ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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I like spoon fine but stopped paying close attn around kill the moonlight wow 13! yrs ago

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link

xp spoonerang

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link

oh, ilm paws

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link

the track they placed previously was OK, but it was over five minutes long and did not appear to have a chord change or any variation

filing this under "idgi"

WRINKLEPAWSOME (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

I love Spoon and liked this album but it's definitely one of their weaker ones for me.

― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:23 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This, basically. "Transference" was better

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

Will never ever understand Spoon.

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

Voted for this, lots of great songs on the record. New York Kiss, the title track, I Just Don't Understand, Rent I Pay...

quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

Wither, spoons

xelab, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

liked this one the one time i played it. never played it again. i've said it before, but Spoon are the best most boring band out there and they suit a certain mood. like, there's a certain time or mood you can be in when it doesn't matter if music's boring. and by boring, i mean they are good at doing a lot with just a dogged insistence on plain-bread rock instrumentation.
another good example of this is the horrors' album from this year (which i liked but doubt will place) - greyscale 80s pop-psychedelia which doesn't so much shock and awe as flow through you. close listening didn't make sense, but it made perfect music for when i was fixing my bike.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link

general comment: this thread needs more saer

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link

for sooth, saer

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link

Transference is their weakest album, IMO.

KTM > GCT > TWMS > GGGGG > GF > ASOS > Transference

Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

Just imagine sitting around thinking up band names and thinking "Spoon? Yeah that'll do."

Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link

so much worse than the knife!

Indexed, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link

i've never shaken my impression of Spoon as "Grunge Beck" based on their Matador-era early music

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link

as in they literally just looked and sounded to me like Beck fronting a grunge band

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link

It is much worse than The Knife actually (and a bit worse than just calling yourselves 'Knife').

Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link

the one named after a genesis song is so much better than the one named after a can song, just saying

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link

woo great day so far (even w/ the terrible LDR inclusion). i voted for angel olsen - which i love for its gothicy folk americana strands - and the mark barrott.

Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link

spoon sounded okay but kinda boring? idk, i get why preexisting fans might like it.

Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link

gonna chime in and say i never liked any previous spoon album in full but this new one i thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end. not sure if that's a reflection of the album or just how my tastes have changed.

misterjoshua, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

every Spoon album has been underrated

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

Why do so many ilxors vote for shit pitchfork approved indie like the sheeple they accuse top 40 fans of being?
Too many lists look the same because of it.

strychnine, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

It's weird to me holding KTM as a benchmark when they're so maddeningly devoted to an aesthetic that won't allow any but minor deviations. The trick is to like the aesthetic.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link

a ton of this list has been stuff i've never heard of and/or am reasonably sure was not on Pitchfork's EOY lists

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link

inividuals' routine rote dismissal of entire genres is my least favourite thing about ILM

anyway if you like Spoon this is an excellent Spoon album

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link

sock disses spoon, more news at ten

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link

Some dude i only mean the indie

strychnine, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link

spoon is probably the most boring possible band name ever which kept me from listening to them for the longest time

Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link

Hell is an hour of Spoon opinions.

Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

educated ILMers want Spoon's soul

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

In a world where people think names like Rae Sremmurd are a good idea, I welcome and appreciate bands like Spoon who keep it simple.

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

at least yesterday's Fever-driving-to-work slot was Botanist

Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link

spoon could have instantly been 100% more interesting if they'd have called themselves noops xp

why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

Why do so many ilxors vote for shit pitchfork approved indie like the sheeple they accuse top 40 fans of being?
Too many lists look the same because of it.

― strychnine, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are raccoon tanuki and i claim my £5

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

Spooge.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

it's how i'll forever remember 3-4pm

nxd, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

i tried to listen to the Khun Narin album this morning on the way to work and it was rly great for like 5 min and then it just kinda got dull hearing it over and over

Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

for years I thought Spoon were the same band as UK ska punk lamers (spunge)

Anyway, their best album is Gimme Fiction. Transference was decent too - loved the deliberately rough-cut editing style.

UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link

i'm still pretty blown away by noura mint seymali, def one of my best ilx discoveries in a minute

\i tried to listen to the Khun Narin album this morning on the way to work and it was rly great for like 5 min and then it just kinda got dull hearing it over and over

― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:07 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah i love the repetitive stuff that goes on and on and on and on infinity weird microtonal blues 4ever until i'm dead

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link

Save us, uh...me!

http://i.imgur.com/9i61HLi.jpg

36 AZEALIA BANKS Broke With Expensive Taste [408 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote]

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link

I probably have the Spoon records in tiers. Transference and They Want My Soul are pretty top-heavy, but then Who Makes Your Money and Inside Out can do some heavy lifting.
Telephono is one of the worst albums I have ever heard.

Gimme Fiction/Girls Can Tell/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Transference/They Want My Soul
Kill The Moonlight
A Series of Sneaks
Telephono

campreverb, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link

I love BWET. Most of the stuff between 212 and BWET was pretty patchy so it was a such nice surprise how good this was.

cajunsunday, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

This was my biggest shock of the year. I really didn't expect it to be so great or to even sound like it does.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

*stuff RELEASED between 212 and BWET

cajunsunday, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

interesting how much lower Azealia placed here than P&J (where it was #14).

some dude, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link

I gave this a curiosity listen and was shocked by how much I liked it, considering I've thought everything she's done up to this point (including "212") was at best competent.

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link

This was my biggest shock of the year.

co-sign

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

...but it made perfect music for when i was fixing my bike.
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin)

What kind of bike? Spoon is a good soundtrack for fixing an inexpensive 10-speed road bike. Not hip enough for a fixie, and not heavy enough for a chopper!

Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

interesting how much lower Azealia placed here than P&J (where it was #14)

It polled much better stateside across the pond.

the one named after a can song

Out of idle curiosity, artists named or potentially named after Can songs:

Deadlock, Paperhouse, Mother Sky, Mushroom, Oh Yeah, Halleluwah, Aumgn, Peking O, Pinch, Sing Swan Song, Vitamin C, Soup, Spoon, Future Days, Spray, Moonshake, Bel Air, Gomorrha, Musette, Blue Bag, Splash, Chain Reaction, Hunters And Collectors, Vernal Equinox, Unfinished, Smoke, Flow Motion, Call Me, Fly By Night, Serpentine, November, Safe, Sodom, Ping Pong, Butterfly, Pnoom, Thief

The inscrutable savantism of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link


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