The Spent Poets

an under-appreciated first album, a legendary unreleased second album, and a lot more

The Spent Poets, Monkey Rhythm, Beanpole, Slider, Madame Blavatsky Overdrive, No Forcefield, Electric Apricot, The Filthy Ape, Bob C. Cock, etc.

• "a flashy, funky and admittedly 'pretentious' pop band" - Stephanie Simons (The News Tribune)
• "runaway cleverness (pretention, if you prefer)" - Marty Hughley (The Oregonian)
• "enough literary name-dropping [...] to make the most pretentious lit major up and hurl" - David Plotnikoff (Entertainment Weekly)
• "have been labeled pretentious" - Leah Hennen (Bay Area Music Magazine)
• "some might even call the band pretentious" - David Konjoyan (HITS Magazine)
• "flirted with pretension at every move" - Stewart Mason (AllMusic)
• "but almost never pretentiously" - Neil Randall (Kitchener-Waterloo Record)
• "some of it gets a bit too intellectual, eclectic or experimental" - John Everson (Southtown Star)
• "mostly clever lyrics" - Barbara Jaeger (The Record)
• "snooty and irrelevant" - Steve Hochman (Los Angeles Times)
• "none of it's particularly inventive" - Andy Thompson (Planet Mellotron)

• "admittedly it's a pretentious thing" - Adam Gates (Houston Chronicle, 07/18/1992)
• "It's good to know that someone somewhere is listening to these songs in their bedroom with headphones, that's all I could ask or hope for." - Adam Gates (via email, 04/19/2001)

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