Thin Lizzy box set track listing details revealed

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In July 2011 it was announced that Thin Lizzy were to release a lavish box set containing as many of their BBC recordings as could be unearthed.  Since tapes were expensive, it was common practice at the BBC until 1978 to wipe and re-use old tapes which they felt no longer served a huge purpose (though what was junked and what was not was often down to luck), the plea went out to fans to provide any off-air recordings they may have which were no longer in the Beeb’s archive.

The tracklisting has now been revealed and while some of the material has been previously released elsewhere, it is a treasure trove of goodies for the Lizzy fan.  The asking price at Amazon UK is £64.99.

THIN LIZZY AT THE BBC – TRACK LISTING

Disc 1

1.   Look What The Wind Just Blew In (Sounds Of The Seventies, 1971)
2.   Return Of The Farmers Son (Sounds Of The Seventies, 1971)
3.   Whiskey In The Jar (John Peel Session, 1972)
4.   Suicide  (John Peel Session, 1972)
5.   Black Boys On The Corner (John Peel Session, 1972)
6.   Saga Of The Ageing Orphan (John Peel Session, 1972)
7.   Vagabond Of The Western World (John Peel Session, 1973)
8.   Gonna Creep Up On You (John Peel Session, 1973)
9.   Little Girl In Bloom (John Peel Session, 1973)
10.  Randolph’s Tango (John Peel Session, 1973)
11.  The Rocker (John Peel Session, 1973)
12.  Slow Blues (John Peel Session, 1973)
13.  Randolph’s Tango (Bob Harris Session, 1973)
14.  Little Girl In Bloom (Bob Harris Session, 1973)
15.  The Rocker (Bob Harris Session, 1973)


Disc 2

1.    Little Girl In Bloom (Rock On Session, 1974)
2.    Little Darling (Rock On Session, 1974)
3.    Showdown (Rock On Session, 1974)
4.    Sitamoia (Bob Harris Session, 1974)
5.    Little Darling (Bob Harris Session, 1974)
6.    Slow Blues (Bob Harris Session, 1974)
7.    Showdown (Bob Harris Session, 1974)
8.    It’s Only Money (John Peel Session, 1974)
9.    Little Darling (John Peel Session, 1974)
10.  Still In Love With You (John Peel Session, 1974)
11.  Black Boys On The Corner (John Peel Session, 1974)
12.  Sitamoia (John Peel Session, 1974)
13.  She Knows (John Peel Session, 1974)
14.  It’s Only Money (John Peel Session, 1974)
15.  Sha La La (John Peel Session, 1974)
16.  Philomena (John Peel Session, 1974)


Disc 3

1.    Dear Heart (Bob Harris Session, 1974)
2.    Banshee (Bob Harris Session, 1974)
3.    Half Caste (John Peel Session, 1975)
4.    Rosalie (John Peel Session, 1975)
5.    Suicide (John Peel Session, 1975)
6.    Emerald (John Peel Session, 1976)
7.    The Warrior (John Peel Session, 1976)
8.    Cowboy Song (John Peel Session, 1976)
9.    Jailbreak (John Peel Session, 1976)
10.  Don’t Believe A Word (John Peel Session, 1976)
11.  Johnny (John Peel Session, 1976)
12.  Fools Gold (John Peel Session, 1976)
13.  Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed (John Peel Session, 1976)
14.  Killer Without A Cause (John Peel Session, 1977)
15.  Bad Reputation (John Peel Session, 1977)
16.  That Woman’s Gonna Break Your Heart (John Peel Session, 1977)
17.  Dancing In The Moonlight  (John Peel Session, 1977)
18.  Downtown Sundown (John Peel Session, 1977)


Disc 4 (BBC In Concert 1973/1974)

1.   The Rocker (In Concert, 1973)
2.   Things Ain’t Working Out Down At The Farm (In Concert, 1973)
3.   Slow Blues (In Concert, 1973)
4.   Gonna Creep Up On You (In Concert, 1973)
5.   Suicide (In Concert, 1973)
6.   She Knows (In Concert, 1974)
7.   It’s Only Money (In Concert, 1974)
8.   Still In Love With You (In Concert, 1974)
9.   Showdown (In Concert, 1974)
10.  Rock N Roll With You (In Concert, 1974)
11.  Baby Drives Me Crazy (In Concert, 1974)


Disc 5 (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

1.   Angel Of Death
2.   Renegade
3.   Hollywood (Down On Your Luck)
4.   The Pressure Will Blow
5.   Killer On The Loose
6.   The Boys Are Back In Town
7.   Are You Ready
8.   Baby Drives Me Crazy
9.   Emerald


Disc 6 (Live at the Regal Theatre, 1983)

1.   Introduction
2.   Jailbreak
3.   This Is The One
4.   Cold Sweat
5.   The Sun Goes Down
6.   The Holy War Live
7.   The Boys Are Back In Town
8.   Rosalie
9.   Baby Please Don’t Go
10. Still In Love With You
11. Dancing In The Moonlight
12. Thin Lizzy Baby Drives Me Crazy


Disc 7 (DVD)

1.   The Boys Are Back In Town (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
2.   Emerald (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
3.   Dancing In The Moonlight (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
4.   Massacre (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
5.   Still In Love With You (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
6.   Don’t Believe A Word (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
7.   Are You Ready (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
8.   Sha La La (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
9.   Baby Drives Me Crazy (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
10. Me And The Boys (Live at The Rainbow, 1977)
11. Jailbreak (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
12. This In The One (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
13. Cold Sweat (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
14. The Sun Goes Down (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
15. The Holy War (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
16. The Boys Are Back In Town (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
17. Rosalie (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
18. Baby Please Don’t Go (Live at The Regal Theatre, 1983)
19. Whiskey In The Jar (Live on Top Of The Pops, 1973)
20. Jailbreak (Live on Top Of The Pops, 1976)
21. Don’t Believe A Word (Live on Top Of The Pops, 1976)
22. Dancing In The Moonlight (Live on Top Of The Pops, 11/08/77)
23. Dancing In The Moonlight Live on Top Of The Pops, 25/08/77)
24. Rosalie (Cowgirl Song) (Live on Top Of The Pops, 11/05/78)
25. Rosalie (Cowgirl Song) (Live on Top Of The Pops, 22/06/78)
26. Waiting For An Alibi (Live on Top Of The Pops, 1979)
27. Sarah (Live on Top Of The Pops, 1979)
28. Chinatown (Live on Top Of The Pops, 1980)
29. Are You Ready (Live on Top Of The Pops, 30/04/81)
30. Are You Ready (Live on Top Of The Pops, May 1981)
31. Back On The Streets (Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1979)
32. Don’t Believe A Word (Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1979)
33. Ode To A Black Man (Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1981)
34. Somebody Else’s Dream (Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1981)
35. Renegade (Live on Three Of A Kind, 1983)

 

 

SARACEN – Marilyn

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Saracen have been making music since the 80s, and their debut album ‘Heroes, Saints and Fools’ saw the band lumped in with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They disappeared during the 90s and resurfaced with a fourth album in 2006. That album, ‘Vox In Excelsio’ was released by the UK melodic rock label Escape Music, who also reissued some of Saracen’s earlier work.

The band’s 2011 project is an adventurous work – a musical tribute to the life and work of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe featuring a selection of guest vocalists, including Robin Beck in the lead role. Before we even begin to look at the merits of the music, however, the sleeve art must be bought into question. Yes, it looks like the artwork on so many other Escape Music releases, but that’s not the real issue. The big problem here is its suitability: who decided a knight’s crest and Saracen helmet (adorned with the “s” from the band’s logo) would be suitable packaging for a concept album about Marilyn Monroe?!! There must have been literally hundreds of other far more suitable artwork designs out there.

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Soil’s ‘Scars’ to get 10th anniversary reissue

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‘Scars’ by Illinois metal band SOiL is to get a tenth anniversary reissue on October 10th.

The band’s second album proved to be their breakthrough, yielding US hits with ‘Halo’ and ‘Unreal’.  The reissue will be available digitally and contain two bonus tracks – the previously unreleased ‘Damaged You’ and single b-side ‘Center’.

Those in the UK can also catch SOiL live with Puddle Of Mudd at the following venues:

Oct. 14 – London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
Oct. 15 – Conventry, UK @ Kasbah
Oct. 16 – Wrexham, UK @ Central Station
Oct. 18 – Glasgow, UK @ The Garage
Oct. 19 – Middlesbrough, UK @ Empire
Oct. 21 – York, UK @ Fibbers
Oct. 22 – Peterborough, UK @ Club Revolution
Oct. 23 – Manchester, UK @ Moho Live
Oct. 25 – Sheffield, UK @ Corporation
Oct. 26 – Cardiff, Wales The Coal Exchange
Oct. 27 – Norwich, UK @ Waterfront
Oct. 28 – Southampton, UK @ Talking Heads 

Read a review of Puddle Of Mudd’s ‘re(disc)overed’ here.

RELIENT K – Is For Karaoke

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What was the deal with everyone and their dog putting out covers records in the summer of 2011? Within the space of a few months there were a bunch of really high-profile covers albums released, and pop-punk/alt-rock band Relient K added themselves to the ever growing list with the release of their ‘Is For Karaoke’ EP.  A few months later, with the addition of some new artwork and a further seven tracks, that EP became an album.

Of the fourteen covers featured on the full-length release, the most interesting  is a take on ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’, which replaces the pop tones of Cyndi Lauper’s original with lots of muted punk-pop guitar chords.  The Wallflowers’ ‘One Headlight’ has a hint of Relient K’s own style too, as they turn up the guitars a little, but since they don’t stretch the boundaries any farther it’s a case of “play it once, file it away, forget about it”.  For everything else, though, it’s as if somebody’s clicked the off-switch on “creativity” and Relient K work their way through the rest of the tunes just  about as faithfully as they can muster.

If you’re going to listen to Relient K play works by Tears For Fears, Tom Petty and Toto with a workman-like, almost Karaoke disc clarity, surely your time would be better spent with the originals?  Even the band’s more left-field choices – ‘Interstate Love Song’ by Stone Temple Pilots’ and ‘The Distance’ by CAKE – have no real imagination behind their reconstruction.  In the case of the latter, they’ve even reproduced the trumpet sounds as closely as possible… Matt Thiessien’s vocal doesn’t have the slacker cool of CAKE’s head honcho John McCrea but, to give credit where it’s due, John Warne’s bass sound is quite cool.

Elsewhere, you can experience tunes by Weezer, Third Eye Blind and Nada Surf played without any sense of adventure; and there’s even opportunity to hear ‘Doctor Worm’ without any of the quirky, nasal charm which makes They Might Be Giants so distinctive.  For those who are still interested by this point, tunes by Gnarls Barkly and Justin Bieber are handled just as (un)imaginatively, while the bulk of Toto’s ‘Africa’ could possibly even be a karaoke disc, just with some extra guitars thrown over the chorus.

‘Is For Karaoke’ may be well played, but most of it is played so straight, it serves no real purpose.  It’s not bad – just hopelessly unimaginative.  Relient K have recorded some great tunes in the past (with ‘Come Right Out and Say It’ being a pop-punk classic), it’s such a shame they couldn’t stamp some of their own style onto this selection of cover tunes.   Still, for its faults, it’s still preferable to that Puddle Of Mudd covers record.

October 2011

Soulfly complete new album

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Soulfly have completed their eighth studio album and expect it to have an early 2012 release.  Production duties were handled by Chris Harris – producer of Shadows Fall, Hatebreed and Chiamara.  The album is the first to feature new drummer David Kinkade and new bassist Tony Campos (ex-Prong, Static X).

At the time of writing, neither the album’s title or tracklisting have been announced, although it is known that DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara appears on the new disc.

According to an announcement made by the band earlier in the year, the new new material is very heavy “like Sepultura‘s ‘Arise’…on crack and speed“.