Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"

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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

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

Their best album.

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

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

na (NA), Thursday, 8 October 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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

Indexed, Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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

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

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

na (NA), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link

I think "My Mathematical Mind" is the coolest.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link


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