Playlist for January 18, 2006

Week Late & A Dollar Short Edition

Boot of the Week

Be Bop Deluxe
Live at the Riviera Theatre
Chicago, Illinois
April 16, 1976
Radio broadcast by WXRT-FM

1. Fair Exchange (4:55)
2. Stage Whispers (3:02)
3. Life in the Air Age (4:58)
4. Sister Seagull (4:04)
5. Yorkshire Landscape (9:10)
6. Maid in Heaven (2:26)
7. Ships in the Night (3:35)
8. Bill's Blues (7:29)
9. Blazing Apostles (12:56)

The taper of this show writes: One of the great things about trading music is that you get to relive those pivotal concerts of the past. Such is the case with the 1976 Be Bop Deluxe show from the Riviera Theatre, Chicago. I, like another or two on this list, was at that show. Be Bop Deluxe opened for Thin Lizzy on the first date of their American Tour. I believe it was the first American date for Be Bop Deluxe. The concert was breathtaking. Both bands had such energy, such power in that small theater. It was one of those shows where when you walk out you just know you witnessed something extraordinary. The remastering that was done on this show truly does capture that energy all over again. Those soaring guitar solos from Bill Nelson are doing it to me again Listening to this show again makes me again say, "This is why I collect and love music so much."


The Kaygees - Get Down & Let's Boogie - Keep On Bumpin' and Masterplan
(Gang Records)
Towa Tei - Love Connection - Futurelistening (Warner Bros)
St Etienne - Only Love - Fox Base Alpha (Warner Bros)
The Blackbyrds - Gut Level - Greatest Hits (Fantasy)

13th Floor Elevators - She Lives in a Time of Her Own - Easter Everywhere
(oldies.com)
Bevis Frond - This Ship has Wings - Rubric Records Compilation 01 (http://www.rubricrecords.com/)
Pulse - Peace I & I Want To Live - Pulse (Thimble-Audio Fidelity)
Date Bait - Skull Diggery - I Spit on your Grave (New Rose)
Brownsville Station - Kings of the PArty - School Punks (Big Tree)
Rap Reiplinger - Record Offer - Rap (Mountain Apple)
Negative Trend - Mercenaries (CD-5) (2-13-61)
Tony Joe White - Saturday Night in Oak Grove Louisiana - Homemade Ice Cream
(DBK-Rhino)

The Skydogs - What You Do To Me - Guitars and Barbecue ("burned" CD from
the band, found in a thrift shop)
The Coasters - Framed - Yakety Yak (Rhino)
Cassetteboy - Sandra Bullock's in tent - Flogging a Dead Horse
Iggy Pop - Down On The Street - Funhouse Sessions (Rhino Handmade)
X-Ray-Spex - The Day The World Turned Day Glo - Germ Free Adolescents The
Anthology (Sanctuary)
The United States of America - Do You Follow Me - The United States of
America (Sundazed)
Bill Nelson - UHF - Quit Dreaming and Get On The Beam (Cocteau)
Sugar - Company Book - File Under Easy Listening (Ryko)
Frank Zappa - Big Leg Emma - Absolutely Free (Ryko CD reissue)

Focus - Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) - In And Out Of Focus (Sire)
Tangerine Dream - 3AM- - Okeefenokee - Stratosfear (Virgin)
Sonny Simmons - A Distant Voice - Complete ESP Disk Recordings
(espdisk.com)
DJ Vadim - Headz Still Ain't Ready - Conquest of the Irrational (Ninja Tune)

Bob Thompson - Starfire - The Sound Of Speed (Dionysus)