Monday, March 8, 2010

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)

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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!)

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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)