john cale - new york 78

John Cale, live at CBGB's, New York, 27th December 1978

I've posted a couple of gigs from the CBGB's club over the past couple of weeks, and here's another nice one to add to that run, multi-instrumentalist/singer/producer/Welshman John Cale, founder member of The Velvet Underground. This show was recorded during probably his most loved recording period, and although Helen of Troy was released by Island Records without his consent, they were what he called demos at that point, it's still highly regarded in his large catalogue. A couple of great covers too, his dark rendition of Heartbreak Hotel, and a version of Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers) which he produced in it's original form. Enjoy!

01 Dance Of The Seven Veils
02 Helen Of Troy
03 Casey At The Bat
04 Guts
05 Don't Know Why She Came
06 Taking It All Away
07 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
08 Darling I Need You
09 Mercenaries
10 Neighbour's Wife
11 Heartbreak Hotel
12 Pablo Picasso

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Cale CBGB

Jeff Buckley - New York 1993

Jeff Buckley, live at CBGB's, New York, 18th December 1993

Another installment of Buckley for you today, from the famous, and now defunct a'la Sin-E, CBGB's club in New York. This show is okay sounding, a little 'hot' in places, and Jeff isn't quite on it for all the tracks, but that aside it is a very good show, and stands out amongst the plethora of them out there due to the fact that this contains the only known version of Forget Her to have been taped at the bands shows, plus the lesser played CCC also. Enjoy!

01. Grace
02. Mojo Pin
03. Kast Goodbye
04. Lilac Wine
05. Forget Her
06. Lover, You Should've Come Over
07. Corpus Christi Carol
08. The Way Young Lovers Do
09. Eternal Life

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Buckley CBGBs

R.E.M. - Boston 1983

R.E.M., live at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 13th July 1983

A nice little FM broadcast of early R.E.M. for you today, well, it was rebroadcast actually, just for all those people who never knew them in 1983 to get their tapes out. I'm sure you'll enjoy!

01. Intro
02. Gardening At Night
03. 9-9
04. Happy Birthday >
05. Moral Kiosk
06. Laughing
07. Pilgrimage
08. Seven Chinese Brothers
09. Talk About The Passion
10. Wolves, Lower
11. Harborcoat
12. Sitting Still
13. Pretty Persuasion
14. Catapult
15. Just A Touch
16. West of The Fields >
17. Radio Free Europe
18. White Tornado
19. Ages Of You
20. We Walk
21. 1,000,000
22. (Station ID)
23. California Dreamin'
24. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)

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REM Paradise 1
REM Paradise 2

Mogwai - Sydney 2006

Mogwai, live at the Metro Theatre, Sydney, 20th July 2006

A little more of Scots post-rockers Mogwai for you today, taken from their Mr. Beast tour, perhaps their most successful album to date. Only four tracks are actually taken from Mr. Beast though, so perhaps they'd not toured down under for a while? Hence the more 'best of' feel of the setlist. Anyway, please do enjoy!

01. Intro
02. Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home
03. Friend of the Night
04. Travel is Dangerous
05. Ithica 27-9
06. Ratts of the Capital
07. Tracy
08. Acid Food
09. Killing All the Flies
10. Kids Will Be Skeletons
11. Mogwai Fear Satan
12. Hunted By a Freak
13. Glasgow Mega-Snake
14. You Don't Know Jesus
15. We're No Here

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Mogwai Metro

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Outtakes

The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers Alternate Version, Studio Outtakes, 1970

The title pretty much says it all, so simply enjoy!

01. Brown Sugar (Early vocal)
02. Sway (no overdubs)
03. Wild Horses (Acoustic mix, no overdubs)
04. (Good Time Woman (aka Tumblin' Dice, early version)
05. Silver Train (early version)
06. You Gotta Move (mono mix)
07. Bitch (Mono mix)
08. I Got The Blues (Monitor mono mix)
09. Sister Morphine (Basic stereo mix)
10. All Down The Line (Early rehearsal)
11. Travellin' Man (Outtake)
12. Potted Shrimp (Outtake)
13. Alladin Story (Outtake)
14. Leather Jacket (Outtake)
15. Keith and Mick - Wild Horses (Run through)
16. Wild Horses (Alternate Version)
17. Brown Sugar (Alternate guitar version)
18. Brown Sugar (Alternate mix)
19. Brown Sugar ((Mono single mix)

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Stones Fingers

Linkbucks is the devils whore

Whoever is being led here through a linkbucks portal, please let me know where the links are posted. Linkbucks pay that person for my posts of music I share with you freely and I reckon it sucks donkey balls. I don't get paid for it, the artists don't, so why should someone who copies my feed get paid?

Probably fuck all I can do but have a word with this person and try to see if they have some morals. I'm counting on nothing.

Sigur Rós - New York 2008

Sigur Rós, live at MoMa, New York, 7th July 2008

MoMa is the Museum of Modern Arts, not in anyway a music venue, yet the sound of this show is fantastic. It's taken from a webrip of a video (from current.tv), WAV extracted, then converted to MP3, so maybe something of a transcode but fuck it.

The band played on Icelands Idependence Day, hence the national anthem, apart from that...it's a really great set, mixing classic Ros with some great tracks from the new album. On a site I took a look at in readying these files it said that Ný batterí is in the setlist (between Sé Lest and Við Spilum Endalaust). I didn't take the time to listen to every second of the show, so can't say that it definitely isn't, but I never heard any exerpts during my encoding process. Anyway...enjoy!

01. Interview - Playing in NYC
02. Glósoli
03. Sé Lest
04. Interview - Playing MoMa
05. Við Spilum Endalaust
06. Sæglópur
07. Icelandic National Anthem
08. Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
09. Hoppipolla - Með Blóðnasir - Gobbledigook

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Ros MoMa

Elliott Smith - Portland 1994

Elliott Smith, live at Umbra Penumbra, Portland, Oregon, 17th September 1994

Apparantly this is the earliest known of Elliott Smith recordings, and it appears to be so too going by the etree database. It's fairly well circulated, and for good reason. It's got a great sound, and it's a tidy little solo show indeed. Enjoy!

01. Some Song
02. Alphabet Town
03. Whatever (Folk Song in C)
04. No Name #4
05. Big Decision
06. Condor Avenue
07. No Name #1
08. No Confidence Man
09. Crazy Fucker
10. Not Half Right

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Smith Portland

Sonic Youth - New York 1992

Sonic Youth, live at CBGB's, New York, 3rd July 1992

Sonic Youth played this show in relative secret, going under the name Drunken Butterfly, just twenty days before the release of Dirty, much of which makes up the setlist. Soundboard sourced, so a great sound. Enjoy!

01. Teenage Riot
02. Burning Spear
03. Dirty Boots
04. Drunken Butterfly
05. Theresa's Sound-World
06. Youth Against Fascism
07. Swimsuit Issue
08. Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
09. 100%
10. Sugar Kane
11. Expressway To Yr Skull

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Youth CBGB

Death Cab For Cutie - Bellingham 1999

Death Cab For Cutie, live at the Viking Hall Main Lounge, Bellingham W.A., 110th April 1999

When Ben Gibbard released a side project cassette You Can Play These Songs With Chords, the surprising success of this led him to form a band with guitarist Chris Walla who played on said cassette. They released another album, an actual real one this time, in 1998, and this show is from between that release, Something About Airplanes, and the third We Have Facts And We're Voting Yes. This show was also played in their hometown and contains songs from each of these releases, I'm sure you'll enjoy!

1) Intro
2) Champagne From A Paper Cup
3) Lowell, MA
4) We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes
5) Amputations
6) President of What?
7) Company Calls
8) Prove My Hypotheses
9) Fake Frowns

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Cab Viking

Kristin Hersh - London 1993

Kristin Hersh, 4AD Presents The 13 Year Itch, live at the I.C.A. London, 19th July 1993

Kristin has been playing music for, about 100 years...*coughs*, however long it is she's always been very cool. Her breakthrough was with band Throwing Muses in the late eighties and early ninties, and although she's got a handsome solo career, they've never really gone away, releasing their last album in 2003. This concert was one of many put on by label 4AD to showcase the many talented artists on it's roster (Belly, Red House Painters, Dead Can Dance, The Breeders), releasing a compilation of those same artists and selling them at the gigs only. This was the first of those shows, enjoy!

01 - Sparky
02 - Your Ghost
03 - Sundrops
04 - Rabbits Dying
05 - Juno
06 - Teeth
07 - Red Shoes
08 - Me & My Charms
09 - Same Sun
10 - Cottonmouth
11 - Crazy Loon
12 - Delicate Cutters
13 - Cuckoo
14 - Uncle June + Aunt Kiyoti
15 - You Cage

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Hersh 4AD

Butthole Surfers - Lollapalooza 1991

Butthole Surfers, live at Lollapalooza, Pine Knob M.I., 4th August 1991

A little more Lolla for you today, this time from Texas nutjobs the Butthole Surfers. Coming out of the Alternative underground, I guess you'd say they were closer to Punk than any other genre at the time, the Buttholes built themselves a core fanbase in venues like L.A.s Whisky A Go Go in the early eighties. Anyway, do enjoy!

01. Revolution PT I & II
02. Dancing Fool
03. Creep In The Cellar
04. Blindman
05. Edgar
06. Hey
07. Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales
08. You Don't Know Me
09. Fast
10. Bong Song
11. Human Cannonball
12. Graveyard
13. Booze, Tobacco, Dope, Pussy, Cars
14. Pittsburg to Lebanon

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Surfers Knob

Trail of the Dead - Karlsaue 2002

Some faily early Trail for you today, can't be arsed to write out anything today so just enjoy!

01. Intro
02. It Was There That I Saw You
03. Baudelaire
04. Homage
05. Gargoyle Waiting
06. Monsoon
07. Another Morning Stoner
08. Days of Being Wild
09. Aged Dolls
10. A Perfect Teenhood

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Trail Karlsaue

Jeff Buckley - New York 1994

Jeff Buckley, live from Sin-E, New York, 1994

Sorted my internet this morning so posts shall resume as per usual, sadly the same cannot be said for my mobile phone!

This is a recently circulated compilation from the taper, a guy who actually performed at Sin-E during the time Jeff did too. This collection has some great stuff on it, including previously unheard (by the collectors, obviously not the taper and the crowd) tracks by Ride (In A Different Place), Joni Mitchell (Peoples Parties) and The Beatles (Julia).

01. People's Parties
02. Hallelujah
03. Funk 49/The Way Young Lovers Do
04. In A Different Place
05. May The Circle Be Unbroken
06. Twelth Of Never
07. I SHall Be Released
08. Calling You
09. Strange Fruit
10. Julia
11. Sweet Thing
12. Lost Highway
13. Dink's Song
14. If You See Her, Say Hello
15. Mama You've Been On My Mind
16. Hallelujah
17. Eternal Life
18. Sweet Thing

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Jeff Sin-E 1
Jeff Sin-E 2

Bauhaus - Los Angeles 2005

Bauhaus, live at The Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, 29th October 2005

Although most of the worlds population would think The Cure are the kings of goth (I personally think they aren't at all. Friday I'm in Love?!?), Bauhaus out goth them ten fold. This set is very representative of their sound, and indeed sounds great, with a lovely finale of their Bowie cover and the classic Bela Lagosi's Dead. Enjoy!

01. Burning from the Inside
02. In the Flat Field
03. A God in an Alcove
04. In Fear of Fear
05. Terror Couple Kill Colonel
06. Swing the Heartache
07. She's in Parties
08. Passion of Lovers
09. Silent Hedges
10. Kick in the Eye
11. Hollow Hills
12. Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
13. Stigmata Martyr
14. Hair of the Dog
15. Dark Entries
16. Double Dare
17. Slice of Life
18. Telegram Sam
19. Ziggy Stardust
20. Bela Lugosi's Dead

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Bauhaus Wiltern

Ryan Adams - Amsterdam 2002

Ryan Adams, live at the Paradisio, Amsterdam, 6th February 2002

A really long set from Ryan Adams for you today, I think played after the Demolition tour, as it's got alot of what was to become 2003's Rock and Roll in the set. Anyway, great set, great sound. Enjoy!

1 The Rescue Blues
2 Soundtrack Of Your Life
3 To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
4 Firecracker
5 Answering Bell
6 Touch, Feel & Lose
7 Not Gonna Make It Out Of This One This Time
8 Harder Now That It's Over
9 When The Stars Go Blue
10 Somehow, Someday
11 Nobody Girl
12 La Cienega Just Smiled
13 Diamonds Or Hearts
14 Hitchin' A Ride
15 Lovesick Blues
16 Ooh Las Vegas
17 Sin City
18 Oh My Sweet Carolina
19 "Song For Natalie" (improv.)
20 New York, New York
21 Brown Sugar
22 Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues
23 My Winding Wheel
24 Don't Ask For The Water
25 You Will Always Be The Same
26 Desire
27 Shakedown On 9th Street
28 Firecracker
29 Dance All Night
30 Vampire
31 Call Me On Your Way Back Home
32 Come Pick Me Up

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Adams Amsterdam 1
Adams Amsterdam 2
Adams Amsterdam 3

Jimi Hendrix - Miami Pop 1968

Jimi Hendrix, Miami Pop Fest., Florida, 18th May 1968

A second post today, as both are quite small...This is the latter set from Hendrix's day out at the '68 Miami Pop Festival, the early one I sadly do not have, but I'm sure you'll enjoy this slice of soundboard Jimi.

01. Intro
02. Foxy Lady
03. Fire
04. Hear My Train A Comin'
05. Purple Haze
06. Outro

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Hendrix Pop

Thom Yorke - Santa Monica 2006

Thom Yorke, live and acoustic on KCRW, Santa Monica L.A., 11th July 2006

Just a couple of tracks here, the 'midtro' sample is really just for sound quality purposes. Recorded for Morning Becomes Eclectic during Radiohead's tour of the U.S.A. in '06, Jonny and Nigel Godrich assist on the opening track. Enjoy!

01. Intro
02. Cymbal Rush (with Greenwood and Godrich)
03. Midtro
04. The Clock

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Yorke Eclectic

Arcade Fire - Montreal 2007

Arcade Fire, live at St. Michels Church, Montreal, 20th January 2007

This was the very first performance featuring the material from the bands second album, Neon Bible. A rather impromptu gig, they played at their recording studio/home, St. Michels church, in front of a select crowd of friends, and those who heard of the show that day. Enjoy!

1. Intro
2. Black Mirror
3. Keep the Car Running
4. No Cars Go
5. Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
6. My Body is a Cage
7. Oceans of Noise>
8. Rebellion
9. Funny chatter
10.Intervention
11. Building Downtown
12.The Well and the Lighthouse
13. Haiti
14. Power Out

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Fire Church

Martha Wainwright - Manchester 2005

Martha Wainwright, live at Acadamy 3, Manchester University, 8th May 2005

Martha, sister of the flambouyant Rufufs, and daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, follows a more traditional route than her erstwhile sibling, sticking to a more folk based autobiographical music, no duobt influenced by her parents, Bloody Motherfuckin' Asshole, a song aimed at her father, is a fine example of this, and a really fine song too.

This show, performed on Martha's 29th birthday, was in support of her recently released self titled debut album. That said, she did release Ground Floor previous to this, but it was a limited run produced by herself (I think) and sold at her earliest shows. Anyway, this is a great set, a nice mix of the albumcovers, and older songs that I'm sure you'll enjoy.

01 Intro
02 I Will Internalize
03 When The Day Is Short
04 The Car Song
05 Far Away
06 Jimi (Takes So Much Time)
07 Ball & Chain
08 Unknown Song
09 You’ve Got A Way
10 Bloody Motherfuckin’ Asshole
11 Who Was I Kidding?
12 Baby
13 Tower Of Song (Leonard Cohen Cover)
14 This Life
15 Lost So Many Friends
16 Year Of The Dragon (Kate & Anne Mcgarrigle Cover)
17 Factory
18 I Was In The House When The House Burned Down (Warren Zevon cover)
19 Don’t Forget
20 Street Fightin’ Man (Rolling Stones Cover)
21 G.P.T.
22 Dis, Quand Reviendras-Tu?

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Martha Academy

Jimi Hendrix - NYC/London Home Demos and Poetry

Jimi Hendrix, Acoustic Demos and Poetry Recital, various locations and dates

This is a small collection of acoustic demos, recorded at Jimis' apartment/Drake Hotel
(both NY), a couple of jams with Paul Caruso, the Room Full of Mirrors poetry recital and the infamous Faye's Tape, which went for a bucket load of money at Sotherbys a while back as did the Acoustic Jams and many others. Sadly I picked the worst sounding track for the sample, silly me...anyway, enjoy!

01. Long Hot Summer Night (Drake Hotel April 68)
02. All Along The Watchtower (Jimi's apartment March 68 with Paul Caruso)
03. Bright Lights, Big City (same as above)
04. Acoustic Jams with Paul Caruso 1 (Around the same time as those above)
05. Acoustic Jams with Paul Caruso 2 (same as above)
06. Room Full of Mirrors (London March 69)
07. Room Full of Mirrors Edit (same as above)
08. Faye's Tape (Acoustic Demos - Radio Edit)

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Hendrix Various

Billy Bragg - Wellington 1987

Billy Bragg, live at Victoria University, Wellington NZ, 7th March 1987

An electric set from ardent Englishman and activist Mr. Billy Bragg for you today. Billy toured South Wales (my home) in the early '80's in support of the miners strikes, now he's going to play the same places as an homage to those who fought for their livelihoods back then, starting at Blaenavon, world heritage site and nextdoor neighbour to my hometown. Good on you Billy, and folks please do enjoy the set!

01. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
02. Milkman Of Human Kindness
03. Love Gets Dangerous
04. Myth Of Trust
05. The Marriage
06. Greetings To The New Brunette
07. Honey, I'm A Big Boy Now / Your Cheatin' Heart
08. World Turned Upside Down
09. Levi Stubbs' Tears
10. Think Again
11. Help Save The Youth Of America
12. St. Swithin's Day
13. A Lover Sings
14. Valentine's Day Is Over
15. It Says Here
16. The Home Front
17. Right Wing Rant
18. Days Like These
19. A New England
20. A Change Is Gonna Come
21. Between The Wars
22. Banter
23. Louie Louie / Hang On Sloopy / Wild Thing / Gloria
24. A13

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Bragg Victoria 1
Bragg Victoria 2

Ugly Casanova - Portland 2001

Ugly Casanova, live at the Blackbird Theater, Portland Oregon, 19th November 2001

Ugly Casanova are little known, though I'm sure many of you will know of their singer Isaac Brock's day job, the frontman for Modest Mouse. They released just one album on Sub Pop records, and though they have toured quite a bit (at the time of release and a few years later) there seems to be few bootlegs kicking about. Thankfully there are one or two, and this one is even a soundboard recording. Please do enjoy!

01 Barnacles
02 Cat Faces
03 Things I Don't Remember
04 Hotcha Girls
05 Pacifico (Sharpen Your Teeth)
06 Smoke Like Ribbons
07 Bee Sting
08 Parasites
09 Ice On The Sheets
10 Diggin' Snow

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Casanova Blackbird

Neko Case - Los Angeles 2000

Neko Case, live at Spaceland, Los Angeles, 10th March 2000

Neko made her name when she sang several songs on the New Pornographers album Mass Romantic before going solo, firstly with her band Her Boyfriends, before perhaps gaining a little more confidence and continuing comeletely under her own name. Though the Pornographers were an indie-pop style group, formed more to allow each member to gain a little from playing with each other more than anything, her own music is much more country than anything else. 2006 brought us her album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, and with it many, many plaudits for her songwriting style. Anyway...this is rather younger than that as you've noticed, though I'm sure you'll enjoy it anyway.

01 tuning & banter
02 Set Out Running
03 Guided By Wire
04 Bowling Green
05 Stinging Velvet
06 Favorite
07 Whip The Blankets
08 South Tacoma Way
09 Rated X
10 Twist The Knife
11 Make Your Bed
12 Mood To Burn Bridges
13 Porchlight
14 Furnace Room Lullaby
15 Thrice All American
16 Bought And Sold
17 Fist City
18 No Need To Cry

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Case Spaceland

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Seattle 2009

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, live at The Triple Door, Seattle W.A., 21st March 2009

Hitchcock started his musical life with The Soft Boys before embarking on a solo career. The Venus 3 are his touring band of the moment, although they also recorded together his last studio album, and consist two Seattle based members, Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger, guest vox for many bands inc Minus 5) on vocals and Scott McCaughey (Minus 5) on bass, and R.E.M. bandmates Bill Rieflin (N.I.N., Ministry etc.) on drums and Peter Buck on guitar. Not a bad line-up at all methinks. Enjoy!

01 intro/talk
02 Out Of The Picture
03 Airscape
04 talk
05 The Lizard
06 What You Is
07 Hurry For The Sky
08 N.Y. Doll
09 Viva Sea-Tac
10 Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
11 The Authority Box
12 talk
13 Saturday Groovers
14 Madonna of the Wasps
15 Up To Our Nex
16 talk
17 Jewels for Sophia
01 The Ghost Ship (solo Robyn)
02 The Wreck of the Arthur Lee (solo Robyn)
03 Creeped Out
04 talk
05 I'm Falling
06 talk
07 Goodnight Oslo

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Venus Door 2