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First Round Match-Up
(#4) Spoon - Gimme Fiction 59%  59%  [ 34 ]
(#13) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 41%  41%  [ 24 ]
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I said "reg rock crowd" not reg rock itself, fearing the semi inevitable lambasting anything facing a band like Spoon has been getting. Not the case here? Awesome. I never said it was avant garde, just quiet and falsetto-ey.


For Emma, Forever Ago is sensitive break-up record, which is kind of a rite of passage in the singer/songwriter canon, while Britt Daniel sings as a 30-something about getting beat-up by bullies as a kid.

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I've been really surprised how much I like that album (Emma), moreso perhaps after seeing so many friends who usually like similar stuff NOT like it. I don't know why it landed so solidly, but yeah, it's in there. Maybe I didn't come at it with any predispositions? Or is that flattering myself... I donno. Either way finding another album to like can't be a bad thing I guess.

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
I've been really surprised how much I like that album (Emma), moreso perhaps after seeing so many friends who usually like similar stuff NOT like it. I don't know why it landed so solidly, but yeah, it's in there. Maybe I didn't come at it with any predispositions? Or is that flattering myself... I donno. Either way finding another album to like can't be a bad thing I guess.


Exactly. For the record, I voted Bon Iver. Does it for me, while Gimme Fiction does as well, but more superficially.
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I like both. Went with Spoon. Turn My Camera On is one of my favorite songs of the decade.

Bon Iver was good live, though. Spoon was boring.
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Went with Bon Iver because I'll vote for another Spoon record over this one.

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The winner.

(#4) Spoon - Gimme Fiction
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Ah, the triumph of the superficial over the profound.
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Ah, the triumph of the superficial over the profound.


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