Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Who Needs Love (Like That) |
7 |
8% |
 |
| Reunion |
4 |
5% |
|
| Cry So Easy |
2 |
1% |
|
| Push Me Shove Me |
4 |
5% |
|
| Heavenly Action |
3 |
3% |
|
| Say What |
0 |
0% |
|
| Love Is A Loser |
11 |
13% |
|
| Senseless |
7 |
8% |
|
| My Heart...So Blue |
10 |
11% |
|
| Oh L'amour |
32 |
37% |
|
| Pistol |
0 |
0% |
|
| March On Down The Line |
1 |
1% |
|
|
Hardly surprising the hugely popular Oh L'amour was a clear
and worthy winner. Love Is a Loser is an unlikely contender
for second place and just saw of the challenge of My Heart...So
Blue with 11 votes. Pistol and Say What didn't
manage a vote between them, but both were excluded from the US version
of Wonderland which might explain why.
Favourite The Circus Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| It Doesn't Have To Be |
3 |
3% |
|
| Hideaway |
16 |
18% |
|
| Don't Dance |
2 |
2% |
|
| If I Could |
3 |
3% |
|
| Sexuality |
3 |
3% |
|
| Victim Of Love |
6 |
7% |
|
| Leave Me To Bleed |
8 |
9% |
|
| Sometimes |
16 |
18% |
|
| The Circus |
15 |
17% |
|
| Spiralling |
13 |
15% |
|
| In The Hall Of The Mountain King |
2 |
2% |
|
|
The ever-popular Hideaway and Erasure's first
and arguably biggest hit Sometimes were joint winners here,
seeing off the album's title track by one vote. It is great to see that
the sublime Spiralling is appreciated by the Erasure
fans too, with this fantastic track getting a healthy 13 votes. How
anyone could rate In The Hall of The Mountain King over Spiralling
is simply incomprehensible. Well, to me anyway.
Favourite The Innocents Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| A Little Respect |
25 |
29% |
|
| Ship Of Fools |
16 |
18% |
|
| Phantom Bride |
10 |
11% |
|
| Chains Of Love |
7 |
8% |
|
| Hallowed Ground |
3 |
3% |
|
| Sixty-Five Thousand |
0 |
0% |
|
| Heart Of Stone |
6 |
7% |
|
| Yahoo! |
3 |
3% |
|
| Imagination |
0 |
0% |
|
| Witch In The Ditch |
4 |
5% |
|
| Weight Of The World |
0 |
0% |
|
| When I Needed You |
11 |
13% |
|
| River Deep, Mountain High |
2 |
2% |
|
|
A Little Respect was a comfortable winner here, but perhaps
most interesting is the fact that three tracks failed to gain a single
vote. No surprises the dreadful Sixty-Five Thousand did not
get voted for, but are Imagination and Weight of The World
that bad? Perhaps this boils down more to the strength of the likes
of A Little Respect and other tracks rather than the weaknesses
of these songs.
Favourite Wild! Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Piano Song - Instrumental |
0 |
0% |
|
| Blue Savannah |
18 |
21% |
|
| Drama! |
18 |
21% |
|
| How Many Times? |
2 |
2% |
|
| Star |
3 |
3% |
|
| La Gloria |
3 |
3% |
|
| You Surround Me |
14 |
16% |
|
| Brother And Sister |
10 |
11% |
|
| 2000 Miles |
1 |
1% |
|
| Crown Of Thorns |
10 |
11% |
|
| Piano Song |
8 |
9% |
|
|
Another tied result with the successful singles of Blue Savannah
and Drama! both gaining over a fifth of the votes each. Once
more a non-vocal track fails to get any votes, this time with Piano
Song -Instrumental being the unappreciated party. Despite being
generally unpopular, the Latino La Gloria did register 3 votes,
as many as the upbeat single Star.
Favourite Chorus Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Chorus |
8 |
9% |
|
| Waiting For The Day |
11 |
13% |
|
| Joan |
3 |
3% |
|
| Breath Of Life |
7 |
8% |
|
| Am I Right? |
12 |
14% |
|
| Love To Hate You |
17 |
20% |
|
| Turns The Love To Anger |
5 |
6% |
|
| Siren Song |
10 |
11% |
|
| Perfect Stranger |
3 |
3% |
|
| Home |
11 |
13% |
|
|
The Dick Tracy reject Love To Hate You was the eventual winner
after a close-fought contest. There is little between those vying for
second spot with Am I Right? just fending off the opposition.
Does the fact things were so close demonstrate the strength of the album
as a whole is high, or instead that there are no standout tracks this
album? I'll leave that judgment up to you.
Favourite I Say I Say I Say Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Take Me Back |
13 |
15% |
|
| I Love Saturday |
13 |
15% |
|
| Man In The Moon |
5 |
6% |
|
| So The Story Goes |
4 |
5% |
|
| Run To The Sun |
6 |
7% |
|
| Always |
26 |
30% |
|
| All Throught The Years |
4 |
5% |
|
| Blues Away |
4 |
5% |
|
| Miracle |
5 |
6% |
|
| Because You're So Sweet |
7 |
8% |
|
|
Not a surprise at all to see
Always is the most popular track
from this album. It is undoubtedly one of
Erasure's
best ever songs and raked in nearly a third of the votes with 26. It's
nice to see how popular the magnificent
Take Me Back is coming
joint second with the almost as excellent
I Love Saturday,
a song that never quite fulfilled its potential in the UK charts peaking
at a lowly #20.
Favourite Erasure Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Intro - I Guess I'm Into Feeling |
0 |
0% |
|
| Rescue Me |
9 |
10% |
|
| Sono Luminus |
12 |
14% |
|
Fingers & Thumbs
(Cold Summer's Day) |
15 |
17% |
|
| Rock Me Gently |
13 |
15% |
|
| Grace |
4 |
5% |
|
| Stay With Me |
8 |
9% |
|
| Love The Way You Do So |
3 |
3% |
|
| Angel |
16 |
18% |
|
| I Love You |
5 |
6% |
|
| A Long Goodbye |
2 |
6% |
|
|
Fiercely competitive, and after the lead changed many times it was
Angel who came out as the shock winner, seeing off
Fingers
& Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day) by a solitary vote. Once you
bypass the eerie opening to
Angel, it is fundamentally a
typical three minute
Erasure song, and so perhaps
to see it come triumphant is not so surprising.
Favourite Cowboy Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Rain |
7 |
8% |
|
| Worlds On Fire |
7 |
8% |
|
| Reach Out |
3 |
3% |
|
| In My Arms |
12 |
14% |
|
| Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me |
17 |
20% |
|
| Precious |
4 |
5% |
|
| Treasure |
8 |
9% |
|
| Boy |
3 |
3% |
|
| How Can I Say |
4 |
5% |
|
| Save Me Darling |
19 |
22% |
|
| Love Affair |
2 |
2% |
|
|
The excellent
Save Me Darling is a worthy winner with over
a fifth of the total vote. I'm surprised that
Don't Say Your
Love Is Killing Me is quite so popular, as I've never held
it in high stead, and am disappointed in the lowly 7 votes received
by
Rain, which is one of my all-time favourite
Erasure
songs. I've also felt
Boy is an undervalued
Erasure
track as seen here with just 3 votes. Each to their own I suppose.
Favourite Loveboat Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Freedom |
19 |
22% |
|
| Where In The World |
4 |
5% |
|
| Crying In The Rain |
5 |
6% |
|
| Perchance To Dream |
6 |
7% |
|
| Alien |
13 |
15% |
|
| Mad As We Are |
1 |
1% |
|
| Here In My Heart |
9 |
10% |
|
| Love Is The Rage |
10 |
11% |
|
| Catch 22 |
7 |
8% |
|
| Moon & The Sky |
8 |
9% |
|
| Surreal |
5 |
6% |
|
|
Freedom was a clear favourite with the fans easily coming
top over
Alien.
Love Is The Rage got some of
the recognition it deserves down in third place but how anyone
could vote for the dire
Mad As We Are is a complete mystery
to me. Thankfully it only got a single, albeit undeserved, vote.
Some might also say that second single
Moon & The Sky
under-performed with only 8 votes.
Favourite Other People's Songs
Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| Solsbury Hill |
64 |
15% |
|
| Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime |
18 |
4% |
|
| Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me) |
64 |
15% |
|
| Everyday |
15 |
4% |
|
| When Will I See You Again |
23 |
5% |
|
| Walking In The Rain |
14 |
3% |
|
| True Love Ways |
18 |
4% |
|
| Ebb Tide |
31 |
7% |
|
| Can't Help Falling In Love |
18 |
4% |
|
| You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' |
70 |
17% |
|
| Goodnight |
72 |
17% |
|
| Video Killed The Radio Star |
16 |
4% |
|
|
A fiercely competitive poll saw the sublime
Goodnight
triumph by just two votes over
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.
The two singles
Solsbury Hill and
Make Me Smile
(Come Up & See Me) were tied in third place. Quite
how the awful
Video Killed The Radio Star got a single
vote is anyone's guess, and to only receive two less votes than
the excellent
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime is simply
scandalous.
Favourite Nightbird Track
Answer |
Votes |
% |
Graph |
| No Doubt |
27 |
7% |
|
| Here I Go Impossible Again |
66 |
17% |
|
Let's Take One More Rocket
To
The Moon |
40 |
10% |
|
| Breathe |
41 |
10% |
|
| I'll Be There |
14 |
4% |
|
| Because Our Love Is Real |
7 |
2% |
|
| Don't Say You Love Me |
41 |
10% |
|
| All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love |
51 |
13% |
|
| I Broke It All In Two |
15 |
4% |
|
| Sweet Surrender |
39 |
10% |
|
| I
Bet You're Mad At Me |
59 |
15% |
|
|
Closely fought for a while, but in the end Here I Go Impossible
Again was victorious ahead of the sublime I Bet You're
Mad At Me. I was always under the impression that All
This Time Still Falling Out Of Love was the fans' favourite
from this album, but it would appear not as this song only
managed third position. The majestic Breathe is under-appreciated,
sharing 4th place with a host of other (inferior) tracks.
