i was the ONE person who put "paper tiger" at number one? holy shit people!!!!
― soyrev, Friday, 31 July 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
such a great song, in my Top 40 but didn't make my ballot.
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
haha, i could say the same thing for "Out Go the Lights."
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
These last two both in my top ten (I guess I like their ballads). "Out Go the Lights" is so tough and lovely. I didn't pay much attention to it at first but it's the deepest cut on an album full of growers.
― bunny slopes, Friday, 31 July 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L6j9iZOSlWaCofOXC1i7GEzOutiQ36HeOOYx4zE4zbc=w640-h320-no
31. Vittorio E.From: Kill The MoonlightReleased: August 20, 2002332 Points, 11 Votes
SongLIVE
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
the song i use to feel out all acoustic guitars
― call all destroyer, Friday, 31 July 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
I took a river and it wouldn't let goI want you to stay and I want you to go
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 31 July 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
amazing pic thermo
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 31 July 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
TOO LOW
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 July 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link
will pick it up again tomorrow.
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
thanks! to make it interesting i only used pics from my photo collections. makes for some weird choices. that image is from the Peru side of the amazon.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 31 July 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
shit forgot to vote on this one and I consider them probably the best rock band of the past 20 years or so. Great images and great countdown so far.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 31 July 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
oh man i just realized this means "the ghost of you lingers" is totally gonna chart higher than "paper tiger," we're all going to hell now
― soyrev, Friday, 31 July 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
I've honestly no idea which are the popular songs by Spoon, let alone the popular ones on ILM. I don't dare predict the top 3 songs.
Since I didn't vote these would have been my top 10 (unranked) songs:
Do YouEverything Hits at OnceInside OutFiner FeelingsSmall StakesStay Don't GoThe Fitted ShirtThey Never Got YouWho Makes Your MoneyYou Got Yr Cherry Bomb
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 31 July 2015 06:16 (eight years ago) link
The drumming on that live Metal Detektor up thread is so great.
― nate woolls, Friday, 31 July 2015 06:29 (eight years ago) link
Amazing images.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 July 2015 06:50 (eight years ago) link
mine:
1. Ginne Fiction2. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga3. Transference4. Kill the Moonlight5. A Thing Called Divine Fits6. They Want My Soul7. Girls Can Tell8. A Series of Sneaks
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 07:01 (eight years ago) link
to make it interesting i only used pics from my photo collections
ha, awesome idea.
re: #35 and 34: They Never Got You I think of as a perfect stripped down groove that could go on for ever as far as I'm concerned. Love the handclaps that top it out. Who Makes Your Money otoh I think of as repetitive hook-free tedium (although the guitar line that comes in half way through ain't bad). Objectively, yeah you could flip those views around and they would make just as much sense.
― ledge, Friday, 31 July 2015 08:18 (eight years ago) link
I love Who Makes Your Money; too low!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
My albums ballot in order.
Kill The MoonlightGa Ga Ga Ga GaGimme FictionTransferenceA Series Of SneaksA Thing Called Divine FitsGirls Can TellThey Want My SoulTelephono
I love Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, and it was my 'in' for Spoon, but KTM is just... it's amazing. So tight, so creative, so hooky, so tuneful. So fucking cool. It might be the coolest album I own.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:54 (eight years ago) link
― soyrev, Friday, July 31, 2015 2:19 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinksitting atop my unfinished ballot that I never submitted because I got super busy over the deadline
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Friday, 31 July 2015 11:02 (eight years ago) link
My albums in order:
A Series of SneaksGa Ga Ga Ga GaGirls Can TellTransferenceGimme FictionThey Want My SoulKill the MoonlightTelephonoA Thing Called Divine Fits
Even though it's got a few great songs I never really clicked with Kill The Moonlight, it's actually the only one I don't own.
― nate woolls, Friday, 31 July 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
Kill The Moonlight˅A Series of SneaksGimme FictionTransference˅Girls Can TellGa Ga Ga Ga GaThey Want My SoulTelephono
KTM is a 9, next tier are 8s, next 7s. they have been remarkably consistent.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 31 July 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
TransferenceGirls Can TellKill the MoonlightA Series of SneaksGimme FictionTelephonoThey Want My SoulGa x 5
― call all destroyer, Friday, 31 July 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
heroic melancholy indeed ;_;
― soyrev, Friday, 31 July 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
Ga Ga Ga Ga GaThey Want My SoulGimme FictionA Thing Called Divine FitsTransferenceKill the MoonlightA Series of SneaksGirls Can TellTelephono
― ledge, Friday, 31 July 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
Ga Ga Ga Ga GaGirls Can TellTransferenceKill the MoonlightThey Want My SoulA Series of SneaksGimme FictionTelephono
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 July 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Girls Can TellGa Ga Ga Ga GaKill the MoonlightA Series of SneaksTransferenceThey Want My SoulGimme FictionTelephonoA Thing Called Divine Fits
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 31 July 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
Gimme Fiction was my first Spoon album, bought it on a whim for £4 in a Virgin/Zavvi sale a year or so after it came out. I only really liked a few tracks and I've never really got any further with it. Then someone recommended GCT to me soon after and I loved it, caught up with the back catalogue after that. I don't think they've ever made an outright bad album.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 31 July 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
i was lost on the albums. just couldn't decide and was changing it daily – and not by little, completely different from one inception to another. top 7 were all interchangeable.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
yea thats maybe true. i don't have a go to spoon album, just a go to spoon playlist with like 6-7 songs from every album.
― Spottie, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Is Transference the most solemn?
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
reading and relistening, i wish i'd voted now. i keep thinking of my musician friend with p. good and even similar taste to mine who told me "uh, yeah, they're not terrible, but not much there." i want to find him and slap some sense into him.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
My album list
Gimme FictionTelephonoGirls Can TellTranscendenceSeries Of Sneaks
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Transcendence
correct
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
are people really rating telephono that low or have they just barely (or simply not) listened to telephono?
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
lollllllllllllllllllllllllll woops
I saw you did it last Sunday and said nothing cuz it was too perfect. Transcendent even.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
i listened to it several years ago, when maybe i dunno i was well acquaintd w/ girls thru ga ga ga; and it was just, i dunno, like who needed to go back to that
ONWARD
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Gimme FictionGa X 5They Want My SoulTransferenceKTM
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Kill the MoonlightTransferenceGimme FictionGirls Can TellGa Ga Ga Ga Ga
― bunny slopes, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
telephono would totally be one of those "underrated post-grunge bands you can find for $2" CDs if the group had broken up after Sneaks. And I'm just surprised if everyone really prefers every disc of their more finger-snappy shooby-doo shit to their most pixies-meets-wire album
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Telephono sounds like a Pixies tribute band attempting original material.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
it definitely doesn't help that the first song (while great imo) is the most obv pixies homage
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
did anyone ever come up with tapes of requiem performing
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
i'm up.
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
most spoon albums have nonessential sequences, on telephono they're also derivative
― call all destroyer, Friday, 31 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UqA_r0HW2v8ok6mQjxALXtxcEuKqEFHw1KzKKUkd6mo=w640-h320-no
30. Stay Don't GoFrom: Kill The MoonlightReleased: August 20, 2002334 Points, 12 votes
SongLive
― Bee OK, Friday, 31 July 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
Ah yes, the one with the beatbox. I usually skip it.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 July 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
candidate for the most idiosyncratically spoon spoon song?
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 31 July 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link