Superchunk - Australia & Sweden 1994 + 1996 (FM)

Live at The Wireless 

JJJ Studios

Sydney, Australia

Oct. 3, 1994

  

FM recording (sound quality: Ex-; master tape source)

  

01 Driveway to Driveway*

02 Skip Steps 1 & 3

03 Hyper Enough**

04 Untied

     *some dropouts, first 10 seconds only
    **one of the first known live performances

  

Underground

Gothenburg, Sweden 

Feb. 15, 1996

  

FM recording (sound quality: VG; not a great audio mix, but a great performance via the master tape source)

   

01 Eastern Terminal

02 Iron On

03 Water Wings

04 Precision Auto

05 Driveway to Driveway

06 Hyper Enough

07 Throwing Things

08 Silverleaf and Snowy Tears

09 Seed Toss

10 Question Is How Fast (cuts out; tape flip) 

11 Question Is How Fast (cont'd)

12 Animated Airplanes Over Germany 

13 Interview, Pt. 1

14 Interview, Pt. 2

  
ROB SEZ: Making up for lost time with two Superchunk posts in 8 days. This one dials it back to the band's earlier years, when they were a younger, hungrier & very loud indie band. I prefer their later & more recent recordings (a bit more nuance & a bit less noise) — but every listener seems to have a different opinion. Special thanks to Trekkyt & Popmarter for recording, mastering & sharing the 1996 performance. Not sure who recorded & shared the 1994 live set, but I hereby thank him/her/them also. If you have more than a passing interest in this band, try both parts of the 1996 interview — a brief, fun listen.
  
Fascinating Reading link:  Laura Ballance rates all of Superchunk's albums.
  
FLAC
(1996 set = 24-96 hi-res recording)
  
MP3@320
  

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