La Musique Populaire is an American

United States

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 indie pop

Indie pop

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 band.

Members Ryan Bassler and Eric Haugen formed a band called Lorenzo Music in 1992, but faced with legal action from the actor of the same name

Lorenzo Music

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http://www.polyholiday.com/artists/LMP/history/ they changed it to La Musique Populaire, more commonly shortened to LMP.

Likened to Ween

Ween

Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...

, The Raspberries

The Raspberries

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 and The Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields is the principal creative outlet of singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt...

, they have released a number of records on Polyholiday records, the most ambitious being the six-CD box set A Century of Song, which was released in 2004. The album covered 100 songs recorded in the 20th century in chronological order, eschewing canonical choices in favour of tracks such as "So What", "Do the Freddie", and "Lucas with the Lid Off". The Village Voice said, "There's no way any normal person would want to sit through all six CDs of A Century of Song".http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0520,matos,64004,22.html

The band are currently recording their next project, rumored to be a ten-CD box set, covering everything The Beatles

The Beatles

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 recorded, in chronological order.

Albums/EP's

All on Polyholiday Records

• Aunt Canada - 1996
• The New Body Language - 2000
• Meeting Up and Making Friends - 2001
• Love Conquers Alda - 2003
• A Century of Song
  A Century of Song
  - Disc Two 1923-1939 :- Disc Three 1940-1959 :- Disc Four 1960-1981 :- Disc Five 1981-2000 :- Disc Six 'holus-bolus' :...
  
   - 2004

Singles

• Ding Dong - 2003
• Our Birthday - 2004
• Show some Heaven to me baby - 2004
• Sugar Cone - 2004
• Honey Honey Honey Honey - 2004

Tribute Albums

LMP did a cover of "Mysterious Whisper" for the album "We Might Be Giants, Too!" a tribute album to They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

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 released in 1998, as well as "Glass Flesh 2," a tribute album to Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock

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