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

Re: the talk upthread about the most rocking Spoon songs, I really should've voted for June's Foreign Spell.

Kill the Moonlight defines my idea of Spoon-y production, and I so love Don't Let It Get You Down for the way the song rolls out, so complete and still so uncluttered. Gives me goosebumps. Should have had a place.

Full Results:

Divine Fits

14 Ballots received
6 Different Songs:

1. Would That Not Be Nice
2. Shivers
3. The Salton Sea
3. Like Ice Cream
3. Baby Get Worse
6. For Your Heart

Albums:

28 Ballots received
9 Different Albums:

1. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 906 Points, 27 Votes, 7 Number Ones
2. Kill The Moonlight 878 Points, 31 Votes, 4 Number Ones
3. Gimme Fiction 876 Points, 27 Votes, 6 Number Ones
4. Transference 794 Points, 25 Votes, 5 Number Ones
5. Girls Can Tell 788 Points, 25 Votes, 2 Number Ones
6. A Series of Sneaks 684 Points, 23 Votes, 2 Number Ones
7. They Want My Soul 603 Points, 21 Votes, 1 Number One
8. Telephono 482 Points, 19 Votes, 1 Number One
9. A Thing Called Divine Fits 277 Points, 11 Votes

Songs:

33 Ballots received (two were unranked)
99 Songs received votes:

Song- Points- Votes- #1's

1. Everything hits at once 813 23 3
2. The Way We Get By 769 23
3. The Beast And Dragon Adored 673 19 2
4. I Turn My Camera On 660 22
5. Finer feelings 625 18 2
6. Black Like Me 622 19 1
7. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 543 17 1
8. Lines in the suit 540 17
9. Small Stakes 523 16 2
10. Jonathan Fisk 507 15 2
11. Don't make me a target 483 15 1
12. I Summon You 481 17
13. Don't You Evah 475 14 1
14. The Mystery Zone 460 16
15. The Underdog 444 14
16. Sister Jack 441 14
17. Written in reverse 431 16
18. My mathematical mind 425 14
19. Inside Out 422 13 1
20. Got Nuffin 415 14 1
21. Do You 410 14
22. The Ghost of You Lingers 409 11 2
23. I saw the light 396 14
24. Anything You Want 383 13
25. New York Kiss 380 13 1
26. The Two sides Monsieur Valentine 379 12
27. The Fitted Shirt 375 10 2
28. Me and the Bean 356 13
29. Trouble Comes Running 345 10 3
30. Stay Don't Go 334 12
31. Vittorio E. 332 11
32. Out go the lights 317 10
33. Paper Tiger 307 9 1
34. Who Makes Your Money 299 10
35. They Never Got You 287 10 1
36. Metal Detaktor 283 9
37. Believing Is Art 281 9
38. Rainy taxi 265 9 1
39. Rhthm & Soul 260 9
40. The Guestlist/The Execution 251 9

Car Radio 237 8 1
They Want My Soul 236 9
Something to Look Forward To 231 9
Advance Cassette 209 7
All The Pretty Girls Go To The City 205 7
Was It You? 197 7
Metal School 192 6 1
Chicago at night 184 7
Is Love Forever? 184 8
Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now 184 6
Quincy Punk Episode 169 5
Take the Fifth 167 6
The Agony of Laffitte 161 6
rent I pay 160 5
June's Foreign Spell 145 5
Outlier 144 6
Don't Let It Get You Down 143 5
My Little Japanese Cigarette Case 135 5
The minor tough 133 5
Waiting for the Kid to Come Out 133 4
Don’t Make Me A Target 131 4
Let me be mine 114 4
Reservations 110 4
The Government Darling 108 3
30 gallon tank 106 4
Merchants of Soul 106 4
Goodnight Laura 103 4
All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed 101 4
Nobody Gets Me But You 98 3
Change My Life 92 3
Chips and Dip 92 4
Plastic Mylar 90 3
Nefarious 86 2
Don't Buy the Realistic 81 3
Idiot Driver 75 2 1
Someone Something 72 3
Utilitarian 71 3
Don’t Let It Get You Down 64 3
Back to the Life 61 3
1020 AM 56 3
This Book is a Movie 56 2
The infinite pet 53 2
Eddie's Ragga 52 2
Knock Knock Knock 51 2
No You're Not 51 2
Mountain to Sound 39 2
Shake It Off 30 1
Cvantez 28 1
Dismember 28 1
Take A Walk 28 1
Before Destruction 25 1
Mean Red Spider 25 1
My First Time, Volume 3 24 1
Dracula's Cigarette 23 1
Jealousy 23 1
Decora 21 1
I Can Feel it Fade Like an AM Single 19 1
Loss Leaders 18 1
Revenge! 17 1

It looks like Don't Make Me a Target is listed twice and if you added them together it would slot into 7th

Doesn't really matter though, great poll regardless

damn, thanks for letting me know.

"The Beast and Dragon, Adored" – 4:18
"Believing Is Art" – 4:19
"Jonathon Fisk" – 3:15
"The Fitted Shirt" – 3:12
"Small Stakes" – 3:00
"Stay Don't Go"
"I Turn My Camera On" – 3:32
"Lines in the Suit" – 3:47
"Everything Hits at Once" – 4:04
"Me and the Bean" (John Clayton) – 3:33
"Something to Look Forward To" (Daniel, Miles Zuniga) – 2:17
"Sister Jack" – 3:35
"Take the Fifth" – 3:56
"The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" – 2:58
"The Way We Get By" – 2:38
"I Summon You" – 3:55
"The Underdog"  
"The Agony of Laffitte"
"Someone Something"

Was following the results over the weekend on on zing but have just been appreciating the images, fantastic stuff.

Here was my ballot. My number one didn't even make the top 50. [sob sob]

1. Car Radio
2. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
3. Lines in the Suit
4. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
5. Anything You Want
6. Advance Cassette
7. Everything Hits At Once
8. The Agony of Laffitte
9. Metal Detektor
10. I Summon You
11. Me and the Bean
12. Sister Jack
13. Chips and Dip
14. Cvantez
15. Is Love Forever
16. Black Like Me
17. Chicago At Night
18. Waiting For The Kid To Come Out
19. Jealousy
20. Do You
21. I Turn My Camera On
22. Stay Don't Go
23. Small Stakes
24. Loss Leaders
25. Utilitarian

Here are the albums:

1. Gimmie Fiction
2. Girls Can Tell
3. A Series of Sneaks
4. Kill The Moonlight
5. Transference
6. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
7. They Want My Soul
8. Telefono

what are all the cover album tracks? "me and the bean," "i just don't understand"...

Don't You Evah and Towner off Telephono

forgot that about "don't you evah," thanks

if it makes you feel better, cajunsunday, i can post the image i made in anticipation of Car Radio making the list!

Please!

"Car Radio" just missed, it was number 40.

Or 41

http://i.imgur.com/E2tsGla.jpg

image is from a diner of SF.

that one is great, another one i really liked that didn't make the countdown was "Rent I Pay."

my list. "Before Destruction" is my real discovery/re-evaluation from this poll, should have voted for it! Also "Car Radio" and "Rent I Pay" would probably make my top 30

1. The Ghost of You Lingers
2. Small Stakes
3. Everything Hits At Once
4. Inside Out
5. Metal Detektor
6. Out Go the Lights
7. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
8. Finer Feelings
9. Written In Reverse
10. Paper Tiger
11. The Agony of Lafitte
12. Lines In the Suit
13. Black Like Me
14. Trouble Comes Running
15. Anything You Want
16. Do You
17. Stay Don't Go
18. I Summon You
19. Something to Look Forward To
20. They Want My Soul
21. Mountain to Sound
22. I Turn My Camera On
23. The Way We Get By
24. They Never Got You
25. The Mystery Zone

speaking of artwork that didn't make it, i really loved this one as mentioned above:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VlRCLC2AChF4MWSsAT1ll9IBs4CKwziE3GFkmuQxwTA=w640-h320-no

and the last one that i know about, alternative image (would not mind seeing the rest Thermo Thinwall.)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GaTd_M7r-tNRIsC8VgP6bcslIrY6cuugNOZ4bFU3ZTU=w640-h320-no

The images are uniformly excellent, really amazingly well done, Thermo.

I kind of like to think of Spoon as being the band from Summer of 69 if Jimmy hadn't quit and Jody hadn't got married and they HAD got far.

i had one i wasn't crazy about for "All The Girls..."
i think that was it?
evicting a nightmare tenant in two hours – can have a look this evening.

proof that i have abandoned indie rock is the scarce attention i paid this band.

@Thermo i would make a "rent i pay" joke here if i knew that song better

The image is a metaphor for my life right now, with a deadbeat sociopath refusing to vacate my basement.

"Rent she don't pay"

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3ajys7s9NKdoezgAIUJkvnC_4hCOAhWaJ197DPIfZszh61M7gCr3Ge_FokjSrBIVXUMqlUIQ9K_EaHErf-TbHZiMyqsaTB_eabVB5qtUP5CUccMH192PUqVwqAlU-VXLQJwqC344HahhgaU0zix64j9rMy9xTcMkIZDS5rXzW2FHHbyHttfLCYtt3aorNcPSYetiW2kB_pOOrVkWIniiU2BhM27hwB4t1Tqbx3MdXRHLcQM2q2CgHV241xaxi_m9fWyaoGNh-niFsv9vYwTSBXyhJCehjgqJBgA3-EajgO_6A5zcdOyuUzD_i-_gFqC-S9Pl2cF5HdQL-ohzXzZ3TF6-cil89FT0ibi-Tv1_5x-cSePb7MRmhv9c8zJcxmtdtdQe7pwj5okuaxiUZK3hcfFteoH1DclUZ70kf4AmSPjz80Gwa3XPpWPyWW2UpnCwTvfiINQxHTLfNK4T_GUeNp-9VJzipOM7FvkT7bqvvrOlil-8KjRtRcfOXWBRwhiE7fYQ5Nr0sAl809Bhm9OxQ1JlxzM_aTRAld9cCCZvqMkc5Py2gjo8VdNJgwfE0ZJse-jx3CZ4GpHMFKpQEQYJ2V5wHd3L7-USb71IFZEkZU_XVyriKequ=w535-h950-no

A revised version of that poll.

i just noticed a really silly spelling error in one of the images.

that was supposed to be:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kg0afHzhdgMj2sxxN4F2SnbEVVJd91MEx31KFGKiTAAMKc4bTVue6eVMkWDkDwn4kTbA9ofQFB855VhBwBJBpqYDEwBWGMJAtzDJT53ny9VsLLzJsrdL8IzbIlbCOizBOBNZudjBfwkh1xET2xg2O9-dqm0nveTKMMaWBwjRqpXGKhypQp2MBMzYZc6_esttbnZvehhWOGnvIFWCy-1Neusr68vzci9saOpWMLE47XLn_nBcccDEDBqCS0TrsuC6sAzr66htTvqUTLdyDMcC9l8lfCW2tvkRR8hLsmJd2WtdlDOVkf9URgU8gFOgx1rlmzxV22bwNlV4TLxSblaX0izbwZar-51WvkkqAoOofCRPPBw5GQdKWnWU_k4aoeplCjsgvwKoznuvm9tJf9o-lmvHQJmcIux5AuJZP_2yLOXQHVIT53ZUZHQkpf7IvDGrEyM5HXfzkMuNGGGqwjUMEjEopPVTh5Uql01Eqi14prnGOM17dEEFb8LQys_-iMzwlQcA2Pe8RYtekMjEuDawwSUi5u0x9k9YWrG8cQdaE1klgQ5UFBDsZTmHsWzlX2SpNTgE3TDqNiYGEAlOmUzvNV8nAN74IDdSUEpVcQNSNF65SOtKhihawaFig23J4SrtZ-WwkfmAXv6jjmFofneIwpdCi5OVEoy-uFZuLq8pYA=w535-h950-no

what i absolutely love about you list Alfred is the placement of "They Never Got You." That is my number one from this poll and didn't get a lot of love compared. You have it at number five and that makes me very, very happy.

great overall list too.

i'm sad because the beautiful images that The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall did for this poll have disappeared. my computer did die after this poll but i still luckily have the images, so i think i need to re-post them. let's see if i can do this...

https://i.imgur.com/wFPtat8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/awIb93F.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1UN7Vje.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pBn2va0.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Ma2022r.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fSFJtf8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hcqkZIn.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0v_A1PjI94

i have never understood you Noodle Vague, too grumpy for me.

don't remember the story but Thermo Thinwall had this original image for 34

https://i.imgur.com/fQNZQId.jpg

but he didn't like it and wanted me to use this one instead, maybe he can explain? i haven't seen him around ILM but i know he is still around.

https://i.imgur.com/8ed4Mcp.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dM5NIkC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KpEQZzp.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QrN0sK6.jpg

I like the first image better - but I felt the second went better with the title.

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)

https://i.imgur.com/Uo4tk4J.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LnKtE7H.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bPJN9em.jpg

^^^^ love, love, love that :Me and the Bean" picture. so perfect.

https://i.imgur.com/f3zbABO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oonC3ZZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eVBsQ8Y.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/C86C5GO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LXXbQ0t.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uMIlpAO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fAOpnP5.jpg

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.

peace, rant over

more Spoon to come...