Artist	Song
Of Montreal	Old Familiar Way
Of Montreal	The Problem With April
Of Montreal	Jennifer Louise
Of Montreal	Sing You A Love You Song
Of Montreal	If I Faltered Slightly Twice
Of Montreal	Good Morning Mr. Edminton
Of Montreal	Look At The Bell
Of Montreal	Friends of Mine
Of Montreal	Disguises
Of Montreal	One Of A Very Few Of A Kind
Of Montreal	Don't Ask Me To Explain
Of Montreal	Doing Nothing
Of Montreal	Butterscotching Mr. Lynn
Of Montreal	Spoonful of Sugar
Of Montreal	Neat Little Domestic Life
Of Montreal	An Ill-Treated Hiccup
Of Montreal	Dustin Hoffman Does Not Resist Temptation To Eat The Bathtub
Of Montreal	An Introduction To Isabell
Of Montreal	The World Keeps Going Round
Of Montreal	My Favorite Boxer
Of Montreal	My, What A Strange Day With a Swede
Of Montreal	You Are An Airplane
Of Montreal	Jaques Lemure
Of Montreal	She's My Best Friend
Of Montreal	Old People in the Cemetery
Of Montreal	The Secret Ocean
Of Montreal	I Can't Stop Your Memory
Of Montreal	It's Easy To Sleep When You're Dead
Of Montreal	The Gay Parade Outro

Comment:

Of Montreal are doubtlessly the most innovative, creative, and prolific of the Elephant 6 indie-pop crowd. They're also, let's be honest, the most cloying and intermittently unlistenable. They meld the lyrical, vocal and instrumental challenges of Neutral Milk Hotel with the whimsical character studies and love songs of Village Green-era Kinks and studio experimentation of Smile-era Beach Boys, whipping out some of the most complex lyrical and compositional works you'll ever hear, only to have it frequently come crashing down with more tempo and time-signature changes and bizarre instrumentation and off-kilter harmonies thrown into each song than most bands put on an entire album. You've gotta admire a band that offers a concept album tracing every event during the rise and fall of a doomed relationship, or issues a collection of early home recordings in which every song title features some sort of nonsense about Dustin Hoffman. I've got their entire catalog, nearly a dozen albums and ep's, each of which I listen to very very rarely -- making for one of my best mixes, as each of those discs has a few tunes that are simply amazing once removed from their typically more annoying contexts.

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