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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
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Ode to Divorce with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
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Loveology with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
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Blue Lips with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
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Ghost of Corporate Future with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello
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Hero + Bartender with Chris Kuffner on bass and Ben Kalb on cello for "Hero"
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Rejazz
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Pound of Flesh
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Folding Chair
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Baby Jesus
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Ave Maria
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Sailor Song
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"begin to hope"
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Après Moi
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Prisoners
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Summer in the City
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Time Is All Around
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Somedays
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Carbon Monoxide
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Poor Little Rich Boy
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The Flowers
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"open"
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Silly Eye-Color Generalizations
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Samson
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Hotel Song with Chris Kuffner and Ben Kalb on backing vocals
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Your Honor with Chris Kuffner on bass, Ben Kalb on cello, Elliot Jacobson on drums, and Andy Graziano on guitar
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That Time
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Bobbing for Apples
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Reginasaurus
closing

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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.

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Ode to Divorce

Written by: regina spektor

Available Recordings: Click to view

Lyrics (from the Soviet Kitsch liner notes):
The food that 'm eating is suddenly tasteless
I know i'm alone now
I know what it tastes like
So break me to small parts
let go in small doses
But spare some for spare parts
there might be some good ones!
Like you might make a dollar
I'm inside your mouth now
Behind your tonsils
Peaking over your molars
You're talking to her now
you've eaten something minty and you're making that face that I like and you're going in in for the kill kill
for the killer kiss kiss for the kiss kiss

I need your money, it will help me
I need your car and I need your love
So won't you help a brother out
Won't you help a brother out?
won't you help a brother out, out, out, out, out

Just break me to small parts
let go in small doses
but spare some for spare parts
you might make a dollar

you might make a $
So won't you help a brother out
Won't you help a brother out?
Won't you help a brother out, out, out, out, out

Just break me to small parts
let go in small doeses
but spare some for spare parts
there might be some good ones
you might make a $


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