LOSSLESS RE-POST
CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISITED
The dB’s
Demos & Live
1982-1985
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| artwork included in download |
FM + soundboard recordings (sound quality: VG+ to VG++; various dates & sources; track 01 is the sole audience recording)
01 Love Is for Lovers (live)*
02 She Got Soul #1 (demo)^
03 Spitting In the Wind (live)+
04 Lonely Is as Lonely Does (demo)^
05 Not Cool (demo)^
06 Amplifier (live)+
07 A Spy In the House of Love (live)+ [brief FM signal interruption at 4:31]
08 Rendezvous (live)+
09 New Gun In Town (live)#
10 On the Battlefront (demo)^
11 White Train #2 (demo)^
12 Darby Hall (demo)^
13 Elvis, What Happened? (demo)^
14 Love Is for Lovers (demo)^
SOURCES:
*The Blue Note, Columbia, MO
1984-07-16 aud
^Demo 1982-83 (tracks 02 and 11 have extra numbers in the titles because there was more than one version of the same song in the full demos set)
+Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC
1985-03-26 FM
#Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL 1984-12-05 FM
IF YOU ENJOY THIS ONE, be sure to check out the earlier post of The dB's debut album, Stands for deciBels REVISITED.
ROB SEZ: Instead of posting the
widely-circulated demos set from 1982-83, I decided to cherry pick a few of them and add some
live tracks to create a “Like This
REVISITED” comp. The dB’s third album is a triumph, especially given several
big challenges — not the least of which was Chris leaving the band just as The
dB’s were finally getting their first U.S. record deal.
In case you’re not familiar with them, the demos
date from that transitional time after the release of Repercussion, just before Chris left the group, and before the
Peter-led dB’s signed with Bearsville Records in 1984. The source is a
multi-generation cassette dub, so the sound quality is a tad muddy at times and
there’s a bit of hiss on some tracks. I did my best to clean them up.
The live tracks are standouts from 3 shows
during the “Like This” tour: Columbia, MO, July 16, 1984 (The Blue Note);
Chapel Hill, NC, March 16, 1985 (Cat’s Cradle); and Chicago, IL, Dec. 5, 1984
(Cabaret Metro). The first is a VG+ quality audience recording and the latter
two are FM broadcasts. As usual, I used lossless sources for all the above. BIG
THANKS to all the tapers and sharers, especially TheBynumite for his FM capture of the
Cat’s Cradle show.
NOTE: don't be put off by the less-than-perfect sound quality of Track 1 -- the remaining tracks sound considerably better.
The “bonus tracks” for this collection are: the
demo of “Darby Hall” (which, in its completed form, was a bonus track on the original CD release); the
demo of “Elvis, What Happened?” (Peter must've had a serious Elvis fetish before the scales fell from his eyes…); and a just-couldn’t-resist repeat of the
album’s first song in demo form. For extra enjoyment, read Peter's essay about writing "Love Is for Lovers" and hear an excerpt from the original demo of "Do You Believe This?" at The New York Times.
Like This, the original album,
appears to be out of print
THIS IS TOO GOOD AN ALBUM
TO GO OUT OF PRINT!!
Are you listening, benevolent record label people??
