Remember is the first live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 from indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band The Fiery Furnaces

The Fiery Furnaces

The Fiery Furnaces are a U.S. indie rock band formed in 2000 in Brooklyn, New York. The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. The siblings are originally from Oak Park, Illinois, a near-western suburb of Chicago.- Band biography :...

, released on August 19, 2008. The album includes various live performances of songs from their first six studio albums, recorded between 2005 and the tour for their 2007 album, Widow City

Widow City

Widow City is the sixth full length album by The Fiery Furnaces. It was released on October 9, 2007 on Chicago-based label Thrill Jockey. The album art features Eleanor Friedberger on the front and Matthew Friedberger on the back.-Title and themes:...

. Some longer songs, such as "Blueberry Boat" and "Quay Cur", have multiple cuts in the track from various performances. Other songs, such as the tracks from the Bitter Tea

Bitter Tea

Bitter Tea is the fifth full-length album by The Fiery Furnaces, released on April 18th, 2006 via Fat Possum in the U.S and Rough Trade in the UK...

medley

Medley (music)

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping. They are common in popular music, and most medleys are songs rather than instrumental. A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done with tracks...

, were recorded live in the recording studio

Recording studio

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Disc one

1. Intro - 0:41
2. Blueberry Boat - 8:27
3. Single Again - 3:33
4. Two Fat Feet - 2:28
5. Don't Dance Her Down - 3:26
6. Single Again (Reprise) - 2:03
7. Wicker Whatnots - 2:55
8. Little Thatched Hut - 4:12
9. I'm in No Mood - 2:59
10. Black-Hearted Boy - 2:38
11. Bitter Tea - 2:47
12. Waiting to Know You - 1:34
13. Vietnamese Telephone Ministry - 2:46
14. Oh Sweet Woods - 2:31
15. Borneo - 3:30
16. Benton Harbor Blues - 1:41
17. Japanese Slippers - 2:23
18. Benton Harbor Blues (Reprise) - 1:03
19. Whistle Rhapsody - 1:52
20. Crystal Clear - 1:39
21. Whistle Rhapsody (Reprise) - 1:15
22. Teach Me Sweetheart - 3:41
23. Evergreen - 1:37
24. Bitter Tea (Reprise) - 1:30

Disc two

1. Chris Michaels - 6:57
2. Quay Cur - 8:17
3. My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found - 2:52
4. Spaniolated - 2:01
5. Name Game - 2:27
6. Birdie Brain - 2:28
7. 1917 - 3:08
8. Slavin' Away (Intro) - 0:18
9. Tropical Ice-land - 3:29
10. Asthma Attack - 1:44
11. Tropical Ice-land (Reprise) - 0:26
12. The Wayward Granddaughter - 4:38
13. The Garfield El - 1:48
14. A Candymaker's Knife in My Handbag - 1:08
15. Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second St. - 2:40
16. Slavin' Away - 2:58
17. Seven Silver Curses - 1:40
18. Clear Signal From Cairo - 1:37
19. I'm Gonna Run - 2:26
20. Here Comes the Summer - 3:15
21. Chief Inspector Blancheflower - 2:31
22. Automatic Husband - 1:38
23. Ex-Guru - 2:34
24. Clear Signal From Cairo (Reprise) - 1:39
25. Philadelphia Grand Jury - 1:13
26. Navy Nurse - 0:59
27. Uncle Charlie - 2:17

Additional information

Instead of displaying the full track listing, the album contains only a listing of the six suites:

1. Old HK
2. Waiting at the Lobby at 665½ Frontage Road
3. In a House Once Owned by the Princes of Mataran
4. Drinking by the Des Plaines River
5. Black Death Bottle
6. A Special Commission of Navajo Basketball Coaches and Blonde Ladies

The packaging includes a small paper insert titled "Remember Treasure Hunt" that proposes that the listener write down guesses of the track listing, before and after listening to the album.

Reception

External links

• Album review at Crawdaddy!