Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Agony of Laffitte - A Series of Sneaks - 1998

This is pretty much where the legend of Spoon begins, like the most delicate version of NIN's Broken EP, this is Spoon railing against their mistreatment by a major label. Of course, in hindsight it's pretty hard to feel bad for them. In the interim they signed with artist friendly Merge records, had each record grow in both commercial appeal and critical respect, have had their songs used in car commercials, movie trailers, and tv shows. Britt even got a cameo on Veronica Mars.

Still Ron Laffitte (the A&R rep railed about in this song) was clearly an asshole.

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