The 13th Floor Elevators - Avalon Ballroom - 1966 - Soundboard

Texas psychedelic at it's finest moment.

Setlist:

1. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
2. Before You Accuse Me
3. You Don't Know (How Young You Are)
4. I'm Gonna Love You Too
5. You Really Got Me
6. Splash 1
7. Fire Engine
8. Roll over Beethoven
9. Word
10. Monkey Island
11. Roller Coaster
12. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
13. When the Ship Comes In
14. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

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2 Skinnee J's - The Vault - Baltimore, MD - January 2, 1999

I did have the pleasure of seeing these guys live before they disbanded, a rare feat considering that I live in Idaho and they have only played here once (and that there were only about twenty or thiry people at the show that also included Incubus before they hit it big). They put on a great show, possibly one of the best live shows that I have seen and the music is fun on it's own.

Setlist:

1. Return
2. Irrestible Force
3. Mindtrick
4. The Best
5. The Whammy
6. Wild Kingdom
7. You're A Champion
8. Organic Machine
9. Pluto
10. Ball Point Man
11. Riot Nrrrd
12. The Good, The Band, The Skinnee
13. Sgt. Stiletto
14. S-T-U-M-P-Y
15. 718
encore
16. Artificial Flavor->Gas Grill

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Zwan - Y100 Sonic Session @ Indre Studios, Philadelphia, PA - April 5, 2003 - Radio Broadcast

Setlist:
Of A Broken Heart
Heartsong
Honestly
Lyric
Endless Summer
Love Lies In Ruin
Friends As Lovers
Mary Star Of The Sea

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Öyafestivalen, Oslo, Norway - August 9, 2003 - Soundboard

Setlist:
Down Boy
Rockers To Swallow
Cold Light
Date With The Night
Rich
Art Star
Y-Control
Mystery Girl
Maps
Ten By Ten
Machine
Miles Away
Modern Romance

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XTC - Live Davis, CA and Netherlands - 1980 - Soundboard

XTC quit touring after a short time so there aren't a lot of bootlegged shows going around.

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The Wedding Present - Fort St. Pere - St. Malo, France - August 12, 2005 - Soundboard

Setlist:
Interstate 5
Crawl
Drive
The Queen Of Outer-Space
I'm From Further North Than You
Kennedy
Ringway To Seatac
Dalliance
Dare

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Violent Femmes - Kiss Off!

A couple of soundboard shows from 1984.

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Ultra Vivid Scene - Park West - Chicago, IL - 1993 - Soundboard

There is only one Ultra Vivid Scene bootleg listed on etree and this is it.

Setlist:
Three Stars
Cut-Throat
Candida's Evil Twin
Staring At The Sun
Nausea
Crash
Medicating Angels
Blood And Thunder

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T.S.O.L. - Live Arizona 1983

Again, lots of great bands that start with the letter 'T' so I picked one of the more obscure ones.

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Sleater-Kinney - Key Arena - Seattle, WA - September 3, 2000 - Soundboard

I have lots of great bands to choose from in the 'S' category, it almost feels wrong to not pick many of them.

Setlist:
01 intro/Ballad Of A Ladyman
02 Ironclad
03 Turn It On
04 Banned From The End Of The World
05 You're No Rock n Roll Fun
06 Call The Doctor
07 One More Hour
08 The End Of You
09 Was It A Lie?
10 All Hands On The Bad One
11 God Is A Number
12 Dig Me Out
13 The Professional
14 Start Together
15 Milkshake n Honey
16 Little Babies
17 Youth Decay
18 Jenny
19 Get Up!
20 I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
21 Be Yr Mama

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Radiohead - 2 Meter Sessions - Holland - February 27, 1995 - Radio Broadcast

Radiohead was making their transition from straight up alternative band to something clearly and utterly amazing during this period.

Setlist:

Just
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Bones
My Iron Lung
High And Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Street Spirit

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Queens of the Stone Age - Southside Festival - Germany - June 11, 2005 - Soundboard

There isn't much to choose from in the Q list but I opted for this over Quasi (and I have no Queen bootlegs). That's not to say that this one is not good because it is (as is Quasi). I really like Josh Homme's latest project, Them Crooked Vultures (with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones).

Setlist:

Intro: Frank Churchill and Ted Sears - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Someone's in the Wolf
A Song For the Deaf
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
You Would Know
Regular John
Avon
Broken Box
In My Head
The Blood is Love
Monsters in the Parasol
Little Sister
Burn the Witch
Tangled Up in Plaid
Go with the Flow
No One Knows
A Song For the Dead

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Psychedelic Furs - Tut's - Chicago, IL - October 15, 1980 - Soundboard

This one was broadcast on the radio.

Setlist:

Intro
India
Soap Commercial
Susan?s Strange
Dumb Waiters (different lyrics)
Sister Europe
So Run Down
Pulse
Fall
Imitation of Christ
Mr. Jones
We Love You (slightly different version)
Flowers
Outro

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Of Montreal - Swamp Club - Freiberg, Germany - May 11, 2007 - Soundboard

A fun band with lots of quirky little nuances. Highly recommended.

Setlist:

Suffer for Fashion
Sink the Seine
Cato as a Pun
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Labyrinthian Pomp
She's a Rejecter
[Buzzcocks? (a cover?)]
Requiem for O.M.M.2
We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leafing
October is Eternal
Faberge Falls For Shuggie
I Was Never Young
Gronlandic Edit
A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
Oslo in the Summertime
Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider
Starman + Hang On To Yourself (Bowie)
Suffragette City (Bowie)
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Gary Numan - Capitol Theatre - Sydney, Australia 0 May 31, 1980 - Soundboard

Gary Numan actually was much more than his one hit song (Cars).

Setlist:

1) Intro
2) Airlane
3) Me, I Disconnect From You
4) Praying To The Aliens
5) ME
6) Films
7) We Are So Fragile
8) Are Friends Electric
9) Conversation
10) Remind Me To Smile
11) Replicas
12) Remember I Was Vapour
13) Trois Gymnopedies
14) Cars
15) I Die, You Die
16) Bombers
17) Tracks

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Modest Mouse - Ice House - Victoria, BC, Canada - February 26, 2000 - Soundboard

My wife always teases me when I say this but these guys are definitely one of my favorite bands (and hers). Why does she tease me? Well I guess it's because I really have about 100 favorite bands.

Setlist:

Breakthrough
Dramamine
3rd Planet
Doin' the Cockroach
Trailer Trash
Perfect Disguise
Jaw Breaker
Cowboy Dan
Paper Thin Walls
Out of Gas
Broke
Tundra/Desert
Jam
Trucker's Atlas
Custom Concern
A Different City

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LCD Soundsystem - Electric Picnic - Stradbally, Ireland - September 4, 2005 - Soundboard

This band is quite unknown in the alternapop world but they deserve more!

Setlist:

Beat Connection
On Repeat
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Tribulations
Movement
Losing My Edge
Yeah

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Killing Joke - BBC Sessions

I guess there is an official release of most of these songs and it sounds a little better (this is another vinyl rip with a bit of noise) but this one seems to be more complete and includes some other BBC sessions other than the John Peel sessions on the official release.

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Joy Division - The Wharehouse - Preston, UK - February 28, 1980 - Soundboard

New Order sprang from the ashes of this band after Curtis (the lead singer) hung himself. I have to admit it took me many years to get into this band and, with the help of Nine Inch Nails, I finally latched on and I now think that they were quite good. This one came from a vinyl rip and has a little bit of surface noise but it's still a great show.

Setlist:

Incubation *
Wilderness *
Twenty Four Hours *
The Eternal *
Heart And Soul *
Shadowplay *
Transmission *
Disorder *
Warsaw *
Colony *
Interzone *
She's Lost Control *

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Interpol - Brownies - New York City - September 23, 2000 - Soundboard

New album due soon, I think that is even finished. For now we will just have to make due with this excellent live set from 2000.

Setlist:

PDA
Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down
Song Seven
Specialist
Cubed (aka Mascara)
The New
Precipitate
Get the Girls

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(hed) pe - Colonial Theater - Sacramento, CA - June 22, 2003 - Radio Broadcast

Setlist:

Suck it up
Killing Time
Dangerous
Feel Good
I Got You
Bartender
Blackout

I have never been a big metal fan but this band used to play in our area lot (I have seen them play five times) and they put on a great show and seemed to love playing in our podunk little town. The band has undergone something of a transformation since those days but this is a solid set with great sound.

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The Grateful Dead - Dead Play the Beatles - various sources

I am not a huge Dead fan but this fan-compiled 2 disc set is really really good!

Disc 1:
Day Tripper
Come Together
Eleanor Rigby
Tommorow Never Knows
Blackbird
Get Back
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Hey Jude
Strawberry Fields Forever
Rain

Disc 2:

Revolution
She Said She Said
Dear Prudence
All Too Much
I Want To Tell You*
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
I Am the Walrus
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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Flaming Lips - KCRW Studios - July 18, 2002 - Radio Broadcast

I suppose you lose quite a bit by not seeing the visual aspect of the Lips live shows but the audio is still quite good as a stand alone product.

Setlist:

01. Knives Out (Radiohead)
02. Do You Realize?
03. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
04. Interview w/ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd
05. Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue)
06. In the Morning of the Magicians
07. One More Robot - Sympathy 3000-21
08. End of show

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Echo and the Bunnymen - Karen - Gothenburg, Sweden - November 6, 1987 - Radio Broadcast

A band that has managed to remain somewhat relevant after quite a long time by slightly re-inventing itself a number of times. This set is perhaps from the peak of their existence as a band.

Setlist:

1. Rescue
2. Bombers Bay
3. My Kingdom
4. Seven Seas
5. Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
6. The Killing Moon
7. The Cutter
8. Ocean Rain
9. Start Again

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Devo - The Old Waldorf - San Francisco, CA - November 10, 1978 - Radio Broadcast

Good fun here! The crowd seems to be really into the show and Devo put on a great show this night!

Setlist:

Wiggly World
Pink Pussycat
Satisfaction
Too Much Paranoias
Praying Hands
Uncontrollable Urge
Mongoloid
Jocko Homo
Smart Patrol
Mr. DNA
Sloppy
Come Back Jonee (cut)
Gut Feeling
Slap Your Mammy
DEVO Corporate Anthem
Red Eye Express
Words Get Stuck In My Throat

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The Cure - Hurrah's Club - New York City - April 15, 1980 - Soundboard

Setlist:

I don't have an accurate setlist to cut and paste. The vinyl that this was ripped from is a hack and paste job but it sounds great and is a great trip to the Cure's past. They were quite a markedly different band back then but that is not all that bad as they have managed to evolve over the past thirty years without growing stale.

The show is, unfortunately, incomplete.

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Blind Melon - The Palace - Hollywood, CA - October 11, 1995 - Westwood One FM Broadcast

In my humble opinion this band was largely underrated. Their live sets are very tight and there is lots of sonic goings on to please my ears.

Setlist:

Wilt
Tones of home
Vernie
Lemonade
Change
Walk
No rain
Galaxie
The Duke
St. Andrews Fall
Paper Scratcher
Working Class Hero

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The Arcade Fire - White Session - March 9, 2005 - FM Broadcast

One of my absolute favorite bands from the last few years. I believe that they have a new album due in March but until then you can easily tide yourself over with this excellent live set from 2005.

Setlist:

Wake Up
Neighborhood #2 (Laka)
No Cars Go
Une Année Sans Lumière
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Rebellion (Lies)
Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Crown Of Love
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

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(I have recently discovered that my MP3 conversion program is not actually converting at 320 kbps despite all of my best efforts! I am working on it.)