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Author: Delvin
Date: 11-29-11 23:45
I know this topic must have been touched quite a few times on this board, but what are your favorite live recordings? (Not just albums, but include individual tracks on compilations, singles, etc.)
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Author: breno
Date: 11-30-11 09:16
The version of "Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)" on The Clash on Broadway kicks all kinds of ass.
Precise Modern Lovers Order is uniformly great.
"Hey Mr. Rain" from The Velvet Underground Live Roman Numerals is the best thing on that album, though Sterling Morrison makes "Rock & Roll" a close second.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 11-30-11 09:43
Porcupine Tree's Coma Divine has the definitive versions of several of their early songs: "Signify," "Up the Downstair," "The Sky Moves Sideways." They also put out a live EP called We Lost the Skyline, recorded at a record store with only the two guitarists, that's pretty amazing. It has a great version of "Drown With Me."
I think the Who's The Kids Are Alright has the best versions of "Baba O'Reilly" and "Won't Get Fooled Again."
Motorhead's live records tend to be pretty strong - of course, consistency is the devil in their details.
Jason & the Scorchers' Midnight Roads and Stages Seen is friggin' awesome. The version of "Self Sabotage" that opens it is downright atomic.
Dash Rip Rock's Boiled Alive may be the definitive Dash document.
Joe Jackson's Live 1980/1986 is one of my favorites.
Peter Gabriel's Plays Live is still my favorite album by him.
On Todd Rundgren's Back to the Bars there's a medley of the Impressions' "I'm So Proud" and "La La La Means I Love You," the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby" and Rundgren's "I Saw the Light" that I've always loved.
This is pretty obscure, but the flipside of the "Like a Nightmare" single by Hand of Glory has a kick-ass version of "Give Up the Ghost," which started as a LeRoi Brothers song but was adopted by HoG.
And, of course, there's the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams."
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 11-30-11 17:19
Dig the New Breed and Live Jam – The Jam
Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal: October 31, 1981 Whisky A Go Go – The Plimsouls
Although The B-52's With the Wild Crowd: Live in Athens, GA was recorded earlier this year, they manage to cover their entire career pretty well, and all parties involved equip themselves well.
The live CD (disc 4, for those keeping score at home) from New Order's Retro box was compiled by Bobby Gillespie, and he cherry-picked some pretty good stuff–"Perfect Kiss," "As It Is When It Was" and "Temptation" are particularly enjoyable.
The Beautiful South's cover of "You Should Be Dancing" (recorded live at Blackburn's St. Georges Hall in April 1992 and the third track on their second UK CD single of "Bell Bottomed Tear" from later that year) may be kind of tough to track down nowadays, but it's an unexpectedly fun encore from a band not known for cutting loose. There are other options with live stuff from The Beautiful South: a double disc BBC Sessions and a 3-CD/1-DVD box set entitled At the BBC. And let's not overlook The Housemartins Live at the BBC. Phew.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 11-30-11 17:48
Jermoe,
I see the B-52's live tomorrow night :) Hope they are as good as that live record from last year you describe!
Nose
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Author: Heff
Date: 12-02-11 10:41
Down in the Park - Gary Numan 'Urgh...'
Suspect Device - Naked Raygun 'Jettison'
Live Crumb - Peter Blegvad 'Downtime'
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Author: nosepail
Date: 12-02-11 10:44
B-52's were a lot of fun in concert last night! Jello Biafra was in great voice, but he was a little more fey than I remembered him.
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Author: M. Johnson
Date: 12-02-11 11:16
http://www.trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=15158&t=15100#reply_15158]
http://www.trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=16891&t=16844#reply_16891]
http://www.trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=17944&t=17917#reply_17944]
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Author: Delvin
Date: 12-02-11 12:34
> Suspect Device - Naked Raygun 'Jettison'
Raygun's live album Free Shit! is really good too.
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Author: Paganizer
Date: 12-05-11 23:36
Quote:
B-52's were a lot of fun in concert last night!
hmmm...I have an invite to see them fri nite but balked when another friend described a recent stop as the 3 of them standing there unanimatedly with a backing band? (the tix are worth $225).
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 12-06-11 15:14
I saw 'em last year, and everyone was way into it...and all 4 of the surviving members were there.
My tickets were more in the $25-$30 apiece range, however.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 12-06-11 18:16
I saw 'em last in 2009, right after Funplex was released. Small theatre setting, packed with people to the gills. All four were there; they sounded great, and definitely were into it. Cindy Wilson's voice shows its age by now, but Kate Pierson is nothing less than a force of nature.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 06-27-12 16:33
I thought of this thread after seeing the B-52's at an outdoor concert at the zoo last Friday. Aside from the weather (60 degrees and rain for the entire show), it was pretty great. I'll second what others have said here, especially what Delvin said about Cindy and Kate's voices. The only albums of theirs I've ever owned are the first two, but of course I know the hits and they played all of 'em.
My 6-year-old daughter went nuts when they opened the 3-song encore with "Planet Claire." I'm not much of a dancer at shows, but that one got me on my feel to dance with my kid. And you can probably guess what they ended the show with, which was fun too.
I missed Jimmy Cliff out at the zoo on Sunday night, but I'm excited about the Trombone Shorty show there later this summer....
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Author: Aitch
Date: 06-27-12 21:10
That's funny, Rhett, my 4-year-old daughter went nuts when they closed the film Monsters Vs Aliens with "Planet Claire" at other night.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 06-28-12 11:01
Funny, the last B-52's concert I attended was a family affair for me, too.
I have seen plenty of concerts in the company of one or the other of my siblings — including at least two B-52's shows. But that 2009 gig in Denver was (I think) the first that all three of us attended together. We're all big B-52's fans. Boy, my 50-year-old brother went nuts when they opened their encore with "Planet Claire."
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 06-28-12 12:53
I'd imagine their setlist doesn't vary much from night to night, and I think their "Claire/Party OOB/Lobster" encore is probably standard fare at every show.
We went down to the stage afterwards because my wife had heard Cindy and Kate typically come out to say hello and sign stuff. But after my daughter got one of the setlists from a stagehand, she decided she'd had enough of the rain and had gotten her prize, so we left before getting to see whether the ladies came out.
Which was kinda a relief, since I was a little fearful of seeing what Cindy looked like up close. The animal print caftan she was wearing onstage did her no favors, I must say. My wife's friend noted that Mrs. Roper would have approved of Cindy's outfit.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 06-28-12 14:58
Unrelated, but (hopefully) amusing story ...
I spent a month working at a USAF base in Germany in 2009. During that time, our team did twice-daily teleconferences with all the involved sites across the globe. These telecons were held in the dumpiest, nastiest building on the base — the last one that anyone on base wanted to use. Some of the floor tiles in the conference room were broken and torn away, and mushrooms actually were growing up from the under-flooring. The guys on base called this building "the love shack."
As a passionate B-52's fan, I couldn't abide this. Well, the military is big on acronyms, and my teammates were big on rude humor. So I lobbied successfully to have that building designated as the Secure Telecommunications Depot.
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