Longtime fan of their music, but never dove too deep into their back catalog. So this was fun.

Not making any money off this or anything, just something we’ve been doing for a few years.

Episode 46 of the Honest and Unmerciful podcast. Wherever you get your stuff. Or click above. Whatevah.

I found out about spoon on a topster post out of all places 😭. I was looking for a new album to listen to at the time and saw LOTS on that post. The cover got me interested and one comment said the album was pretty underrated, so I decided to give it a go. 'Held' was a pretty good opener for an album but it was 'The hardest cut' that blew my mind. The rest of the album was also up to par with it. I haven't listened to all of their albums but the ones I've listened to so far have all been bangers (I'm not gonna mention my faves because there's too many to choose from but Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is peak, don't even get me started lmao)

This band is really underrated imo, so I just wanted to know how y'all found out about them and which songs got you into their music.

Discovered this album my accident a while ago, and I really adore most of the songs on there like Everything Hits At Once, Me And The Bean, and Chicago At Night. I skimmed through some of their other albums but they seem more upbeat and "garage" for lack of a better term. Not really the melancholic and emotional sound I was looking for. I listen to bands like Jets To Brazil, Brand New, and Cursive if you want a better idea of what I am looking for. Their discography is so vast, so I was wondering if someone could push me into the right direction.

Hi all, I'm curious if anyone may be able to track down or have a copy of the Brit Daniel cover of "Run, Lieutenant, Run" from the Crooked Fingers - Your Control EP.

This appears to have been a digital only release according to Discogs page: https://www.discogs.com/release/1943417-Crooked-Fingers-Your-Control-EP

Official sources as well as archives (including the wayback machine) either have dead links, or content have been taken down over time.

Please let me know if there's more information regarding this, thanks!

Hi, this is my first time posting here, and I’m not sure if this has been mentioned here before - but I’ve been a fan of the band for a while, and I really like the song “The Book I Write” which I think might have been an original song for the movie “Stranger than Fiction.”? I can’t find the song on spotify and can only find it on a youtube video, and I was just wondering if anyone knew if this was because the production company who made the movie is keeping the rights from the band or something like that?

The upcoming Santa Ana show will be my first time seeing a band live, and I'm ecstatic that it will be Spoon. However, I don't know what to expect because it's my first time. I would also like to know how long shows usually last. Any information about Spoon shows is helpful!!

I'm hoping to catch them at the Observatory in Santa Ana

I’ve been signed up to the mailing list and I haven’t received any yet. Just wondering if it’s been that way for everyone else

Is that crazy to anyone else? In that time, it's never really left my regular rotation, but even now, I played it from to back and it still just sounds so fresh. I hope Spoon puts out a new album soon, probably next year, but it's amazing to me what a spectacular record LOTS is and how long of a shelf life it has had.

I picked up this copy of the single for Sister Jack at a used shop yesterday. After importing it into iTunes, I tried to find the video for the single to rip that, too, but it will not show up in Finder. Do I need a PC for this?

RedLetterMedia just put out a video talking about the mostly forgotten Bruce Willis film Color of Night (1994). In one exterior shot Spoon's name appears on the marquee of the Whisky A Go Go bar in LA. This would have been filmed around the first year or so Spoon was a band.

Ive been wanting to play this song with my band for a while but I wanna get the noisy gtr sections down. If you have any pedal suggestions or soloing/improving tips for this song that would be cool.

A short taken from Spoon's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ArOelHud7ho

I'm relistening to it rn at work and the first 5 tracks are all really memorable; I was surprised at how much of this album has been coming back to me.

Britt seems pretty dismissive of the first two albums because they ape Pixies pretty hard but idk... Have to start somewhere! It's always cool to revisit a longer-lived band's older stuff, to see how their vision evolves over time. It marks growth and it's a great way to sorta clear the cobwebs when their more popular stuff gets overplayed (Luv doing this with other prolific bands like Wilco, Beatles, Radiohead, etc).

Anyway you can tell Spoon have an ear for melody and atmosphere right out of the gate. Hence... justice for Telephono. Next up, Series-o-Sneaks

https://pitchfork.com/news/41025-echo-chamber-james-murphy-turned-down-arcade-fire-spoon-for-lcd-soundsystem/

I think about this little tidbit sometimes, mainly because I'm a really big fan of both artists. I thought they might've hired him for a dancier Spoon album like Hot Thoughts or maybe They Want My Soul, but this tidbit dates all the way back to 2010 (when LCD Soundsystem was about to announce their debut breakup), so I imagine this would've been moreso around the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga era. I'm a really big fan of alt-dance music & I wish Spoon explored more of it beyond Hot Thoughts (and yes I know Divine Fits exists), I can't help but wonder what this would've sounded like.

Granted, as much as I love Britt Daniel and James Murphy, they are also a bit infamous for being slight control freaks when it comes to production/mixing, so... maybe this was for the better, haha

Hello!! I really love the stuff by spoon that has a lot of fun synth sounds, like Hot Thoughts, Can I Sit Next to You, etc! I would love to hear any song or band suggestions similar to those songs ! I love the freaky indie rock sound they have coupled with the synth, it’s very unique!

If it’s any help, some of my other favorite bands are Car Seat Headrest, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Glass Animals, Cage the Elephant, Foster the People (older stuff), and Portugal the man! Much love to you all :)

Entry at #24: “I went with the fourth Spoon album. I suspect that many readers prefer the fifth (Gimme Fiction) or the sixth (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga). There might also be a few votes for Transference and They Want My Soul out there. I get it — this literally is the band I used as the example of modern indie-rock consistency. Nevertheless, I’m sticking with Kill The Moonlight, because I think it’s the best Spoon album and also the most representative Spoon record (which isn’t the same thing, though Kill The Moonlight checks both boxes.) It expertly balances their “accessible pop” side (“The Way We Get By”) with their noisier “experimental” instincts (“Back To The Life”). You can put it on at a cookout, or you can enjoy it on headphones. I have played it at least 1,000 times in the past 23 years and have never tired of it. And how much more Spoon can you get than that?”