Guided By Voices - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC - April 16, 2002 - Soundboard

Here is a nice soundboard show from 2002 that features the entire album, UNIVERSAL TRUTHS AND CYCLES, played from beginning to end. Most of the penultimate GBV songs are then played to make for a really nice set! This was originally a two cd set.

Setlist:

Set I
1. Banter
2. Wire Greyhounds
3. Skin Parade
4. Zap
5. Christian Animation Torch Carriers
6. Cheyenne
7. The Weeping Boogeyman
8. Back To The Lake
9. Love 1
10. Storm Vibrations
11. Factory Of Raw Essentials
12. Everywhere With Helicopter
13. Eureka Signs
14. Pretty Bombs
15. Wings Of Thorn>Car Language
16. From A Voice Plantation
17. The Ids Are ALright
18. Universal Truths And Cycles
19. Father Sgt. Christmas Card

Set II
1. Hardcore UFOs
2. Flat Beauty
3. Things I Will Keep
4. I Drove A Tank
5. Buzzards And Dreadful Crows
6. Instrument Beetle
7. My Valuable Hunting Knife
8. Fair Touching
9. TIght Globes
10. Watch Me Jumpstart
11. Edison's Memos
12. Game Of Pricks
13. Cut-Out Witch
14. Submarine Teams
15. The Brides Have Hit Glass
16. Twilight Campfighter
17. Drinker's Peace
18. Chasing Heather Crazy
19. Alone, Stinking and Unafraid
20. Glad Girls
21. Tractor Rape Chain
22. Liars Tale
23. The Enemy
24. Teenage FBI
25. Echos Myron

Set III
1. Banter
2. Waved Out
3. Whiskey Ships
4. Shocker In Gloomtown
5. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
6. Psychic Pilot Clocks Out
7. DOn't Stop Now
8. Get Under It
9. Soul Train College Policeman
10. Pop Zeus
11. Motor Away
12. Baba O'Riley

Link 1 2 (240 kbps VBR MP3)

Fields of the Nephilim - Town and Country Club - London - April 28, 1991 - Soundboard

Setlist:

1. Dead But Dreaming (4:47)
2. For Her Light (4:16)
3. At the Gates of Silent Memory (3:43)
4. Paradise Regained (2:43)
5. Trees Come Down (3:36)
6. Sumerland (7:58)
7. The Watchman (5:49)
8. Moonchild (4:05)
9. Submission (7:18)
10. Psychonaut (10:27)
11. Last Exit for the Lost (10:19)

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

The Feelies - Johnathan Swift's - Cambridge, MA - March 14, 1986 - Soundboard

Setlist:

When Company Comes
Egyptian Reggae [Jonathan Richman]
On The Roof
The Good Earth
Outdoor Miner [Wire]
Original Love
Two Rooms
Moscow Nights
Forces At Work
Sedan Delivery [Neil Young]
Fa Cé-La
Head Held High [Velvet Underground]
She Said, She Said [The Beatles]
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey [The Beatles]
Let's Go
Fun to Be Happy [Love Tractor]
Slow Down
Tomorrow Today
The High Ground
Slipping (Into Something)
Loveless Love
The Obedient Atom
The Last Roundup
Raised Eyebrows
Crazy Rhythms
Run Run Run > What Goes On [Velvet Underground]

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

Huggy Bear - L'European - Paris, France - December 20, 1992 - Soundboard

This band is definitely the poster child for too short of a career but I can see how they were more of a fringe band that not everybody even had a chance to hear. Part of the somewhat popular riot-grrrl movement of the early 90's (that included Heavens To Betsy, Bikini Kill, Sleater Kinney and a few more) but definitely more punk - in my opinion - than the aforementioned bands.

Setlist:

[unknown song]
I, Bloodbrother Be
High Street Jupiter Super Cone
Cerwin
Hopscotch
February 14th
Jupiter Re-Entry
Into the Mission
Sizzle Meet
Can't Kiss

Link (240kbps VBR MP3)

U2 - Paris Cinema Studio - London - August 23, 1981 - Radio Broadcast

I know U2 is at the present but a shadow of it's former great self but at one time they were that band that was GOING TO BE huge and they were really really good.

Setlist:
11 O'clock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart, With A Shout, Twilight, Out Of Control, Rejoice

Link (240kbps VBR MP3)

The Buzzcocks - The Temple - San Francisco, CA - December 15, 1979 - Soundboard

Nice soundboard from this seminal punk band.

Setlist:

I Don't Mind
Autonomy
Ever Fallen In Love
Mad Mad Judy
Sixteen
Moving Away From The Pulsebeat
Noise Annoys
Love You More
What Do I Get
Harmony In My Head
Everbody's Happy Nowadays
You Say You Don't Love Me
Don't Know What To Do With My Life
I Believe
Breakdown
Fast Cars
Boredom

Link (240kbps VBR MP3)

Sonic Youth - BBC and VPRO Sessions - 1986-1992 - Radio Broadcasts

This one is a must have for any early Sonic Youth fan! It's easily my most favorite SY bootleg.

Setlist:

1. Come And Smash Me Said The Boy With The Magic Penis
2. Magic Wand
3. Hallowed Be Thy Name
4. Expressway To Yr. Skull
5. Beauty Lies In The Eye
6. Cotton Crown
7. Stereo Sanctity
8. My New House
9. Rouche Rumble
10. Psychomafia
11. Victoria
12. Corporate Ghost
13. Ruben's Beard
14. Major Label Chicken Feed
15. Clippers
16. Burning Spear
17. Youth Against Fascism
18. Crème Brulee
19. Purr

1-4: 1986-05-19, Peel Session, BBC Studios, London, 14, low generation tape > CD-R, recorded by Wharton Tiers, 1985, BC Studios, New York
5-7: 1987-06-10, VPRO, Hilversum Studios, Hilversum, 11, low generation tape > CD-R
8-11: 1988-10-19, Peel Session, BBC Studios, London, 17, 4 Tunna Brix 7" bootleg (Goofin' Records) > CD-R, recorded 1988-10-11, Fall covers
12-15: 1989-03-20, Peel Session, BBC Studios, London, 13, low generation tape > CD-R, recorded 1989-03-12 or leftover from the 1988-10-19 session, instrumentals
16-19: 1992-07-20, Mark Goodier Session, BBC Studios, London, 13, low generation tape > CD-R, recorded 1992-07-07

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

Pink Floyd - Nakanoshima Sports Center - Sapporo, Japan - March 13, 1972 - Soundboard

This one seems to be missing the encore/disc 2 but the sound was so good that I posted it anyway. It's not that easy to find good sounding PF bootlegs from this era.

Setlist:

Speak To Me
Breathe
On The Run
Time
Breathe (Reprise
The Great Gig In The Sky
Money
Us & Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse
One Of These Days
Careful With That Axe Eugene

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

Peter Gabriel - Woodstock '94 - August 14, 1994 - Soundboard

I have always been a huge fan of Peter Gabriel (Genesis really sucked, in my opinion, after he left) and here is a great live set with great sound.

Setlist:

Come talk to me
Steam
Shaking the tree
San jacinto
Red Rain
Solsbury hill
Digging in the dirt
Sledgehammer
Secret world
In your eyes
Biko

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

Animal Collective - Archa Theatre - Prague, Czech Republic - October 14, 2008 - Soundboard

Setlist:

In The Flowers
Summertime Clothes
Who Could Win A Rabbit
Brother Sport
My Girls
Comfy In Nautica
Peacebone

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

U2 - Complete Salome (7 Discs!)

I wish that more bands would let this kind of material leak! There are literally hundreds reels of Beatles studio sessions available but outside of them it doesn't seem like much of this stuff makes it out for the general public to enjoy. As legend has it a lot of this stuff 'leaked' out from the studio sessions before the band even released the album (Achtung Baby). Supposedly Bono went into a local record shop and found a bootleg of some of this stuff already for sale! At any rate it's a nice peek into some of what goes on in the studio so it's a lot of hit and miss with lots of repetition. I still find it a fascinating look at the development of much of this album back when this band really mattered.

Links (240kbps VBR MP3 - multi-part RAR - you must get all parts to unpack!)
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Smashing Pumpkins - Del Mar Fairgrounds - Del Mar, CA - October 26, 1993 - Soundboard

This one was broadcast on Westwood One (in the US) in little three and four song sets and later compiled into a complete show as a silver cd. I am not sure if it is in the correct order (or even all from the same date) as there seems to be a lot of misinformation going around on the net as to this show. I can say that it sounds great and it was perhaps the best period in this band's career.

Track Info:
Track 1-4: Westwood One In Concert 94-26
Track 5-6: Westwood One In Concert 94-41
Track 7: Westwood One In Concert 95-32
Track 8-9: Westwood One In Concert 94-32
Track 10-12: Westwood One In Concert 95-32

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3 with full artwork scans)

Sonic Youth - Enmore Theatre - Sydney, Australia - February 18, 2008 - Audience Recording

Sonic Youth played a few shows in 2008 celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the release of DAYDREAM NATION by playing the album in it's entirety from beginning to end. I haven't found any soundboard recordings from this tour yet but here is a nice digital audience recording. I would give this one a B (on the A-F scale).

Setlist:

Teenage Riot
Silver Rocket
The Sprawl
'Cross The Breeze
Eric's Trip
Total Trash
Hey Joni
Providence
Candle
Rain King
Kissability
The Wonder
Hyperstation
Eliminator Jr.
Incinerate
Reena
Jams Run Free
Drunken Butterfly
Pink Steam

Link (240 kbps VBR MP3)

The Smiths - The Troy Tate Sessions

These sessions were initially set to become the first SMITHS album but the band was unhappy with the results and switched to a different producer to complete the album.

From wikipedia:

After signing with independent record label Rough Trade, the Smiths begain preparations to record their first album in mid 1983. Due to the suggestion of Rough Trade head Geoff Travis, the band selected Troy Tate (former guitarist of The Teardrop Explodes) as producer of the sessions at Elephant studios in Wapping.[2] During the span of a month, the group recorded 14 songs.[3]
While recording a BBC session for Dave Jensen in August 1983, the Smiths met producer John Porter. Geoff Travis, harboring reservations about the group's session with Troy Tate, had given Porter a cassette of the sessions beforehand in the hopes that he could remix them. Porter told Travis that the sessions were "out of tune and out of time. Feeling the Tate sessions were unsalvageable, Porter offered to rerecord the album himself. Despite praising the work with Tate only a week prior to the press by stating "we've done everything exactly right and it'll show", Smiths singer Morrissey accepted (as did Travis), while guitarist Johnny Marr hesitantly agreed.[3]

Setlist:

1. "Reel Around the Fountain"
2. "You've Got Everything Now"
3. "Miserable Lie"
4. "Pretty Girls Make Graves"
5. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
6. "This Charming Man" (Originally not released on European issues of the album)
7. "Still Ill"
8. "Hand in Glove"
9. "What Difference Does It Make?"
10. "I Don't Owe You Anything"
11. "Suffer Little Children"

Link (224 kbps VBR MP3)

(yes, I finally figured out how to rip at a higher bitrate!)

Pearl Jam - Brixton Academy - London, England - July 14, 1993 - Digital Audience Recording

This is an excellent digital audience recording with almost soundboard like quality. 2 discs (from my personal collection of silver cd's).

Set I
Release
Even Flow (partial)
Blood
Animal
Why Go
Deep
Jeremy
Rearviewmirror
(Beast of Burden)/(Suck You Dry)
Alive
Black
Go
Daughter/(WMA)
Porch/(Tearing)
Once
Garden
Improv (Blues-y) ->
State of Love and Trust
Set II
E1:
Leash
Fuckin' Up
Sonic Reducer
Set III
enc 2:
Indifference

Link (128 kbps VBR MP3)

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete Winterland Reels - Disc 6 of 6

Oops! I just found this in my DRAFTS folder and see that I never posted the last disc of this set! If you missed the first five volumes you can get them here.

DISC 6: 2ND SHOW (October 12)

1. Intro (1:32)
2. Foxy Lady (8:22)
3. Manic Depression (5:55)
4. Sunshine Of Your Love (9:07)
5. Little Wing (4:40)
6. Spanish Castle Magic (7:06)
7. Red House (12:08)
8. Voodoo Child (slight return) (7:02)
9. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (4:57)
10. Purple Haze (7:02)

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

The Cure - County Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA - July 13, 1987 - Radio Broadcast

This one has been bootlegged a lot and the complete show seems to be unavailable. The setlist/order of songs may be a bit dorked on this bootleg but it's a great souvenir from this time period in their career.

Link (128 kbps VBR MP3)