hi everyone!! terrible news!!!!

looks like the **b** in **b-sides** stands for **been voted out**, if you know what i'm saying...

like **everything everything** before us, we've chosen to remove **breadwinner** from our selection of tracks, relegating it to eternal b-side status, damnation essentially.

the **b-sides survivor** was my favourite one to run, i loved re-discovering old obscure tracks, and running such a long round was really fun.

i think it's really amazing the band dropped such an incredible album, and immediately followed it up with (what i'd consider to be) two of their best songs - **the mariana** and this. that being said, i do prefer **breadwinner**. it's a genuine top 20 **everything everything** ***classic*** to me.

i think it's interesting the power album placement has on our perception of songs. for instance, i think **jennifer**'s more acoustic sound and more grounded storytelling feels especially powerful and human after the first four tracks of **raw data feel**, and **blast doors** hits so much harder coming after the relative comedown of **the wheel**'s outro and **fortune 500**. i suspect factors such as these add to our appreciation of our favourite songs, and as such **breadwinner** is slightly stranded without as great a *context* from which to draw meaning.

i think you need a truly bulletproof song to survive that isolation, and **breadwinner** is absolutely bulletproof, still manging to make our top 6.

so long!!!! return to your vast oceanic home, populated by strange goobers and gobers.

WHAT'S NEXT???

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**results**:

1. schoolin' (26%)
2. photoshop handsome (33%)
3. jennifer (21%)
4. breadwinner (27%)

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