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

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