{"id":2522,"date":"2010-01-20T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:06:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-20T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:06:06","slug":"why-don-t-i-like-spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/why-don-t-i-like-spoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t I Like Spoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/spoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Ce n&#8217;est pas une groupe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimehosting.com\/prod4ever\/spoon\/transference\/player.html\" target=_blank>online stream<\/a> of <strong>Spoon<\/strong>&#8216;s new album, <i>Transference<\/i>. It&#8217;s not bad music, but I have no desire to listen to most of it again. In theory, I should like this band: They sound like a cross between <i>Revolver<\/i>, Bowie\/Eno, Prince, and Jon Brion. But something&#8217;s missing. Their music always sounds so flat to me. It&#8217;s not lo-fi, but it sounds like a well-made album then dubbed onto a bad Maxell or TDK cassette. Reminds me of my dubbed copy of <i>The Joshua Tree<\/i>, which was a copy of a copy of a copy. No wonder I never could hear the supposed grandeur of that album. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something else, though. Something unfinished about this music in an unappealing way. It&#8217;s like they have hooks, but no melodies.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they&#8217;re not evil and I don&#8217;t hate their fans. I&#8217;m just happy with them passing me by. I do wonder if I&#8217;ve heard too much music, too much alt\/indie\/punk-type sounds, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/all_star_jam_spoon_leaks_a_single_the_gh#c4842\">this just sounds old-hat to me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to let me know if I&#8217;m missing something, if I&#8217;m full of crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ce n&#8217;est pas une groupe. I&#8217;m listening to the online stream of Spoon&#8216;s new album, Transference. It&#8217;s not bad music, but I have no desire to listen to most of it again. In theory, I should like this band: They sound like a cross between Revolver, Bowie\/Eno, Prince, and Jon Brion. But something&#8217;s missing. Their <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/why-don-t-i-like-spoon\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}