Teenage Fanclub Survey

The Results (Writers)

Favourite Band Member

Recent voting has pushed Norman clearly ahead of the others.

Norman (13)
Gerry (8)
Ray (3)
No one inparticular (6)

In the following categories, the number of individual votes for each song are in brackets. 3pts were given for a song that was voted 1st, 2pts:2nd, 1pt for 3rd. Points totals are in a different shade of green.

Favourite Norman Blake Song

Interestingly (or not), I Don't Want Control Of You achieved it's high position without gaining one 1st place vote.

Neil Jung 23 (10)
Everything Flows 19 (7)
Mellow Doubt 15 (7)
Start Again 11 (5)
I Don't Want Control Of You 11 (6)
The Cabbage 10 (4)
I'll Make It Clear 9 (4)
Alcoholiday 9 (4)
The Concept 7 (4)
If I Never See You Again 6 (4)
Broken 5 (2)
Every Picture I Paint 3 (1)
The Shadows 3 (1)
God Knows It's True 3 (2)
Winter 3 (2)
Metal Baby 3 (2)
Planets (co-wrote) 3 (2)
Straight And Narrow 3 (3)
Accidental Life 2 (1)
Ret Liv Dead 2 (1)
Norman 3 2 (2)
Tears 1
Some People Try To F* With You 1
Dumb Dumb Dumb 1

Favourite Ray McGinley Song

There was never any question which of Ray's songs would be voted "longest title".

Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From 35 (14)
About You 18 (10)
Escher 12 (7)
The Sun Shines From You 12 (7)
Verisimilitude 10 (5)
Happiness 9 (4)
My Uptight Life 7 (6)
Say No 6 (2)
My Life 6 (2)
Thaw Me 6 (2)
Genius Envy 6 (3)
Can't Feel My Soul 4 (2)
Tears Are Cool 3 (1)
That's All I Need To Know 3 (1)
The Count 3 (1)
I Don't Care 3 (1)
I Gotta Know 3 (2)
I Can't Find My Way Home 2 (1)
120 Mins 2 (1)
Middle Of The Road 2 (1)
It's A Bad World 1
Weird Horses 1
For You 1
I Can't Feel My Soul 1

Favourite Gerry Love Song

A pretty close run thing between Don't Look Back (my favourite!), Sparky's Dream and Ain't That Enough.

Sparky's Dream 30 (12)
Don't Look Back 23 (11)
Ain't That Enough 20 (10)
Radio 14 (6)
Discolite 11 (5)
Star Sign 10 (6)
I Need Direction 9 (4)
Going Places 6 (3)
Speed Of Light 6 (3)
Mount Everest 5 (3)
Long Hair 3 (1)
Headstand 3 (1)
Near You 3 (2)
Take The Long Way Round 3 (3)
December 2 (1)
Mad Dog 20/20 2 (1)
Hang On 2 (1)
Guiding Star 2 (1)
On This Good Night 2 (1)
Gene Clark 1
So Far Gone 1
Is This Music? 1

And finally... (for this page)
Well, nothing to do with the survey, but something that turned out in Ray's defence of him having the longest TFC song title.

Norman: 13.1 letters per song title. Longest title: 26 letters, shortest: 5 letters.
Gerry: 11.6 letters per song title. Longest title: 22 letters, shortest 5 letters.
Ray: 11.4 letters per song title. Longest title: 32 letters, shortest 5 letters.

Ray actually has on average, fewer letters per song title than either Gerry or Norman (who is way out in front!). Don't call me sad, this only took 2 minutes to work out with a bit of cut & pasting into MS Word. If you like go and work out the medians and whatever other mathematical results you can come up with...

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