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Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers! --- 2009

Part of the larger [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/2077085]"SCORE! Twenty Years Of Merge Records"[/url] subscription-based box set, this collection is the first of only three commercially available pieces from the box set. Limited to 7,500 copies. All proceeds benefit charities chosen by the SCORE curators. Track 1 : Originally performed by [a=3Ds]. Track 2 : Originally performed by [a=Superchunk]. Published by All the Songs Sound the Same (BMI) / Wixen Music Publishing Inc. (BMI). Recorded at The Magic Shop, NYC, June 2008. Mixed at Gigantic, NYC, July 2008. Track 3 : Originally performed by [a=Tenement Halls]. Published by Spannish Boy Music (ASCAP). Track 4 : Originally performed by [a=Crooked Fingers]. Published by Red Pig Publishing (BMI). Recorded at Annie Clark's Studio (August 1, 2008) and GödelString (November 6, 2008). Track 5 : Originally performed by [a=The Clean]. Published by Mushroom Music. Recorded at GIANT Studios. Mixed at the Schvitz. Track 6 : Originally performed by [a=Superchunk]. Published by All the Songs Sound the Same (BMI) / Wixen Music Publishing Inc. (BMI). Recorded at Electric Lady. Track 7 : Originally performed by [a=The Magnetic Fields]. Published by Gay and Loud (ASCAP). Recorded at A.R.C. Studios, late July 2008. Track 8 : Originally performed by [a=Destroyer (4)]. Published by Destroyer (SOCAN). Track 9 : Originally performed by [a=Neutral Milk Hotel]. Published by The Egg as a Whole Music. Engineered by Garden Gate Studio, Benton, KY. Track 10 : Originally performed by [a=Lambchop]. Published by Pathetic Hindsight (BMI), administered by BUG Music. Recorded and mixed at The Tape Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY. Track 11 : Originally performed by [a=Versus]. Published by Versus (BMI). Recorded live to 2-track at The Wonder Chamber, February 2, 2008. Track 12 : Originally performed by [a=Portastatic]. Published by Mac McCaughan (BMI). Recorded at Chapmantown Studios, Spring 2008. Track 13 : Originally performed by [a=East River Pipe]. Published by Hawk Be Out Music (BMI), administered by BUG Music. Recorded in Durham, NC, January 2009. Track 14 : Originally performed by [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rock-A-Teens%2C+The]The Rock*A*Teens[/url]. Published by Cabbagesounds Inc. (ASCAP). Track 15 : Originally performed by [a=The Magnetic Fields]. Published by Gay and Loud (ASCAP). Recorded in Jens' hotel room, London, August 2008. Track 16 : Originally performed by [a=Superchunk]. Published by All the Songs Sound the Same (BMI) / Wixen Music Publishing Inc. (BMI). Recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio, Olympia, WA. Track 17 : Originally performed by [a=Robert Pollard]. Published by Needmore Songs (BMI). Recorded in a basement in Bloomsfield, NJ, September 2008. Mixed in a basement in Wakefield, RI, November 2008. Track 18 : Originally performed by [a=East River Pipe]. Published by Hawk Be Out Music (BMI), administered by BUG Music, Big Ed's Moon Ride. Recorded before soundcheck at the Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ. Mixed at Seaside Lounge, Brooklyn, NY. Track 19 : Originally performed by [a=Superchunk]. Published by All the Songs Sound the Same (BMI) / Wixen Music Publishing Inc. (BMI). Recorded at Private Ear in Winnipeg. Track 20 : Originally performed by [a=Arcade Fire]. Published by Arcade Fire Music. Recorded by Rebecca's computer in the afternoon in Columbus, OH, October 2008. ℗&© 2009 Merge Records

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Drug Life - The Mountain Goats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc1SVyb6M6o

The Shins - Plenty is Never Enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6jH8Q_ie_E

Bright Eyes - Papa Was a Rodeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbsI7l9w1Aw

Okkervil River- All You Little Suckers (Cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5l3CYYnNU

Broken Social Scene - Complications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdj1WnGv7oU

Lavender Diamond - New Ways Of Living

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTl5r5FmOrs

BILL CALLAHAN (Smog) - Santa Maria (Versus cover, rare track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagMgIblxYg

Tracklist

Beautiful Things

Precision Auto

Plenty Is Never Enough

Sleep All Summer

Complications

Like A Fool

Papa Was A Rodeo

New Ways Of Living

King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3

Cowboy On The Moon

Santa Maria

Through With People

Drug Life

Don't Destroy This Night

Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

My Noise

The Numbered Head

All You Little Suckers

Kicked In

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

Labels

Merge Records

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By Kyle Larson