I recently posted this question to the HAIM sub-Reddit:
If you could only listen to three songs from each HAIM album for the rest of your life which would you choose?
I received 16 responses.
Here’s a link to the data and the Reddit post.
First I’ll look at the top songs and general insight then analyze each album.
Top Songs
Want You Back (Something To Tell You) had the most votes from any album with 10, which was two more votes than the next two songs. Forever (Day’s Are Gone) and I Know Alone (WIM) were second with 8 votes a piece. Falling (DAG), If I Could Change Your Mine (DAG), Something To Tell You (STTY) round out the top songs with 6 votes each.
Want You Back | 10 |
Forever | 8 |
I Know Alone | 8 |
Falling | 7 |
If I Could Change Your Mind | 7 |
Something to Tell You | 7 |
Days Are Gone | 6 |
Don’t Save Me | 6 |
Don’t Wanna | 6 |
Little of Your Love | 6 |
My Song 5 | 6 |
Nothing’s Wrong | 6 |
Kept Me Crying | 5 |
Now I’m In It | 5 |
The Steps | 5 |
3 AM | 4 |
Another Try | 4 |
The Wire | 4 |
Walking Away | 4 |
You Never Knew | 4 |
Los Angeles | 3 |
FUBT | 2 |
Gasoline | 2 |
Hallelujah | 2 |
Leaning On You | 2 |
Ready For You | 2 |
Right Now | 2 |
Summer Girl | 2 |
Up From A Dream | 2 |
All That Ever Mattered | 1 |
Edge | 1 |
Found It In Silence | 1 |
Go Slow | 1 |
Honey & I | 1 |
Let Me Go | 1 |
Night So Long | 1 |
Day’s Are Gone
Forever, Falling, and If I Could Change Your Mind had the most votes on this album
Running If You Call My Name was the only song on this album that didn’t recieve a vote.
Something To Tell You
Want You Back had the most votes on this album by far with 10. It had the highest percentage of votes (20.8%) for a top song out of each of the three albums.
Something to Tell You, Little of Your Love, and Nothing’s Wrong were the other top songs.
All songs on this album recieved at least one vote.
Women In Music Pt. III
I Know Alone had the most votes with 8. Don’t Wanna, Now I’m In It, and The Steps round out the top songs.
Man from the Magazine and I’ve Been Down were the only songs on this album to not recieve a vote.