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In 2009, Rhapsody ranked the album at number 19 on its list of the 100 best albums of the decade. [16] As of December 2009, Gimme Fiction has sold approximately 215,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan. [17] In his oral history of the album titled Gimme Facts, writer Sean O'Neal named the album "a historic forward leap" for the band. [1]
Their follow-up full-length, A Series of Sneaks, was released in 1998 on Elektra, who subsequently dropped the band. Spoon went on to sign with Merge Records , where Spoon gained greater commercial success and critical acclaim with the albums Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill the Moonlight (2002), and particularly Gimme Fiction (2005), which debuted ...
It was one of the last songs he had written for Gimme Fiction before the band started to record at drummer Jim Eno's Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin. [1] [3] It was, however, the first song they recorded, as Daniel felt like the song was bound to be the album's lead single. [1] He was directly inspired by Franz Ferdinand's 2004 song "Take Me Out ...
Their next full-length album, A Series of Sneaks, was released in 1998 through Elektra Records. The band subsequently signed with Merge Records, where Spoon achieved greater commercial and critical prominence with the albums Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill the Moonlight (2002), Gimme Fiction (2005), Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007), and Transference (2010).
In Living Color – Heavy D and Eddie F (seasons 1–2, 5); ("Cause That's the Way You Livin' When You're in Living Color") – Heavy D. and The Boyz (seasons 3–4) In the Heat of the Night – music by Quincy Jones, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, performed by Bill Champlin; The Inbetweeners ("Gone Up in Flames") – Morning Runner
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. [4] The band changed the song's title, 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". [4]
Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, Are a Drag contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in their covers. The intro to the song "My Favorite Things" quotes "Generator", by Bad Religion , and at the end of "Tomorrow", Fat Mike can be heard singing "Mommy's alright, daddy's alright, they ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2005.These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.