Spoon at 88.9 Radio Milwaukee

Pressed for time (they had to skedaddle to their show at The Sylvee in Madison that evening), Daniel and Fischel played just three acoustic tracks, two from their 10th studio LP Lucifer on the Sofa (#38 US, #92 UK, #4 US Alternative and Independent charts). Both are my top picks from the LP: “The Hardest Cut” and “Wild.” (I also really like “On the Radio” and the dreamy “Astral Jacket.”)The other song they performed was “Do You,” a single that appears on their 2014 album They Want My Soul.

Despite some guitar-tuning issues, the mini-show was really great and included an interview with 88.9’s Dori Zori. They discussed a broad range of topics that included the sound of Lucifer on the Sofa (“a feeling of being watched while it was made,” “a record that’s playing in a honky tonk bar”), trying to finish writing, editing and recording the record during the pandemic, and influential MTV videos from the past (Prince’s “Kiss” and “When Doves Cry”). You can listen to the 20-minute or so radio session here.

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Spoon “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” 2007. Merge Records. The sixth LP from indie pop rockers Spoon debuted at #10 on the US album charts and hit #1 on the indie album charts, with broad critical acclaim; hitting numerous best-of list for the year and the decade. Spoon released two singles from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, “The Underdog” which hit #26 and “Don’t You Evah” that went #33, both on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The funky “Don’t You Evah” is one of my favorites from the album (it’s a cover originally by The Natural History, who toured with Spoon in 2002/03), as well as the lead track “Don’t Make Me a Target,” “Rhthm & Soul” (I didn’t misspell that), “Finer Feelings” and “Black Like Me.” Hidden in the run-out groove is a “skip” of a snare and three-chord piano riff that repeats into perpetuity – or at least until you get up and turn off the record – a fun (possibly irritating) little detail that likely does not exist on any other format.

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