From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #68 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, March 18 2007 Volume 07 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose [Dan Sallitt ] Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose [2fs ] Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose [Dan Sallitt ] Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose ["=?UTF-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" If I were going to buy a Spoon album, which one is the best one? I liked > "The Book I Write" that I heard in the movie STRANGER THAN FICTION and on > World > Cafe (it sounds more like World Party than World Party). Is there a > regular > album that sounds like the music they did in that soundtrack? I'd never > heard Spoon material before that really moved me to the point of wanting > to buy > an album before hearing the music in the film. I could use a recommendation too. The individual tracks by Spoon I hear always knock me out, but I've picked up an album. > --Mark, feeling the stinging burn of rejection (no 331/3 from me--the > world > isn't ready for my Muppetlike genius) Wow, Mark was the one entrant I knew about who hadn't reported rejection; I figured he was too busy doing a victory dance to "Rock Lobster" in his bedroom. So far as I know, everyone I know (of) who turned in a proposal got thumped. And I think it's gonna rain today (hell, already has), Andy "It was so hot that I actually got used to it." - --D.B. describing his trip to Thailand ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:57:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose >> If I were going to buy a Spoon album, which one is the best one? > > I could use a recommendation too. The individual tracks by Spoon I hear > always knock me out, but I've picked up an album. My eccentric but strongly held opinion is that A SERIES OF SNEAKS is their masterpiece. But GIRLS CAN TELL and KILL THE MOONLIGHT seem to be the ones with the highest critical profile, as far as I can tell. I like both of these, and also the most recent, GIMME FICTION; but SNEAKS is the only one I'd want to take to a desert island with me. - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:56:56 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose On 3/17/07, Dan Sallitt wrote: > > >> If I were going to buy a Spoon album, which one is the best one? > > > > I could use a recommendation too. The individual tracks by Spoon I hear > > always knock me out, but I've picked up an album. > > My eccentric but strongly held opinion is that A SERIES OF SNEAKS is their > masterpiece. But GIRLS CAN TELL and KILL THE MOONLIGHT seem to be the > ones with the highest critical profile, as far as I can tell. I like both > of these, and also the most recent, GIMME FICTION; but SNEAKS is the only > one I'd want to take to a desert island with me. - Dan I like _Sneaks_ pretty well too (bonus points for the Wire reference in the title), but it seems transitional, on the way to a more individuated sound from the fairly blatant Pixies-isms of the first album. I tend to think of GCT and KTM as a pair - with a slight preference for the first one. GF is kind of a summation: they somehow manage to sound stripped-down even though the arrangements, upon examination, are fairly full - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:53:17 EDT From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose In a message dated 3/17/2007 5:22:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: I figured he was too busy doing a victory dance to "Rock Lobster" in his bedroom. Which would be the Aqua Velva. Hippy Hippy forward hippy hippy hippy hippy hippy shake.... Maybe after deliberating a long time they decided no. I just got the e-mail yesterday (but I did send the proposal late). This isn't my first rejection in the literary world. The one that still conjures up feelings of anger to me to this day is when, years back, I wrote a short story called "American Beauty" (years before the movie) in college in a creative writing class, about a College of Charleston guy into The Smiths who falls in love with a local Deadhead girl, who tragically dies in Hurricane Hugo (sniff, sniff--they were in love, but their tape collections were "forced integrated"). I was supposed to win the school writers' scholarship, but found out from a friend who was a work-study in the literary mag's office that I didn't win (between me and this a-woman-needs-a-man-like-a-fish-needs-a-Schwinn girl who despised me) because I didn't fit the profile of the recipient of the award (my creative writing professor I heard she stormed out of the office in anger), which was always given to angst-filled young women who wrote poems that used the ocean as a metaphor for menstruation. Oh well. My dog thinks I'm brilliant. - --Mark, who currently has "Rock Lobster" as his call tone and his ring tone ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:52:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose > I like _Sneaks_ pretty well too (bonus points for the Wire reference in the > title), but it seems transitional, on the way to a more individuated sound > from the fairly blatant Pixies-isms of the first album. TELEPHONO is indeed very Pixies-like, but I don't feel that about SNEAKS at all. If anything, I hear the Replacements: more in the attitude than in the music itself. But I suppose SNEAKS was transitional, in that the band seems to have settled on the style of GIRLS CAN TELL. - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:02:54 +0000 From: "=?UTF-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which Spoon to choose As I understand it, when in doubt, pick the spoon furthest from the plate and work your way in. Always makin' with the yuks, West. 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