I like spoon fine but stopped paying close attn around kill the moonlight wow 13! yrs ago
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
xp spoonerang
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
oh, ilm paws
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
the track they placed previously was OK, but it was over five minutes long and did not appear to have a chord change or any variation
filing this under "idgi"
― WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
I love Spoon and liked this album but it's definitely one of their weaker ones for me.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:23 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This, basically. "Transference" was better
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Will never ever understand Spoon.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Voted for this, lots of great songs on the record. New York Kiss, the title track, I Just Don't Understand, Rent I Pay...
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Wither, spoons
― xelab, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
liked this one the one time i played it. never played it again. i've said it before, but Spoon are the best most boring band out there and they suit a certain mood. like, there's a certain time or mood you can be in when it doesn't matter if music's boring. and by boring, i mean they are good at doing a lot with just a dogged insistence on plain-bread rock instrumentation. another good example of this is the horrors' album from this year (which i liked but doubt will place) - greyscale 80s pop-psychedelia which doesn't so much shock and awe as flow through you. close listening didn't make sense, but it made perfect music for when i was fixing my bike.
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
general comment: this thread needs more saer
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
for sooth, saer
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Transference is their weakest album, IMO.
KTM > GCT > TWMS > GGGGG > GF > ASOS > Transference
― Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Just imagine sitting around thinking up band names and thinking "Spoon? Yeah that'll do."
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
so much worse than the knife!
― Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i've never shaken my impression of Spoon as "Grunge Beck" based on their Matador-era early music
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
as in they literally just looked and sounded to me like Beck fronting a grunge band
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
It is much worse than The Knife actually (and a bit worse than just calling yourselves 'Knife').
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
the one named after a genesis song is so much better than the one named after a can song, just saying
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
woo great day so far (even w/ the terrible LDR inclusion). i voted for angel olsen - which i love for its gothicy folk americana strands - and the mark barrott.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
spoon sounded okay but kinda boring? idk, i get why preexisting fans might like it.
gonna chime in and say i never liked any previous spoon album in full but this new one i thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end. not sure if that's a reflection of the album or just how my tastes have changed.
― misterjoshua, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
every Spoon album has been underrated
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Why do so many ilxors vote for shit pitchfork approved indie like the sheeple they accuse top 40 fans of being?Too many lists look the same because of it.
― strychnine, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
It's weird to me holding KTM as a benchmark when they're so maddeningly devoted to an aesthetic that won't allow any but minor deviations. The trick is to like the aesthetic.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
a ton of this list has been stuff i've never heard of and/or am reasonably sure was not on Pitchfork's EOY lists
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
inividuals' routine rote dismissal of entire genres is my least favourite thing about ILM
anyway if you like Spoon this is an excellent Spoon album
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
sock disses spoon, more news at ten
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Some dude i only mean the indie
― strychnine, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
spoon is probably the most boring possible band name ever which kept me from listening to them for the longest time
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Hell is an hour of Spoon opinions.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
educated ILMers want Spoon's soul
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
In a world where people think names like Rae Sremmurd are a good idea, I welcome and appreciate bands like Spoon who keep it simple.
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
at least yesterday's Fever-driving-to-work slot was Botanist
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
spoon could have instantly been 100% more interesting if they'd have called themselves noops xp
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Why do so many ilxors vote for shit pitchfork approved indie like the sheeple they accuse top 40 fans of being?Too many lists look the same because of it.― strychnine, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― strychnine, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you are raccoon tanuki and i claim my £5
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Spooge.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
it's how i'll forever remember 3-4pm
― nxd, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
i tried to listen to the Khun Narin album this morning on the way to work and it was rly great for like 5 min and then it just kinda got dull hearing it over and over
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
for years I thought Spoon were the same band as UK ska punk lamers (spunge)
Anyway, their best album is Gimme Fiction. Transference was decent too - loved the deliberately rough-cut editing style.
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
i'm still pretty blown away by noura mint seymali, def one of my best ilx discoveries in a minute
\i tried to listen to the Khun Narin album this morning on the way to work and it was rly great for like 5 min and then it just kinda got dull hearing it over and over
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:07 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah i love the repetitive stuff that goes on and on and on and on infinity weird microtonal blues 4ever until i'm dead
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Save us, uh...me!
http://i.imgur.com/9i61HLi.jpg
36 AZEALIA BANKS Broke With Expensive Taste [408 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
I probably have the Spoon records in tiers. Transference and They Want My Soul are pretty top-heavy, but then Who Makes Your Money and Inside Out can do some heavy lifting.Telephono is one of the worst albums I have ever heard.
Gimme Fiction/Girls Can Tell/Ga Ga Ga Ga GaTransference/They Want My SoulKill The MoonlightA Series of SneaksTelephono
― campreverb, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
I love BWET. Most of the stuff between 212 and BWET was pretty patchy so it was a such nice surprise how good this was.
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
This was my biggest shock of the year. I really didn't expect it to be so great or to even sound like it does.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
*stuff RELEASED between 212 and BWET
interesting how much lower Azealia placed here than P&J (where it was #14).
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
I gave this a curiosity listen and was shocked by how much I liked it, considering I've thought everything she's done up to this point (including "212") was at best competent.
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
This was my biggest shock of the year.
co-sign
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
...but it made perfect music for when i was fixing my bike.― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin)
What kind of bike? Spoon is a good soundtrack for fixing an inexpensive 10-speed road bike. Not hip enough for a fixie, and not heavy enough for a chopper!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
interesting how much lower Azealia placed here than P&J (where it was #14)
It polled much better stateside across the pond.
the one named after a can song
Out of idle curiosity, artists named or potentially named after Can songs:
Deadlock, Paperhouse, Mother Sky, Mushroom, Oh Yeah, Halleluwah, Aumgn, Peking O, Pinch, Sing Swan Song, Vitamin C, Soup, Spoon, Future Days, Spray, Moonshake, Bel Air, Gomorrha, Musette, Blue Bag, Splash, Chain Reaction, Hunters And Collectors, Vernal Equinox, Unfinished, Smoke, Flow Motion, Call Me, Fly By Night, Serpentine, November, Safe, Sodom, Ping Pong, Butterfly, Pnoom, Thief
― The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link