Steel-y Dan - Ultimate S.D. Live Comp (5 discs)

This collection is drawn from live shows recorded between 1993 and 2006.

All are soundboard or FM recordings. None has been officially released.

The comp lives up to its name; excellent!

sound quality range: VG++ to Ex- (unable to post a sample, but quality is superb!)

CD1

Instrumental overture

Do it again

Sign in stranger

Don't take me alive

Rikki don't lose that number 

Hey nineteen

Haitian divorce

Chain lightning

Peg

Time out of mind

Everyone's going to the movies

Dirty work

F.M.

CD2

Cubano chant

Aja

Bad sneakers

Glamour profession

Caves of Altamira

Black cow

Daddy don't live in that 

     New York City no more

I.G.Y.

Steely Dan show

Deacon blues

Bodhisattva

Kid Charlemagne

CD3

East St. Louis Toodle-oo 

Book of liars

Green earrings

Cousin Dupree

Third world man

Home at last

Tomorrow's girls

Josie

Babylon sisters

R.I.P., Walter B.

The royal scam

Reelin' in the years

Teahouse on the tracks

CD4

Do it again*

Peg*

Don't take me alive* 

F.M.*

My old school*

Hank's place

Cash only island

Janie runaway

Midnight cruiser

Parker's band

Black Friday

Green flower street

Monkey in your soul

Night by night

The Boston rag

True companion

*with Michael McDonald 

CD5 (bonus disc)

What a shame about you

Tesla shadow

My old school

Slang of ages

New frontier

Snowbound

The nightfly

Pretzel logic

Fall of '92

Sad thought: Walter's death means Donald F. alone carries on

Jack of speed

Hard-up case

My Waterloo

Sources for CDs 1-4:
 
St. Louis, MO 1993-09-01 

+ Irvine, CA 1994-09-17

...and selected songs from:

Saratoga, NY 1993-08-22,

George, WA 1996-08-17,

Manassas, VA 2000-07-22, Detroit, MI 2003-08-11, Charlotte, NC 2006-08-12

[re: CD 5, there was no info to be found anywhere]

ROB SEZ: S.D. was one of those bands I took for granted and just assumed would, somehow, always be around. With the recent death of founding member Walter  Becker, my assumption has bitten the dust. At least we've still got the music... ALL PRAISES to Enric67 for compiling and sharing this one.

MP3@320

FLAC - Part 1 | Part 2

Tele vision - I Need a New Adventure (studio alts)

alt. versions & instrumentals
Bearsville Studios, N.Y.
1978

soundboard recording (quality: VG+) 

01 Ain't That Nothin'
02 Adventure
03 Glory
04 Days
05 Foxhole
06 Carried Away (aka Vibrato Song) 
07 Ain't That Nothin'
08 Careful (aka I Don't Care)
09 Glory
10 Carried Away
11 Up All Night
12 Grip of Love
13 Last Night (Piano Song)
14 The Dreams Dream
15 Glory
16 The Fire*

*This song appears nowhere else, in any form

All tracks are alternate studio versions. About half are instrumental tracks without vocals. 

Fred Smith - bass
Billy Ficca - drums
Richard Lloyd - guitar, vocals
Tom Verlaine - guitar, vocals

ROB SEZ: There may not have been a dB's without Tele vision. Chris Stamey went to NYC while in high school, caught this band playing live, and concluded, "That's what I want to do." If you'd like an audio peek at the band's studio work-in-progress in 1978, this one's for you. Please enjoy.

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Rilo Kiley - Washington, DC 2007 + bonus

930 Club

Washington, D.C. 

Sept. 26, 2007

NPR Music webcast

sound quality: VG++ (occasional, slight distortion)

SAMPLE: "Close Call" (live in 2007)

 

01 It's a Hit

02 Close Call

03 Portions for Foxes

04 Paint's Peeling

05 greeting - intro

06 Breaking Up

07 Dreamworld

08 Moneymaker

09 Wires and Waves

10 Ripchord

11 With Arms Outstretched 

12 A Man - Me - Then Jim

13 Silver Lining

14 I Never

15 Fifteen

16 Rise Up With Fists

17 chat about 'Snowball'

18 Spectacular Views

19 (jam)

20 return to stage, song intro

21 Give a Little

22 Does He Love You?

Live Session

'Morning Becomes Eclectic' 

KCRW-FM, Santa Monica, CA

Aug. 17, 2004

webstream capture (sound quality: VG++; 
                                              occasional, slight distortion)

01 More Adventurous

02 Portions for Foxes

03 Does He Love You?

04 It Just Is

05 The Absence of God

06 Ripchord

07 Go Ahead

08 A Man - Me - Then Jim

ROB SEZ: There must be some Rilo Kiley fans who visit this blog. I'm moderately enthusiastic, but the band's appeal is evident. Listening to these recordings, it's also clear RK's allure wasn't all about Jenny Lewis...

MP3@320

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Learn more about Rilo Kiley's music at AllMusic, Wikipedia & the band's official site

Shins - Live Sessions (FM) 2007

Live Radio Sessions

various dates, etc.

2007 promo tour

              
soundboard & FM recordings (quality VG+ to Ex-)

ALWAYS save room for a goofy shot, if possible.

01 Phantom Limb
02 Know Your Onion
03 Gone for Good
04 Phantom Limb (acoustic) 
05 Turn On Me (acoustic)
06 Australia
07 Turn On Me
08 Breathe
09 Girl Inform Me
10 Phantom Limb
11 Australia
12 Girl On the Wing
13 So Says I
14 Turn On Me
15 Girl Sailor
16 A Comet Appears
17 Australia
18 Turn On Me

TRACK INFO
01-03 = WXPN, Philadelphia, PA 2007-01-12
04-08 = BBC 6 Music, London, UK
             (4 + 5 = acoustic) Feb. 2007
09-16 = KCRW, Santa Monica, CA 2007-03-27
17-18 = XFM, London, UK 2007

ROB SEZ: Shins fans, this one's for you! Most sincere thanks to Don at the old ASH blog for sharing.

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ASH Tuesday post #73

U 2 - Raw & Unpolished

Alt. Versions & Demos
various dates & recording info 
 
**2 separate recordings; 2 separate downloads**
  
soundboard recordings (variable quality, mostly Ex-)

SAMPLE: Native Son (the song that became Vertigo)


ROB SEZ: As a music blogger, I knew I had to come clean sooner or later about my long-standing love/hate relationship with this band. Now's a good time because, for my money, the guys have just released one of their best singles in a VERY LONG while: "You're the Best Thing About Me" (The other new song — "The Blackout [live]" — grew on me after a few extra spins). I kept listening to "Best Thing" last week and saying, "Yes! ABOUT TIME!! I knew they had it in 'em." Then I started wondering, "So why did it take the band so long?" My eventual answer: some time after The Joshua Tree, the group started second-guessing its best musical instincts. When the quartet became rock stars, they stopped having to worry about recording budgets & release deadlines — so they took way more time than necessary in the studio. Bono, The Edge & an army of engineers & producers started fussing over the recordings, polishing, tweaking, re-mixing, and re-recording them ad nauseum. Whatever musical spark had been there often got snuffed out — second-guessed out of existence. Counter-example: the band had planned to release a very different version of "Best Thing". But they thought better of it at the 11th hour, recording a rocking band version & getting Steve Lillywhite to mix it in an overnight emergency session, just days before it was released. ...Which brings us to this week's musical curio: a collection of what, to my ears, are some of the band's best musical moments — musical gold that, thankfully, got set aside BEFORE the juicy juice was squeezed out. ENJOY!

01 - Levitate (outtake)

02 - Love You Like Mad (outtake)

03 - Smile (outtake)

04 - Xanax and Wine (became Fast Cars)

05 - All Because of You (alternative version)   

06 - Native Son (became Vertigo)

07 - Yahweh (alternative version)

08 - Acrobat (early version, lyrics unfinished)
  

Note: these are from the Achtung Baby, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and All That You Can't Leave Behind recording sessions. Most of these appeared on the Complete U2 set from iTunes (long ago deleted from the catalog) and the fanclub-only release Medium, Rare & Remastered. Track 08 is from the Salome boot, which features the best outtakes from the Achtung Baby sessions in Dublin (not Berlin, as previously thought). All of these are raw, unvarnished, and — best of all — not second-guessed.
     

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There aren't many unofficial comps I want to listen to more than once, but whoever put together the Four Wild Irish Roses, Vol. 1 boot was somebody who's on my wavelength. The rarest tracks here are the alternate studio takes from the War album — all of them well worth a listen. So: here's another helping of what I dearly hope we'll be hearing more of when the new studio album appears in December...

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