Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"

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I hope that is true. It could stand to be a bit cleaner than this.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit how can you not love "They Never Got You"? it's that one instantly GREAT song you always get on spoon albums.

― drew, Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

cleaner? i think the productions pretty sharp on it. might have to do with us listening to MP3's more than anything else.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i have listened to it, on-off, for the best part of the last 24 hours, and i'm of the opinion that it is an almighty shuffle forward and their best record yet. now, bear in mind that i have a 100% record of thinking the most recent Spoon is the best, since Sneaks, but that's because it has been true every time! to paraphrase myself elsewhere, without losing the Spoon-y spartan essence, the songs are somehow more musical and substantial. i love 'Mathematical Mind' - seriously a contender for best Spoon track to date.

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Heartening!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep reading this as "Grime Fiction"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon should go on tour with Stephen Malkmus and the can call it either the "Face the Fiction" or "Gimme the Truth" tour.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi, thanks for stealing my joke. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, maybe just the TRUTH AND FICTION Tour would work, sorta like that DCFC/D-Plan tour a few years back called the DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT Tour.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Thumbs up to the LP, thumbs down to its cover...

http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/fullsize/ole-660.jpg

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yes indeed, that is more than somewhat crappy. is that really the cover, or did you cook that up in photoshop in a random act of boredom?

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Check the url. It's straight from Matador.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Or they could do a split with the Fake Fictions and call it "Gimme Fake Fiction".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that cover!

The Truth & Fiction tour should be set up like those Billy Joel/Elton John tours - they should play together, do each other's songs - it'd be great!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the photo, but the font and font color are horrendous.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

They should have at least ironed the hood.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the cover's just fine. its just as minimal as kill the moonlight or girls can tell were. britt seems to gravitate towards what i can only refer to as "duotone" images, meaning its black plus one color.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

it looks like an advert for cosmetics or something. my thumbs are also firmly down, too.

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc -- im sorry! i knew someone said it but i couldnt remember just who.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've got no real reservations about the composition of the cover (black + 1), but not a fan of the image itself.

That font and the font colors over another image would be just dandy.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost) heh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Johhny Fever and I are in opposite mode on this record in every aspect of its being! I like the photo and think the text looks a bit half-assed.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the cover, too, actually. At first glance it reminded me simultaneously of this Gerhard Richter painting:

http://www.kunsthalle.nuernberg.de/ausstellung/1999/artistsproof/richter.jpg

and this Katharina Fritsch sculpture:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/programs/images/2000_49.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

they should try for something more like:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g404/g40453v02cv.jpg

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

beautiful

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i wouldnt be surprised if its a part of some work, like how that balla painting was used on the series of sneaks cover.

in the end, it looks like a spoon record should look like: minimal and slightly ambiguous.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think a Spoon album with Phil Collins on the cover would be grebt!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That photo of Phil Collins is actually quite good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna mock up a pic of Britt staring moddily, with the band and album names in a similar style, but even i'm not that bored.

but tomorrow i have to work, so who knows?

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

moodily, naturally

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"i turn my camera on" is the best song on this album.

britt's falsetto, jerky off beat, awesome lyrics.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The cover totally reminds me of some ads for a building society. Scottish Widow, but red.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Or they could do a split with the Fake Fictions and call it "Gimme Fake Fiction".
-- Jordan (jordan...), February 17th, 2005 4:14 PM. (Jordan)

Yes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna mock up a pic of Britt staring moddily, with the band and album names in a similar style, but even i'm not that bored.

Looks like I am.

http://www.notempo.com/jpg/spoonfake.jpg

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Suedey, you have called it. that's totally what it's like.

i like it less and less. it's going to be one of those i put in the case backwards. unless the other side is worse, of course.

but let me reiterate, great album.

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

dude that's awesome!!! can we send this to the band? maybe they haven't gone to press on the sleeves yet.

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

frustration. i'm at work, trying to find a leaked copy on an archaic mac with an obsolete version of soulseek.
but no. can't find it.
but later, with my own fancy, high-powered computing machine, and the newest versions of the p2p favourites, i will hear this album.
and i don't mind the rumoured cover.

― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not a rumored cover, it's from the Matador site!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the same album that's been appearing on "upcoming releases" lists under another title for about a year and a half?

(And what was that abandoned title, anyway? I forget...)

― MV, Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Album cover looks like a lead photo for a feature in Vogue or something. Sounds like no drop in quality from comments here.

― PiersT, Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"romeo's apprentice" was one of the titles. i believe "the beast and dragon are adored" was another.

romeo's apprentice is funny because:

spoon's booking agent is jim romeo at ground control. jim romeo has a nephew i went to high school with. [apparently jim is from my hometown as well.] his nephew is his assistant, er, apprentice at GCT. hence, this is as close as metuchen nj will ever get to be referenced in a song/title/etc.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

so -- what does everything think the single off this thing will be?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Turn My Camera On" if they want to be interesting, "Sister Jack" or "Monsieur Valentine" if they want to pander to their indie rock base.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

if it were two minutes shorter "They Never Got You" would be the single -- it's got the hookiest beat. But a record label would never go with the best song, right? My guess is "Sister Jack." -- and I see exactly what Matthew is talking about in terms of Wilco. It sounds like it could've squeezed in between AM and Being There.

The album is very strong, but not amazing. I felt the same way about KtM. Girls Can Tell is my favorite of theirs.

― robot mark (robot mark), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i just can't get into this album.
kill the moonlight was much better.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i just figured out why.
they sound like the stereophonics on this one.
anyone agree with me?.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 19 February 2005 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

OK. i heard from someone over the weekend that the sequencing isnt correct on various websites. i was wondering this too, because "the beast & dragon, adored" is a weird opener.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, you think? I can't imagine sequencing "The Beast and Dragon Adored" on that album as anything other than the first song. That song screams "first song on the album" to me.

"They Never Got You" ought to be the final song, not "Merchants of Soul."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, "The Beast And Dragon Adored" should be the last song in their main set, and "My Mathematical Mind" should be the first song of every night on the tour. That would be ideal.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

lyrics don't resonate as strongly as they did on Girls Can Tell, but this album is their most groove-based to date and is probably my favorite. I think the single should the "I Took my camera off" one.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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― 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)

i turn my camera on
i take my PC mic off mute

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:33 (five years ago)

the best ever drop-d metal band called Requiem outta Denton

― the burrito that defined a generation, Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:38 (five years ago)

listening now, "sister jack" and "i summon you" are all-time great spoon songs

― na (NA), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:36 (five years ago)

I think "My Mathematical Mind" is the coolest.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:38 (five years ago)

five years pass...

"I Turn My Camera On" at the Starbucks in Taipei airport terminal 2

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Friday, 17 April 2026 00:38 (one month ago)

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