I Wanna Forget How Convention Fits

One would assume that the name to the latest Spoon album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was named after the sound the pretentious types sound like whenever Spoon releases a new album. Personally I tend not to fawn over bands that make synthesizer riffs that come suspiciously close to ripping of Bon Jovi’s Runaway (see: The Ghost of You Lingers).

Bon Jovi riffs aside; the rest of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is definitely more hit than miss. The sparse chords of the opener Don’t Make Me a Target will have you singing along after repeat plays no mater how many times Chuck uses the chorus ad nausea. And Don’t You Evah has one of the funkiest baselines since Crazy.

Then there is The Underdog which was the greatest pop song of the year that wasn’t technically popular. How the horn section of the song didn’t become the second most whistled melody of the year after Peter, John and Bjorn’s Young Folks is beyond me. I know I have caught myself whistling it to myself too many times over the last couple months. And the song works on so many levels, the line “you have no fear for the underdog that’s why you will not survive” could be about bullies to politicians who care more about corporations than their constituents.

The MVP of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is Britt Daniels, last seen serenading Veronica Mars with, well, Veronica, and his distinctive voice that sounds like his vocal chords had been rubbed down with sandpaper, but in a good way. With December approaching and the bombardment of Best of 2007 list getting ready to start, you may want to check out this albums so you see it near the top of everyone’s list and go, “Who?”

Song to Download - The Underdog

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga gets a on Terror Alert Scale.