found this drivvel on stereogum:




Stereogum Main
August 18, 2005
Intriguing, Unlikely Spoon News
From the mailbag...

From: Damon
Sent: Wed 8/17/2005 5:47 AM
To: Stereogum
Subject: yo. not really news but

an interesting rumor nonetheless.

so i was at this drunk hipster party on saturday and this drunk hipster by the name of claudia i think it was (from austin, no less) who swore she knows britt personally upon hearing that i was a spoon fan told me that "gimme fiction" was sequenced backwards on purpose, meaning that the last track should be the first track and so on. some kind of inside joke says she, a hidden pop materpiece, and also that the instrumental tags that follow some of the songs are alledgedly supposed to be clues pointing to the switch. also the title. also the vaginal metaphors of the cover art. "yes, we are fucking with you". or something.

anyways i tried it. and you know what? drunk hipster might be onto something. clearly its more cohesive the other way around. all the songs were already great, but now they seem to follow a sort of theme, a straight line as it were. as opposed to the disjointedness and schizophrenic mood shifts of the original order. sounds like a live set or something. i don't know, try it if you want. i for one like it better this way.

the tracklisting should read like this
01 merchants of soul
02 they never got you
03 was it you?
04 the infinite pet
05 i summon you
06 sister jack
07 the delicate place
08 my mathematical mind
09 i turn my camera on
10 the two sides of monsieur valentine
11 the beast and dragon, adored

well, I pretty much have to try this now

and if that's true, ghey

and, the next time I run into a non-Obner hipster type, I'm gonna bust this story out, except change it so it's about some other album...maybe Funeral or something

Get the gun. Get the gun. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.

well, it can't possibly be any worse backward than forward. although, this makes it really difficult for me to play "correctly" since i have the LP.

haha!

i'm going to make a playlist of this on my iriver and check it out tomorrow.

*bullshit*

That Spoon disc still sucks. I bought it, tried to like it, then sold it to the used CD store. That was over a month ago, and it's still there.

fp

Gimme Fiction, along with the other Spoon albums, is flat-out awful. There's not one song on it that I can enjoy, or even listen to.

This sounds pretty suspicious, but I'll give it a try.

I don't think that knowing someone bibically is quite the same as knowing someone personally.

It always amazes me that people think the exact same shit that I do.

you are just trying to get everyone to listen to spoon to spike their audioscrobbler stats

pipe = bad

I suggest q-tips.

odd.

i'm going to try this.

i think that the reason i don't like Spoon, and the reason that all his songs sound half-finished to me, is that the drums are always terrible at best. it's almost like he hates his drummer and wants to relegate him to the status if the guitar player in a ska band where he's been given one thing to play and that's all he'll ever be allowed to do.

i'm gonna try this backwards sh|t too. spike those scrobbler stats!

you know what, i'm listening to it backwards right now... it actually sounds better imo.

The only problem is that Beast and Dragon Adored does not sound anything like a closing track.

Also, when I saw them live earlier in the year, they opened with the first 2 or 3 songs in the album order.

whoa whoa whoa there

NOITCIF EMMIG

I've done this with a completely different album (Tear Garden, Last Man to Fly), but I don't think they did it on purpose.