50 Song Memoir (5-CD)

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 5
Released: March 10, 2017
Originally Released: 2017
Label: Nonesuch

Entertainment Reviews:

Paste (magazine) - "[T]hese are easily the least catchy and most expansive arrangements of the man's lifetime, which he's earned."
Pitchfork (Website) - "50 SONG MEMOIR is a conceptually satisfying work, spanning five discs and two-and-a-half hours without feeling repetitive or samey."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.'66 Wonder Where I'm From
2.'67 Come Back as a Cockroach
3.'68 A Cat Called Dionysus
4.'69 Judy Garland
5.'70 They're Killing Children Over There
6.'71 I Think I'll Make Another World
7.'72 Eye Contact
8.'73 It Could Have Been Paradise
9.'74 No
10.'75 My Mama Ain't

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.'76 Hustle '76
2.'77 Life Ain't All Bad
3.'78 The Blizzard of '78
4.'79 Rock 'n' Roll Will Ruin Your Life
5.'80 London by Jetpack
6.'81 How to Play the Synthesizer
7.'82 Happy Beeping
8.'83 Foxx and I
9.'84 Danceteria!
10.'85 Why I Am Not a Teenager

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.'86 How I Failed Ethics
2.'87 At the Pyramid
3.'88 Ethan Frome
4.'89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
5.'90 Dreaming in Tetris
6.'91 The Day I Finally...
7.'92 Weird Diseases
8.'93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
9.'94 Haven't Got a Penny
10.'95 A Serious Mistake

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.'96 I'm Sad!
2.'97 Eurodisco Trio
3.'98 Lovers' Ties
4.'99 Fathers in the Clouds
5.'00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
6.'01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
7.'02 Be True to Your Bar
8.'03 The Ex and I
9.'04 Cold-Blooded Man
10.'05 Never Again

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.'06 Quotes
2.'07 In the Snow White Cottages
3.'08 Surfin'
4.'09 Till You Come Back to Me
5.'10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6.'11 Stupid Tears
7.'12 You Can Never Go Back to New York
8.'13 Big Enough for Both of Us
9.'14 I Wish I Had Pictures
10.'15 Somebody's Fetish