I could probably slug through all the Album forums and get a picture, but I was curious how you would rank all the OtR albums if you were forced to by evil ferrets.

Here's my current order - just remember I love them all.

1. OHIO
2. Til We Have Faces (neck and neck with OHIO)
3. Good Dog Bad Dog
4. Patience
5. Cutting Room Floor
6. eve
7. Films for Radio
8. Amateur Shortwave Radio
9. Darkest Night of the Year
10. Besides (but Last Night and Miles are two of my favorites)

Here's my order of preference: This is quite difficult and may not be accurate tomorrow.

1. ASR
2. GDBD
3. OHIO
4. FFR
5. CRF
6. DNOTY
7. Eve
8. Besides
9. TWHF
10. Patience

Addendum:
I listen to my bootleg shows almost all the time.
T xo

I would if I had any!

Well, good golly flyingspud....
Get yerself over to the Vine forum and sign yourself up.
Let me know if you don't have a burner...I'll send you a show.
BTW....In a vine, you can still participate without a burner if you have the capability of recording the show to your hard drive.
The original discs can still be sent on to the next person and you have the music in your computer to play with your Windows Media player or Musicmatch or Itunes...
I bought a separate external hard drive to store my music ( about $200.00) ....thereby not filling up my internal hard drives with the hundred of albums and shows I have in there.
Just a tawt.
T xo

I have a difficult time with 'favorite' so this is a guesstimate of which gets the most play. Top being the most.

OHIO
Films For Radio
Amateur Shortwave Radio
Good Dog Bad Dog
Eve
Patience
Till We Have Faces
Cutting Room Floor
Besides
Darkest Night of the Year

I also tend to burn OtR compilations for the truck every few months which are usually a mix of album songs, mp3 rarites and songs off a boot or two.

And Linford's solo cd's practically live in my mini-cd/alarm thingy in my room.

this is tough!

good dog, bad dog
ohio (tied)

Trudes, you are too kind. I actually signed up on 3 Vines when I first got here - I'm waiting to see how they go and then I may see about getting some more - I could seriously OD if I'm not careful.

Hmmmm, this is really hard... damn these ferrets!

Good Dog Bad Dog
Films for Radio
eve
Ohio
Amateur Shortwave Radio
Patience
Cutting Room Floor
Til We Have Faces
Darkest Night of the Year
Besides

OMG. I can't do this. For me this is the equivalent of asking which of my children I like best. If you said, "Mandy, which of your children do you like best?" I would say, "I don't have any children." But still. I like them all for different reasons.

Begrudgingly:

Ohio
GDBG
Films
Eve
ASR
Cutting Room
Darkest Night
TWHF
Besides
Patience

I guess?

1. OHIO
2. Good Dog Bad Dog
3. Films for Radio
4. Eve
5. 'Til We Have Faces
6. Cutting Room Floor
7. Patience
8. Amateur Shortwave Radio
9. Besides

I don't have Darkest Night of the Year yet. One day I will have money....

I'm so all about the 'old skool' OtR.


Hmmm....

1. Patience
2. Eve
3. ASR
4. TWHF
5. Ohio
6. Films
7. Cutting Room
8. GDBG
9. Darkest Night
10. Besides

Bad ferret!

1 & 2 are pretty firmly wedged in there. The others are subject to change at any time.

Patience
Til We Have Faces
Films for Radio
eve
Ohio
Good Dog Bad Dog
Besides
Amateur Shortwave Radio
Darkest Night of the Year
Cutting Room Floor

i would have to put GDBD at the top of my favorites [by anyone not just OtR], Ohio would be a close second. then it would be virtually impossible for me to decide. in all honesty, my favorite "OtR" disc is the one that's in my CD player.

I have only 3 OtR albums (4 if you count OHIO as 2, I guess), but here's how I rank 'em:

1. Good Dog Bad Dog (any list of Over the Rhine favorites starts with "Latter Days," as far as I am concerned!)

2. Films for Radio

3. OHIO

Guess I've got lots to catch-up on ... and I look forward to hearing all the songs I've yet to hear!!

OHIO
good dog bad dog
besides
amateur shortwave radio
til we have faces
eve
films for radio
cutting room floor
patience
darkest night of the year

My order changes frequently, but here they are today.

1. Eve
2. Til We Have Faces
3. Good Dog Bad Dog
4. Ohio
5. Patience
6. Besides
7. Films For Radio
8. Amateur Shortwave Radio
9. Cutting Room Floor
10. Darkest Night Of The Year
11. Several live bootlegs, most notably the 2000 Cornerstone midnight show (24 songs!) and Live at The Iron Horse in Northampton, MA.

Love that old school (the original 4 piece is STILL the best lineup) OTR best, but Ohio is pretty awesome as well.

Graphically

1) GDBD


2) CRF
3) Eve
4) Ohio I

5) FFR

6) ASR
7) Beeeesides
8) Patience
9) Ohio II
10) DNotY

11) TWHF

I recently told my Flannery students that if they went out and bought at least five OtR albums and listened to them exhaustively between now (Mar 1 or so) and the end of the semester, they'd get an A.

Do they even have five albums available in stores?

You might have to change that number to three.

Hhmm, this is tough...this would be my current order of prefrence. Subject to change at any time.

1. GDBD
2. Ohio
3. ASR
4. Eve
5. Films for Radio
6. Til We Have Faces
7. Patience
8. Darkest Night of the Year
9. Besides
10. Cutting Room Floor

They can go to the website.

In North Carolina, they'll be lucky to find Ohio in stores. Although I have seen it here and there. Including Best Buy of all places.

Alright, an embarrassing confession: I hadn't heard Ohio--any of it--til this past weekend, when I bought it. Sad, agreed... and I figured I should bone up on it since I'm driving to the show in a couple of weeks (woo hoo!).

OK, so, now that that's out, I don't know how to rank the albums over time... my favorites change according to my life, my moods, my feelings. But right now:

1. Ohio.

You can't get "real" copies of the first three though. (if I'm gonna pay $15, I want my case and booklet dammit!) Thank god for ebay. (23 bucks for Eve...ouch)

Good Dog, Bad Dog
Ohio
Patience
Films For Radio
Till We Have Faces
Eve
Cutting Room Floor
Amature Shortwave Radio
Besides
The Darkest Night of the Year

Lets see,

Good Dog Bad Dog
Besides
Ohio
Films for Radio
Eve
Patience
Til We Have Faces

Sadly, I don't own ASR, Darkest Night, or Cutting Room Floor. Things to be on the look out for. . .

Tough call, I think I'll always come back to GDBD as their best (but who knows the best may be yet to come!).

"These are
the good
old days.

Just wait
and see."

- Steve Turner


GDBD
Ohio
Films For Radio
Amature Shortwave Radio
Till we have faces
Paitience
Besides
Eve
Darkest Night of the Year
Cutting Room Floor

Today's opinion...

Patience <--- because it was 1st one I got and for nostalic reasons, otherwise it would be no.3)
Good Dog Bad Dog & Eve <--- a tie on any given day
Films For Radio
OHIO <--- moved up from last when I first bought it... may go higher... took awhile to 'get it'
Amateur Shortwave Radio
Besides
Till We Have Faces
Cutting Room Floor

Darkest Night of the Year <-- doesn't really 'fit' anywhere

1. Patience (easy)
2. Ohio (still so good)
3. Darkest Night (wow)
4. GDBD:tHR (great songwriting)
5. Besides (the cd book is my girlfriend it's so good)
6. Eve (is it because i cannot see you...)
7. CRF (i let it go)
8. Films For Radio (make the moth faster! - gwbush, 2003)
9. TWHF (yawn for the most part, but i likes me some vellum)
10. ASR (ruby tuesday grates, love i will remember and anyway)

1 good dog bad dog
2 amateur shortwave radio
3 ohio
4 films for radio
5 the cutting room floor
6 eve
7 darkest night of the year
8 till we have faces
9 besides
10 patience

I haven´t heard the new one yet, bought it yesterday, but the once I own I would rank thus

GDBD
Patience
FfR
TWHF

Being at work an bored, I compiled the following total:

GDBD is the numer one album of most of the voters (11) folloved by OHIO (5) and Patience (4). Eve and ASR got one first preference each.

Giving points so that the first preference gets five the second four and so on the following list can be compiled:

1. GDBD (81)
2. OHIO (71)
3. FfR (37)
4. Patience (31)
Eve (31)
6. ASR (27)
7. TWHF (18)
8. Cutting Room Floor (7)
Besides (7)
10. DNoY (3)

However, more people listed Ohio in the top five than any other album (21), against 19 for GDBD and 14 for FfR.

These statistics are probably affected by availability of the albums, that is the newer ones probably get a bit higher point by default.

Ok, back to work.

Patrik

good to know! welcome Patrik!

back to work? sounds to me like you never stopped working
what an interesting first post! you are a hoot!

when you get a moment, fill out a bio in the members thread. this being your first post, i would think you are an interesting spirit!

thanks for the info!
d.

The next step would be to atempt an analysis of some kind. Since both GDBD and Ohio are pretty stripped down soundwise one could venture to say that this would be more popular with the fans than the more fuller band sound of the early stuff or the more radio-friendly FfR.

But I think a more reliable observation would be that Ohio and GDBD are pretty similar, and with Ohio being the most receint release it is only natural for this style to attaract a lot of votes at the moment. repeating the vote in a few months might give a very different result.

And having listened to Ohio twice now (lots of songs there) I probably rate it third after Patience. The desciption in the liner notes seem fitting ("20 new songs and not one damn hit"). This also suggest it might grow in a big way...

'Nuff pseudo-science already...

Patrik

Since I don't own every OtR album, I'll rank what I do have:

1. Drunkard's Prayer
2. OHIO
2. GDBD
4. Films for Radio

That's a sad list. I need to get busy!

~Tiff

Ranky McRankerton:

1. Good Dog Bad Dog
2. Films For Radio
3. Eve
4. Besides
5. Patience
6. Till We Have Faces
7. Cutting Room Floor
8. Ohio
9. Drunkard's Prayer
10. Amateur Shortwave Radio
11. Changes Come

~fff

Hey, you people are all ranking in the wrong thread!

Patrik

um... your post in that thread doesn't indicate where, dude... and does it matter?

Time to edit my own list, with the two newest albums (still spatially):


1) GDBD


2) Drunkard's Prayer
3) CRF
4) Eve
5) Ohio I

6) FFR
7) Changes Come

8) ASR
9) Beeeesides
10) Patience
11) Ohio II

12) DNotY

13) TWHF


Sorry to be taking a 2nd place vote away from CRF, but them's the breaks.