Hot Thoughts
by Spoon
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Spoon bestography
Hot Thoughts is ranked 6th best out of 14 albums by Spoon on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Spoon is They Want My Soul which is ranked number 670 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,567.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Hot Thoughts track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Hot Thoughts rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | joathome | Top 87 Music Albums of 2017 | 14/87 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | jlsfourth | Top 100 Albums of the 21st Century | 58/100 | - |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 8/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 14/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 46 Music Albums of 2017 | 15/46 | 3 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best American Albums | 19/100 | - |
| 2026 | Vasco | Top 19 Music Albums of 2017 | 5/19 | 4 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | 2017 Honorable Mentions | 11/85 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 221 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 822 | |||
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Hot Thoughts ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/31/2026 12:18 | DrTchock97 | 746 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 21:44 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,601 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/09/2026 22:20 | luukvdschepop | 751 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/17/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5376): By bonnequestion
neilgee 01/20/2026 10:08 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
pedro1976 06/04/2024 15:15 in What album are you listening to right now?Hot Thoughts comments
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llibnanoon 05/15/2020 16:14 | #251475
Meh.
ExTeaSea 04/05/2020 23:56 | #249592
Track 5 is beautiful. Pretty cool album overall.
This is a very good album, with two very different sides. Side 1 (the first 5 songs) is Spoon at their best, 5 incredible tracks, well-produced and catchy as ever. Side 2 (the 5 last songs) covers new grounds for Spoon and is more experimental. First, there's "Can I Sit Next To You" that could have been a Maroon 5 song, but Spoon manages to make it great with their clever producing. Then, there's "I Ain't The One" that sounds like a post-grunge song, but the use of the electric piano instead of the guitar is pure genius and make this song really enjoyable. The more I listen to it, the more I like it. "Shotgun" sounds a little bit like "I Was Made For Loving You" by Kiss, but once again, Spoon can make any song sound great and they do it here. The last one, "Us", is a great example of how Spoon are in experimental mode here.
All in all, I still like Side 1 better, with the straight-up Spoon doin' it like as well as ever, but I really appreciate Side 2 too and the effort by the band to go elsewhere. A really solid album by a band that makes nothing but great albums.
Good to see this great band getting some recognition. But for me this slickly produced record is not as strong as some of their earlier stuff. A well-produced Spoon album somehow defeats the truer purpose of this band for me. I'm missing some of their garage pop energy.
junodog4 07/15/2017 21:47 | #194382 | TOP COMMENT
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This actually works. Spoon manages to make their sound evolve enough to keep us interested, but they don't deviate from their established sound & formula. It's enough to keep enjoying their output.
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