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I still love Numb.

The final running order:

1. Integral - much loved, but not a single (yet?)
2. Fugitive - much loved, but not a single, not even on the album!!
3. Minimal - popular, deserved a single release
4. Luna Park - popular album track
5. The Sodom And Gomorrah Show - popular album track
6. The Resurrectionist - popular single B side only!
7. Casanova In Hell
8. I Made My Excuses And Left
9. I'm With Stupid - average, single release
10. Bright Young Things
11. Indefinite Leave To Remain
12. Psychological
13. Twentieth Century
14. Numb - not so popular, single release
15. Girls Don't Cry
16. God Willing
17. Blue On Blue
18. In Private - great song, but wrong treatment
19. Party Song

These are my impressions... Was the album really compiled the right way?
And by the way, shouldn't "She's Madonna" have been in the list too? Is it a Fundamental era track??

The results are somewhat different from the results of Wayne's Rating project http://www.geowayne.com/ratingsproject.htm:

01. (8) Integral
02. (11) Fugitive
03. (13) Minimal
04. (28) The Sodom and Gomorrah show
05. (48) The resurrectionist
06. (68) Bright young things
07. (76) Indefinite leave to remain
08. (94) She's Madonna
09. (97) Luna park
10. (100) I made my excuses and left
11. (101) I'm with stupid
12. (127) Casanova in hell
13. (140) Twentieth century
14. (151) Numb
15. (173) Girls don't cry
16. (181) Psychological
17. (213) Party song
18. (215) Blue on blue
19. (219) God willing

The PSB version of "In private" was not on that list. The numbers on brackets indicate the song's ranking among all PSB songs - there are 235 of them on the list!

So, with "Integral" and "Fugitive" being very high there, their fate is not fair!

It would be interesting to see how songs will be rated if you repeat the rating project now. I especially find the difference for Indefinite Leave To Remain remarkble. It was the 4th favourite Fundamental track in Wayne's poll, it the 8th favourite in your voting results.

I will not draw conclusions, since I don't want people to leave this PSB forum because my opinion offends them. Meanwhile, we can always hope for One Of The Crowd to return...