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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga cover
Studio album by Spoon
Released July 10, 2007
Recorded 2006–2007
Genre Indie rock
Length 36:26
Label Merge (US)
Anti (UK)
Spunk Records (Aus)
Professional reviews
  • All Music Guide 4.5/5 stars 2007
  • The A.V. Club (B+) 2007
  • Drowned In Sound (9/10) 2007
  • Entertainment Weekly (A-) 2007
  • Pitchfork Media (8. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Spoon is an American Indie rock band from Austin Texas. The band is led by Britt Daniel (vocals guitar Jim Eno (drums Rob Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Indie rock is genre of Alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent Underground music scene In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Merge Records is an Independent record label based in Durham North Carolina. ANTI- is an American Record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. The AV Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion eaters. DrownedinSoundcom or DiS is a UK based music Webzine financed by artist management company Silentway (who manage Mick Hucknall and Brett Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a Chicago -based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary 5/10) 2007
  • PopMatters (9/10) 2007
  • Q 4/5 stars September 2007 (p. PopMatters is an international Webzine of cultural criticism Its scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture Q is a Music Magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 130179 as of June 2007 96)
  • Rolling Stone 4/5 stars 2007
  • Stylus Magazine (B+) 2007
  • Village Voice (favorable) 2007
Spoon chronology
Gimme Fiction
(2005)		 Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
(2007)		 Don't You Evah
(2008)
Get Nice!
Get Nice!, a bonus disc included with a limited edition of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Get Nice!, a bonus disc included with a limited edition of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is the sixth studio album by Austin, Texas indie rock band Spoon. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002 This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. Spoon is an American Indie rock band from Austin Texas. The band is led by Britt Daniel (vocals guitar Jim Eno (drums Rob Gimme Fiction is the fifth album from Austin Texas Indie rock band Spoon, released on May 10, 2005. Don't You Evah is an 8 song- EP from Austin Texas Indie rock band Spoon. Indie rock is genre of Alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent Underground music scene Spoon is an American Indie rock band from Austin Texas. The band is led by Britt Daniel (vocals guitar Jim Eno (drums Rob It was released on Merge Records on July 10, 2007 to considerable critical acclaim. Merge Records is an Independent record label based in Durham North Carolina. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Its cover art comes from a portrait of artist/sculptor Lee Bontecou, taken by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas in 1963. Lee Bontecou is an American artist who was born January 15 1931 in Providence Rhode Island Ugo Mulas (born August 28 1928 was an Italian Photographer noted for his Portraits of artists and his Street photography. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [1] The completed sculpture on the right is now in the collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The Honolulu Academy of Arts was chartered in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke (Mrs

The album's title is the former title for the song "The Ghost of You Lingers", which was meant to sound like the song's staccato piano part. [2] The band changed the name to the song, but decided to adopt the name "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" as the album title, with Britt Daniel calling it a "great little Dadaist term. For other meanings see Dada (disambiguation DaDa is a Concept album by Alice Cooper, released "[2]

An iTunes-exclusive bonus track, "Deep Clean", was packaged with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc A limited edition copy of the album was released along with a bonus disc entitled Get Nice! The disc includes 23 minutes of mostly instrumental songs, and also a few demo tracks. Early buyers of the album also received a free 7" containing a demo of "The Underdog", and the B-side "It Took a Rumor to Make Me Wonder, Now I'm Convinced I'm Going Under", which previously appeared on the UK edition of the "Sister Jack" single. A gramophone A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s " Sister Jack " is a single from Indie rock band Spoon.

The album debuted at number 10 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums, selling 46,000 copies in its first week. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry [3] This album was #10 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published [4] The album was also #7 on Pitchfork Media's top 50 Albums of 2007.

Contents

Production

"Don't Make Me a Target" was originally written by Daniel while Spoon was producing its previous album, Gimme Fiction. Gimme Fiction is the fifth album from Austin Texas Indie rock band Spoon, released on May 10, 2005. The band practiced it "quite a bit" before the release of Gimme Fiction, but ended up shelving it for a year after unsuccessful attempts to work out an arrangement they liked. [5] When it was recorded a year later, the drum part was recorded without toms the first time. A tom-tom (not to be confused with a Tamtam) is a cylindrical Drum with no snare. Drummer Jim Eno then recorded the toms separately with a drastically different microphone arrangement. This gave the toms a much more reverb-laden sound, as if "in a tunnel". Reverberation is the persistence of Sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed [5]

The track "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" was a song the band "really struggled with". [5] This led them to record it three different ways, including a "space rock" version found on the bonus disc and heard distantly at the end of the album arrangement.

At the beginning of "Don't You Evah", Daniel can be heard asking "Can you record the talkback?" repeatedly. In Sound recording, talkback refers to the Intercom system used in Recording studios to enable personnel in the control room to speak or give instructions According to Daniel, this was an ongoing joke between Daniel and Jim Eno as a way of annoying their co-producer Mike McCarthy. [5] While asking this, Daniel was also listening to the track on his headphones. As the intro continued, he began singing along with the guitar line, which can also be heard on the final mix. [5]

The vinyl version features no run-out groove on Side Two. Instead, it ends on a continuous loop of music that appears after the end of the song "Black Like Me".

Track listing

  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 & 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

Bonus tracks

  1. "Deep Clean" (iTunes release) – 3:45

Bonus disc (Get Nice!)

  1. "I Got Mine" – 2:34
  2. "Be Still My Servant" – 1:24
  3. "Leave Your Effects Where They're Easily Seen" – 0:56
  4. "I Summon You (Cool)" (alternate version) – 1:28
  5. "Mean Mad Margaret" – 1:37
  6. "Love Makes You Feel" – 2:38
  7. "You Got Yr. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc Cherry Bomb" (alternate version) – 3:13
  8. "Tasty Fish" – 1:18
  9. "Dracula's Cigarette" – 1:24
  10. "1975" – 1:39
  11. "I Can Feel It Fade Like an AM Single" – 3:12
  12. "Curfew Tolls" – 1:33

Notes about the songs

Charts

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 at 46,000 copies sold. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard In week 2, it fell to #35 with 19,000, then #55 with 12,000 on August 1, 2007. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. On week 4, it fell to #58, selling 11,000—a total of 88,000 copies in 4 weeks.

Album

Year Chart Position
2007 Billboard 200 10
2007 Billboard Top Independent Albums 1
2007 Australian ARIA Charts 57

Singles

Year Song Chart Position
2007 "The Underdog" Modern Rock Tracks 26
2008 "Don't You Evah" Modern Rock Tracks 33

References

  1. ^ Pitchfork.com. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved on 2007-07-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
  2. ^ a b Joe Gross, "In Tune with Spoon", Austin360. com, July 5, 2007.
  3. ^ Katie Hasty, "T.I. Holds Off Pumpkins, Interpol To Remain No. 1", Billboard. com, July 18, 2007.
  4. ^ ROBERT CHRISTGAU, DAVID FRICKE, CHRISTIAN HOARD, ROB SHEFFIELD (December 17, 2007). Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. "The Top 50 Albums of 2007" Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-20
  5. ^ a b c d e "About the Album: Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Britt Daniel", eMusic Magazine, July 5, 2007. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
  6. ^ On February 25, 2005, The Natural History performed "Don't You Ever" at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey. Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Natural History was a band comprised of Tepper brothers singer&ndashguitarist Max and bassist Julian along with drummer Derek Vockins Maxwell's is a music club in Hoboken New Jersey that also has a restaurant and bar The concert can be found here at eMusic; Please note that eMusic has mislabeled "Don't You Ever" as "Princeton Junction". eMusic is an Online music store that operates by Subscription.
  7. ^ Anti.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
  8. ^ Pitchfork.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
  9. ^ Anti.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
  10. ^ No byline (December 11, 2007). Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. "The 100 Best Songs of 2007" Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-21

External links

Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian
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