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Britt Daniel and Spoon are brilliant musical geniuses who deserve all the success they now enjoy. Their music is spare but cleanly played and rich in subtlety and originality. Awesome. Also hot.

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Britt Daniel, the lead singer and guitarist of Spoon and a member of Divine Fits, is a longtime admirer of Paul Simon's songwriting. In fact, Spoon even covered Simon's "Peace Like A River" in their sets for a spell. And Simon's influence sometimes edges its way into Texas-bred band's songs too, like "The Underdog" from 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga or "Goodnight Laura" off of 2010's Transference.Britt Daniel sourced questions from names like Hamilton Leithauser (Walkmen), Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney), Aziz Ansari, Jim Eno (Spoon), Lovefoxx (CSS), Jason Schwartzman and so many others, and even wrote a set of questions for himself while on a handful of Ambien. Covering his process, Spoon, his personal life and much more, the results of his interview with this all-star cast, the origins of the questions of which were not revealed, are below. When you get to Britt Daniel's level, it's hard to give a single fuck about an inteview. Time after time, its usually the same old questions by the same group of people from the same outlets on repeat. So when you get an interview request, what's the plan? If you're Britt Daniel from Spoon, then you might improvise. Britt Daniel on Ambien: If you could relive any calendar year what would it be and why?
These are stupid questions. I remember when I got to the end of 5th grade, I made a prayer that when I died the first thing that would happen is that I would relive 5th grade.

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I’d call myself a casual Spoon fan, so I’m picking their most famous song. This also happens to be an awesome song. I used to listen to it in the car while in high school. I saw them play at Prospect Park in Brooklyn when I was 20. I got free tickets because my friend was interning at the show, and I took Gus, who had just produced our first EP, as a thank you. It was a really good show. No one really grooves like Spoon does live. Gus pointed out that the drummer was playing to a click track. That offended my DC sensibilities a bit until he told me that lots of big bands do it. Since then, I’ve always noticed when drummers are playing to a click live. I have no problem with drummers playing to clicks. I also saw them open for the Arcade Fire at Merriweather. I took my 12 year-old sister. It was her first rock concert. They covered a Wolf Parade song and it was really good. One of my friends from college told me that he ran into Britt Daniel at a diner outside a Spoon show in Chicago and Britt big-timed him. These are my Spoon stories.

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“Metal Detektor” is a quintessential Britt Daniel song. It has all of the hallmarks: vague background distortion; steady guitar and bass lines, mixed with minor chord undertones; and an organ that helps keep the melancholic aura of the song together. As Britt moans along while the song ends, you can feel the desperation of a man driven to rob a bank.