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

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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

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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