Died Pretty - Live in Italy & NYC 1986

Q-BO Club

Bologna, Italy

Dec. 22, 1986

audience recording (sound quality VG to VG+; transferred from a multi-generation tape source, but the sound is full & well-balanced) 

 

01 stage entrance, tuning

02 Landsakes (Life to Go)

03 Round and Round

04 Stoneage Cinderella

05 Blue Sky Day

06 Wig-Out

07 World Without

08 Towers of Strength

09 Everybody Moves

10 Just Skin

11 Winterland

12 Heroin (Velvet Underground cover)

13 Mirror Blues

14 Final Twist

   
CBGB

New York, NY

November 1, 1986

audience recording (sound quality VG++; master tape source; the sound is impressive for an audience recording in a club; no intrusive crowd noise; this is the entire set played that night)

01 Mercedes Benz (tease) 

02 Out of the Unknown

03 Stoneage Cinderella

04 Everybody Moves

05 Towers of Strength

06 Desperate Hours

07 Mirror Blues

08 Final Solution (Pere Ubu cover)
   

ROB SEZ: Died Pretty are from Sydney, Australia by way of Brisbane. Kinda hard to describe their sound, but it’s an impressive mix of Iggy & the Stooges, Velvet Underground / Lou Reed, New York Dolls, Pere Ubu and ... I’m not sure what else. You get the feeling they want to be the best possible fusion of alt. rock, indie, progressive, “art music” and psychedelica. The amazing thing is, they actually pull it off most of the time. Massive thanks to the tapers & sharers: whoever taped the Bologna show plus SEETHEFUZZ7 and Stacheleber for sharing it; to THE KING OF ROCK for recording the CBGB show and to Realomind for sharing. (My apologies for the lossy share, but then again I don't think anyone's going to mistake this for your lossless versions!) Died Pretty have posted some freebies and low-cost rarities on their Bandcamp pages. Grab ‘em while you can.

DIED PRETTY -  still playing live shows today, like this one in 2016

MP3@320

Learn more about Died Pretty's music at

the band's site (rather minimal), Wikipedia and AllMusic