Album · Compilation

SCORE! Selections From 20 Years of Merge Records

Released 2009221 tracks · 818:22EnglishMerge Records

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Patriot’s Heart	American Music Club	5:59
1.2	England’s Dreaming	Cornershop	3:33
1.3	Slack Motherfucker	Mac McCaughan	2:54
1.4	Freak Scene	Lou Barlow, J Mascis	3:38
1.5	The Book I Haven’t Read	Lambchop	5:47
1.6	Requiem	M. Ward	2:50
1.7	Come Back From San Francisco	The Magnetic Fields	2:49
1.8	The Dog Beneath the Skin	Matt Elliott	7:52
1.9	Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft	Robert Pollard	4:14
1.10	Misty Took a Holiday	The RockATeens	2:41
1.11	UFO>UFO>UFO	Rocket From the Crypt	2:15
1.12	Suffice	The Spinanes	3:50
1.13	Confused	Lou Barlow	3:45
1.14	Born Under a Good Sign	Teenage Fanclub	3:01
1.15	You’re So Good to Me	Velocity Girl	2:31
1.16	Sour Shores	Portastatic	4:40
1.17	You’ve Passed	Neutral Milk Hotel	3:05
1.18	Hate Me More	The Minus 5	4:40
2.1	Break a Promise	Guv’ner	3:24
2.2	Everything	Imperial Teen	3:20
2.3	Drunkard’s Worst Nightmare	The Rosebuds	3:42
2.4	Decora	Spoon	3:15
2.5	Wait for Returns	Annie Hayden	3:37
2.6	Gold in Sound	David Kilgour	3:57
2.7	Your Fucking Sunny Day	Lambchop	3:47
2.8	Angela	Oakley Hall	4:16
2.9	Forever Yours	Paul Burch & the WPA Ballclub	3:07
2.10	Prettiest Whore	East River Pipe	3:33
2.11	Spying on the Spys	Portastatic	3:54
2.12	This Is Not a Test	She & Him	3:31
2.13	She’s Fetching	Big Dipper	2:39
2.14	Spring Training	Pipe	1:31
2.15	The Day the Sharks Flew	Erectus Monotone	1:42
2.16	Amen Grasshopper	Ashley Stove	3:12
2.17	Honey Bee	Superchunk	3:43
2.18	I Wanna Know Girls	Lambchop	6:31
2.19	I Wanna Know Girls	Portastatic	4:59
2.20	I Wanna Know Girls	Lambchop	6:30
2.21	San Andreas	Portastatic	2:40
3.1	The Late Great Cassiopia	The Essex Green	3:31
3.2	Oh My Darlin’	Paul Burch & the WPA Ballclub	3:11
3.3	A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off	The Magnetic Fields	2:42
3.4	Alaska	Camera Obscura	3:11
3.5	The Fitted Shirt	Spoon	3:13
3.6	My Own Face Inside the Trees	The Clientele	3:09
3.7	On Again Off Again	David Kilgour	1:48
3.8	When Her Brow Curls	Butterglory	2:20
3.9	I Met You in My Dreams	The Mad Scene	4:28
3.10	Hale Sunrise	The Broken West	4:39
3.11	Sugar	Imperial Teen	3:26
3.12	One for the Road	Portastatic	4:57
3.13	Capo (South of Caspian)	Ganger	9:36
3.14	Sweet Marie	Crooked Fingers	4:56
3.15	In a Jar	Dinosaur Jr.	3:31
4.1	Start a Little Late	Annie Hayden	2:52
4.2	Slug Song	David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour	3:18
4.3	If Looks Could Kill	Camera Obscura	3:29
4.4	Low Ambition	Lambchop	4:43
4.5	Blue Bird	The Rosebuds	4:28
4.6	Magic in the Space Age	Spaceheads	5:22
4.7	Only With You	Teenage Fanclub	4:23
4.8	The Golden Grove	3Ds	2:45
4.9	Repulsion	Dinosaur Jr.	3:04
4.10	This Questionnaire	The Cakekitchen	6:19
4.11	Sirocco	Pram	4:27
4.12	The Greatest Time	The Mad Scene	4:20
4.13	A Million Lights	The Renderers	4:14
4.14	Seed Toss	Mac McCaughan	3:02
4.15	Beautiful Car	M. Ward	2:37
4.16	Shangri‐La	Versus	3:33
4.17	Also Ran	Matt Elliott	6:28
4.18	BBC World	David Kilgour	3:00
4.19	The Lie and How We Told It	Annie Hayden	3:35
5.1	I’m a Strong Lion	Robert Pollard	1:10
5.2	Song Against Sex	Neutral Milk Hotel	3:41
5.3	The Saddest Story Ever Told	The Magnetic Fields	2:11
5.4	Absolutely Nothing	East River Pipe	2:12
5.5	It’s Gonna Take an Airplane	Destroyer	3:41
5.6	No Dreams	Oakley Hall	4:01
5.7	St. Elmo’s Fire	Portastatic	3:26
5.8	Point That Thing Somewhere Else	The Clean	5:27
5.9	It’s All in My Mind	Teenage Fanclub	3:40
5.10	Song for the Death of Parents	The Music Tapes	4:03
5.11	Believing Is Art	Spoon	4:19
5.12	Joseph Cornell	The Clientele	2:23
5.13	To Go Home	M. Ward	3:49
5.14	She’s the One	Jeremy Greenspan	3:56
5.15	A Song to Be Beautiful	Big Dipper	4:04
5.16	Hawaiian Baby	The Spinanes	5:36
5.17	Lions Writing the Bible	The Third Eye Foundation	1:56
5.18	She’s Fetching	Walter Salas-Humara and Winterpills	4:02
6.1	Washington, D.C.	Claudia Gonson	1:54
6.2	Polado	Dinosaur Jr.	5:42
6.3	Anything Could Happen	David Kilgour	2:37
6.4	Million $ Man	Imperial Teen	4:25
6.5	Everything Turned Orange	The Cakekitchen	4:50
6.6	Today Is Gonna Be Mine	David Kilgour	3:16
6.7	Hey Seuss	3Ds	2:20
6.8	Hwy R	The RockATeens	4:02
6.9	Let’s Get Out of This Country	Britta Persson	3:20
6.10	Kicked In	Superchunk	4:24
6.11	I Have the Moon	The Magnetic Fields	2:37
6.12	Helmet On	East River Pipe	4:04
6.13	Semtex	The Third Eye Foundation	5:12
6.14	The Ballad of Daykitty	Lou Barlow	4:03
6.15	Yeah Woo	Miss Teen Schnauzer	1:09
6.16	I’m So Glad	Lou Barlow	3:12
7.1	Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken	Britta Persson	3:49
7.2	Paul’s Song	M. Ward	3:15
7.3	No Cars Go	Arcade Fire	5:40
7.4	Sun Don’t Shine	Paul Burch	2:45
7.5	Listening to Sally	Honor Role	3:06
7.6	Sentimental Heart	She & Him	2:37
7.7	Please Concrete	Wye Oak	3:13
7.8	Lunch at Sara’s	Shark Quest	4:08
7.9	City of the Damned	The Gothic Archies	1:33
7.10	Starless Night	Tenement Halls	4:33
7.11	Communist Daughter	Neutral Milk Hotel	2:02
7.12	Caterpillar Girl	Lou Barlow	3:41
8.1	Broken Window	Arcade Fire	6:19
8.2	Your Blood	Destroyer	4:16
8.3	Kill the Action	East River Pipe	2:37
8.4	Magic Trick	M. Ward	1:44
8.5	Willpower	Paul Burch & the WPA Ballclub	4:30
8.6	Hey Salty	Portastatic	4:59
8.7	Track of the Cat	Pram	4:13
8.8	I Summon You	Spoon	3:58
8.9	North by North	The Bats	4:02
8.10	Tally Ho	The Clean	2:40
8.11	The Man Who Loved Beer	Kurt Wagner	2:46
8.12	I Think I Need a New Heart	Stephin Merritt	2:34
8.13	Winnipeg	Albatross Note	4:06
8.14	Baltimore	Wye Oak	3:18
9.1	King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1	Neutral Milk Hotel	2:03
9.2	My Body Is a Cage	Chantel Gero, Tasha Gero, Jean Sherwood, Joanne Degand, Shauna Callender	4:43
9.3	Ocean of Noise	Calexico	4:51
9.4	Pen and Notebook	Camera Obscura	3:25
9.5	Breaking Every Rule Language English	Cornershop	1:33
9.6	Stare the Graveyard Down	East River Pipe	5:03
9.7	A Day Without Glasses	Lambchop	4:09
9.8	The Pawnbroker	Pram	3:18
9.9	Shake Our Tree	The Rosebuds	2:43
9.10	Tonight I Have to Leave It (Kleerup remix)	Shout Out Louds	5:06
9.11	Don’t You Evah	Spoon	3:39
9.12	Florida’s on Fire (acoustic demo)	Superchunk	2:54
9.13	As You Turn to Go	Momus	1:57
9.14	Girls on the Freeway	David Byrne	2:41
10.1	Crown of Love	Arcade Fire	4:41
10.2	Meaningless	The Magnetic Fields	2:11
10.3	Two‐Headed Boy	Neutral Milk Hotel	4:27
10.4	Tears for Affairs	Camera Obscura	4:03
10.5	Take a Walk	Spoon	2:27
10.6	Beautiful Things	3Ds	3:30
10.7	Brass Ring	The Broken West	3:43
10.8	100,000 Fireflies	The Magnetic Fields	3:20
10.9	Look to the East	Telekinesis	3:13
10.10	Drawing to a Whole	David Kilgour	2:08
11.1	Hands Up Baby	Camera Obscura	3:22
11.2	Love in the Shadows	The Magnetic Fields	3:00
11.3	Hypo‐Boxing	Beatnik Filmstars	5:32
11.4	The Mess We Made	Matt Elliott	5:29
11.5	Breathe Deep	Lambchop	5:49
11.6	Mistakes and Regrets	…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	3:49
11.7	I Am in the World	Erectus Monotone	2:22
11.8	Don’t You Evah (DJ Amaze and Alan Astor mix)	Spoon	5:27
11.9	Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?	She & Him	2:30
11.10	European Oils	Destroyer	4:54
11.11	Boxtruck	Coral	2:57
11.12	When Will Your Friends All Disappear?	East River Pipe	2:55
11.13	Show Yourself	Radar Bros.	3:18
11.14	Suicide Demo for Kara Walker (demo)	Destroyer	6:05
12.1	I’ll Be Yr Bird	M. Ward	2:58
12.2	All the Way Down	Oakley Hall	5:17
12.3	An Actor’s Revenge	Destroyer	2:57
12.4	I Don’t Want to Get Over You	The Magnetic Fields	2:23
12.5	I’d Feel Better	The Rosebuds	2:28
12.6	Clareana	Portastatic	3:56
12.7	Don’t Know Why (You Stay)	The Essex Green	3:26
12.8	Lines in the Suit	Spoon	3:49
12.9	Pink Clouds	Superchunk	3:24
12.10	Pomona	Radar Bros.	3:57
12.11	Engine	Neutral Milk Hotel	3:15
12.12	Baby	Imperial Teen	2:45
12.13	Just Like Heaven	Dinosaur Jr.	2:53
12.14	Ashtray	Pipe	2:24
12.15	NYC, Raining, 5 AM	Portastatic	0:54
12.16	We Got the Beat	Radar Bros.	3:08
12.17	Actors Acting: How an Actor Crafts: A Dialogue Between Two Actors as They Discuss Crafting Their Craft	Lindsay Margot Astaire & David Truitte	15:31
13.1	The Way We Get By	Spoon	2:44
13.2	Shim Sham	Imperial Teen	3:01
13.3	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury	4:51
13.4	Jealous Girl	Guv’ner	3:56
13.5	Money Trouble	Annie Hayden	2:50
13.6	Where’s Your Patience, Dear?	Matt Suggs	2:31
13.7	Phone Sex	Superchunk	4:52
13.8	I Am a Small Mistake	East River Pipe	1:50
13.9	Rue the Blues	Oakley Hall	3:08
13.10	Fool Says	M. Ward	1:50
13.11	So It Goes	The Broken West	3:14
13.12	Since K Got Over Me	The Clientele	3:50
13.13	Little Fern	Portastatic	3:16
13.14	She Can’t Hide From Radios	Butterglory	3:10
13.15	The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side	The Magnetic Fields	3:43
13.16	Uptown Girl	Brian & Ross	3:56
14.1	This Old Chase	The Ladybug Transistor	3:26
14.2	Solitary Man	Crooked Fingers	3:24
14.3	Haiti	Arcade Fire	4:09
14.4	Snakes in the Grass	The Essex Green	3:32
14.5	I’m Sorry I Love You	Shirley Simms	3:08
14.6	Life Like	The Rosebuds	3:16
14.7	Bright Ideas	Portastatic	5:19
14.8	I’m Lonely (and I Love It)	Future Bible Heroes	4:46
14.9	A Chance Counsel	Richard Buckner	4:50
14.10	Round‐n‐Round	Lou Barlow	2:36
14.11	How Do I Know?	Paul Burch & the WPA Ballclub	4:49
14.12	You Can Build an Island	The Broken West	3:15
14.13	Impossible	Shout Out Louds	6:50
14.14	Ivanka	Imperial Teen	3:17
14.15	Leisure	Beatnik Filmstars	2:48
14.16	I Don’t Want to Die (In the Hospital)	Conor Oberst	3:34
14.17	Cells	Teenage Fanclub	3:20

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