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

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qfrc8sKieY_WwRG9eti1cZzKITR6AV63GucdZI0kwg=w1153-h451-no

33 ballots recieved (two were unranked)
99 Tracks received votes
9 Albums received votes with 28 ballots
6 Divine Fits Songs received votes with 14 ballots

Thanks for your patience ILM but I needed the time.

HUGE thank you to The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall my co-poll runner for doing the pictures for Divine Fits and the main poll.

Where this all came from: 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

here we go, enjoy!

new poll kicks!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C1GMww9ywf1eKvgJL_UX1WXlhCqFX78T7DryikxZlA=w640-h320-no

Three way tie
3. The Salton Sea, Like Ice Cream and Baby Get Worse
From: A Thing Called Divine Fits
Released: August 28, 2012
2 Votes each

The Salton Sea
Like Ice Cream Video
Baby get Worse

so the "Like Ice Cream" video is not real, i thought it was.

what up bird

Thermo Thinwall has done so well with these images, we are in for a treat! it will come into focus more tomorrow.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yM2sdQBa3ybZAU8we3eMAoRgKJlvL1wpaBd_qD3lhw=w640-h320-no

2. Shivers
From: A Thing Called Divine Fits
Released: August 28, 2012
3 Votes

Song
Live
The Birthday Party (originally known as The Boys Next Door) sung by Nick Cave

damn this is the version of Nick Cave doing it that i should have posted https://youtu.be/QsIPoRTBV44

this was my Divine Fits pick, so good.

Rowland Stuart Howard wrote "Shivers" at the age of 16 while in the band The Young Charlatans. Howard gained acclaim after joining Melbourne-based band The Boys Next Door, when the song was released as a single. The band changed their name to The Birthday Party and Howard's discordant guitar remained a major factor in their sound.

16 huh

sheesh

i know, that is insane. especially when i think of myself at 16.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pekBOzhvcVoZSPueI458nJPPAXeoWxm8LdrWr5IlbQ=w640-h320-no

1. Would That Not Be Nice
From: A Thing Called Divine Fits
Released: August 28, 2012
4 Votes

Band Video
Live at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles 08-28-2012

worthy winner.

Divine Fits

14 Ballots received
6 Different Songs

1. Would That Not Be Nice
2. Shivers
3. The Salton Sea
3. Like Ice Cream
3. Baby Get Worse
6. For Your Heart

let's do that again:

1. Would That Not Be Nice - 4 Votes
2. Shivers - 3 Votes
3. The Salton Sea - 2 Votes
3. Like Ice Cream - 2 Votes
3. Baby Get Worse - 2 Votes
6. For Your Heart - 1 Vote

should i do a few albums tonight or wait until tomorrow?

Whatever you like. I'm going to bed. Sleep wants my soul.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NvZx8SoDEP3_7Bl90RXbio5cvDkjn3Ym3jimT6hGSg=s911-no

Divine Fits
9. A Thing Called Divine Fits
Released: August 28, 2012
277 Points, 11 Votes

well that's no huge surprise

huge picture tho

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/umsNstKC3eWY94vJBWbpHiW0tu7J_dz13x1AP6Zfmw=s500-no

8. Telephono
Released: April 23, 1996
482 Points, 19 Votes, 1 Number One

yeah it was, fixed the image size.

xpost

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vd-NQbHiT96b74dypSu_o-o5AwKlZBkzz5d9BWk4AA=s500-no

7. They Want My Soul
Released: August 5, 2014
603 Points, 21 Votes, 1 Number One

Surprisingly solid effort...had it at #3.

TWMS gettin' that slot it deserves

will be pretty ;_; if Transference is next

also, would be interested in hearing from the lone rangers who gave telephono and TWMS their #1

Telephono was my #1. It's the only Spoon album I honestly know backwards and forwards because I've listened to it a gazillion times in the last nearly 20 years.

TWMS was my #2 and in short it's just full of great songs, far more than Transference, and still impeccably produced. Y'all need to spend more time with it.

Just read the Guardian review which helpfully points out the title track lifts from Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra’s Love Theme.

I'm a sucker for catchy radio friendly singalong melodies btw.

i have a clear first and last but outside of that i really have most of the albums close together, and i like all of them. but even so, twms #2 and better than transference is basically indefensible.

i'm being called into work, so this is going to restart later then i would have liked.

not going to put in a full day, so i will be back in a few hours.

even work wants your soul!

lol

Heading home, will resume in a few.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TR8DkZhUBtgHvRYF5CeLqCOxBXcb5oEcJbC70p7CuQ=s500-no

6. A Series of Sneaks
Released: May 5, 1998
684 Points, 23 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Too low! (my number one)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EvUGaWorJhrts0xX-VFK3lze1FBGxDA77wRGydaJ4g=s500-no

5. Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
788 Points, 25 Votes, 2 Number Ones

i really thought this would be higher. it seems like this album was a lot of peoples go to album.

they weren't even on my radar until 2002

seems a smidge thinner than the next couple few

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PBthXCAhI_y_cMAX-Kl4XRss1kBmD3FLR5He57FpLA=s500-no

4. Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
794 Points, 25 Votes, 5 Number Ones

as you can see Transference only beat Girls Can Tell by six points. five number ones it what pushed it past.

TOO LOW

five number ones is something but they were probably peaking.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vh8WLgJXVYE-UrAkxwmGUGzXVEfrHkHE_ud6iErVJQ=s500-no

3. Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
876 Points, 27 Votes, 6 Number Ones

so i had gimme fiction and ga5 way lower than most

my number one, when i was re-listening to Spoon for this poll this was the one that made me happiest.

My #1. It's the best synthesis of their funk experiments, keyboard filigrees, dub arrangements, and punkish stuff.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TlT5JWQlkG9FNpoFdTIJCQ38Qqzx9LZlVPJPHUxGLg=s500-no

2. Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
878 Points, 31 Votes, 4 Number Ones

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/R1_Ayv5ObQ1HLpNNtqbSzCo4F67T3hO5oXumDVHpSg=s500-no

1. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 2007
906 Points, 27 Votes, 7 Number Ones

as you can see Kill The Moonlight only beat Gimme Fiction by just 2 points, two. but it had 4 more votes.

i could barely pull it together for a 20-track ballot due to irl craziness but fwiw if I'd managed an album ballot both Girls Can Tell and Gimme Fiction would have placed higher. not that i'm complaining about the results of record. this is great!

Now I REALLY wish I voted Girls Can Tell (orig. my number 4) over GA5 (orig. my number 3). Cause KTM (my #2, just slightly below Sneaks) is leaps and bounds better than GA5.

Albums:

28 Ballots received
9 Different Albums:

1. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 906 Points, 27 Votes, 7 Number Ones
2. Kill The Moonlight 878 Points, 31 Votes, 4 Number Ones
3. Gimme Fiction 876 Points, 27 Votes, 6 Number Ones
4. Transference 794 Points, 25 Votes, 5 Number Ones
5. Girls Can Tell 788 Points, 25 Votes, 2 Number Ones
6. A Series of Sneaks 684 Points, 23 Votes, 2 Number Ones
7. They Want My Soul 603 Points, 21 Votes, 1 Number One
8. Telephono 482 Points, 19 Votes, 1 Number One
9. A Thing Called Divine Fits 277 Points, 11 Votes

again thanks Thermo Thinwall for these pictures.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MAptXJ633edj7F07wWkomybirav9zlnKxKrvuM_GVQ=w640-h320-no

40. The Guestlist/The Execution
From: A Series of Sneaks
Released: May 5, 1998
251 Points, 9 Votes

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ej7ZHn_jG7NOeQlMFpSDR2XRdgdkRsW4NiqtB6etaQ=w640-h320-no

39. Rhthm & Soul
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 2007
260 Points, 9 Votes

Voted for #40, one of the few Spoon songs from the first four albums that I remembered before listening to them again. I heard all of these in about 2002 and then lost the files a few years later, so I probably hadn't listened to those albums in ten years.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L6cTDwUdqRUhwcUinuYHpbmH-qLjBwKgxTvLl_PY7A=w640-h320-no

38. Rainy Taxi
From: They Want My Soul
Released: August 5, 2014
265 Points, 9 Votes, 1 Number One

A ha! I see the font choice for each image is tied to the cover art of the album whence the track came. Nice call!

that is all Thermo Thinwall.

"Rainy Taxi" was in my Top 10.

but i was not the number one vote.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YZKqfrQnskpbae98wsAqjpTr2BhhjLRCUlgdBDDn3zw=w640-h320-no

37. Believing Is Art
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
281 Points, 9 Votes

Song

wow. shocked to see i'm one of two Girls Can Tell #1s...though i guess that makes me feel like my taste in spoon is less cliche. :3

was totally cool with that...until i saw that Ga5 won. peasants, the lot of you

Awesome groove on "Rainy Taxi".

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XBh-8CWz4GeTb2AtzsxvNtkZXY_nAjst7v9vuDAyAXM=w640-h320-no

36. Metal Detektor
From: A Series of Sneaks
Released: May 5, 1998
283 Points, 9 Votes

Live in studio

Not to nitpick, but the SoS release date you're using is for the Merge reissue.

thanks for letting me know.

TOOOO LOOOOOOW

damn way too low

awwwwesome images, A+

Gax5 being #1 is even more messed up than i was expecting this to be

overdog

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SM5bpHdLSDWafz-46pK8kodCMDUSI1w2RVDilDwB3cY=w640-h320-no

35. They Never Got You
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
287 Points, 10 Votes, 1 Number One

song
Live

Rhthm & Soul def not one of my favorites. Voted for Execution cos I love the simplicity of that riff - middle 8 handclap - riff - whistle section

They Never Got You: Great tune that just didn't find a place on my ballot. Gimme Fiction has a great insistent pulse through most of its tracks, it seems like, moreso than Kill the Moonlight.

This made my ballot, and "They Want My Soul" is a good sequel.

Voted for these last two, "Metal Dekektor" my #5 and the highlight of the early stuff for me

blew my wad already, this was my number one. i just love the ending with the buildup.

ha i don't think this woulda made my top 60!

this song is illustrative of the issues with the back half of gimme fiction--just a little too repetitive

yup

lol

"They Never Got You"

i don't look like that guy however.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wOPepHFaXBFy3InFRUVHIVAImXFEj-DO42pC8J8fO2M=w640-h320-no

34. Who Makes Your Money
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
299 Points, 10 Votes

Song
Live

i guess i'll be saying too low a lot

cool studio trix on this one.

didn't vote but that one is the best song on transference

On my ballot. It justifies its length.

on mine too, one of the higher ones from Transference. so damn good

also man these images are great

britt's vocal on who makes your money might be his best

Yeah totally

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3OqrD5a_b9MuUeOqlh6oiOfhZIg7zCZreVZvaeLkfJ4=w640-h320-no

33. Paper Tiger
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
307 Points, 9 Votes, 1 Number One

Song
Live

lol at that image.

everything from here on out will have over 10 votes.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/w8nbZAeOui4S_xGfCKpvg9fu9frJumOy1JuzEe_jmtk=w640-h320-no

32. Out Go the Lights
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
317 Points, 10 Votes

Song

did not make my ballot but gorgeous

i was the ONE person who put "paper tiger" at number one? holy shit people!!!!

such a great song, in my Top 40 but didn't make my ballot.

haha, i could say the same thing for "Out Go the Lights."

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.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L6j9iZOSlWaCofOXC1i7GEzOutiQ36HeOOYx4zE4zbc=w640-h320-no

31. Vittorio E.
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
332 Points, 11 Votes

Song
LIVE

the song i use to feel out all acoustic guitars

I took a river and it wouldn't let go
I want you to stay and I want you to go

amazing pic thermo

TOO LOW

will pick it up again tomorrow.

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.

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.

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

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 You
Everything Hits at Once
Inside Out
Finer Feelings
Small Stakes
Stay Don't Go
The Fitted Shirt
They Never Got You
Who Makes Your Money
You Got Yr Cherry Bomb

The drumming on that live Metal Detektor up thread is so great.

Amazing images.

mine:

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

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.

I love Who Makes Your Money; too low!

My albums ballot in order.

Kill The Moonlight
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Gimme Fiction
Transference
A Series Of Sneaks
A Thing Called Divine Fits
Girls Can Tell
They Want My Soul
Telephono

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.

i was the ONE person who put "paper tiger" at number one? holy shit people!!!!

― soyrev, Friday, July 31, 2015 2:19 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sitting atop my unfinished ballot that I never submitted because I got super busy over the deadline

My albums in order:

A Series of Sneaks
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Girls Can Tell
Transference
Gimme Fiction
They Want My Soul
Kill the Moonlight
Telephono
A 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.

Kill The Moonlight
˅
A Series of Sneaks
Gimme Fiction
Transference
˅
Girls Can Tell
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
They Want My Soul
Telephono

KTM is a 9, next tier are 8s, next 7s. they have been remarkably consistent.

Transference
Girls Can Tell
Kill the Moonlight
A Series of Sneaks
Gimme Fiction
Telephono
They Want My Soul
Ga x 5

heroic melancholy indeed ;_;

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
They Want My Soul
Gimme Fiction
A Thing Called Divine Fits
Transference
Kill the Moonlight
A Series of Sneaks
Girls Can Tell
Telephono

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Girls Can Tell
Transference
Kill the Moonlight
They Want My Soul
A Series of Sneaks
Gimme Fiction
Telephono

Girls Can Tell
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Kill the Moonlight
A Series of Sneaks
Transference
They Want My Soul
Gimme Fiction
Telephono
A Thing Called Divine Fits

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.

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

good pic for this one

sorry for the delay, was eating.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GJJYB_9Zy2tCpYXoptjKvN-hc0eyZsEbFQUhTkMqF2c=w640-h320-no

24. New York Kiss
From: They Want My Soul
Released: August 5, 2014
138 Points, 13 Votes, 1 Number One

Song
Live

a huge song that is now off the board. this one did make my ballot as it's just so catchy.

LOVE this song.

as I said last week, it might be their best earworm in a decade

sort of cool that this is the last new song before we did this poll. it might not be their last song that they recorded but is the last song on their newest album.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/twqi2XH3n3NEIPEX6QZUvnWtbrnQTh_BXKYxUN-0v1Y=w640-h320-no

23. Anything You Want
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
383 Points, 13 Votes

Song
Live Hollywood Forever Cemetery

damn, "New York Kiss" had 380 Points.

sorry abut that.

Also the numbering seems to have gotten off from the images around #26 just fyi

damn, thanks for that.

so my 1 (Fitted Shirt) and 2 (Anything You Want) are gone.
I'm so out of step. then again, dissing a Spoon song over lyrics is a bit rich.

yeah this is the best.

i was at that Hollywood Forever Cemetery concert. i got really drunk and loved that show.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Uh4ZLZr1MP9wzE_gtjG3tH_OINY5C0T-QKNjWwMRyQM=w640-h320-no

23. I Saw the Light
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
396 Points, 14 Votes

Song
Live

"Anything You Want" ended up being my top GCT pick. Love the lyrical shoutout to the Austin Sound Exchange.

http://www.rejectedunknown.com/images/Muralpaper.jpg

...and how it sounds like he sings "Hatful of beer" instead of "Half of..."

i made my case... to the woohohorld

this would have been top 5 had I weighted my ballot. love on the second half of the song when the bass kicks in followed by the jangly ass guitar tone.

yeap, now there goes my number 2. incredible song.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sABvme4g_n9H1lqvQRwJq0irGnRxhbv3dDcWw0UpLBc=w640-h320-no

22. The Ghost of You Lingers
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 2007
409 Points, 11 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Song
Live

That wasn't my #1, but it was in my top five.

but the piano doesn't grate on you after like 30 seconds?

i've accepted this is a real love/hate song even if i lean towards the latter

ya - i can't deal with the piano either.

That chord change though!

Ghost was my #3, incredible song

My #1

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k9BsaYLRFy4kjP2v0Yr52XomCx3lWL6vUaN-NHhRBGQ=w640-h320-no

21. Do You
From: They Want My Soul and Single
Single Released: July 1, 2014
410 Points, 14 Votes

Music Video
Live

Man I love I Saw The Light

New York Kiss my #1.

then again, dissing a Spoon song over lyrics is a bit rich.

It wasn't a huge dis (if you mean the 'goofy' comment), but I do tend to fixate on lyrics, for better or worse, and spoon have some good ones and some pretty bad ones. Fwiw I think They Want My Soul is lyrically one of their worst, but is still my #2 album.

lol lyrics

I know right

this song is great, not sure why i left it off. love the way he sings doooo you. seems weird and fun to imitate.

Hawking up spit in the instrumental part of I Saw The Light C/D.

Alright now I listen to it for the #358 time it sounds less like that and more like just a slowed down voice. Still.

voted "Do You" as it's another catchy song on this album. TWMS has surprised me after being so disappointed with it at first.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zS9A7s7H-c8zMHGofV0doNHYmW04cmcrrvaQgKyuOHA=w640-h320-no

20. Got Nuffin
From: Transference and EP
Got Nuffin EP Released: June 30, 2009
415 Points, 14 Votes, 1 Number One

EP Version
Live

the EP version is around 1:30 longer.

strike that, Youtube time is wrong. now i'm wondering if there is a difference?

It wasn't a huge dis (if you mean the 'goofy' comment), but I do tend to fixate on lyrics, for better or worse

haha, I am too, which is why I don't find Fitted Shirt particularly notable lyrically, positively or negatively.
I find most of their lyrics serviceable to awful, but hooks gonna hook, ya know?

another song i did vote for.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SWftiXwjnotUhu0l_cz8MmRM3qOPZyniN4vLorPw7JU=w640-h320-no

19. Inside Out
From: They Want My Soul and Single
Single Released: October 27, 2014
422 Points, 13 Votes, 1 Number One

Live Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Music Video
Second Music Video

that video for the show i saw in Hollywood is amazing.

got nuffin was my #1

will be really excited if anything else from my top 5 makes the top 20

i don't even get why they released got nuffin as a single, it seems like a runt on that album

Dat riff

i can understand not liking got nuffin more than not thinking it sounds like a single

i see i voted for five songs off of They Want My Soul and all of them have made the Top 40. i think i need to redo my albums list.

I didn't do an albums ballot, but They Want My Soul would have probably been my #1 if I did.

i also really like the melting music video that they made for this song.

Man, I've warmed up to a bunch of songs from TWMS but "Inside Out" is still the gem, one of their prettiest songs

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dl3j0Ui1S2guPDK9ejZgo20ZqgCpOAlYQfV_K8aAjQA=w640-h320-no

18. My Mathematical Mind
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
425 Points, 14 Votes

Song
Live

I'll echo everyone else - realllly enjoying the art in this poll - thanks much for your efforts Bee ...

thanks but i can't take credit for the artwork, that is all Thermo Thinwall.

Thanks!

a chillwave song at #19 in a spoon ballot...we did it, everyone

lol

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eXANWbdl8Rf5NNmlDA0y2JWRGfwAjfICAuCw6C6om-M=w640-h320-no

Written In Reverse
From: Transference and Single
Single Released: December 1, 2009
431 Points, 16 Votes

Vinyl version
Promo Video
Live

Let's just assume I said "love this one" for every placing song off of Transference.

C/D the sudden fadeout at the end of Got Nuffin

love, love, love this song, made my Top 10. always thought this song ended a little abruptly glad to discover the vinyl version.

i was the ONE person who put "paper tiger" at number one? holy shit people!!!!

― soyrev,

Many xposts for this one as I'm just catching up. Paper Tiger was my number two and was almost my number one. Shocked to see it so low.

Very happy to see Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga as the number one album. It was the first one I heard, I loved it straight away.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dQpjTItGCAb_vkGLR-pXKQAnARo_N2ytVcsbUp4SXWc=w640-h320-no

16. Sister Jack
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
441 Points, 14 Votes

Music Video
Live

HMM

TOO LOW

I find most of their lyrics serviceable to awful, but hooks gonna hook, ya know?

― campreverb, Friday, July 31, 2015 7:06 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw there's tons of good lines in spoon songs

i voted for "do you" pretty much on the strength of "flipping back pages / unbuckling belts"

thought sister jack was a lock for top 3 tbf

i do not care for sister jack and am relieved

didn't occur to me to be relieved but guess i am now

a song in my Top 5. maybe their catchiest song?

I think they have catchier songs, but this one manages to be catchy without being, I dunno, obsequious (see: I Turn My Camera On, Inside Out).

Sister Jack AW HAW

Top 15 tomorrow and will close this out.

4 of my top 10 have already placed, I really cannot imagine how this poll will turn out. I imagine most of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga will place, but that still leaves at least five or six songs.

Not much from Kill the Moonlight has placed so far but I'm expecting a few more to show in the top 15.

Spotify playlist

Deceptively simple, Sister Jack. Sounds like a throwaway three chord number but there's twelve (count 'em!) chords in the verse and that neat switch to 5/4 at the end.

stuff from my list** that I'm starting to think won't show up: "The Delicate Place", "No You're Not", "Don't You Evah", "Take the Fifth"
stuff from my list that I'm starting to think will show up way too high: "I Summon You", "Everything Hits At Once"
stuff from my list that I honestly don't know whether or not to expect to see here: "Goodnight Laura", "Finer Feelings", "Don't Let It Get You Down"

**unsubmitted & unranked

oh yeah and: stuff I understand the appeal of but am just not into: SISTER JACK, SISTER JACK, SISTER JACK, SISTER JACK, SISTER JACK

I had Take The Fifth in my too 10, but Girls Can Tell isn't having the strongest showing overall.

I have $20 on "The Way We Get By" taking the whole thing, all proceeds going towards my next sack

i don't think it's possible for everything hits to be too high, not my #1 but spoon classic canon as it gets. one of maybe half a dozen songs that won't make me mad at 1

slow here but just now realizing that sneaks is done already

Spoon did "Sister Jack" better as "The Underdog," but I'm not fond of either.

I'll be v v surprised and disappointed if Finer Feelings isn't in the top 5.

Since "Anything You Want" has placed higher than "The Fitted Shirt," and it looks like all my very favourites are going to place, my ballot would have been a negligible contribution anyhow. Unless a #1 vote for "Everything Hits" would have nudged it into top spot. In which case I'll never forgive myself.

Will be very surprised if "Don't You Evah" fails to show up.

ok, i'm ready to continue.

Hooray!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kDPEqgDqLVZjkACI0Dji-Sshqb9ROPRoJgio34qRkF8=w640-h320-no

15. The Underdog
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Single
Single Released: July 10, 2007
444 Points, 14 Votes

Music Video
Letterman

Thanks Gavin, Leeds for the Spotify!

my number 7 and the first song that really stuck with me when i first got this album.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8l0cKl4xVTae0zpecbQnhqvbuU-lbPoYdaphN8WtDng=w640-h320-no

14. The Mystery Zone
From: Transference
Released: January 19, 2010
460 Points, 16 Votes

The Mystery Zone (extended vinyl version)
Live

everything is said about "Written In Reverse" is actually about "The Mystery Zone". The song on the CD is 4:59 and the vinyl version is actually 5:50.

It made my ballot, just outside of the top ten.

why didn't I vote for this? I'm an idiot.

"my mathematical mind" TOO LOW imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJafYSTyU4#t=00m05s

this was my number 11, so i guess i'm a typical fan and in with the hive mind crowd.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CeVo1qstSleUytpi--sugG_7sF2unavj1GR_W3IgmA8=w640-h320-no

13. Don't You Evah
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and EP
EP Released: April 8, 2008
475 Points, 14 Votes, 1 Number One

Music Video
Live
Original from The Natural History 6:27

ha, Youtube is wrong with the time again this time with The Natural History version as it's only around 3:40 or so.

first time i have heard the original, it's nice. doesn't have the same spunk.

The main guitar part on Mystery Zone is so hypnotic, that little bit of delay on every second strum of the chord (the downstroke? Not completely sure).

Don't You Evah was my #3, the original is a cool song but Spoon's version adds so much.

this was also on my ballot.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uwocSBy72xIvLY4EDIkjTStii-oWb0VR6TCX53asLKo=w640-h320-no

12. I Summon You
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
481 Points, 17 Votes

Song
Black Cab Sessions
Live

Deceptively simple, Sister Jack. Sounds like a throwaway three chord number but there's twelve (count 'em!) chords in the verse and that neat switch to 5/4 at the end.

― ledge, Saturday, August 1, 2015 4:08 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Spoon did "Sister Jack" better as "The Underdog," but I'm not fond of either.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 1, 2015 5:12 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

Mystery Zone has the easiest baseline to play ever. kinda hypnotic.

Summon You is really good. Such great vocals/phrasing on it. Another easy one to play on guitar too :)

I'll have to try that. Sister Jack is pretty easy and v satisfying. Well I guess I would say that, since I like it.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Z-wQ8I3jCgaVCaFCzou6ypTNiJ7i_wnL3fNISUXqFnU=w640-h320-no

11. Don't Make Me a Target
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 2007
483 Points, 15 Votes, 1 Number One

Fan Video
Live

Wow.

I hate that song.

don't you evah and don't make me a target were the only songs i voted for off gaaaaa, curious if anything is yet to place

I think I liked the original version of "Don't You Ever" better than Spoon's, but I can't place quite why. I think it takes itself more seriously?

The Mystery Zone was my #4, love that song to bits. It really is hypnotic and, while I don't usually listen to Spoon lyrics, I like the lyrical themes of this one.

xpost nothing I voted for from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga has placed yet. One I expect to do extremely well, the other two I'm worried fell below 40. Half of my top 10 was in the lower 15, so who knows?

Top 10

The Underdog is too low. Sister Jack as well.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/H88aLg6VV97fURBHBoP1_RlAsYxAn6H_qPmiPz29Rdg=w640-h320-no

10. Jonathon Fisk
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
507 Points, 15 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Music Video
Fan Video
Live

*From fan video: The song is about the guy who used to beat up Britt Daniels in middle school. For some reason, I thought it'd be a good fit.

^^My #1.

love the tension in the song, didn't vote for it however.

awesome, i had talked myself into mystery zone not making it.

Hope we see some Sneaks songs in the top 10, Quincy Punk Episode has to be there surely?

based on the albums and what we've got so far, i don't think this is a quincy punk episode kinda room

glad to see fisk squeak into top 10

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

― Spottie, Saturday, August 1, 2015

I meant 'Awesome single picked up by Starbucks.'

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rNN_YygO_UidMjJI1sfWCYYmEq-RzD5SK1X-Wobb4Ok=w640-h320-no

9. Small Stakes
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
523 Points, 16 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Music Video
Live

^ My #25, I didn't really expect it to be this high. I assume then that Way We Get By will be #1.

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

― Spottie, Saturday, August 1, 2015

I meant 'Awesome single picked up by Starbucks.'

Ohh haha

"Idiot Driver" should be coming up any time now, yes?

i think i like "Small Steaks" better.

"Small Stakes" reminds me of early Roxy Music; maybe it's the keyboard.

when i first heard small stakes (and all of ktm) i was only familiar with telephono. it was jarring and amazing. i still remember where i was.

the reason for my comment is because the image is wrong, but it sort of works.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FONGwb4k2AH9-8ricw9FG9uO1XPBRJzVufarp0kyX0A=w640-h320-no

8. Lines in the Suit
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
540 Points, 17 Votes

Fan Video
No Live version to be found

oh whoops! i did tell you not to trust my spelling!

again, I love how Britt Daniel anticipated 2010s fashion

though I saw him in line at the Pitchfork Festival's Chipotle stand in 2008 wearing cargo shorts and converse and was crushed.

I'd have have been crushed solely because he was in line for Chipotle

lol

tacos and sriracha want my soul

did not know that "Lines In the Suit" was about cocaine.

"I'm on a straight line when a man comes around
And he got lines in the suit
Coming out to make us moot..."

Don't worry about it Thermo Thinwall, i have made a lot more mistakes then you have in this countdown.

don like this song. don't like his vox on it.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cL222rYhmgOALBCE4dJ4ndAqoUWjlxX8aQt3_2OwRj0=w640-h320-no

7. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 200
543 Points, 17 Votes, 1 Number One

Music Video
Live

*Music Video featuring hundreds of paper cut-outs in a handmade stop-motion animation.

Wow.

I hate that song.

― austinato (Austin), Saturday, August 1, 2015 1:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why? I love the last 2 mins

see to me Cherry Bomb is the The Underdog lite

lines is great. stakes/steaks my #1

cherry/underdog/jack all of a particular style of spoon song, cherry prob the best of them but i didn't vote for any

eh i guess i had underdog higher on my long list, w/e this is not really what i want from my spoon

this beat "Lines In the Suit" by only 3 points.

this poll had a lot of close numbers, never watched a poll that was so close before. it could have happened thou.

when i first realized Spoon was actually awesome, Cherry Bomb and Rhythm & Soul were the two that I just could not get enough of.

Cherry Bomb was the first Spoon song I ever heard, I think I must've played it 10 times that night. It was my no. 4.

I found a cool interview on eMusic where Britt Daniel explains some of the songs on the new album. About You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb he said:

That central image of the "cherry bomb" came naturally. Sometimes lines just come to you while you’re singing, and you’re not sure where they came from. I came up with the cherry bomb being representative of a need to blow out this romantic flame. Breaking up — or being broken up with — can be pretty devastating. This song is saying “You need to blow out that flame, we lost it long ago.” It’s actually a really sad song.

We tried this one I don’t know how many different ways. We recorded it three times, and it was one of those songs we really struggled with. At one point we had a kind of “space rock” arrangement — which is a cool version and the people who heard it were like “Ah, I still like that version better,” but this is the one that seemed to work best for me.

That consistent drum beat that runs through the whole song — Jim’s smart like that. Sometimes what a song needs is just a very steady rhythm. Jim’s got a real musician’s point of view about songs. I don’t mean to slander most drummers, but sometimes the drummer’s way of looking at a song is “get your rocks off.” Jim is more about what’s right for the song. One of the first things I noticed about Jim: we met in a recording studio and, after going through a song once, he remembered where all the stops were. He had a real sense for what was going on in the song, which was a very different experience for me.

cherry bomb's production is a little too on the nose for me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nJ4DzIum2KgMCuByQY8GqIzM895t5Mwom_C1sRJIpQc=w640-h320-no

6. Black Like Me
From: From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 200
622 Points, 19 Votes, 1 Number One

Song
Live

first song with over 600 points.

Love Black Like Me, especially the piano break in the middle.

My number 4

Don't Make Me a Target was my number 2, Lines in the Suit my number 3, didn't realize I was so consensus-y with this one.

I like Black Like Me a lot but I didn't think anyone else would vote for it on account of it not being fun time party Spoon. I also voted for "Goodnight Laura" but I have a feeling that one's not going to pop up in the top 5.

Also my #8 and #6 placed at #8 and #6 respectively, haha

a lyric in "Black Like Me" provided the name for my blog, for which I'm eternally grateful.

nice, i love how it seems like it's going to be this big gestural song and then it just ends.

Is your blog called "Humanized Vacuum"?!

i.e. https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/

haha, is it called "humanize the vacuum?"

xpost

lol, just missed.

Ha! Nice!

this song did make my list but was floored that it was able to make it all the way up to number 6 on the overall poll.

Top 5

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rPq3uQ4Cob0b_y44LnJFAl2qMoFEJ3CbYkBAKZiVWd0=w640-h320-no

5. Finer Feelings
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 200
625 Points, 18 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Some kids playing around/Fan video
Live

I can't believe four songs beat this one. This is the type of Spoon that I expected to keep Black Like Me out of the rollout.

the last two ga tracks were the only ones i voted for from that album so uh i guess i'm in line with the crowd on this.

damn i see i have been messing up the year 2007 on these last few Ga Ga Ga posts.

yes, it only beat "Black Like Me" by 3 points but it had 2 number one votes to put it over the top despite having one less vote.

i'm starting to see why Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga won the album poll, this is the sixth song, so far, to make the Top 20 and seventh in the Top 25. WOW.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k1Rlq6m0Aob8LRffG7nvlQscLK78WoY5AHffLT7y0VU=w640-h320-no

4. I Turn My Camera On
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
660 Points, 22 Votes, 0 Number Ones

Music Video
Live

is that you Thermo Thinwall?

better than "Emotional Rescue.

haha

I remember hearing "I Turn My Camera On" on the radio and being shocked that Spoon was getting radio play. I actually remember where I was (Bickford's parking lot, Manchester, NH).

I am just now listening to the LP version of "The Mystery Zone" and I think I actually prefer the truncated CD version. That abrupt mid-word cutoff is just hilarious.

i didn't know there was a long version! the cutoff is vital.

It's a friend of mine - taken in Toledo, Spain.

one of their best songs, was my number 6.

i have been there, Spain is so amazing. fell so much in love with Spain that i wanted to relocate there for a little while, never did happen. i so want to go back.

xpost

And when you believe they call it rock and roll

Ya, I loved it too! Used 3 or 4 shots from that trip!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ln64s8Y1dHIuSBzWNK3p_puD2Mp0XBxrMq0tmxb2Rzg=w640-h320-no

3. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
From: Gimme Fiction
Released: May 10, 2005
273 Points, 19 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Song
Live Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles CA 8/8/14

Wow, did not expect to see it this high.

well, if there is a surprise in the top 2, it will be a p enormous one

Gimme Fiction was the first Spoon album I listened to seriously. I bought it on its release date to review it for a tiny local paper in the back woods of New Hampshire. I had heard the first three and I think I had played Kill the Moonlight once, so Gimme Fiction was really out of left field compared to what I expected. I fell in love before the end of the first chorus.

wow that placed high

I guess I shouldn't be as surprised as I am, because I did vote for it.

sorry it had 673 Points.

I was the "Black Like Me" #1 iirc, immense, perfect song

"And when you believe they call it rock and roll"

might be Spoon's most rocking tune?

I really like the way they call out other songs on the album in the first track on the album. None of their other records are thematically linked like that.

(I mean really it might just be a shortcut to appear thematically linked but)

my number 3, i can say it placed perfectly!

might be Spoon's most rocking tune?

Come now.

was talking about the tension only.

normally i would post both of these songs at the same time, but i'm not going to do that in this case.

My god, don't tell me it was a tie!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YVvpqbfxTO1QeBe7yxMnavNEcj4h2GFDXDiBHExMGyg=w640-h320-no

2. The Way We Get By
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
769 Points, 23 Votes, 0 Number Ones

Music Video
live

Wow, no #1 votes?!

Can't imagine what's #1, like I'm racking my brain and not finding anything that could be that popular.

Surely you jest!

if i didn't know, i would be right there with you Tom Violence.

You're both crazy.

Austinato's right, it's obviously Dracula's Cigarette.

Haha, you're alright.

It's all of Telephono mixed into a continuous-play track!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Y1VxjNVeqBBdBZrL_Jy-gyFAc__gc4kP60FEHGESNqw=w640-h320-no

1. Everything Hits at Once
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
813 Points, 23 Votes, 3 Number Ones

Music Video
Live

Hope everyone had a good time!

Huge thanks go out Thermo Thinwall for these amazing pictures!

goes out to...you got it

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
1020 AM

xp i actually completely forgot about the delicate place, not sure what i would have cut but would have considered voting for it.

definitely wished I had voted Mystery Zone over Rhthm & Soul.
Thanks for running the great poll!

1 The Fitted Shirt
2 Anything You Want
3 The Ghost Of You Lingers
4 Inside Out
5 Do You
6 Take The Fifth
7 vittorio e.
8 I Turn My Camera On
9 Rent I Pay
10 Small Stakes
11 My Mathematical Mind
12 Written in Reverse
13 Was It You?
14 Merchants of Soul
15 Who Makes Your Money
16 The Beast and Dragon, Adored
17` Is Love Forever?
18 Lines In The Suit
19 Everything Hits At Once
20 Rhthm & Soul

Ah what the heck - here's my ballot:

Songs:

1. Metal School
The Way We Get By
Finer Feelings
Car Radio
Advance Cassette
Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now
Jonathon Fisk
Vittorio E.
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Don't Make Me A Target
Don't You Evah
I Turn My Camera On
Paper Tiger
My Mathematical Mind
Believing Is Art
Do You
Back to the Life
Fitted Shirt
Me and the Bean
Chicago At Night
They Want My Soul
The Mystery Zone
All The Negatives Have Been Destroyed
New York Kiss
25. Chips and Dip

Albums:

1. A Series Of Sneaks
2. Kill The Moonlight
3. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Girls Can Tell
5. They Want My Soul

Tracks (ranked):

Black Like Me
Paper Tiger
Metal Detektor
They Want My Soul
Stay Don't Go
They Never Got You
Everything Hits at Once
June's Foreign Spell
Anything You Want
Don't Make Me a Target
Chicago At Night
Rainy Taxi
Out Go the Lights
Lines in the Suit
Something to Look Forward To
I Saw The Light
Jonathan Fisk
Who Makes Your Money
Take the Fifth
Let Me Be Mine