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

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15. The Underdog
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Single
Single Released: July 10, 2007
444 Points, 14 Votes

Music Video
Letterman

Thanks Gavin, Leeds for the Spotify!

my number 7 and the first song that really stuck with me when i first got this album.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8l0cKl4xVTae0zpecbQnhqvbuU-lbPoYdaphN8WtDng=w640-h320-no

14. The Mystery Zone
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
460 Points, 16 Votes

The Mystery Zone (extended vinyl version)
Live

everything is said about "Written In Reverse" is actually about "The Mystery Zone". The song on the CD is 4:59 and the vinyl version is actually 5:50.

It made my ballot, just outside of the top ten.

why didn't I vote for this? I'm an idiot.

"my mathematical mind" TOO LOW imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJafYSTyU4#t=00m05s

this was my number 11, so i guess i'm a typical fan and in with the hive mind crowd.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CeVo1qstSleUytpi--sugG_7sF2unavj1GR_W3IgmA8=w640-h320-no

13. Don't You Evah
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and EP
EP Released: April 8, 2008
475 Points, 14 Votes, 1 Number One

Music Video
Live
Original from The Natural History 6:27

ha, Youtube is wrong with the time again this time with The Natural History version as it's only around 3:40 or so.

first time i have heard the original, it's nice. doesn't have the same spunk.

The main guitar part on Mystery Zone is so hypnotic, that little bit of delay on every second strum of the chord (the downstroke? Not completely sure).

Don't You Evah was my #3, the original is a cool song but Spoon's version adds so much.

this was also on my ballot.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uwocSBy72xIvLY4EDIkjTStii-oWb0VR6TCX53asLKo=w640-h320-no

12. I Summon You
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
481 Points, 17 Votes

Song
Black Cab Sessions
Live

Deceptively simple, Sister Jack. Sounds like a throwaway three chord number but there's twelve (count 'em!) chords in the verse and that neat switch to 5/4 at the end.

― ledge, Saturday, August 1, 2015 4:08 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Spoon did "Sister Jack" better as "The Underdog," but I'm not fond of either.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 1, 2015 5:12 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

Mystery Zone has the easiest baseline to play ever. kinda hypnotic.

Summon You is really good. Such great vocals/phrasing on it. Another easy one to play on guitar too :)

I'll have to try that. Sister Jack is pretty easy and v satisfying. Well I guess I would say that, since I like it.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Z-wQ8I3jCgaVCaFCzou6ypTNiJ7i_wnL3fNISUXqFnU=w640-h320-no

11. Don't Make Me a Target
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 2007
483 Points, 15 Votes, 1 Number One

Fan Video
Live

Wow.

I hate that song.

don't you evah and don't make me a target were the only songs i voted for off gaaaaa, curious if anything is yet to place

I think I liked the original version of "Don't You Ever" better than Spoon's, but I can't place quite why. I think it takes itself more seriously?

The Mystery Zone was my #4, love that song to bits. It really is hypnotic and, while I don't usually listen to Spoon lyrics, I like the lyrical themes of this one.

xpost nothing I voted for from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga has placed yet. One I expect to do extremely well, the other two I'm worried fell below 40. Half of my top 10 was in the lower 15, so who knows?

Top 10

The Underdog is too low. Sister Jack as well.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/H88aLg6VV97fURBHBoP1_RlAsYxAn6H_qPmiPz29Rdg=w640-h320-no

10. Jonathon Fisk
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
507 Points, 15 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Music Video
Fan Video
Live

*From fan video: The song is about the guy who used to beat up Britt Daniels in middle school. For some reason, I thought it'd be a good fit.

^^My #1.

love the tension in the song, didn't vote for it however.

awesome, i had talked myself into mystery zone not making it.

Hope we see some Sneaks songs in the top 10, Quincy Punk Episode has to be there surely?

based on the albums and what we've got so far, i don't think this is a quincy punk episode kinda room

glad to see fisk squeak into top 10

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

― Spottie, Saturday, August 1, 2015

I meant 'Awesome single picked up by Starbucks.'

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rNN_YygO_UidMjJI1sfWCYYmEq-RzD5SK1X-Wobb4Ok=w640-h320-no

9. Small Stakes
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
523 Points, 16 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Music Video
Live

^ My #25, I didn't really expect it to be this high. I assume then that Way We Get By will be #1.

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

― Spottie, Saturday, August 1, 2015

I meant 'Awesome single picked up by Starbucks.'

Ohh haha

"Idiot Driver" should be coming up any time now, yes?

i think i like "Small Steaks" better.

"Small Stakes" reminds me of early Roxy Music; maybe it's the keyboard.

when i first heard small stakes (and all of ktm) i was only familiar with telephono. it was jarring and amazing. i still remember where i was.

the reason for my comment is because the image is wrong, but it sort of works.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FONGwb4k2AH9-8ricw9FG9uO1XPBRJzVufarp0kyX0A=w640-h320-no

8. Lines in the Suit
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
540 Points, 17 Votes

Fan Video
No Live version to be found

oh whoops! i did tell you not to trust my spelling!

again, I love how Britt Daniel anticipated 2010s fashion

though I saw him in line at the Pitchfork Festival's Chipotle stand in 2008 wearing cargo shorts and converse and was crushed.

I'd have have been crushed solely because he was in line for Chipotle

lol

tacos and sriracha want my soul

did not know that "Lines In the Suit" was about cocaine.

"I'm on a straight line when a man comes around
And he got lines in the suit
Coming out to make us moot..."

Don't worry about it Thermo Thinwall, i have made a lot more mistakes then you have in this countdown.