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Fidelity




USA 1-track promo CD


UK 1-track promo CD


UK 1 track promo CD+DVD
Fidelity
Music Box
Enhanced CD-only bonus track:
December
Released in the UK in March 2007 on CD (2 tracks), Enhanced CD (3 tracks plus the official "Fidelity" video), and 7" vinyl (2 tracks); "Music Box" can also be found on the 2-disc Begin to Hope Special Edition, while "December" was previously made available on the vinyl versions of both Soviet Kitsch and the Us single.

Beginning in May 2006, various promo versions were produced for press/radio; one notable UK promo in gatefold DVD packaging bundled a 1-track CD with a DVD featuring the official music videos for both "Fidelity" and "On the Radio", along with an 11-page color booklet of UK press clippings.

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Attic Jam

Music Box
Released in February 2007, this iTunes exclusive compilation features a song recorded live in Pete Townshend & Rachel Fullers's trailer at the T in the Park Festival on July 9th, 2006 in Balado, Scotland, for an episode of their In the Attic video podcast.

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2007-02-04 New York, NY | Mixed Bag Radio (WFUV)

Fidelity
On the Radio
Après Moi
Music Box
Field Below

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

Recorded live at the 9:30 Club:
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

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Begin to Hope

Fidelity
Better
Samson
On The Radio
Field Below
Hotel Song
Après Moi
20 Years Of Snow
That Time
Edit
Lady
Summer in the City
Special Edition-only bonus tracks:
Another Town
Uh-merica
Baobabs
Düsseldorf
Music Box
Online/Vinyl-only bonus tracks:
Hero
Bartender
Vinyl-only bonus tracks:
Better (piano and voice)
Better (radio recut)
Regina's 4th LP was released in June 2006 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and eventually climbing as high as #20 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Initial shipments came bundled with a copy of the 6-track "Side 1" promo CD (ostensibly for buyers to share with a friend) and four 1" buttons.

A 2-disc "Special Edition" digipack featuring 5 bonus tracks and an expanded booklet was released simultaneously. The downloadable version (via iTunes, Rhapsody, and other outlets) featured 2 additional bonus tracks.

In April 2009, a vinyl Special Edition was issued to coincide with Record Store Day, including the 5 Special Edition bonus tracks, along with the 2 previously online-only bonus tracks, and 2 additional versions of "Better" previously issued as a 7" single.



Special Edition


Special Edition vinyl


6-track promo CD

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2004-07-10 New York, NY | Tonic

2003-12-29 New York, NY | The Living Room

2003-05-11 Brooklyn, NY | Barbès

2002-12-21 New York, NY | Sidewalk Cafe

Music Box

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (from the Begin to Hope Special Edition liner notes):
Life inside the music box ain't easy
The mallets hit the gears are always turning
And everyone inside the mechanism
Is yearning
To get out
And sing another melody completely
So different from the one they're always singing
I close my eyes and think that I have found me
But then I feel mortality surround me
I want to sing another melody
So different from the one i always sing
...but when i do the dishes.....
I run the water very very very hot
And then I fill the sink to the top with bubbles of soap
And then I set all the bottle caps I own afloat
And it's the greatest voyage in the history of plastic
And then I slip my hands in and start to make waves
And then I dip my tongue in and take a taste
It tastes like soap but it doesn't really taste like soap
And then I lower in my whole mouth and take a gulp
...and start to...feel mortality surround me
I close my eyes and think that I have found me
But life inside the music box ain't easy
The mallets hit the gears are always turning
And every one inside the mechanism
Is yearning to get out...


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