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

sorry it had 673 Points.

I was the "Black Like Me" #1 iirc, immense, perfect song

"And when you believe they call it rock and roll"

might be Spoon's most rocking tune?

I really like the way they call out other songs on the album in the first track on the album. None of their other records are thematically linked like that.

(I mean really it might just be a shortcut to appear thematically linked but)

my number 3, i can say it placed perfectly!

might be Spoon's most rocking tune?

Come now.

was talking about the tension only.

normally i would post both of these songs at the same time, but i'm not going to do that in this case.

My god, don't tell me it was a tie!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YVvpqbfxTO1QeBe7yxMnavNEcj4h2GFDXDiBHExMGyg=w640-h320-no

2. The Way We Get By
From: Kill The Moonlight
Released: August 20, 2002
769 Points, 23 Votes, 0 Number Ones

Music Video
live

Wow, no #1 votes?!

Can't imagine what's #1, like I'm racking my brain and not finding anything that could be that popular.

Surely you jest!

if i didn't know, i would be right there with you Tom Violence.

You're both crazy.

Austinato's right, it's obviously Dracula's Cigarette.

Haha, you're alright.

It's all of Telephono mixed into a continuous-play track!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Y1VxjNVeqBBdBZrL_Jy-gyFAc__gc4kP60FEHGESNqw=w640-h320-no

1. Everything Hits at Once
From: Girls Can Tell
Released: February 20, 2001
813 Points, 23 Votes, 3 Number Ones

Music Video
Live

Hope everyone had a good time!

Huge thanks go out Thermo Thinwall for these amazing pictures!

goes out to...you got it

oh wow didn't actually see that coming.

so neither of the lafitte songs placed?

Yay, I voted for the winner.

Such a layered and beautiful song. Mastery.

Thank you for another wonderful poll and rollout, Bee. And Thermo, your artwork was exceptional. Great job, you two.

yeah thanks guys

i will past full results in a bit, both are in the Top 50.

xxpost

post, doing too many things at once. lol

great stuff bee + thermo, thx dudes

yes, even as a non-participant i really enjoyed the event and the art.

awesome poll! everything hits wasn't my #1 but it feels just. I still remember the first time I heard it, driving north on 405 past LAX. Gobsmacked me it did.

Would love to say I ran out and bought the CD but I think how it went down was I got home and downloaded from eMusic...

so neither of the lafitte songs placed?

don't blame me man I had "agony" top 5 \m/

Wow, no #1 votes?!

tbh the way we get by prob should be #1 but count on ILXor Spoon fans to refuse to be that ~obvious~

(totally guilty of this btw. think i had it second on my ballot because ~come on~...)

It was my #5 and I placed it there figuring it was a lock for the top spot.

Everything Hits at Once is my #1 and DESERVES to be the poll's number one.

Good work guys.

"The Way We Get By" was my #18, I like it OK but I couldn't imagine it in my personal top 10. It does seem like their breakthrough in a way, though.

Top 40

Song- Points-Votes-#1's

1. Everything hits at once 813 23 3
2. The Way We Get By 769 23
3. The Beast And Dragon Adored 673 19 2
4. I Turn My Camera On 660 22
5. Finer feelings 625 18 2
6. Black Like Me 622 19 1
7. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 543 17 1
8. Lines in the suit 540 17
9. Small Stakes 523 16 2
10. Jonathan Fisk 507 15 2
11. Don't make me a target 483 15 1
12. I Summon You 481 17
13. Don't You Evah 475 14 1
14. The Mystery Zone 460 16
15. The Underdog 444 14
16. Sister Jack 441 14
17. Written in reverse 431 16
18. My mathematical mind 425 14
19. Inside Out 422 13 1
20. Got Nuffin 415 14 1
21. Do You 410 14
22. The Ghost of You Lingers 409 11 2
23. I saw the light 396 14
24. Anything You Want 383 13
25. New York Kiss 380 13 1
26. The Two sides Monsieur Valentine 379 12
27. The Fitted Shirt 375 10 2
28. Me and the Bean 356 13
29. Trouble Comes Running 345 10 3
30. Stay Don't Go 334 12
31. Vittorio E. 332 11
32. Out go the lights 317 10
33. Paper Tiger 307 9 1
34. Who Makes Your Money 299 10
35. They Never Got You 287 10 1
36. Metal Detaktor 283 9
37. Believing Is Art 281 9
38. Rainy taxi 265 9 1
39. Rhthm & Soul 260 9
40. The Guestlist/The Execution 251 9

thanks, everyone!

1. Don't Make Me a Target
2. Small Stakes
3. New York Kiss
4. Black Like Me
5. They Never Got You
6. Jonathon Fisk
7. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
8. The Fitted Shirt
9. Don't You Evah
10. They Want My Soul
11. Was It You
12. Paper Tiger
13. The Mystery Zone
14. Small Stakes
15. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
16. I Summon You
17. Outlier
18. Something to Look Forward To
19. I Turn My Camera On
20. Written in Reverse

29 Trouble Comes Running (Transference)
05 Finer Feelings (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
27 The Fitted Shirt (Girls Can Tell)
14 The Mystery Zone (Transference)
40 The Guestlist/the Execution (A Series of Sneaks)

06 Black Like Me (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
03 The Beast and Dragon, Adored (Gimme Fiction)
08 Lines In the Suit (Girls Can Tell)
Merchants of Soul (Gimme Fiction)
16 Sister Jack (Gimme Fiction)

Eddie's Ragga (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Advance Cassette (A Series of Sneaks)
17 Written In Reverse (Transference)
Goodnight Laura (Transference)
Plastic Mylar (telephono)

20 Got Nuffin (Transference)
18 My Mathematical Mind (Gimme Fiction)
02 The Way we Get By (Kill the Moonlight)
Dracula's Cigarette (Get Nice!)
Don't Buy the Realistic (Telephono)

The Minor Tough (A Series of Sneaks)
Quincy Punk Episode (A Series of Sneaks)
Lafitte Don't Fail Me Now (Lafitte 7")
Mountain to Sound (Soft Effects EP)
09 Small Stakes (Kill the Moonlight)

1. They Never Got You
2. I Saw the Light
3. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
4. The Way We Get By
5. Sister Jack
6. I Turn My Camera On
7. The Underdog
8. Written In Reverse
9. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
10. Rainy Taxi
11. The Mystery Zone
12. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
13.Something To Look Forward To
14. Don’t You Evah
15. Do You
16. Got Nuffin
17. Stay Don't Go
18. Don't Make Me a Target
19. Inside Out
20. Black Like Me
21. Advance Cassette
22. Trouble Comes Running
23. I Summon You
24. Everything Hits at Once
25. New York Kiss

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

Shivers

Here's my weirdo ballot

TRACKS (RANKED)

Idiot Driver
Nefarious
All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed
All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
Reservations
The Way We Get By
Quincy Punk Episode
Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now
Utilitarian
Waiting for the Kid to Come Out
Got Nuffin
I Summon You
June's Foreign Spell
The Ghost of You Lingers
Don't You Evah
I Turn My Camera On

ALBUMS (ALSO RANKED?)

Telephono
A Series of Sneaks
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Kill the Moonlight
Gimme Fiction

1. Jonathon Fisk
2. Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine
3. Don't You Evah
4. Black Like Me
5. Vittorio E.
6. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
7. Anything You Want
8. The Beast And Dragon Adored
9. Rent I Pay
10. Small Stakes
11. Believing Is Art
12. Rainy Taxi
13. Stay Don't Go
14. The Way We Get By
15. Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now
16. Execution (aka The Guestlist/The Execution)
17. The Underdog
18. Lines In The Suit
19. Merchants of Soul
20. Who Makes Your Money
21. Written In Reverse
22. Don't Let It Get You Down
23. Is Love Forever?
24. They Want My Soul
25. My Mathematical Mind

Albums:

1. Kill The Moonlight
2. Ga X 5
3. They Want My Soul
4. Girls Can Tell
5. Gimme Fiction
6. Transference
7. A Series of Sneaks

Haven't heard the other two.

1. Got Nuffin
2. The Government Darling
3. Change My Life
4. Finer Feelings
5. Was It You
6. Don’t You Evah
7. Sister Jack
8. Who Makes Your Money
9. Everything Hits At Once
10. Metal Detektor
11. Metal School
12. I Turn My Camera On
13. Don’t Buy The Realistic
14. Chips And Dip
15. Car Radio
16. The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
17. The Beast And Dragon, Adored
18. Inside Out
19. Jonathan Fisk
20. Do You
21. Decora
22. New York Kiss
23. The Underdog
24. They Never Got You
25. No You’re Not

thx poll runners. only surprise really i guess was the beast in the top 3.

Did my ballot have the most non-placing tracks? I had 11.

beat me! impressed cuz the roll-out made me feel really contrarian. I concur with the consensus that "Finer Feelings" is the highlight of Gax5 but don't particularly rate the next three most popular tracks from it.

bet johnny fever would have beat you if he'd gone the full 20, though

Yeah, if he'd picked five more songs from Telephono I'd be out.

man some of those telephono picks on jf's ballot make me wish i'd represented it more on mine

unweighted

I Saw The Light
Something to Look Forward To
Advance Cassette
June's Foreign Spell
30 Gallon Tank
The Minor Tough
The Government Darling
Dismember
Outlier
Written In Reverse
Who Makes Your Money
The Mystery Zone
Black Like Me
Don't Make Me A Target
I Summon You
Sister Jack
I Turn My Camera On
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
The Way We Get By
Anything You Want
Believing Is Art
Everything Hits At Once
New York Kiss
Execution
Finer Feelings