POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL - SPOON (ILM artist poll #67) --- The results thread

that Eleanor cover is great, did not know that she went out with Britt.

or use to go out with...

How did that have 3 # 1 votes but still Finnish so low?!

Stay Don't Go and Trouble both too low, IMO. Both are top-10 for me.

no right to bitch because I didn't vote, but that's not gonna stop me.

and it shouldn't. i voted for both and it is insane that it did get three number ones but still only managed 29.

I love the unusual (for Spoon) backing vox immoderately.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HHx7qZ4-rgtgDqkp65DFuanhBxdIhc_WX2dYeTKvgqw=w640-h320-no

28. Me and the Bean
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
356 Points, 13 Votes

Song
Live

can anyone do a Spotify of this? that is one thing i did forget.

trouble comes running was my #1. it's flawless to me.

Me and the Bean, top ten for me. I love how they would cover little-known songs by Austin scene friends.

again thanks C. Grisso/McCain for pointing out the wrong release date for A Series of Sneaks. thanks to "mod" all those mistakes have been updated.

oof. lotta good songs being burned early here.

Trouble Comes Running is so great. Would've voted for Me & the Bean but wanted to avoid covers.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/howmxag3d06wnqxeRtHj6iVInHaam6-FmJiHOCDzXR0=w640-h320-no

27. The Fitted Shirt
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
375 Points, 10 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Song
Live

Trouble Come Running wuz robbed. It's top ten fer sure

at first i did not think this song would make it, as it was not in the first draft i sent to Thermo Thinwall. what happened is some people send in ballots with just "Fitted Shirt" so when i found those songs it was of course this song will be in the Top 40.

I had no idea Me and the Bean was a cover! Amazing song though, was in my top ten.

"The Fitted Shirt" makes more sense as concept in the skinny jeans era.

Fitted Shirt maybe their goofiest lyric in a career not lacking in goofy lyrics.

of course, that's part of the charm

one of jim eno's finest as well

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hprjhYTDtQP5VC6YjESrNjQFPTbBtqVuFAhD1cYmdmU=w640-h320-no

25. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
379 Points, 12 Votes

Band Video
Live

i voted for a lot of songs on Gimme Fiction but this isn't one of them. i do like it however.

GF has their best one-two punch imo

glad this made it, i wasn't sure if ppl dug this song

good pic for this one

sorry for the delay, was eating.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GJJYB_9Zy2tCpYXoptjKvN-hc0eyZsEbFQUhTkMqF2c=w640-h320-no

24. New York Kiss
From: They Want My Soul
Released: August 5, 2014
138 Points, 13 Votes, 1 Number One

Song
Live

a huge song that is now off the board. this one did make my ballot as it's just so catchy.

LOVE this song.

as I said last week, it might be their best earworm in a decade

sort of cool that this is the last new song before we did this poll. it might not be their last song that they recorded but is the last song on their newest album.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/twqi2XH3n3NEIPEX6QZUvnWtbrnQTh_BXKYxUN-0v1Y=w640-h320-no

23. Anything You Want
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
383 Points, 13 Votes

Song
Live Hollywood Forever Cemetery

damn, "New York Kiss" had 380 Points.

sorry abut that.

Also the numbering seems to have gotten off from the images around #26 just fyi

damn, thanks for that.

so my 1 (Fitted Shirt) and 2 (Anything You Want) are gone.
I'm so out of step. then again, dissing a Spoon song over lyrics is a bit rich.

yeah this is the best.

i was at that Hollywood Forever Cemetery concert. i got really drunk and loved that show.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Uh4ZLZr1MP9wzE_gtjG3tH_OINY5C0T-QKNjWwMRyQM=w640-h320-no

23. I Saw the Light
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
396 Points, 14 Votes

Song
Live

"Anything You Want" ended up being my top GCT pick. Love the lyrical shoutout to the Austin Sound Exchange.

http://www.rejectedunknown.com/images/Muralpaper.jpg

...and how it sounds like he sings "Hatful of beer" instead of "Half of..."

i made my case... to the woohohorld

this would have been top 5 had I weighted my ballot. love on the second half of the song when the bass kicks in followed by the jangly ass guitar tone.

yeap, now there goes my number 2. incredible song.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sABvme4g_n9H1lqvQRwJq0irGnRxhbv3dDcWw0UpLBc=w640-h320-no

22. The Ghost of You Lingers
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 2007
409 Points, 11 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Song
Live

That wasn't my #1, but it was in my top five.

but the piano doesn't grate on you after like 30 seconds?

i've accepted this is a real love/hate song even if i lean towards the latter

ya - i can't deal with the piano either.

That chord change though!