"Crowds will riot if this song is not played live."
With their highly anticipated ninth studio album Hot Thoughts set to drop March 17, US rockers Spoon are packing their bags for a whirlwind Aussie tour. Here are 10 songs we want to see on the setlist when they take on Sydney and Melbourne.
They always calm things down after one or two of their heavier numbers and this would be an AWESOME palate cleanser to hear live but they so rarely, if ever, do it.
Probably the most un-Spoon song they've ever written next to The Ghost Of You Lingers. It's an absolute jaw dropper and full of tricky little-warped synths and sparse percussion that would bring an audience to a standstill.
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Seriously, they could open with this but never do. Groovy as shit.
A complete banger.
Ga (x5)'s most obscure and stand-out track. How nobody in the band thought, "This is the most annoying thing ever composed by anybody on a piano in all of human history" is a miracle because it's spellbinding. Melancholic but melodic. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Violent snare and menacing guitar riff. One of the best songs off They Want My Soul.
Brings Kill the Moonlight full-circle with another mention of the bully Jonathan Fisk. A hand clapper among the already eleventy billion hand clappers they've already written.
Featured on the Stranger Than Fiction OST and frequently referred to people unfamiliar with it as 'The McDonalds song' because it has a riff similar to "I'm lovin' it". Straight up happy and playful. Not a staple theme in Britt Daniels' repertoire but it totally works.
The most underrated song on Transference, their most underrated album. It's stripped back but brings out some of Daniels' best vocals.
Crowds will riot if this song is not played live. There's nothing more to say, really.
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