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I'm serious. There are so many reasons why Spoon _should_ be on Uri Geller's radar.
1. Well, the obvious. The bending thing.
2. Geller's all about making the spooky. While he does it with, y'know, mind control and sleight-of-brain, Spoon, the Austin band led by Britt Daniel, does it with effects pedals and reverb. To much more convincing effect, I might add.
3. According to his bio, Geller can change time: "Uri Geller became well known for a few scientifically unexplained phenomena ... Fixing broken watches and appliances, and using collective power, influencing the Big Ben to stop." Spoon also enjoy changing time in both their songs (ex.a: "Metal Detektor," ex.b: "Get Out The State") and their minds (ex.a: "The Way We Get By," ex.b: Britt hittin' the crowd up for THC).
4. Geller claims to be able to erase disks with his mind. Spoon will erase your mind with their almost-naggingly catchy discs.
5. They'll both get into your head whether you want them to or not. Somehow, even though I've never seen them live and I stopped having dreams about famous musicians sometime after high school, Britt Daniel's popped into my REM sleep not once, not twice, but three times. Three times I've dreamt about this mysterious blond Texan!
I think maybe all three could've stemmed from the song "Change My Life," from 2000's Love Ways EP. It's a slow-burner, propelled along by Jim Eno's always-intriguing drumming, with Daniel's lackadaisical vocals and gritty little riff just cold chillin' as they float above the beat. "You don't have to please me/Or pick up my tab/Don't have to go too fast/Just change my life," he pleads, and girls everywhere sigh dreamily. Or maybe it's just me, dreaming sighingly. Judge for yourself below.
Ooh, two Dismemberment Plan posts in a row!
For anyone who never caught a live show when they were still together (ME!), the near-missed opportunity of a lifetime was announced today [Stereogum, Pitchfork]: The Dismemberment Plan are reuniting for one night only as part of a benefit for Callum Robbins, the infant son of Jawbox's J. Robbins, who's suffering from a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
The party explodes on Sat. April 28 at the Black Cat in Washington, DC. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 5 p.m., and a 100-foot land-walking giant squid with all of its tentacles on fire couldn't keep me away. I've been waiting for this announcement ever since the unfortunate day that I found out the D-Plan had broken up roughly TWO WEEKS before I first heard and subsequently fell in love with Emergency & I. AND it's for a fantastic cause!!! Everybody wins!
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Oh man. I am so sad. Practically crying over here. I too am a huge gynormous fan and love them with all my heart and soul but alas. I live in CA. And will be at Coachella.
But perhaps there is hope yet that they will have so much fun and decided to do a tour. I would be at every show imaginable wearing bells and streamers.
You better go. For all the fans out there that can't, you definitely should!
YES! I got my tickets right at 5 p.m. Good thing, too, because apparently it sold out in less than five minutes. I am so ecstatic ... and I will throw my hands in the air (and wave 'em like I just don't care) for you, I swear!!
I am beyond excited for you! Congrats on the tickets!!!!! 5 minutes?!? That's incredible. Honestly, incredible. And yes, please do wave those hands around. Dance and sing along with all your heart and I will have to be happy with knowing that another awesome fan is enjoying something I hope to do myself one day. I'm going to expect an entry about it!
Yay! :)
I am dreadfully negligent of you, my poor Mog. I think this website is the tits, I really do, and one day I will have my very own internet connection that ISN'T dial-up. Boy, I'll really be vomiting out the prose then. Until that unpredictable day, I'd like to share an mp3 of one of my favorite songs of all time: "The City" by The Dismemberment Plan.
There's a few elements I believe are crucial to a memorable song (memorable to me, anyway): a passionate voice, precise yet still kinda wild drumming, keyboards are alwaysalways a plus, and the fucking lyrics! Were I to grade "The City" element for element, it would be A++'s across the board. Also, you can yell and/or cry to it -- any suggestions for other songs that fit the yell/cry description?
Coming soon: Some long-stewed thoughts on band loyalty.
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oh yes. change my life's one of my most favorite spoon tracks. so good x 100. :)