Video: of Montreal perform "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" Live at WTMD

Of Montreal dropped by WTMD and stripped down to do a cover of The Beatles "I'm So Tired," and also a nice version of "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" from Skeletal Lamping. Watch it. "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" "I'm So Tired"

of Montreal work harder than you. With more ideas than some bands have in a career stuffed into Hissing Fauna... , Skeletal Lamping , and their dazzling live shows, it would be OK for oM to set aside the instruments for a minute. Of course that is not how oM have ever worked, and so we are already seeing new songs on this tour, with the gaps in dates stopped with whatever radio or video studio sessions they can find. Here are two, one for 89.7 WTMD and the other for 90.7 WFUV (I [...]

Of Montreal are known for their outré live shows, which are executed in a blizzard of color and theatricality. Radio station WTMD managed to persuade them to tone down their antics for this performance of "Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" from Skeletal Lamping, which is delivered in a simple acoustic format. Singer Kevin Barnes's Bowie-isms shine through on this performance, which is somewhat reminiscent of Hunky Dory cuts "Kooks" and "Andy Warhol." He is joined by guitarist Bryan Poole for the performance, which contains the great rhyming couplet: "While you were bereaving Michael's death/He was [...]