The Runaways
Odeon, Birmingham
1977.11.09
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7.6M
Blackmail 8.6M
Queens of Noise 7.9M
School Days 9.5M
Wild Thing 9.7M
Rock'n'Roll 12.5M
Wait For Me 8.1M
American Nights 9.9M
C'mon 3.7M
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The Kinks - 1978-06-25 - Universal Amphitheatre - Los Angeles, CA
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When it comes to Kinks concerts from 1977, there are several with excellent sound quality. And for 1979, there also are a couple, plus the official live album "One for the Road." But there's no concert with soundboard quality for 1978.
However, I recently discovered this concert. It's only an audience bootleg. But it was recorded by Mike Millard, who had pretty good recording equipment. A big problem with such audience bootlegs is that there's usually too much crowd noise. That was the case here, with people often making noise all through the songs. But nowadays, there are audio editing tools to do something about that. So I used the MVSEP program to get rid of ALL the crowd noise, except for a little bit at the starts of songs, the usual cheering at the ends of songs. Plus, occasionally some in the middle when there was a particularly big roar from the crowd. But that was pretty rare. The result is this audience boot almost turns into a soundboard quality boot, since it recorded what was on stage pretty well.
In 1978, the Kinks released their studio album "Misfits." So this concert differs from those 1977 concert recordings mentioned above mainly by including six songs from that album: "A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy," "Hay Fever," "Live Life," "Misfits," "Permanent Waves," and "Trust Your Heart." Plus, there were still four songs from the album prior to that one, "Sleepwalker," making the set list pretty different from those of other eras.
14.1M
Life on the Road 9.7M
Sleepwalker 14.1M
Mr. Big Man 3.0M
talk 7.8M
Waterloo Sunset 2.3M
talk 11.0M
Misfits 2.0M
talk 10.3M
Permanent Waves 13.2M
Hay Fever 11.3M
Lola 548.0K
talk 12.1M
Celluloid Heroes 2.4M
Death of a Clown 8.3M
Sunny Afternoon 3.3M
talk 9.4M
Trust Your Heart 11.8M
Slum Kids 4.1M
talk 12.3M
Alcohol 2.1M
talk 493.9K
talk 706.2K
talk 16.7M
Live Life 1.9M
talk 13.0M
Juke Box Music Dire Straits - 1992-06-20 - Woburn Abbey - Bedfordshire, Britain
Dire Straits became superstars with their 1985 album "Brothers in Arms." It went on to sell thirty million copies, making it one of the top 30 best selling albums of all time. After a long tour to support that album, band leader Mark Knoplfer was exhausted by all the pressures of stardom and took a few years off. Dire Straits came back with a studio album in late 1991, "On Every Street." It was a relative disappointment, selling "only" five million. But still, most musical acts would kill for those kinds of numbers.
Another big worldwide tour followed, lasting a full year, until October 1992. The BBC recorded them while they stopped by Britain. This album is unreleased, but the sound quality and performance is excellent. After the tour ended, the band broke up for good, except for a handful of reunion shows.
14.1M
Walk of Life 12.5M
Heavy Fuel 23.3M
Romeo and Juliet 12.3M
The Bug 31.3M
Sultans of Swing 13.9M
Your Latest Trick 16.0M
On Every Street 11.9M
Two Young Lovers 28.0M
Telegraph Road 23.8M
Money for Nothing 20.1M
Brothers in Arms 13.2M
Solid Rock Suzanne Vega - 1989-06-16 - Glastonbury Festival - Worthy Farm - Pilton, Britain
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This is from the big annual Glastonbury Festival, though perhaps it wasn't so big back in the 1980s. As I write this in 2025, Vega has performed at this festival a surprising number of times. Seven times in all so far: 1989, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2022. However, the only BBC recording I can find from her is this 1989. That's also surprising, since the BBC didn't broadcast many sets back then, and has broadcast more and more as time has gone on. So if anyone has any of her other Glastonbury sets, please pass them on so I can post those too.
I read an interview with Vega many years after this concert in which she was asked: "What is the closest you've come to death?" She responded, "A death threat at Glastonbury Festival in 1989. The police told me not to go on, but I said I had to because I was headlining. So I wore a bullet-proof vest. It seemed unlikely that I would be assassinated, but it was shocking and very stressful." Given that, I give her kudos for putting on a remarkably poised performance here.
Vega was probably close to the peak of her popularity around this time. Her 1988 album "Solitude Standing" did especially well in the the British charts, making it to Number Two there, compared to Number 11 in the U.S.
11.1M
Solitude Standing 1.2M
talk 10.6M
Small Blue Thing 6.9M
Cracking 1.1M
talk 14.0M
Freeze Tag 8.5M
Left of Center 539.8K
talk 11.5M
Pilgrimage 430.7K
talk 11.9M
Men in a War 275.6K
talk 9.3M
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