MGMT - Late Night Tales (Vinyl)

The LATE NIGHT TALES series was launched in 2001. The idea: pick an internationally known artist with a great musical knowledge, offer them the chance to choose and mix all their favorite "home listening" and musically inspiring tracks, together with an exclusive cover recording of an all-time favorite song.

MGMT's Late Night Tales selection of post-punk, cult indie and counter-culture figureheads reflects the band’s multifaceted sound, and draws comparisons with contemporary dreampop/chillwave/shoegaze/folk scenes on both sides of the Atlantic.

The listener finds MGMT presiding over the playlist "after-the-after-party”; daybreak creeping through the curtains earlier than desirable, broken bodies lining the corridors, the emotionally bankrupt kept alive by timeless songs of heartache and longing.

Luminaries The Velvet Underground, Suicide and Julian Cope, although not with their most famous songs, sit alongside less familiar names
such as Disco Inferno; whose ‘Can’t See It Through’ from their final ‘96 album ‘Technicolour’ opens proceedings.

MGMT’s exclusive cover of ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’ by Bauhaus sits comfortably alongside the UK post-punk-gothic band’s
peers The Durutti Column, The Chills, The Jacobites and Felt’s brief but imposing instrumental ‘Red Indians’.

Tracklisting:

LP1:

1. Disco Inferno - Can't See Through It
2. The Great! Society - Love You Girl
3. Suicide - Cheree
4. Television
5. Personalities - Stop & Smell The Roses
6. The Velvet Underground - Ocean (Outtake Version)
7. Felt - Red Indians
8. Julian Cope - Laughing Boy
9. The Durutti Column - For Belgian Friends

LP2:

1. MGMT - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Excusive Cover Version)
2. Mark Fry - Song For Wilde
3. Cheval Sombre - Troubled Mind
4. Dave Bixby - Drug Song
5. Jacobites - Hearts Are Like Flowers
6. The Chills - Pink Frost
7. Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me?
8. Paul Morley - Lost For Words Part 2 (Exclusive Spoken Word Piece)