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