“The biggest achievement is that we’ve made nine records and there ain’t a bad one.” Photo: Invision/AP/Shutterstock Close your eyes and imagine a Spoon Greatest Hits album. What do you see? Is it all nine of Spoon’s albums rubber-banded together with a Post-it on top that says “Spoon’s Greatest Hits”? Yes, correct; that’s also what I see. Spoon had another idea for their Greatest Hits, however: a slightly tighter 13-track collection titled Everything Hits at Once. (This version will be out July 26 via Matador; the other version is available now as long as you have the albums, a rubber band, and a Post-it.) While Everything Hits at Once is missing, indeed, over 100 of Spoon’s greatest hits (!), the album includes superlative tracks spanning much of the band’s 26-year career. For a closer look at some of the other superlatives that make up Spoon’s long, fruitful history, we sat down with Spoon front man Britt Daniel to talk about the most and least and best and worst. Best Spoon song Best in terms of songwriting? Maybe “I Summon You.” I don’t really have an absolute favorite Spoon song, though. Most of them are great. I usually love them or hate them, but most of them I really love. Worst Spoon song “The Infinite Pet.” It’s dumb. It was definitely filler, and this is from a band that’s supposed to not have any filler. For whatever reason, Gimme Fiction was a hard record to write songs for. We wanted to put a record out fast, like we did with Girls Can Tell and Kill the Moonlight. It was our design to do that again. Maybe because we’d had our first success with those two records — maybe it was messing with my head — but I couldn’t pull the songs together. Eventually we got them, but it took a while. We were still searching for songs that we loved, and “The Infinite Pet” made it on there. It … [Read more...] about Nip Slips, Donald Duck, and Destitute Summers: Britt Daniel Remembers the Best and Worst of Spoon