Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)

Spoon's influences on "Gimme Fiction": Wilco's "A Ghost is Born," "Revolver"-era Beatles, Tom Petty, Prince,

What do we do with a song like "My Mathematical Mind"? Excepting perhaps the last 1:30, this would be a dreadful song to hear live. I hope they don't play it in Austin. "The Delicate Place" is similarly unenchanting.

Now "Sister Jack," with its handclaps, that's a tune I could really get into at a show. It's probably the closest they come to a single on this album, but certainly nothing as radio friendly as say "Jonathan Fisk" or that song they always put on the O.C. soundtrack ("The Way We Get By"?).

I don't think I've ever liked a Spoon album all the way through and it's been a slight downward progression (I think) since "Girls Can Tell," which received an impressive 3.8.

I'm not saying I don't like them; I'm just not in love with them.

1. The Beast And Dragon Adored (4)
2. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine (3)
3. I Turn My Camera On (3)
4. My Mathematical Mind (3)
5. The Delicate Place (2)
6. Sister Jack (4)
7. I Summon You (4)
8. The Infinite Pet (2)
9. Was it You? (2)
10. They Never Got You (2)
11. Merchants of Soul (2)

Overall: 2.8