Soviet Kitsch (album)

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Soviet Kitsch
Soviet Kitsch cover
Studio album by Regina Spektor
Released August 17, 2004
Recorded
Genre Rock, Anti-folk
Length 39:00
Label Sire Records/London Records/Rhino Records
Producer(s) Gordon Raphael, Alan Bezozi, Regina Spektor
Professional reviews
Regina Spektor chronology
Songs
(2002)
Soviet Kitsch
(2004)
Live at Bull Moose
(2005)


Soviet Kitsch is the third album by Regina Spektor. The title is drawn from Milan Kundera's expression for the impractical romantic ideals of communism, a theme in his book The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Ode to Divorce" – 3:42
  2. "Poor Little Rich Boy" – 2:27
  3. "Carbon Monoxide" – 4:59
  4. "The Flowers" – 3:54
  5. "Us" – 4:52
  6. "Sailor Song" – 3:15
  7. "***" – 0:44
  8. "Your Honor" – 2:10
  9. "Ghost of Corporate Future" – 3:21
  10. "Chemo Limo" – 6:04
  11. "Somedays" – 3:21

Track 7, entitled "***" is a brief spoken word piece in which Spektor and her brother, Bear (Barry) Spektor, discuss the following song ("Your Honor").

An alternate version of the album was also released that included a second disc, a DVD, which included a short film by Spektor entitled The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch and the music video for "Us".

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