Talk:Spoon (band)

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Have done lots of editing...would LOVE to see this article expanded even more.--Dstopping 07:42, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good start. I'm not able to do this right now, but I'd like to see more on the early days of Spoon. And they were critical darlings all along. It was just after GCT that they began to achieve some commercial success. Jmcnally 05:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Other Spoon Contributions to soundtracks
I don't know if this is worth mentioning in the article, but Spoon performed track 12 of the album 'Wig in a Box: Songs from & Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch'. It's called 'Tear me Down'. Jamescaf512 08:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Cloverfield Soundtrack
Additionally, the song "The Underdog" can be added as appearing in the movie Cloverfield. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.147.26.97 (talk) 17:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's particularly relevant. Maybe if the song had its own page, or even on the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga page.Wantsarevolution (talk) 22:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

LP6 title
i found one place where it says "It's Frightening" is the name of the new album(on their website) and one place where it says "Trouble Minx" is the name(their myspace newsletter) im not sure which one we should go by. Maybe we could put both names on or maybe we should put neither.--Aots191 04:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:GaGaGaGaGa.jpg
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possible references from article, taken from external links section

 * Lazy-i Interview from April 2001
 * Lazy-i Interview from November 2005
 * Interview from December 13, 2006

Home
Does Home: Volume IV really belong under the EPs section? It's properly a Britt Daniel/Bright Eyes split EP, not Spoon and Bright Eyes. I don't believe that any other member of Spoon is credited on it.

-- Zarvok | Talk 23:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * No responses, so I'll remove it. -- Zarvok | Talk 02:39, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

The Underdog single - does it actually exist?
In the discography someone has added the underdog as a 7" and CD single that reached #40 in the billboard. I'm really questioning the existence of such a release. It has been released as an iTunes single by Anti Records in Europe. Beyond that I don't have any evidence of any other single release excepting promos. I have seen a Matador and Anti promo CD. The only 7" is the free promo given out with early copies of GaGaGaGaGa which is the Underdog demo version. Unless anyone contradicts me with some evidence of its existence I'm going to delete the entry soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peteherron (talk • contribs) 19:47, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Early Days
This article from the Austin Chronicle is an excellent source of information about the band's early days that should definitely be added to this entry. I don't have time right now to integrate it all, but I thought someone else might be up for it. Wantsarevolution 02:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's another article that might come in useful for fleshing out the page. Also, does anyone know of a fair-use image of the whole band so it's not just pictures of Britt? Wantsarevolution 22:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

"indie"?
Yes, I agree that Spoon could be considered indie, but only in the sense that they are independent, not as a genre. Indie is not a style of music or genre. Could someone think of a better description of their music itself? 07 December, 2007 - Cb 76.202.135.54 (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Indie is a genre (with many sub genres) and Spoon is one of the most well recognized indie rock bands. --TM 07:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Indie rock is recognized by Wikipedia consensus as a musical genre.Wantsarevolution (talk) 07:47, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Why don’t YOU think better description? You have the issue. 2600:1702:4400:F7F:993:51F5:D389:CB8C (talk) 15:06, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

History Section edits

 * So I've re-organized the history section, using a lot of what was already there, but putting it in more of a cohesive time line. The milestone headings are subject to changing, I just put down what first came to mind (suggestions encouraged). I also wasn't sure what to do with all of the notable appearances on various late shows and commercials and tv appearances, so I've lumped them into "recent commercial success". Again, feel free to change this or add to it... I just didn't like the flow of it previous to my edits. Thanks. (Fulmerg (talk) 08:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC))

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Status as an indie band
There appears to be a bit of an edit war (I don't edit this site too much, so my apologies if I'm using that term incorrectly) over Spoon's status as an indie rock band in the genre section. Why? They're very well known for being an iconic Texas indie rock band by their fanbase and reviews, even if some of the band members aren't crazy about the term itself (although this same kind of issue doesn't stop, say, IDLES from being labelled a punk or post-punk band).

And it just looks rather silly to leave a stray "rock" genre tag in its place. 129.123.8.87 (talk) 03:49, 7 November 2022 (UTC)