I've got so many things to post and so little time to do it...I've been running back and forth from the Wisconsin Film Festival for the past couple of days and blogging from there. But there's some nice
Of Montreal coverage at
Cable & Tweed that I need to point you to, if you haven't discovered it already.
Last week
Of Montreal warmed up for their New York karaoke night with a karaoke set at the 40 Watt. Rich at C&T has provided a full track listing, which is below. I've also linked to those tracks he's made available as MP3s. (I don't know, Rich; I kinda want to hear that "Islands in the Stream" with Zachary from
Summer Hymns and Page from
Hope for Agoldensummer.)
Of MontrealApril 9, 2007
40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
Tonight We're Gonna Rock Ya Tonight [Spinal Tap w/ Of Montreal]- begin karaoke -
All Day and All of the Night [
The Kinks w/ Candace Dawson]
Don't Bring Me Down [
Electric Light Orchestra w/ Josh Lewis]
Don't Stop Believing [Journey w/ Jason Nesmith of Casper & The Cookies]Rapture Rapes the Muses [
Of Montreal w/ George Dobson, Rachel Foreman, and Ben Lambert]
Need You Tonight [INXS w/ Andy Lemaster of Now It's Overhead]Surrender [
Cheap Trick w/ Davey, one of the CCAA Booty Patrol]
Suffragette City [
David Bowie w/ Liz Wheeler & Lily Buckley]
Here Comes Your Man [
The Pixies w/ Scott Creeney]
Sweet Child o' Mine [
Guns N' Roses w/ Heather McIntosh of
Elf Power, The Instruments]
Ever Fallen in Love [
Buzzcocks w/ Mary Jane Hessell]
Suffer for Fashion [w/ Jim Hicks of Casper & The Cookies]Islands in the Stream [
Bee-Gees w/ Page Campbell of
Hope for Agoldensummer and Zach Gresham of
Summer Hymns]
Raspberry Beret [
Prince w/ Bronwyn]
Dancing Queen [
ABBA w/
8-Track Gorilla]
The Joker [Steve Miller Band w/ Ben Clack and Jeff Tobias of
Dark Meat]
Bunny Ain't No Kind of Ryder [w/ Dan Korn (
Of Montreal soundguy)]
The Party's Crashing Us [
Of Montreal w/ Lauren Ethridge & Sally Miller & Patrock]
Motor Away [
Guided by Voices w/ Dave Wrathgeber of
Visitations]
More Than a Feeling [
Boston w/ Jeff Griggs of
Je Suis France]
Made available at the show was a self-parodic concept album called
Fo Montreal: The Bedside Drama A Petite Las Vegas Tragedy. You can probably guess by the title what it's about. For a track listing and download links, go
this post at C&T. Thanks very much to Rich for making it available for us non-Athens folk!
UPDATE: According to Mike Turner, the album was likely put together by a member of
Col. Knowledge and the Lickety Splits, not
Of Montreal themselves.
Oh, and I would like to post a link to the
Of Montreal/Conan O'Brien clip, but NBC seems to be hunting down every online source like a rabid wolf. (Last time I posted
Dressy Bessy and
Apples in Stereo clips from Conan, they prompty disappeared also.) I would suggest you do some hunting on your own and you should be able to find it.