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Soulfly,
Pinkpop Festival, Holland, 5th June 2006

Excellent digital radio broadcast. Soulfly were touring fifth album "Dark Ages" at the time, and this set includes songs from that as well as earlier numbers and a version of Sepultura's "Refuse/Resist." Soulfly's seventh album "Omen" has just been released.

01 The Prophecy
02 Seek 'n' Strike
03 Living Sacrifice
04 Jump Da Fuck Up
05 Fire
06 Soulfly V
07 Refuse/Resist
08 Execution Style
09 Frontlines
10 Back to the Primitive
11 The Song Remains Insane
12 Bleed
13 Tree of pain
14 Tribe
15 I and I
16 Eye for an Eye

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

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Squeeze,
Apollo Theatre, Manchester, UK, 20th September 1987

Excellent FM radio broadcast. Squeeze were touring seventh album "Babylon And On," and alongside several tracks from that are an abundance of classics. "Such a Night " is a Doctor John cover.

01 Pulling Mussels (From a Shell)
02 The Prisoner
03 Hourglass
04 853-5937
05 Last Time Forever
06 Up the Junction
07 Footprints
08 Striking Matches
09 Take Me, I'm Yours
10 Is That Love?
11 Such a Night
12 Trust Me to Open My Mouth
13 Cool For Cats
14 Black Coffee in Bed
15 Another Nail in My Heart
16 Labelled With Love

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 80Mb

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Teenage Fanclub,
Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, 20th November 1995

Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were touring their 4th album proper "Grand Prix" at this point.

01 Intro
02 About You
03 Star Sign
04 What You do to Me
05 Escher
06 Don't Look Back
07 The Cabbage
08 Radio
09 Mellow Doubt
10 Verisimilitude
11 Neil Jung
12 Sparky's Dream
13 The Concept (Satan)

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

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Big Country,
Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 26th August 1983

Decent audience recording - there are some voices to be heard (mostly between songs) and a couple of drop-outs where it appears the recorder got knocked (most noticeably during The Storm), but mostly this is pretty good. The band were touring their debut LP "The Crossing" in 1983 and the Reading Festival was probably the biggest show they'd played up to that point. I remember they went down very well, particularly given the partisan nature of the Reading audience back then, which was mostly used to metal bands playing, though Big Country were second on the bill on the slightly more varied Friday line-up, following reggae band Steel Pulse (who were bottled off during their first number by the biker element in the crowd) and preceding headliners The Stranglers. Big Country were themselves subjected to a barrage of piss-filled bottles early on - they stop playing during "Close Action" and Stuart Adamson berates the bottle-throwers.

01 Harvest Home
02 A Thousand Stars
03 Close Action
04 Balcony
05 Lost patrol
06 Porrohman
07 The Storm
08 In a Big Country
09 Chance
10 Angle Park
11 Fields of Fire

Source: Audience
Quality: Good (mostly)
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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The Cure,
Camden Palace, London, UK, 1985

Superb digital radio broadcast comprising a virtual (for the time) greatest hits set.

01 Charlotte Sometimes
02 The Walk
03 Let's Go to Bed
04 Baby Screams
05 Primary
06 Inbetween Days
07 Close to Me
08 Boys Don't Cry

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 36Mb

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The Cure,
Wembley Arena, London, UK, 19th January 1991

Excellent FM radio broadcast. Midway between eighth album "Disintegration and ninth release "Wish." Three of the songs are from "Disintegration," while "Never Enough" appeared on 1990's "Mixed Up" remix album. This show was part of The Great British Music Festival.

01 Pictures of You
02 Fascination Street
03 Just Like Heaven
04 Lullaby
05 The Walk
06 Let's Go to Bed
08 Why Can't I be You?
08 Inbetween Days
09 A Forest
10 Never Enough

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 67Mb

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Big Country,
Gruggehalle, Essen, Germany, March 1986

Superb FM radio broadcast. The band were touring second album "Steeltown" and about to release their third "The Seer" at this point.

01 Wonderland
02 Fields of Fire
03 Where the Rose is Sown
04 Raindance
05 Remembrance Day
06 Just a Shadow
07 Steeltown
08 Inwards
09 Harvest Home
10 The Storm
11 In a Big Country

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

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Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Teatro Barcello, Madrid, Spain, 23rd April 1979

Good quality FM broadcast. There's a fair amount of hiss, but everything's audible.

01 Jigsaw Feeling
02 Playground Twist
03 Staircase Mystery
04 Placebo Effect
05 Regal Zone
06 Switch
07 Hong Kong Garden
08 Suburban Relapse
09 Overground
10 Icon

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

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The Fuzztones,
Leiden, Netherlands, 3rd May 1985

Excellent FM radio broadcast made just before the band came to the UK to tour as support to The Damned. Slightly bass-heavy, but the band were, as ever, in fine form.

01 She's wicked
02 1-2-5
03 The witch
04 Gotta Get Some
05 Journey to Tyme
06 Pretty Quick
07 Love at Psychedelic Velocity
08 1523 Blair
09 Bad Little Woman
10 Psychotic Reaction

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

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The Supersuckers,
Kägelbanan, Stockholm, 1st March 2000

The self-styled 'Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World' caught live on Swedish radio while touring their 2000 album "The Evil Powers of Rock and Roll." This show pretty much constitutes a 'greatest hits' set for the band at this point in their career.

01 Intro
02 The Evil Powers of Rock and Roll
03 Santa Rita High
04 Good Luck
05 Mudhead
06 Beat to Shit
07 I Want the Drugs
08 Greens
09 Cocaine
10 Kick Ass Life
11 Goin' Back to Tuscon
12 Gold Top
13 Poor
14 Deadmeat
15 Creepy Jackalope Eye
16 She's My Bitch
17 Bad Bad Bad
18 Gone Gamblin'
19 Cowboy Song
20 Born With a Tail

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

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Bob Marley and the Wailers,
BBC Paris Theatre, London, UK, June 1973

Superb recording made at the BBC's Paris Theatre in Lower Regent Street, London, which captures Bob Marley and the Wailers on the cusp of global fame. This show was probably the band's first major national radio exposure in the UK. In April 1973 the band had released their first major label album "Catch a Fire" from which eight of these songs are taken. The remaining two would appear on the next album "Burnin'" which was released in October 1973 I've split the announcer's between-song speech (in which he explains the origins of the songs and Rastafarianism as well as introducing the band) into separate tracks so these can be omitted if you want nothing but the music on a play-list.

01 Rastaman Chant
02 Talk
03 Slave Driver
04 Talk
05 Stop the Train
06 Talk
07 No More Trouble
08 Talk
09 400 Years
10 Talk
11 Midnight Raver
12 Talk
13 Stir it Up
14 Talk
15 Concrete Jungle
16 Talk
17 Get Up, Stand Up
18 Talk
19 Kinky Reggae

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 65Mb

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The Cure,
NEC, Birmingham, UK, 6th December 1987

Excellent FM radio broadcast from when the band were touring seventh album 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' from which seven of these tracks are taken.

01 Torture
02 A Japanese Dream
03 Catch
04 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
05 Like Cockatoos
06 The Walk
07 Inbetween Days
08 The Perfect Girl
09 The Snake Pit
10 A Forest
11 Charlotte Sometimes
12 Why Can't I be You?

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

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The Cure,
NEC, Birmingham, UK, 20th September 1985

Very good FM radio recording. This gig was recorded just a month after the release of the band's sixth album 'The Head on the Door' which pushed The Cure to (probably) the peak of their popularity. Eight of that album's songs are performed live here, along with earlier classics.

01 The Baby Screams
02 Play for Today
03 A Night Like This
04 Primary
05 The Kyoto Song
06 The Blood
07 The Hanging Garden
08 Cold
09 Inbetween Days
10 Let's go to Bed
11 The Walk
12 Push
13 Screw
14 Sinking
15 Charlotte Sometimes

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 81Mb

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The Police,
City Hall, Newcastle, UK, 24th April 1980

Good quality FM radio broadcast. The Police were really hitting the big time at this point, following the release of second album 'Reggatta de Blanc' and their first number one single 'Message in a Bottle' and this captures them in a homecoming (for Sting at least) show in Newcastle. The sound is a little muddy here and there, but it is a very old tape...

01 Next to You
02 So Lonely
03 Walking on the Moon
04 Hole in My Life
05 Truth Hits Everybody
06 Bring on the Night
07 Driven to Tears
08 The Bed's Too Big Without You
09 Message in a Bottle
10 Roxanne
11 Can't Stand Losing You

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Good to very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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Thin Lizzy,
Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK,
26th November 1981

Superb FM radio broadcast. Although fairly readily-available, I've not seen any versions which contain 'Emerald.' This recording, which was made when the show was re-broadcast in the late 1980s, does include 'Emerald.' The band were touring just prior to the release of the 'Renegade' album.

01 Angel of Death
02 Renegade
03 Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)
04 Don't Believe a Word
05 Pressure Will Blow
06 Killer on the Loose
07 The Boys are Back in Town
08 Are You Ready?
09 Baby Drives Me Crazy
10 Emerald

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 87Mb

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Thin Lizzy,
Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland, 19th March 1983

Superb recording of Thin Lizzy live in Glasgow on the Thunder and Lightning tour in 1983.

01 Waiting for an Alibi
02 Jailbreak
03 Angel of Death
04 Are You Ready?
05 Holy War
06 The Sun Goes Down
07 Cowboy Song
08 The Boys are Back in Town
09 Emerald
10 Rosalie
11 Whisky in the Jar
12 Dancing in the Moonlight

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

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The Stranglers,
Rockpalast, Germany, 1983

Superb broadcast-quality recording of The Stranglers touring the 'Feline' album in Germany.

01 Aural Sculpture Manifesto
02 Nuclear Device/Toiler on the Sea
03 It's a Small World/Just Like Nothing on Earth
04 Ships That Pass in the Night
05 No More Heroes
06 Who Wants the World?
07 Baroque Bordello
08 Golden Brown
09 Princess of the Streets
10 Midnight Summer Dream/The European Female
11 Tramp
12 The Raven
13 Duchess

Source: TV broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 66Mb

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