of Montreal Go Acoustic For "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants"

The last time I saw this song performed live was at Roseland Ballroom. This take on Skeletal Lamping's "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" is considerably more stripped, partially because it features Barnes and the Late B.P. Helium on acoustic guitars, mostly because this time Kevin and his brother aren't dressed as centaurs and fife-blowing satyrs. This time it's intimate. The full touring troupe is in tow, though, so it's more a rearrangement than an Unplugged performance, with a handful of psychedelic swooshes and occasional keyboard drums to color the song's E6 pop core. Also this is starting to look like The Curious Case Of Kevin Barnes.

"Beware Our Nubile Miscreants"

Two more tunes and an interview over at Spinner.

Posted at 5:05 PM by amrit
Tags: of Montreal

14 Comments

i actually like this more than the album version

Posted by: kurt at 01/30/09 6:14 PM | Reply
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<3

Posted by: Jamie at 01/30/09 6:44 PM | Reply
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Not bad. I'm not much of a fan of oM but the song is a good one. The bass player was doing some really interesting stuff but the electro-assbaggery was getting in the way and you couldn't hear he was doing. Ditto on the guitars. I don't mind electronics but this was like a bad sound board job with one thing drowning out the rest.

Posted by: pcbowen at 01/30/09 7:39 PM | Reply
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yea, I love the bass in this. Most Of Montreal songs have really cool bass lines and sometimes dueling basses. Also, I dig the acoustic rendition.

Posted by: theTimDuke  in reply to pcbowen's comment at 01/31/09 11:39 AM | Reply
Score = 1

absolutely loved it. a little better than the album version even.

Posted by: z at 01/30/09 9:01 PM | Reply
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what's with the first two doofuses pimping their blogs on here. stay away spammers!

Posted by: sean at 01/30/09 10:33 PM | Reply
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It seems to me that sunglasses are very popular amongst today's 30-something indie rockers. 3 1/2 out of 6 for these guys.

Posted by: Daniel at 01/30/09 11:48 PM | Reply
Score = -2

i wish they were still in the U.S, anybody have any idea when there coming back?

Posted by: Panda Snare at 01/31/09 11:43 AM | Reply
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They're going to be back by april 25th for the awesome and free Norman Music Festival!!!!!

Posted by: meANDmy_mONKEY  in reply to Panda Snare's comment at 01/31/09 8:32 PM | Reply
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A++ here, very cool rendition

Posted by: j0shsm1th at 01/31/09 3:35 PM | Reply
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Kevin looks cool as shit in this vid.

Posted by: matttttttthew at 01/31/09 3:39 PM | Reply
Score = 1

anyone have an audio rip of this?

Posted by: Z at 01/31/09 5:26 PM | Reply
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the spinner link is wrong.

Posted by: pete at 02/01/09 5:11 PM | Reply
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ah-mazing. wow.

Posted by: Jamie at 02/02/09 12:03 AM | Reply
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