Interactve Poll: Let RateYourMusic choose the song

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill ( A Deal With God)

The problem with this topic is, what if I'd like to play somebody, but I don't like the rym-picked song that much?

Edited by Lewian - March 08 2025 at 11:45

Brass Against did cover the top ranked Rage Against the Machine song, "Killing in the Name Of."

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:rage%2dagainst%2dthe%2dmachine/

Been listening to some PJ Harvey lately. Got into her to first few albums back in the 90s and didn't continue in the 2000s

Top song on RYM is "A Perfect Day Eliae" and one my favorites.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:pj%2dharvey/

Now I feel like Doing Richard Dawson (not the Family Feud guy who played Killian in The Running Man -- loved that character) but the English Avant-Folk/ Progressive Folk artist. I have enjoyed several of his albums very much, especially The Ruby Chord (2022), Peasant (2017), Henki with Circle (2021) and 2020 from (2019), and his End of the Middle released last month is one of only three albums from this year that I have listened to in full thus far. I have not given it enough time in the right setting yet.

The number one song at https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:richard%2ddawson/ with a 4.39 and 476 is "Ogre" and I do love this, and it is one where I also appreciate the music video. I do think that would be my number one choice for this poll. "The Hermit" which is second on that list off The Ruby Chord is a monster opening track at 41 minutes, and I love it. Bit long for suggesting for an Interactive Poll methinks. Here is "Ogre" which I have shared in another tropic before.



Love it.

There is a list of songs on the front page of the artist/band page at RYM but also a link on that page under those Songs called See artist song chart, that leads you to "Top Rush songs of all time" and it is from that chart that I wish to use the top result.

For ELP it still is "Tarkus" https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:emerson%2dlake%2dand%2dpalmer/

For IQ is still is "Sacred Sound" https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:iq/

But for Rush it becomes "Spirit of the Radio" with a 4.49. https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:rush/
Maybe my favourite, "Subdivisions", is in second place with a 4.49.
"Tom Sawyer" there is in third place with 4.44.

There are some changes to the algorithm and I prefer to use the "Top [whoever] songs of all time" lists overall.

So instead of this: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/rush
I want to use this: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:rush/

IQ - Sacred Sound

Thanks for the entries. The Sieges Even is a good album; listened to it years ago. I enjoyed that Rage Against the Machine cover; good one to play when I find myself in some alternate virtual reality (instead of the usual Matrix).

One local, as in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, act that I quite recently have been playing is Destroyer. I got into it first not very long ago with the album Destroyer's Rubies from 2006, and earlier today I decided to play 2015's Destroyer Season. I looked up the rateyourmusic song chart, https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/a:destroyer/ , and the top two songs are "Kaputt" (2011) described as sophisti-pop off the same-named album, and "Rubies" off Destroyer's Rubies which is Indie Rock and probably my favourite Destroyer track of what quite little I know.

I had not heard "Kaputt" before, at least that I recall, and just played it. Quite the music video.

Some more songs, that were not predictable popular choices

Okay, another from me, no limits there although I do prefer one per post. and sorry for the long, boring post, easy to skip, but it's helping to put some things in context and place for me (writing can help me to put and fit my thoughts together and remember some things that are meaningful to me. I should do a blog or have a diary).

One band that has got huge playtime from me since 2019 is Stereolab. I have done Stereolab in past Interactive Polls.

I really got into Stereolab and Portishead and a lot of 90s music due to a radio program called Blue Jam which had been put up as a podcast. It is a surreal and often very dark comedy sketch program that has songs as an integral component to the format (so a music/comedy program). The two complement each-other. You will have a sketch, and then a Bjork song plays. It creates more of a "boozy woozy atmosphere". I already was a big fan of Chris Morris for things like the TV series The Day Today and Brasseye (Phil Collins was featured in it to his chagrin), as well as his comedic take on terrorism with Four Lions.

I learned about Blue Jam (well actually, I had looked for it years before but it renewed my interest) thanks to a favourite podcast called The Rule of Three which hasd people who worked in comedy talking aboiut comedy. One person's topic was Blue Jam, and I grew to adore Blue Jam and the music/songs it played. Stereolab was represented with the songs "Cybele's Reverie" and "The Flower Called Nowhere" both of which made a huge impression on me and both of which songs rate highly at rateyourmusic. And I adore the albums those come from.

The number one song at rateyourmusic is "Cybele's Reverie", which is the first Stereolab song I really loved, it is played in the first episode of Blue Jam, and it remains my sentimental favourite.

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



Despite being one of my favourite songs I got into over the past ten years, that is the first time I have seen the official video.