Spoon: Gimme Fiction Poll

tricky one

it's either the beast and dragon adored or my mathematical mind

i'll go with beast and dragon today

hmm i love this album - i'm voting 'my mathematical mind' narrowly over 'i summon you', which is probably my favorite acoustic song by them

I adore this one too -- maybe my favorite Spoon. "They Never Got You" summons the insular, paranoid vibe better than anything else they've recorded.

i love "sister jack" but i always thought ppl disliked that song?

I love every single song on here but it's gotta be "I Turn My Camera On" classic track

Spoon best experienced in live setting... "My Mathematical Mind" best live track, perfect show closer... voted for that.

"Sister Jack" for the line "I was in this drop D metal band we called Requiem."

http://hugereviews.com/Movies/Awaiting_Video/Need_Review/wpe1B1.jpg

First track,easy

They Never Got You is maybe my favorite Spoon song, so that. But I Summon You verrry close behind.

I have a half-baked theory that the beast and the dragon are Lennon and McCartney, but I'm not sure it holds up to much scrutiny.

wasn't there a rumor that you were supposed to play this album with the tracks in the opposite order?

yeah

i think mainly because beast and dragon mentions some of the other tracks, so therefore it was 'the end of the story'?

album really is great. and i turn my camera on

im gonna listen to this backwards tonight. what up 2006!!

i'll go backwards if I don't listen to this backwards tonight

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matical mind

can see the breaks

Impossible to choose. I've narrowed it down to 7.

SISTER JACK! I love the way it goes into 9/4 or something at the end.

Sister Jack def.

Sister Jack is PRETTY great.

Sister Jack

listened to most of it this morning and still can't choose.

after listening to this album right now, i still have no idea what song to choose...

incredible album!

I like the title track best.

They Never Got You, because it's the most fun to play air drums to.

finally decided on "The Beast and Dragon, Adored."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i had a dream last night that thurston moore couldn't stop raving about the new spoon single and i kept telling him to shut up cuz i couldn't take the spoon love.

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

justice

Yeah that's fair enough. I could've voted for any of those apart from the bottom 4.

My Mathematical Mind is a fabulous piece of music, one that soars over the rest of this album. Did they do much else like it?

ok Was It You? and They Never Got You also fucking awesome - prefer this band krauty

prefer this every band krauty

"two sides of m. valentine" deserved to place higher

"My Mathematical Mind" isn't even close to being one of the best songs on this record.

"Sister Jack," "I Turn My Camera On," "The Beast and Dragon, Adored," "I Summon You," "The Two Sides . . .," and "Merchants of Soul" are all excellent.

Gax5 is a more consistent record overall; this drops off.

think you might dig Transference, louis.

markers u either crazy or don't play guitar

I was thinking about posting the first 4 tracks off this album on the best 4-track runthread.

Missed this - would have given "Was It You?" another vote.

beast and dragon adored is probably my favorite spoon song.

markers u either crazy or don't play guitar

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.)

I can play the guitar, but my skills are very limited. Still, not sure why that fact's important. I listened to this record a lot when it came out and revisited at least some, if not all, of the songs in like 2007 or something, and those are the songs that I remember really liking.

because the solo is awesome ;-)

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I just prefer the tracks where the band is ROCKING OUT to minimal stuff like this I guess. At least on this record!

Wish this was on it (Sister Jack b-side):

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

I cannot for the life of me remember how MMM goes, but the brilliance of Sister Jack is in the coda when they seem to hang an extra beat in the riff. It's so hard to aniticpate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIu-9PbmRao

playing this tonight and than noticed that i started this poll exactly two years ago.

still such a monster of an album, loove the funkyness. Spoon really are the best band from this last decade.

...this album has been so good it has made me ponder the question, is this actually better than Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga?

well actually, no, it's not better than Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, this album is very top heavy, got me really excited. it very good but side two just can't keep up, though "They Never Got YOu" is their best song on certain days.

SISTER JACK

SISTER JACK AW HAW AW HAW SISTER JACK

with the weight of the world

i summon you to appear

my love

is this actually better than Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga?

yes

http://gimmefacts.com/

deluxe reissue coming out

hard to believe that this is the 10th anniversary.

oh there is an article, will need to take some time to read that as it is quite long.

comparing the results of this poll to the results of the 2015 Spoon poll is instructive

Appalled that my five year old Monkey Feelings YouTube link upthread is broken... it's a random b-side but it's Spoon in a nutshell - tightly wound, nothing wasted, a part comes in and does something and then vanishes, every "woo" and "c'mon" in just the right place.

Also,

I have a half-baked theory that the beast and the dragon are Lennon and McCartney, but I'm not sure it holds up to much scrutiny.

Turns out it's from an old French tapestry

http://i.imgur.com/f0aQhIT.jpg

I think the lyrics themselves are about the creative process and being in a band and writing and recording.

Spoon's Britt Daniel Explains How He Made Gimme Fiction, Track By Track: (plus links to all the home demos):

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/12/08/458482648/spoons-britt-daniel-explains-how-he-made-gimme-fiction-track-by-track

listening to the new deluxe version on spotify

was never a mega-fan of this band but i will say in the 00s there was an awful lot of post-flaming lips protools brian wilson boy genius stuff or ornate "lion king" folky shit that was always really cluttered and this band has a really nice sense of space and arrangements, feel like sometimes the stuff sounds a little "digital" esp the drums but they never cram too much in a track