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OedipusThis compilation of tracks from 11:11, Songs, and Soviet Kitsch was released in the UK on CD by Transgressive Records in January 2006, accompanied by a re-branded version of the same DVD included in the Sire release of Soviet Kitsch. This release is particularly notable for its evocative artwork by Julie Morstad.
Love Affair
Poor Little Rich Boy
Sailor Song
Mary Ann
Prisoners
Consequence of Sounds
Daniel Cowman
Lacrimosa
Pavlov’s Daughter
Chemo Limo
Us
[...]The singer-songwriter arrives with a large cat on her head. "It's fucking cold in your country," she says - then grins, yawns and knocks back a slug of Echinacea.[...]
We are two players meeting in the middle, one who finds the prospect of classical precision daunting, another who is wary of improvising. The tune we play, Consequence of Sound, has a split-personality, musically and lyrically. [...] One minute Spektor is gabbling, the next she is banging out a mini-opera. It's like being in an orchestra one minute, a playground the next. "I like it!" she says. "I don't ever really get to redo anything like this."
Who would be her perfect jam? "It's a good question. I wanna take it home and think about it." She's a fan of Tom Waits, how about him? "He does seem like the perfect person. The interesting thing about him is that he is an actor. One of my great Russian hero composer-songwriters is Vladimir Vysotsky - he was a great actor, too. In their music the different characters come through. It comes with that long-standing tradition of bards - you know, like Homer? He was a musician. The Odyssey was an improvisation.
"But even in improvisation you train. Like boxing or something. You go through hours and hours of rigorous, mindless repetition, so that in the moment you can forget it all and your body just knows how to react." She goes into a dream again: "You know, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Does she feel stronger on stage, being her characters? "Of course! On stage, you're smarter than you are, you're faster than you are. It's what all that training is for. It's your job to be a historian of everything that goes on around you. You try to take in as much as you can - it's a very emotional job because you have to keep yourself very open. Then when it fills up to a certain line in your body, it starts spilling over - the output of all that stuff that is processed ..."
Mary Ann Meets the Grave Diggers and Other Short Stories is out on January 16 on Transgressive. Regina Spektor plays the Glee Club, Birmingham, on January 25, then tours
intro
"a cooler version"
interlude
Time Is All Around
interlude
Dance Anthem of the 80s
interlude
Prisoners
interlude
A Cannon
interlude
Patron Saint
interlude
Secret Stash
interlude
Carbon Monoxide
interlude
Folding Chair
interlude
Music Box
interlude
Ode to Divorce
interlude
Consequence of Sounds
closing
My rhyme ain't good just yet
My brain and tongue just met
And they ain't friends so far
My words don't travel far
They tangle in my hair
And tend to go nowhere
They grow right back inside
Right past my brain and eyes
Into my stomach juice
Where they don't serve much use
No healthy calories
Nutrition values
And I absorb back in
The words right through my skin
They sit there festering
Inside my bowels
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
Got a soundtrack in my mind
All the time
Kids screamin' from too much beat up
And they don't even rhyme
They just stand there, on a street corner
Skin tucked in and meat side out and shouting
I'd like to turn 'em down
But there ain't no knob
Born into picket fences
Not into picket lines
All this hippie shit's for the '60s
and a cliché in our times, but
What if one of these days your heart
Will just stop ticking
And they sort of just don't find you
Till your cubicle is reeking?
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
Ahh ah ah ah ahh ah ahh ah ah ah, ah
Ahh ah ah ah ahh ah ahh ah ah ah, ah
Dan, t-t-dan, t-t-dan-dan-dan
Dan, t-t-dan, t-t-dan-dan-dan
Did you know that the gravedigger's still gettin' stuck in the machine
Even though it's a whole other daydream?
It's another town
It's another world
Where the kid's asleep
And the loans are paid
And the lawns are mowed
What'd ya think
All the gravediggers were gone
Just 'cause one song is done?
There's always another one
Waiting right around the bend
Till this one ends
Then it begins
Sqeaky clean
And it starts all over again
The weather report keeps on
Tossing and turning
Predicting and warning
And warning and warning of
Possible leakage from news publications, and
Possible leakage from news TV stations; that
Very same morning, right next to her coffee
She noticed some bleeding and heard hollow coughing
The National Geographic was being too graphic
When all she had wanted to know was the traffic
The world's got a nosebleed, it said
And we're flooding, but we keep on cutting the trees and the forests!
And we keep on paying those freaks on the TV
Who claim they will save us, but want to enslave us, and
Sweating like demons, they scream through our speakers
But we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder, and
No one's the killer and no one's the martyr
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
And prophets are silent and rotting away, 'cause
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
Ahh ah ah ah ahh ah ahh ah ah ah, ah
Ahh ah ah ah ahh ah ahh ah ah ah, ah
Dan, t-t-dan, t-t-dan-dan-dan-dan
Dan, dan, t-t-dan, t-dan-dan
My rhyme ain't good just yet
My brain and tongue just met
And they ain't friends so far
My words don't travel far
They tangle in my hair
And tend to go nowhere
They grow right back inside
Right past my brain and eyes
Into my stomach juice
Where they don't serve much use
No healthy calories
Nutrition values
And I absorb back in
The words right through my skin
They sit there festering inside my bowels
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
