Arias & Symphonies

Arias & Symphonies is the second album by the Burlington band Spoons. It contains the highly successful singles "Nova Heart" and "Arias & Symphonies". It was first released on compact disc in 2000. In 2012, a 30th Anniversary Edition of the album was released on CD with bonus tracks, which are mostly live recordings from Barrymore's, Ottawa, October 26, 1982, originally recorded and broadcast by CHEZ-FM. The iTunes download version includes an extra "live CD" of their performance at the El Mocambo in Toronto, June 26, 1982, which was originally broadcast by CHUM-FM.[2]

Arias & Symphonies
Studio album by Spoons
Released	1982
Recorded	1982
Studio	Sounds Interchange, Toronto Air Studios, London
Genre	New wave, synthpop
Length	44:11
Label	Ready Records
Producer	John Punter
Spoons chronology
Stick Figure Neighbourhood (1981) Arias & Symphonies (1982) Talkback (1983)
Singles from Arias and Symphonies
"Nova Heart" Released: 1982 "Arias and Symphonies" Released: 1982 "Smiling in Winter" Released: 1982

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The photograph on the album cover is from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.[2]

Background

After the release of the band's first album, Stick Figure Neighbourhood, Gordon Deppe stated "the album, it wasn't a good representation of what we were capable of...we've got the same kind of attitude towards life but...the songs are taking us around the world. We're getting out of the neighbourhood."[3]

Deppe continued by noting that the songs for Arias and Symphonies would be more dance oriented, as their European influences, such as OMD and Peter Hammill, have done.[3]

Arias and Symphonies was named one of the 20 Most Influential Albums of the 1980s by The Chart Magazine, and the song "Nova Heart" garnered a spot in Bob Mercereau's book "The Top 100 Canadian Singles".[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Trade Winds"	Deppe	2:15
2.	"Smiling in Winter"	Deppe, Horne	4:06
3.	"One in Ten Words"	Deppe, Preuss	4:10
4.	"No Electrons"	Deppe	5:12
5.	"No More Growing Up"	Deppe, Preuss, Horne	3:26
6.	"Arias & Symphonies"	Deppe	4:48
7.	"Nova Heart"	Deppe	5:46
8.	"South American Vacation"	Deppe, Preuss, Horne	4:12
9.	"A Girl in Two Pieces"	Deppe, Horne	4:28
10.	"Walk the Plank"	Deppe	4:27
11.	"Blow Away"	Deppe	5:58

30th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Test Sample [Live]"	Deppe, Horne	2:52
13.	"Tunnels for Testing Wings [Live]"	Deppe	3:11
14.	"Broken [Live]"	Deppe, Horne	4:03
15.	"Walk the Plank [Live]"	Deppe	4:27
16.	"Symmetry [Live]"	Deppe, Horne	5:26
17.	"Blow Away [Live]"	Deppe	5:53
18.	"Nova Heart [Singularity Mix - Edit]"	Deppe	4:04

30th Anniversary Edition iTunes-only live "CD 2"

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nova Heart"	Deppe	5:59
2.	"No Electrons"	Deppe	4:49
3.	"One in Ten Words"	Deppe, Preuss	4:07
4.	"Red Light"	Deppe	4:36
5.	"No More Growing Up"	Deppe, Preuss, Horne	3:33
6.	"Arias & Symphonies"	Deppe	4:39
7.	"Ice Age"	Horne, Deppe	4:18
8.	"Walk the Plank"	Deppe	4:28
9.	"Western Romance"	Deppe	4:33
10.	"Friends in the Media"	Deppe	3:49
11.	"Symmetry"	Deppe, Horne	5:41
12.	"Annita"	Deppe	6:22
13.	"Spanish Eyes"	Deppe	3:27
14.	"Nova Heart"	Deppe	6:38

Personnel

The Spoons

• Gordon Deppe - vocals, guitar
• Sandy Horne - bass guitar, vocals
• Rob Preuss - Jupiter IV, SH-2000
• Derrick Ross - drums, percussion

Production

• John Punter - producer, mixing
• Mike Jones - engineer
• Robert DiGioia - assistant engineer
• Carey Gurden - assistant engineer

References

1. DeGagne, Mike. The Spoons: Arias & Symphonies > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
2. "Arias & Symphonies". Spoons Official Site/Darrin Cappe. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
3. Noble, Peter (10–16 December 1981). "Spoons for Your Ears". Spoons Official Site/Darrin Cappe. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
4. Sterdan, Darryl (25 March 2019). "Spoons Serve Up New Day New World Album". Tinnitist. Retrieved 13 April 2019.