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Fan Favorites - Poll #1 (Relationship Songs)

  • The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics 81
  • Paradise By the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf 75
  • The Best of Times - Dream Theater 158
  • Onward - Yes 96
  • You Take My Breath Away - Queen 51
  • Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel (featuring Kate Bush) 175
  • Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel 99
  • You're My Best Friend - Queen 96
  • Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John 60
  • The Cinema Show - Genesis 214
  • Think of Me With Kindness - Gentle Giant 86
  • The Meeting - Anderson/Bruford/Wakeman/Howe 62
  • Hejira - Joni Mitchell 58
  • Beeswing - Richard Thompson 32
  • Trilogy - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer 164
  • Love Reign O'er Me - The Who 136
  • Tiny Dancer - Bernie Taupin 70
  • 2022-02-17
  • —2022-02-22
  • 1713 votes
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Content

Thank you for your interest in this new video series. This poll will help us narrow down the finalists to determine which songs will be included in the Fan Favorites video at the end of the month.

This month, we received 53 song suggestions on the topic of Relationship Songs. There are 18 songs that made the cut to make it to this poll. I took Maybe I'm Amazed (McCartney) out of the running because it was included in a Daily Doug video this week. 17 songs remain.

You can vote for up to 6 songs that you would love to see included in the upcoming video.

The top 9 vote-getting songs will make it into the video.This poll is starting on Thursday, February 17. It will run through Monday, February 21.

Happy voting!

Comments

Aaron E Austin

The Living Years just tugs at my heart every time.

Richard Moore

Onward and Think of Me with Kindness (both, beautiful songs) are long shots. The Cinema Show has been on my list since I first found the channel, so it gets my vote. If chosen, I hope Aisle of Plenty is included, since it serves as an outro to both the song and the album. It's a short piece anyway so unlikely to get covered on its own.

Illume Eltanin

Got my six votes in. Some are definitely long shots at this point, but... Ya never know.

Ball_Soup

I like the direction this stuff is going.

Nick Johnson

Best of Times has one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. If it ends up getting the votes to be in the video, seek out the isolated guitar track to really appreciate its beauty.

A Teapot

Love Reign O'er Me is one of the best vocal performances ever, in my opinion.

doughelvering

Oops…meant to type Elton John/Bernie Taupin for “Tiny Dancer”

Newt

Good to hear Kate Bush.

Mike Hill

interesting selections. I managed to pick 5

Scott Stone

I love that 9 songs will make the video because there are so many deserving choices in this list. This will be a good one.

Nickie Kelly

I did pick 6, mostly prog, no surprise there. I am betting there will be a good mix of styles to the 9 that are chosen. It really shows the scope of the viewer's tastes here.

Bruce E Bowling

How about a show featuring songs about failed relationships? I imagine they have inspired more songs than the good ones. Chris Cornell does an amazing cover of "Nothing Compare 2 U" and the unplugged version of "Black" by Pearl Jam is so powerful. Plus that would give Doug more grunge exposure.

Arpeggio Blues

Chose my six, but was surprised to see Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" Which I think is one of Billy's best-kept secret hits.. It's a fast vocal, has lots of lyrics, and tells a great love story.. so that would be cool.. but, of course, had to select the prog-masters instead. ;)

Blinky

Love Reign O'ere should only come at the end of a Quadrophenia EPL. Great song capping off a great album. I also love how very loosely a few of these can be called a relationship song. "Cinema Show" is hilarious (and should be part of an EPL of selling England by the pound)

Ron Swirson

absolutely correct on both counts

John Clark

C'mon folks, Richard Thompson's Beeswing surely deserves to be heard by Doctor Doug.

Pam Norris

Is there a summit button?

Eusebio R-Z

I guess the video probably won't feature the whole 9 songs (the episode could end up easily over 2h, not that we wouldn't like it, but it would be a lot of work). I do hope however that from the 9, the top voted one will get a full treatment. Cutting just an excerpt out of The Cinema Show would be a shame

Edward Wright

Please don't stop Trilogy between parts one and two. You'll miss a treat.

Just Some Guy

I'd like to put in a word for Richard Thompson and Beeswing. It's heartbreakingly beautiful.

Itsfun2listen

I suggest another channel for the Dream Theatre fan club

ArTi

Valentyne Suite from Colosseum would be a nice addition concerning the theme :)

fran_xcy

The Cinema Show has maybe the best synth solo of all time.