Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
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studio album
First released:
Jul 9 2007

Overview Edit

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is the sixth studio album by Austin, Texas indie rock band Spoon. It was released on Merge Records on July 10, 2007 to considerable critical acclaim. Its cover art comes from a portrait of artist/sculptor Lee Bontecou, taken by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas in 1963. The completed sculpture on the right is now in the collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

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. 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." This album was #10 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. The album was also #7 on Pitchfork Media's top 50 Albums of 2007. As of January 2010, the album has sold 318,000 copies in the United States.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
50295
Release dates:
  • Jul 10 2007 in United States

Genres

Indie, Rock, Adult Alternative. Vote on Genres

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5 stars a bit more mainstream than usual but still great...
Life might be full of disappointments but, quite on the contrary, through the years Spoon have proved a reliable source of enjoyment for me.

You might ask: what separates this band from thousands of other samey so-called indie bands? Lo-fi sound & look? checked. Praise from Pitchfork? Checked. Casual name-dropping by other indie acts/scenesters? Checked. Still, despite all evidence of the contrary, Spoon really manage to be one of a kind.

What makes them stand apart is what I used to call their…
Written by Simone Oltolina
3 stars 3 and 1/2
I have to say this is maybe my least favorite Spoon album so far. Weird as it is, that's not really a bad thing. I feel Spoon is typically so good that anything lesser by comparison, is most likely still pretty good...Does that read as stupid as I think?

Anyway, I won't go over the songs individualy, since several people already have. However, I will list it with the other Spoon albums in order from favorite to least favorite to give an idea of how I categorized it.

1. Girls Can Tell - the fir…
Written by Michael Byrd "byrdman"

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Credits Edit

  1. composer

    1. Britt Daniel [Composer, Vocals]
  2. engineer

    1. Matthew Colecchi [Assistant Engineer, Koto]
  3. performer

    1. Eggo Johanson [Tambourine]
    2. Graham Hughes [Vocals (Background)]
    3. Jason Freese [Saxophone]
    4. John Catchings [Cello]
    5. Jon Brion [Audio Production, Bass Chamberlin, Guitar (Bass)]
    6. Ron Blake [Trumpet]
  1. producer

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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 50295
release dates: Jul 10 2007
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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: ANTI-
catalog number: 6900-2
release dates: Jul 9 2007 in Europe
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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Merge Records
catalog number: 50295
release dates: Jul 10 2007 in United States
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