LA ST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE
Britt Daniel
Spoon’s frontman genuflects before The Modern Lovers (Beserkley, 1976).
Getty, Peter Cunningham
I want to talk about The Modern Lovers.
It was 1990. I was between my freshman and sophomore years at the University of Texas. I had a part-time job delivering cheeseburgers, taking a Spanish class and trying to learn how to write songs. No band, no money, no girlfriend. It was super hot and I was in the back room of this little house that didn’t have any working AC, on a flight path with planes going by about 20 yards over my head every 10 minutes.