Life in Exile after Abdication is the second album by Maureen Tucker

Maureen Tucker

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, released in 1989. Rather than performing all of the instruments herself, as on her debut album

Playin' Possum

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, Tucker is accompanied by performers such as Lou Reed

Lou Reed

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, Jad Fair

Jad Fair

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, Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston

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 and members of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

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Track listing

All tracks written by Maureen Tucker except where noted.

1. "Hey Mersh!" – 3:16
2. "Spam Again" – 5:25
3. "Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax) – 2:29
4. "Chase" (all players and Maureen Tucker) – 8:07
5. "Andy" – 5:08
6. "Work" – 3:38
7. "Pale Blue Eyes
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   " (Lou Reed
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   ) – 6:44
8. "Bo Diddley
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   " (Ellas McDaniel) – 5:07
9. "Talk So Mean" – 4:59
10. "Do it Right" (Jad Fair
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    , Daniel Johnston
    Daniel Johnston
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    ) – 3:10
11. "Guess I'm Falling In Love" (Lou Reed
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    , John Cale
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    , Sterling Morrison
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    , Maureen Tucker)
12. "Baby What You Want Me To Do" (Jimmy Reed
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    )
13. "Why Don't You Smile Now?" (Lou Reed, John Cale, Vance, Phillips)
14. "Hey, Mr. Rain" (Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker)

Tracks 11 – 14 are bonus tracks from Moejadkatebarry

Moejadkatebarry

-Track listing:#"Guess I'm Falling In Love" – 4:28#"Baby What You Want Me To Do" – 2:44#"Jad Is A Fink" – 1:36#"Why Don't You Smile Now" – 2:23...

and only appear on the Rev-Ola reissue.

Personnel

• Maureen Tucker - guitar, percussion, piano, drums, vocals, production, mixing
• Barry Stock – bass
• Jad Fair
  Jad Fair
  Jad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...
  
   – guitar, percussion, cymbals, background vocals
• Kate Messer – acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, electric guitar, percussion, conga, background vocals
• Hank Beckmeyer – bass, guitar, percussion, background vocals, slide guitar
• Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
  
   – guitar on tracks 1 and 7
• Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
   – bass, percussion, background vocals
• Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
   – guitar
• Steve Shelley
  Steve Shelley
  Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...
  
   – drums
• Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
   – guitar
• Don Fleming
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   – background vocals
• Daniel Johnston
  Daniel Johnston
  Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....
  
  – piano, vocals
• Scott Jarvis – drums, background vocals
• Ann Marie Ear – piano
• Rob Elk – background vocals
• M. Kostek – percussion
• Joe Martinelli – percussion, drums, background vocals

Release history

• LP/CS, 50 Skidillion Watts MOE 7, US, March 1989
• CD, 50 Skidillion Watts MOE 7-2, US, March 1989
• CD, 50 Skidillion Watts-Boudisque MOE 7-2, Germany
• CD, Rev-Ola CREV 011CD, UK, 1993