https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qfrc8sKieY_WwRG9eti1cZzKITR6AV63GucdZI0kwg=w1153-h451-no
33 ballots recieved (two were unranked)99 Tracks received votes9 Albums received votes with 28 ballots6 Divine Fits Songs received votes with 14 ballots
Thanks for your patience ILM but I needed the time.
HUGE thank you to The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall my co-poll runner for doing the pictures for Divine Fits and the main poll.
Where this all came from: 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
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
here we go, enjoy!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
new poll kicks!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C1GMww9ywf1eKvgJL_UX1WXlhCqFX78T7DryikxZlA=w640-h320-no
Three way tie3. The Salton Sea, Like Ice Cream and Baby Get WorseFrom: A Thing Called Divine FitsReleased: August 28, 20122 Votes each
The Salton SeaLike Ice Cream VideoBaby get Worse
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link
so the "Like Ice Cream" video is not real, i thought it was.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
what up bird
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
Thermo Thinwall has done so well with these images, we are in for a treat! it will come into focus more tomorrow.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yM2sdQBa3ybZAU8we3eMAoRgKJlvL1wpaBd_qD3lhw=w640-h320-no
2. ShiversFrom: A Thing Called Divine FitsReleased: August 28, 20123 Votes
SongLiveThe Birthday Party (originally known as The Boys Next Door) sung by Nick Cave
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
damn this is the version of Nick Cave doing it that i should have posted https://youtu.be/QsIPoRTBV44
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
this was my Divine Fits pick, so good.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
Rowland Stuart Howard wrote "Shivers" at the age of 16 while in the band The Young Charlatans. Howard gained acclaim after joining Melbourne-based band The Boys Next Door, when the song was released as a single. The band changed their name to The Birthday Party and Howard's discordant guitar remained a major factor in their sound.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
16 huh
sheesh
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
i know, that is insane. especially when i think of myself at 16.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:30 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pekBOzhvcVoZSPueI458nJPPAXeoWxm8LdrWr5IlbQ=w640-h320-no
1. Would That Not Be NiceFrom: A Thing Called Divine FitsReleased: August 28, 20124 Votes
Band VideoLive at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles 08-28-2012
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
worthy winner.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link
Divine Fits
14 Ballots received6 Different Songs
1. Would That Not Be Nice2. Shivers3. The Salton Sea3. Like Ice Cream 3. Baby Get Worse6. For Your Heart
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
let's do that again:
1. Would That Not Be Nice - 4 Votes2. Shivers - 3 Votes3. The Salton Sea - 2 Votes3. Like Ice Cream - 2 Votes3. Baby Get Worse - 2 Votes6. For Your Heart - 1 Vote
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:49 (eight years ago) link
should i do a few albums tonight or wait until tomorrow?
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
Whatever you like. I'm going to bed. Sleep wants my soul.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NvZx8SoDEP3_7Bl90RXbio5cvDkjn3Ym3jimT6hGSg=s911-no
Divine Fits9. A Thing Called Divine FitsReleased: August 28, 2012277 Points, 11 Votes
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
well that's no huge surprise
huge picture tho
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 03:46 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/umsNstKC3eWY94vJBWbpHiW0tu7J_dz13x1AP6Zfmw=s500-no
8. TelephonoReleased: April 23, 1996482 Points, 19 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah it was, fixed the image size.
xpost
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vd-NQbHiT96b74dypSu_o-o5AwKlZBkzz5d9BWk4AA=s500-no
7. They Want My SoulReleased: August 5, 2014603 Points, 21 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
Surprisingly solid effort...had it at #3.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 July 2015 05:51 (eight years ago) link
TWMS gettin' that slot it deserves
― soyrev, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:05 (eight years ago) link
will be pretty ;_; if Transference is next
― soyrev, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
also, would be interested in hearing from the lone rangers who gave telephono and TWMS their #1
― soyrev, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:07 (eight years ago) link
Telephono was my #1. It's the only Spoon album I honestly know backwards and forwards because I've listened to it a gazillion times in the last nearly 20 years.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:31 (eight years ago) link
TWMS was my #2 and in short it's just full of great songs, far more than Transference, and still impeccably produced. Y'all need to spend more time with it.
Just read the Guardian review which helpfully points out the title track lifts from Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra’s Love Theme.
― ledge, Thursday, 30 July 2015 11:53 (eight years ago) link
I'm a sucker for catchy radio friendly singalong melodies btw.
― ledge, Thursday, 30 July 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
i have a clear first and last but outside of that i really have most of the albums close together, and i like all of them. but even so, twms #2 and better than transference is basically indefensible.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
i'm being called into work, so this is going to restart later then i would have liked.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
not going to put in a full day, so i will be back in a few hours.
even work wants your soul!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
lol
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Heading home, will resume in a few.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TR8DkZhUBtgHvRYF5CeLqCOxBXcb5oEcJbC70p7CuQ=s500-no
6. A Series of SneaksReleased: May 5, 1998684 Points, 23 Votes, 2 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
Too low! (my number one)
― nate woolls, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EvUGaWorJhrts0xX-VFK3lze1FBGxDA77wRGydaJ4g=s500-no
5. Girls Can TellReleased: February 20, 2001788 Points, 25 Votes, 2 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
i really thought this would be higher. it seems like this album was a lot of peoples go to album.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
they weren't even on my radar until 2002
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
seems a smidge thinner than the next couple few
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PBthXCAhI_y_cMAX-Kl4XRss1kBmD3FLR5He57FpLA=s500-no
4. TransferenceReleased: January 19, 2010794 Points, 25 Votes, 5 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
as you can see Transference only beat Girls Can Tell by six points. five number ones it what pushed it past.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
TOO LOW
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
five number ones is something but they were probably peaking.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vh8WLgJXVYE-UrAkxwmGUGzXVEfrHkHE_ud6iErVJQ=s500-no
3. Gimme FictionReleased: May 10, 2005876 Points, 27 Votes, 6 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
so i had gimme fiction and ga5 way lower than most
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
my number one, when i was re-listening to Spoon for this poll this was the one that made me happiest.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dM5NIkC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KpEQZzp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QrN0sK6.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
I like the first image better - but I felt the second went better with the title.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
hi stranger, can't thank you enough for the images for this poll. hopefully we will team up again in the future.
(if i ever run a poll again)
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Uo4tk4J.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LnKtE7H.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bPJN9em.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
^^^^ love, love, love that :Me and the Bean" picture. so perfect.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/f3zbABO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/oonC3ZZ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/eVBsQ8Y.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/C86C5GO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LXXbQ0t.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uMIlpAO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/fAOpnP5.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
these images are having a profound effect on me tonight. it's probably because i have had a very hard three days and work and drinking red wine. but it makes me realize people are people and why is there so much hate in the United States at this moment in time. i know it was worse back in the day but i didn't live then. i'm living now and this administration is tearing this country apart is the worst thing i have experienced in my life.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
peace, rant over
more Spoon to come...
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/hYiDZhn.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3oHewWQ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MkTUiF8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/FHnwjky.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XJHQkPb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/509eEFJ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0SBSpmr.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WgQAu14.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
^^^ one of the best.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/f1pU6Cv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9DTGvXN.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RUw1TPE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0hF1zPC.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GL6ffyd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SsaZzJH.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/chwTnYS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n86Du1g.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4v2tcWt.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
astonishing how well Thermo Thinwall captured the song in an image. these just happen to be some random images he had on a recent vacation. (iirc)
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
in case you haven't figured it out, the font and color all match up with the original albums.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
stuff i can never do on my own. this is why this ended up being one of my favorites that i have run. when you get stuff like this, well it speaks for itself...
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FTeDrLR.jpg
first a couple of extra images, with the song just missing the Top 40:
https://i.imgur.com/gYjWPCA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/VNINp2k.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
Thermo Thinwall probably thought like i did, that "Rent I Pay" will definitely make this poll.
it would be very interesting to see my ballot these days, especially with the addition of Hot Thoughts a very, very strong album. at first i thought it didn't measure up. these days it's actually one of their best.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wKfIXuX.jpg
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
1
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6aF1azJ.jpg
a Bee OK story:
i originally thought because ILM was in the hey day for artist polls that Spotify made a special template for polls. haha. anyways, someone made this playlist with an ILM logo induced:
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1fs5KUW.png
Spotify ILM Spoon Poll
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
very glad i was able to upload these images back to this poll. they were so good that they couldn't just disappear into thin air.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
Hey man. Glad to see how appreciated my efforts were! If you’re interested in more of my photography, I’ve been keeping my Flickr alive (username d y s i g n) (except without the spaces - just trying to google proof). Slowly Uploading photos from Italy right now.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
funny, Everything Hits At Once is the first song I ever heard by this band and it's still my favourite
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
these photos are insane!
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
Thanks?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 July 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Those pictures really are amazing. Great job Thermo Thinwall.
― the future is now, Monday, 16 July 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
A shame this poll couldn't include Hot Thoughts, a top three Spoon album, as I make clear.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 October 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
let's repoll in 20 years
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 21 October 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
great examination as usual, alfred.
i just sorta shrug, and know they are unfuckwithable, and don't much feel the need to argue it.
the aug 1 2015 spotify, mentioned far above, was playing on my player when i was put into a multi-day coma on the evening of aug 5 2015. after that, i lived in a rehab hospital for a couple months. i don't remember listening to spoon that day- that day is gone from me forever- but i later found other evidence (texts) that the playlist was my listening at that moment. seeing my comments from that week now rips me into shreds.
the last 3 years often have been almost unendurable, despite my outrageous good luck and fantastic group support. but spoon? still unfuckwithable.
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 21 October 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
spotify "playlist"
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 21 October 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUSdDIspy_A
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 October 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
etiolated spoon is my favorite spoon
― lowercase (eric), Sunday, 21 October 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
Found Transference LP second hand and I'm starting to think it's song qua song my favourite album.
I need to give the last two albums a bit more listening time. I love Spoon
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 2 December 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
I like Alfred's opening line "Why I like these Austinites mystifies me". I agree. They could so easily be the US equivalent of the Stereophonics if they weren't so damn good at writing great songs and knowing just how far to push the boat out with experimentation so it seems like they're not experimenting.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 2 December 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
Transference seems to be where the hard core Spoon fans seems to gravitate too, it has some killer hooks. They Want My Soul is even better for me as it has "Rainy Taxi" and arguably their best overall song "Inside Out" and also "New York Kiss," what an album. Hot Thoughts is their New Order album and i also love it. it is/was an interesting direction that i wish they continued down but it seems they are going back to rocking out...
this poll was so much fun!
― Bee OK, Saturday, 4 December 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
yeah this was great, enjoying just skimming back through some of it :)
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
Transference is far and away my favorite.
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Saturday, 4 December 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Glad I'm not the only one. That said, while they're not a band I listen to all the time, every album easily has 3-4 top tier songs
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 4 December 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
Hot Thoughts has become my most played Spoon album, thanks to "I Ain't the One" and especially "WhisperI’lllistentohearit." He sounds sexy as fuck on the latter.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 December 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link