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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: scarred on 01 Nov 2009, 19:42
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Fap fap fap fap (http://pitchfork.com/news/36971-new-spoon-album-yes/)
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hoorah
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Oh baby don't stop, right there right there OH MY GOD OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I'm spent.
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I'm excited for this, but I would be more excited if the Got Nuffin' EP from earlier this year didn't suck so badly.
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I'm trying not to put much stock in that. Spoon has never made a bad LP so I'm keeping my hopes up for this. Sure they haven't changed much over however many years they've been making music but their output has consistently been so strong that it doesn't matter.
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I'm excited for this, but I would be more excited if the Got Nuffin' EP from earlier wasn't so damned mediocre.
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New single streamin' at NPR!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120830261
Sounds like it came straight off "Kill the Moonlight." I approve.
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I like it. :)
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It was less boring than other Spoon songs I've heard but I still couldn't be bothered listening for more than about a minute.
Somebody tell me what's the deal with Spoon. Why are they good. What am I missing.
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Harry, don't bother with Spoon. There is nothing there for you. There are no dead black people in the band; you are out of your element.
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Or live black people for that matter. I love the band, but diverse it ain't.
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That's not really what I was saying. I was implying that Harry only listens to music by dead black people.
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Sometimes people write things on the internet that they don't really mean. In rare occasions these observations are meant to be humorous.
Just got emailed their tour schedule:
Upcoming gigs:
Dec 3 - Kansas City, MO at Midland Theater tix
Dec 4 - Boston, MA at Orpheum Theatre (SOLD OUT)
Dec 11 - Portland, OR at Crystal Ballroom tix
Dec 12 - La Jolla, CA at RIMAC Arena tix
Dec 31 - Milwaukee, WI at Riverside Theater tix
Feb 14 - Glasgow, Scotland at King Tuts tix
Feb 15 - Manchester, UK at Academy 3 tix
Feb 16 - London, UK at Electric Ballroom tix
Feb 18 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands at Paradiso tix
Feb 19 - Cologne, Germany at Luxor tix
Feb 20 - Berlin, Germany at Frannz Club tix
The fuck?
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I mean even their name is boring. They named their band after cutlery. I don't get it.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Harry, than are dreamt in your discography.
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You're not helping. I want to understand what people like about this music. If it was just one or two people digging it then I'd let it go but there are lots and lots of people and some of them are people I know have good musical taste and there are professional music reviewing publications as well and they're all acting like this band is the second coming of rock 'n' roll Jesus and I don't understand because every time I listen to them I find them so boring.
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I don't think it's usually feasible to convince someone of something they don't actually hear in the music short of just getting them to give it more listens. What have you listened to? Gimme Fiction?
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I don't expect to be convinced, but I want to understand.
I don't know what I've listened to. Not a whole album. A few songs here and there. I saw them play live at a festival once. I've never been motivated to listen to more than a handful of songs because the handful of songs I have listened to haven't done a single thing for me. This is why I'm curious as to why other people like them so much. Is it the lyrics? Do people like the kind of minimal sound the band seems to have? I'm just curious.
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The lyrics are part of it, Britt Daniel has a knack for writing lyrics that find a happy medium between the banality of your stereotypical Brit-rock songs and the supposed pretension of your art-rockers (viz. Of Montreal, Art Brut).
The songs while spare are not what I would call minimalist (Low, Destroyer, those I could see as minimalist) but I'll admit adhere to a garage-y simplicity bringing them it into the orbit of say The White Stripes or Black Keys but with... two more members. On a track say like I Turn My Camera On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro95Ns58qSE), the composition is exceedingly spare, you essentially get through the song with 2 chords and a very basic drum line and it's clearly about Daniel's vocals more than anything.
But then next track on the album you've got My Mathematical Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdJ2nEtcaXs) and while you're still not in prog rock territory you've definitely got a lot more going on instrumentally, culminating in a full on free style by the end of the song. Which is why a few songs here and there probably aren't going to answer your questions of where the attraction comes from. Although the band's aesthetic and Daniel's voice are very consistent within each album, the song construction tends to vary quite a bit.
But what you really want to do is go back to A Series of Sneaks and listen to a song like The Minor Tough which I've always felt sounds like what my high school friends' bands would have sounded like if my life were a movie starring Mischa Barton. It's elemental rock with very slutty sounding guitar, and really, either slutty guitar and Daniel's voice does it for you or it doesn't. Everything else is gloss.
Anyway I'm not nor have I ever been a musician as is probably blatantly obvious by how poorly I express myself when I'm trying to break songs down, so I'm sure some of the other Spoon fans on the forum with better musical literacy will be a lot more helpful.
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Nah, really, I think you've pinned it. Well, that's basically how I would explain to someone what the heck is the deal wth Spoon.
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There are no dead black people in the band; you are out of your element.
There are a few bands that are discussed regularly on this forum that could be improved by dead band members.
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Yeah, Animal Collective could certainly benefit from that. Or, alternately, I'd buy one of their records if they did a John Cage type 4'33" piece.
That'd be killer.
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shit about spoon
yeah dude, you pretty much nailed it. I think you either like Daniel's voice or you don't, and that pretty much makes or breaks Spoon.
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(http://onethirtybpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/spoon-transference-aa.jpg)
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Cover by Wes Anderson
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is that ezra koenig
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Circa 2002, maybe.