Right now I know no other time, Right now I know no other poll - SPOON (ILM artist poll #67) --- Voting extended until Sunday July 26, 2015

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qfrc8sKieY_WwRG9eti1cZzKITR6AV63GucdZI0kwg=w1153-h451-no

Ballot part one (mandatory): Your Top 25 Spoon tracks (or less: min. 5). Please order your list with #1 at the top and #25 at the bottom, no need to number them. I will take unranked lists, just clearly state that yours is unranked.

Ballot part two (optional): Your Top Spoon albums. You can rank all eight albums or just rank a few, your choice. This is also a place where you can rank A Thing Called Divine Fits album against all the Spoon albums. This option has no min but max limit with Divine Fits will be nine.

Ballot part three (optional): Pick Only One Divine Fits song. (Why not?).

Discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_(band) or http://www.spoontheband.com/

Send ballots to: ilmspoonpoll AT gmail dot com. Please include your user name. make sure to add ILM before spoon as spoonpoll was already taken, so i won't get it.

Voting is open until Friday July 24, 2015 Midnight Los Angeles time zone (Pacific).

here we go!!!!!!!!!!!

i have done three artist polls and have had a blast with all three. looking very forward to this.

i asked for side poll idea's:

albums obv

yes, obviously.

Album covers, maybe.

almost did this but in the end decided not to as we are already doing albums.

Side poll for Spoon: "Aw, yeah" vs "c'mon" vs "well alright!"

made me laugh, made me think of "Written in Reverse."

Are there any Spoon side projects other than the Divine Fits?

not really, but gave me an idea for POO Divine Fits song.

i like the idea of a non-a-sides & non-album-tracks canon, although a strict compilation of noms might get tricky as album tracks in one country might not be in another, etc.

i gave this serious consideration. at first i was going to do a Singles/EP's poll but unlike the Boo Radleys (the last poll i did a Singles/EP's side poll), Spoon only have seven EP's or singles and didn't feel like that was enough to rank. plus stuff like "The Agony of Laffitte" only has two songs on it. so what i did was increase the limit of songs from 20 to 25 to include your favorite B-sides or non-album tracks.

Voted! Haha, I bet you didn't think I would!

Telephono: 3 tracks
A Series of Sneaks: 4 tracks
Girls Can Tell: 0 tracks
Kill the Moonlight: 2 tracks
Gimme Fiction: 2 tracks
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 2 tracks
Transference: 1 track
They Want My Soul: 0 tracks

EPs/Singles: 2 tracks

16 total

haha, i really didn't. should be fun.

Just a reminder of the wonder that is "Vittorio E.": https://youtu.be/BEty6S3hoEk

More early period campaigning plz or my ballot will be 99% >= Gimme Fiction.

This one is definitely making my ballot

https://youtu.be/_rEGx9Aou_0

Wow Telephono really does sound like the Pixies. And not much like (my idea of) Spoon.

don't sleep on the closing track on telephono folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPKgWyaQ6Dg

I'm quite into Spoon, but I'm only familiar with their most recent stuff (Ga, Transference, new one). Guess I should spend a little time with their older stuff before I send my ballot.

Cutting songs from A Series of Sneaks is really tough. That album is just stuffed full of amazing tunes.

yeah it's going to be tough to limit picks from that album...as a whole it's too long and there are some misses but the good songs on it are amazing.

Voted! I spent longer over this than any other poll I've done, happy with my ballot though

A Series of Sneaks: 6 tracks
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 4 tracks
Gimme Fiction: 3 tracks
Girls Can Tell: 3 tracks
They Want My Soul: 3 tracks
Transference: 3 tracks
Kill the Moonlight: 2 tracks
Telephono: 1 track

I really need to listen to A Series of Sneaks again.

My conception of Spoon really begins with Girls Can Tell and it seems like I'm doing it wrong.

While you're there, give Telephono a listen too.

jesus shit Gimmme Fiction is an amazing album. for some reason Ga Ga Ga and Girls Can tell were always my go-to albums i have no idea why. fuck this is good.

This will be a fun poll, I'm enjoying going back and listening to these records again.

I've got my 1 and 2 picked out already, gonna go listen to the first four albums and pick out 23 more by Monday hopefully.

Loved spending the day at work re-listening to this wonderful band. Ballot is in.

Telephono: 0 tracks
A Series of Sneaks: 4 tracks
Girls Can Tell: 5 tracks
Kill the Moonlight: 0 tracks
Gimme Fiction: 4 tracks
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 4 tracks
Transference: 2 tracks
They Want My Soul: 6 tracks

what i do to prepare for a poll is re-listen to everything that artist has done, doesn't matter if its my poll or any poll i vote in. New Order, because i had a 40 ballot poll, almost killed me. so now i'm doing the same thing for Spoon. so i went on Spotify and hit shuffle but all it has played, so far, is tracks from the last two albums. i wonder how Spotify picks its random songs? maybe by how many times tracks are played, so the last two albums makes sense. i just checked and they do have all albums in their queue so i will have to mix it up.

the funny thing about that is i own all their albums, so i don't need to listen on Spotify but it is so much easier...

aw yeah it's on! laffitte don't POLL me now!

so since this is also a campaigning thread, here is my introduction song to Spoon. pretty sure this will make my ballot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWa7w3Sd_RI

https://youtu.be/tbcUfIimKaU
My #2, and
https://youtu.be/hwxpJD8HTQo
my #1. Great songs, if in the same vein.

If there's a song Spoon is known for by the general public, it's The Way We Get By. It's their Come On Eileen.

except not horrible

Come on Eileen is godlike.

So is Way We Get By.

Excited for this poll.

https://youtu.be/hwxpJD8HTQo
my #1. Great songs, if in the same vein.

― Tom Violence, Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:43 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prob will be mine too

i love that we live in a world where "They Way We Get By" is a gigantic hit. i always thought "The Underdog," "Sister Jack" or even something like " Written In Reverse" were much bigger songs?

aahh – so glad to see i'm not the only one who loves Trouble Comes Running. not sure if it's my number one tho.

Totally repping for 'Metal School' and the two "Laffitte" songs - they'll be high on my ballot. Had a buddy that worked at Elektra during that whole mess - textbook example of a big label not understanding their talent in the 90s. Jason Falkner felt the same way, I just don't think he wrote a song about it.

I love Finer Feelings. Probably gonna have to vote for 5 songs off GAx5 (coincidentally, one for each of the Ga's)

It took 11 months of songs stuck at the college station's MegaSeg for me to realize "New York Kicks" and "They Want My Soul" are strong tunes.

Totally repping for 'Metal School' and the two "Laffitte" songs - they'll be high on my ballot. Had a buddy that worked at Elektra during that whole mess - textbook example of a big label not understanding their talent in the 90s. Jason Falkner felt the same way, I just don't think he wrote a song about it.

at least one of the lafittes is ~highly likely~ for my top 5

this is the one i'll campaign for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGg7HRujvKw

don't forget about this snappy little number:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsF0nbo7r0o

Before the poll I only heard 4 Spoon albums: GF, Moonlight, GCT and They Want My Soul, so that's about half without the (numerous!) EPs and b-sides and whatnot. So I am in that very soft spot of discovering the band while being overly familiar with them, and to me it's always the most enjoyable moment in the 'listening to music' process.

thanks Bee Oké basically

don't forget about this snappy little number

But i did! Dammit.

i have no idea any song outside of the albums.

Think i might participate in this.

http://transformrockford.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/195ekzts52eckjpg.jpg

Voted!

Telephono: 1
A Series of Sneaks: 2
Girls Can Tell: 7
Kill the Moonlight: 5
Gimme Fiction: 1
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 5
Transference: 2
They Want My Soul: 2

not sure if either will make the cut for me but my favourite non-album tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYp6iUlP-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DBUCRiwR1M

2nd one mistitled btw, to not of

and personal pet album track i will place high:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpYd7bOn52M

I'm tempted to vote for "Dracula's Cigarette" from the Get Nice! digital bonus disc from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. I'm not quite sure I could replace anything on my ballot with it, though.

i've listened to everything (except telephono) very extensively, but usually an album at a time. i shuffled everything all at once the other day and it was kind of weird breaking up the songs, you'd think that for such a songwriting-oriented band they'd work in any combination, but with the flow of the albums broken a lot more songs suddenly seemed momentarily annoying or thin or repetitive (of their tricks, not in the moment-to-moment sense)

Ballot sent!

They Want My Soul: 0
Transference: 5
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 3
Gimme Fiction: 4
Kill the Moonlight: 2
Girls Can Tell: 2
A Series of Sneaks: 4
Telephono: 2
non-album: 3

I had never listened to They Want My Soul before, and I didn't have enough time to get to like it, but I think if I spent a few weeks with it in my car I'd get into it like I did with Transference.

I'm tempted to vote for "Dracula's Cigarette" from the Get Nice! digital bonus disc from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

I voted for something from Get Nice!

TWMS is really growing on me.

i never heard telamon bridge before, it's good

voted!

they want my soul 5
transference 4
ga ga ga ga ga 8
gimme fiction 3
kill the moonlight 3
girls can tell 1
a series of sneaks 1
telephono 0

I tried to get into a series of sneaks, maybe if I'd caught it 17 (!) years ago it would have stuck but sadly my appetite for noisy(ish) lo-fi(ish) alt rock seems to have diminished considerably over the years; also like telephono it doesn't conform to my (late to the party) idea of what spoon should sound like.

that's not when the party starts, you can't be late then

There are definitely parts of A Series of Sneaks that I think of as having the signature 'Spoon sound' songwriting-wise (The Minor Tough, Reservations) but the distinctive production style isn't quite there yet.

Girls Can Tell/Everything Hits at Once is obviously when the party really kicks off but I didn't arrive till gax5 (very late into the night but still gathering strength).

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t137/rosestar77/Batsignal2.jpg

Asking for some help

I just got an intern supervisor sort of promotion at work, so what this means is I don't have all the time I wanted to put into this poll. So I'm asking for help, just like with my New Order (Millsner) and the Steely Dan (pplains) polls I need someone who would be willing to help out with the pictures for this poll. I really didn't know what I wanted to do with pictures anyways, so someone else vision sounds great to me. So If anyone has the time and wants to help me with the pictures for this poll, email the spoon link above.

Thanks!

btw, this is going very well. we are into double digits already.

been staying away from this thread, even though I'm listening to a fuckton of Spoon this summer, for an absurdly nerdly/completist reason: I can't make a list without relistening to Kill the Moonlight, because that was the first one I heard and I wanna do right by it; but that was 13 years ago, & it's been a long time since I could even play the CD, let alone remember where it is :/

Man, I'm feeling totally old in this thread (I do in all Spoon conversations, but it's especially concentrated here). As someone who was there in the beginning when the earliest Spoon material dropped on Matador in the mid-90s, and remembers what a tight unit they were and how no-frills and quick and dirty all their songs were, seeing people discount those years as a band still in search of an identity is absolutely maddening. From my perch, Spoon squandered many of their best traits when they started to get more mellowed out and self-indulgent. Not that Britt can't still write a good song if he tries, but he seems to overthink it most of the time (and that's been the case since Girls Can Tell). They turned into one of the precious bands I hate so much (Death Cab, Decemberists, The Shins, Rilo Kiley, etc) who saw all the energy and vibrancy and spontaneity in some guitar-based indie rock in the 90s and said to themselves "pish to that!" and made the music as harmless and inoffensive as they possibly could (the curse of indie rock which remains to this day). I mean, if Gimme Fiction hit you at just the right time Telephono hit someone else a decade earlier, you can't help when you were born. I just feel a bit of pity for you.

it sucks that you are so old and sad as well

ikr

much love but it's crazy to compare any spoon record to death cab or decemberists; the entirety of the spoon catalog that could be considered precious consists of the underdog

Spoon is basically the indie music version of Metallica. Metallica definitely has a separate base of fans who ONLY care about music they've made from the s/t album through the present and they are a silly group of people.

idk some of those bands were big/cresting in the indie world just when i was listening a lot and doing a college radio show and whatever, and i have basically had 0 interest in listening to any of them ever, then, during the time i was listening to minimal indie, and later when i had started paying a little attention again. i started listening to spoon in the meantime and even though they're obviously… tasteful… and totally get play with that crowd and are in it for the careerist long haul now, none of that has ever made me feel like, gosh, this music is so appropriate and quality, what an excellent reason for listening to ben gibbard or whatever

i wanna say they have their weird self-sufficiency, a little insularity, that does make them akin to a lot of indie rock, but theirs is because they belong in an imaginative world (a la benedict anderson nations as 'imagined communities' ha) that only exists in records, like, some kind of idealized alternative history of rock. whereas some of their peers belong in an imaginative world that exists in… lol college. and lol portland. lol npr. etc.

That reminds me of my favorite post ever to be posted on ilm, from a very long time ago...

Pinefox sez : "Too little interest in songwriting".

To me this is so far wide of the mark that it completely misses what early-Ramones are all about. The analogies with Brill building and early 60's girlpop songcraft has been trotted out so often wrt The Ramones that it's tempting to dismiss it out-of-hand. There is some truth in it though - I can hear the Shangri-La's, say, in I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend or Babysitter. That's not to say that this automatically makes the Ramones good, of course.

But they're better than good - they're masters. Their best songs are great because they are lean and simple - there's nothing that shouldn't be there. Couple this with a simple melodic hook(nothing fancy - 4 chords max. and another 2 for the middle 8) and a propulsive beat, and you have something irresistable. Add some elements of The Ramones 'own world' imagery (pick from : NY street images, retards, 'nam casualties, glue, girls)and you have genius.

Take "Glad to see you Go" from Leave Home - straight into a Beach Boys/Eddie Cochrane morphed melody and just listen to the way that the song shifts gear slightly on lines 3 and 4 of the verse as Tommy closes the high-hat a touch under the chords and melody. The shift into the chorus is sublime and the sheer rush as it comes back to the last verse from the middle 8 ("I need somebody good, I need a miracle") is like a ride in the space shuttle - on the outside.

Take "Rockaway Beach" - another point on the curve linking "Summer in the City", " Dancing in the Street" and "Baby on more Time". Again - great chorus, great lyrics ("Chewin out a rhythm on my bubblegum") and a sense of PLACE. In less than 3 minutes you feel exactly what it's like to be a teenager in baking hot NY - and you feel it every single time you hear it. That's great songwriting, Pinefox.

Rockaway, Glad..., Listen to My Heart, 53rd and 3rd, You Should Never Have Opened That Door are equals of "Please, Please Me", "California Girls", "My Generation" ..... the list goes on....if you can look past the "punk" thing which is really a red herring as far as The Ramones are concerned.

I guess it all depends on what you look for in a song - they're not Burt or Jimmy Webb, but they tell a story, crank up the adrenaline, and make their own world for 3 mins for EVERY SINGLE TRACK on the first 4 albums. That's classic.

― Dr. C, Sunday, July 15, 2001 8:00 PM (14 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Ramones 'own world' imagery

Bonus applicable content: "Their best songs are great because they are lean and simple - there's nothing that shouldn't be there."

That's why the earliest Spoon is the best Spoon.

Speaking of Gimme (Gimme Shock) Fiction, don't forget this one, fellow stragglers, while finalizing yr ballots...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmS7djrOut0

finally caved and dove in. not sure if i'll finish in time to vote, but this is proving a nice way to raise my estimation of Sneaks.

only liked maybe half of it before, but it's a really nice midpoint between their early pixies kick and where they'd wind up on GCT.

Where my song choices come from:

Kill The Moonlight 6
Transference 5
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 4
Other 4
Gimme Fiction 2
They Want My Soul 2
A Series Of Sneaks 1
Girls Can Tell 1

Not the order the albums are in.

Don't sleep on Waiting For The Kid To Come Out, kids.

Johnny Fever if it helps I will probably end up with 4+ from Sneaks on my first ballot -- that album is a total knockout & my appreciation for it only grows by the year (even as I remain uninterested in whatever preceded it)

"paper tiger." still best. ;__;

the drums sound so good in "the way we get by," everything sounds so good in "the beast and dragon adored"

I love Sneaks but I can't pull out individual tracks the way I can from later albums; it feels more of a piece to me, perhaps (although all their records do).

When I listen to Spoon I get a very strong sense of wanting to be in a band that rehearses in a big double garage in an Austin suburb, where they leave the big double garage door open because it's sunny and there's grass outside and you're just with your buddies and you've been in this band forever and you just do it because it's fun and simple and you like doing it, and all your songs are about the dayjobs you've had, and the local paper you used to read, and that guy from a few blocks away who had a ride-on lawnmower even though his yard was tiny, and the malt shop you go to (or take your kids to, as you get older). And I'm from Devon and have never been and will never go to Texas, and I've never wanted to be in a band, but Spoon make me want to be in a band, especially from KTM onwards through GGGGG (and a tiny little bit less since then). But that three album run is just perfect, and everything either side is so damn good too that it might as well be perfect.

And I think that's me trying to say the same as Dr C said about The Ramones 14 years ago.

I had the same problem with A Series of Sneaks, I ended up choosing the songs based on my iTunes playcount.

Voted!

Gimme Fiction (7)
Kill the Moonlight (6)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (5)
Girls Can Tell (3)
A Series of Sneaks (3)
Transference (1)

tip: if you search for 'spoon shake it off' on youtube you will get a woman playing the taylor swift song on spoons

pretty surrpised how poorly Ga5 has held up. i feel like i'm still a teenager when i put on GCT, but Ga5 makes me feel like either it hasn't aged too well or i haven't.

Transference felt like a kind of cool disappointment at the time, really curious how that one's gonna hit now. half expecting to love it

At least 4 songs on ĢGGGG still sound amazing to me and were high on my ballot

same. but it's hanging above Telephono on the 2nd lowest rung in my albums list thus far (though TWMS will probably bump it up). back in a high school summer i'd have ranked it 2nd highest, beneath GCT, but now i find it just doesn't hold together too well. there's a very long stretch of boredom that sets in early, the production experiments feel low risk/reward, and aside from "the underdog" even the highlights remind me of things they'd done previously and better (well, okay, maybe not "cigarette case," which has the neat distinction of having just three lines of lyrics but demanding at least as many listens to realize it). imo everything about it sounds really 2007, too, whereas the three albums before it sound like great rock records from whenever.

maybe this isn't the thread for it, but i'm curious to hear some thoughts on their live show. i saw them in '07 in Philly, which i remember having been a set that disappointed all of the dozen or so people i knew who went. gave them another shot at radio city on the Transference tour, which was just incredible. the last time was opening for Arcade Fire in Philly again, and it was probably worse than the first go around. both of the off nights gave me the impression that they realized the crowd wasn't really with it early in the set and decided to just phone it in. kinda endearing

seen them live three times. each time they were solid. there was nothing crazy about their shows – but they're a tight band and play very well together. there's nothing mind blowing, but they were always good.

(they were headlining each time, btw)

also, submitted!

album representation below (Johnny Fever is going to think I'm a monster)

Transference 5
Kill The Moonlight 5
Gimme Fiction 4
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 4
They Want My Soul 4
Girls Can Tell 3
A Series Of Sneaks 0
Telephono 0

i think i have a someone who is going to help me out with the images for the countdown part of this poll. they have no idea what they are getting themselves into. haha.

xp No, I'm clearly the weirdo monster here.

i don't know about that, the results have been all over the place. have no idea where this thing is actually going to go.

damn is TWMS dire. even duller than i remembered

it has grown on me but i was there with that album at first...

top to bottom,

GIRLS CAN TELL (5)
KILL THE MOONLIGHT (5)
GIMME FICTION (4)
TRANSFERENCE (7)
A SERIES OF SNEAKS (1)
GA GA GA GA GA (3)
THEY WANT MY SOUL (0)
TELEPHONO (0)

Transference comes in 4th despite its high yield 'cause most of its keepers fall pretty low on the list. if this were a 30-song ranking Sneaks would have tallied up most of the extra picks.

oh! and Sneaks beats Ga5 just 'cause it's way more consistent and curious. my three picks from Ga are nice, but taken with the rest of the album they can't offset all the competent snoozers.

anyway thank you Bee OK, i probably would've never revisited this band so thoroughly if it weren't for the prompt, and it was a lot of fun. summer's their best season, too.

Voted!

Albums in order of preference:

Kill the Moonlight (5)
Transference (4)
Gimme Fiction (4)
Girls Can Tell (3)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (3)

with the rest of the votes split among Sneaks/TWMS/Soft Effects EP

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was my way in to Spoon, so it'll always have a special place for me, but I think Kill The Moonlight is my absolute favourite, and their masterpiece; it's their most minimal and experimental, and their poppiest at the same time.

Re: live, only saw them once, on the Transference tour, and it was exactly as I'd expected; tight and fun. Not mind-blowing or life-changing, but just a good show that I was very glad to go to.

Listening to all the albums in order (but on shuffle within each album), I'm surprised how I seem to like them better and better as time goes on. I always thought KTM was a highlight, but up to GGGGG at least, I think they hit me harder every time out. Also thought it would be really tough to narrow it down to 25 songs that I really love, but it doesn't look like that'll be an issue. I've never given them a good headphone listen before - always full albums on the stereo - & it strikes me that their records are extremely well sequenced, creating a mood and a flow that doesn't really translate to picking out singles too well. Maybe that's why they've never really broken big, I dunno. I've always thought of them as being consistently strong, but a lot of their catalogue, song for song, is pretty slight. I think their production just gets better and better, too. Aw, c'mon!

Well alright.

Don't forget about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SaT5evtuQ

Also, just voted here are the splits

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 5
Girls Can Tell: 5
Transference: 4
Kill The Moonlight: 3
They Want My Soul: 3
Gimme Fiction: 3
A Series of Sneaks: 2

love take the 5th, such a perfect fake motown song

The extended coda to "I Saw the Light" is just bonkers.

in

Kill The Moonlight 5
A Series of Sneaks 4
Transference 4
Gimme Fiction 3
Girls Can Tell 3
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2
They Want My Soul 2
Telephono 1
Other 1

picking for this now, it's amazing how many times i'm grabbing 2-3 tracks in sequence

i just saw the first draft for the artwork, we are in for a treat!

Wrapping up my listening with my first airing in at least 5 years of A Series of Sneaks. It's getting me to thinking about its place in their narrative. Everybody knows the back story--Laffitte--and the fail and agony of, getting dropped from Elektra--but seriously, even if they had gotten the support, how successful would it have been in that Marcy Playground/Semisonic/Eve 6/Fastball/Nu Metal on the horizon 1998? On this listen, "Execution" feels to me like a Radio contender, although if had been plugged (no singles were issued at the time, aside from a "30 Gallon Tank" EP) programmers may have shied away from the subject matter (or not, '99 was when that shit really took hold).

anyway i can submit a ballot later this weekend? whats the actual actual actual date?

Voted tracks. we should call the rollout 'someone get popsicles'!

I was thinking about Johnny Fever's post above defending the early stuff, and it made me think about my own 'it's complicated' relationship with Wilco. I got into them when AM came out, and saw them right before Being There was released. It was an amazing show, right after Bennett had joined, and the band was completely on the edge-seriously it reminded me of seeing the Replacements. Then YHF happened and all of a sudden the bandwagon fills up, for a record that I thought was....ok. I still wince when I hear people say they didn't really do anything before Summerteeth.

Anyway, that's a long of way of saying...I am that asshole here on Spoon. Sorry Johnny Fever.

Gimme Fiction 5
Girls Can Tell 5
They Want My Soul 3
Transference 3
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2
Kill The Moonlight 2

lol

fwiw, AM and Being There are still my two most-played Wilco albums. YHF has a couple songs I love, many songs I have no feelings about at all, and one that I really really hate.

tele - 2
sneaks - 3
girls - 5
kill - 4
fiction - 3
ga - 2
transference - 4
soul - 1
other - 1

JF-yeah I busted out Being There recently and was blown away again.
Bonus snark: Wilco latecomers who love the experimental sound and then say Jesus etc. is their fave song on YHF.

Pretty ballsy for a band with (at the time) much less than legendary status:
"I'm listening to 'Mountain to Sound' / and the way it's panned is cool."

That might be a good thread: bands referring to their own back catalogue in their songs.

haha more evidence for my world-unto-self theory

Songs In Which The Artist "Name-Drops" Their Earlier Works

Boom, thanks, RS!

anyway i can submit a ballot later this weekend? whats the actual actual actual date?

i can't do the results thread until towards the end of next week so...

Voting has been extended through the weekend. so now you have until late Sunday Night July 26th.

poll deadlines and ILM want my soul

thx b ok

People, Transference is a killer record. For some reason that one never made it on my radar until now. Thanks Spoon poll.

Yeah, I don't think I ever realised what a great record Transference is either until I just went back to it earlier today.

Aargh, I left my ballot at work & won't be back there for a week. I'll just have to listen to them all again.

Transference is one of those records I've turned the most around on in the last ten years.

love how the drums and guitars are mixed to sound as thick as possible to coincide with the spareness of the arrangements.

given the albums before and after it transference feels more and more like a love letter to deep spoon heads. it's one of my favorite records, period.

starting to give out confirmation emails, give me about an hour and if you don't get one after that please speak up or resend.

everyone as of right now should have received a confirmation email.

Transference really dropped in my estimation after They Want My Soul. What with the Telephono & Sneaks Brian Hursting and everyone going lukewarm on Ga I suddenly feel like I'm on a different page from everyone else.

Transference is pretty awesome. As good as GGGGG and GF; still think KTM is their masterpiece though.

Tried TWMS again yesterday and it's just not there. It's not bad, but there's something missing, to my mind.

TWMS feels like their Make Believe or Stadium Arcadium, or something. it sounds like some combination of their previous work, but with all the worthwhile features sanded off for "streamlining's" sake.

it took me forever to finally come around on they Want My Soul and it has some killer songs. especially "New York Kiss" which this poll is named after.

speaking of names, what should we call the Spoon results thread?

Best closing track on a Spoon album? (I think they've done some subtle crackers.)

I Turn My Poll On.

How many ballots do we have so far?

WE BELIEVE IN THE SUM OF OUR POLL

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well over 20 and would love to get some more, so please vote.

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― nate woolls, Friday, July 24, 2015 10:36 AM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

My Little Japanese Cigarette Poll.

Jonathon Fisk Speaks With His Poll.

Rhthm & POLL

When does the voting close? I plan on getting mine in later today.

They Want My POLL

Merchants of POLL.

poll has upped my estimation of transference and sneaks so much

Voting time has extended until Sunday night

Best closing track? "Black Like Me"

OK, just voted

Does anyone have that Blur spreadsheet on hand? Going to try and make my life easier.

thank you for pushing the deadline back! kept forgetting

I can send you the spreadsheet that I used for the Radiohead poll

Xp

Please,thanks.

I've just sent it to the poll email address. It's a Google Sheet, it's fairly simple and self explanatory. I'm not sure how sharing works with Google Sheets so you might want to save a copy and remove me as a user to stop me seeing the results?

Haha, don't look. I will figure it out. Thanks.

haha love They Want My POLL and POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL

also, Street Tar in Summer'll Do a Job on Your POLL

got it nate, thanks a bunch.

I'm

I'm stoked for results.

Insert your own panning effect

i have just finished my ballot.

surprised myself.

Voting is still open until Sunday NIght.

Spoon get away with stuff that I would laugh in the face of other bands for trying. Like having a song called Merchants of Soul.

bump for updated thread title

someone get popsicles, someone do something about this POLL

Part of Spoon's charm is how quickly Daniel found a vocal tone commensurate with this guitar tone. Sexy as hell too.

http://i.imgur.com/1XlrxbY.jpg

otm

"Spoon get away with stuff that I would laugh in the face of other bands for trying. Like having a song called Merchants of Soul."

this is so true i never even noticed it

thanks Mod!

they also wrote a song about a Japanese cigarette case.

Yeah, and "Black Like Me"! Somehow they pull it off. Also all the "alright"s and "C'mon"s - in most people's mouths that would sound like sub-Springsteen tryhardism but for them it works so. Well.

only a couple of days left to vote. loving the order we have so far but a few more votes can really alter the order.

Just over 24 hours left to vote.

Benz:

0 Tele
2 ASoS
5 GCT
1 KtM
2 GF
8 Gax5
2 Trans
5 TWMS

Ballot sent. My breakdown is;

Telephono - 0
Series of Snakes - 4
Girls Can Tell - 2
Kill The Moonlight - 4
Gimme Fiction - 6
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - 5
Transference - 3
They Want My Soul - 1

Just submitted!

Tele – 2
SOS – 4
Loveways - 2
GCT – 1
KTM – 1
GF – 6
Gax5 – 3
Transcendence – 2
TWMS – 3
Non-album track - 1

Sadly, my pick from Soft Effects fell off by the end, reducing the spread of sources

yeah I'm surprised that prob three TWMS tracks will show up on my ballot.

Girls Can Tell = 2
KTM = 3
GF = 4
Gax5 = 4
Transference = 3
TWMS = 3

KTM is the canonical pick, but, really, it depends which album you buy first. GF was mine; the others don't sound vastly different. KTM actually is the one I've most trouble remembering how the tunes go.

Was anyone surprised by what an earworm "New York Kiss" has turned out to be?

They've always done great closers.

imo KTM became the canonical pick due to some big hits on the A side and it being the first album where critics cared BEFORE it came out. but i dig the albums before it more

which isn't to say SOS and GCT didn't have champions, just that GCT is what established them as one to watch with the bigwigs

Was anyone surprised by what an earworm "New York Kiss" has turned out to be?

nope

love the bass notes on the piano after the chorus

Sent!

ASoS: 1
GCT: 3
KTM: 6
GF: 4
GGGGG: 4
T: 3
TWMS: 3
Non LP: 1

fiction: 7
transference: 6
ga: 5
girls: 2
moonlight: 2
soul: 2
sneaks: 1

whoo, my inbox has exploded today.

Aw,Yeah!

i originally thought They Want My Soul was a disappointment, turns out i voted for four songs off that album, New York Kiss indeed:

4 TWMS
5 Trans
6 GAx6
5 GF
3 KtM
1 GCT
1 ASoS

4 hours left to vote.

i'm going to bed but there are a few hours left if you are inclined to vote.

Sent one.

Urgh, will vote! Hold the door open for me. I have to go to bed but will hastily assemble a ballot in the AM.

open for now.

will be sending out another round of confirmation emails tonight.

Going to start with the Divine Fits stuff on Wednesday night,might also do part of the album countdown as well that night. The majority of the poll will be on Thursday and Friday, only will go into Saturday if I run out of time

I also have someone who is helping with the pictures and can tell you we are in for a treat.

still waiting for your ballot hardcore dilettante.

sending out confirmation emails right now, will post that i'm done and that voting is closed here in a few hours.

i have sent out confirmation emails to everyone. please speak up if you did not get one.

voting is officially closed.

I hang my head in shame.

It's been a big weekend. But I look forward to the rollout & moaning to myself that if I had sent a ballot in "Anything You Want" could have placed higher than "The Fitted Shirt" (which is the only Spoon track I actively loathe, tho I think I may be alone in this opinion).

"the fitted shirt" is like the spooniest spoon that ever spooned!

i feel like it's an AC/DC riff reconfigured into a Spoon song. (which, obviously, is great)

yeah but then there's the beatley bit Peak Spoon QED

I put "The Fitted Shirt" high on my ballot because I played drums in a band with a friend who is a big Spoon fan and he named the band the Fitted Shirt.

I was also once in a drop-D metal band with a song called "Requiem."

"I was in this drop-d metal band we called 'Requiem'" might be my favourite lyric ever. That and "moving furniture and cutting lawns".

meddal band

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