"Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen

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"Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen
WalkmenPussyCats.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 24, 2006
Recorded2006
Genre Indie rock
Length39:39
Label Record Collection
The Walkmen chronology
A Hundred Miles Off
(2006)
"Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen
(2006)
You & Me
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 67/100 [1]
Review scores
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Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg link
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg Nov. 10, 2006
The A.V. Club B Nov. 7, 2006
Entertainment Weekly B Oct. 20, 2006
NOW 5/5 Nov. 16, 2006
Pitchfork Media 5.1/10 Oct. 24, 2006
PopMatters 5/10 Oct. 24, 2006
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg Sep. 21, 2006
Stylus Magazine C Oct. 25, 2006
Tiny Mix Tapes 4/5 link

"Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen, often referred to as just Pussy Cats, is a cover album by The Walkmen, released in 2006. The album is a song-for-song cover of the 1974 Harry Nilsson album Pussy Cats which was produced by John Lennon. The decision to cover the Pussy Cats album, which is a band favourite, started off as a joke that evolved into a full-fledged album released only 5 months after their previous record, A Hundred Miles Off . [2] [3] The album also served as a last project for the band's studio, Marcata Recording. Marcata, which band members Matt Barrick, Paul Maroon and Walter Martin built in 1999, was located in a building owned by Columbia University, which took the property back in 2006. [2] [4] The making of the album, which took "about ten days," was filmed by Norman "Rockwell" Coady and the footage was made into the documentary In Loving Recognition, included on the album's accompanying DVD. [3] [4]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleOriginal ArtistLength
1."Many Rivers to Cross" Jimmy Cliff 4:46
2."Subterranean Homesick Blues" Bob Dylan 3:24
3."Don't Forget Me" Harry Nilsson 3:48
4."All My Life"Nilsson3:07
5."Old Forgotten Soldier"Nilsson4:34
6."Save the Last Dance" Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman 4:46
7."Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga" John Lennon, Nilsson3:57
8."Loop de Loop"Ted Vann3:45
9."Black Sails"Nilsson3:59
10."Rock Around the Clock" Jimmy DeKnight, Max C. Freedman 3:33

Personnel

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