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.
― soyrev, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 06:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― soyrev, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 06:14 (eight years ago) link
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
― bunny slopes, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 06:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 08:39 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 08:53 (eight years ago) link
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!
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
Well alright.
Don't forget about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SaT5evtuQ
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
Also, just voted here are the splits
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 5Girls Can Tell: 5Transference: 4Kill The Moonlight: 3They Want My Soul: 3Gimme Fiction: 3A Series of Sneaks: 2
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
love take the 5th, such a perfect fake motown song
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
The extended coda to "I Saw the Light" is just bonkers.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
in
Kill The Moonlight 5A Series of Sneaks 4Transference 4Gimme Fiction 3Girls Can Tell 3Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2They Want My Soul 2Telephono 1Other 1
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
picking for this now, it's amazing how many times i'm grabbing 2-3 tracks in sequence
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 July 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
i just saw the first draft for the artwork, we are in for a treat!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 July 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
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).
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 July 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
anyway i can submit a ballot later this weekend? whats the actual actual actual date?
― Spottie, Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
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 5Girls Can Tell 5They Want My Soul 3Transference 3Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2Kill The Moonlight 2
― campreverb, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
tele - 2sneaks - 3girls - 5kill - 4fiction - 3ga - 2transference - 4soul - 1other - 1
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
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.
― campreverb, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― hardcore dilettante, Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
haha more evidence for my world-unto-self theory
― j., Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Songs In Which The Artist "Name-Drops" Their Earlier Works
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Boom, thanks, RS!
― hardcore dilettante, Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Friday, 24 July 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
poll deadlines and ILM want my soul
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 July 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
thx b ok
― Spottie, Friday, 24 July 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
People, Transference is a killer record. For some reason that one never made it on my radar until now. Thanks Spoon poll.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 24 July 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think I ever realised what a great record Transference is either until I just went back to it earlier today.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 24 July 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 24 July 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
Transference is one of those records I've turned the most around on in the last ten years.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 July 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 July 2015 02:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Friday, 24 July 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link
everyone as of right now should have received a confirmation email.
― Bee OK, Friday, 24 July 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Friday, 24 July 2015 06:31 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 24 July 2015 08:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― soyrev, Friday, 24 July 2015 08:22 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
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.)
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
I Turn My Poll On.
How many ballots do we have so far?
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
WE BELIEVE IN THE SUM OF OUR POLL
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL
― nate woolls, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
well over 20 and would love to get some more, so please vote.
― Bee OK, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
― nate woolls, Friday, July 24, 2015 10:36 AM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
My Little Japanese Cigarette Poll.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Jonathon Fisk Speaks With His Poll.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link