{"id":726,"date":"2007-07-31T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2012-04-13T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:50:42","slug":"kitchen-the-plastic-spoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/kitchen-the-plastic-spoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen &#038; the Plastic Spoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_PkGBingimIE\/Rq4_EpAGQRI\/AAAAAAAAACM\/WN9jA8WGjmA\/s1600-h\/1333388944_l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093077577560899858\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_PkGBingimIE\/Rq4_EpAGQRI\/AAAAAAAAACM\/WN9jA8WGjmA\/s320\/1333388944_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHappy Monday, ladies and gentlemen&#8230; To kick off this week, here&#8217;s a long-forgotten band with a recent bit of buzz surrounding their work.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen &amp; the Plastic Spoons claimed to have formed by accident in 1980. Originally called Gdansk, the Swedish art-punk band employed quirky rhythms and fizzing synthesizers at dizzying speeds, and only managed to release a handful of singles and live compilation tracks before disbanding in 1981, soon after an aborted attempt to carry on with a new lead singer.<\/p>\n<p>Though there&#8217;s been rumours of shows buzzing about in the underground, Kitchen &amp; the Plastic Spoons still remain an ephemeral splash. Realising that a new generation of music fans were craving more than the few previously offered scraps, the band released a compilation entitled <em>Best Off<\/em> just this year, featuring their recorded studio output and a series of live songs never before bootlegged.<\/p>\n<p>For today&#8217;s consumption, I&#8217;ve uploaded two of the band&#8217;s best known tunes, &#8216;Happy Funeral&#8217; and &#8216;Ice Cream to God,&#8217; both of which were early 7&#8221; releases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divshare.com\/download\/1411766-00c\">download Kitchen &amp; the Plastic Spoons &#8211; &#8216;Happy Funeral&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divshare.com\/download\/1411767-f09\">download Kitchen &amp; the Plastic Spoons- &#8216;Ice Cream to God&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Best Off<\/em>, the Kitchen &amp; the Plastic Spoons compilation can be found and ordered through CD Baby by clicking this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/kitchenatps\">http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/kitchenatps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday, ladies and gentlemen&#8230; To kick off this week, here&#8217;s a long-forgotten band with a recent bit of buzz surrounding their work. Kitchen &amp; the Plastic Spoons claimed to have formed by accident in 1980. Originally called Gdansk, the Swedish art-punk band employed quirky rhythms and fizzing synthesizers at dizzying speeds, and only managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}