Remember (The Fiery Furnaces album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Remember
Type = Live album
Artist = The Fiery Furnaces


Released = August 19th, 2008 (US)September 8, 2008 (UK)
Recorded = October 2005-April 2008
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 132:02
Label = Thrill Jockey
Producer = Matthew Friedberger
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fifixzqkldte link]
* Cokemachineglow (7.4/10) [http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/3834/fieryfurnaces-remember-2008 link]
* Pitchfork Media (4.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/144794-the-fiery-furnaces-remember link]
* Popmatters rating-10|7 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/61007/the-fiery-furnaces-remember/ link]
* Web in Front (Positive) [http://webinfront.net/?p=906 link]
Last album = "Widow City" (2007)
This album = "Remember" (2008)
Next album =

"Remember" is the first live album from indie rock band The Fiery Furnaces, 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". 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" medley, sound like they were recorded live in the recording studio.

Track listing

Disc one

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

Disc two

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

Additional Information

On the back of the album cover, the tracklisting illustrates the various suites of the live album. The first disc is shown as:

# Old HK
# Waiting at the Lobby at 665 1/2 Frontage Road
# In a House Once Owned by the Princes of Mataran

The second disc is shown as:

# Drinking by the Des Plaines River
# Black Death Bottle
# A Special Commission of Navajo Basketball Coaches and Blonde Ladies

From the Thrill Jockey press release:"Remember" captures the high energy, intricate complexity, amazing vocal acrobatics of Eleanor and the technical musicianship that defines a Fiery Furnaces performance. Collecting songs from their entire catalogue and performances across the globe starting in 2005, Remember is a unique document. The Fiery Furnaces reconstruct and re-arrange their songs for each tour. They go to great lengths to create versions that vary greatly from the recorded versions in tempo, instrumentation and arrangements. The band go through this process for each tour, never repeating themselves, and often combining songs in a musical collage that creates a new song made up of several - or even of bits of an entire album! These are not your mother’s medleys. We know of no other band that goes to such great lengths to reinvent and re-imagine for every tour."