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Vocalist + guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno had started up this Alternative-Rock band in 1994 in Austin, Texas USA. Working with a succession of bass and keyboardists over the years Spoon quickly garnered considerable attention on the indie circuit.

In the spring of 1996 the group issued their debut full-length album, "Telephono", on Matador Records and took to the road supporting Pavement.

Signed by the major label Elektra, they delivered a minimalist art-Punk album titled "A Series Of Sneaks" in April 1998, but the band was ditched soon after its release.

Daniel and Eno teamed up with producer + guitarist Mike McCarthy and enlisted the help of bass player Josh Zarbo, then went the indie route again releasing a couple of singles, the 2000's 5-track EP "Love Ways" and their third full-length disc, "Girls Can Tell", which appeared in February 2001; it cracked the top 50 of the Billboard Magazine's Independent Albums chart.

August 2002 saw the release of the band's commercial breakthrough, "Kill The Moonlight", the record hit #23 on the U.S. Top Independent Albums list.

Their next full-length CD, "Gimme Fiction", was easily the most expansive work in Spoon's career; recorded through 2004 at Eno's Public Hifi studio in Austin with the production help of Mike McCarthy, the 11-track set was released in spring 2005 to widespread critical acclaim reaching the top slot of the Billboard's Independent Albums chart and even crossed over into The Billboard 200 at #44 backed by the falsetto-laden "I Turn My Camera On" which shook up the indie-Rock world.

In 2006 Britt Daniel made his first foray into film scoring with the soundtrack to the film "Stranger Than Fiction", Daniel penned three instrumentals in tandem with in-demand movie music composer Brian Reitzell and also chipped in a new Spoon song: "The Book I Write".

Spoon made their anticipated return in July 2007 with the release of "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"; the album climbed into the top 10 of The Billboard 200 chart and yielded two Hot Modern Rock hit singles with "The Underdog" which peaked at #26 and "Don't You Evah" which reached #33, with the latter rising to #1 on The Hot Dance Singles Sales chart.

In June 2009 the Texas group issued a new disc which featured the newly recorded single called "Got Nuffin" as well as two b-sides.

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Telephono

(1996)

1. Don't Buy The Realistic
2. Not Turning Off
3. All The Negatives Have Been Destroyed
4. Cvantez
5. Nefarious
6. Claws Tracking
7. Dismember
8. Idiot Driver
9. Towner
10. Wanted To Be Your
11. Theme To Wendel Stivers
12. Primary
13. Government Darling
14. Plastic Mylar

 

A Series Of Sneaks

(1998)

1. Utilitarian
2. The Minor Tough
3. The Guest List / The Execution
4. Reservations
5. 30 Gallon Tank
6. Car Radio
7. Metal Detektor
8. June's Foreign Spell
9. Chloroform
10. Metal School
11. Staring At The Board
12. No You're Not
13. Quincy Punk Episode
14. Advance Cassette

 

Girls Can Tell

(2001)

1. Everything Hits At Once
2. Believing Is Art
3. Me And The Bean
4. Lines In The Suit
5. The Fitted Shirt
6. Anything You Want
7. Take A Walk
8. 10:20 AM
9. Take The Fifth
10. This Book Is A Movie
11. Chicago At Night

 

Kill The Moonlight

(2002)

1. Small Stakes
2. The Way We Get By
3. Something To Look Forward To
4. Stay Don't Go
5. Jonathon Fisk
6. Paper Tiger
7. Someone Something
8. Don't Let It Get You Down
9. All The Pretty Girls Go To The City
10. You Gotta Feel It
11. Back To The Life
12. Vittorio E.

 

Gimme Fiction

(2005)

1. The Beast And Dragon, Adored
2. Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
3. I Turn My Camera On
4. My Mathematical Mind
5. The Delicate Place
6. Sister Jack
7. I Summon You
8. The Infinite Pet
9. Was It You?
10. They Never Got You
11. Merchants Of Soul

 

Stranger Than Fiction
[soundtrack]

(2006)

INCLUDES:

- The Book I Write
- The Way We Get By
- My Mathematical Mind

 

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

(2007)

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

 

Got Nuffin
[single]

(2009)

1. Got Nuffin
2. Tweakers
3. Stroke Their Brains

 

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