Songs

1. Samson2. Oedipus3. Prisoners4. Reading Time With Pickle5. Consequence of Sounds6. Daniel Cowman7. Bon Idee8. Aching to Pupate9. Lounge10. Lacrimosa11. Lulliby12. Ne Me Quitter Pas Product Description

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The album is now available for purchase periodically at the independent CD retailer CDBaby.com. Don't pay more from these sellers. September 10, 2008

Her best

After buying Soviet Kitsch a couple years ago I became very interested in hearing more of her work. I eventually found this album and another previous one called 11:11. I currently own all four of her albums and this is by far the best one. It's quirky, beautiful, and fun. It is one of those rare albums where I can listen to the entire CD. There are songs that are not quite as good as others but I never feel the need to skip any of them.

This album is also just her and her piano unlike the latest drum beat riddled Fidelity. Don't get me wrong, Fidelity is a decent album but I think it is missing the uniqueness found on previous albums like this one.

Since Songs is becoming a difficult album to find I would get it while you can. March 20, 2008

I love Regina's music.

This album is definitely a must have. There are some beautiful songs on this one. I like them all. Samson is probably my favorite track on the disc (loved it live as well), but they are all good in their own way. August 17, 2007

Her songs

Though you would never know it, Regina Spektor's recent hit album was actually her fourth, not her second.

One of those two "lost" albums was "Songs," an appropriate name for a collection of raw, beautifully simple little antifolk songs. The singer-songwriter spins out her little tunes around quirky vocals and exquisitely elusive, exuberant songwriting -- a truly astounding little album.

"You are my sweetest downfall/I loved you first, I loved you first/Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth..." The first song opens with a gentle piano melody, as Spektor sings of a deep, simple love that no one remembers ("And history books forgot about us and the Bible didnt mention us"), but which is no less striking for its anonymity.

Well, enough love. Then it's off into the taut bizarrity of "Oedipus," about a young prince trying to make himself stand out. And the songs that follow are no less unique: rambling a capella, dark piano songs about wintry flowers, trippling piano pop with staccato vocals, and gentle ballads about death row prisoners.

It ends with "Ne Me Quitte Pas," a quirky pop ode to various cities and districts, including New York ("And if you are the ghost of New York City/then won't you stick around"), Paris ("I love Paris in the rain...") and Paris. Where the first song looked back fondly on a love affair, the last song frolicks in the present.

Well, it really says something about Regina Spektor that she can write a song about pickle love... and it not only works, but it's charming and cute. "Songs" is full of such songs -- songs about ordinary things, but they're seen through a lens that reveals the beauty, sorrow and weirdness of them.

The only real instrument here is Spektor's trusty piano, which would sound kind of bare bones for most singers. But she can make it do whatever she likes -- it trips, hiccups, ripples in waves, growls, and clumps in little dense pockets. "Samson" is the closest to a "normal" melody: a gentle, full-bodied melody that unfolds smoothly, but still hiccups occasionally.

Spektor's quirky, high voice is as versatile as her piano -- she croons, trills, soars, rambles, groans, and goes "brrrrrrrrr!". Her lyrics are elusive and hard to decipher at times, drawing as much from Greek mythology as from NYC life -- in one song she's meditating that "love is the answer to a question that I/have forgotten," and the next she's fantasizing about how, "I will open up my trenchcoat/they will see the butterflies/dangling like fake rolexes."

"Songs" is exactly what it says it is -- songs. But Regina Spektor fills these simple little tunes with quirky stylings and brilliant lyrics. A treasure. June 25, 2007

great cd

What an awesome cd to have if you are a Regina fan,I cannot figure out why she would not want this gem out in the first place.Glad someone convinced her to put it out for the fans January 16, 2007

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