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The Decemberists
The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk (guitar, multi-instrumentalist), Jenny Conlee (Hammond organ, accordion, melodica, piano, keyboards, harmonica), Nate Query (bass guitar, string bass), and John Moen (drums, backing vocals, melodica, guitar).
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I'll Be Your Girl [2018]
Song | Duration |
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Once in My Life | 5:09 |
Cutting Stone | 3:20 |
Severed | 4:03 |
Starwatcher | 2:39 |
Tripping Along | 3:35 |
Your Ghost | 2:40 |
Everything Is Awful | 3:22 |
Sucker's Prayer | 3:28 |
We All Die Young | 4:01 |
Rusalka, Rusalka/Wild Rushes | 8:15 |
I'll Be Your Girl | 2:34 |
Traveling On [2018]
Song | Duration |
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Traveling On | 4:28 |
Down on the Knuckle | 3:57 |
Tripping Along | 3:43 |
Midlist Author | 3:57 |
Florasongs [2015]
Song | Duration |
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Why Would I Now? | 3:42 |
Fits & Starts | 2:41 |
The Harrowed and the Haunted | 4:07 |
Stateside | 3:26 |
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World [2015]
Song | Duration |
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The Singer Addresses His Audience | 4:42 |
Cavalry Captain | 3:17 |
Philomena | 3:04 |
Make You Better | 5:07 |
Lake Song | 5:52 |
Til the Water's All Long Gone | 5:01 |
The Wrong Year | 3:53 |
Carolina Low | 3:24 |
Better Not Wake the Baby | 1:44 |
Anti-Summersong | 2:12 |
Easy Come, Easy Go | 2:22 |
Mistral | 3:54 |
12/17/12 | 3:03 |
A Beginning Song | 5:22 |
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World [Bonus Tracks] [LP] [2015]
Song | Duration |
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Cavalry Captain | |
The Wrong Year |
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World [LP] [2015]
The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond [Deluxe Edition] [2012]
Song | Duration |
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One Engine | 3:01 |
We All Raise Our Voices to the Air: Live Songs 04.11.08 [2012]
Song | Duration |
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The Infanta | 5:46 |
Calamity Song | 3:57 |
Rise to Me | 4:55 |
The Soldiering Life | 5:04 |
We Both Go Down Together | 4:30 |
The Bagman's Gambit | 8:27 |
Down by the Water | 3:59 |
Leslie Ann Levine | 4:15 |
The Rake's Song | 4:44 |
Oceanside | 3:27 |
Billy Liar | 6:41 |
Grace Cathedral Hill | 4:35 |
Rox in the Box | 3:15 |
This Is Why We Fight | 4:47 |
The Mariner's Revenge Song | 12:15 |
I Was Meant for the Stage | 10:13 |
All Arise! | 4:30 |
June Hymn | 4:29 |
King Is Dead [LP] [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Don't Carry It All | 4:17 |
Calamity Song | 3:50 |
Rise to Me | 4:59 |
Rox in the Box | 3:10 |
January Hymn | 3:13 |
Down by the Water | 3:42 |
All Arise! | 3:09 |
June Hymn | 3:58 |
This Is Why We Fight | 5:30 |
Dear Avery | 4:52 |
Long Live the King [2011]
Song | Duration |
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E. Watson | 3:32 |
Foregone | 4:07 |
Burying Davy | 4:22 |
I 4 U & U 4 Me | 3:38 |
Row Jimmy | 6:41 |
Sonnet | 2:57 |
iTunes Session [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Calamity Song | 3:42 |
Shankill Butchers | 4:10 |
June Hymn | 4:16 |
This Is Why We Fight | 4:28 |
Shiny | 5:13 |
The Hazards of Love [2009]
A Practical Handbook [2007]
Swords Over Soho [2007]
Song | Duration |
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July, July! | 3:18 |
We Both Go Down Together | 3:20 |
Song for Myla Goldberg | 5:44 |
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) | 4:43 |
O Valencia! | 4:51 |
The Crane Wife [2006]
Picaresque [2005]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
The Infanta | 5:07 |
We Both Go Down Together | 3:04 |
Eli, the Barrow Boy | 3:11 |
The Sporting Life | 4:38 |
The Bagman's Gambit | 7:02 |
From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) | 3:42 |
16 Military Wives | 4:52 |
The Engine Driver | 4:15 |
On the Bus Mall | 6:04 |
The Mariner's Revenge Song | 8:45 |
Of Angels and Angles | 2:27 |
Billy Liar [2004]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Billy Liar | 4:08 |
Los Angeles, I'm Yours | 4:17 |
Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right | 4:03 |
Sunshine | 2:23 |
The Tain/5 Songs [2004]
Song | Duration |
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The Tain (Parts I-V) | |
Oceanside | |
Shiny | |
My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist | |
Angel, Won't You Call Me? | |
I Don't Mind | |
The Apology Song |
5 Songs [2003]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Oceanside | 3:29 |
Shiny | 5:11 |
My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist | 4:42 |
Angel, Won't You Call Me? | 2:40 |
I Don't Mind | 4:39 |
Apology Song | 3:11 |
Her Majesty [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Shanty for the Arethusa | 5:37 |
Billy Liar | 4:08 |
Los Angeles, I'm Yours | 4:17 |
The Gymnast, High Above the Ground | 7:13 |
The Bachelor and the Bride | 4:12 |
Song for Myla Goldberg | 3:33 |
The Soldiering Life | 3:48 |
Red Right Ankle | 3:29 |
Chimbley Sweep | 2:53 |
I Was Meant for the Stage | 7:02 |
As I Rise | 2:14 |
Castaways and Cutouts
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Leslie Anne Levine | 4:12 |
Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect | 4:29 |
July, July! | 2:53 |
A Cautionary Song | 3:08 |
Odalisque | 5:20 |
Cocoon | 6:48 |
Grace Cathedral Hill | 4:28 |
The Legionnaire's Lament | 4:44 |
Clementine | 4:07 |
Crane Wife [Bonus Tracks]
Song | Duration |
---|---|
The Crane Wife 3 | 4:18 |
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) | 4:18 |
O Valencia! | 3:45 |
When the War Came | 5:06 |
Shankill Butchers | 4:39 |
Summersong | 3:28 |
Sons & Daughters | 5:13 |
After the Bombs | 5:03 |
Live at Bull Moose
Song | Duration |
---|---|
This is Why We Fight | |
Down by the Water | |
Rox in the Box | |
June Hymn | |
Rise to Me | |
All Arise! |
The King Is Dead
Song | Duration |
---|---|
Don't Carry It All | 4:17 |
Calamity Song | 3:50 |
Rise to Me | 4:59 |
Rox in the Box | 3:10 |
January Hymn | 3:13 |
Down by the Water | 3:42 |
All Arise! | 3:09 |
June Hymn | 3:58 |
This Is Why We Fight | 5:30 |
Dear Avery | 4:52 |
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