spoon, quincy punk episode

I’ve been on a Spoon kick lately. James, himself quite the Spooner, gave me a copy of a two-disc rarities comp when I was in Toronto. While zipping across the backroads of upstate New York last week, windows down and sunroof open on my little rental Sonata, I put A Series of Sneaks into repeat overdrive. I’m eagerly anticipating their 9/10-11 show at Rubber Gloves. And yesterday, their new album Kill the Moonlight came out.
I was looking online for the lyrics to (perhaps) my favorite Spoon track, “Quincy Punk Episode.” Great, rocking song that never fails to get my air drum attack launched. But I had no idea the song title is based on an actual, bizarrely moralistic episode of Quincy, the Jack Klugman vehicle from the early 1980s. (Synopsis of the episode here; audio and video clips here.) Much fun.