Madrugada Song Guide: This started out as a simple guide to the cover songs Madrugada have performed and the songs that were left unreleased in one form or another. Since then, the scope has been widened, and it now aims at including every single song Madrugada, Sivert Høyem & The Opposition / Volunteers or My Midnight Creeps have ever performed, be it original or a cover, with alternate titles, notes about the songs, links to lyrics whenever available and links to the discography for the releases the songs are available on.
| Song title - | 4-Track Country Songs Part 1 (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on the "A Deadend Mind EP," recorded at Robert's Pearly Gate four-track home-studio. This track features two songs, both titles are unknown. | | Availability - | A Deadend Mind EP (CDEP, 2001) | |
| Song title - | 4-Track Country Songs Part 2 (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on the "A Deadend Mind EP," recorded at Robert s Pearly Gate four-track home-studio. This track features two songs, the first one is a song written by Frode Jacobsen, "Filthy McNasty's Whisky Cafè," while the second is a 'hidden' instrumental song with an unknown title. | | Availability - | A Deadend Mind EP (CDEP, 2001)
Alternate title, see also "Filthy McNasty's Whisky Cafè" (b-side) | |
| Song title - | Big Sleep (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A quiet, long song. Available on "The Nightly Disease Vol. II" disc, which was available with a limited edition of "The Nightly Disease." The studio version is quite a bit shorter than when performed live, and is a recording the band members were not totally happy with. | | Availability - | The Nightly Disease Vol. II (CD, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Bill Skins Fifth (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A really cool instrumental solo performance by Robert, recorded in his own Pearly Gate four-track home-studio. The title is taken from the well-known movie "The Silence Of The Lambs," a rather disgusting reference to the serial-murderer Buffalo Bill's fifth murder from a newspaper clipping featured in one of the scenes. | | Availability - | Electric (CDEP, 2000) | |
| Song title - | Caravan | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Availability - | Look Away Lucifer (CDS, 2007) | |
| Song title - | Fast Blues For Little V. (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available in electric version on the "A Deadend Mind EP," recorded in Athletic Sounds in Halden, Norway. The two known live performances of this song so far have both been done acoustically, Sivert and Robert during an acoustic concert in Greece and Sivert solo on a NRK P1 Nordland radio broadcast. Written during Christmas 2000. The song is about a little girl called Veronica. | | Availability - | A Deadend Mind EP (CDEP, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Filthy McNasty's Whisky Café (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Written by Frode Jacobsen. Available on the "A Deadend Mind EP" as the first song on "4-Track Country Songs Part 2." | | Availability - | A Deadend Mind EP (CDEP, 2001)
Alternate title, see also "4-Track Country Songs Part 2" (b-side) | |
| Song title - | Highway 2.000.000 (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on "EP," limited edition of 750 copies plus an unknown number of promos and on "Higher EP." A really great song. | | Availability - | Madrugada EP (CDEP, 1998)
Higher EP (CDEP, 2000) | |
| Song title - | I Feel Hard (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on the "Ready" EP and single. During the European tour in Autumn 2001, the band started including a jam at the end of "Two Black Bones," this song eventually appeared from those jams. Recorded in Berlin Spring 2002. | | Availability - | Ready (CDEP, 2002) | |
| Song title - | I'm Life's Wonderful Way Of Letting You Down (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Produced by Frode, and recorded in a demo-setting where they only had four microphones available, so he thinks the drums sound a bit flat due to the drum kit only being set up with one microphone. The end of this song will definitely give anyone a Christmas-feeling. | | Availability - | Electric (CDEP, 2000) | |
| Song title - | I'm Not Afraid (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Was supposed to be played live for the first time during the encore at Knaack Klub in Berlin, Germany in June 2002, but the entire encore was skipped at that concert due to Sivert feeling ill. Never heard of again until performed at Vaskeriet in Kristiansand, Norway in December 2002.
Was recorded at the "Grit" sessions but was left off the album. Apparently it was producer Head's favorite Madrugada song. Released in a live version recorded by Radio Eins at Silverwings in Berlin, Germany on October 17th 2002 on the "Majesty" single. | | Availability - | Majesty (CDS, 2003) | |
| Song title - | I'm Sorry (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on "The Nightly Disease Vol. II" that comes with a limited edition of "The Nightly Disease." A solo performance by Robert, where he plays guitar, bass, drums and even sings himself. Recorded by Robert in his Pearly Gate four-track home-studio. The recording quality is therefore not excellent, whereas the song itself is. | | Availability - | The Nightly Disease Vol. II (CD, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Ice-9 (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on the "Hands Up - I Love You" EP. The first known live performance was done semi-acoustically at Studentersamfunnet in Trondheim, Norway on August 18th 2000. Later it was used as the opening song of the setlist for some concerts, but has not been played for a long time now. | | Availability - | Hands Up - I Love You (CDEP, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Legends And Bones (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Originally intended for release on "Industrial Silence," but did not make it onto the final version of the album. A version taken from The Shit City Sessions, the "Industrial Silence" sessions at night-time where the band members produced and mixed themselves, was released on the "Beautyproof" single. | | Availability - | Beautyproof (CDS, 2000) | |
| Song title - | Mother Of Earth (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada, The Silver Band feat. Kebab Kid | | Notes - | A cover of a Gun Club song written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, first released on the compilation album "Frozen - A Selection Of Polarized Country" in 1999, performed by The Silver Band featuring Kebab Kid, a pseudonym for Madrugada, with The Kebab Kid being the band's sound engineer Lars Voldsdal, who plays acoustic guitar on the original release of this song. A longer version of the song, re-mixed by the band members themselves, is available on the "Electric" EP.
Interestingly, Madrugada's version of this song also includes another Gun Club cover, "Watermelon Man," which they have incorporated into the end of the song.
Available in a live recording from Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway on December 2nd 2005 on the "Live At Tralfamadore" CD and "Live At Oslo Spektrum" DVD. This performance features legendary Gun Club (and Cramps and The Bad Seeds) guitarist Kid Congo Powers on slide guitar. According to Robert, this live performance is "a very dirty, rocking version of one of our favourite songs, really cool. Kid Congo is the nicest, kindest, coolest human being, a fantastic character and person. He was on tour in Europe so he just flew into Oslo for the Spektrum gig. He came to the soundcheck and, on the night, he made his guitar sound like wind and fire. That’s his trademark." (Madrugada biography, 2006) | | Availability - | Frozen - A Selection Of Polarized Country (CD, 1999)
Electric (CDEP, 2000)
Live At Tralfamadore (CD, 2005)
Live At Oslo Spektrum (DVD, 2006) | |
| Song title - | Move (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available only on the 5.000 copies limited edition bonus CD of "Industrial Silence" and on the LP version of the album. | | Availability - | Industrial Silence (limited edition) (CD, 1999) | |
| Song title - | Movin' Up (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on the "Ready" EP. One of the band s strongest b-sides ever, how this one did not make it onto "Grit" is unbelievable. The band usually opened concerts in Summer 2002 with this. Recorded in Berlin Spring 2002. | | Availability - | Ready (CDEP, 2002) | |
| Song title - | Nightly Disease Part I (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A quiet, acoustic song played by Sivert. Available on "The Nightly Disease Vol. II" that comes with a limited edition of "The Nightly Disease." | | Availability - | The Nightly Disease Vol. II (CD, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Oceanliner (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on "EP," limited edition of 750 copies plus an unknown number of promos. A great song. | | Availability - | Madrugada EP (CDEP, 1998) | |
| Song title - | Run Away With Me (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available on the "Hands Up - I Love You" EP. Recorded during the "The Nightly Disease" sessions, but left off the album. Contains words from the poem "He Died At Dawn" by Federico Garcia Lorca. The drawing featured in the middle of the cover inlay of "The Nightly Disease," drawn by Sivert, was inspired by this poem. | | Availability - | Hands Up - I Love You (CDEP, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Sweet Simone (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available only on the 5.000 copies limited edition bonus CD of "Industrial Silence" and on the LP version of the album. | | Availability - | Industrial Silence (limited edition) (CD, 1999) | |
| Song title - | The Riverbed (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Quite possibly one of the very best Madrugada songs ever, it became a radio hit in Norway and for many was the first introduction to the band's music. A mellow song based around the story of a young person who takes part in a war. Played live a handful of times, but not very often. | | Availability - | New Depression EP (CDEP, 1999)
Higher EP (CDEP, 1999) | |
| Song title - | View From A Hilltop (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Recorded at a studio session at Hunger Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark right before the Roskilde Festival 2000. | | Availability - | A Deadend Mind EP (CDEP, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Wheelchair (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Available only on the 5.000 copies limited edition bonus CD of "Industrial Silence" and on the LP version of the album. An amazing song which should have wound up on the actual album. Unfortunately not performed live very often. | | Availability - | Industrial Silence (limited edition) (CD, 1999)
In Glorious Mono (CD, 2005) | |
| Song title - | Zebra (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Recorded by the band themselves in at Athletic Sounds in Halden, Norway before Jon left the band in late 2001. | | Availability - | Ready (CDEP, 2002) | |
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