To celebrate ten years since its original release, Matador present a double 180g vinyl reissue of Spoon’s indispensable album ‘Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga’.
Remastered by Howie Weinberg, it features the studio album on one LP and the 12-track ‘Get Nice!’ EP – previously available only as a bonus CD – on the other, both packaged in a gatefold jacket with updated art.
‘Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga’ was recorded throughout 2006 in Austin, TX, by the band and Mike McCarthy (except ‘The Underdog’, which was recorded in Los Angeles with Jon Brion). Starting with ‘Don’t Make Me A Target’, a song that builds on Spoon’s familiar minimal rhythmic piano / guitar vamp popularized on earlier hits, the album quickly moves into uncharted territory with the atmospheric ‘The Ghost Of You Lingers’ and moves through several different stylistic changes from the explosive ‘You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb’ to the wall-of-sound horns of radio single ‘The Underdog’. Upon release, critics and listeners alike praised the record, which subsequently received Best New Music status from Pitchfork and cracked the Top 10 of Rolling Stone’s Best Albums Of 2007.
A1 Don't Make Me A Target 3:55
A2 The Ghost Of You Lingers 3:34
A3 You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 3:08
A4 Don't You Evah 3:36
A5 Rhthm & Soul 3:30
B1 Eddies's Ragga 3:39
B2 The Underdog 3:42
B3 My Little Japanese Cigarette Case 3:03
B4 Finer Feelings 4:54
B5 Black Like Me 3:25
Get Nice!
C1 I Got Mine 2:34
C2 Be Still My Servant 1:24
C3 Leave Your Effects Where They're Easily Seen 0:56
C4 I Summon You (Cool) 1:28
C5 Mean Mad Margaret 1:37
C6 Love Makes You Feel 2:38
C7 You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 3:13
C8 Tasty Fish 1:18
C9 Dracula's Cigarette 1:24
C10 1975 1:39
C11 I Can Feel It Fade Like An AM Single 3:12
C12 Curfew Tolls 1:33
D1 I Got Mine 2:34
D2 Be Still My Servant 1:24
D3 Leave Your Effects Where They're Easily Seen 0:56
D4 I Summon You (Cool) 1:28
D5 Mean Mad Margaret 1:37
D6 Love Makes You Feel 2:38
D7 You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 3:13
D8 Tasty Fish 1:18
D9 Dracula's Cigarette 1:24
D10 1975 1:39
D11 I Can Feel It Fade Like An AM Single 3:12
D12 Curfew Tolls 1:33