Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party

Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party
Compilation album by Spoons
Released June 2007 (2007-06)
Recorded 1982–1985
Genre New Wave, synth pop
Length 43:59
Label Spoons Music
Producer Various
Spoons chronology
Collectible Spoons
(1994)		 Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party
(2007)
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On The Scene [1]

Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party is a compilation album of unreleased material by Canadian 80s new wave band Spoons. Named after the b-side to their "Talk Back" single, it was released independently by Spoons member Gordon Deppe in June 2007 (2007-06).

Contents

Background and writing

According to Gordon Deppe the album "covers the time roughly between 1983 and 1985",[2] and is currently the band's newest release of studio material since their 1988 Vertigo Tango album.

Deppe related the origin of the material: "Most of these songs were recorded after "Romantic Traffic" and "Tell No Lies", in a tiny, hidden away studio in Oakville, Ontario. We were about to embark on a whole new chapter in our musical lives that would leave these old ideas forgotten, to slowly weather over time and eventually fade into the earth."[3]

A few of these songs were played live including "In the Hands of Money" (circa 1984) which can be seen on the Spoons' DVD Spoons Live in Concert.

Track listing

  1. "Love Drum" – 4:16
  2. "Show & Tell" – 3:33
  3. "Unpremeditated Love" – 3:47
  4. "2,000 Years" – 4:21
  5. "World in Motion" – 4:16
  6. "Bending" – 3:32
  7. "Young English Gentleman" – 3:35
  8. "In the Hands of Money" – 3:34
  9. "No Promises" – 4:39
  10. "Spaces" – 3:12
  11. "Love Can Be a Stranger" – 3:31
  12. "Ciao" – 1:34

Personnel

References

  1. ^ On The Scene review
  2. ^ MacNeil, Jason (2007-01-11). "The Spoons Possibly Releasing New Album Of Unreleased Favourites". CHARTattack. http://www.chartattack.com/news/42735/the-spoons-possibly-releasing-new-album-of-unreleased-favourites. Retrieved 2009-03-24. 
  3. ^ "Spoons - Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party CD". http://www.thespoons.ca/UGAACP.shtml. Retrieved 2009-03-24.