Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"

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yeah, im pretty psyched about this. i think im even going to get tickets to shows in other cities!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Suedey/valentinecoloursmall2.jpg

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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.life), Sunday, 1 May 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

guided by voices

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

GODDAMN ME. Ok, while I'm here, Britt Daniel gets x free passes whether or not this album isn't any good.

But it will be good...naysayers should recall that both the last two were big-time sleepers. You have to let those songs grow into all the empty spaces...

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

It has definitely grown on me, though there's some sagging in the middle ("Sister Jack," "I Summon You"--and wtf, Daniel sounds like Beck on "Was it You," who needs that...).

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link

who is responible for that graphical depiction?

― Aaron Ef. (aaron ef.), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

A fellow named John Cei Douglas.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

John Cei Douglas = Suedey

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

send email to merge xpost

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Bought this album today and it is so great.

That's all I have to say.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Album of the year so far.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

No, that would be Final Fantasy.

― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Still their best album.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

SoS > GF > GCT = KTM > Telephono

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

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

one year passes...

Where's the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga thread?

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

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

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

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 (twelve years ago) link

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 (twelve years ago) link

karma for stealing rather than buying maybe

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

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

Pretty classic mid-2000s album.

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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