Daily Jam - Chicago at Night

Feeling the blues a little bit this morning, and the skies are gray.  Here's a moody one from Spoon to start the week to.  Listen to "Chicago at Night" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - He Was Soon To Undergo An Experience For Which His Long Training As An Aristocrat, A Gentleman, And An Officer Had Scarcely Prepared Him

Back in the '90s, Spoon front man Britt Daniel used to release lo-fi music under the moniker Drake Tungsten.  Here's a short one with a long title.  Listen to "He Was Soon To Undergo An Experience For Which His Long Training As An Aristocrat, A Gentleman, And An Officer Had Scarcely Prepared Him" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Let the Distance Bring Us Together

Pretty much any time a super group or musical collaboration is announced, I get giddy with anticipation, wholly waiting for my socks to be rocked off, but realistically, about 99% of the time, the project’s sum does not equal its far superior parts. And that’s too bad, because that 1% that nails it is something truly akin to approaching audio nirvana. The 2002 release of Home: Volume IV, the fourth in a series of collaborative EP’s put out by Post-Parlo Records during the 00’s, pairs Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst with Spoon’s Britt Daniel, and while that record never reaches the sublime as a whole, the EP’s closer, the Daniel-penned “Let the Distance Bring Us Together,” gets really damn close.

Recorded when both artists were still somewhat unknowns, and sounding like something of a Spoon castoff, a B-side that just didn’t quite make the cut, “Let the Distance Bring Us Together” is a stripped down and lo-fi pop nugget that feels like an intimate home recording made in an apartment living room by a group of friends. It begs for you to nod your head, to tap your foot, to clap along.

And I do.  Listen below.

Daily Jam - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

It's Wednesday.  Here's Spoon doing their best "wall of sound" impersonation.  Listen to "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Black Like Me

Sometimes i'll go back and listen to an album that i haven't thought about in a while and just be floored by how good it is.  Spoon's 2007 album "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" is one of those.  Here's the album closing "Black Like Me," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Everything Hits at Once

I like indie-rock darlings Spoon quite a bit, but i don't think they've ever matched, much less surpassed the minimalist groove of "Everything Hits at Once," a track which is nearing it's 20th birthday.  Man i'm old.  Listen below, our Daily Jam.