2007-11-18 Charleston, WV | Mountain Stage (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)

Available to stream from npr.org

Ain't No Cover
On the Radio
Man of a Thousand Faces
Better
Ghost of Corporate Future
Fidelity
Summer in the City
Real Love
Samson

Also from this performance, but not broadcast:

Sailor Song

Live at Lollapalooza 2007

Fidelity
Bobbing for Apples
Après Moi
Summer in the City
Ghost of Corporate Future
Samson

Released in October 2007 as an iTunes exclusive, this EP features songs recorded live on August 4, 2007 at Grant Park in Chicago, IL.

Live in California 2006

Fidelity
Field Below
Sailor Song
Ghost of Corporate Future

Released in February 2007, this EP features songs recorded live on November 2, 2006 at the Avalon in Los Angeles (tracks 1-3) and on October 29, 2006 at the Fillmore in San Francisco (track 4).

2005-03-30 New York, NY | Bowery Ballroom

(with Sean Lennon opening)

Recorded by pattivill:

intro
Ain't No Cover
interlude
Edit with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Ode to Divorce with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Loveology with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Blue Lips with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Hero + Bartender with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello for "Hero"
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 with Chris Kuffner and Ben Kalb on backing vocals
interlude
Your Honor with Chris Kuffner on bass, Ben Kalb on cello, Elliot Jacobson on drums, and Andy Graziano on guitar
interlude
That Time
interlude
Bobbing for Apples
interlude
Reginasaurus
closing

Related: 2005-06 Spin magazine

2004-11-15 London, England | Bush Hall

photo by Flutterby

Recorded by the talented and generous BloodRoses:

Intro
Dance Anthem of the 80s
Carbon Monoxide
Time Is All Around
interlude
The Virgin Queen
Poor Little Rich Boy
Blue Lips
interlude
Bobbing for Apples
interlude
That Time
Après Moi
interlude
Uh-merica
interlude
Hero (of the Story)
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future
Summer in the City
interlude
Samson

This show earned a 5-star review from The Guardian and features the first (and, to date, only) known performance and recording of The Virgin Queen.

2004-10-18 New York, NY | Soundcheck (WNYC)

Available to stream from newsounds.org

Carbon Monoxide
Ghost of Corporate Future

2004-10-16 New York, NY | Tonic

Recorded by pattivill:

Edit with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
Loveology with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello

Video provided by Henry L.

Ghost of Corporate Future:

Full Set:

The show was also recorded by Mister Crimson and is available for download from RespektOnline:

Carbon Monoxide
Edit
You
Blue Lips
Ghost of Corporate Future
Hero
Après Moi
Baby Jesus
Loveology
Summer in the City

2004-10-15 New York, NY | Housing Works Used Bookstore Cafe

(Live from Home series, with John Wesley Harding and Buddy Miller)

Recorded by pattivill:

intro
Edit with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future No piano, with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb
interlude
You with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Blue Lips with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Long Brown Hair with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
interlude
Loveology with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
closing

Soviet Kitsch

Survival Guide... booklet cover

Ode to Divorce
Poor Little Rich Boy
Carbon Monoxide
The Flowers
Us
Sailor Song
Your Honor
Ghost of Corporate Future
Chemo Limo
Somedays

Vinyl-only Bonus Tracks:

Scarecrow & Fungus
December

Regina's 3rd LP was initially released in fall 2003 by Shoplifter Records (co-producer Gordon Raphael's label) and sold in slimline CD packaging while Regina was supporting the Strokes on the U.S. leg of their Room on Fire tour; Shoplifter gave the record a formal, limited UK release (in full CD jewel-case packaging) in April 2004.

Regina signed with Sire Records in spring 2004, and the album was reissued in slim cardboard (babypak) packaging that fall. Sire formally released the record in March 2005, repackaged with a bonus DVD of The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch EPK and the Us music video. A vinyl release followed in summer 2005, including 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks (likely culled from sessions either in December 2001 or December 2002, or both).

The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch was originally distributed (to press and some fan contest winners) in Fall 2004 as 40-page softcover booklet packaged with the CD and DVD. Regina described it at the time:

Also- The "Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch" is now printed and beautiful and done! It is a zine type book, full of London tour photos, press clippings, and crazy typewritten goodness (i bought an old typewritter in the east village and fell in hardcore love with it!) All hand made by me, Adria Petty- the lovely and amazing young woman who shot the videos in London and made a DVD that comes with the Survival Guide, and Sonya Kashuto- a rad brooklynite, who is helping me rework my website... All this stuff took tons of hours to make, lots of scissors and glue action, and a bit of beer as well... I will have a bunch with me at the shows, and i'll try to give some away through the website for the faraway people...

Prior to Regina's signing with Sire, the album was also available from CD Baby; below is the item description that appeared on the site:

Songs about sleeping, kissing bloody lips, books, love, sailors, mothers, carbon monoxide... Featuring- Piano, Strings, a drum stick and a punk band, as well as a couple of glasses being smashed next to really expensive microphones... Have fun...

Notes:

Ok- the 3rd record by mizz Regina Spektor, Bronx girl via russia, and called "Soviet Kitsch" is done. Made down town on the Lower East Side NYC, and in London too. Mr. Gordon Raphael (www.Shoplifterrecords.co.uk) producer of The Strokes, and Mr. Alan Bezozi (drummmer for such bands as Dogs Eye View, They Might Be Giants, Freedy Jonston, etc...) co-produced it. It was a short time being born, and a long time being put out... that's rock'n fock'n roll for ya.

Regina just came off a tour opening for The Strokes in America... Now she is going on a UK and European tour opening for The Kings of Leon. she says "Hi!"... and walks away, humming.

2003-08-19 New York, NY | Sin-é

Taper unknown; available for download from RespektOnline:

Patron Saint
"the devil come to Bethlehem"
Your Honor
Carbon Monoxide
Baobabs
Genius Next Door
Poor Little Rich Boy
Folding Chair
Making Records
Düsseldorf
Us
Ghost of Corporate Future
Secret Stash

2003-05-30 New York, NY | Sin-é

This show includes the debut performance of Uh-merica (with two friends providing background vocals), a performance of the untitled song 'the devil come to Bethlehem', and a classic mid-song improv during Dance Anthem of the 80s

Recorded by pattivill:

01)
02) Düsseldorf
03)
04) 'the devil come to Bethlehem'
05)
06) Poor Little Rich Boy
07)
08) Uh-merica
09)
10) 'dust to dust'
11)
12) Ghost of Corporate Future
13)
14) Dance Anthem of the 80s
15)
16) Your Honor
17)

The person with whom Regina says she would like to record Your Honor is Rachel Trachtenburg--at the time, the nine-year-old drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

2003-05-01 New York, NY | Tonic

Recorded by pattivill:

01)
02) Paris
03)
04) Ghost of Corporate Future
05)
06) Carbon Monoxide
07)
08) Making Records
09)
10) Poor Little Rich Boy
11)
12) Ode to Divorce
13)
14) The Soup
15)
16) Prisoners
17)
18) Your Honor
19)
20) The Flowers
21)
22) Better
23)
24) Dance Anthem of the 80s
25)
26) Silly Eye Color Generalizations
27)
28) Samson
29)

2003-02-15 New York, NY | C-Note

Recorded by pattivill:

opening
Dusseldorf
interlude
Prisoners
interlude
Carbon Monoxide
interlude
Oh, Marcello!
interlude
Ave Maria
interlude
Dance Anthem of the 80s
interlude
Better
interlude
Your Honor
interlude
'the floor heard everything'
interlude
Sailor Song
interlude
Us
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future
interlude
Samson
closing

2003-02-09 Hoboken, NJ | Maxwell's

Recorded by pattivill:

opening
Dusseldorf
interlude
Dance Anthem of the 80s
interlude
Ghost of Corporate Future
interlude
Poor Little Rich Boy
interlude
Better
interlude
The Bronx
interlude
Samson
closing

2002-11-30 New York, NY | Sidewalk Cafe

Recorded by pattivill:

01)
02) Ave Maria
03)
04) Düsseldorf
05)
06) Ghost of Corporate Future
07)
08) Prisoners
09)
10) Chemo Limo
11)
12) Carbon Monoxide
13)
14) Poor Little Rich Boy
15)
16) Twenty Years of Snow
17)
18) Just like the Movies
19)
20) Us
21)
22) The Soup
23)

Ghost of Corporate Future

Written by: regina spektor

Available Recordings: Click to view

Lyrics (from the Soviet Kitsch liner notes):

A man walks out of his apartment
it is raining
he's got no umbrella
he starts running beneath the awnings trying to save his suit
tryin to dryin to tryin to dry but no good

When he gets to the crowded subway platform he takes off both of his shoes
He steps right into somebody's fat loogie
and everyone who sees him says "ewwww"
everyone who sees him says "ewwww"

But he doesn't care cause last night he got a visit from the Ghost of Corporate Future
The Ghost said take off both your shoes whatever chances you get
especially when they're wet
he also said

Imagine you go away on a business trip one day
and when you come back home
your children have grown
and you never made your wife moan

And people make you nervous
You'd think the world was ending
and everybody's features
have somehow started blending
and everything is plastic
and everyone's sarcastic
and all your food is frozen
it needs to be defrosted
You'd think the world was ending
you'd think the world was ending
You'd think the world was ending right now

Well maybe you should just drink a lot less coffee
and never ever watch the 10 o'clock news
Maybe you should kiss someone nice or lick a rock or both
maybe you should cut your own hair cause that can be so funny
it doesn't cost any money and it always grows back
hair grows even after you're dead

People are just people
They shouldn't make you nervous
The world is everlasting
It's coming and it's going
if you don't toss your plastic
the streets won't be so plastic
and if you kiss somebody
then both of you'll get practice

The world is everlasting
put dirtballs in your pockets
put dirtball's in your pockets
and take off both your shoes
cause people are just people
people are just people
people are just people like you

people are just people
people are just people
people are just people like you

The world is everlasting
it's coming and it's going
the world is everlasting
it's coming and it's going
it's coming and it's going