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Today's album of the day

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2007.
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Overall rank: 716
Decade rank: 112
Year rank: 14
Discography rank: 2 (out of 14 albums on BEA)
Average rating: 81/100 (from 525 votes).



Tracks:
1. Don't Make Me A Target
2. The Ghost Of You Lingers
3. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
4. Don't You Evah
5. Rhthm And Soul
6. Eddie's Ragga
7. The Underdog
8. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
9. Finer Feelings
10. Black Like Me

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Top voted comments:

"Maybe it's the addition of the horn sections, but almost all songs on this album sound so damn funky. They're still proponents of the 3-minute-ish, concise indie-pop-rock song. There's some air of danger ("Clubs and sticks and bats and balls / For nuclear dicks with their dialect drawls") with opener "don't make me a target" and it's cameo clanging guitar and its extended bridge with play-along-at-home hand claps. Love the horns and cymbals in "you got yr. cherry bomb" and its perpetual drumming motion and cooing vocals near the end. Love the horns and melody of "the underdog" and its built-up ending, with snappy lyrics like "You got no time for the messenger, / got no regard for the thing that you don't understand. / You got no fear of The Underdog, / that's why you will not survive.". The guitar-work in "don't you evah" is funky and the background faint vocal plays are fun. You'll find yourself singing along to the chorus of "finer feelings". The only track that doesn't fully-sit well is the echoey, piano-monotoned lead single "the ghost of you still lingers". I like the song, but i probably missed the point of the vocal and other FX and it feels like a run-on sentence with no chorus and that piano. But that's a minor quibble -- i'm still ga ga over ga ga ga ga ga. These guys sound cooler than that Michael J Fox character tried to sound at the end of Back to the Future. See "eddie's ragga" and its groovy bass. See the acoustic guitar and rawk attitude in "japanese cigarette case". Or maybe they're the indie version of prime huey lewis & the news crossed with early inxs (and a pinch of the clash) on this album. (i'm sure the indie kids love that analogy.) Whatever the magic behind GA5, this is the culmination of spoon's talent."
- paladisiac (Rating: 85/100)
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"Seriously, people, this album should be on way more charts."
- jhuik (Rating: 90/100)
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[HoldenM]

Spoon's finest hour, as far as I'm concerned. Everything is clicking into place, the songwriting and production have such urgency and tactility. Not a dull moment on this thing.

Track picks
1. Don't Make Me A Target
3. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
4. Don't You Evah
9. Finer Feelings
10. Black Like Me
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[Johnnyo]