Patron Saint by Regina Spektor
“Beyond the chipping paint of the window pane
Lies, lies, lies
Her patron saint
Broken and lame
And absolutely insane
For learning that true love exists”
The Party by Regina Spektor
“You’re like a party somebody threw me.
You taste like birthday.
You look like New Years
You’re like a big parade through town”
Ballad of a Politician made its radio debut live on BBC6 earlier today! Regina also performed ‘All the Rowboats’ live. Unfortunately, only UK fans can listen to the stream at the station’s website. Luckily for you, we recorded the whole thing! Listen/download the full interview and performance here:
http://www.reginapolis.com/2012/05/bbc6-music-interview-download/
Oh Marcello by Regina Spektor
“Oh Marcello, How I wonder La Madonna she tell the truth, no?
She’s been saying I’ll have a baby, when he grow up he become a killer”
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Regina Spektor - How (Official studio version)
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Small Town Moon (album version) by Regina Spektor
“Today we’re younger than we’re ever gonna be”
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The Prayer of François Villon, from the RSD vinyl.
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Here’s another recently re-discovered demo of Hero, from the 2004 session. There were a few people that had this, but many did not - until now! Download below:
Here’s what sounds like a studio recording of, I Cut Off My Hair, which is an unreleased song. A live version of this song has been floating around for awhile, and was thought to be the only version. This new/old studio version was dug up by ‘jesse’, who is a member of Regina’s Brumstix messageboard [see source link]. Jesse had some really interesting, and quite frankly incorrect things to say about us which we’d like to address here:
- To clear up any confusion, we’re not affiliated with any other fan sites and none of us are members of Brumstix. Reginapolis (previously reginaspektor.org) is run by four fans: Aly, Mike, Taylor, and Evan. We originally created reginaspektor.org because the few other fan sites that exist weren’t really updated. We give them props for starting it all, and are hugely indebted to sites like reginaspektor.net and respektonline.com.
- We’re not hoarders, nor would we ever support hoarding. Certainly there are people who might be sitting on unreleased demos and think themselves important for having them, but that’s not us. Nope, sorry. Our policy has always been to share everything, which might make us unpopular with some people, but who cares? We draw the line at sharing leaks of new content or anything that Regina doesn’t want out, such as the Beauty demos. Regina has said several times in the past that she doesn’t mind fans sharing her stuff, and we fully support that.
- Awhile back, we started our own little project to track down unreleased demos and have confirmed that studio demos of quite a few songs really do exist. Most of these were recorded in 2001-2006, and were shared with industry insiders when Regina was just getting started with her career. Some of these were meant to be album tracks, but were excluded. We’ve discovered that studio demos of songs such as Aquarius, A Cooler Version of Yourself, Dog & Pony, The Someone, Mermaid, Light, The Wallet (was previously recorded in a studio long before the far version), Mausoleum, You, The Ghost, Secret Stash (sometimes referred to as No One), Dead Rat, Lounge, Virgin Queen, and quite a few others actually do exist. We’ve been trying to compile a list of everything, and possible dates of recordings, but it’s such a process. There’s no word on if these were shared outside of music industry people, but it’s highly possible. We certainly don’t have them, but if we did we’d share them in a heartbeat. There’s really no point in holding on to things like that when they should be posted for everyone to hear and enjoy.
So that’s all we have to say about that. Here’s a download link for I Cut off My Hair, also courtesy of Jesse:
Loveology | Regina Spektor
Love-ology, love-ology I'm-sorry-ology Forgive-me-ology
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Don’t Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas) by Regina Spektor
The version from What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
