That's a good way of articulating Spoon sounding bigger on They Want My Soul, easily my favorite post-2000s album of theirs. To be a pedantic ass, putting out Hot Thoughts on Matador was actually a full circle moment as they put out their first album Telephono on there back in 1996 (I think also 1997's Soft Effects EP).
As ubiquitous as Paul Williams was in the 1970s on several fronts - he wrote hits for Barbra Streisand *and* appeared in a Planet of the Apes movie as a thoughtful orangutan! - I still think he's underrated as a pop writer. I'll definitely have to check out his songbook release you've covered well here. Thanks!
That's a good way of articulating Spoon sounding bigger on They Want My Soul, easily my favorite post-2000s album of theirs. To be a pedantic ass, putting out Hot Thoughts on Matador was actually a full circle moment as they put out their first album Telephono on there back in 1996 (I think also 1997's Soft Effects EP).
As ubiquitous as Paul Williams was in the 1970s on several fronts - he wrote hits for Barbra Streisand *and* appeared in a Planet of the Apes movie as a thoughtful orangutan! - I still think he's underrated as a pop writer. I'll definitely have to check out his songbook release you've covered well here. Thanks!