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- Summary: The Austin band's follow-up to 'Series of Sneaks' was a critical favorite in 2001, appearing on seemingly every year-end Top 10 list (and with good reason).
- Record Label: Merge/Touch And Go
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop
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Top Track
Anything You Want | |
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If there's anything you want Come on back 'cause it's all still here I'll be in the back room drinking my half of the beer And if you and me is so... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 15
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Mixed: 0 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Spoon's most mature, accomplished work to date and a fine balance of fire and polish.
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At 36 minutes, Girls Can Tell packs more hooks than most bands fit into their entire discography... This is truly one of the most intense pop records since This Year's Model.
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Spoon's 1998 album, A Series of Sneaks, was a near-perfect blend of elementary rock, sharp lyrics, and hooky melodies. On the band's just-released follow-up album, Girls Can Tell, the group manages to build upon the greatness of its previous effort.
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Girls Can Tell is more mature and accomplished, but at the expense of the spark of spontaneity.
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Their music is as strong as ever and they certainly deserve your attention.
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Girls Can Tell abandons some of the more familiar modern-rock tendencies of Spoon's previous albums, favoring the ambitious structures of art-rock and offering an impressive meeting place between traditional new wave and the abrasive, angular qualities of Wire and Magazine.
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Perverse as it may seem, this album is more tightly arranged and crisply recorded than anything the group managed on a major label; in fact, it’s a small masterpiece of home production, with Eno’s economical drumming framing stabs of rhythm guitar and precisely placed daubs of vibes and viola.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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NickI.Apr 17, 2001Spoon is great. And if you like them try Starlight Mints, and Pavement.
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DrewCJul 20, 2007
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ChelseaDJun 11, 2005An amazing album from an amazing band.
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WillCMay 14, 2007
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Sep 9, 2014
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Mar 28, 2012
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BobbyJJul 10, 2006i cant tell u how bad this album is
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