Rank the songs on Get Hurt

1. Rollin & Tumblin
2. Stray Paper
3. 1000 Years
4. Selected Poems
5. Stay Vicios
6. Dark Places
7. Helter Skeleton
8. Ain't That A Shame
9. Get Hurt
10. Red Violins
11. Break Your Heart
12. Underneath The Ground

1.Have Mercy
2. Dark Places
3. Halloween
4. Helter Skeleton
5. Red Violins
6. Underneath The Ground
7. 1000 years
8. Mamas Boys
9. Get Hurt
10. Rollin and Tumblin
11. Stray Paper
12. Stay Vicious
13. Sweet Morphine
14. Aint That A Shame
15. Selected Poems
16. Break Your Heart

1. Sweet Morphine
2. R&T
3. Dark Places
4. Mama's Boys
5. Halloween
6. Get Hurt
7. Have Mercy
8. 1,000 Years

Those are the only ones I listen to. Sometimes one of the other songs will start playing and I'll let it go, but I always end up skipping it part way through.

1. Have Mercy
2. Dark Days
3. Wooderson
4. Pinkerton
7. Breaking Bad
A: Jack Black
2. Team Fortress 2
Gaslig

Yozzy wrote:

1. Have Mercy
2. Dark Days
3. Wooderson
4. Pinkerton
7. Breaking Bad
A: Jack Black
2. Team Fortress 2
Gaslig

Hahahaha

The Angry Johnny Revue wrote:

16. Helter Skelter

I think if you don't have Sweet Morphine in your top 5 then you deserve to be locked up with the key thrown away.

Let's leave The Beatles out of this, shall we? Or you might get locked up and the key thrown away.

Right now, but this'll probably change on a regular basis for the next few weeks/months.

Dark Places
Selected Poems
Helter Skeleton
1000 Years
Rollin' and Tumblin'
Ain't That A Shame
Red Violins
Get Hurt
(Mama's Boys)
(Sweet Morphine)
Underneath The Ground
Stray Paper
Break Your Heart
Stay Vicious
(Have Mercy)
(Halloween)

HolyBreakOfDay wrote:

(Halloween would be first but I was released so long ago I can't really consider that song as a Get Hurt one)

1. Rollin N Tumbling
2. Dark Places
3. Selected Poems
4. Helter Skeleton
5. Red Violins
6. Break Your Heart
7. Stay Vicious
8. Get Hurt
9. 1,000 Years
10. Mama's Boys
11. Stray Paper
12. Have Mercy
13. Ain't That A Shame
14. Underneath The Ground
15. Sweet Morphine

Mine already changed:

1. Rolling N Tumbling
2. Selected Poems
3. Dark Places
4. Ain't That A Shame
5. Stay Vicious
6. Have Mercy
7. Sweet Morphine
8. Get Hurt
9. Helter Skeleton
10. Red Violins
11. Break Your Heart
12. Mama's Boys
13. 1,000 Years
14. Stray Paper
15. Underneath The Ground

Okay but really.

1. Have Mercy (One of my favourite Gaslight songs ever)

2. Dark Places (Excellent, top tier tracks)
3. Halloween
4. Underneath The Ground

5. Get Hurt (Solid, solid stuff)
6. Stay Vicious
7. 1,000 Years
8. Selected Poems
9. Helter Skeleton

10. Mama's Boys (Average at best)
11. Red Violins
12. Rollin & Tumblin

13. Sweet Morphine (Bleh)
14. Ain't That A Shame
15. Stray Paper
16. Break Your Heart

Bottom four are practically unlistenable.

1. Have Mercy (This one I could listen to on repeat for hours on end)
2. Underneath the Ground
3. 1,000 Years
4. Sweet Morphine
5. Selected Poems
6. Rollin and Tumblin
7. Break Your Heart
8. Dark Places
9. Stray Paper
10. Stay Vicious
11. Halloween (if it were the original version I would have ranked it higher)
12. Get Hurt
13. Ain't that a Shame
14. Helter Skeleton
15. Red Violins
16. Mama's Boys (the only track I usually skip)

Here's my initial list. Want to post it so I can look back in 3 months and see where they rank now! It will change.

1 Dark Places
2. Rollin and Tumblin
3. Aint that a Shame
4. 1000 Years
5. Red Violins
6. Stay Viscious
7. Stray Paper
8. Get Hurt
9. Helter Skeleton
10. Break your Heart
11. Underneath the Ground
12. Selected Poems.

1. Sweet Morphine
2. Stay Vicious
3. Rollin and Tumblin
4. Selected Poems
5. Helter Skeleton
6. Ain't That a Shame
7. 1,000 Years
8. Red Violins
9. Get Hurt
10. Halloween
11. Dark Places
12. Underneath the Ground
13. Break Your Heart
14. Stray Paper
15. Mama's Boy

1. Have Mercy
2. Dark Places
3. Break Your Heart
4. Helter Skeleton
5. Underneath The Ground
6. Get Hurt
7. Stay Vicious
8. Sweet Morphine
9. 1000 Years
10. Halloween
11. Red Violins
12. Stray Paper
13. Mama's Boys
14. Selected Poems
15. Rollin & Tumblin
16. AIn't That A Shame

The first 6 and the last few were easy to pick, but the middle ones were harder for me.

x. Halloween (original)
1. Have Mercy
2. Break Your Heart
3. Selected Poems
4. Dark Places
5. Stay Vicious
6. Halloween (album)
7. Get Hurt
8. Sweet Morphine
9. Stray Paper
10. Red Violins
11. Underneath the Ground
12. Ain't That a Shame
13. Rollin' and Tumblin'
14. Mama's Boys
15. 1000 Years
16. Helter Skeleton

CutToRibbons wrote:

The first 6 and the last few were easy to pick, but the middle ones were harder for me.

x. Halloween (original)
1. Have Mercy
2. Break Your Heart
3. Selected Poems
4. Dark Places
5. Stay Vicious
6. Halloween (album)
7. Get Hurt
8. Sweet Morphine
9. Stray Paper
10. Red Violins
11. Underneath the Ground
12. Ain't That a Shame
13. Rollin' and Tumblin'
14. Mama's Boys
15. 1000 Years
16. Helter Skeleton

hey x isn't a number what the frig you doin

Yozzy wrote:

CutToRibbons wrote:

The first 6 and the last few were easy to pick, but the middle ones were harder for me.

x. Halloween (original)
1. Have Mercy
2. Break Your Heart
3. Selected Poems
4. Dark Places
5. Stay Vicious
6. Halloween (album)
7. Get Hurt
8. Sweet Morphine
9. Stray Paper
10. Red Violins
11. Underneath the Ground
12. Ain't That a Shame
13. Rollin' and Tumblin'
14. Mama's Boys
15. 1000 Years
16. Helter Skeleton

hey x isn't a number what the frig you doin

Making my own rules!

1. Have Mercy
2. Helter Skeleton
3. Break Your Heart
4. Sweet Morphine
5. Rollin' and Tumblin'
6. Get Hurt
7. 1,000 Years
8. Dark Places
9. Halloween
10. Stay Vicious
11. Stray Paper
12. Red Violins
13. Selected Poems
14. Ain't That A Shame
15. Mama's Boys
16. Underneath The Ground

This was tougher than I thought it would be. Really the only one I don't love is Helter Skeleton. It has bits I love, but the opening sounds kind of like a 90's sitcom jingle.

Overall, even the song I like the least is still pretty dang good. :-)

1. Stray Paper
2. 1000 Years
3. Get Hurt
4. Halloween (I like Brian's solo live version better)
5. Underneath the Ground
6. Aint That a Shame
7. Sweet Morphine
8. Rollin and Tumblin
9. Selected Poems
10. Break Your Heart
11. Red Violins
12. Stay Vicious
13. Dark Places
14. Mama's Boys
15. Helter Skeleton

1. Dark Places
2. Break Your Heart
3. Halloween
4. Rollin and Tumblin
5. Stray Paper
6. 1000 Years
7. Have Mercy
8. Stay Vicious
9. Ain't That A Shame
10. Selected Poems
11. Get Hurt
12. Underneath the Ground
13. Mama's Boys
14. Red Violins
15. Helter Skeleton
16. Sweet Morphine

NervousFeet wrote:

I actually like most of this album more than this would reflect. Anything in the top 8 could be my favorite at any given time, I think.

Let's give it a try:

1.) Dark Places
2.) Ain't That a Shame
3.) 1,000 Years
4.) Underneath the Ground
5.) Get Hurt
6.) Rollin' and Tumblin'
7.) Stray Paper
8.) Selected Poems
9.) Break Your Heart
10.) Stay Vicious
11.) Red Violins
12.) Helter Skeleton

- Ain't That a Shame was in my bottom 3 on first couple listens, now I absolutely love it

- Break Your Heart >>> National Anthem

- I enjoy Helter Skeleton live but it's definitely my least favorite on the album right now. The "Uhh, uhh uhh" part reminds me of Tommy's terrible sex song from Bob's Burgers

The love for Break Your Heart is crazy. I honestly think it's the worst song they've done.

To be honest the stuff on this album doesn't really move me enough to rank them. The ones that separate themselves from the rest of the pack (for me) would be:

1) Have Mercy
2) Stay Vicious
3) Break Your Heart
4) 1,000 Years
5) Sweet Morphine

There are other songs I like but as a whole this album doesn't speak to me at all.

Yozzy wrote:

The love for Break Your Heart is crazy. I honestly think it's the worst song they've done.

Agreed! I love this album, but that song does nothing for me. I mean, the sound itself is ok to me, but it just kinda bores me. I don't feel like it really goes anywhere. I can't help but press "next" after the first verse or chorus.

I would have to do it this way.  12 of the songs are absolutely incredible, killer songs that work really well together.  Those are:  

Stay Vicious
1,000 Years
Get Hurt
Helter Skeleton
Underneath The Ground
Rollin' and Tumblin'
Red Violins
Selected Poems
Ain't That A Shame
Dark Places
Sweet Morphine
Have Mercy

Stray Paper and Break Your Heart really just do not do anything for me at all.  If I listen to them on their own, neither one of them are bad songs, but both musically and lyrically I feel like they're just spinning their wheels and are both examples of something they've done better elsewhere, both on this album and others.

Halloween is an absolutely amazing song, and I'm really glad to finally have a proper studio recording of it, but to me it will always feel like Handwritten era.  I know that's a personal hang-up of mine, and a reflection of how closely I follow this band and their output, but I'd be lying if I said I felt like it fits on Get Hurt.            

Mama's Boys - I LOVE this song, but to me it's just too stylistically different from everything else to really fit.

Random afterthought:  I absolutely f---ing love Gaslight doing the Mama's Boys style - I really wish Brian saved all the Molly & The Zombies songs and they just did those type of songs with stuff like Mama's Boys and Sweet Morphine as a full album in that style.

I really do dig Break Your Heart on its own. At first it sounded like something Tom Petty could sing - and that's not at all a bad thing. But this album also came out the day after Robin Williams' tragic passing, and once I related that song to his story, I couldn't un-hear it. So I consider it pretty special, now, like in an eerie way, amongst the rest of the album.