Rank the songs on Handwritten

I remember the thread for ranking the songs on Elsie, so I thought we could do the same for Handwritten. Except for the first three, it was really hard to rank these songs because they're all so good, but this is what I came up with:

1. Too Much Blood
2. Handwritten
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Mae
5. Blue Dahlia
6. Here Comes My Man
7. Desire
8. Biloxi Parish
9. 45
10. Keepsake
11. Teenage Rebellion
12. National Anthem
13. Howl

1. Blue Dahlia
2. Howl
3. Too Much Blood
4. 45
5. Desire
6. Handwritten
7. Biloxi Parish
8. National Anthem
9. Mae
10. Mulholland Drive
11. Keepsake
12. Here Comes My Man

Everything past the top 3 are in somewhat random order. I don't really have a "connection" with the large majority of the songs (yet?).

dashed lines are where definitive lines exist in song quality (so Blue Dahlia and Howl are easily the best, white Handwritten and Too Much Blood are the worst). With each bracket order is rougher...

Blue Dahlia
Howl
-----------
Mae
45
Biloxi
----------
National Anthem
Desire
Keepsake
Here Comes My Man
----------
Handwritten
Too Much Blood

CluckyB wrote:

dashed lines are where definitive lines exist in song quality (so Blue Dahlia and Howl are easily the best, white Handwritten and Too Much Blood are the worst). With each bracket order is rougher...

Blue Dahlia
Howl
-----------
Mae
45
Biloxi
----------
National Anthem
Desire
Keepsake
Here Comes My Man
----------
Handwritten
Too Much Blood

You missed a song. You only have 11 songs on there. What about Mulholland Drive?

saltandburn1967 wrote:

CluckyB wrote:

dashed lines are where definitive lines exist in song quality (so Blue Dahlia and Howl are easily the best, white Handwritten and Too Much Blood are the worst). With each bracket order is rougher...

Blue Dahlia
Howl
-----------
Mae
45
Biloxi
----------
National Anthem
Desire
Keepsake
Here Comes My Man
----------
Handwritten
Too Much Blood

You missed a song. You only have 11 songs on there. What about Mulholland Drive?

Whoops. Goes either in the last or second to last bucket. Or maybe its own bucket inbetween. Not annoying as Handwritten or Too Much Blood, but still rather boring in the chorus (Seriously Brian, you can do better than "I'd just die if you ever took your love away") and overall the fact that I forgot it probably means its the most forgettable song on the album

1) Mae
2) Keepsake
3) Blue Dahlia
4) Handwritten
---------------------------
5) Mullholland Drive
6) Too Much Blood
7) Biloxi Parish
--------------------------
Here Comes My Man
9) National Anthem
--------------------------
10) Howl
11) 45
12) Desire

1. mullholland drive
2. handwritten
3. 45
4. too much blood
5. mae
6. keepsake
7. biloxi parish
8. desire
9. here comes my man
10. blue dahlia
11. howl
12. national anthem

1. Howl
2. Handwritten
3. 45
4. Mae
5. Keepsake
6. Biloxi Parish
7. Desire
8. Mulholland Drive
9. National Anthem
10. Here Comes My Man
11. Too Much Blood

1. Mae
2. Handwritten
3. Mulholland Drive
------------------------------
4. 45
5. Howl
6. National Anthem
7. Keepsake
8. Desire
9. Here Comes My Man
10. Too Much Blood
11. Biloxi Parish
12. Blue Dahlia

Good idea Shannon although this is really hard!

1. Handwritten
2. Blue Dahlia
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Mae
5. Howl
6. Desire
7. Biloxi Parish
8. "45"
9. Here Comes My Man
10. Keepsake
11. Too Much Blood
12. National Anthem

1. Here Comes My Man
2. Mae
3. Handwritten
4. National Anthem
5. Howl
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Biloxi Parish
8. 45
9. Too Much Blood
10. Keepsake
11. Desire

Oooof, this was tough

1) Mae
2) 45
3) Biloxi Parish
4) Howl
5) Here Comes My Man
6) National Anthem
7) Keepsake
8. Handwritten
9) Desire
10) Mullholland Drive
11) Too Much Blood

CluckyB wrote:

Whoops. Goes either in the last or second to last bucket. Or maybe its own bucket inbetween. Not annoying as Handwritten or Too Much Blood, but still rather boring in the chorus (Seriously Brian, you can do better than "I'd just die if you ever took your love away") and overall the fact that I forgot it probably means its the most forgettable song on the album

Thank you! I think we might be the only two people on this board completely underwhelmed by Mulholland Drive. The way people talk, I was starting to think someone at Mercury was playing a joke and burned a b-side onto my CD where Mulholland Drive should've been.

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! :p


...I'll try to start with top four and come back later.

1. Handwritten
2. Desire
3. Here Comes My Man
4. 45
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?

...haven't heard Blue Dahlia yet

TGAforLIFE wrote:

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! :p


...I'll try to start with top four and come back later.

1. Handwritten
2. Desire
3. Here Comes My Man
4. 45
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?

...haven't heard Blue Dahlia yet

Haha, you better come back and finish this list after you've listened to the album a few more times!

sandyangryjohnnyormary? wrote:

1) Mae
2) 45
3) Biloxi Parish
4) Howl
5) Here Comes My Man
6) National Anthem
7) Keepsake
8. Handwritten
9) Desire
10) Mullholland Drive
11) Too Much Blood

CluckyB wrote:

Whoops. Goes either in the last or second to last bucket. Or maybe its own bucket inbetween. Not annoying as Handwritten or Too Much Blood, but still rather boring in the chorus (Seriously Brian, you can do better than "I'd just die if you ever took your love away") and overall the fact that I forgot it probably means its the most forgettable song on the album

Thank you! I think we might be the only two people on this board completely underwhelmed by Mulholland Drive. The way people talk, I was starting to think someone at Mercury was playing a joke and burned a b-side onto my CD where Mulholland Drive should've been.

its not *that* bad, its just far too generic for my likes. From those lyrics alone I don't think anyone could honestly call Brian the best song writer of this generation.

IrishNameAndAnInjury wrote:

TGAforLIFE wrote:

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! :p


...I'll try to start with top four and come back later.

1. Handwritten
2. Desire
3. Here Comes My Man
4. 45
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?

...haven't heard Blue Dahlia yet

Haha, you better come back and finish this list after you've listened to the album a few more times!

I will, I will.

Gonna do it in tiers because it's hard to tell with a few.

Mae (one of my favorite TGA songs of all time)

----

Howl
Biloxi Parish
Blue Dahlia
---
National Anthem
Mulholland Drive
Handwritten
45
---
Keepsake
Too Much Blood
Here Comes My Man
Desire

But I really like every single song. Desire is the only one I'm not in love with.

I'm going with the tiers:

Mae
Mulholland Drive
-----------------------
45
National Anthem
Handwritten
Here Comes My Man
-----------------------
Biloxi Parish
Blue Dahlia
-----------------------
Keepsake
Howl
Desire
Too Much Blood

I love this album!

Handwritten
Blue Dahlia
Mulholland Drive
Keepsake
Too Much Blood
Here Comes My Man
Mae
National Anthem
Biloxi Parish
45
Howl
Desire

Handwritten
Mullholland Drive
Mae
Blue Dahlia
45
Keepsake
Too Much Blood
Howl
Teenage Rebellion
Desire
Here Comes My Man
National Anthem
Biloxi Parish

I kept switching around the last 4 because I'm like "no that song cant be last I love it!" but i give up. The whole thing is amazing! Desire and Howl have been climbing the list for me.

I'm surprised National Anthem is so low down on some of these lists, I think it's beautiful


and Here Comes My Man too, its just so powerful, maybe the girls appreciate it more on here than guys do

Handwritten IMO is a pretty solid album, so ranking its song is quite hard, although I've already started to identify which songs I'll skip most often...

1. Keepsake
2. Too Much Blood
3. Here Comes My Man
4. Handwritten
5. Mae
6. Blue Dahlia
7. 45
8. Howl
9. Desire
10. Biloxi Parish
11. National Anthem

1. Handwritten
2. Blue Dahlia
3. Mae
4. 45
5. Here Comes My Man
6. Keepsake
7. Desire
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Too Much Blood
10. Biloxi Parish
11. Howl
12. National Anthem

Now that it's had time to sink in, best to least best :

1. Blue Dahlia
2. Howl
3. Handwritten
4. Mae
5.Keepsake
6.45
7.Too Much Blood
8. Biloxi parish
9. Mulholland Drive
10. You Got Lucky
11. Here Comes My Man
12. Sliver
13. Desire
14. National Anthem

ok i know most wont agree but...lol

1.45
2.Mae
3.Blue Dahlia
4.Biloxi Parish
5.Howl
6.Here comes my Man
7.Mulholand Drive
8.Keepsake
9.Too much Blood
10.Desire
11.National anthem

Not counting sliver or you got lucky as that was hard enough