Spoon Message Board Topic: Best of Spoon Compilation

Spoon Message Board Topic: Best of Spoon Compilation http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Spoon Message Board Topic: Best of Spoon Compilation en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:51:11 +0000 fiwedding on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-2975 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:38:47 +0000 fiwedding 2975@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Yikes, that is pretty close. However, one important thing is that the melody is not sampled but rather the beat. Hard to stake claim to a beat. Tyler Darling on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1803 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:02:05 +0000 Tyler Darling 1803@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Ok I think I narrowed it down to a ond disc comp......it's too hard doing a comprehensive chronological mix, so instead just a good solid track list. i tried to do it like a Lp would be. Having track 10 "Black Like Me" end the first side, and track 19 "Vittorio E" end the second side. 1. The Beast and Dragon, Adored 2. Nefarious 3. Let the Distance Keep Us Together 4. Fitted Shirt 5. Small Stakes 6. Chips & Dip 7. The Underdog 8. Dismember 9. I Turn My Camera On 10. Black Like Me 11. Everything Hits At Once 12. Don’t You Evah 13. I Summon You 14. Paper Tiger 15. Metal Detektor 16. Don't Make Me a Target 17. The way We Get By 18. Me and the Bean 19. Vittorio E This was VERY HARD But this is the best I could do........... Tracks that JUST missed the list: Utilitarian Believing is Art Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now Anything You Want 30 Gallon Tank Got Nuffin Waiting For the Kid to Come Out drop dead ed on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1783 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:05:01 +0000 drop dead ed 1783@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ I Could See the Dude Metal Detektor Paper Tiger Decora My First Time Volume 3 Everything Hits at Once Anything You Want They Never Got You Me and the Bean Lines in the Suit If there was a Spoon Apocalypse I'd try my hardest to save these songs, maybe "Don't let it get you down" backtothelife on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1695 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:46:09 +0000 backtothelife 1695@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ I can't think of another band that would make a song as rhythmically tight as 'Monkey Feelings' - it's just impossible to keep still when listening to it. I absolutely love the ending as well, with the two conflicting voices culminating in Britt singing "I've been good too long" and the song suddenly finishing - perfection. I should probably have included 'It Took a Rumor to Make Me Wonder...' as well, as I never get tired of it. devilsdishes on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1651 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:59:51 +0000 devilsdishes 1651@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Thanks, backtothelife, for listing Monkey Feelings. It's one of my all-times favorites, and so often left off these lists. I'm also a huge huge fan of their cover of Yo La Tengo's "Decora". I think I could listen to it 20 times in a row (and probably have). I've tried to make "best of" lists for friends before, but find it impossible to include all of the songs I truly adore AND the songs I think will impress a new listener; they're not always congruent. So I just gave up on trying to present the band in a way that made them seem appealing to a certain personality type and instead created one mammoth, all-encompassing, grandiose "Best of" list for myself to indulge in; b-sides, live tracks, rare and unrecorded, etc. One day when I'm not so lazy, I'll post the track listing here. Tyler Darling on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1630 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:17:49 +0000 Tyler Darling 1630@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Agreed! Fans of Spoon can rejoice because they are a top notch Rock 'n' Roll band. I just read an old Rolling Stone review of "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" that said Spoon's album was so great, that it "won't change your life, but you'll be glad that the songs are out there". Or something like that. I hated that! As if any of the music they cover changes your life?! Lady gaga and jonas brothers on the cover - crap!!! Your comment just reminded me of that review, no bashing the publication necessarily, but just how you say "other fans" they like crap bands! And it's just a shame because Spoon, in my opinion, is the best operating Rock 'n' Roll band of our time. Making great record after great record. THAT is life-changing! Lovin Spoonful on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1609 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:09:30 +0000 Lovin Spoonful 1609@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ You don't think your friends would like "Small Stakes"? That's funny ... that's the file I always send to friends I'm trying to get hooked on Spoon. I love Girls Can Tell & always have, but really fell in love with "Me and the Bean" after hearing it live. It feels even more soulful. "Fitted Shirt" is awesome too. I love all of these lists. It's an impossible challenge. My favs list is constantly rotating, i.e. "Japanese Cigarette Case" was never a favorite (I didn't dislike it but I loved "Ghost" and "Cherry Bomb" and so many others that I didn't pay much attention to it ... but then I started hearing the bass line & realized that it's an AWESOME song.) We're really lucky to be fans of such a great band. I sort of feel sorry for other band fans ... they don't have such a catalog to pick from! backtothelife on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1596 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:21:40 +0000 backtothelife 1596@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Wow, this will be very hard to fit onto one CD but I'll try... 1. The Beast and Dragon, Adored 2. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine 3. The Way We Get By 4. The Fitted Shirt 5. Stay Don't Go 6. Someone Something 7. I Turn My Camera On 8. Believing Is Art 9. The Book I Write 10. The Figures of Art 11. Everything Hits at Once 12. Monkey Feelings 13. Anything You Want 14. The Underdog 15. I Summon You 16. Finer Feelings 17. Jonathon Fisk 18. They Never Got You 19. Back to the Life 20. Take a Walk 21. Is This The Last Time 22. Black Like Me I don't know how anyone could not fall in love with Spoon after hearing that. kerron on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1593 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:48:05 +0000 kerron 1593@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Girls can Tell is my fave too. Weird that I got into it after buying Kill the Moonlight and seeing a live show. So many good songs - LInes in the Suit, Fitted Shirt, Everything Hits at Once. Big fan of Kill the Moonlight too. Ga ga ga ga is good too. Love Japanese Cigarette Case, Finer Feelings, Cherrybomb (BAD earworm!) and Don't you Evah. Struggle with the Ghost of you lingers - so raw its painful to listen to. Had to train myself to appreciate it. My friend loathes it. Tyler Darling on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1565 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:50:38 +0000 Tyler Darling 1565@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Oh man I think Girls Can Tell is my favorite album. I just got it a bit ago on vinyl and it's amazing. Britt opens up on this album and writes about stuff he's never wrote about, nor never will write about again. I'd at least include Me and the Bean, and Believing is Art, and Take the Fifth!!! Hear the album on vinyl. Trust. Ok I like a lot of your list though. I love Spoon so much I can only make 2 disc sets for people. Can't cut it into 1. I do it chronologically, though. First 3 albums disc 1, last 3 on disc 2. Heres my list. And Dismember is one of my fav songs! Spoon Comp. Disc 1 1. Don't Buy the Realistic 2. All the Negatives have been Destroyed 3. Nefarious 4. Dismember 5. Plastic Mylar 6. Mountain To Sound 7. Loss Leaders 8. Utilitarian 9. The Guest List/The Execution 10. 30 Gallon Tank 11. Metal Detektor 12. June's Foreign Spell 13. Quincy Punk Episode 14. Everything Hits At Once 15. Believing Is Art 16. Me and the Bean 17. The Fitted Shirt 18. Anything You want 19. Take The Fifth 20. Chicago At Night Disc 2 (Just fits on to a disc. Because songs are longer than their older songs) 1. Small Stakes 2. The Way We Get By 3. Stay Don't Go 4. Jonathan Fisk 5. Paper Tiger 6. Don't Let it Get You down 7. You Gotta Feel It 8. Vittorio E. 9. The Beast And Dragon, Adored 10. I Turn My Camera On 11. Sister Jack 12. I Summon You 13. Don't Make Me A Target 14. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 15. Don't You Evah 16. Rhythm & Soul 17. The Underdog 18. Finer Feelings 19. Black Like Me 20. Got Nuffin nefarious on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1159 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:19:00 +0000 nefarious 1159@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ I've made my fair share of spoon compliations...but I think I edited alot of Gimme Fiction out of it, because it's my least favorite, and even added some of Get Nice! because I really enjoy those songs. It's hard to say what others will like when making CD's so I usually put my favorites on there...they're my favorites for a reason...cuz they're GOOD! dammit.

wantsarevolution on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1158 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:47:34 +0000 wantsarevolution 1158@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Hmmm. I didn't like "Me and the Bean" the first time I heard it either, but I think "Anything You Want" will win just about anyone over. I know that was the song that got my roommate hooked on them. Gabriel on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1156 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:19:01 +0000 Gabriel 1156@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Girls Can Tell never clicked with me for some reason; I simply couldn't bring myself to put songs like "Me And The Bean" and "Anything You Want" on there because I personally don't care for them much. There are some Spoon "classics" that somehow never did much for me ("30 Gallon Tank", "Loss Leaders", "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine"). Conversely, I don't like "Stay Don't Go" much but I put it on anyway because I figured my friends really would. None of my friends liked "The Ghost Of You Lingers", but it's one my favorite Spoon songs, so I felt like it had to be there. Now it's like an inside joke between me and my friends. I added "Metal School" because I love A Series Of Sneaks and thought only two songs from it would be a criminal under-representation. However, as a rule, I tried not to take too much from any one album (hence only four cuts from Gimme Fiction and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga). There are also songs I kinda wanted to add but figured none of my friends would like, namely "All The Negatives Have Been Destroyed", "Not Turning Off", and "Small Stakes". Thanks for your feedback! I'll probably make some revisions based on all this. mountain2sound on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1155 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:12:31 +0000 mountain2sound 1155@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ oops...Change My Life would definitely be on my list as well. pherron on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1154 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:02:57 +0000 pherron 1154@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ I'd have to have 'Change My Life', definitely my favourite. I agree with mountain2sound though, you can't go wrong really. I guess Merge will release a comp. one day. mountain2sound on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1152 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:30:58 +0000 mountain2sound 1152@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ You cannot go wrong with a Spoon compilation; however, mine would be a lot heavier on older material (why not include the entire Soft Effects EP?) and sprinkled with a few more b-sides (I couldn't make a comp without Revenge and Telamon Bridge...props for including I Could Be Underground)...I would also replace the Spoon version of Chicago at Night in favor of the Drake Tungsten one (I heard that version first and prefer it). But that is just me... People would be scared of early Spoon stuff? It's not like they were The Mentors back then...lol. wantsarevolution on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1150 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:19:29 +0000 wantsarevolution 1150@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Oh man. Both of those are great choices too. Especially "Black Like Me." Why a Spoon on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1149 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:54:04 +0000 Why a Spoon 1149@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ I like your list, but I'd go with wantsarevolution and take out The Ghost of You Lingers, Metal School, and Jealousy for Anything You Want, but the other two I'd swap for I Summon You and Black Like Me. Or maybe even 30 Gallon Tank, eh? <div class="signature">\"...back when you were nineteen/still in school/ and waiting on a light/on the corner by Sound Exchange\"</div> wantsarevolution on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1146 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:51:01 +0000 wantsarevolution 1146@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ Props for putting "I Could Be Underground" on there, but where's "Anything You Want?" "Jonathon Fisk?" "Me and the Bean?" I would probably take out "Jealousy" and "Metal School" to make room for those, but I'd be hard-pressed to make a third cut... Gabriel on "Best of Spoon Compilation" http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/topic/best-of-spoon-compilation#post-1145 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:39:25 +0000 Gabriel 1145@http://msgboard.spoontheband.com/ For a while, I was the only person I knew who had ever heard of Spoon. I took it upon myself to introduce a number of my friends to the band, and I decided that the best way was to make a "Best of Spoon" compilation to give to them. This has been very successful, and every time I get more of Spoon's music I "refine" my compilation for the next person I might give it to. I was just wondering what you guys thought of my current choices and my sequencing. I thought about putting it in chronological order, but that would put Dismember at the beginning, which would actually scare a lot of people away from listening to the rest of the compilation. (Most of my friends prefer poppy Spoon to early Spoon, so I front-loaded it with their recent "hits") 1. The Underdog 2. The Way We Get By 3. I Turn My Camera On 4. Waiting For The Kid To Come Out 5. The Fitted Shirt 6. Don't You Evah 7. My Mathematical Mind 8. Paper Tiger 9. Metal Detektor 10. Everything Hits At Once 11. The Agony Of Laffitte 12. Mountain To Sound 13. Jealousy 14. Car Radio (added a couple seconds of silence to the end for a better segue) 15. Stay Don't Go 16. I Could Be Underground 17. The Beast And Dragon, Adored 18. Metal School 19. The Ghost Of You Lingers 20. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 21. Sister Jack 22. Dismember 23. Chips And Dip 24. Chicago At Night Songs that originally fade into or continue from another song were edited to stand alone, except for 19, which still segues into 20. [Clocks in at 1:18:15]