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

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?

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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.