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Don’t listen to fogza! Or do. Gax5 is just too poppy, in my personal opinion, to sell you on a band whose appeal relies in part on reinvention. Girls Can Tell is a great fucking record, but it doesn’t do a good job of showcasing the studio magic that defines more than half of the band’s discography. Me, I’d say go for the misunderstood album (Trans), if only because it’s a synthesis of everything the band can do. It’s just as dependent on electronics and trickery as anything else they’ve done

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another 3.5 for Spoon - the ULTIMATE 3.5 band

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True. I think they went a little too far towards the spectacular on TWMS, but it’s so easy to digest. Guess the main throughline in this thread so far is: Spoon defies consensus, if you’ve never listened to them before, you’re in for a treat or a shrug

Album Rating: 3.5

Ok well if I'm getting vetoed then go straight to their best record Kill the moonlight, it's the most essential spoon

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@colton that's a v respectable favorite. the way it builds up and breaks through at the end, Daniel's howls, it captures a kind of triumph and self-assurance and swagger that is totally unique to their whole output

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Is a totally great song tbf

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Is a totally great song tbf

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YES, I KNOW IT!

Album Rating: 3.5

Lol that was weird

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Gimme Fiction is probably their best, it's just not my favorite

i got excited as soon as i saw the opening track

Album Rating: 3.5

Kill the moonlight is the absolute distillation of spoon, album represents them brilliantly

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See, that's what always kept it in the middle for me. Because you're right, Kill the Moonlight is their Seinfeld moment, where the fictional Jerry gets asked to star in a show about himself, a show about nothing . . . the moment when aesthetics reflexively represent themselves. It's the a-ha moment. And for that, Kill the Moonlight *is the album that made Spoon*. But there's also something about that moment of total identification that, for me, works well but doesn't get my top marks. Because Kill the Moonlight is a sort of ground zero. Spoon are represented, but they're also effaced by their perfect representation. It's where they go from there, a magic run of albums founded on the Kill the Moonlight formula, that draws me in. Kill the Moonlight is technically perfect, I guess. But everything that followed gave them some room to breathe imagination into their vision

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Ah, I don't get that, I feel they are communicating with absolute clarity and focus and it's thrilling. But each to their own

Spoon isn’t really my thing, but man the production here in phenomenal

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my rushed attempt at a top 20 because this weekend I'm listening to spoon



1. The Beast and Dragon, Adored

2. Paper Tiger

3. Back to the Life

4. The Ghost of You Lingers

5. My Mathematical Mind

6. Me and the Bean

7. Written in Reverse

8. I Ain't the One

9. Hot Thoughts

10. Chicago at Night

11. My Babe

12. Held

13. Who Makes Your Money

14. Let Me Be Mine

15. Can I Sit Next To You

16. Sister Jack

17. Eddie's Raga

18. They Want My Soul

19. Utilitarian

20. Finer Feelings

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I came to this band with Hot Thoughts and loved that album. Also checked out They Want My Soul afterwards which I found equally intriguing but never explored further.

Based on that, what album should I sink my teeth into now? Except for this new one, of course.

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@Flugmorph, I'd recommend any of Girls Can Tell, Kill The Moonlight, or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga next

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nice, thank you. I suppose their first two records are more for hardcore fans?

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Pretty much...



The debut is quite different from their later stuff and kinda raw, has great moments but one of their weakest. A Series Of Sneaks is underrated in my book, and is kinda a transition into their "classic sound", but probably not an album to hear before some of the later ones.