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For its 20th birthday, North Carolina indie label Merge Records invited artists such as Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes and Death Cab for Cutie to cover 20 of its classic tunes. The bands get to work with enthusiasm: Okkervil River turn East River Pipe’s "All You Little Suckers" into a dreamy, electro-fied slow dance; the Shins do a jangly version of Tenement Halls' "Plenty Is Never Enough." Score! is at its best when the interpretations get loose, as Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman prove when they strip the snarkiness from the Magnetic Fields' "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" and make it a soulful relationship lament.
(Posted: Mar 30, 2009)
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- Beautiful Things
- Precision Auto
- Plenty Is Never Enough
- Sleep All Summer
- Complications
- Like a Fool
- Papa Was a Rodeo
- New Ways of Living
- King of Carrot Flowers Pt. Three
- Cowboy On the Moon
- Santa Maria
- Through With People
- Drug Life
- Don't Destroy This Night
- Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
- My Noise
- The Numbered Head
- All You Little Suckers
- Kicked In
- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
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