where it was loud and shortened and butchered of its piano solo.

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Mon 30 May 2011, 00:16

Just studio versions, but will have to look up the Astoria SB&Ws.

Dan

newborn Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2011-06-18

1.) Our Little Boat
2.) Mirrorball
3.) Scattered Black and Whites
4.) Friends of Ours
5.) An imagined Affair
6.) Great Expectations
7.) Lippy Kids
8.) Bones of You
9.) Dear Friends
10.) Jesus was a Rochdale Girl

Definitely my top ten but then again every song they have is pretty much perfect. And yes Our little boat is my favorite... Amazingly simple and hauntingly beautiful...

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:13

Great choices Puckfair!

newborn Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2011-06-28

Dan Bridge wrote:

Aww, thanks guys! Was so nice to play out 2 hours of Elbow on the radio! I'd been playing two tracks each week on my normal show, but this was something special. Smile

The full run down, from 1 to 61, was:..

1 Scattered Black And Whites
2 Fugitive Motel
3 Grounds For Divorce
4 Newborn
5 Great Expectations
6 Mirrorball
7 The Birds
8 Station Approach
9 One Day Like This
10 Powder Blue
11 The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
12 Switching Off
13 Lippy Kids
14 Leaders Of The Free World
15 Forget Myself
16 Any Day Now
17 Weather To Fly
18 Asleep In The Back
19 Red
20 The Bones Of You
21 Friend Of Ours
22 Starlings
23 Some Riot
24 The Stops
25 Ribcage
26 My Very Best
27 George Lassoes The Moon
28 Grace Under Pressure
29 A Mexican Standoff
30 An Audience With The Pope
31 Jesus Is a Rochdale Girl
32 Dear Friends
33 I've Got Your Number
34 Puncture Repair
35 Coming Second
36 Crawling With Idiot
37 Open Arms
38 Neat Little Rows
39 The Fix
40 Fallen Angel
41 Can't Stop
42 The Everthere
43 Little Beast
44 Whisper Grass
45 An Imagined Affair
46 Picky Bastard
47 McGreggor
48 Buttons And Zips
49 High Ideals
50 The Night Will Always Win
51 Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)
52 Teardrop
53 Not A Job
54 Working Class Hero
55 With Love
56 Bitten By The Tail-fly
57 Lucky With Disease
58 The River
59 Don't Mix Your Drinks
60 Snooks (Progress Report)
61 Running To Stand Still

Vote

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Fri 29 Jul 2011, 23:12

Finally I managed to shorten my "best of the best" list just to 10 songs but I still can't decide in what order they should be.

Well... Let it be smth like this Smile

1. The Bones Of You
2. Grounds For Divorce
3. Great Expectations
4. One Day Like This
5. Hotel Istanbul
6. Powder Blue
7. Fugitive Motel
8. Dear Friends
9. Leaders Of The Free World
10. Weather to Fly

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Sat 06 Aug 2011, 23:05

My favourite Elbow songs (very hard to pick, hard to fault any song) are:

1. The Bones of You
2. Audience with the Pope
2. Newborn
3. Forget Myself
4. Weather to Fly
5. The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
6. Fugitive Motel
7. Mirrorball
8. Powder Blue
9. Leaders of the Free World
10. Scattered Black and Whites

That's just my humble opinion!

Subject: Re: Your top 10 Elbow songs? Fri 09 Sep 2011, 03:18

I would have to say...

1. Great Expectations.
2. Mirrorball.
3. Fugitive Motel.
4. Starlings.
5. Powder Blue.
6. The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver.
7. Newborn.
8. Red.
9. Not A Job.
10. Dear Friends.