VA – LateNightTales – MGMT
ARTiST..[ Various Artists
TiTLE…[ LateNightTales – MGMT
GENRE…[ Alternative GRABBER.[ ???
LABEL…[ EMI ENCODER.[ Lame 3.98r
YEAR….[ 2011 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps
SOURCE..[ WEB MODE….[ Joint-Stereo
PLAYTIME[ 162:57 min REL.DATE[ 09.30.2011
TRACKS..[ 21 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA
SiZE….[ 373,3 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA
T R A C K L i S T
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01 Disco Inferno – Can’t See Through It 03:53
02 The Great Society – Love You Girl 03:10
03 Suicide – Cheree 03:42
04 Television Personalities – Stop & Smell The Roses 04:05
05 The Velvet Underground – Ocean 05:45
06 Felt – Red Indians 01:57
07 Julian Cope – Laughing Boy 05:48
08 Durutti Column – For Belgian Friends 05:26
09 Charlie Feathers – Mound Of Clay 02:29
10 Mark Fry – Song For Wilde 02:34
11 MGMT – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything 04:26
12 Cheval Sombre – Troubled Mind 05:47
13 Dave Bixby – Drug Song 03:24
14 The Jacobites – Hearts Are Like Flowers 04:12
15 The Chills – Pink Frost 04:01
16 Martin Rev – Sparks 03:31
17 The Wake – Melancholy Man 07:23
18 Spacemen 3 – Lord Can You Hear Me? 04:35
19 Pauline Anna Strom – Morning Splendour 06:00
20 Paul Morley – Lost For Words Pt. 2 03:24
21 Various – MGMT: Late Night Tales Continuous Mix 77:25
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TOTAL:162:57
Formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York the band consists of multi-instrumentalists Andrew Van Wyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, both alumni of Wesleyan University. Their 2008 debut album Oracular Spectacular spawned the almost ubiquitous hit singles Kids, Time To Pretend and Electric Feel while 2010’s follow up Congratulations saw them embrace more of a progressive, guitar-driven sound.
The band’s Late Night Tales selection of post-punk, cult indie and counter-culture figureheads reflects the bandís multifaceted sound, and draws comparisons with contemporary dreampop/chillwave/shoegaze/folk scenes on both sides of the Atlantic.
The listener finds MGMT presiding over the playlist “after-the-after-party”; daybreak creeping through the curtains earlier than desirable, broken bodies lining the corridors, the emotionally bankrupt kept alive by timeless songs of heartache and longing.
Luminaries The Velvet Underground, Suicide and Julian Cope, although not with their most famous songs, sit alongside less familiar names such as Disco Inferno; whose Can’t See It Through from their final ’96 album Technicolour opens proceedings.
MGMT’s exclusive cover of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Bauhaus sits comfortably alongside the UK post-punk-gothic band’s peers The Durutti Column, The Chills, The Jacobites and Felt’s brief but imposing instrumental Red Indians.
Paranoia strikes deep: the double header of Cheval Sombre’s Troubled Mind and Drug Song by 60’s Christian folk singer Dave Bixby accentuate the hope offered by the ever penitent Spacemen 3 (MGMT’s second album Congratulations was recorded with founder Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom), who deliver Lord Can You Hear Me? in respect to the beautiful closer Morning Splendor, taken from Pauline Anna Strom’s rare ’82 LP Trans-Millenia Consort.