Spoon - Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon poll

Mr. Daniel, you can aim your guitar at me anytime.

haha

i’m starting to believe that “Inside Out” is Spoon at its peak. i even like two other songs more on They Want My Soul but this song seems like their crowning achievement to this point. it’s a song that doesn’t sound like any other song in their catalog and is also their best video. i also think that album was to new when ILM did it’s Spoon poll but think it would be Top 5 easily if it was redone today. i’m quite interested to see where it ends up in the final tally for this poll.

I've told this story: I was hot for him until I saw him at the Chipotle line wearing cargo shorts at Pitchfork Festival in July 2008.

cargo shorts doesn't do it for you?

because Chipotle is pretty good at times.

Cargo shorts are Bush II era unless you have children or work at Home Depot.

man what a fantastic album cover

Gotta go for the title track.

Yeah same, Cherry Bomb a close second.

i've also told this story, but one time b daniel walked into a cd/game/dvd store i worked at, a few hours before their show a block or so away. he walked straight to the Spoon section, checked to see what was there, and walked straight out

we didn't have anything good so i totally understood

what kind of shorts did he wear

iirc he wore tight pants and looked pretty great.

None of my most favoritist Spoon tracks are on this... guess it emphasizes their “punchier” stuff? I do like “Do You,” as far as late-period Spoon goes.

Rock Star

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that is a funny story. if you thank about it. he comes across a record store and thinks "I wonder if they have our albums?" then goes inside to check, gets his answer and leaves. lol

*Think

can't believe how many mistakes i make on this board. i really should re-read my posts once before hitting enter.

*Thinks, obviously :rolleyes:

n/m i even screwed that up...going to bed

00’s Spoon: Everything hits at once
10’s Spoon: Inside Out

Haha I remember he was super into Chipotle at the time, even said he had stock iirc

Voting for "inside out" (would go for "ghost of you lingers" but it's not represented here)

Everyone knows that you name the album after the best track.
(but Moka's answer isn't wrong either)

my least favorite 00s album but "i summon you" def

I get that they don't wanna give any money to Elektra, but the lack of Sneaks songs on a 'best of' is infuriating to this fan.

it's not really for fans is the reasoning

Your discography has a lot of greatest hits contenders. Was it hard paring the songs down to a single release?
My first idea was to do a much bigger one — it was hard for me to narrow 'em down, for one thing and I wanted to do some rarities and B-sides. It was pointed out to me that that approach would be better for people that already know the band, so why not make a single disc that's geared towards people that maybe know a song or two. We struggled to fit all 13 songs on there, which is a lot for a disc. It was about picking the cream of the crop, really.

Why isn't there anything on this album that predates Girls Can Tell?
Those records were definitely not our most popular — they were very unsuccessful (Laughs). That would happen on a different type of compilation

from: https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/25/britt-daniel-spoon-everything-hits-at-once-greatest-hits-interview-deerhunter

No Daniel stories of my own to report but a friend grabbed his ass while they were posing for a photo.

Hard to pick anything but the title track

No Daniel stories of my own to report but a friend grabbed his ass while they were posing for a photo.

― Chris L, Thursday, June 27, 2019

Man or woman? Chipotle or Moe's?

pretty incredible that i'd choose very few of these for my own personal spoon best-of but despite that i really like all of the ones which did make the official cut - that's a hell of a hit rate

I saw him milling around at a Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever show last September. That's the extent of Spoon story.

The Underdog

xxp woman. It made for a good photo.

My Spoon story is a friend overheard a few of the guys at a festival asking where they could score some coke.

spoon? morelike coke spoon amirite

you got yr cherry bomb

"I Could See the Dude", only 1:59. Too bad there wasn't room for it. That and "Waiting for the Kid to Come Out" were my intro.

another old dude here complaining that anything that skips the first two albums completely is not really a "best of spoon," but i voted for "i summon you"

Rent I Pay because it's so massive live.

why not make a single disc that's geared towards people that maybe know a song or two.

Those records were definitely not our most popular — they were very unsuccessful (Laughs).

I never got this thinking - why take into account the relative popularity of the records at the time of their release if the comp is geared towards ppl who don't know the band in the first place? It's all gonna sound the same to them, it's not like someone would hear "Advance Cassette" in that tracklist and go "whoa, this is clearly an early song from one of their low-selling records, WTF"

i wouldn't care if they called it a "sampler" or something instead of a "best of"

Reminds me of an interview I heard with Mick Jagger from when they reissued Exile where he expressed confusion abt why anyone would want a reissue since it didnt have any hits.

Anyway title track, obv. Also Spoon's best music video.

i mean i don't care that much to start with but

Everything Hits. By far my favorite of the bunch presented here, though there are others (especially from KtM and GaGaGaGaGa) that I like more.

I never got this thinking - why take into account the relative popularity of the records at the time of their release if the comp is geared towards ppl who don't know the band in the first place? It's all gonna sound the same to them, it's not like someone would hear "Advance Cassette" in that tracklist and go "whoa, this is clearly an early song from one of their low-selling records, WTF"

I assume he’s thinking that the records weren’t popular because the songs didn’t “connect,” and still wouldn’t connect even if they were featured on this CD geared for Starbucks purchases or whatever (does Starbucks still sell CDs at the register)?

I mean I don’t necessarily endorse that view, but it does seem like they chose very “casual–listener-friendly”tracks for this comp, and the early songs do have a certain “‘90s indie-rock sound” that may be offputting to casual listeners.

write-in for 'believing is art'

metal detektor ringing as i write-in for the poholl
oooohhuh

Everything Hits, followed by Cherry Bomb. I wish they'd included something like Ghost of You Lingers, Paper Tigers, Out Go the Lights. As it is it's mostly just their top 10 streaming songs repackaged.

I thought they/Merge got all of Series back, so including something like Advance Cassette or Reservations should've been easy.

I may have told this story on ILX one time but BD used to sleep with an intern I worked with back in the day (2001-2004? era, def pre-cargo-shorts, more of a tight jeans and jacket look at the time). He'd call her up whenever he was in town and put her on the list to the show (she +1'd me once). She was pretty open & non-chalant about it, but was surprised I knew who he was as I don't really talk about music in the office... and I guess I don't look like a "Spoon fan" haha.

(...and she was right, I've only heard the first single/EP & LP and seen them live when they opened for GBV in 96?)

All that said, I'm trying to figure out what to vote for here and I don't see anything familiar...

the early songs do have a certain “‘90s indie-rock sound” that may be offputting to casual listeners.

lol ilxors actin like early spoon is the fuckin ne plus ultra will never get old

Ne plus ultra? I just said it sounds different than the crisp, groove-heavy stuff on this disc. Am I wrong?

(It’s also heavily influenced by Pixies, GBV, Pavement...)

lol they didn't put "Sister Jack"

I Summon You is sick

xxp you're right, you didn't, though i think that is of a piece with the lionization of the period, which seems pretty reflexive to me—based on old memories of indie rock glory, the trv3 kvlt sound that repels yer casual 00s commodified npr-rock fan

"I Summon You" sounds like good Nick Lowe.

I put together a Spotify playlist of their singles (that are available on Spotify anyhow) and... maaaaaaaan, were they ever terrible at picking singles up to maybe GGGGG when they did that indie trifecta of “Underdog,” “Cherry Bomb” and “Don’t you Evah”. Like there’s the occasional hit in there, but it’s no wonder they didn’t do a “Standing on the Beach”-style singles collection here.

I know we did a Spoon poll, but it’s be interesting to see what everyone’s CD-80 would look like. Not a lot of consensus, I bet. (The CD-80 was a fun format; also has the advantage unlike the 90-min mixtape of translating nicely into 2xLP for a fantasy comp)

Don’t You Evah, because it was the gateway drug, and also it’s a cover and yet somehow quintessentially Spoony.

But it was bloody close.

cargo shorts doesn't do it for you?

― Bee OK, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 7:20 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because Chipotle is pretty good at times.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 7:20 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ts: willingly listening to spoon vs. willingly consuming chipotle vs. willingly wearing cargo shorts

Totally get the starting with GCT argument though - much as I love Waiting For The Kid To Come Out, and have listened to and enjoyed Sneaks loads, they feel like a different band to me, somehow. Like the Spoon identity, DNA, USP whatever only started with GCT. Also, this is so obviously geared up like a 60s / 70s best of - pre-CD, 45 minutes, just the big songs. It’s like Sly & The Family Stone or something.

Don’t You Evah, because it was the gateway drug, and also it’s a cover and yet somehow quintessentially Spoony.

Yesterday I was going to say that it's the least essential track on gax5!

Ended up voting for the title track for sentimental reasons but yeah, this is hard.

Since I generally prefer later period and pop (as opposed to groove) spoon, it's between Do You and Cherry Bomb, the former a great mix of understated pathos and the incredibly goofy 'do do do's.

When people talk about 'modern' Spoon as sounding notably more accessible or easier to connect with or w/e, I honestly dont really hear the difference that much? (Aside from Telephono, which is its own thing and v much of its time obv.) Like from Sneaks onward, theyve basically been deploying a few difference combinations the same basic tools and sounds. The new song "No Bullets Spent" wouldnt sound out of place on Girls Can Tell (aside from the synth-vox intro), and bside of the 7inch is "Shake it off", a Sneaks-era track that to my ears could pass for a new track to my ears.

For me the big sonic change was with Gimme Fiction, when the production got noticeably more full and fussy and busy, but even that they reigned in pretty quickly. To my ears they dont seem to have made any big moves or changes in the direction of accessibility aside from that. Rockers like "Rent I Pay" or "Trouble Comes Running" sound like they could have come out at any point over the last 20 years imo. I dont really hear a big divide in the sounds of their eras like the Flaming Lips or whoever

The only exception to that for me would be when I first heard "The Underdog", which seemed like startlingly obvious licensing-bait, even for a band that was having a commercial moment like they were at the time. Maybe it makes me sound like a 90s trve kvlt lol old guy or whatever but that Glass Houses shit can gtfo

(...and she was right, I've only heard the first single/EP & LP and seen them live when they opened for GBV in 96?)

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the only time I ever saw Spoon live as well. I remember Britt played an acoustic guitar with pickup that was very distorted.

write-in for 'believing is art'

― mookieproof, Thursday, June 27, 2019 1:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My man! When that guitar comes in on the chorus is my favorite Spoon moment.

Don’t You Evah, because it was the gateway drug, and also it’s a cover...

Don't get the reverence for the early stuff. The only time I saw them live was on the Sneaks tour, and they didn't make much of an impression, other than BD's comment that they increased the running time of Car Radio "because the A&R guy told us to, and we want to play ball!" It wasn't until "Everything Hits At Once" that I started to get into them, and I feel like they didn't peak until about 15 years into their career (though that said, they've been very consistent since Girls Can Tell).

They've been remarkably consistent for almost 20 years. I get why X would chose Y over another album but not why he or she would get hot under the collar about it.

i'm seeing these guys in just a few hours from now. i see they played in the San Francisco Bay Area just last night. i'm very excited as my bonus is also seeing Beck with Cage the Elephant, who i don't really know.

i think i know a song or two by Cage the Elephant if is that same guy who sort of sounds like Jack White?

starting with this tonight:
https://www.newyorkbeverage.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/bearrepracer5-540x620.png

Can't believe "Fitted Shirt" isn't on there.

Some
day it'll take...

July 17, 2019 FivePoint Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA

Setlist:

1. Knock Knock Knock
2. No Bullets Spent
3. The Way We Get By
4. Trouble Comes Running
5. The Underdog
6. Hot Thoughts
7. Don't You Evah
8. Do You
9. Inside Out
10. I Turn My Camera On
11. Rent I Pay

i don't have a review of the show itself as i missed the whole thing. we had issues getting to this place. so instead, i will talk about the next band that played before Beck. i think this is all ILM fault for jading me with mediocre bands. Cage the Elephant are not a good band but the kids seem to love them and Beck is not a good pairing but more on that later. the lead singer of Cage has a lot of charisma. he looks and acts like Mike Jagger. it was such a beautiful night in Southern California last night probably around 75 degrees. he came out with layer and layer of clothing on. so for the first few songs he was just taking off his clothing one piece at a time. by the end of the show he only had on work out shorts. some of Cage the Elephant songs are ok i guess but the music is just so dull, i couldn't for the life of me figure out why everyone was so into them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_58xUURceo

I am the guy saying "let's do the song"; the other guys in the band did not know who he was…

Their drummer recently quit, fyi.

I mean bassist

He's probably gonna form a duo w/Janet Weiss.

so i think i got it now, the bassist of Spoon recently quit the band?

Yah - https://pitchfork.com/news/spoon-bassist-rob-pope-exits-band/

Too bad you missed that show, it looks like a great setlist.

yeah, it was too bad. i was really only going for Spoon and missed their whole set. it has been one of those weeks...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I will have to agree with Bee here, video feels like an acid trip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT5SBg1Mmk

Solid interview: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/744642060/spoon-releases-an-old-school-greatest-hits-album-into-a-digital-age

Nice piece thanks for posting. I meant to close this tomorrow, when the record actually comes out, but international time lines are not my strongest suit.

Britt's never been able to shake those Elektra wounds. they color the way he views the first three albums.

No 'Sister Jack'??!?!?!!!

Weird, I had never heard of Stevie’s Song Review.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

1. "No Bullets Spent" is a great one-off single; I like to think the chorus lyrics are/were a delightfully malevolent wish re the then-sitting President

2. I recently learned ...Trail of Dead maestro Conrad Keely plays the sweet mellotron on "Everything Hits at Once"! That's a killer contribution.