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

peace, rant over

more Spoon to come...

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^^^ one of the best.

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astonishing how well Thermo Thinwall captured the song in an image. these just happen to be some random images he had on a recent vacation. (iirc)

in case you haven't figured it out, the font and color all match up with the original albums.

stuff i can never do on my own. this is why this ended up being one of my favorites that i have run. when you get stuff like this, well it speaks for itself...

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first a couple of extra images, with the song just missing the Top 40:

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Thermo Thinwall probably thought like i did, that "Rent I Pay" will definitely make this poll.

it would be very interesting to see my ballot these days, especially with the addition of Hot Thoughts a very, very strong album. at first i thought it didn't measure up. these days it's actually one of their best.

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a Bee OK story:

i originally thought because ILM was in the hey day for artist polls that Spotify made a special template for polls. haha. anyways, someone made this playlist with an ILM logo induced:

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Spotify ILM Spoon Poll

very glad i was able to upload these images back to this poll. they were so good that they couldn't just disappear into thin air.

Hey man. Glad to see how appreciated my efforts were! If you’re interested in more of my photography, I’ve been keeping my Flickr alive (username d y s i g n) (except without the spaces - just trying to google proof). Slowly Uploading photos from Italy right now.

funny, Everything Hits At Once is the first song I ever heard by this band and it's still my favourite

these photos are insane!

Thanks?!

Those pictures really are amazing. Great job Thermo Thinwall.

A shame this poll couldn't include Hot Thoughts, a top three Spoon album, as I make clear.

let's repoll in 20 years

great examination as usual, alfred.

i just sorta shrug, and know they are unfuckwithable, and don't much feel the need to argue it.

the aug 1 2015 spotify, mentioned far above, was playing on my player when i was put into a multi-day coma on the evening of aug 5 2015. after that, i lived in a rehab hospital for a couple months. i don't remember listening to spoon that day- that day is gone from me forever- but i later found other evidence (texts) that the playlist was my listening at that moment. seeing my comments from that week now rips me into shreds.

the last 3 years often have been almost unendurable, despite my outrageous good luck and fantastic group support. but spoon? still unfuckwithable.

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etiolated spoon is my favorite spoon

Found Transference LP second hand and I'm starting to think it's song qua song my favourite album.

I need to give the last two albums a bit more listening time. I love Spoon

I like Alfred's opening line "Why I like these Austinites mystifies me". I agree. They could so easily be the US equivalent of the Stereophonics if they weren't so damn good at writing great songs and knowing just how far to push the boat out with experimentation so it seems like they're not experimenting.

Transference seems to be where the hard core Spoon fans seems to gravitate too, it has some killer hooks. They Want My Soul is even better for me as it has "Rainy Taxi" and arguably their best overall song "Inside Out" and also "New York Kiss," what an album. Hot Thoughts is their New Order album and i also love it. it is/was an interesting direction that i wish they continued down but it seems they are going back to rocking out...

this poll was so much fun!

yeah this was great, enjoying just skimming back through some of it :)

Transference is far and away my favorite.

Glad I'm not the only one. That said, while they're not a band I listen to all the time, every album easily has 3-4 top tier songs

Hot Thoughts has become my most played Spoon album, thanks to "I Ain't the One" and especially "WhisperI’lllistentohearit." He sounds sexy as fuck on the latter.