Spoon's Britt Daniel looks back on 15 songs that span the band's career
Britt Daniel talks about 15 great Spoon songs, from "The Way We Get By" and "I Turn My Camera On" to deeper cuts.“I like greatest-hits albums,” Britt Daniel says. “The first record I ever heard by the Cure was. That’s the way I found those bands, and then I went backwards.”
Spoon, the lean, wily rock band that Daniel has led since 1993, are not the most obvious choice for a compilation of that kind. They have all the hallmarks of an albums act, known more for their consistently excellent long-players than for any hit singles as such. This year, though, with a summer tour opening for Beck and Cage the Elephant approaching, Daniel challenged himself to put together a beginner’s guide to Spoon. The result was, the compilation they released in July. “It’s not really a completist’s greatest hits,” explains the singer-guitarist, 48. “It’s more like the cream of the crop.”
For this feature, Daniel chose a different set of 15 songs to tell the story of how Spoon went from unknown Texas noisemakers to major-label flame-outs to one of the most acclaimed rock acts of the last 20 years. “There are worse things to talk about,” he says, settling into a chair at his label’s downtown Manhattan office.
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