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

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.

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.

Is Transference the most solemn?

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.

My album list

Gimme Fiction
Telephono
Girls Can Tell
Transcendence
Series Of Sneaks

Transcendence

correct

are people really rating telephono that low or have they just barely (or simply not) listened to telephono?

lollllllllllllllllllllllllll woops

I saw you did it last Sunday and said nothing cuz it was too perfect. Transcendent even.

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

Gimme Fiction
Ga X 5
They Want My Soul
Transference
KTM

Kill the Moonlight
Transference
Gimme Fiction
Girls Can Tell
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

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

Telephono sounds like a Pixies tribute band attempting original material.

it definitely doesn't help that the first song (while great imo) is the most obv pixies homage

did anyone ever come up with tapes of requiem performing

i'm up.

most spoon albums have nonessential sequences, on telephono they're also derivative

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UqA_r0HW2v8ok6mQjxALXtxcEuKqEFHw1KzKKUkd6mo=w640-h320-no

30. Stay Don't Go
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
334 Points, 12 votes

Song
Live

Ah yes, the one with the beatbox. I usually skip it.

candidate for the most idiosyncratically spoon spoon song?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3MZPcRoZOezHo0bIpKzuhvyptIHsdB2nszO9T-oR3sQ=w640-h320-no

29. Trouble Comes Running
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
345 Points, 10 Votes, 3 Number Ones

Song
Live
Eleanor Friedberger Cover

Love this one, but was a late scratch from my ballot. I scratched it in favor of another Transference song that I'm worried won't make it.

cool pic

that Eleanor cover is great, did not know that she went out with Britt.

or use to go out with...

How did that have 3 # 1 votes but still Finnish so low?!

Stay Don't Go and Trouble both too low, IMO. Both are top-10 for me.

no right to bitch because I didn't vote, but that's not gonna stop me.

and it shouldn't. i voted for both and it is insane that it did get three number ones but still only managed 29.

I love the unusual (for Spoon) backing vox immoderately.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HHx7qZ4-rgtgDqkp65DFuanhBxdIhc_WX2dYeTKvgqw=w640-h320-no

28. Me and the Bean
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
356 Points, 13 Votes

Song
Live

can anyone do a Spotify of this? that is one thing i did forget.

trouble comes running was my #1. it's flawless to me.

Me and the Bean, top ten for me. I love how they would cover little-known songs by Austin scene friends.

again thanks C. Grisso/McCain for pointing out the wrong release date for A Series of Sneaks. thanks to "mod" all those mistakes have been updated.

oof. lotta good songs being burned early here.

Trouble Comes Running is so great. Would've voted for Me & the Bean but wanted to avoid covers.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/howmxag3d06wnqxeRtHj6iVInHaam6-FmJiHOCDzXR0=w640-h320-no

27. The Fitted Shirt
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
375 Points, 10 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Song
Live

Trouble Come Running wuz robbed. It's top ten fer sure

at first i did not think this song would make it, as it was not in the first draft i sent to Thermo Thinwall. what happened is some people send in ballots with just "Fitted Shirt" so when i found those songs it was of course this song will be in the Top 40.

I had no idea Me and the Bean was a cover! Amazing song though, was in my top ten.

"The Fitted Shirt" makes more sense as concept in the skinny jeans era.

Fitted Shirt maybe their goofiest lyric in a career not lacking in goofy lyrics.

of course, that's part of the charm

one of jim eno's finest as well

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hprjhYTDtQP5VC6YjESrNjQFPTbBtqVuFAhD1cYmdmU=w640-h320-no

25. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
379 Points, 12 Votes

Band Video
Live

i voted for a lot of songs on Gimme Fiction but this isn't one of them. i do like it however.

GF has their best one-two punch imo

glad this made it, i wasn't sure if ppl dug this song