From: m1d4783@tamsun.tamu.edu (michael denison)
Subject: Results: "Most Annoying Dylan" Poll
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:29:13 GMT

Here are the results of the Most Annoying Bob Dylan Songs and Albums Poll.
There were about a dozen responses, and only one song, "Cat's in the Well",
was picked as #1 while not appearing on any body else's list. All other
songs which only appeared on a single person's list are given at the end.

The scoring system I used was: 10 points for #1 down to a single point for
#10. If you only listed 5 songs, I gave them 10-9-8-7-6 points. One person
listed 11 songs, and I gave #10 and #11 both one point. Perhaps I was just
feeling generous. For albums I gave 10-8-6-4-2 points. A few people had the
album _Dylan_ on their lists, even though I don't believe it has ever been
officially released on CD. However, I dutifully counted the votes.

A couple of lingering comments:  What is this song "Belle Isle" which
managed to receive four votes? Also, I found it odd that some songs showed
up only a couple of times but near the top of their respecive lists, while
a few songs showed up a number of times ("Union Sundown"), nearly always
near the bottom of their respecive lists. The results:

 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Annoying Songs: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

                    # Votes
            Points  Received  Annoying Song
            ------  --------  -------------
         #1.  59        8     Clean Cut Kid
         #2.  54        7     If Dogs Run Free
         #3.  46        6     Winterlude
         #4.  45        6     Joey
         #5.  41        5     Man Gave Names to All the Animals
         #6.  40        7     Disease of Conceit
              (tie)     5     Rainy Day Women
         #8.  32        4     Maggie's Farm
         #9.  31        8     Union Sundown
        #10.  28        3     Three Angels
        #11.  25        3     Neighborhood Bully
        #12.  24        4     Belle Isle
        #13.  21        4     With God on our Side
              (tie)     3     Baby Stop Crying
              (tie)     3     Woogie Boogie
              (tie)     3     Ballad in Plain D
        #17.  17        3     Trust Yourself
              17        2     Wiggle Wiggle
        #19.  16        2     Under the Red Sky
              (tie)     2     Death is Not the End
              (tie)     2     Blowin' in the Wind
        #22.  15        2     The Man in Me
        #23.  13        2     Isis
              (tie)     2     Pleging My Time
              (tie)     2     Drifting too Far From Shore
        #26.  11        3     Trouble
        #27.  10        2     All the Tired Horses
              (tie)     1     The Cat's in the Well
        #29.   9        2     I Believe in You
        #30.   5        2     No Time to Think

These are the other songs which only appeared on a single person's list.
They are preceeded by the number of points they received:
 (9) "Covenant Woman", "Lord Protect My Child", "I Wanna Be Your Lover",
     "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", "Masters of War", "Saved",
     "Freight Train Blues"
 (8) "Lenny Bruce", "Father of Night", "Gates of Eden", "Sara", "Oh Sister"
 (7) "Heart of Mine", "Silvio", "Talkin' Hava Nagila Blues", "Buckets O Rain",
     "Under Your Spell", "Something There is About You", "Are You Ready?"
 (6) "I Pity the Poor Immigrant", "Wigwam", "It's Alright Ma"
 (5) "Seeing the Real You at Last", "The Wicked Messenger", "Little Sadie"
 (4) "TV Talkin' Song", "Night After Night"
 (3) "Mozambique", "Handy Dandy", "Don't Fall Apart on me Tonight"
 (2) "Crawl Out Your Window", "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
 (1) "Had A Dream About You", "I Want You"
        
   -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Albums -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

                    points    # of votes     album
                    ------    ----------     -----
               #1.    86          10         Self Portrait
               #2.    54           7         Down in the Groove
                      (tie)        8         Knocked Out Loaded
               #4.    35           5         Saved
               #5.    34           6         New Morning
               #6.    30           4         Dylan and the Dead
                      (tie)        3         Dylan
               #8.    16           3         Empire Burlesque
               #9.    14           3         Nashville Skyline
              #10.    13           2         Under the Red Sky

Others: (Albums which only appeared once on anybody's list, none of which
         were picked as the most annoying.)
                       8           1         The Times They Are A-Changin'
                       8           1         Live at Budokan
                       4           1         Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
                       2           1         The Basement Tapes
                       2           1         Desire
                       2           1         Infidels

Final notes: This project is 99.5% accurate; I might have forgotten to
update the '# of times voted' category for a couple of songs as the ^&$*#!
Sun I must read news on has perpetual load average spikes around 25 which
unhappily leave me locked up and frustrated. However, it would be nice to
see somebody categorize the albums represented by the songs above. ie:
which albums contained the most "annoying songs" on them? I'd have to guess
Empire Burlesque, but don't have time right now to count them up and see.
Also, there was one song, Belle Isle, which I still don't recall. Anyway,
I hope somebody finds these verbose lists interesting besides me. ;)
-- 
 "You know what they say about men with *large* vocabularies...."
michael d. denison                          m1d4783@tamsun.tamu.edu
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