Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Jeffrey Petrin wrote in Play: "Favorable reviews combined with a music industry foaming at the mouth for the next Nirvana led the band to the behemoth Elektra Records. The result was A Series of Sneaks, released in 1998. Critics showered the record with praise, but consumers weren't so quick to fall in love with Spoon; poor sales led to Elektra dropping the band from their roster after a mere four months. The band, feeling defeated and abused released a 7-inch single on Saddle Creek called The Agony of Lafitte with B-side called Lafitte Don't Fail Me Now (both titles were references to Elektra's Ronn Lafitte, who the band felt reneged on his promise to put money into promoting the album. …) The single got quite a bit of exposure, and Spoon (along with Nada Surf, Aimee Man[n] and Wilco) soon became the poster children for bands that were mistreated by the big labels. Merge signed the band in 2001, and the result was Girls Can Tell, Kill the Moonlight and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, each album out selling the former. … Ga Ga… debuted at no. 10 on the Billboard charts" ("Worth the Trip: Spoon," 4/2/08).