LateNightTales

by MGMT

Overview

As a series, Late Night Tales is an interesting exercise. Asking musicians to make late-night mixes from their own collections, the series finds artists ranging from Jamiroquai to the Flaming Lips putting together their own mixtapes of quintessential after-hours jams, but on the MGMT installment, the series really knocks it out of the park. Featuring songs by artists like Television Personalities, Spacemen 3, and Suicide, the collection succeeds on a couple of levels, existing not only as a solid set of spacy, nocturnal songs, but also as a Rosetta Stone for MGMT's own influences. Listening to the album almost feels like putting together a puzzle, with the finished product being their eclectic sophomore effort, Congratulations. And as if a collection of some of the moodiest, reverb-soaked post-punk to ever walk the earth wasn't enough, the album also features MGMT performing a cover of Bauhaus' "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything," which manages to slot in nicely with the rest of the tracks here. Whether you're coming for the MGMT track and staying for the history lesson, or coming for the track list and discovering MGMT, this entry into the Late Night Tales canon is a solid winner. ~ Gregory Heaney

Product Details

Release Date:	10/11/2011
Label:	Latenighttales
UPC:	5099967818129
Rank:	64181

Tracks

1. Can't See Through It  -  Disco Inferno  -  Disco Inferno
2. Love You Girl  -  Great Society
3. Cheree  -  Suicide
4. Stop & Smell the Roses  -  Television Personalities  - Dan Treacy
5. Ocean  -  Velvet Underground
6. Red Indians  - Maurice Deebank  -  Felt  -  Felt
7. Laughing Boy  - Julian Cope  - Stephen Lovell
8. For Belgian Friends  -  Durutti Column
9. Mound Of Clay  - Charlie Feathers
10. Song For Wilde  - Mark Fry  - Laura Papi
11. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything  - Dave Fridmann  -  MGMT
12. Troubled Mind  -  Cheval Sombre  - Christopher Porpora  -  Sonic Boom
13. Drug Song  - Dave Bixby
14. Hearts Are Like Flowers  -  Jacobites  - Dave Kusworth
15. Pink Frost  -  Chills  - Doug Hood  - Terry King  - Chris Knox  - Terry Moore  - Martin Phillipps
16. Sparks  - Martin Rev  - Marvin Rev
17. Melancholy Man  -  Wake
18. Lord Can You Hear Me?  -  Spacemen 3
19. Morning Splendour  - Pauline Anna Strom
20. Lost for Words Pt. 2  - Paul Morley
21. MGMT Late Night Tales Continuous Mix

Album Credits

Performance Credits

MGMT   Primary Artist
Martin Rev   Primary Artist
Disco Inferno   Primary Artist,Primary Artist
Pauline Anna Strom   Primary Artist
Marvin Rev   Primary Artist
Dave Bixby   Primary Artist
Felt   Primary Artist,Primary Artist
Cheval Sombre   Primary Artist
The Velvet Underground   Primary Artist
Dave Kusworth   Primary Artist
Suicide   Primary Artist
Nikki Sudden   Primary Artist
The Great Society   Primary Artist
Mark Fry   Primary Artist
Julian Cope   Primary Artist
The Wake   Primary Artist
Charlie Feathers   Primary Artist
The Durutti Column   Primary Artist
Jacobites   Primary Artist
The Chills   Primary Artist
Paul Morley   Primary Artist
Television Personalities   Primary Artist
Spacemen 3   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Mark Fry   Composer
James Richardson   Group Member
Martin Rev   Composer
Dave Bixby   Composer,Producer
Terry Moore   Composer,Producer
Maurice Deebank   Composer
Disco Inferno   Composer
Dustin Yellin   Photography
Doug Hood   Producer
Julian Cope   Composer
Martin Phillipps   Producer,Composer
Valerie Phillips   Photography
Will Berman   Group Member
Peter Ashworth   Cover Photo
Andrew VanWyngarden   Group Member
Bill Brewster   Liner Notes
Chris Knox   Producer
Ben Goldwasser   Group Member
Sonic Boom   Producer
Dave Kusworth   Composer
Paul Morley   Composer
Dave Fridmann   Mixing
Dan Treacy   Composer
Terry King   Producer
Paul "Sheeky" Morris   Mixing Producer,Mastering
Laura Papi   Producer
Stephen Lovell   Producer
Christopher Porpora   Composer
Matt Asti   Group Member