The perfect Elbow song?

Need your help, guys! I post a playlist on my MySpace page, and I change it up regularly. I ususally do a theme (bands w/animals in their names; cover versions, etc.) and I am putting a new list together now which I am calling "Perfect Tens". Basically, any song which is as good as it gets. I always try to fit Elbow in and I would love your input on which song(s) to include. If there's no clear consensus I will add more than one. I know it's tough, but what would you consider the ultimate, perfect Elbow song?

I personally really like One Day Like This

Asleep In The Back.

Absolutely.

Fugitive Motel

But I could add Newborn, Station Approach and One Day Like This all to easily.


I think you may get almost as many answers as there are members of this 'ere forum.

Newborn all the way for me

switching off.

Station Approach.

I say Great Expectations, without a doubt. Looks like we got some heavy diversity going on here.

MagicalTrevor wrote:

Newborn all the way for me

What he said!

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MagicalTrevor wrote:
Newborn all the way for me

What he said!

Seconded (or thirded or whatever)

Newborn. Because it shows all sides of Elbow, the folksy soft side and the noisy side...

Impossible again, I think it depends on my mood,
I actually really like My Very Best which no-one else has mentioned.

I agree with Fugitive Motel, Switching off, Newborn

Almost the whole of SSK too... Arggghhhhhhhhhh , they have loads of perfect songs.

'Kay, so we are basically all over the place with this one, although Newborn has pulled into the lead. I'll give it another day and see where we end up. Thanks for all the input though guys, or as we say here in South Florida, muchas grassyass!

Following on from Chrissie's thread, here's a poll for the perfect Elbow song.

Hmm, a poll. Good Idea. I think Newborn will probably win tho.

JulieinTX wrote:

Station Approach.

mine, too
Love the song...Very special one for me...

MagicalTrevor wrote:

Following on from Chrissie's thread, here's a poll for the perfect Elbow song.

Aaah, lovely! I hadn't set this thread up as a poll to begin with because I didn't want to limit the choices, but now we've got some replies this works much better. Thanks MT!

Those are probably the 'classics', eh Too early for songs off the newy to be classics I reckon... but I have a feeling in 2 years time I'll be reverring the eternal greatness of Some Riot...

My favourite is 'Everthere', but I think I'm in a minority.

Hello, by the way.

(Worst first post ever.)

Voted for 'Great Expectations' in the end... don't know if it's my all-time favourite but I think it's the Elbowiest Elbow song there is, if that makes sense.

I can agree, even though I voted One Day Like This. Great expectations is my 2nd fave.

I think the line between 'perfect Elbow song' and 'your favourite Elbow song' has been blurred in this thread...

Mmmmm, looks like it. Oh well, at least now we can get a good medium between the Perfect and Favourite Elbow songs.

jonny wrote:

I think the line between 'perfect Elbow song' and 'your favourite Elbow song' has been blurred in this thread...

Yeah, sorry, you are right, my fault for making it a poll.

Well Newborn is one of my (many) personal favourites, but also IMO has everything anyone could ever wantt from an Elbow song and more.