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Soviet Kitsch

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Released
  
August 17, 2004

Artist
  
Regina Spektor

Label
  
Sire Records

Length
  
38:49

Release date
  
17 August 2004

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Soviet Kitsch (2004)
  
Live at Bull Moose (2005)

Genres
  
Rock music, Anti-folk, Alternative rock, Art Pop

Producers
  
Gordon Raphael, Alan Bezozi, Regina Spektor

Similar
  
Regina Spektor albums, Alternative rock albums

Soviet Kitsch is the major label debut and third album by American singer/songwriter Regina Spektor. The title is drawn from Milan Kundera's expression for the vacuous aesthetics of Stalinist-style communism, a theme in his book The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One version of the album was released with a bonus DVD, which included a short promotional film titled The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch and the music video for the song "Us".

Contents

Critical reception

In 2009, the album was included in NME's list of 100 greatest albums of the decade.

Track listing

All songs written by Regina Spektor.

  1. "Ode to Divorce" – 3:42
  2. "Poor Little Rich Boy" – 2:27
  3. "Carbon Monoxide" – 4:59
  4. "The Flowers" – 3:54
  5. "Us" – 4:52
  6. "Sailor Song" – 3:15
  7. "***" – 0:44
  8. "Your Honor" – 2:10
  9. "Ghost of Corporate Future" – 3:21
  10. "Chemo Limo" – 6:04
  11. "Somedays" – 3:21
Deluxe version bonus track
  1. "Scarecrow and Fungus" – 2:29
Standard vinyl release
  1. "Scarecrow and Fungus" – 2:29
  2. "December" – 2:10

Track 7 is titled "Whisper" on digital versions of the album. It is a brief spoken word piece in which Spektor and her brother, Barry "Bear" Spektor, discuss the following song ("Your Honor").

Personnel

  • Regina Spektor: piano, voice, rhodes, drumstick, percussion, producer, songwriter
  • Alan Bezozi: producer, drums, percussion, heartbeat
  • Oren Bloedow: guitar
  • Graham Maby: bass
  • Gordon Raphael: percussion
  • Bear Spektor: whispers ("***")
  • The 4x4 String Quartet: strings ("Us" and "Somedays")
  • Kill Kenada: backing punk band ("Your Honor")
  • Eric Biondo: songwriter (one lyric and melody sampled in "Somedays")

    • Songs

    1Ode to Divorce3:43
    2Poor Little Rich Boy2:28
    3Carbon Monoxide4:59

    References

    Soviet Kitsch Wikipedia
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