It was a Spoon Summer here at Lefort.  Like many indie-rock lovers, Spoon wowed us with their fantastic album, They Want My Soul, and then took television and live audiences by storm throughout the season.

This week in Milwaukee the band added to their live laurels by paying homage to the gone-to-soon Jay Reatard.  We had forgotten that Milwaukee was the site of Reatard’s last concert on New Year’s Eve in 2009 as opener for Spoon (two weeks before Reatard was found dead in his house in Memphis).  Watch below as Britt Daniel and the boys perform a riveting cover of Reatard’s song No Time (an extra cut released on Reatard’s collected Matador Singles ’08.  Reatard’s original audio and song’s lyrics (harrowing harbingers of his demise) can be checked out after.

Excuse us while we slip out to listen to Reatard’s album Watch Me Fall, one of our all-time faves and highly recommended listening.

No Time:

“I close my eyes and I slip away
These things seem to happen more than not these days
I’m getting lost and tossed around this mess of pains
I think I’m tremblin’ and frownin’ and tired o’your stupid game
It seems I never have the time
To make my mind feel fine
Just locked inside this glassbox
Looking out the window for you
It seems I’m never feeling fine

I close my eyes and I slip away
These things seem to happen more than not these days
It seems I never have the time
To make my mind feel fine
Just locked inside this glassbox
Looking out the window for you
It seems I’m never feeling fine”