Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"

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"Two Sides...," "Sister Jack" and "I Summon You" are probably my top picks thus far. I can see myself spending a lot of time with this record, though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

oh wait, im sorry. im thinking of "i summon you". i hate titles.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you hear the demo version of "Sister Jack" that was floating on their website for the better part of the year? I think right now I prefer that version, though I'm willing to give this time.

x-post

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Sounds like they still haven't finished mixing or mastering these.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Heartening!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep reading this as "Grime Fiction"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi, thanks for stealing my joke. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Check the url. It's straight from Matador.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

They should have at least ironed the hood.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

(xpost) heh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

beautiful

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

That photo of Phil Collins is actually quite good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

moodily, naturally

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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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

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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