Yesterday someone posted on Twitter that this is their best record, and framed it as a hot take. I'm not sure it's that controversial of an opinion. I 100% agree with you that this band seems incapable of putting out a bad record, but it's all relative, and relatively speaking TWMS is the band at it's best.
I gave this album a couple of listens this week because of your write-up. It's always seemed to me that Spoon are their own subgenre. It's definitely in the rock genre and has the typical instrumentation, but they're instantly recognizable to anyone that's familiar with the band. I wonder if anyone's ever done a musical analysis on what makes a Spoon song uniquely them. I'm not smart enough to figure it out but it seems like there must be something.
Yeah, it's a particular way they put their songs together. Simple parts of the surface that reveal a whole with depth. Thanks for reading (and listening), Dean.
Great stuff! It’s a wonderful album and I absolutely love their cover of the Ann Margaret song. But I was already obsessed with The Beatles’ version, which never made it on to an album (yet they gave the world Mr. Moonlight 🤔).
I find that I always return to the Moonlight/Fiction/Ga Ga run as my favorite. If pressed to pick an absolute fave, I would likely go Fiction, but it's tough to go wrong there.
Good stuff, my friend. I need to spend some more time with this album.
I happened to get in fairly early, and thus Girls Can Tell is my favorite, but They Want My Soul is also excellent.
Girls Can Tell is fantastic as well. An entry point to a band you love is always going to hold that special place.
Yesterday someone posted on Twitter that this is their best record, and framed it as a hot take. I'm not sure it's that controversial of an opinion. I 100% agree with you that this band seems incapable of putting out a bad record, but it's all relative, and relatively speaking TWMS is the band at it's best.
I saw that go by on Twitter and already had this in the works.
I don’t know who it was (I saw it via retweet), but I thought that was a pretty cool coincidence. Great minds think alike!
I gave this album a couple of listens this week because of your write-up. It's always seemed to me that Spoon are their own subgenre. It's definitely in the rock genre and has the typical instrumentation, but they're instantly recognizable to anyone that's familiar with the band. I wonder if anyone's ever done a musical analysis on what makes a Spoon song uniquely them. I'm not smart enough to figure it out but it seems like there must be something.
Yeah, it's a particular way they put their songs together. Simple parts of the surface that reveal a whole with depth. Thanks for reading (and listening), Dean.
Great stuff! It’s a wonderful album and I absolutely love their cover of the Ann Margaret song. But I was already obsessed with The Beatles’ version, which never made it on to an album (yet they gave the world Mr. Moonlight 🤔).
Thanks for the kind words!
I find that I always return to the Moonlight/Fiction/Ga Ga run as my favorite. If pressed to pick an absolute fave, I would likely go Fiction, but it's tough to go wrong there.
Good stuff, my friend. I need to spend some more time with this album.
Thanks, Matt. This one will sneak up on you. That run you mentioned is glorious, of course.