Plague Songs

2006 compilation album by various artists

Plague Songs

Compilation album by

various artists

Released| 2 October 2006
Recorded| 2006
Label| 4AD
Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Independent| [2]
Rolling Stone|  link
The Sunday Times| [3]

Plague Songs is an album of songs about the ten Plagues of Egypt described in the Book of Exodus performed by various artists.

The songs were originally commissioned by the British arts organisation Artangel for its project The Margate Exodus, which centres on a one-day event that took place in Margate on 30 September 2006.[4][5]

The 4AD release gathers together the ten original recordings, presented in Biblical plague order.

## Track listing

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1. "Blood" - Klashnekoff (The Plague of Blood)
2. "Relate the Tale" - King Creosote (The Plague of Frogs)
3. "The Meaning of Lice" - Stephin Merritt (The Plague of Lice)
4. "Flies" - Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt (The Plague of Flies)
5. "The Fifth Plague" - Laurie Anderson (The Death of Livestock)
6. "Boils" - Cody ChesnuTT (The Plague of Boils)
7. "Hailstones" - The Tiger Lillies (The Plague of Hail)
8. "Glittering Cloud" - Imogen Heap (The Plague of Locusts)
9. "Darkness" - Scott Walker (The Plague of Darkness)
10. "Katonah" - Rufus Wainwright (The Death of the Firstborn)

## References

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1. ^ allmusic review
2. ^ The Independent review[dead link]
3. ^ The Sunday Times review[dead link]
4. ^ "Plague Songs & The Margate Exodus". 4AD. 29 September 2006. Archived from the original on 20 October 2006. Retrieved 2 October 2006.
5. ^ "The Margate Exodus: About". Archived from the original on 16 June 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2006.

## External links

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* The Margate Exodus
* Artangel
* 4AD Release Site
* Plague Songs profile on Gather.com

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Book of Exodus media

Art|

* The Crossing of the Red Sea (1482)
* Crossing of the Red Sea (1542)
* The Crossing of the Red Sea (1634)
* The Adoration of the Golden Calf (1634)
* The Manna (c. 1638)
* Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (1659)
* The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1800)
* Victory O Lord! (1871)
* Dance Around the Golden Calf (1910)

Film|

| Biblical|

* The Ten Commandments (1923)
* The Moon of Israel (1924)
* The Ten Commandments (1956)
* Moses und Aron (1973)
* Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
* Moses (1995)
* The Prince of Egypt (1998)
* The Exodus Decoded (2006)
* The Ten Commandments (2006)
* The Ten Commandments (2007)
* Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
* The Ten Commandments: The Movie (2016)
* Seder-Masochism (2018)

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Modern settings|

* The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
* The Reaping (2007)
* Exodus (2007)

Musical|

* Les Dix Commandements (2000)
* The Ten Commandments: The Musical (2004)
* The Prince of Egypt (2015)

Opera|

* Mosè in Egitto (1818)
* Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la mer rouge (1827)
* Moses und Aron (1951)

Music|

* Israel in Egypt (1739)
* Creeping Death (1984)
* Exodus (2002)
* Plague Songs (2006)

Television|

* "Duke and the Great Pie War" (2005)
* "Moe and the Big Exit" (2007)
* Os Dez Mandamentos (2015 telenovela)

Literature|

* Exodus (10th century)
* Moon of Israel (1918)
* Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)
* The Tables of the Law (1944)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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