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- Date Released: October 3, 2006
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: 4AD
Grim songs based on the ten Biblical plagues.
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Those relentless Tiger Lillies imagine enduring a hailstorm in a tin shack, an experience that drives the victim to heavy drug use and existential despair. And that’s actually one of the milder cuts on this exceptionally peculiar concept compilation. Stephin Merritt programs a very ’80s clap track for an absurdly bouncy tune about vermin infestation (“The Meaning of Lice”). The equally diseased Cody ChestnuTT sounds like a New Orleans funeral as he contemplates “Boils,” while Brian Eno’s “Flies” restores old meaning to the concept of buzz. “In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these,” as the sage radio voice Paul Harvey once noted. Well, maybe: Gas prices may be astronomical, foreclosures rampant and The Sopranos kaput, but at least we’re not dealing with plague-carrying rats and raw sewage in the streets. Yet.
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| 01. |  |
Blood
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3:44 |  |
| 02. | |
Relate The Tale
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4:59 | |
| 03. | |
The Meaning Of Lice
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3:01 | |
| 04. | |
Flies
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5:46 | |
| 05. | |
The Fifth Plague
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3:24 | |
| 06. | |
Boils
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2:41 | |
| 07. | |
Hailstones
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5:48 | |
| 08. | |
Glittering Clouds (Locusts)
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3:36 | |
| 09. | |
Darkness
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3:44 | |
| 10. | |
Katonah
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4:15 | |
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