Gimme Fiction

Gimme Fiction
Gimme Fiction
Studio album by Spoon
Released May 10, 2005
Recorded July–September 2004
Genre Indie rock, Art rock
Length 43:52
Label Merge
Producer Mike McCarthy, Britt Daniel, Jim Eno
Spoon chronology
Kill the Moonlight
(2002)
Gimme Fiction
(2005)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
(2007)
Bonus disc
A bonus disc packaged along with select copies of Gimme Fiction
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Drowned in Sound (8/10)[2]
Entertainment Weekly (A-)[3]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10)[4]
PopMatters (10/10)[5]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars[6]
Stylus Magazine (A-)[7]
Tiny Mix Tapes 5/5 stars[8]
Village Voice (B+)[9]

Gimme Fiction is the fifth album from Austin, Texas indie rock band Spoon, released on May 10, 2005. It debuted at #44 on the Billboard 200. "I Turn My Camera On" has been released as a single, and garnered some radio-play. Some versions of the album also come with a bonus disc. "Sister Jack" was also featured on the Wedding Crashers soundtrack. "I Turn My Camera On" was featured on Bones episode "The Man in the S.U.V".[10] It was also used in The Simpsons episode "Any Given Sundance", and in an episode of Friday Night Lights. "I Summon You" plays through the conclusion to the Scrubs episode "My Perspective". It was also featured in an episode of the now-defunct TV show Veronica Mars. "The Infinite Pet" was heard in the film (500) Days of Summer.

The soundtrack of the movie Stranger than Fiction contains versions of songs from Gimme Fiction, including "I Turn My Camera On" and "My Mathematical Mind". "My Mathematical Mind" is also featured in a trailer for the 2008 motion picture 21.

In a 2005 back page column for the magazine Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King named "I Summon You" his favorite song of the year.[11]

In 2009, Rhapsody ranked the album at #19 on its "100 Best Albums of the Decade"[12] list.

As of December 2009, Gimme Fiction has sold approximately 215,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.[13]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" – 4:18
  2. "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" – 2:58
  3. "I Turn My Camera On" – 3:32
  4. "My Mathematical Mind" – 5:02
  5. "The Delicate Place" – 3:42
  6. "Sister Jack" – 3:35
  7. "I Summon You" – 3:55
  8. "The Infinite Pet" – 3:56
  9. "Was It You?" – 5:02
  10. "They Never Got You" – 4:59
  11. "Merchants of Soul" – 2:49

Bonus disc

  1. "Carryout Kids" – 2:47
  2. "Was It You?" – 3:57
  3. "I Summon You" (demo) – 4:00
  4. "Sister Jack" (piano demo) – 1:43

Personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
2005 Billboard 200 44
2005 Billboard Top Independent Albums 1

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Drowned in Sound review
  3. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  4. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  5. ^ PopMatters review
  6. ^ Rolling Stone review
  7. ^ Stylus Magazine review
  8. ^ Tiny Mix Tapes review
  9. ^ Village Voice review
  10. ^ Bones music season 1
  11. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1136236,00.html
  12. ^ "Rhapsody's 100 Best Albums of the Decade" Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  13. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=hUd1o0aCe10C&lpg=PT23&ots=MzrPJ4sioO&dq=Spoon%20Gimme%20Fiction%20soundscan&pg=PT23#v=onepage&q=Spoon%20Gimme%20Fiction%20soundscan&f=false

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