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

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.