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  • TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 2006 11:00 AM

Nellie McKay Set to Release Pretty Little Head

The drama over Nellie McKay's sophomore album Pretty Little Head may finally be over. And it's not because she finally found a label that gets her, it's because she decided to make her own label Hungry Mouse. The double disc will be available October 31st.

The double disc part is where all the fuss began in the first place. McKay wanted the full 65 minute 23 track version, and Columbia/Sony wanted the pared down version with 16 tracks total. The argument caused several delays, and eventually Nellie's departure from the label.

After a Broadway stint as Polly Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera," Nellie is bringing us Pretty Little Head exactly the way she wanted it: Twenty three tracks on two discs to "reclaim the feeling of flipping over a record," duets with Cyndi Lauper and K.D. Lang, and a 40 page booklet documenting the drama that Nellie had fun causing during the creation of the album:

The complete track list:


Disc One:

01 Cupcake
02 Pink Chandelier
03 There You Are in Me
04 Yodel
05 The Big One
06 G.E.S.
07 I Will Be There
08 The Down Low
09 Long & Lazy River
10 I Am Nothing
11 Beecharmer [ft. Cyndi Lauper]
12 Swept Away

Disc Two:

01 Real Life
02 Tipperary
03 Gladd
04 Food
05 We Had It Right [ft. k.d. lang]
06 Columbia Is Bleeding
07 Lali Est Parisseux
08 Happy Flower
09 Mama & Me
10 Pounce
11 Old Enough


 
Comments
mrsjack

mrsjack

I'm lost
November 2005

SEP 26, 2006 02:24 PM

wonderful!! love this girl-this made my day! smile

jonnytrrrash7

jonnytrrrash7

Vatican City
February 2004

SEP 26, 2006 02:26 PM

at last....i can't wait for this!!

RubberSoul

RubberSoul

Los Angeles, CA
February 2003

SEP 26, 2006 02:26 PM

REQUEST OF THE DAY:

Please start a music thread regarding someone who anybody cares about.

trocc

trocc

Chicago, IL
March 2003

SEP 26, 2006 02:40 PM

RubberSoul said:
REQUEST OF THE DAY:

Please start a music thread regarding someone who anybody cares about.



why don't you have a crack at it, old man? you know, money where your mouth is, so to speak. wink

erinachan

erinachan

Englewood, CO
September 2006

SEP 27, 2006 12:25 PM

Thats awesome, Nellie McKay is too cool.

surlyclown

surlyclown

Los Angeles, CA
March 2004

SEP 27, 2006 02:52 PM

Thank goodness, been looking forward to this for awhile.

jason

jason

USA
August 2002

SEP 27, 2006 02:56 PM

columbia's version was leaked a while back and is available on the internets. im not a fan but im curious if those 7 other songs are especially turdy.