Spoon: "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"

[That Skipping Rope.]

Wow @ the title. I look forward to this. I love Gimmie Fiction.

[backintime]

haveyoueverbeenlow said:

Wow @ the title

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I LOVE "The Way We Get By" but I've seriously hated anything else I've heard by them.

[HC]

I didn't love 'Gimme Fiction,' I kind of got tired of it really quick. But I still like "I Turn My Camera On," which took a long time to grow on me.

[That Skipping Rope.]

LEAKED!

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Easily my favorite Spoon album. Cherry Bomb and Japanese Cigarette Case are right up there with The Way We Get By, I Summon You, and Paper Tiger for me.

[That Skipping Rope.]

1. "Don't Make Me a Target" – 3:55
2. "The Ghost of You Lingers" – 3:34
3. "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" – 3:08
4. "Don't You Evah" – 3:36
5. "Rhthm and Soul" – 3:30
6. "Eddie's Ragga" – 3:39
7. "The Underdog" – 3:42
8. "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case" – 3:03
9. "Finer Feelings" – 4:54
10. "Black Like Me" – 3:25

I'm listening now.

[That Skipping Rope.]

Spoon was amazing when I saw them at Lollapalooza. It was raining, and it was just great. He's a good live vocalist.

[That Skipping Rope.]

I'm loving this album now. My favorite be them, no doubt. A little over a month until I'll be seeing them again!

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I'm hearing "Don't You Evah" on the radio now because I'm streaming some station from San Diego. I like it a lot. It's the ONLY song by them that I like except for "The Way I Get By" which I LOVE.

[That Skipping Rope.]

I actually think you'd like Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Adam. Anyway, I'l be seeing them in a few hours! woot woot

[Deleted]

Adam, you have to get this album. It's what made me such a huge Spoon fan. You'll love Cherry Bomb, The Underdog, Black Like Me, and Finer Feelings.

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

I really like "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb". ;D

[That Skipping Rope.]

There's a Diplo remix out of "Don't You Evah."

[Deleted]

Yeah, I'm not really feeling it. Sucks, becuase Diplo usually brings the heat. I thought it would be more of a drum and bass mix. I know the remix is for charity, but I hope it's not an indicator of the song being a single. You Got Yr Cheery Bomb could be their breakthrough on Alternative.

This is easily my favorite album of 2007. It's held up for me since June and I honestly don't think there's a dull moment on the CD. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb, My Little Japanese Cigarette Case, Finer Feelings, and Black Like Me could all work as singles. I feel like they would've been given a better chance in the 90's when Alternative radio was golden.

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Both GaGaGaGaGa and You Got Yr Cherry Bomb made Pitchfork's top tracks and albums of 2007 lists.

07: Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Spoon's sixth album serves as a reaffirmation of some of the group's greatest gifts: concision, efficiency, and an indomitable knack for doing more with less. It's not that Britt Daniel has less to say: Even the most deceptively spare songs (like the atmospheric hiccup "The Ghost of You Lingers") pack so many ideas into their brief spans that they don't just bear close listening but grow in impact with each successive one. The group's pairing of melody and ruthless economy injects idiosyncratic pop songs like "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" and "The Underdog" with such wonderfully weird and inventive craft that reveling in their ingenuity and tapping your toes become inextricably linked activities, making the disc the perfect mind/body split: blowing the former while moving the latter.

12: Spoon
"You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"
Soul music has specialized in rendering unreconciled inner torture as celebratory, and "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" proves that Spoon can seamlessly combine that tradition with indie rock's tendency toward coy romanticism. On its surface, "Cherry Bomb" is a throbbing romp with Smokey Robinson tendencies toward lyrical wordplay. Digging a little deeper, we see Britt Daniel's own deeply conflicted heart on full display: Few contemporary singers could break up with a girl by saying "life could be so fair," and have those words not come across as empty. Spoon's sense of hollowness, as always, resides at a sonic level, allowing plenty of empty space for emotions to reverberate. Most impressively, during a year when '60s-influenced soul music forced its way back into the popular consciousness from all angles, Spoon may have just created the most appealing and enduring Motown cop of all.

[That Skipping Rope.]

I'm back into this album again. It's so solid.

[Deleted]

Definitely. It's solid all the way through. I really hope "Don't You Evah" becomes a mediocre hit, because "Cherry Bomb" and "Black Like Me" have the potential to do really well on Alternative.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

On EW's Essential Indie Rock Guide this week:

2007: SPOON
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Spoon spent a good deal of the '90s musically genuflecting at the altar of the Pixies, and for a brief, unhappy period were signed to Elektra (an experience they would vent about on their 1999 single ''The Agony of Laffitte''). But the Britt Daniel-fronted act honed their own brand of poignant, angular pop-rock with such independently released collections as 2002's Kill the Moonlight and 2005's Gimme Fiction. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was a creative leap forward that, at its best, placed Daniel's vocals in a warm Motown-influenced frame. The message located on the inner artwork — ''This Record Is a Hit'' — turned out to be funny and true.
ESSENTIAL TRACK ''You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb''

[RedDragon]

"You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" should have been a single. Really hot song.