Girls Can Tell
| Girls Can Tell | ||||
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| Studio album by Spoon | ||||
| Released | February 20, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 36:08 | |||
| Label | Merge Records | |||
| Producer | Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Mike McCarthy | |||
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Girls Can Tell is the third studio album by the indie rock band Spoon. It was released on February 20, 2001.
The track "Me and the Bean" is a cover of a mid-1990s Austin, Texas band called The Sidehackers.[4] The songwriter of The Sidehackers, John Clayton, appears on Kill the Moonlight, playing bass guitar.
Girls Can Tell, up to December 2009, has sold slightly fewer than 100,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 85/100[5] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[1] |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.0/10[7] |
| Uncut |  [8] |
| The Village Voice | B+[2] |
The Online music magazine, Pitchfork Media, placed Girls Can Tell at number 96 on its list of top 200 albums of the 2000s (decade).[9]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Britt Daniel except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Everything Hits at Once" | 4:04 |
| 2. | "Believing Is Art" | 4:19 |
| 3. | "Me and the Bean" (John Clayton) | 3:33 |
| 4. | "Lines in the Suit" | 3:47 |
| 5. | "The Fitted Shirt" | 3:12 |
| 6. | "Anything You Want" | 2:16 |
| 7. | "Take a Walk" | 2:26 |
| 8. | "1020 AM" | 2:10 |
| 9. | "Take the Fifth" | 3:56 |
| 10. | "This Book Is a Movie" | 3:33 |
| 11. | "Chicago at Night" | 2:47 |
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Total length:
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36:08 | |
Personnel
- Spoon
- Britt Daniel - guitar, voice, keyboards
- Joshua Zarbo - bass, voice
- Jim Eno - drums, tambourine
- Additional musicians
- Conrad Keely - Mellotron on tracks 1 and 8
- Laura Phelan - vibraphone on tracks 1 and 10
- Lee Spencer - harpsichord on track 5
- Ames Asbell - viola on track 10
Charts
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Billboard Top Independent Albums | 46 |
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