As a bit of a preface to this post, I will readily admit that Spoon were my favorite band of the 2000’s. While others had individual albums or songs that may have eclipsed some of their work, no band consistently released material over the last 10 years that I have enjoyed as much as the output from Britt Daniel, Jim Eno and the gang. Along with Ghostface Killah (you didn’t see that coming, did you?), every time I saw the band release new material I was confident that it would be something that would find its way into my musical rotation for the following few months. After all of the great albums the band has released the one that finds its way back to my stereo most often is 2002’s Kill the Moonlight. Featuring what is probably Spoon’s biggest “hit” to date (“The Way We Get By”), it also featured some of the most memorable songs Daniel has written. Both “Jonathan Fisk” and “Something To Look Forward To,” feature the funky, stripped down soulful post punk sound that Spoon developed further in the second half of the decade. While I could have easily come up with just as many reasons to nominate 2001’s Girls Can Tell or more full-bodied records such as Gimmie Fiction or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, it is Kill the Moonlight that to me best represents the band’s output.

Spoon “Something To Look Forward To” (mp3)

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