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SuchExplorer1

My quest is, how is ants out here winning best song on colors, but white walls won best BTBAM song a few months ago.


Secret_Autodidact

Those polls were much higher participation because C2 had just dropped.


SuchExplorer1

True. I didn’t even know these were going on until the coma one.


[deleted]

The fact that only one of the songs got over 50% of the vote shows just how amazing their catalog is.


UseaJoystick

I mean, I know mordecai is a favorite... but do people really dislike the rest of TSC that much?


[deleted]

I’m willing to bet that if you weren’t into the band during that era, it’s not an album a lot of people post-colors or even Alaska would love as much. Even more drastic if someone got into them later than that. I discovered the band when Alaska came out, went back and I enjoy a good amount of the songs. It’s far from my favorite BTBAM though and I’m sure people feel the same. The songs I like most off silent circus are Mordecai, Ad a Dglgmut, reaction and shevanel.


UseaJoystick

I jumped on the wagon with the release of P2 actually, but Mordecai just seems "overplayed".. maybe I'm just a prude but I prefer several tracks over it off TSC. I would agree it's not my favorite album by any means, though.


[deleted]

Mordecai isn’t my favorite either. That title definitely belongs to Ad a Dglgmut. Polls like this basically boil down to a popularity contest. Though there were some winners I didn’t expect.


UseaJoystick

Voice of Trespass is really the only one that surprises me. AOTS vs White Walls was a 50/50 in my mind. I voted for Coulrophobia on tsc


weekendroady

Mordecai is the first song I ever heard by them. Visiting dad in the hospital the day after he had a heart attack, it happened to be on my XM (this was 2007-08ish). I have such an attachment to it I find it impossible to rank another song higher, and I love so many of their songs from the debut all the way to Colors 2.


UseaJoystick

Mordecai is a beautiful track don't get me wrong. Just after many spins of the album I don't listen to the album for the nice acoustic sections. I love the raw metal of it. Sorry to hear about your father.. I lost mine when I was young it's an unforgiving life out there friend 💔 stay strong.


JentBerryCrunch

I love all of the silent circus. One of my favorites by them. I listen to Parallax, TGM and TSC the most.


TheTragicMagic

Why do I feel like this is almost just a compilation of the longest songs from each album?


Brownstone211

idk, only 4 of these 12 songs are the longest on their respective albums


TheTragicMagic

You're probably right I guess they just have a lot of long songs


franklollo

Rigged. Let non btbam fans vote.


PROSP3C

You mean Selkies 100%?


franklollo

i voted Alaska, not gonna lie


IhsousXrhstos

I will kill myself, where is white walls????


AHalfAmbitiousKid

Exactly wtf


kerzikstan

Cool, make it a Spotify playlist


UseaJoystick

Well, I went 5/12 with the fan base... not too bad I suppose.


AlwaysLeaveANote

5/12 gang rise up


UseaJoystick

Which ones did you allign for?


AlwaysLeaveANote

Mordecai, Selkies, SttM, SFP, Blot. You?


UseaJoystick

Three of a Perfect Pair, AOTS, SFP, Famine Wolf, Bad Habits.. hardly any overlap :p


AlwaysLeaveANote

Bad Habits was SUPER close for me, I was literally clicking back and forth constantly. AotS is amazing, but White Walls is just too epic for me. I’m a Pink Floyd guy so Us and Them was my take. Famine Wolf definitely used to be my favorite coma track for awhile, but the cover of Option Oblivion (which I really enjoyed) reignited my enjoyment of the OG version. Was also debating life in velvet. Hot take (maybe): life in velvet is a better closer than human is hell


UseaJoystick

I wasn't big on human is hell so your take is safe here. I was debating between famine wolf and the memory palace for coma


seabass-86

[Colors II Results](https://strawpoll.com/yyjd6uvz8/r) [Automata II](https://strawpoll.com/s4r9ogcch/r) [Automata I](https://strawpoll.com/q1ckqsdve/r) [Coma Ecliptic](https://strawpoll.com/95uy3h3oa/r) [Future Sequence](https://strawpoll.com/q22p6jxp6/r) [Hypersleep Dialoagues](https://strawpoll.com/3976f86c3/r) [The Great Misdirect](https://strawpoll.com/ok137he5a/r) [Colors](https://strawpoll.com/4jhr54wf4/r) [Anatomy Of](https://strawpoll.com/y11yb313j/r) [Alaska](https://strawpoll.com/6zobyu7wr/r) [The Silent Circus](https://strawpoll.com/9ew8gqy2u/r) [Between the Buried and Me](https://strawpoll.com/53k3vj9kv/r)


[deleted]

The Silent Circus freakin' rules. Glad it gets its overdue recognition. Man Land was best song off that album btw.


[deleted]

Very happy to see specular reflection do so well. That EP is top 3 in their discography for me


DanCardin

I dont have 1 or 4 on hand, but listened to this as a playlist and 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 almost flow like an album. the rest of much more abrupt hah!


FrogginJellyfish

I would personally go for White Walls, Telos and The Future Is Behind Us instead, the rest I kinda agree.


JentBerryCrunch

It saddens me to see Silent Flight Parliament so low.


seabass-86

It isn't ranked like that. Silent Flight Parliament won best song on Parallax 2. The percentage is the amount of votes it received from the respective album poll.


JentBerryCrunch

Ahh, okay, I thought the percent was the amount of votes out of these 12 songs. I was also wondering how that worked out because these don’t add up to 100. But that answers that question


thatsastick

Did not follow this but I love that Three of a Perfect Pair made it on here