ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

The Emma Ruth Rundle album won my listening time and vote that would otherwise have fallen to Olsen.

wasn't nuts about some of barrott's cheesier sounds but it's really nice overall

Voted for all of Young Marco, Gigi Masin, Mark Barrett, very glad to see them all placing - played them all a ton this year, great music for being lazy to.

Here's one you all can argue about for the next hour while I drive to work...

http://i.imgur.com/a0FUdRv.jpg

37 SPOON They Want My Soul [400 points, 11 votes]

traditional outraged squawk at shit indie sullying my shoes

Count me as another skeptic who came around on Lana Del Ray, fantastic album

Love Angel Olsen as well "Unfuck the World" should have made the tracks poll

horrifically offensive post aimed at Spoon and their fans; subsequent apology

why spoon, why?

Love this album/band

I don't get Spoon

me and my Spoon

some thrill spoon

I love Spoon and liked this album but it's definitely one of their weaker ones for me.

Possibly favourite spoon song: http://youtu.be/POvLaziUsTo

2014: 37. SPOON They Want My Soul [400 points, 11 votes]
2010: 43. SPOON — Transference (374 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
2007: 6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (203 points, 17 votes)
2005: 3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (221.5 points, 20 votes, 2 number ones)
2002: 37. SPOON - Kill The Moonlight (20 points)

full circle from 37 to 37!

I like spoon fine but stopped paying close attn around kill the moonlight wow 13! yrs ago

xp spoonerang

oh, ilm paws

the track they placed previously was OK, but it was over five minutes long and did not appear to have a chord change or any variation

filing this under "idgi"

I love Spoon and liked this album but it's definitely one of their weaker ones for me.

― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:23 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This, basically. "Transference" was better

Will never ever understand Spoon.

Voted for this, lots of great songs on the record. New York Kiss, the title track, I Just Don't Understand, Rent I Pay...

Wither, spoons

liked this one the one time i played it. never played it again. i've said it before, but Spoon are the best most boring band out there and they suit a certain mood. like, there's a certain time or mood you can be in when it doesn't matter if music's boring. and by boring, i mean they are good at doing a lot with just a dogged insistence on plain-bread rock instrumentation.
another good example of this is the horrors' album from this year (which i liked but doubt will place) - greyscale 80s pop-psychedelia which doesn't so much shock and awe as flow through you. close listening didn't make sense, but it made perfect music for when i was fixing my bike.

general comment: this thread needs more saer

for sooth, saer

Transference is their weakest album, IMO.

KTM > GCT > TWMS > GGGGG > GF > ASOS > Transference

Just imagine sitting around thinking up band names and thinking "Spoon? Yeah that'll do."

so much worse than the knife!

i've never shaken my impression of Spoon as "Grunge Beck" based on their Matador-era early music

as in they literally just looked and sounded to me like Beck fronting a grunge band

It is much worse than The Knife actually (and a bit worse than just calling yourselves 'Knife').

the one named after a genesis song is so much better than the one named after a can song, just saying

woo great day so far (even w/ the terrible LDR inclusion). i voted for angel olsen - which i love for its gothicy folk americana strands - and the mark barrott.

spoon sounded okay but kinda boring? idk, i get why preexisting fans might like it.

gonna chime in and say i never liked any previous spoon album in full but this new one i thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end. not sure if that's a reflection of the album or just how my tastes have changed.

every Spoon album has been underrated

Why do so many ilxors vote for shit pitchfork approved indie like the sheeple they accuse top 40 fans of being?
Too many lists look the same because of it.

It's weird to me holding KTM as a benchmark when they're so maddeningly devoted to an aesthetic that won't allow any but minor deviations. The trick is to like the aesthetic.

a ton of this list has been stuff i've never heard of and/or am reasonably sure was not on Pitchfork's EOY lists

inividuals' routine rote dismissal of entire genres is my least favourite thing about ILM

anyway if you like Spoon this is an excellent Spoon album

sock disses spoon, more news at ten

Some dude i only mean the indie

spoon is probably the most boring possible band name ever which kept me from listening to them for the longest time

Hell is an hour of Spoon opinions.

educated ILMers want Spoon's soul

In a world where people think names like Rae Sremmurd are a good idea, I welcome and appreciate bands like Spoon who keep it simple.

at least yesterday's Fever-driving-to-work slot was Botanist

spoon could have instantly been 100% more interesting if they'd have called themselves noops xp