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

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

^ My #25, I didn't really expect it to be this high. I assume then that Way We Get By will be #1.

naaahh, there's not even an electric guitar in the underdog!

― Spottie, Saturday, August 1, 2015

I meant 'Awesome single picked up by Starbucks.'

Ohh haha

"Idiot Driver" should be coming up any time now, yes?

i think i like "Small Steaks" better.

"Small Stakes" reminds me of early Roxy Music; maybe it's the keyboard.

when i first heard small stakes (and all of ktm) i was only familiar with telephono. it was jarring and amazing. i still remember where i was.

the reason for my comment is because the image is wrong, but it sort of works.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FONGwb4k2AH9-8ricw9FG9uO1XPBRJzVufarp0kyX0A=w640-h320-no

8. Lines in the Suit
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
540 Points, 17 Votes

Fan Video
No Live version to be found

oh whoops! i did tell you not to trust my spelling!

again, I love how Britt Daniel anticipated 2010s fashion

though I saw him in line at the Pitchfork Festival's Chipotle stand in 2008 wearing cargo shorts and converse and was crushed.

I'd have have been crushed solely because he was in line for Chipotle

lol

tacos and sriracha want my soul

did not know that "Lines In the Suit" was about cocaine.

"I'm on a straight line when a man comes around
And he got lines in the suit
Coming out to make us moot..."

Don't worry about it Thermo Thinwall, i have made a lot more mistakes then you have in this countdown.

don like this song. don't like his vox on it.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cL222rYhmgOALBCE4dJ4ndAqoUWjlxX8aQt3_2OwRj0=w640-h320-no

7. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 200
543 Points, 17 Votes, 1 Number One

Music Video
Live

*Music Video featuring hundreds of paper cut-outs in a handmade stop-motion animation.

Wow.

I hate that song.

― austinato (Austin), Saturday, August 1, 2015 1:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why? I love the last 2 mins

see to me Cherry Bomb is the The Underdog lite

lines is great. stakes/steaks my #1

cherry/underdog/jack all of a particular style of spoon song, cherry prob the best of them but i didn't vote for any

eh i guess i had underdog higher on my long list, w/e this is not really what i want from my spoon

this beat "Lines In the Suit" by only 3 points.

this poll had a lot of close numbers, never watched a poll that was so close before. it could have happened thou.

when i first realized Spoon was actually awesome, Cherry Bomb and Rhythm & Soul were the two that I just could not get enough of.

Cherry Bomb was the first Spoon song I ever heard, I think I must've played it 10 times that night. It was my no. 4.

I found a cool interview on eMusic where Britt Daniel explains some of the songs on the new album. About You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb he said:

That central image of the "cherry bomb" came naturally. Sometimes lines just come to you while you’re singing, and you’re not sure where they came from. I came up with the cherry bomb being representative of a need to blow out this romantic flame. Breaking up — or being broken up with — can be pretty devastating. This song is saying “You need to blow out that flame, we lost it long ago.” It’s actually a really sad song.

We tried this one I don’t know how many different ways. We recorded it three times, and it was one of those songs we really struggled with. At one point we had a kind of “space rock” arrangement — which is a cool version and the people who heard it were like “Ah, I still like that version better,” but this is the one that seemed to work best for me.

That consistent drum beat that runs through the whole song — Jim’s smart like that. Sometimes what a song needs is just a very steady rhythm. Jim’s got a real musician’s point of view about songs. I don’t mean to slander most drummers, but sometimes the drummer’s way of looking at a song is “get your rocks off.” Jim is more about what’s right for the song. One of the first things I noticed about Jim: we met in a recording studio and, after going through a song once, he remembered where all the stops were. He had a real sense for what was going on in the song, which was a very different experience for me.

cherry bomb's production is a little too on the nose for me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nJ4DzIum2KgMCuByQY8GqIzM895t5Mwom_C1sRJIpQc=w640-h320-no

6. Black Like Me
From: From: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Released: July 10, 200
622 Points, 19 Votes, 1 Number One

Song
Live

first song with over 600 points.

Love Black Like Me, especially the piano break in the middle.

My number 4

Don't Make Me a Target was my number 2, Lines in the Suit my number 3, didn't realize I was so consensus-y with this one.