Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"

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A fellow named John Cei Douglas.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

John Cei Douglas = Suedey

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh haha i hadn't noticed that! good work john!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i said this over at fluxblog, but that should be the cover art for the 7". please make this happen merge.
-- blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.lif...), May 1st, 2005.

Yeah, please make this happen merge! The back cover could look something like this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Suedey/valentinebackcoverpos2.jpg

I am unemployed.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

wow! who do we have to talk to to make this happen?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Suedey/covertestbigletterscopy.jpg

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, thanks jaymc! I probably should have mentioned who I was upthread, silly me!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

hey it's ok! at first i was just like, oh, he nicked that from fluxblog!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

send email to merge xpost

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

spoon played a secret show in chicago tonight. (it was a jack daniels promotional event.) they were great. i found gimme fiction to be mostly boring when i heard it a month ago, but they were so tight and energetic on stage, i'm looking forward to listening to the album again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon make some of the catchiest, most confident rock 'n' roll of any group around. Their fifth full-length is nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career. "Gimme Fiction" is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh... wait. That was from the publisher...

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

for those in philly...

http://photos8.flickr.com/12381307_81a791d9fa.jpg

we're giving away concert tickets and other promotional swag.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

this has become a must-buy for me. there's a picture in the liner from a show at philly's rotunda back in april '03!

the sound was so bad, i think i called for "waiting for the kid to come out" after they played it.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Bought this album today and it is so great.

That's all I have to say.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Album of the year so far.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

No, The Woods is the album of the year so far.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that would be Final Fantasy.

― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I had never heard a note of Spoon's music, but after going head to head with one of the Spoon guys at the Staremaster contest at the Slint ATP I thought I'd check out the new record- and I think it's really great. It's funny, I don't hear the connection between them and a lot of the bands/influences people name drop- to me I hear a really T-Rex/Nick Gilder thing going on, and personally I love it. Yay for Spoon.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

With all the talk of comparing this album with their older ones, I realized I never owned Telephono, just lived with somebody who had one or borrowed it. Now it's out of print, and even just the CD is going for $50 (?!). I'm not on slsk or anything at the moment. Can someone please just Gmail it to me?

― c@md3n (c@md3n), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

T-Rex/Nick Gilder

completely. Strong 70's sound to the writing and the production on this. I love how they can sound so muscular and spare at the same time.

― dan. (dan.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Listened to this album yesterday on big honking headphones while walking through midtown Manhattan, carrying two moderately heavy bags, on my way to Penn Station, to Newark Airport, for to carry me home to LA. Getting my body, my feet on the pavement into rhythm with the bags, navigating through and around the crowds, checking out a few New York women, watching the New Yorkers reading and talking and smoking in their parks. The fact that half of the resulting awesomeness came from the album informs you, reader, that it is awesome, and deserving of praise, and that it disproves the shadowy, gray, lifeless fears about the disappearance of the vital impulse in art that have been troubling you.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

still a great record, i still think there's an alternate sequencing.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Hah - that's a great post from Lukas. Does he still post here?

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Still their best album.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

you left out a "has nothing on" before "their best album"

(that being KtM, obv)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

GcT > SoS > KtM > dried up dog dookie > GF

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

SoS > GF > GCT = KTM > Telephono

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Girls Can Tell = Gimme Fiction = Kill The Moonlight >> A Series of Sneaks > Loveways >>>>>>>>>>>> Telephono

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

did i write that purple stuff? o well, it was a gorgeous day.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Album of the year so far.
-- Jim Reckling (Jreckli...), May 14th, 2005 2:06 PM. (Jim Reckling) (link)

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No, The Woods is the album of the year so far.
-- The Brainwasher (bornliveddie...), May 14th, 2005 2:30 PM. (Twilight) (link)

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No, that would be Final Fantasy.
-- Sean M (sea...), May 14th, 2005 2:38 PM. (Sean M) (link)

Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

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― gear (gear), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vulcanproductions.com/Images/clips/hard_candy_clip4.jpg

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Where's the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga thread?

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

― kenan, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

for years somehow i was missing the mp3 for 'delicate place'. now that i have it the whole album is fucked up! what a way to ruin the momentum from 'mathematical mind' > 'sister jack'. :/

― j., Sunday, 12 February 2012 00:50 (fourteen years ago)

i might delete that track and go for a run tomorrow and see if you're onto something

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

karma for stealing rather than buying maybe

― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:47 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

I was in this drop D metal band we called Requiem

― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 2 December 2018 20:33 (seven years ago)

We listened to Gimme Fiction so much when it came out when I was working at Tower Records. Me and a couple coworkers had a choreographed dance routine for the first part of 'Sister Jack.' Haha.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 3 December 2018 00:18 (seven years ago)

Pretty classic mid-2000s album.

― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 00:43 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

Haven't listened to this in years, but man, was this band in a groove. Girls, Moonlight, this, G5 ...

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 October 2020 02:16 (five years ago)

Took me a bit to get into this one because it was so different from the crisp clean sounds of Girls and Moonlight but I came around eventually.

At this point my fav might be "Merchants of Soul", Eno is just beating his brains out on that one

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 8 October 2020 13:23 (five years ago)

Still not huge on "The Infinite Pet" or "The Delicate Place" but the rest is wall to wall bangers

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 October 2020 13:30 (five years ago)

yeah aside from the first few spins I think I've skipped "The Infinite Pet" every time I've listened to this album since then. On my playlist I replace it with b-side "Monkey Feelings" which works way better imo

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 8 October 2020 13:49 (five years ago)

Their best album.

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2020 13:50 (five years ago)

nah but definitely their best album from their popular festival-band era

― na (NA), Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:07 (five years ago)

After its predecessors it feels like an awesome victory lap. Like, "now that you guys have caught up, check this out." And then G5 is like "now that we still have your attention ..."

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:13 (five years ago)

I like that "Beast and Dragon" and "Don't Make Me a Target" are essentially the same song yet don't make each other redundant, somehow

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 October 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

"I Turn My Camera On" should be having a comeback in the zoom era

― Indexed, Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:31 (five years ago)

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