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

i don't know about that, the results have been all over the place. have no idea where this thing is actually going to go.

damn is TWMS dire. even duller than i remembered

it has grown on me but i was there with that album at first...

top to bottom,

GIRLS CAN TELL (5)
KILL THE MOONLIGHT (5)
GIMME FICTION (4)
TRANSFERENCE (7)
A SERIES OF SNEAKS (1)
GA GA GA GA GA (3)
THEY WANT MY SOUL (0)
TELEPHONO (0)

Transference comes in 4th despite its high yield 'cause most of its keepers fall pretty low on the list. if this were a 30-song ranking Sneaks would have tallied up most of the extra picks.

oh! and Sneaks beats Ga5 just 'cause it's way more consistent and curious. my three picks from Ga are nice, but taken with the rest of the album they can't offset all the competent snoozers.

anyway thank you Bee OK, i probably would've never revisited this band so thoroughly if it weren't for the prompt, and it was a lot of fun. summer's their best season, too.

Voted!

Albums in order of preference:

Kill the Moonlight (5)
Transference (4)
Gimme Fiction (4)
Girls Can Tell (3)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (3)

with the rest of the votes split among Sneaks/TWMS/Soft Effects EP

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was my way in to Spoon, so it'll always have a special place for me, but I think Kill The Moonlight is my absolute favourite, and their masterpiece; it's their most minimal and experimental, and their poppiest at the same time.

Re: live, only saw them once, on the Transference tour, and it was exactly as I'd expected; tight and fun. Not mind-blowing or life-changing, but just a good show that I was very glad to go to.

Listening to all the albums in order (but on shuffle within each album), I'm surprised how I seem to like them better and better as time goes on. I always thought KTM was a highlight, but up to GGGGG at least, I think they hit me harder every time out. Also thought it would be really tough to narrow it down to 25 songs that I really love, but it doesn't look like that'll be an issue. I've never given them a good headphone listen before - always full albums on the stereo - & it strikes me that their records are extremely well sequenced, creating a mood and a flow that doesn't really translate to picking out singles too well. Maybe that's why they've never really broken big, I dunno. I've always thought of them as being consistently strong, but a lot of their catalogue, song for song, is pretty slight. I think their production just gets better and better, too. Aw, c'mon!

Well alright.

Don't forget about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SaT5evtuQ

Also, just voted here are the splits

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 5
Girls Can Tell: 5
Transference: 4
Kill The Moonlight: 3
They Want My Soul: 3
Gimme Fiction: 3
A Series of Sneaks: 2

love take the 5th, such a perfect fake motown song

The extended coda to "I Saw the Light" is just bonkers.

in

Kill The Moonlight 5
A Series of Sneaks 4
Transference 4
Gimme Fiction 3
Girls Can Tell 3
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2
They Want My Soul 2
Telephono 1
Other 1

picking for this now, it's amazing how many times i'm grabbing 2-3 tracks in sequence

i just saw the first draft for the artwork, we are in for a treat!

Wrapping up my listening with my first airing in at least 5 years of A Series of Sneaks. It's getting me to thinking about its place in their narrative. Everybody knows the back story--Laffitte--and the fail and agony of, getting dropped from Elektra--but seriously, even if they had gotten the support, how successful would it have been in that Marcy Playground/Semisonic/Eve 6/Fastball/Nu Metal on the horizon 1998? On this listen, "Execution" feels to me like a Radio contender, although if had been plugged (no singles were issued at the time, aside from a "30 Gallon Tank" EP) programmers may have shied away from the subject matter (or not, '99 was when that shit really took hold).

anyway i can submit a ballot later this weekend? whats the actual actual actual date?

Voted tracks. we should call the rollout 'someone get popsicles'!

I was thinking about Johnny Fever's post above defending the early stuff, and it made me think about my own 'it's complicated' relationship with Wilco. I got into them when AM came out, and saw them right before Being There was released. It was an amazing show, right after Bennett had joined, and the band was completely on the edge-seriously it reminded me of seeing the Replacements. Then YHF happened and all of a sudden the bandwagon fills up, for a record that I thought was....ok. I still wince when I hear people say they didn't really do anything before Summerteeth.

Anyway, that's a long of way of saying...I am that asshole here on Spoon. Sorry Johnny Fever.

Gimme Fiction 5
Girls Can Tell 5
They Want My Soul 3
Transference 3
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2
Kill The Moonlight 2

lol

fwiw, AM and Being There are still my two most-played Wilco albums. YHF has a couple songs I love, many songs I have no feelings about at all, and one that I really really hate.

tele - 2
sneaks - 3
girls - 5
kill - 4
fiction - 3
ga - 2
transference - 4
soul - 1
other - 1

JF-yeah I busted out Being There recently and was blown away again.
Bonus snark: Wilco latecomers who love the experimental sound and then say Jesus etc. is their fave song on YHF.

Pretty ballsy for a band with (at the time) much less than legendary status:
"I'm listening to 'Mountain to Sound' / and the way it's panned is cool."

That might be a good thread: bands referring to their own back catalogue in their songs.

haha more evidence for my world-unto-self theory

Songs In Which The Artist "Name-Drops" Their Earlier Works

Boom, thanks, RS!

anyway i can submit a ballot later this weekend? whats the actual actual actual date?

i can't do the results thread until towards the end of next week so...

Voting has been extended through the weekend. so now you have until late Sunday Night July 26th.

poll deadlines and ILM want my soul

thx b ok

People, Transference is a killer record. For some reason that one never made it on my radar until now. Thanks Spoon poll.

Yeah, I don't think I ever realised what a great record Transference is either until I just went back to it earlier today.

Aargh, I left my ballot at work & won't be back there for a week. I'll just have to listen to them all again.

Transference is one of those records I've turned the most around on in the last ten years.

love how the drums and guitars are mixed to sound as thick as possible to coincide with the spareness of the arrangements.

given the albums before and after it transference feels more and more like a love letter to deep spoon heads. it's one of my favorite records, period.

starting to give out confirmation emails, give me about an hour and if you don't get one after that please speak up or resend.

everyone as of right now should have received a confirmation email.

Transference really dropped in my estimation after They Want My Soul. What with the Telephono & Sneaks Brian Hursting and everyone going lukewarm on Ga I suddenly feel like I'm on a different page from everyone else.

Transference is pretty awesome. As good as GGGGG and GF; still think KTM is their masterpiece though.

Tried TWMS again yesterday and it's just not there. It's not bad, but there's something missing, to my mind.

TWMS feels like their Make Believe or Stadium Arcadium, or something. it sounds like some combination of their previous work, but with all the worthwhile features sanded off for "streamlining's" sake.

it took me forever to finally come around on they Want My Soul and it has some killer songs. especially "New York Kiss" which this poll is named after.

speaking of names, what should we call the Spoon results thread?

Best closing track on a Spoon album? (I think they've done some subtle crackers.)

I Turn My Poll On.

How many ballots do we have so far?

WE BELIEVE IN THE SUM OF OUR POLL

POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL

well over 20 and would love to get some more, so please vote.