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).

2006-10-03 Washington, DC | All Songs Considered (NPR)

Recorded live at the 9:30 Club, available to stream from npr.org:

Ain't No Cover
Pound of Flesh
Music Box
Baby Jesus
The Flowers
Poor Little Rich Boy
Bobbing for Apples
That Time
On the Radio
Sailor Song
Apres Moi
Better
Edit
Carbon Monoxide
Fidelity
Your Honor
Uh-merica
Ghost of Corporate Future
Us
Samson
Hotel Song

2006-05-07 Seattle, WA | Chop Suey

Taper: Jarod Watson (alienbobz@gmail.com)

Source: MBHO 603/KA200N > Busman Mod Edirol R-4 (24/96)

Location: DIN, FOB, 25' from stage, stand at 7'

Conversion/Editing: R4 > Soundforge 6.0 > r8brain v1.9 > CD Wave v1.94.5 > FLAC

FLAC version

Regina Spektor 2006-05-07 Seattle, WA | Chop Suey (FLAC)

MP3 version

Intro 

Ain't No Cover

Carbon Monoxide 

Pound of Flesh 

Prisoners 

Sailor Song 

Baby Jesus 

Fidelity 

Small Town Moon 

Twenty Years of Snow 

Bobbing for Apples 

That Time 

On the Radio 

Human of the Year 

Better 

Poor Little Rich Boy 

Ode to Divorce 

Us 

Ghost of Corporate Future 

Samson 

Baobabs 

Music Box 

Summer in the City

Mary Ann meets the Gravediggers and other short stories by regina spektor

Oedipus
Love Affair
Poor Little Rich Boy
Sailor Song
Mary Ann
Prisoners
Consequence of Sounds
Daniel Cowman
Lacrimosa
Pavlov’s Daughter
Chemo Limo
Us

This 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.

4-track promo CD

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.

2003-07-11 New York, NY | Tonic

Recorded by pattivill:

01) Sailor Song (partial)
02)
03) Düsseldorf
04)
05) Poor Little Rich Boy
06)
07) Ode to Divorce
08)
09) Uh-merica
10)
11) The Flowers
12)
13) Secret Stash
14)
15) Dance Anthem of the 80s
16)
17) Carbon Monoxide
18)
19) Somedays
20)
21) Silly Eye Color Generalizations
22)
23) Lacrimosa
24)
25) Samson
26)

2003-05-05 New York, NY | C-Note

Recorded by Dan Herman (radiocrystalblue.com) and available for download from RespektOnline:

Düsseldorf
Happy Hooker
Lacrimosa
Sailor Song
Ode to Divorce
Poor Little Rich Boy
Ave Maria
Prisoners
Your Honor
Somedays
Making Records
Carbon Monoxide
Dance Anthem of the 80s

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

Sailor Song

Written by: regina spektor

Available Recordings: Click to view

Lyrics (from the Soviet Kitsch liner notes):

She will kiss you til your lips bleed
but she will not take her dress off
Americana
Tropicana
All the sailor boys have demons
they sing oh kentucky why did you forsake me
if I was meant to sail the sea why did you make me
it should have been another state
oh stay...

cause Mary Anne's a bitch
Mary Anne's a bitch

Does it matter that our anger
couldn't even reach the bottom of a bath tub
and the sails reflect the moon it's such a strange job
playing blackjack on the deck
still...Atop this giant puddle
dressed in white we quietly huddle with our missiles
and we miss the girls back home
oh home sweet home...

cause Mary Anne's a bitch
Mary Anne's a bitch

She will kiss you til your lips bleed
but she will not take her dress off
Americana
Tropicana