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“I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon

“I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon appears on 27 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2005 and 2026. Its best result is #20 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #70 alternative song of 2005 and #1,313 alternative song of all time.

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14stations
#20best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
2005–2026years charted

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I Turn My Camera On

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Britt Daniel wrote "I Turn My Camera On" after hearing Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", and he sang it in a falsetto inspired by Prince. It's the third track on Gimme Fiction, Spoon's fifth album, and it first appeared as a download on March 30, 2005, with a seven-inch and CD following on July 4. Daniel produced it with Jim Eno and Mike McCarthy, and the band steered the sound toward dance and soul.

The subject is emotional distance: a narrator who keeps the world at a camera's length, documenting it rather than engaging with it. Critics liked it, one calling it a Spoon signature, and it went on to turn up in an episode of The Simpsons, a Jaguar ad and a viral clip of Keepon, a tiny research robot, dancing along.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2005 23 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2005 91
2005 43 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2005 100
2005 20 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2005 101
2005 29 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 150
2005 23 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2005 230
2005 226 ModernRock.com Online ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 400

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2006 500 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2007 151 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 231 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 223 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2009 236 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 221 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 197 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 181 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 652 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 159 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2019 267 KEXP KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time 627
2022 127 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2022 992 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time 1055
2022 260 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2024 279 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 622 WXPN WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) 885
2025 72 The Current 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now 893
2025 143 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 586 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800
2026 323 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500
2026 490 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound 1055

Charting alongside it in 2005

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