Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party
Compilation album by Spoons
Released	June 2007 (2007-06)
Recorded	1982–1985
Genre	New wave, synthpop
Length	43:59
Label	Spoons Music
Producer	The Spoons
Spoons chronology
Collectible Spoons (1994) Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party (2007) Static in Transmission (2011)

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Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party is a compilation album of unreleased material by Canadian 80s new wave band Spoons. Named after the B-side to their "Talk Back" single, it was released independently by Spoons member Gordon Deppe in June 2007 (2007-06).

According to Gordon Deppe the album "covers the time roughly between 1983 and 1985",^[2] and was the band's first release of studio material since their 1988 Vertigo Tango album.

Deppe related the origin of the material: "Most of these songs were recorded after "Romantic Traffic" and "Tell No Lies", in a tiny, hidden away studio in Oakville, Ontario. We were about to embark on a whole new chapter in our musical lives that would leave these old ideas forgotten, to slowly weather over time and eventually fade into the earth."^[3]

A few of these songs were played live including "In the Hands of Money" (circa 1984) which can be seen on the Spoons' DVD Spoons Live in Concert.

1. "Love Drum" – 4:16
2. "Show & Tell" – 3:33
3. "Unpremeditated Love" – 3:47
4. "2,000 Years" – 4:21
5. "World in Motion" – 4:16
6. "Bending" – 3:32
7. "Young English Gentleman" – 3:35
8. "In the Hands of Money" – 3:43
9. "No Promises" – 4:39
10. "Spaces" – 3:12
11. "Love Can Be a Stranger" – 3:31
12. "Ciao" – 1:34

• Gordon Deppe - vocals, guitar
• Sandy Horne - vocals, bass
• Rob Preuss - keyboards
• Derrick Ross - drums