Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others

Three years ago, I wore a sign that read "NO WAR" around my neck for 3 months. I abhor this administration. I am not excited at the prospect of a Democratic Congress.

I voted anyway.

I encourage you to do likewise (but only mildly encourage, because it's not in my character to be rah-rah about these things).

***

Anyway, this is ReginaSpektor.net, not HalfAssedPoliticalActivism.net, so here's a couple of interviews I don't even remember having uploaded:

14 September 2005, Morning Sedition

22 February 2006, Radio Warwick

I haven't re-listened to these, but I do remember that the recording quality on the Radio Warwick file is absurdly bad. Fairly warned be thee, says I.

It's a long way to the house of Fitzcarraldo

If you had consulted your srg-to-English dictionaries, you would know that "this weekend" in fact means "6 or more weeks from now" (duh!). Anyway, here are two shows for you (some of these individual tracks were posted previously).

The marathon set from Bowery Ballroom last year features, among other things, a rare performance of Rejazz and the resurrection of the long-dormant Hotel Song, which has since evolved into a set-closing rocker.

The Housing Works show, which took place the night before a Tonic gig (recorded by Crimson and available for download here) , includes the debut performance of Blue Lips, the first attempt at the piano-less Ghost of Corporate Future, and the first & only performance, as far as I know, of the disturbing & awesome Long Brown Hair. Regina previously played the Live from Home series ca. January 2003, but I don't think any recording has surfaced.

30 March 2005, Bowery Ballroom, New York
(with Sean Lennon opening)

intro
Ain't No Cover
interlude
Edit
interlude
Ode to Divorce
interlude
Loveology
interlude
Blue Lips
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future
interlude
Hero + Bartender
interlude
Rejazz
interlude
Pound of Flesh
interlude
Folding Chair
interlude
Baby Jesus
interlude
Ave Maria
interlude
Sailor Song
interlude
"begin to hope"
interlude
Après Moi
interlude
Prisoners
interlude
Summer in the City
interlude
Time Is All Around
interlude
Somedays
interlude
Carbon Monoxide
interlude
Poor Little Rich Boy
interlude
The Flowers
interlude
"open"
interlude
Silly Eye-Color Generalizations
interlude
Samson
interlude
Hotel Song
interlude
Your Honor
interlude
That Time
interlude
Bobbing for Apples
interlude
Reginasaurus
closing

15 October 2004, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, New York
(Live from Home series, with John Wesley Harding and Buddy Miller)

intro
Edit
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future
interlude
You
interlude
Blue Lips
interlude
Long Brown Hair
interlude
Loveology
closing

I also had the distinct pleasure of attending the Halloween night record release party for Nellie McKay's long-delayed Pretty Little Head (buy it!); muchas thank-you's to the guys at NellieMcKay.org (now that's how you design a fansite).

2006-11-05 San Diego, CA | Canes

Recorded by defgav.com:

Regina Spektor - 'Canes, San Diego, CA

November 5, 2006

 1. Ain't No Cover

 2. The Flowers

 3. Summer In The City

 4. Baby Jesus

 5. Poor Little Rich Boy

 6. Bobbing for Apples

 7. That Time

 8. On The Radio

 9. Sailor Song

10. Apres Moi

11. Better 

12. Edit

13. Carbon Monoxide

14. Fidelity

15. Your Honor

16. (encore wait)

17. Dance Anthem of the 80s

18. Field Below

19. Us

20. Samson

21. Hotel Song

Notes: Sorry about the sound quality. The master was recorded as mp3 due to small ammount of memory available. And I used crappy stock mic, so it overloads badly in the loud parts. The songs that are Regina solo aren't too bad, but the bass/drums of the band sounds horrible in the recording. 

http://defgav.com/

 

Live shots courtesy of absolutelyaudrey.

Check out her video clips from the show: 

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=absolutelyaudrey 

2006-11-02 Hollywood, CA | Avalon

The performances of Sailor Song, Fidelity, and Field Below from this show were also recorded and officially released on the Live in California 2006 EP

FLAC version

Regina Spektor

November 2, 2006

Avalon Hollywood - Hollywood, CA

Taper: Tom Riddle (darkwizardtaper@gmail.com)

Source: Schoeps MK4 > active cables > Nbox+ > IRiver iHP-120 (Rockbox)

Location: FOB/DFC

Transfer: IRiver iHP-120 > USB > PC

Edit: wav > Sony Soundforge 7.0b > wav > CD Wave > wav

Conversion: wav > FLAC frontend 1.7.1 > .flac

Compiled on 11.03.06

---PRESERVE THE QUALITY, PLEASE DO NOT ENCODE INTO MP3 OTHER THAN FOR PERSONAL USE---

01: Intro                         00:49

02: Ain't No Cover*                  02:49

03: Summer In The City*                 03:53

04: The Flowers*                 03:54

05: Baby Jesus*          02:47

06: Poor Little Rich Boy*                      02:27

07: Human Of The Year*              04:31

08: Bobbing For Apples*              02:44

09: That Time*                         03:28

10: On The Radio                                 03:24

11: Sailor Song          03:27

12: Apres Moi                                 04:57

13: Better                                 03:48

14: Edit                                         05:00

15: Carbon Monoxide          05:03

16: Fidelity                         04:20

17: Your Honor          02:35

18: E: Field Below*                         05:08

19: E: Ghost Of Corporate Future*     03:01

20: E: Us*                 04:11

21: E: Samson*          03:25

22: E: Hotel Song                         03:32

Total:                         79:13

Part of the encore break cut to make the show fit on one disc. No music was lost.