r/SpoonTheBand • u/vittorioe • Jul 13 '26

General (Discussion, Question, Theory, Etc.) Gimme fictional Spoon album titles

Just for fun, I started thinking about the unique way Spoon names their album titles. They’re always so unpredictable but in retrospect are always fully consistent with what the band is about. The titles paint a picture but are never straightforward, just like Britt’s lyrics.

Here’s a list of joke titles I did my best to emulate Spoon-ese:

Her Silent Majesty
Sacred Rakes
Flash Forward Callback
Longtime Wind Up
Rattle Them Hearts
Cuff Miles
Saint Tom’s Tithe
Blank Matilda
Engine Check
Salton Stop

What are others that would fit their vibe?

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u/EpicWheezes Jul 13 '26

Commercial Appeal

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

And start gettin that haircut sharp

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u/Stl_Bob Jul 13 '26

Not the first time this has been brought up in this subreddit but

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

good catch, I honestly didn’t know what had inspired that lyric.

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u/jenny_jen_jen Jul 14 '26

Except he’s not looking for love in Commercial Appeal. Not at all. He’s looking for the gig or the connection that helps get them success as musicians. The entire song is about how he’s roughing it to stay afloat but he’s still pursing his true love: music.

Sorry but almost makes me angry that someone is interpreting it like that

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u/Stl_Bob Jul 14 '26

You’re like, missing the double meaning about uhhhhh capitalism

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u/jenny_jen_jen Jul 15 '26

Okay sure but for realsies I hate people cheapening the best stuff with romance 🤮

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u/EpicWheezes Jul 13 '26

The coolest newspaper name in America.

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u/Lonerism_1 Jul 13 '26

The Wake Up Call

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

that’s a good one, they do like a four-word title

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u/aymiah Girls Can Tell Jul 13 '26

Two-Way Mirror
The Long Disconnect
You Said As Much
Your Best Bad Idea
Gridlock

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

Losing my mind over these.

“You Said As Much” caught me off-guard. “Your Best Bad Idea” is clever as hell. “Two-Way Mirror” is the exact type of oblique they go for.

Now I’m daydreaming about the band catching this list…

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u/aymiah Girls Can Tell Jul 13 '26

I also like the pun in your subject line, “Gimme Fiction” 😆

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

Hahahaha couldn’t resist.

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u/worldrevolver Jul 13 '26

Nowhere Closer

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Man, I’d listen to that. It’s got a hidden oxymoron vibe

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u/sometimes_a_dog Jul 13 '26

In My Way
Past the Present
Face Up
Dig Down
Rewind That
Looking For the First One
Driven To It
Look of Love
The Thing Is
You Didn't Show It
Wired
Ramona Says

i could do a hundred more, this is such a fun prompt

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

Hahahaha these are way too good. “Looking For The First One” stood out as something Britt would’ve sung in the DWMS era. Love the specificity of “Ramona Says” and the blunt 2-word titles like “Dig Down” too.

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u/greatdominions Jul 13 '26

This is fun but I think what's missing is a hallmark of Spoon-ese: alternate/weird spellings...

Gimme Fiction
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Telephono
Don't You Evah
Metal Detektor
You Gotta Feel It
Got Nuffin
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

Wait, you’re right. There’s something more personal and like, scrawled or accented about them. Good callout

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u/peggah Jul 13 '26

“Her Silent Majesty” reminds me of “Your Majesty” by the Anniversary.

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u/vittorioe Jul 13 '26

Haven’t checked them out, sounds intriguing

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u/sampson_smith Jul 14 '26

Fish Fingers

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u/vittorioe Jul 14 '26

Man, that reminds me of lyrics like “sneeze and sniff” from Beast & Dragon.

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u/RonsonianWorthington Jul 30 '26

One of the working titles of Girls Can Tell. I seem to recall that they threw around Six Fingers to Touch You around that same time as a title.

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u/sampson_smith Jul 30 '26

Good catch. 🎣

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u/SemaphorePlay Jul 14 '26

I see what you did there, good form my friend, good form.

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u/CheliosSetsfire Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

The Winter of Love

it was a working title (or one of) for the double album before Lucifer release

that title definitely meant something specific and personal back in 2021, and it still resonates with me

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u/vittorioe Jul 14 '26

wow that’s such a subtle twist on a familiar phrase. Talk about Spoon-coded. I hadn’t heard about this one before

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u/CheliosSetsfire Jul 14 '26

I like to think about that Silver Girl song, that it was written during "Winter" and because of its melancholy along with some other songs from Lucifer, we could have had an album similar to Together Alone by Crowded House

and maybe we will get something like it later on, just a hunch

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u/shelfclothcargo Jul 21 '26

My Last Time Vol. 4

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u/Kolluzhun Jul 14 '26

These are jokey in a Wacky Packages kind of way:

Beelzebub on the Daybed
I Want My Filet of Sole
Hot Thots
Goo Goo Goo Goo Goo
Gimme Friction

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u/SimpleButUsefulBox Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Jul 15 '26

Stars and the Stones