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Remember the Fiery Furnaces? You know, the brother and sister act who are always doing crazy stuff like making an album with their grandmother or writing a ballet? Yeah, them.

Well, their latest hare-brained scheme is this: Remember, a gargantuan 51-track live album! Recorded at various shows from 2005 onward, Remember collects tracks from the band's entire catalog (even the record with grandma), all reworked for the live setting. As anyone who's been to a Fiery Furnaces show knows, the band is fond of mixing up their sets into elaborate medleys, a practice duly documented on Remember. (We've kept the track lengths in the tracklisting below so that you can see how this works.)

Thrill Jockey delivers Remember to stores August 19 as limited edition 2XCD and 3XLP sets. (Both will come with coupons for a bonus track, and the vinyl version comes with a coupon for a download of the whole album.) Copies will also be available from the merch table on the band's current tour.

On this tour, Eleanor Friedberger will be playing guitar, Matt Friedberger will be playing keyboards, Robert D'Amico will be playing drums... and the String Cheese Incident's Kyle Hollingsworth will still be guesting on keyboards. (Usual FF touring bassist Jason Loewenstein is busy with Sebadoh)

Expect to hear some new tunes at these shows, inspired by pieces of paper audience members have thrown on stage as part of the Furnaces' "DEMOC-ROCK" campaign. Did I mention these people are kind of nuts?

Remember 2XCD tracklist:

Disc one:

01 Intro 0:41
02 Blueberry Boat 8:27
03 Single Again 3:33
04 Two Fat Feet 2:28
05 Don't Dance Her Down 3:26
06 Single Again (Reprise) 2:03
07 Wicker Whatnots 2:55
08 Little Thatched Hut 4:12
09 I'm in No Mood 2:59
10 Black-Hearted Boy 2:38
11 Bitter Tea 2:47
12 Waiting to Know You 1:34
13 Vietnamese Telephone Ministry 2:46
14 Oh Sweet Woods 2:31
15 Borneo 3:30
16 Benton Harbor Blues 1:41
17 Japanese Slippers 2:23
18 Benton Harbor Blues (Reprise) 1:03
19 Whistle Rhapsody 1:52
20 Crystal Clear 1:39
21 Whistle Rhapsody (Reprise) 1:15
22 Teach Me Sweetheart 3:41
23 Evergreen 1:37
24 Bitter Tea (Reprise) 1:30

Disc two:

01 Chris Michaels 6:57
02 Quay Cur 8:17
03 My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found 2:52
04 Spaniolated 2:01
05 Name Game 2:27
06 Birdie Brain 2:28
07 1917 3:08
08 Slavin' Away (Intro) 0:18
09 Tropical Ice-land 3:29
10 Asthma Attack 1:44
11 Tropical Ice-land (Reprise) 0:26
12 The Wayward Granddaughter 4:38
13 The Garfield El 1:48
14 A Candymaker's Knife in My Handbag 1:08
15 Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second St. 2:40
16 Slavin' Away 2:58
17 Seven Silver Curses 1:40
18 Clear Signal From Cairo 1:37
19 I'm Gonna Run 2:26
20 Here Comes the Summer 3:15
21 Chief Inspector Blancheflower 2:31
22 Automatic Husband 1:38
23 Ex-Guru 2:34
24 Clear Signal From Cairo (Reprise) 1:39
25 Philadelphia Grand Jury 1:13
26 Navy Nurse 0:59
27 Uncle Charlie 2:17

Fiery Furnaces tour dates:

05-02 Minneapolis, MN - Whole Music Club
05-17 Bennington, VT - Bennington College
05-28 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's Night Club
05-29 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
05-30 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
05-31 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
06-01 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
06-02 Pomona, CA - The Glass House
06-03 Tucson, AZ - Plush Room
06-05 Aspen, CO - Belly Up
06-06 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
06-07 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
06-09 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
06-10 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
06-11 Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
06-12 St Louis, MO - The Pageant $
06-13-15 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
07-27 Pemberton, British Columbia - Pemberton Festival

$ with the Raconteurs