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Life in Exile After Abdication

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Released
  
1989

Release date
  
1989

Label
  
Lakeshore Drive Records

Artist
  
Moe Tucker

Producer
  
Moe Tucker

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Recorded
  
March 1988 at Noise, New York City June – October 1988 at Mirror Image, Gainesville, Florida.

Life in Exile After Abdication (1989)
  
I Spent a Week There the Other Night (1991)

Genres
  
Rock music, Alternative rock, Post-punk, Indie pop

Similar
  
Moe Tucker albums, Rock music albums

Life in Exile after Abdication is the second album by Moe Tucker, released in 1989. Rather than performing all of the instruments herself, as on her debut album, Tucker is accompanied by performers such as Lou Reed, Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston and members of Sonic Youth. Reed selected the album as one of his 'picks of 1989'.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Moe Tucker except where noted.

  1. "Hey Mersh!" – 3:16
  2. "Spam Again" – 5:25
  3. "Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax) – 2:29
  4. "Chase" (all players and Maureen Tucker) – 8:07
  5. "Andy" – 5:08
  6. "Work" – 3:38
  7. "Pale Blue Eyes" (Lou Reed) – 6:44
  8. "Bo Diddley" (Ellas McDaniel) – 5:07
  9. "Talk So Mean" – 4:59
  10. "Do it Right" (Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston) – 3:10
  11. "Guess I'm Falling In Love" (Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker)
  12. "Baby What You Want Me To Do" (Jimmy Reed)
  13. "Why Don't You Smile Now?" (Lou Reed, John Cale, Vance, Phillips)
  14. "Hey, Mr. Rain" (Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker)

Tracks 11 – 14 are bonus tracks from Moejadkatebarry and only appear on the Rev-Ola reissue.

Personnel

  • Moe Tucker - guitar, percussion, piano, drums, vocals, production, mixing
  • Barry Stock – bass
  • Jad Fair – guitar, percussion, cymbals, background vocals
  • Kate Messer – acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, electric guitar, percussion, conga, background vocals
  • Hank Beckmeyer – bass, guitar, percussion, background vocals, slide guitar
  • Lou Reed – guitar on tracks 1 and 7
  • Kim Gordon – bass, percussion, background vocals
  • Thurston Moore – guitar
  • Steve Shelley – drums
  • Lee Ranaldo – guitar
  • Don Fleming – background vocals
  • Daniel Johnston – piano, vocals
  • Scott Jarvis – drums, background vocals
  • Ann Marie Ear – piano
  • Rob Elk – background vocals
  • M. Kostek – percussion
  • Joe Martinelli – percussion, drums, background vocals

    • Release history

  • LP/CS, 50 Skidillion Watts MOE 7, US, March 1989
  • CD, 50 Skidillion Watts MOE 7-2, US, March 1989
  • CD, 50 Skidillion Watts-Boudisque MOE 7-2, Germany
  • CD, Rev-Ola CREV 011CD, UK, 1993

    • Songs

    1Hey Mersh!3:18
    2Spam Again5:25
    3Goodnight Irene2:30

    References

    Life in Exile After Abdication Wikipedia
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