if anyone likes them enough to come to Atlanta (Monday) I might have 1 or 2 extra tickets...

4/11/2008 4:38:16 PM

i like them enough to go to durham on sunday

4/11/2008 4:42:07 PM

well no shit...

4/11/2008 4:43:16 PM

my buddy spooner live in the ATL

4/11/2008 4:51:26 PM

my guess is that it is too big

4/11/2008 5:00:02 PM

4/11/2008 5:01:05 PM

i love spoon

i seriously go ga ga over them

like two and a half times

4/11/2008 6:26:02 PM

is that the way you get by?

4/11/2008 6:38:50 PM

i told someone the other day, they are what I picture the beatles sounding like if the beatles were around today... which is odd, cause I hate the beatles

4/11/2008 6:49:48 PM

You know, opinions are opinions and whatever, but that is a really stupid assertion.

4/11/2008 8:05:13 PM

^

4/12/2008 12:08:59 AM

i picture the beatles sounding like olivia tremor control

4/12/2008 12:34:33 AM

you would you little tigershark

4/12/2008 12:35:33 AM

this thread is probably a little over your head

4/12/2008 12:41:45 AM

as long as we all agree that I win this thread

4/12/2008 3:37:55 AM

<3 Rob Pope. Even though he has only been with them for this album, I <3 all things get up kids

4/12/2008 3:52:35 AM

When are they going to be in Atlanta?? I'm too lazy to look it up.

I'd love to see Spoon. Not too hot on their last album though.

4/12/2008 4:05:30 AM

^you are the first person i've heard that doesnt think its an excellent album

4/12/2008 1:29:12 PM

nah, hating on ga ga ga ga due to the success has been all the rage the past few months. pretty dumb when it's usually the same people who were digging it when it leaked.

i didn't realize rob pope was playing with them, that's pretty cool

4/12/2008 1:35:02 PM

yea i didnt until after i had already heard and liked the album. was poking around on myspace one day after i got it and i happened to glance at their lineup. and i just saw the name, and i had to check. and thanks to wikipedia my suspicions were confirmed rather quickly



[Edited on April 12, 2008 at 1:39 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2008 1:37:25 PM

i guess when i saw them last summer i was too far back to recognize him

4/12/2008 1:39:58 PM

haha. he also looks a good bit older.

4/12/2008 1:42:52 PM

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"nah, hating on ga ga ga ga due to the success has been all the rage the past few months. pretty dumb when it's usually the same people who were digging it when it leaked."

that is so dumb. Not only do I think Spoon are a very good band, even when I have people in my car that usually listen to rap, or to top 20 shit, or classical or whatever, they like this record. If you dont enjoy having the windows down playing you got your cherrybomb, you're lying to yourself

4/12/2008 1:45:50 PM

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"When are they going to be in Atlanta?? I'm too lazy to look it up."

too lazy to look at the first post in this thread?

4/12/2008 2:42:32 PM

Let the record show that I am a huge fan of Spoon and I have disliked Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga since day one.

4/12/2008 3:07:21 PM

let the record show that i'm a huge fan of spoon and have liked gagagaga from day one.

4/12/2008 3:08:20 PM

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"^you are the first person i've heard that doesnt think its an excellent album"

Not saying its a bad album...I just like the previous two albums better. I enjoy almost every song on the previous two...but there are a few on gaga that skip over every listen through. It has its share of good songs, just more "not-so-good" songs.

4/12/2008 3:21:06 PM

I'm gonna see em Wednesday in Ft. Lauderdale if I can find transportation =\

4/12/2008 3:43:02 PM

norfolk show was good

4/13/2008 9:16:09 PM

I was hoping this was a thread about THE TICK.

4/13/2008 9:36:19 PM

this band rules... confirmed.

Just got back from Carolina Theater and that show was a lot of fun. Outstanding rhythm section.

Don't you hate it when an awesome show is on a weeknight and you have to just make yourself head home and go to fuckin bed? All I want to do after that is go drinking...

4/14/2008 12:23:03 AM

I am a Spoon fan but I have to admit...there was a big part of me that was hoping this was a thread about "The Tick"

4/14/2008 4:29:20 PM

i could listen to "everything hits at once" on repeat all day

4/14/2008 4:33:33 PM

they're one of my fiancee's favorite bands... i think she's seen them (or britt solo) like 9 or something times.... but being from Texas, she had many opportunities. ive seen them 4 times with her, they put on a good show.

4/14/2008 6:44:32 PM

The show last night was spectacular. All three bands were great, and I came away really impressed with the first band, White Rabbits.

4/14/2008 8:59:50 PM

They are going to be in Myrtle Beach at the HOB on Thursday. I have to work.

4/14/2008 9:19:06 PM

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"i could listen to "everything hits at once" on repeat all day"

Yeah, this and pretty much every song on Girls Can Tell for me.

4/15/2008 8:51:32 AM

Doesn't anybody just straight-out rock anymore?

4/15/2008 9:02:09 AM

i really don't understand how this ISN'T "straight out rock". . .

have you ever even heard the band?

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 9:23 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 9:15:18 AM

^ First, I'm not trying to shit in this thread--I simply posed a question that obviously had an implication. Second, I based my opinion on the two Spoon songs below and a couple more I've heard.

"The Underdog"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LenPKPqvdJA

"The Way We Get By"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2HExIyMX6SA&feature=related

To use your phrasing: I don't understand what part of these songs is straight-out rock. You know, the good kind that rocks?

Spoon is one more in a line of bands I've seen on SNL lately--and elsewhere--that simply do not rock in the manner I'm accustomed to. Some of those bands are:

Wilco

Vampire Weekend

Panic at the Disco

I swear to God, they're all either unwatchable or damn near it. And I realize that some of you will feel great umbrage concerning my position, which runs counter to your view of these bands as cool or intelligent or some such.

I just want some bands that aren't afraid of fucking power chords, that don't mind some un-PC raunchiness, that don't sound like they're whining, that don't look like they need to shower, and that don't look like they just walked off the set of Revenge of the Nerds. Is that too much to ask?

(BTW, don't be condescending as if I'm so out of touch or something. I was rocking when you were still riding around in your dad's balls.)

4/15/2008 10:17:51 AM

for one thing: the wilco performance on snl was pretty damn bad. i'm a fan of wilco. but their last album is pretty crappy.

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"To use your phrasing: I don't understand what part of these songs is straight-out rock. You know, the good kind that rocks?"

so you don't like it? fine. no problem with that.

but spoon is pretty straightforward. "the way you get by" is kinda piano heavy (especially the recording you posted). "the underdog" has brass in it. it's not stadium rock or anything for sure. but it's also certainly not a band that is trying to be weird or anything. they're a sparse band that does only what is necessary in their songs (to me at least).

i really can understand your impatience with bands like vampire weekend who seem to be trying to be gimmicky. spoon really doesn't fit there to me AT ALL>

some examples of "straight out rock" spoon songs (found in the links on the side of the videos you linked):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLOLM4fmhBs&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYjFhYbzAWQ[/link]

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM. Reason : links]

4/15/2008 10:25:43 AM

4/15/2008 10:32:28 AM

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"I just want some bands that aren't afraid of fucking power chords, that don't mind some un-PC raunchiness, that don't sound like they're whining, that don't look like they need to shower, and that don't look like they just walked off the set of Revenge of the Nerds. Is that too much to ask? "

That's just your preference. I think most of the current bands that play the type of style that you are referring to pretty much suck (with a few exceptions of course). If I ever listen to "rock" anymore, it's usually older stuff.

And personally, I don't know if its a phase or I've just grown out of it...but I don't enjoy listening to "rock" anymore. I guess I've mellowed out a little bit, because even the rap that I listen to is more laid-back and soft.

4/15/2008 10:33:11 AM

^^^ That was a meaningful response--and I appreciate it a lot. Yes, those songs are definitely more straightforward and up-tempo--still, it's very indie-folksy sounding with a good helping of pop sensibility.

In any event, what would you call the look of some of these bands?

Spoon



Vampire Weekend



Okay, which picture is Jeff Tweedy and Wilco and which one is Booger and the boys from Revenge of the Nerds?









^ I know what you mean.

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 10:53 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 10:42:15 AM

what do you want them to do? dress in leather pants? but for serious, britt daniel is a handsome fellow.

(but mostly these are just regular looking guys and you've picked goofy photos of them. but yeah. vampire weekend is lame. no argument there)

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 10:54 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 10:51:25 AM

^ Yeah, I was just tossing that in there. I mean, I'm about the music--a band can look like shit and sound great and I don't really care about the look.

But if you look like shit (I'm not saying they all do) and you sound like shit. . . .

4/15/2008 10:57:50 AM

Telephono and A Series of Sneaks are pretty rockin; not that rockin is a determinate of quality music.

4/15/2008 3:14:57 PM

would you rather your bands look like:

4/15/2008 5:50:03 PM

^ lol, God, Van Halen were so horrible.

4/15/2008 6:07:32 PM

^^ Somewhere in the middle maybe? Or. . .



. . .completely over the top.

4/15/2008 6:44:07 PM