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THE SPOONS
The Spoons were formed in January 1988. In the same year they put out their first tape album for Listen Loudest - garage/punk label from Zagreb. 11 great garage punk standards (City of People, No Friend of Mine, 1-2-5, Psycho ...) and 1 Spoons song (The Looker) really blew up my mind when I heard it for the first time. I just had few volumes of Back from The Grave and 1 Fuzztones LP. So I listened to Spoons every day. It was like some kind of Spoons mania. They sounded pretty raw, with great fuzz guitars, here and there some voxy keyboard and harmonica and their singer - Brunetto Subiotto had really great voice. And then - the whole year I didn't hear anything new about The Spoons.

I remember one day I watched TV - some music program - something like local version of Top of The Pops - and saw The Spoons playing their new song from their first long play record (2nd album). The song was their original - pretty psychedelic, but still garage punk. Clip was simple but great - and they looked very cool. So it was another hit of Spoons mania. I went to the downtown and checked all record stores, but their new record didn't come to my hometown yet. I read great reviews in some music magazines and zines and finally one day I bought famous " Voxin' " LP. You know that tapes are ok, but tapes don't have that magic which vinyl has. All the way from the record store to my room I looked at the sleeve. I was pretty skeptical when I saw that there were no covers - only Spoons songs. But first chords of opening song Without You blew up my mind again. Every song was great - even better than all those covers from first tape. What to tell you - my favorites are Baby Blue, Moonlite rider, Go Away, Levitation and When The Clock Strikes Twelve - but the other songs are also great. They didn't change their style from 1st tape - only production was much better.

After " Voxin' " they put out tape again - "Live at Pyramid". Again lot of garage standards like You're Gonna Miss Me, Bad Little Woman, Gloria ... The atmosphere of The Spoons gig is pretty good caught on this tape - I guess, cos I never got the chance to see them live. This tape is the last album with Brunetto. The war was already bitter reality in bigger part of yugoslavia. He joined Hare Krishna - to avoid army. There he started the super garage group The Matchless Gift with ex guitar player from Majke. But The Matchless Gift are not so good like The Spoons or Majke.

The rest of band goes further like The Spoons. Guitar player Romeo Djomlija wrote the new songs for their 4th album "Web of Fuzz". "Web of Fuzz" contains 11 new songs and 4 new versions of old songs from " Voxin' " LP. Why they did that - I really don't know, cos all those new versions are not so good like old ones. "Web of Fuzz" is vinyl again - the sound is more punky, it's still garage punk, but production is bit rawer than usually. This record is ok, but I really miss Brunetto's voice.

Anyway - The Spoons changed the singer again. On their 5th album " Supervoxin' " - this time it's cd - they recorded 13 songs - most of the songs wrote Romeo Djomlija again, but they also did few covers. I read few nice reviews for this cd, but when I got it - it was really a bit disappointment. Honestly - it's their worst album. There is no energy and they sound like some reunion band. There are few nice songs like Mysterious Way, but when I hear really bad version of Strychnine or boring acoustic Dear Miscreants - I rather forget "Supervoxin' " and play " Voxin' " - one of my favorite records ever.

I must not forget their video tape "The Story of The Spoons" which covers the period of their first 4 albums. Tape is really great. It contains lot of live stuff (picture and sound quality are very good) and few clips and tv performances with here and there some interview.