Let's Buy Happiness - Chants For Friends

http://letsbuyhappiness.com/

Newcastle, UK

Recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire & 2kz Studio (Ian Grimble) Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road.

Released 03 November 2014
Written by - James Hall, Sarah Hall, Mark Brown, Graeme Martin, James King

The Chameleons - Peel Sessions {Out of Print}

 The Chameleons - Peel Sessions

Studio Recordings @320

{Out Of Print}

The Chameleons were, of course, the ultimate under achievers. The radio sessions caught them in blithe mood, free of the contractual worries that choked their career, and free to do what they always enjoyed most, making music. They wrote unpretentious, intelligent songs and at all times maintained an unusual level of dignity, shunning the spurious and fickle scene many chose to become embroiled within for the sake of their 'careers'. Ultimately, they were a wonderful secret. Now share it.
~More...


Track List:
The Fan & The Bellows *
Here Today *
Looking Inwardly *
Things I wish I'd Said *
Don't Fall **
Nostalgia **
Second Skin **
Dust To Dust
Return Of The Roughnecks +
One Flesh +
Intrigue In Tangiers +
P.S. Goodbye +

Mark Burgess - Bass/Vocals Dave Fielding - Guitar/KeyboardsReg Smithies - Guitar Brian Schofield - Drums * John Lever - Drums *+ Alistair Lewthwaite - Keyboard **
* Producer: Tony Wilson; Engineer: Dave Dade; Recorded 8/6/81 © BBC 1981
** Producer: Barry Andrews; Recorded 8/6/83 © BBC 1983
+ Producer: Dale Griffin; Engineer: Mike Robinson; Recorded 5/5/84 © BBC 1984

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The Golden Shower Radio Hour #4

Steel Pole Bath Tub - Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride

Jucifer - Pontius Of Palia

North American Bison - Broken Dreams

Sarabellum - 4,No 5 children

Arabrot - Throwing Rocks At The Devil

Triclops!- Lovesong for the Botfly

Sourvein - Bleeding Charm

King Sour - Six Pack Of Heroin

Bleach03 - The Head That Controls 

Sockeye - The Boy With Breast Implants

Harvey Milk - Jimmy Pages

Migas - Let's make Out

Heroine Shieks - Cock Asia

Pussy Galore - Damage II

Cherubs - Dave of the Moon

Chinese Cookie Poets - La Raza

Nausea - Clutches

King Missile - Love Is

Killdozer - When The Levee Breaks

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Wire - Live New and Old

You have to hand it to them: for a band born of the brashness and youthful vigour of 77 punk, Wire had no real right to release an album as fresh and sparkling as last year’s Red Barked Tree. With the plaudits still ringing like tinnitus in their ears, the legendary experimental / post-punk/indie / art rock / whateveryouwannacallthem act launched into a cranny-poking tour that begat this typically forward-focused set for Radio France.

Rather than aiming to appease fly-by-night fans, The Black Session instead eschews the current trend for revisiting past glories and takes stock of more recent successes: apt, perhaps, for a band who did the whole Plays (Insert Classic Album) In Its Entirety shtick a couple of years before All Tomorrow’s Parties began its Don’t Look Back series and carried out the exercise as an act of land-salting rather than one of thumb-twiddling nostalgia.

Proceedings start with the deceptive – and somewhat listless – lull of Adapt before giving way to the surge and crash of Comet, an invigorating blast of frantic energy that leaves you wondering whether they were just toying with us during the lacklustre opener. It’s not until we’re five tracks deep that a true oldie appears – 1988’s Kidney Bingos – and they’re only intermittently peppered throughout from then on in, with sporadic nods to 154, a scuttling rendition of The Drill and a borderline-iconoclastic take on Pink Flag that sprawls beyond the 10-minute mark as it rounds the album out.

As well as a fitting tour totem for those who were there, The Black Session also serves as a neat manifesto update for those who should’ve been paying closer attention. That said, it isn’t perfect: the live setting inevitably meaning the loss of much lapidary polish and perfectionism while certain bubbling undercurrents are eclipsed by brash thrashes and thumps. Thankfully, though, the songs that underpin any given aural experiment are more than enough to make up for the lack of gloss, the band dishing out immaculately-placed jibes that slice to the bone and highlight a sharp, intellectual take on rock music that continues to prove you don’t have to dumb things down while letting your pop sensibilities win out.
~Alex Deller 2012 - BBC Music 

Interview with Wire




Black Session Available here

On The Box

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Happy Thanksgiving!!

The Stranglers - Live Markthalle, Hamburg 1985

The Red Devils - Live Pinkpop 1993

R.I.P. Lester Butler.

The Red Devils - Live at Pinkpop 

Landgraaf, Netherlands - 1993
MP4 video and MP3 @vbr 0

My time with Lester Butler...

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Velvet Revolver - Independente Days Festival, Italy 2006 {Repost}

Velvet Revolver - Independente Days Festival

Areana Parco Nord, September 5, 2004
Bologna, Italy
FM Source (?) @192

Track List:
- SUCKER TRAIN BLUES (5:13)
- DO IT FOR THE KIDS (4:24)
- HEADSPACE (4:03)
- SPECTACLE (3:22)
- BIG MACHINE (4:57)
- FALL TO PIECES (4:25)
- SET ME FREE (7:14)
- IT'S SO EASY (4:09)
- SEX TYPE THING (5:56)
- SLITHER (6:41)

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Bologna '06


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The Stranglers - All Live And All of the Night {Out of Print}

The Stranglers - All Live And All of the Night

Soundboard @ flac

(original version*)

{Out Of Print}

*Cover shown is for the remastered version which has 7 additional bonus tracks.

It is also Out of Print.

If you have the remastered version throw us a link!!

Recorded at Le Zenith, Paris, April 29th 1985, Hammersmith Odeon, London, March 31st 1987 and The Reading Festival, August 30th 1987. 

Track List:
1. No More Heroes
2. Was It You
3. Down In The Sewer
4. Always The Sun
5. Golden Brown
6. North Winds
7. European Female
8. Strange Little Girl
9. Nice N Sleazy
10. Toiler On The Sea
11. Spain
12. London Lady
13.  All Day And All Of The Night
 
Backing Vocals – Dave Greenfield
Bass – J.J. Burnel
Drums – Jet Black
Engineer – Max Bisgrove
Guitar – Hugh Cornwell
Keyboards – Dave Greenfield
Mixed By – Jet Black, Ted Hayton
Percussion – Jet Black
Photography By – Malcom Heywood, Nik Yeomans, Pennie Smith
Producer – Stranglers, The, Ted Hayton
Saxophone – Alex Gifford
Trombone – Chris Lawrence
Trumpet – Jason Votier
Vocals – Hugh Cornwell, J.J. Burnel


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Various Artists - Life In The Fat Lane IV {Out of Print}

Various Artists - Life In The Fat Lane IV {Out of Print}

Studio Recordings @ VBR
{Out of Print}

...a punk, thrash, etc.,  compilation to make you deafer than you already are.

Track List:

1. May 16 - Lagwagon
2. Road Rash - Mad Caddies
3. Coming Too Close - No Use For A Name
4. Pass The Buck - Sick Of It All
5. Twat Called Maurice - Consumed
6. Promise To Distinction - Swingin' Utters
7. Heresy, Hypocracy And Revenge - Good Riddance
8. Do You Wanna Fight Me - Frenzal Rhomb
9. The Exumation Of Virginia Madison - Strung Out
10. Taken - Avail
11. San Dimas High School Football Rules - The Ataris
12. Old School Pig - Tilt
13. Part Time SF Ecologist - Goober Patrol
14. The Plan - NOFX
15. Keep The Beat - Snuff
16. Dummy Up - Screeching Weasel
17. My Favorite Things - Me First & The Gimme Gimme's
18. Quadret Im Kreis - Wizo

Fat Lane

 

Tears For Fears - Live Rockpalast 1983

Tears For Fears - Live Rockpalast

Sartory-Sale Koln, Germany
May 12, 1983

aka- 'The Hurting Live'
Soundboard @224

Set List:
01 Memories Fade
02 TheWay You Are
03 Suffer The Children
04 Pale Shelter 05 The Prisoner
06 Ideas As Opiates
07 The Hurting
08 Mad World 09 Watch Me Bleed
10 Change
11 Start Of The Breakdown
Encores
12 Mad World (reprise)
13 Pale Shelter (reprise)

Band:
Roland Orzabal - vocals, guitar
Curt Smith - vocals, bass
Ian Stanley - keyboards
David Lord - keyboards
Manny Elias - drums

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Rockpalast '83

From the "In case you missed it department"

Since most of you don't comment or look at the comments, here's something that 
our friend Ruben left us....


The Slow Poisoners - Great Spiders and Diamond Powder

"In 1997 I played in The Slow Poisoners out of San Francisco and played on this album, 'Great Spiders & Diamond Powder' for which I never saw a dime."

more here....Five Guns West 

The War On Drugs - Best Kept Secret Festival & KEXP 2014

The War On Drugs - Best Kept Secret Festival 2014

Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek, NL.

June 21, 2014

Soundboard @320

(not the complete show)

An Ocean in Between the Waves
Baby Missiles
Eyes to the Wind
Under the Pressure
Burning
Red Eyes
Your Love Is Calling My Name

The War on Drugs - Live on KEXP 

Seattle, WA.

March 28, 2014
FM Source @320

Intro
An Ocean In Between The Waves
talk
Eyes to the Wind
Interview
Red Eyes
talk
Suffering
Outro

You can Hear more here....
and
here

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...Drugs '14

Arthur Lee and Love - Live Edinburgh, UK 2002

Arthur Lee and Love
The Liquid Room

Edinburgh, UK
June 3, 2002

Good Audience Recording @flac 

http://lovearthurlee.com/index.html

...probably only for real devotees and completists

Set List:
Crowd
My Little Red Book
Orange Skies
Your Mind And We Belong Together
She Comes In Colours
Alone Again Or
Andmoreagain
Bummer In The Summer
Signed D.C.
Between Clark & Hilldale
Live And Let Live
The Red Telephone
You Set The Scene
Everybody's Gotta Live/Instant Karma
7 & 7 Is
My Flash On You
Stephanie Knows Who
A House Is Not A Motel
Singing Cowboy

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The Stranglers - Live at the Hope & Anchor 1977 {Out of Print}

The Stranglers - Live at the Hope & Anchor 

November 22, 1977

London, UK.

Soundboard @HQvbr
Out of Print

Available used for 60pounds in UK or about $93.50 U.S.

Set List
1.Tits
2.Choosey Suzie
3.Goodbye Toulouse
4.Bitching
5.Mean to me
6.School mam
7.Peasent in the big shitty
8.In the shadows
9.Walk on by
10.Princess of the streets
11.Go buddy go
12.No more heroes
13.Straighten out
14.Peaches
15.Hanging around
16.Dagenham Dave
17.Sometimes
18.Bring on the Nubiles
19.London lady

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The Ophelias - Self Titled First LP 1987

A Special Thanks to Ruben at  http://fivegunswest.blogspot.com

 The Ophelias - Self Titled First LP 1987

The Ophelias were a San Francisco based band led by multi-instrumentalist and singer Leslie Medford. Pulling influences from all over the place, with a special nod to prog rock and the works of Peter Hammill, The Ophelias were one of the more refreshing and original bands around the San Francisco Bay Area at the time.

"I moved back to San Francisco around August of 1984. I immediately started playing with a group called 'Jimmy Baker', named after the first person to be electrocuted to death by electricity. We played the Mabuhay Gardens, The Farm, and all the other San Francisco dives to little fanfare and little money."....

Find The Rest of the Story and the Music Here...

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day 1993

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp

The First Day

Studio Soundboard Recordings @ 320

{Out of Print}

David Sylvian - Japan frontman, master of soft melancholy. Robert Fripp, responsible for some of the most evil, demonic guitar playing on record. At first glance this would seem like a match made in hell.  On listening to The First Day, however - and I mean repeated listening, giving it the chance to sink in - we see that everything makes sense. Their musical personalities perfectly balance each other out. Fripp's predilection towards aimless white noise is offset by Sylvian's masterful sense of melody, and Sylvian's occasional lapse into cliches is saved by an unexpected guitar riff. They play off, between and around each other to product a heady stew of sounds and tones, full of surprises. The solo on "Firepower" and psychedelic phase of "20th Century Dreaming" alone would be worth the price, but there's so much more. In "God's Monkey," "Brightness Falls" and "Jean the Birdman" we get a taste of Sylvian's short, structured work given flavor by Fripp's ether and the masterful Stick work of Trey Gunn. Through the entire album Trey is all over the place, and yet always seems just where he should be without any overreaching. The best comparison I can make is to Jaco Pastorius's bass work on Joni Mitchell's Shadows & Light. But I digress.
In addition to masterully blending previous styles and letting loose with some of their most inspired playing in years, Robert and David take on house-techno music and ambient psychedelia - and do it better than musicians half their age. "Darshan," despite being a 17-minute take on the same dance rhythm, doesn't get repetitive; there's some dreamy synth or ear-twisting guitar around every corner. The last half of "20th Century Dreaming" sounds like aimless ambient fluff the first time, but there are layers of sounds and instrumentation you'll need headphones to pick apart. Following 55 minutes of this mentally exhausting mayhem, Fripp brings out a solo ambient piece to wind things down peacefully. This is an album probably more appreciated by Fripp fans than Sylvian fans, but definitely worth a listen from both.
~Spiral Mind

One of my favorite recordings...

Track List:
1-God's Monkey
2-Jean The Birdman    
3-Firepower
4-Brightness Falls    
5-20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)
6-Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
7-Bringing Down The Light

Chapman Stick [Grand And Tenor], Vocals – Trey Gunn
Drums, Percussion – Jerry Marotta
Guitar, Electronics [Frippertronics] – Robert Fripp
Guitar, Keyboards, Tape, Vocals – David Sylvian

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Helmet - Live Hultsfred Festival 1997

From the Original FBS archives!!!

Helmet - Live Hultsfred Festival

Hultsfred, Sweden

June 13, 1997

Soundboard @320

Helmet has released seven studio albums and two compilation albums. The band found mainstream success with their 1992 major label debut Meantime, which debuted at number 68 on the Billboard 200, with singles "Unsung" and "In the Meantime". After the releases of Betty (1994) and Aftertaste (1997), Helmet broke up in 1998, but reformed in 2004. The band has since released three more albums―Size Matters (2004), Monochrome (2006) and Seeing Eye Dog (2010). Helmet is currently working on a new album, which is due for release in 2015.

http://www.helmetmusic.com/

Anyone remember these guys? Still crunching it up.

Set List:

01. (intro)

02. Milquetoast
03. Wilma's Rainbow
04. Pure
05. Driving Nowhere
06. It's Easy to Get Bored
07. Birth Defect
08. Tic
09. Unsung
10. Like I Care
11. Just Another Victim
12. In the Meantime
13. Crisis King
14. FBLA II
15. Ironhead

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Patterson Hood - Live Decatur, GA. 2003

Patterson Hood - Live Jake's Roadhouse
Decatur, GA.

February 8, 2003

Matrix Recording @ 320

Source: [SBD> Tascam DA-P1] + [Neumann KM-184(xy)> Lunatec V2> Graham-Patten ADC-20]
Lineage: Tascam DA-P1> S/PDIF> Ego-Sys U2A> Cool Edit Pro (mix)> CDWave> mkwACT
Taped by: Sloan Simpson

Set List:
01) Tornadoes
02) Ronnie And Neil
03) Pay No Attention To Alice
04) The Sinkhole
05) Uncle Disney
06) Goodesfield Road
07) Why Henry Drinks
08) The Living Bubba
09) My Sweet Annette
10) Heathens
11) Buttholeville
12) 867-5309 (Jenny)
13) Something's Gotta Give Pretty Soon

Thanks to the taper and the people that share!

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Jake's '03

Roxy Music - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 2001

Roxy Music - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 

London, UK. 2001

DVD Rip @320

{Out of Print}

Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera mused in a 2003 interview about being "considered old dogs that were about to be shot and put out of their misery" before the band embarked on this 2001 tour, their first in some 18 years. He needn't have worried. Manzanera and fellow original members Bryan Ferry and Andy Mackay, joined by an array of excellent musicians, singers, and even dancers, are in fine fettle for this 110-minute London concert (a documentary is also included). It certainly helps to have a clutch of stylish, appealing songs available, ranging from early hits like "Virginia Plain" and "Do the Strand" to later fare like the seductive "Avalon" and "Dance Away." OK, so the urbane, ever-dapper Ferry may not be the world's greatest singer, and these tunes are hardly world-changers... but with Roxy Music it's all about the vibe, and these folks have it in spades. Cheers, fellows.
 --Sam Graham

Track List:
Re-make-Re-mode - In Street Life
Ladytron
While My Heart Is Still Beating
Out Of The Blue
A Song For Europe
My Only Love
In Every Dreamhome A Heartache
Oh Yeah
Both Ends Burning
Tara
Mother Of Pearl
Avalon
Dance Away
Jealous Guy
Editions Of You
Virginia Plain
Love Is The Drug
Do The Strand
For Your Pleasure
Closing

Musicians

- Bryan Ferry / vocals, keyboards, harmonica
- Phil Manzanera / guitar
- Andy Mackay / saxophone and oboe
- Paul Thompson / drums
- Chris Spedding / guitar
- Colin Good / piano
- Lucy Wilkins / violin, keyboards, synthesizer
- Julia Thornton / percussion, keybards
- Zev Katz / bass
- Sarah Brown / background vocals
- Yanick Etienne / background vocals

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Apollo '01

The Smiths - Live Manchester, England 1986

photo by Paul Slattery

The Smiths - The Festival Of The Tenth Summer

G-Mex Centre
Manchester, England
July 19, 1986
FM Source @320

Set List:
01. Intro: The March Of The Capulets
02. Bigmouth Strikes Again
03. Panic
04. Vicar In A Tutu
05. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
06. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
07. Ask
08. I Want The One I Can't Have
09. Cemetry Gates
10. Shakespeare's Sister
11. Stretch Out And Wait
12. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
13. The Queen Is Dead
14. I Know It's Over
15. Hand In Glove

*Original Notes:*
This is a complete broadcast of the majority of the show. Where you hear a cut in the crowd noise, that is my removing station IDs or lead-ins to commercials as carefully as I could. Also note that The Queen Is Dead is criminally cut short by the radio station. For that track,I chose to fade it out over the station call-sign, as the call-sign was accompanied by music, and destroyed the track anyway.

All told though, this is a great FM recording, in my humble opinion. Hope you think so too. This is the show where Morrissey's infamous comment "I hope the pressure of having to stand on your own two feet isn't too difficult" originated. Hardly a comment that endeared him to the crowd, though one punter can clearly be heard proclaiming his love for the Moz right after that statement.

The Smiths were second on a lengthy bill paying tribute to the G-Mex Center's 10th anniversary. After The Smiths, New Order closed the show. I know that the New Order set has been torrented before on STG, as I downloaded it, but I am not aware of this set being seeded before. If it has, it is from a different source than mine.

This is a transfer from cassette tape. Cassette tape was purchased by me through the back pages of the NME in August, 1986. This is my last FM recording of this band to share. I have a couple of dodgy audience recordings, including one of the only Smiths show that I was witness to myself - at GWU University in Washington DC.
~Douglas

The Smiths - Live at Rockpalast, Hamburg 1984


Vocals - Morrissey
Guitar - Johnny Marr
Bass - Andy Rourke
Drums - Mike Joyce

Tracklist 
0:01:09 - Hand in Glove
0:04:12 - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
0:07:37 - Girl Afraid
0:10:35 - This Charming Man
0:13:36 - Pretty Girls Make Graves
0:17:14 - Still Ill
0:21:00 - Barbarism Begins at Home
0:27:22 - This Night has Opened my Eyes
0:30:50 - Miserable Lie
0:35:42 - You've Got Everything Now
0:40:01 - Handsome Devil
0:43:53 - What Difference Does it Make

Encore
0:48:30 - These Things Take Time
0:51:20 - This Charming Man
0:55:58 - Hand in Glove

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Manchester '86

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