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Garbage
Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 24th August 1996

Excellent FM radio broadcast. I don't recall this being on UK radio - this was an American show, complete with annoying DJ and lots of commercials (every couple of songs, in fact). So, I've carefully edited it so that it's now just the music.

01 Queer
02 Fix Me Now
03 Milk
04 Supervixen
05 Stupid Girl
06 Vow
07 Kick My Ass
08 Only Happy When it Rains

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 48Mb

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Garbage
Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK,
9th April 1996

Superb digital radio broadcast. This was originally on FM radio back in 1996, but that broadcast omitted three songs ('Trip My Wire,' 'Kick My Ass' and 'Girl Don't Come') which are included here.

01 Queer
02 Fix Me Now
03 Not My Idea
04 Milk
05 Supervixen
06 Stupid Girl
07 Only Happy When It Rains
08 Vow
09 Trip My Wire
10 Kick My Ass
11 Subhuman
12 Girl Don't Come

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 70Mb

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Queens of the Stone Age
Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 26th August 2001

Very good audience recording of the Queens on the main stage at Reading. Tobey Torres of Snake River Conspiracy guests on vocals on 'Quick and to the Pointless.' 'Precious and Grace' is a ZZ Top cover.

01 Regular John
02 Quick and to the Pointless
03 Feelgood Hit of the Summer
04 How to Handle a Rope
05 Ode to Clarissa
06 Monsters in the Parasol
07 Tension Head
08 Precious and Grace
09 Go With the Flow
10 The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
11 You Can't Quit Me, baby

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 73Mb

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Ramones
Lyceum, London, 26th February 1985

It's the 25th anniversary of this show today - a very good audience recording of the Ramones' third night at the Lyceum, London in 1985. Unlike the 'Return to London' soundboard recording of the previous night, this is the full show and the band are in fine form - as ever. Did the Ramones ever play a bad show?

01 Durango 95
02 Teenage lobotomy
03 Psychotherapy
04 Blitzkrieg Bop
05 Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio
06 Danger Zone
07 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
08 Rock 'n' Roll High School
09 I Wanna Be Sedated
10 Beat on the Brat
11 The KKK Took My Baby Away
12 Go Mental
13 Judy is a Punk
14 Suzy is a Headbanger
15 Let's Dance
16 Too Tough to Die
17 Smash You
18 Chinese Rock
19 Warthog
20 Rockaway Beach
21 Surfin' Bird
22 Cretin Hop
23 California Sun
24 Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
25 Pinhead
26 Mama's Boy
27 Highest Trails Above
28 Sheena is a Punk Rocker
29 Chasing the Night
30 I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement
31 We're a Happy Family

Source: Audience
Quality; Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Big Audio Dynamite,
St George's Hall, Bradford, UK, 22nd July 1988

Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were touring their third album 'Tighten Up Vol 88' at the time.

01 C'Mon Every Beatbox
02 The Battle of All Saints' Road
03 V Thirteen
04 Other 99
05 E=MC2

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 37Mb

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Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Wembley Arena, London, UK
19th January 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast made at the Great British Music Festival in 1991.

01 Rubbish
02 Re-Educating Rita
03 Second to Last Will and Testament
04 Sheriff Fatman
05 Rent

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 22Mb

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Billy Bragg
Wembley Arena, London, UK
19th January 1991 and
Mountain Stage, Charlestown
West Virginia, USA
28th April 1991

Two short FM radio broadcasts, and my favourite type of Billy Bragg show - just him and his guitar.

Wembley Arena, London 19th January 1991
01 Levi Stubb's Tears
02 Rumours of War
03 Accident Waiting to Happen

Mountain Stage, Charlestown, West Virginia, 28th April 1991
04 The Marching Song Of Covert Battalions
05 Accident Waiting to Happen
06 Tank Park Salute
07 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 46Mb

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Ramones
Lyceum, London, UK
25th February 1985

This show happened exactly 25 years ago today and is posted to mark that anniversary. It's a stunning soundboard recording of the second of the Ramones' four 'comeback' shows in London. The band hadn't visited Britain for a few years, and their then-current LP 'Too Tough to Die' had initially only been available in Britain as an import. The four shows at The Lyceum proved the band was still a big draw over here (as if anyone should have doubted that...). This set is incomplete, missing about six songs, presumably due to the need to fit tracks onto the bootleg LP 'Return to London' from which this was originally recorded. I have an audience tape from the following night which has a complete - and longer - set-list. Some of the songs from these Lyceum shows (possibly from this night, given that it's a soundboard recording) turned up a few years back on the bonus 'Smash You Live in London' CD which accompanied the 'Their Toughest Hits' compilation album. The sound on this upload is sharper than the 'Smash You' CD which was a little muddy.

01 Durango 95
02 Teenage Lobotomy
03 Psycho Therapy
04 Blitzkrieg Bop
05 Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
06 Danger Zone
07 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
08 Rock 'n' Roll High School
09 I Wanna be Sedated
10 Beat on the Brat
11 The KKK took My Baby Away
12 Judy is a Punk
13 Suzy is a Headbanger
14 Let's Dance
15 Too Tough to Die
16 Wart Hog
17 Rockaway Beach
18 Surfin' Bird
19 Cretin Hop
20 California Sun
21 Mama's Boy
22 Highest Trails Above
23 Sheena is a Punk Rocker

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 58Mb

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Ramones,
Capital Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, USA, 19th November 1977

Very good audience recording - slightly bass-heavy, with the vocals a little low, but a blistering performance from the same night as the Eddie and the Hot Rods show posted earlier.

01 Rockaway Beach
02 Teenage Lobotomy
03 Blitzkrieg Bop
04 I Wanna Be Well
05 Glad to See You Go
06 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
07 You're Gonna Kill That Girl
08 53rd and 3rd
09 Sheena is a Punk Rocker
10 I Can't Give You Anything
11 Let's Dance
12 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
13 Surfin' Bird
14 Cretin Bop
15 Listen to my Heart
16 California Sun
17 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
18 Pinhead
19 Suzy is a Headbanger
20 Chain Saw
21 Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
22 Judy is a Punk
23 Havana Affair
24 Commando

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 67Mb

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Jesus Jones
Town and Country Club, London, UK
27th February 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast recorded around the time the band's second album 'Doubt' was released. The set includes their best-known songs 'International Bright Young Thing' and 'Right Here Right Now.' Apparently, Jesus Jones are still going.

01 Happy
02 Move Mountains
03 International Bright Young Thing
04 Burning
05 Caricature
06 Desperation Girl
07 Victoria
08 Two and Two
09 Who? Where? Why?
10 Real Real Real
11 Bring it on Down
12 What Would You Know?
13 Trust Me
14 Info Freako
15 Blissed

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 76Mb

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Jesus Jones
Wembley Arena
19th January 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast made during the Great British Music Festival.

01 Happy
02 International Bright Young Thing
03 Right Here, Right Now
04 Real Real Real
05 Bring it on Down

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 24Mb

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The Clash, The Orpheum Theater, Boston, USA, 7th and 8th September 1982.

Fantastic soundboard recording. This is known as 'The Boston Tapes' and compiled from two nights at The Orpheum Theatre in Boston. Somewhere there must exist the complete shows in this quality, given the soundboard source. There are audience recordings, but nothing that comes even close to this.

01 London Calling
02 Janie Jones
03 The Call Up
04 Brand New Cadillac
05 Somebody Got Murdered
06 I Fought the Law
07 Clampdown
08 Armagideon Time
09 Should I Stay or Should I Go
10 I’m So Bored With the USA
11 Straight to Hell
12 Clash City Rockers
13 Garageland

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 64Mb

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Morrissey, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 28th August 2004

Good quality audience recording. Morrissey was back in both critical and commercial favour following the release of 'You are the Quarry' and played second on the bill to The White Stripes on the Saturday night at Reading.

01 How Soon Is Now?
02 November Spawned A Monster
03 First Of The Gang To Die
04 Everyday Is Like Sunday (Subway Train Intro)
05 I Like You
06 Shoplifters Of The World Unite
07 Irish Blood, English Heart
08 Now My Heart Is Full
09 Munich Air Disaster 1958
10 The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
11 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
12 Let Me Kiss You
13 Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice
14 Jack The Ripper
15 You Know I Couldn't Last

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 90Mb

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The Clash, The Palladium, New York, USA, 21st September 1979

Stunning FM radio broadcast made by US station WNEW. This was the second of two nights at The Palladium, and was also the night Pennie Smith took the legendary photograph of Paul Simonon about to smash his bass guitar on the stage.

01 Safe European Home
02 I'm So Bored with the USA
03 Complete Control
04 London Calling
05 (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
06 Koka Kola
07 I Fought the Law
08 Jail Guitar Doors
09 The Guns Of Brixton
10 English Civil War
11 Clash City Rockers
12 Stay Free
13 Clampdown
14 Police and Thieves
15 Capital Radio
16 Tommy Gun
17 Wrong 'Em Boyo
18 Janie Jones
19 Garageland
20 Armagideon Time
21 Career Opportunities
22 What's My Name
23 White Riot

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb (part 1), 50Mb (part 2)

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The Clash, Lyceum, London, UK, 3rd January 1979

Excellent soundboard recording of the third and final London date at the end of the 'Sort it Out' tour.

01 Safe European Home
02 I Fought the Law
03 Jail guitar Doors
04 Drug Stabbing Time
05 The City of the dead
06 Clash City Rockers
07 Tommy Gun
08 (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
09 English Civil War
10 Stay Free
11 Cheapskates
12 Julie's in the Drug Squad
13 Police and Thieves
14 Capital Radio
15 Janie Jones
16 Garageland
17 Complete Control
18 London's Burning
19 White Riot

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 90Mb

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The Soup Dragons, Marquee, London, UK, 24th April 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast. The Soup Dragons were half-way through their career when they (briefly) hit the big time, with a UK top-5 hit in the form of 'I'm Free.' By this point their sound had moved on from the 'C86' sound of their early singles and first two albums and become a dance-rock crossover in keeping with the 'baggy' culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. This show finds them at the peak of their success, and on fine form mid-way between their third album 'Lovegod' and it's successor 'Hotwired.' They eventually split in 1995 after releasing five albums.

01 Backwards Dog
02 Love You to Death
03 One Over One
04 Softly
05 Love God
06 Burnout
07 Mother Universe
08 Dream On (Solid Gone)
09 Dream E for Ever
10 Sweetmeat
11 I'm Free

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 74Mb

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Primal Scream, Leeds Festival, Temple Newsham, Leeds, UK, 28th August 2000

Excellent FM radio broadcast of highlights from Primal Scream's set at the Leeds leg of The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2000. This show includes several classic singles.

01 Shoot Speed Kill Light
02 Insect Royalty
03 Kill All Hippies
04 Exterminator
05 Kowalski
06 Higher Than the Sun
07 Loaded
08 City
09 Movin' On Up

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 59Mb

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New Model Army, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 26th August 1989

A good quality audience recording. New Model Army were at their peak in terms of popularity and commercial success in 1989, with their 'Thunder and Consolation' album reportedly selling a million copies worldwide. A measure of their popularity at this time is tat they played second on the bill (The Pogues headlined) on the Saturday at the 1989 festival - the first to be organised by Mean Fiddler, following a very patchy (and poorly attended) festival the previous year.

01 Vengeance
02 Stupid Questions
03 225
04 Inheritance
05 Waiting
06 Green and Grey
07 I Love the World
08 Ballad
09 Vagabonds
10 Young Gifted and Skint
11 Love Songs
12 No Rest
13 51st State
14 Smalltown England
15 Poison Street
16 Whitecoats
17 Betcha

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 112Mb

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Eddie and the Hot Rods, Capitol Theater, Passaic, New Jersey, USA, 19th November 1977

Very good recording of Eddie and the Hot Rods at a new wave showcase in New Jersey, supporting Talking Heads and The Ramones. It sounds very much like a soundboard recording. One of so many bands of the era who are best known for one song - in the case of the Hot Rods, it's the classic 'Do Anything You Wanna do.'

01 Teenage Depression
02 The Kids are Alright
03 Telephone Girl
04 Life on the Line
05 Quit This Town
06 I Might be Lying
07 Why Can't it Be
08 Do Anything You Wanna Do
09 Ignore Them
10 Beginning of the End
11 Get Out of Denver

Source: Probable soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 56Mb

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The Undertones, New Pop Festival, Zuiderpark, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 7th September 1980

I thought I'd posted all my Undertones shows, but then I remembered a CD-R I got in a trade a couple of years ago, which held this excellent FM radio broadcast. Tracks 9 and 10 are from a different show (date and location unknown), but broadcast on Dutch FM radio, so presumably also in The Netherlands.

01 Wednesday Week
02 Jimmy Jimmy
03 My Perfect Cousin
04 Get Over You
05 Here Comes the Summer
06 Get it On
07 Rock and Roll
08 Teenage Kicks
09 Boys Will be Boys
10 See That Girl

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 33Mb

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Psychedelic Furs, Town & Country Club, London, UK, 9th October 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast. Sadly, despite many great songs, the Psychedelic Furs are still best known for 'Pretty in Pink.' This show contains several other classics that are at least as worthy of hearing as that most famous and successful song of theirs.

01 Heaven
02 President Gas
03 Sleep Comes Down
04 Get a Room
05 The Ghost in You
06 Pretty in Pink
07 Love My Way
08 All That Money Wants
09 India

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 51Mb

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The Mission, The Astoria, London, UK, 24th March 1988

Very good audience recording. The Mission were relentless tourers back then and were promoting second album 'Children' at the time. I don't think this is the full show, as it appears to lack encores, but it was all that was on the tape. I bought a ticket for this gig - I really don't know why, as I was living 250 miles away in Falmouth, Cornwall at the time and, being a student, had no money, so I couldn't afford to get up to London to attend. I still have the unused ticket...

01 Beyond the Pale
02 And the Dance Goes On
03 Like a Hurricane
04 Childs Play
05 Serpents Kiss
06 Garden of Delight
07 Tower of Strength
08 The Crystal Ocean
09 Dream On
10 Sacrilege
11 Wasteland
12 1969
13 Heat
14 Blood Brother

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 96Mb

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The Clash, Lyceum, London, UK, 29th December 1978

Excellent audience recording, apparently made with professional quality equipment - and it shows. This is one of the best Clash live shows. The band played three dates at the Lyceum as part of their 'Sort it Out' tour, supported by The Slits. The shows were also filmed as part of the band's then-forthcoming film 'Rude Boy.' The first gig was on 28th December, and the last two tracks on this show are apparently from that first show. The third night was on 3rd January 1979.

01 Safe European Home
02 I Fought the Law
03 Jail Guitar Doors
04 Drug Stabbing Time
05 Cheapskates
06 The City of the Dead
07 Clash City Rockers
08 Tommy Gun
09 (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
10 English Civil War
11 Stay Free
12 Guns on the Roof
13 Police and Thieves
14 Julie's in the Dug Squad
15 Capital Radio
16 Janie Jones
17 Garageland
18 Complete Control
19 London's Burning
20 White Riot

Source: Audience
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 93Mb

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That Petrol Emotion, The Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 13th November 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast. That Petrol Emotion were between record labels at this point, and this recording includes tracks that wouldn't appear on record until their 1993 album 'Fireproof' - which would prove to be the band's last studio album.

01 Hey Venus
02 Last of the True Believers
03 Abandon
04 Too Late Blues
05 Shangri-La
06 Infinite Thrill
07 Sensitize
08 Detonate my Dreams

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 48Mb

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That Petrol Emotion, Reading University, Reading, UK, 16th October 1990

Excellent FM radio broadcast, made while That Petrol Emotion were touring their fourth album 'Chemicrazy' - their first following the departure of main songwriter Sean O'Neill.

01 Hey Venus
02 Sensitize
03 Big Decision
04 It's a Good Thing
05 Tingle
06 Genius Move
07 Creeping to the Cross
08 Abandon

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 40Mb

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Inspiral Carpets, Leadmill, Sheffield, UK, 8th April 1993

Sometimes the big box of tapes surprises even me - what I thought was a blank tape, turned out to have this excellent FM radio broadcast, from a Radio 1 'Sound City' season.

01 Generations
02 Saviour
03 Two Worlds Collide
04 Dragging Me Down
05 How it Should Be
06 Bitches Brew
07 Fire
08 Tainted Love
09 Directing Traffik

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 47Mb

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The Pogues, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 8th December 1985

Good quality audience recording. Following the release of second album 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' The Pogues were breaking out of the cult status they'd enjoyed up until the autumn of 1985. One of their biggest shows to date (aside from playing Scunthorpe Free Rock in August...) was this Christmas gig at the Hammersmith Odeon, to which I travelled all the way from Cornwall. The band were on a roll at this point - tight through endless gigs, and before booze and internal tensions marred their creativity.

01 Intro
02 Sickbed of Cuchulainn
03 Streams of Whiskey
04 Billy's Bones
05 Repeal of the Licensing Laws
06 Transmetropolitan
07 The Old Main Drag
08 A Pair of Brown Eyes
09 Dirty Old Town
10 Wildcats of Kilkenny
11 Whiskey You're the Devil
12 Sally MacLennane
13 Jesse James
14 I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
15 Dingle Regatta
16 Gentleman Soldier
17 Poor Paddy
18 Waxie's Dargle
19 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
20 Boys From the County Hell
21 The Wild Rover
22 Sea Shanty
23 The Parting Glass

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 99Mb

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REM, Utrecht, Holland, 14th September 1987 and Oslo, Norway, 6th October 1985

Very good FM radio broadcasts. The main show here, in Utrecht, was recorded when REM were breaking out of the US college scene, following the release two weeks earlier of 'Document' and on the cusp of superstardom, which would really begin with the release of 'Green' the following year.

Utrecht, Holland, 14th September 1987
01 Finest Worksong
02 These Days
03 Lightning Hopkins
04 Welcome to the Occupation
05 Driver 8
06 Feeling Gravity's Pull
07 I Believe
08 The One I Love
09 Exhuming McCarthy
10 Wolves, Lower
11 Fall on Me
12 Superman
13 Just a Touch
14 Oddfellows Local 151
15 Letter Never Sent

Oslo, Norway, 6th October 1985
16 Hyena
17 Driver 8
18 Old Man Kensey
19 Pretty Persuasion
20 1,000,000

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 98Mb

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That Petrol Emotion, Hippodrome, Golders Green, London, UK, 13th February 1987

After The Undertones split, the O'Neill brothers formed That Petrol Emotion in 1984, with American Steve Mack on vocals. Despite some great tunes, the band never achieved mainstream success but carried on until 2000, before reforming in 2008. This show was recorded for BBC Radio 1 In Concert in 1987 and still sounds great after all these years.

01 Swamp
02 It's a good thing
03 Belly Bugs
04 Static
05 Can't stop
06 Spin Cycle
07 Big decision
08 In the playpen
09 Mouth Crazy
10 Creeping to the cross

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 38Mb

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The Undertones, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15th March 1980

Very good FM Broadcast. Although this is quite readily available, it's the last of my Undertones recordings, so I thought I might as well add it to the other two on here. If anyone has any high-quality earlier Undertones shows, I'd be very interested to hear them. This set was recorded a few weeks before the release of the band's second album 'Hypnotised' and the band sound great, though the bass is rather high in the mix.

01 Male Model
02 Tearproof
03 Teenage Kicks
04 Jimmy Jimmy
05 The Way Girls Talk
06 There Goes Norman
07 Get Over You
08 Whizz Kids
09 Family Entertainment
10 True Confessions
11 Here Comes the Summer
12 She's a Runaround
13 Girls Don't Like It
14 Rock And Roll

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 47Mb

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The Undertones, Pavillion, Hemel Hempstead, UK, 19th May 1981

Excellent digital radio re-broadcast of an Undertones gig from May 1981. The band's third album 'Positive Touch' had just been released, and this show has songs from that, as well as plenty of earlier classics. I've left in the intro by Janice Long as she talks over the start of 'See That Girl' and there wasn't an obvious edit point.

01 Intro/See That Girl
02 Jump Boys
03 Billys Third
04 You're Welcome
05 When Saturday Comes
06 Girls That Don't Talk
07 His Good Looking Girlfriend
08 I Gotta Getta
09 Wednesday Week
10 Crisis Of Mine
11 Get Over You
12 Sigh And Explode
13 My Perfect Cousin
14 Teenage Kicks
15 More Songs About Chocolate And Girls
16 What's With Terry?
17 There Goes Norman

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 62Mb

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Suzi Quatro, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 27th August 1983

Superb FM radio broadcast, from the late Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show. At the time, it seemed odd to have a 70s glam-rock pop star playing the UK's leading rock festival, especially on the day that Black Sabbath were headlining, but it turned out to be an inspired booking - the crowd loved her. This might well be the full set - looking back at the festival programme, she played at about 6pm on the Saturday (following Anvil...) and would have had around 45 minutes on stage.

01 Intro
02 Never Been in Love
03 I Know What I Want
04 She's in Love
05 Good Girl
06 Strange Encounter
07 Can the Can
08 Devil Gate Drive
09 Tear Me Apart
10 encore break
11 Keep on Knocking
12 Bye, Bye Johnny

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 56Mb

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Ramones, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15th September 1980

Taken from a 7-inch bootleg single called (oddly, given the venue at which this was recorded) 'Four Pinheads in New York' this is an excellent soundboard recording made while the Ramones were touring the Phil Spector-produced 'End of the Century' LP. You have to wonder whether the rest of this show exists anywhere, though...

01 Needles and Pins
02 Surfin' Bird
03 Cretin Hop
04 Listen To My Heart
05 California Sun
06 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
07 Pinhead

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 18Mb

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, 688 Club, Atlanta, USA, 30th June 1984

Not sure if this is a complete show or not, though it was early in the Bad Seeds career, and even with just eight songs, it's still nearly an hour, so it might well be the full performance. Also, I don't know the source, but I'm leaning towards it being a soundboard recording, as everything's clear, and the audience doesn't sound intrusive between songs. The band's debut album 'From Her to Eternity' had been released less than two weeks earlier, on 18th June 1984, and this is a typically raw early Bad Seeds show.

01 Avalanche
02 Mutiny in Heaven
03 Well of Misery
04 From Her to Eternity
05 Cabin Fever
06 A Box for Black Paul
07 Saint Huck
08 I Put a Spell on You

Source: Probable soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tiel, Holland, 7th July 1981

Excellent FM radio broadcast, capturing the Banshees touring 'Juju.' I don't know what the venue was, though. 'Supernatural Thing' is a cover of a Ben E King song, and was on the b-side of the 12-inch version Banshees' 'Arabian Knights'. You have to wonder what Ben E King would have made of this version...

01 Israel
02 Halloween
03 Spellbound
04 Arabian Knights
05 Placebo Effect
06 Pulled To Bits
07 Tenant
08 Headcut
09 Nightshift
10 Sin In My Heart
11 Supernatural Thing
12 But Not Them
13 Voodoo Dolly

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Ramones, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 26th August 1988

So, this is the 250th show I've posted here, and to mark that little landmark, here's two of my favourite things combined: the Ramones and the Reading Festival (I went to every Reading Festival from 1983 to 2008). The Ramones had been due to play at Reading in 1983, but had to pull out after Joey was beaten up in New York, so it was five years later that they finally made their sole appearance at the festival - second on the bill to Iggy Pop - and they didn't disappoint. I was at the front for this one and through an open doorway at the base of the stage saw Motorhead's Lemmy listening to the show from under the stage. Overall, this is a good quality audience recording. The sound fluctuates a little here and there, but generally everything's pretty clear.

01 Intro
02 Durango 95
03 Teenage Lobotomy
04 Psychotherapy
05 Blitzkrieg Bop
06 Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio
07 Bop 'til You Drop
08 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
09 Rock 'n' Roll High School
10 I Wanna be Sedated
11 Beat on the Brat
12 Chinese Rock
13 Weasel Face
14 Commando
15 Sheena is a Punk Rocker
16 Rockaway Beach
17 Needles and pins
18 I Just Wanna Have Something to Do
19 Too Tough to Die
20 Mama's Boy
21 Animal Boy
22 Warthog
23 Surfin' Bird
24 Cretin Hop
25 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
26 Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
27 Pinhead
28 I Wanna Live
29 Somebody Put Something in My Drink
30 Bonzo Goes to Bitburg

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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AC/DC, Haymarket, Sydney, Australia, 30th January 1977

Another of Triple J's 'Impossible Festival' sets sees AC/DC in thundering form. Again, the odd station ident can be heard, but they're not too distracting.

01 Jailbreak
02 The Jack
03 Can I Sit Next to You Girl?
04 High Voltage
05 Rocker
06 It's a Long Way to the Top

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 58Mb

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Ramones, Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, 8th July 1980

Excellent FM radio broadcast. There are several station idents in this show, which was re-broadcast as part of radio station Triple J's 'Impossible Music Festival' season a few years ago, but it would have been impossible to remove them without deleting part of a song in each case, but they're not too intrusive. As ever, The Ramones - who were touring their Phil Spector-produced 'End of the Century' album at the time - were on fine form.

01 Blitzkrieg Bop
02 Teenage lobotomy
03 Rockaway Beach
04 I Can't make it on Time
05 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
06 Rock 'n' Roll High School
07 I Wanna be Sedated
08 Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
09 She's the One
10 Sheena is a Punk Rocker
11 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
12 Surfin' Bird
13 Cretin Hop
14 California Sun
15 Pinhead

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 45Mb

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PJ Harvey, The Forum, London, UK, 23rd June 1993

Excellent FM radio broadcast, recorded for the John Peel show. Peely speaks briefly between 'Legs' and 'Missed' and again at the very end - I've left those bits of speech in. PJ had just released second album 'Rid of Me' at the time of this show.

01 Man-Sized (Sextet)
02 Rid of Me
03 Naked Cousin
04 Primed and Ticking
05 Highway 61 Revisited
06 O Stella
07 Dress
08 Legs
09 Missed
10 Victory
11 Sheela-Na-Gig
12 M-Bike
13 Me-Jane
14 Snake
15 50ft Queenie
16 Man-Size

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 75Mb

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The Mission, Biskuithalle, Bonn, West Germany, 7th October 1986

Very good recording - possibly an FM radio broadcast, as it's definitely just highlights of a longer show. It also seems to have been recorded from a vinyl LP - there's the faintest crackling of the needle in the groove before 'Like a Hurricane.'

01 Intro
02 Wasteland
03 And the Dance Goes On
04 Garden of Delight
05 Wake
06 Like a Hurricane
07 Over the Hills and far Away
08 Serpents Kiss
09 Stay With Me

Source: possible FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 52Mb

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The Mission, Karen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 21st February 1987 and Noorderlicht, Tilburg, Holland, 29th February 1987

Two excellent FM radio broadcasts, presented together because they were made just eight days apart, both in Europe and they were on the same tape. The Mission were probably in their prime at this point - playing very tight after the best part of a year touring, and before excesses (personal and musical) caused the cracks to form in the band. There was a part of 'Wasteland' on the Gothenburg show, but the DJ started talking over it, and didn't stop, so I left it out. There's a cut in 'Serpents Kiss' from the Tilburg show to remove 90 seconds of very loud radio static, which completely drowned out the song. 'Wake' fades out as the DJ talked over the rest of the song.

Karen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 21st February 1987
01 Tomorrow Never Knows
02 Stay With Me
03 Serpents Kiss
04 Over the Hills and Far Away
05 Sacrilege
06 Blood Brother
07 Garden of Delight
08 Crystal Ocean
09 Shelter From the Storm

Noorderlicht, Tilburg, Holland, 29th February 1987
01 Let Sleeping Dogs Die
02 Serpents Kiss
03 Over the Hills and Far Away
04 Sacrilege
05 Wake

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 82Mb

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Lush, The Vatican, Houston, Texas, USA, 7th April 1992

A very good recording - probably audience-sourced.

01 Stray/Bitter
02 God's Gift
03 Nothing Natural
04 Ocean
05 For Love
06 Starlust
07 Covert/De-Lux
08 Downer
09 Sweetness & Light
10 Superblast!
11 Monochrome
12 Baby Talk

Source: Probably audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 75Mb

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Billy Bragg, Town & Country Club, London, UK, 13th October 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast. Billy was riding the peak of his popularity at this point, on the chart success of 'Sexuality.' The inclusion in this broadcast of the 13 minute version of Deee-Lite's 'Groove is in the Heart' is debatable - it's probably the sort of thing that works much better if you're actually in the hall watching the band live. I'd rather have had three or four more Bragg classics, but you get what you're given, I guess.

01 You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
02 Greetings to the new Brunette
03 Valentine's Day
04 North Sea Bubble
05 A Lover Sings
06 Cindy of 1000 Lives
07 Accident Waiting to Happen
08 Waiting for the Great leap Forwards
09 Sexuality
10 Groove is in the Heart

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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The Undertones, Rockpalast, Germany, 17th October 1981

Excellent soundboard recording of The Undertones on German TV show 'Rockpalast' ('Rock Palace') - and a fantastic 'best of' setlist.

01 You've Got my Number
02 Hypnotised
03 Good Looking Girlfriend
04 Tearproof
05 See That Girl
06 Girls That Don't Talk
07 It's Going to Happen
08 Jimmy, Jimmy
09 I Don't Know
10 More Songs About Chocolates and Girls
11 Forever Paradise
12 Beautiful Friend
13 Julie Ocean
14 You're Welcome
15 When Saturday Comes
16 Jump Boys
17 Teenage Kicks
18 Get Over You
19 Sigh and Explode
20 My Perfect Cousin
21 Get it On

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 86Mb

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Massive Attack, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, 6th July 1998

Massive Attack's new (and very good ) album 'Heligoland' is out now, so to mark that here's the band captured live at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998, when promoting 'Mezzanine' from which much of this set is derived. I don't know if this is soundboard or an FM radio broadcast, but it's an excellent quality recording. It's only 128kbps, as that's the form in which it came to me, but it's well worth hearing.

01 Angel
02 Risingson
03 Man Next Door
04 Daydreaming
05 Teardrop
06 Karmacoma
07 Hymn of the Big Wheel
08 Eurochild
09 Spying Glass
10 Mezzanine
11 Safe From harm
12 Heat Miser
13 Inertia Creeps
14 Unfinished Sympathy
15 Group Four

Source: Soundboard or FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 93Mb

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Bob Mould, McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, California, USA, 17th May 1991

Bob Mould has a stunning new album 'Life and Times' out now, as well as a live album from ATP 2008 in Monticello, New York, so to mark these releases, here's a solo acoustic set from 1991, with Bob performing early solo songs, some old Husker Du numbers and 'The Act we Act' which would surface the following year on Sugar's debut 'Copper Blue.'

01 Wishing Well
02 Out of Your Life
03 Hear Me Calling
04 See a Little Light
05 Stand Guard
06 Celebrated Summer
07 Hanging Tree
08 The Act We Act
09 Can't Fight It
10 Walls in Time
11 Poison Years
12 Stop Your Crying
13 Could You be the One
14 It's Too Late
15 Lonely Afternoon
16 Sinners and Their Repentances
17 Hardly Getting Over It
18 Makes No Sense At All

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 54Mb (part 1), 53Mb (part 2)

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The Boomtown Rats, Milan, Italy, 29th March 1982

Very good audience recording. The Rats were well past their commercial peak at this point, but this set includes several of their better-known earlier songs, as well as covers of 'Knock on Wood,' Joe Tex's 'Show Me' and Bob Marley's 'Stir it Up.

01 Close as You'll Ever Be
02 Blind Date
03 Me and Howard Hughes
04 Living in an Island
05 Stir It Up
06 Charmed Lives
07 Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
08 Never in a Million Years
09 Sleep (Fingers' Lullaby)
10 I Don't Like Mondays
11 Joey's on the Street Again
12 Knock on Wood
13 Show Me
14 Having My Picture Taken
15 Rat Trap
16 Someone's Looking at You
17 Keep It Up
18 Banana Republic
19 Banana Republic (continued)
19 Diamond Smiles

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 62Mb (part 1), 62Mb (part 2)

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Raimundtheater, Vienna, Austria, 10th May 1987

Excellent FM radio broadcast of what sounds like it was a very raw show by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

01 I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
02 Long Time Man
03 Sad Waters
04 Jack's Shadow
05 Your Funeral, My Trial
06 Train Long-Suffering
07 Stranger Than Kindness
08 By the Time I Get to Phoenix
09 The Singer

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb

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Portishead, Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, UK, 25th May 1995

Excellent FM radio broadcast. As far as I can tell, sixth track 'It's a Fire' only appeared on the US and Australian versions of debut album 'Dummy.'

01 Numb
02 Wandering Star
03 Theme From 'To Kill a Dead man'
04 Strangers
05 Over
06 It's a Fire
07 Glory Box
08 Pedestal
09 Sour Times

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb

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The Boomtown Rats, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, UK, 21st June 1985

Excellent FM radio broadcast. The Rats' last hurrah came following Bob Geldof's involvement with the Band Aid project in late 1984, and lead to them getting some high-profile shows in the summer of 1985, including Glastonbury, Live Aid... and headlining Scunthorpe Free Rock (no, really - I was there). This set is half-comprised of songs from their later albums - their final album 'In the Long Grass' had come out in May 1985. By mid-1986, The Boomtown Rats were no more.

01 Intro
02 Charmed Lives
03 Lucky
04 Neon Heart
05 Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
06 Dave
07 A Hold of Me
08 I Don't Like Mondays
09 Talking in Code
10 Hurt Hurts
11 Rat trap
12 Drag Me Down
13 Looking After Number 1

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 79Mb

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The Lemonheads, Leadmill, Sheffield, UK, 8th April 1993

Excellent FM radio broadcast from BBC Radio 1's 1993 'Sound City' season in Sheffield.

01 Intro
02 Stove
03 Confetti
04 Mallo Cup
05 Rudderless
06 Alison's Starting To Happen
07 It's A Shame About Ray
08 My Drug Buddy
09 Ride With Me
10 Kitchen
11 Bit Part
12 It's About Time
13 Hannah & Gabi
14 Rockin Stroll

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 50Mb

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The Boomtown Rats, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, USA, 17th March, 1980

Excellent FM radio broadcast of what appears to be a complete Rats' show (fittingly, recorded on St Patrick's Day) from their North American tour to promote third album 'The Fine Art of Surfacing.' I always thought that was quite a weak album after the mighty 'Tonic For the Troops' but there's plenty of earlier stuff in this set, too.

01 Intro
02 Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
03 Like Clockwork
04 Nothing Happened Today
05 I Never Loved Eva Braun
06 Nice 'n' Neat
07 Having My Picture Taken
08 Joey's On the Street Again
09 I Don't Like Mondays
10 Someone's Looking At You
11 Keep it Up
12 Rat Trap
13 Kicks
14 Mary of the 4th Form
15 Blind Date
16 She's So Modern
17 Looking After Number One
18 Sleep (Fingers' Lullaby)
19 Outro

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192 kbps mp3
File size: 61Mb (part 1), 59Mb (part 2)

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Primal Scream, T in the Park, Kinross, Scotland, 13th July 2002

Excellent FM radio broadcast. This is edited together from two different broadcasts - the original transmission omitted 'The Lord is my Shotgun' and 'Medication.' When the set was re-aired on digital radio, those two songs were included, but 'Miss Lucifer' was not. This is probably the most complete version available of this show.

01 Miss Lucifer
02 Rise
03 City
04 Shoot Speed, Kill Light
05 Burning Wheel
06 The lord is my Shotgun
07 Autobahn 66
08 Medication
09 Detroit
10 Skull X
11 Rocks
12 Swastika Eyes
13 Accelerator

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 73Mb

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Primal Scream, BBC Maida Vale Studios, 20th March 2000

Excellent FM radio broadcast for BBC Radio 1's 'Lamacq Live.' Their 'XTRMNTR' album had just been released, and this recording has live versions of six of the tracks from it.

01 Swastika Eyes
02 Shoot Speed Kill Light
03 Pills
04 Burning World
05 If They Move, Kill 'Em
06 Insect Royalty
07 Kill All Hippies
08 Exterminator
09 Kowalski
10 Accelerator

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb

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Leftfield, Homelands, UK, 27th May 2000

Superb FM radio broadcast of a complete Leftfield show at the Homelands Festival in 2000. The tracks are split as best as possible - many of the songs overlap to create a near seamless mix, so I've tried to insert track breaks when the next song becomes identifiable.

01 Dub Gussett
02 Double Flash
03 Chant of a Poor Man
04 Black Flute
05 Storm 3000
06 Inspection (Check One)
07 Africa Shox
08 Song of Life
09 Phat Planet

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size 54Mb (part 1), 56Mb (part 2)

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Oasis, T in the Park, Kinross, Scotland, 13th July 2002

Superb FM radio broadcast. Oasis were touring to promote fifth album 'Heathen Chemistry' at the time.

01 The Hindu Times
02 Columbia
03 (What's the Story) Morning Glory
04 Stop Crying Your Heart Out
05 Little by Little
06 Cigarettes and Alcohol
07 Born on a Different Cloud
08 Acquiesce
09 Don't Look Back in Anger
10 My Generation

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 62Mb

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Inspiral Carpets,
The Palace, Hollywood, USA, 1993

I don't have an exact date for this excellent recording, but as they played in Portland Oregon at the end of February 1993, I assume this is sometime in February or March. Nor do I know the exact source - it could be soundboard or an FM radio broadcast. It is, however, well worth hearing.

01 Generations
02 She Comes in the Fall
03 Fire
04 This is How it Feels
05 How it Should Be
06 Two Worlds Collide
07 Smoking Her Clothes
08 Commercial Reign
09 Tainted Love

Source: Soundboard or FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb

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The Cult, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16th October 1984

Excellent Dutch FM radio broadcast, made shortly after the release of The Cult's debut album 'Dreamtime.'

01 Gimmick
02 Resurrection Joe
03 Brothers Grimm
04 Christians
05 Horse Nation
06 Spiritwalker
07 Bonebag

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 40Mb

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The Hives, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 4th May 2002

Superb recording of an FM BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast, in that brief period when The Hives looked like they were on the brink of global superstardom...

01 The Hives Declare Guerre Nucleaire
02 Outsmarted
03 Here We Go Again
04 A Get Together to Tear it Apart
05 Die, Alright!
06 Statecontrol
07 Supply and Demand
08 Knock Knock
09 Hail Hail Spit 'n' Drool
10 AKA I.D.I.O.T
11 Main Offender
12 Untutored Youth
13 Hate to Say I Told You So

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 49Mb

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Weezer, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 24th March 2002

Blistering performance captured for BBC Radio 1 In Concert. 'Modern Dukes' is a song that never got released, but was played live between the release of the 'Green Album' and 'Make Believe.'

01 Dope Nose
02 Photograph
03 My Name is Jonas
04 The Good Life
05 Island in the Sun
06 Surfwax America
07 Burndt Jamb
08 Knock Down Drag Out
09 Undone
10 Why Bother
11 Modern Dukes
12 Say it Ain't So
13 Hash pipe
14 Buddy Holly

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 59Mb

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Weezer, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 23rd August 2002

Excellent FM radio broadcast.

01 Undone
02 Island in the Sun
03 My Name is Jonas
04 Why Bother?
05 Don't let go
06 Say it Ain't So
07 Dope Nose
08 The Good Life
09 Surfwax America
10 Hash Pipe
11 Buddy Holly

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 55Mb

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Suede, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK, 23rd March 2003

Very good recording of Suede performing their 1994 classic 'Dog Man Star' in its entirety at the ICA. I think they did each of their albums on consecutive nights - an early example of what has become a trend these days. I don't know the source, but think it's an audience recording, but it's very good indeed, hence the confusion. Also, it's only 128kbps (the only form in which I've ever had this show).

01 Introducing the Band
02 We are the Pigs
03 Heroine
04 The Wild Ones
05 Daddy's Speeding
06 The Power
07 New Generation
08 This Hollywood Life
09 The 2 of Us
10 Black or Blue
11 The Asphalt World
12 Still Life

Source: Audience (probably)
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 50Mb

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