At 01:11 PM 12/18/2003 -0600, Miles Goosens wrote:
>Back to Stewart for a moment:
>>> Spoon have come up in conversation many times here. 
>>> Many folks like them,
>>> some (me included) aren't impressed at all.  I
>>> wouldn't call them unknown.
>
>They were another band you saw give a subpar live performance, right?  
>I've only seen them live once, opening for the Loud Family in Memphis 
>in '98, but they were on fire that evening (and Britt Daniel was a stone 
>cold Scott Miller fan, sticking around for the LF and singing along with 
>every song), so I've had that very positive experience to put with their 
>albums.  I'd urge you to give them another shot if you haven't already -- 
>if you'd never opined about them in public, I would have pegged them as 
>a band you'd probably like a lot!

I've got TELEPHONO, GIRLS CAN TELL and the SOFT EFFECT EP that's on eMusic.
 I like them all more than I liked seeing them live -- a performance that
wasn't just subpar, but probably the absolute worst, most inept performance
I've ever seen by an act with a national profile, even worse than the first
time I saw the Lilys -- but they don't do much for me at all.  Every song
makes me think "Pavement did this better," "The Grifters did this better,"
"The Apples did this better" or "Yo La Tengo did this better," and I just
don't care for Britt's vocals.

S