Girls Can Tell

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]
Alternative Press	4/5^[7]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[1]
Pitchfork Media	8.0/10^[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[9]
Uncut	^[10]
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).^[4]

Track listing

All tracks written 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
Total length:		36:08

Personnel

Spoon

Britt Daniel – guitar, voice, keyboards
Joshua Zarbo – bass
Jim Eno – drums

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

Year	Chart	Position
2002	Billboard Top Independent Albums	46

References

1 2 Raftery, Brian M. (March 9, 2001). "Girls Can Tell". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
1 2 Christgau, Robert (March 12, 2002). "Consumer Guide: 2001 Gets Better". The Village Voice. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
↑ "Spoon: Girls Can Tell". The A.V. Club. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
1 2 Pitchfork staff (September 30, 2009). "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 100–51". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
↑ "Reviews for Girls Can Tell by Spoon". Metacritic. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
↑ Phares, Heather. "Girls Can Tell – Spoon". AllMusic. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
↑ "Spoon: Girls Can Tell". Alternative Press (154): 97. May 2001.
↑ Mirov, Nick (February 20, 2001). "Spoon: Girls Can Tell". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
↑ "Spoon: Girls Can Tell". Uncut (55): 118. December 2001.

Spoon

Britt Daniel Jim Eno Rob Pope Eric Harvey Alex Fischel Joshua Zarbo Andy Maquire Greg Wilson

Studio albums	Telephono A Series of Sneaks Girls Can Tell Kill the Moonlight Gimme Fiction Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Transference They Want My Soul

EPs	Nefarious Soft Effects 30 Gallon Tank Love Ways Don't You Evah Got Nuffin

Singles	"The Agony of Laffitte" "The Way We Get By" "Sister Jack" "The Underdog" "Don't You Evah" "Written in Reverse" "Rent I Pay" "Do You"

Associated acts	Skellington The Alien Beats Drake Tungsten Golden Millennium Divine Fits

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