| Stick Figure Neighbourhood | ||||
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| Released | 1981 | |||
| Recorded | February 1981 | |||
| Studio | Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton, Ontario | |||
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| Length | 41:54 | |||
| Label | Ready | |||
| Producer | Graeme Pole | |||
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Stick Figure Neighbourhood is the debut studio album by Canadian new wave band Spoons, released 1981 by Ready Records. It received some airplay, and went to the top of the Canadian University radio charts[4][5] (specifically with songs "Conventional Beliefs" and "Red Light"), but it was their next studio album, Arias & Symphonies (1982) – and its best known single, "Nova Heart" – that were to bring them to prominence.
This album was recorded by Daniel Lanois at the Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario. Its liner notes collectively thank fellow contemporary Toronto bands The Diodes, Martha and the Muffins, and concert promoter Gary Cormier of "The Garys".[6]
As Gordon Deppe mentions in his liner notes for greatest hits album Collectible Spoons (1994), this collection of songs "is a bit rough around the edges, but there are things on it that [are] still very interesting and perplexing."
- ^ "Stick Figure Neighbourhood - Spoons - Sparks Music - Bandcamp". Bandcamp. 25 June 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
The album attracted the attention of college radio and garnered rave press reviews.
- ^ "Bio - Spoons Music Canada - Guelph". Spoons Music. 25 September 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
The album garnered rave press reviews and reached the #1 slot on college radio.
- ^ DeGagne, Mike (25 September 2023). "Arias & Symphonies Review by Mike DeGagne". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
...coming up short with their debut, Stick Figure Neighbourhood, which was adopted mainly by college radio stations.
- ^ Noble, Peter (10–16 December 1981). "Spoons For Your Ears". Spoons Official Site/Darrin Cappe. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Gross, Jonathan (21 January 1982). "Punter Bends Spoons Into A New Shape". Spoons Official Site/Darrin Cappe. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Stick Figure Neighbourhood". Spoons Official Site/Darrin Cappe. Retrieved 12 April 2019.