# What's the best song off of "Up"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734 "2010-10-01T15:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/1 "2010-10-01T15:50:08Z")
The decline. For me, there are really only 4 choices here: “Daysleeper”, “At My Most Beautiful”, “Lotus” and “Suspicion”. Because of these songs, this album is worthwhile to me, though it also contains some undeniable crap (the band is fond of playing “Walk Unafraid” live, but it makes me cringe). I don’t expect there will be nearly as many votes from here on out, but we’re almost at the end, and I must keep going. What say you (or the 2-3 of you who know these songs)? I went with “At My Most Beautiful” - I’m a sucker for their piano ballads. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/2 "2010-10-01T15:55:24Z")
“At My Most Beautiful” is by far the best song on the album, but I also think it’s one of their best songs, period. I actually like “Walk Unafraid.” I don’t really like “Lotus” or “Suspicion.” The more I listen to “Up,” the more I like it. This is less the case with some later albums. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/3 "2010-10-01T17:24:07Z")
I can’t even vote for this. This album came out during kind of a tough time in my life and I can’t really listen to it anymore because it always reminds me of that. It also sounds really creepy to me. I’m not sure if that’s legitimately part of the music, or just my own memories coloring it. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/4 "2010-10-01T18:47:58Z")
I was always partial to [I’m too Sexy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_%28Right_Said_Fred_album%29). ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/5 "2010-10-01T18:59:39Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > I can’t even vote for this. This album came out during kind of a tough time in my life and I can’t really listen to it anymore because it always reminds me of that. It also sounds really creepy to me. I’m not sure if that’s legitimately part of the music, or just my own memories coloring it. I think that some of it legitimately the music. So much of it has this distorted, almost robotic quality. Very dark, very growl-y. It was between this album and _New Adventures in Hi-Fi_ that I got into REM, and getting this after listening obsessively to the entire back catalogue was jarring. It’s definitely creepy. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/6 "2010-10-01T19:35:38Z")
I was wondering why there was a poll about a [Shania Twain album](http://www.amazon.com/Up-Shania-Twain/dp/B00006IX86/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1285961642&sr=8-2) I didn’t really like that album although her older stuff is decent. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/7 "2010-10-01T20:28:35Z")
The best song off _Up_ is “Signal to Noise.” Oh. Right. Different _Up_. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/8 "2010-10-03T01:56:30Z")
I think it says something that while I know basically all the words to every album I own, I had to go to Amazon’s samples to remember which song was which. There were so many songs on this album that I could never stand. I picked ‘Hope,’ but on another day it could have been ‘Daysleeper’ or ‘At My Most Beautiful.’ Daysleeper came on the radio the other day and made me smile, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/9 "2010-10-03T02:46:46Z")
[Mari-Mac](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(Great_Big_Sea_album)). ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-up/555734/10 "2010-10-03T04:18:46Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > [Mari-Mac](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(Great_Big_Sea_album)). As much as I love _Mari-Mac_, I have to respectfully disagree … it’s a really fun party song, but \*Chemical Workers Song \*works on so many levels that I have to go with it. So why does the Poll have all the wrong titles, anyway? 😃