Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Spoon continue to rule. Fucking love the production on this.

Tour:

Date Venue Location

Mar 06 The Observatory Santa Ana, CA
Mar 14 The Main (SXSW Residency) Austin, TX
Mar 15 The Main (SXSW Residency) Austin, TX
Mar 16 The Main (SXSW Residency) Austin, TX
Jun 27 Gorilla Manchester, United Kingdom
Jun 28 The Arts School Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jun 30 O2 Forum London, United Kingdom
Jul 07 Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain
Jul 14 Forecastle Louisville, KY
Jul 15 Sloss Festival Birmingham, AL
Jul 28 Panorama Festival New York, NY

i'm going to go to the Santa Ana show and their first date, so excited! will pick up tickets on Friday when they go on sale.

this is very very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yJYNF_Qas

it's "can i sit next to you"

The beginning sounds like "Down on the Corner."

am i insane or do both of the new songs released so far have a vague disco influence

there's one figure in there that's v. much Lament by the Cure.

in Hot Thoughts, that is.

I haven't heard note one - waiting for the album to come out so I can experience it as a whole. (Which is my M.O. for almost every record these days.)

I don't know Lament but totally re: Cure, it really sticks out

holy fuck is that good. i'm loving this direction, i really suites them.

or it...

So far their last album had more range and hooks but I'm still feeling this. Feels like it expands in a natural way from Spoon's emphasis on rigid grooves. Let's hear a whole record of "I Turn My Camera On"!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3ajys7s9NKdoezgAIUJkvnC_4hCOAhWaJ197DPIfZszh61M7gCr3Ge_FokjSrBIVXUMqlUIQ9K_EaHErf-TbHZiMyqsaTB_eabVB5qtUP5CUccMH192PUqVwqAlU-VXLQJwqC344HahhgaU0zix64j9rMy9xTcMkIZDS5rXzW2FHHbyHttfLCYtt3aorNcPSYetiW2kB_pOOrVkWIniiU2BhM27hwB4t1Tqbx3MdXRHLcQM2q2CgHV241xaxi_m9fWyaoGNh-niFsv9vYwTSBXyhJCehjgqJBgA3-EajgO_6A5zcdOyuUzD_i-_gFqC-S9Pl2cF5HdQL-ohzXzZ3TF6-cil89FT0ibi-Tv1_5x-cSePb7MRmhv9c8zJcxmtdtdQe7pwj5okuaxiUZK3hcfFteoH1DclUZ70kf4AmSPjz80Gwa3XPpWPyWW2UpnCwTvfiINQxHTLfNK4T_GUeNp-9VJzipOM7FvkT7bqvvrOlil-8KjRtRcfOXWBRwhiE7fYQ5Nr0sAl809Bhm9OxQ1JlxzM_aTRAld9cCCZvqMkc5Py2gjo8VdNJgwfE0ZJse-jx3CZ4GpHMFKpQEQYJ2V5wHd3L7-USb71IFZEkZU_XVyriKequ=w535-h950-no

let's try this again:

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on my way, so excited!

"can i sit next to you" is fuckin great. they're still so great at deploying sound

1. Do I Have to Talk You Into It
2. Hot Thoughts
3. Inside Out
4. I Turn My Camera On
5. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
6. I Saw the Light
7. Don't You Evah
8. The Underdog
9. Black Like Me
10. Small Stakes
11. My Mathematical Mind
12. Can I Sit Next To You?
13. Do You
14. Got Nuffin
15. Rent I Pay

Encore:

16. I Ain't the One
17. Rainy Taxi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MSdqpZxqM

nice setlist!

Daniel has become expert at that kind of ugly strummed noise

the concert was unbelievable fun. my friend and i kept saying just when you think this can't get any better then they play a song that was even more epic then the one before. all the new songs are 10/10, well maybe not the new encore song as it was a bit mellow. the first song of the night was brand new to everyone there and it didn't disappoint. in fact i figured it would be the last song on the new album, turns out it will be the third song. "Rainy Taxi" was such a great way to end the night, so euphoric.

go if they come to town, a band at the top of their game.

their current tour isn't hitting boston, i'm bummed

I Saw the Light is such a great song, I'd love to see Spoon live again but a trip to London just to see a band is out of the question for me atm

i think this is my favorite song they've ever done

SPOON TACO

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egg over hard, gtfo

gtfi my belly

i see that taco is in Austin only.

so this has just been announced:

Belle and Sebastian • Spoon at the Hollywood Bowl

Sunday, August 6, 2017 - 7:00pm

Belle and Sebastian

Spoon

Additional artist to be announced for KCRW's World Festival 2

i have to actually go to this don't i?

Let's hear a whole record of "I Turn My Camera On"!

― yesca, Saturday, February 25, 2017 7:20 AM (one week ago)

haven't heard a spoon in ages, but this has me temptered. scale of 1-10, how disappointed will i be?

Spoon have gone New Order (read as dance), would be how i describe it on my very few listens of the new songs. after seeing them live, the songs are still quintessential Spoon. i don't think they have had a misstep yet. but this sounds like it could be one of their bests.

i also thought it was coming out on Friday but turns it's a week from Friday. Same night i'm seeing Teenage Fanclub.

it's great to be me right now!

aaaahh hearing can I sit next to you and reading bee ok's post is totally making me book the london show!

There are few artists--much less rock artists--whose announcement of a new release makes me giddy, but Spoon fits the bill. Title track / single sounds great.

I am actually anticipating a new release, guys! It feels good!! I plan to go old school with this one: gonna show up to the record store right when they open next Friday, and then spend the afternoon driving around listening to this

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/sxsw-2017-day-1-photos-and-recap.html

Seeing Spoon play in Austin is a rite of passage of sorts. Aside from Willie Nelson, there’s hardly a more ubiquitous Austin act these days than this four-piece fronted by Britt Daniel. Tuesday’s 1am set at The Main—formerly “old” Emo’s Austin, and unofficially re-named “Eno’s Austin” for a 3-day SXSW Spoon residency, after current drummer and founding member, Jim Eno—was an epic kick-off for many attending the music portion of the festival.

Daniel’s live delivery could easily be mistaken for a studio recording; his voice is uncanny and he masterfully lost himself in tracks from Spoon’s eight album discography (“Don’t you Evah”!), equally as much as he did in tracks from the band’s ninth studio album, Hot Thoughts (out this Friday via Matador.) While 2014’s They Want My Soul, was often spectacular, it still had an aura of experimentation, and seeing the band enact the new material on stage felt like Spoon has now fine-tuned those experiments into a fully-formed sound that could only belong to them.

South by Southwest was the best place to enact these new concepts, especially in front of a hometown crowd. The band seemed to exude a certain comfort in letting loose in front of a familiar locale, in a seemingly controlled environment. While their curated set of openers, in A Giant Dog and New Pornographers, can easily serve as the peak of a crowd’s attention for the evening, Tuesday night was all about Spoon beginning to unleash Hot Thoughts to the world, in Austin’s buzziest week. To be able to do that in an environment where every detail was exactly as Spoon had planned out, is a powerful place to be as a band, especially when they’ve been one of the tightest, most well-executed acts in independent rock and roll for more than 20 years.

i'm so ready for this!

I see from the setlist above they have abjured the ilx poll winner (and the #2). Hope they don't change it around too much, seeing them in june and would love to get 'i saw the light' and 'do you'.

i like this album quite a bit

Jim Eno’s swaggering drums

It takes a certain kind of 45-year-old frontman to sing the phrase “knock knock” and still sound at least moderately cool, not like some phony in his first pair of Ray-Bans.

a toe-tapping tune about one of those ghosts that linger in Daniel’s head

do better, Pitchfork

also, so so tired of the "this song sounds like this popular band, while this song sounds like this popular indie band; meanwhile, this song sounds like this popular band" school of music criticism

i know what i'm listening to on my way to work today.

Wow, only made it through side one but blown away. How are they this good nine albums in? Most bands die out or just go through the motions.

I don't buy music anymore but going to buy this.

On first listen I'm not enjoying this as much as 'They Want My Soul' but it's good. TWMS is just a big FM Radio drive thing with tons of hooks where this is far more groove focused.

What a great band. I've never seen them live - need to correct that.

I've only seen them live once, London in early 2010 (reasonably sure I saw ithappens in the crowd), and they were v good. I'd see them again at the drop of a hat if they came with 100 miles.

Looking forward to buying this on the way home, too, obviously.

"I Ain't the One" is a good variation on a familiar Britt Daniel trope: don't touch me. More creepy electric piano and drum machine blues, plz.

I love Transference, I'd probably put it in my top 3 Spoon albums. I love Hot Thoughts a lot when I'm playing it but I struggle to remember how most of the songs go when I'm not. Like I can look at the tracklisting for any other album and know the songs straight away but not with HT.

Ha. That's me and Transference.

^^^ Yep, me too.

Listening to Transference now, and I'll admit there's more good stuff on here than I give it credit for. I think some of the production quirks just annoy me a bit. Last track's a belter though ...

There’s at least 5 songs on Transference that I’d count amongst their best.

yup

(these five:

I Saw the Light
Is Love Forever?
Who Makes Your Money
Trouble Comes Running
Got Nuffin)

Written In Reverse
Out Go The Lights
Goodnight Laura

All also great.

Transference is like a hangover after Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, like clearing up the party and feeling that pang of hollow loneliness. But it's great.

I'm a big Transference fan. Even a lesser track like 'Who Makes Your Money' explores space in a way that I think they deployed more successfully on TWMS.

The self-production is more interesting than about half the songs. There is no wrong answer with this remarkably consistent band.

At a I heart radio thing. Spoon,national and beck

Live on YouTube

i went to this i Heart Radio event last night. it was prepackaged indie rock for the kids. not sure how to pull of eight bands in one night with very limited time. the had a rotating stage and very little set up time. but it just felt so generic and disgustingly commercial. not why i'm into music for.

anyways, Munford and Sons were pretty great and opened the show. i don't like them at all but they knew how to get the audience to eat out their hands. still don't think i'm going to go seek out their music but a good show. Spoon were next and are Spoon. the did stick out because they were probably the least known band of the night. they mainly stick with the new album which was perfect for this type of show. i'm sure part of the audience enjoyed it, i loved it and the band is still on a role, they are not just going through the motions. a band that is still at the top of their game. left to get some beers and stuff for Walk the Moon. Dashboard Confessional is a funny band. the last song was just him with an acrostic guitar and the audience helping him sing. The National were next and i felt like i was watching a Gothic band. they brought it down a few levels and played an impressive set. Beck was next and i was really looking forward to the show as he was great the only other time i saw him back in around the year 2000. he opened with "Loser," and was playing to this type of audience. then it got really sort of boring for a few song. he did play "Devils Haircut" but unfortunately it sounded dated. the songs on the new album are energetic and fun but not really memorable. ended with "Where's It At" but i was let down. really looking forward to seeing him but it lacked spark or something. we left during Cage the Elephant, mainly to beat LA traffic. prepackaged indie rock but happy to see Spoon and the National so it turned out to be a fun night. just sort of depressing to see music presented like that. the last time i was at the Forum i say Nirvana and this was the third to last show they ever played. very different experiences.

I Heart Radio event at the Forum in Los Angeles. January 19, 2018

Spoon:

Do I Have to Talk You Into It
Inside Out
Hot Thoughts
Can I Sit Next To You
Do You
The Underdog
Rent I Pay

The National:

The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
Bloodbuzz Ohio
I Need My Girl
Guilty Party
Day I Die

Beck:

Loser
Up All Night
Devils Haircut
Colors
Dreams
Wow
E-Pro
Where It's At
(with One Foot in the Grave)

*sorry about my grammar upthead. i was just writing and didn't check my work.

Good to see you back Bee OK!

Really wish there was a 12-Inch Club Mix of "First Caress".

i really do love this album and "First Caress" would make for a great club mix.

this might be this best thing on this album, it's magical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWSSCdLW74

There were a couple of interviews published recently, I'd hoped there might be a new album coming but they just seem to be in support of a batch of reissues:

https://americansongwriter.com/britt-daniel-looks-back-at-two-decades-of-spoon/

https://reverb.com/news/interview-spoons-jim-eno-on-the-bands-recording-techniques

Fairly interesting interviews anyway, especially the Jim Eno one

I fucking love this album.

"WhisperI'lllistentohearit" is Daniel's sexiest moment on record. And the tempo change!

It's become my favorite Spoon album!

Alfred and willem OTM

This is the record where I feel I can really finally commit to them as a fan, if that makes any sense, though the 2001-2014 era certainly has songs and even albums I liked.