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

oh wow didn't actually see that coming.

so neither of the lafitte songs placed?

Yay, I voted for the winner.

Such a layered and beautiful song. Mastery.

Thank you for another wonderful poll and rollout, Bee. And Thermo, your artwork was exceptional. Great job, you two.

yeah thanks guys

i will past full results in a bit, both are in the Top 50.

xxpost

post, doing too many things at once. lol

great stuff bee + thermo, thx dudes

yes, even as a non-participant i really enjoyed the event and the art.

awesome poll! everything hits wasn't my #1 but it feels just. I still remember the first time I heard it, driving north on 405 past LAX. Gobsmacked me it did.

Would love to say I ran out and bought the CD but I think how it went down was I got home and downloaded from eMusic...

so neither of the lafitte songs placed?

don't blame me man I had "agony" top 5 \m/

Wow, no #1 votes?!

tbh the way we get by prob should be #1 but count on ILXor Spoon fans to refuse to be that ~obvious~

(totally guilty of this btw. think i had it second on my ballot because ~come on~...)

It was my #5 and I placed it there figuring it was a lock for the top spot.

Everything Hits at Once is my #1 and DESERVES to be the poll's number one.

Good work guys.

"The Way We Get By" was my #18, I like it OK but I couldn't imagine it in my personal top 10. It does seem like their breakthrough in a way, though.

Top 40

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

thanks, everyone!

1. Don't Make Me a Target
2. Small Stakes
3. New York Kiss
4. Black Like Me
5. They Never Got You
6. Jonathon Fisk
7. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
8. The Fitted Shirt
9. Don't You Evah
10. They Want My Soul
11. Was It You
12. Paper Tiger
13. The Mystery Zone
14. Small Stakes
15. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
16. I Summon You
17. Outlier
18. Something to Look Forward To
19. I Turn My Camera On
20. Written in Reverse

29 Trouble Comes Running (Transference)
05 Finer Feelings (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
27 The Fitted Shirt (Girls Can Tell)
14 The Mystery Zone (Transference)
40 The Guestlist/the Execution (A Series of Sneaks)

06 Black Like Me (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
03 The Beast and Dragon, Adored (Gimme Fiction)
08 Lines In the Suit (Girls Can Tell)
Merchants of Soul (Gimme Fiction)
16 Sister Jack (Gimme Fiction)

Eddie's Ragga (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Advance Cassette (A Series of Sneaks)
17 Written In Reverse (Transference)
Goodnight Laura (Transference)
Plastic Mylar (telephono)

20 Got Nuffin (Transference)
18 My Mathematical Mind (Gimme Fiction)
02 The Way we Get By (Kill the Moonlight)
Dracula's Cigarette (Get Nice!)
Don't Buy the Realistic (Telephono)

The Minor Tough (A Series of Sneaks)
Quincy Punk Episode (A Series of Sneaks)
Lafitte Don't Fail Me Now (Lafitte 7")
Mountain to Sound (Soft Effects EP)
09 Small Stakes (Kill the Moonlight)

1. They Never Got You
2. I Saw the Light
3. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
4. The Way We Get By
5. Sister Jack
6. I Turn My Camera On
7. The Underdog
8. Written In Reverse
9. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
10. Rainy Taxi
11. The Mystery Zone
12. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
13.Something To Look Forward To
14. Don’t You Evah
15. Do You
16. Got Nuffin
17. Stay Don't Go
18. Don't Make Me a Target
19. Inside Out
20. Black Like Me
21. Advance Cassette
22. Trouble Comes Running
23. I Summon You
24. Everything Hits at Once
25. New York Kiss

1. Ginne Fiction
2. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Transference
4. Kill the Moonlight
5. A Thing Called Divine Fits
6. They Want My Soul
7. Girls Can Tell
8. A Series of Sneaks

Shivers

Here's my weirdo ballot

TRACKS (RANKED)

Idiot Driver
Nefarious
All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed
All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
Reservations
The Way We Get By
Quincy Punk Episode
Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now
Utilitarian
Waiting for the Kid to Come Out
Got Nuffin
I Summon You
June's Foreign Spell
The Ghost of You Lingers
Don't You Evah
I Turn My Camera On

ALBUMS (ALSO RANKED?)

Telephono
A Series of Sneaks
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Kill the Moonlight
Gimme Fiction

1. Jonathon Fisk
2. Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine
3. Don't You Evah
4. Black Like Me
5. Vittorio E.
6. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
7. Anything You Want
8. The Beast And Dragon Adored
9. Rent I Pay
10. Small Stakes
11. Believing Is Art
12. Rainy Taxi
13. Stay Don't Go
14. The Way We Get By
15. Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now
16. Execution (aka The Guestlist/The Execution)
17. The Underdog
18. Lines In The Suit
19. Merchants of Soul
20. Who Makes Your Money
21. Written In Reverse
22. Don't Let It Get You Down
23. Is Love Forever?
24. They Want My Soul
25. My Mathematical Mind

Albums:

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

Haven't heard the other two.

1. Got Nuffin
2. The Government Darling
3. Change My Life
4. Finer Feelings
5. Was It You
6. Don’t You Evah
7. Sister Jack
8. Who Makes Your Money
9. Everything Hits At Once
10. Metal Detektor
11. Metal School
12. I Turn My Camera On
13. Don’t Buy The Realistic
14. Chips And Dip
15. Car Radio
16. The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
17. The Beast And Dragon, Adored
18. Inside Out
19. Jonathan Fisk
20. Do You
21. Decora
22. New York Kiss
23. The Underdog
24. They Never Got You
25. No You’re Not

thx poll runners. only surprise really i guess was the beast in the top 3.

Did my ballot have the most non-placing tracks? I had 11.

beat me! impressed cuz the roll-out made me feel really contrarian. I concur with the consensus that "Finer Feelings" is the highlight of Gax5 but don't particularly rate the next three most popular tracks from it.

bet johnny fever would have beat you if he'd gone the full 20, though

Yeah, if he'd picked five more songs from Telephono I'd be out.

man some of those telephono picks on jf's ballot make me wish i'd represented it more on mine

unweighted

I Saw The Light
Something to Look Forward To
Advance Cassette
June's Foreign Spell
30 Gallon Tank
The Minor Tough
The Government Darling
Dismember
Outlier
Written In Reverse
Who Makes Your Money
The Mystery Zone
Black Like Me
Don't Make Me A Target
I Summon You
Sister Jack
I Turn My Camera On
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
The Way We Get By
Anything You Want
Believing Is Art
Everything Hits At Once
New York Kiss
Execution
Finer Feelings

I thought for sure Advance Cassette would make it. Such a great tune.

Everything Hits at Once
Don't Make Me a Target
Lines in the Suit
Black Like Me
The Minor Tough
Nobody Gets Me But You
I Summon You
The Underdog
Me and the Bean
The Way We Get By
Do You
Written in Reverse
Finer Feelings
I Turn My Camera On
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Out Go the Lights
Vittorio E.
Take the Fifth
They Want My Soul
All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
Chicago at Night
Inside Out
I Saw the Light
Metal School
Sister Jack

1. Small Stakes
2. The Way We Get By
3. Quincy Punk Episode
4. Everything Hits At Once
5. Jonathon Fisk
6. 30 Gallon Tank
7. My Mathematical Mind
8. The Government Darling
9. Got Nuffin
10. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
11. Written in Reverse
12. Rent I Pay
13. Trouble Comes Running
14. Something To Look Forward To
15. Don't You Evah
16. Stay Don't Go
17. Inside Out
18. Me And The Bean
19. The Guestlist/The Execution
20. They Never Got You
21. Is Love Forever?
22. Lines in the Suit
23. Don't Make Me a Target
24. Car Radio
25. Change My Life

listening to "Advance cassette" and agh now i feel guilty for filling the latter half of my list with later singles rather than more good pre-merge stuff.

if he'd picked five more songs from Telephono

I could've, but I didn't see any point in it. The three I put on there are my absolute favorites, including Idiot Driver which makes me probably the only person on earth whose favorite Spoon song is Idiot Driver.

Trouble Comes Running
The Fitted Shirt
Who Makes Your Money
The Way We Get By
Do You
Vittorio E.
Plastic Mylar
Small Stakes
The Mystery Zone
Finer Feelings
The Guestlist/The Execution
Don’t Buy the Realistic
Everything Hits At Once
Metal Detektor
Lines in the Suit
Car Radio
Take the Fifth
I Turn My Camera On
My Mathematical Mind
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
Black Like Me
Got Nuffin
The Agony of Laffitte
Something to Look Forward To
Anything You Want

spotify:user:gcwright:playlist:2atJiGFZNzOSiFG7vYP1gn

let's try that again:

https://open.spotify.com/user/gcwright/playlist/2atJiGFZNzOSiFG7vYP1gn

no love for Before Destruction? i didn't vote but that might have been my #1 which i guess is a strange pick

i love it but had to prioritize other transference songs

Yeah, good song, but not quite top 10 good. I could see it as a #1 but only for a certain segment of Spoon fandom.

mine, weighted (first to last):

Trouble Comes Running - Transference (29)
Rhythm & Soul - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (39)
The Mystery Zone - Transference (14)
Rent I Pay - They Want My Soul
Inside Out - They Want My Soul (19)
The Fitted Shirt - Girls Can Tell (27)
I Turn My Camera On - Gimme Fiction (4)
My Mathematical Mind - Gimme Fiction (18)
Don't Let It Get You Down - Kill The Moonlight
The Way We Get By - Kill The Moonlight (2)
New York Kiss - They Want My Soul (25)
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (7)
Was It You? - Gimme Fiction
Is Love Forever? - Transference
Outlier - They Want My Soul
Don't Make Me A Target - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (11)
Before Destruction - Transference
Stay Don't Go - Kill The Moonlight (30)
Someone Something - Kill The Moonlight
Got Nuffin - Transference (20)
My Little Japanese Cigarette Case - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Written in Reverse - Transference (17)
Believing is Art - Girls Can Tell (37)
Me And The Bean - Girls Can Tell (28)
The Beast and Dragon, Adored - Gimme Fiction (3)

Really surprised at "Quincy Punk Episode" not hitting. Also would have voted high for "I Saw The Light" mainly for the huge weird extended coda. "Everything Hits" was my unshakeable #1; basically I voted canon (though no "Camera", and "The Way We Get By" would have been v low on my list despite being my entry point into the band). Great poll, great rollout, great images, thanks! Awesome poll. And made me listen to Spoon obsessively over the past couple weeks, which I think is exactly what I needed.

"Bringing on the apocalypse is not considered cool."

*would have voted canon

The more I listened, the tougher the cuts would have been to make. Esp from Transference: maybe their most wholly "whole" album?

xpost the liner notes for Transference point out that the first and second half of "I Saw the Light" were mixed at two different studios, something else I noticed listening to Transference again tonight. I guess there's a reason the two halves seem like two different songs.

1. Small Stakes
2. I Turn My Camera On
3. Finer Feelings
4. Don’t You Evah
5. The Underdog
6. Who Makes Your Money
7. Don’t Let It Get You Down
8. Inside Out
9. Stay Don’t Go
10. Black Like Me
11. Waiting For The Kid To Come Out
12. Shake It Off
13. Written In Reverse
14. Everything Hits At Once
15. Was It You?
16. The Way We Get By
17. Mean Red Spider
18. My First Time, Volume 3
19. Vittorio E
20. Something To Look Forward To
21. Goodnight Laura
22. The Mystery Zone
23. Got Nuffin’
24. Do You
25. Chips And Dip

apparently I am the only person on this entire board repping "The Delicate Place" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great poll, loved the images, great work Bee and Thermo!

My ballot, 1-25:

Everything Hits at Once
Finer Feelings
Don't You Evah
Lines in the Suit
Out Go the Lights
Me and the Bean
Believing Is Art
Inside Out
Don't Let It Get You Down
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Mystery Zone
This Book Is a Movie
Reservations
My Mathematical Mind
The Fitted Shirt
Someone Something
Paper Tiger
The Way We Get By
Rhythm & Soul
Jonathon Fisk
Rainy Taxi
The Minor Tough
All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed
The Ghost of You Lingers
Chicago at Night

Whoops, not sure why I bolded Me and the Bean there...

Great poll, loved the pictures.

1. Finer Feelings
2. Metal School
3. The Ghost of You Lingers
4. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
5. Everything Hits at Once
6. Black Like Me
7. Quincy Punk Episode
8. No You're Not
9. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
10. Trouble Comes Running
11. Car Radio
12. Lines in the Suit
13. June's Foreign Spell
14. Is Love Forever?
15. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
16. The Guestlist/The Execution
17. The Fitted Shirt
18. I Saw the Light
19. Outlier
20. They Want My Soul
21. Sister Jack
22. All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed
23. Jonathon Fisk
24. Small Stakes
25. New York Kiss

Great work by everyone!

here is my list.

The Beast and Dragon, Adored
Don’t Make Me a Target
My Mathematical Mind
The Ghost of You Lingers
All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
Vittorio E
Believing is Art
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
I Summon You
Two Sides/Monsieru Valentine
Everything Hits at Once
Small Stakes
I Turn My Camera On
Got Nuffin
Black Like Me
Jonathon Fisk
Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now
The Agony of Laffitte
Sister Jack
The Underdog
Metal Detektor
The Way We Get By
They Never Got You
Don’t Let It Get You Down
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