This is still likely a recommended purchase, but it could have been a whole lot more.
Disc 2 (Live at Larry's Hideaway):
01. Laughing
02. Pilgrimage
03. There She Goes Again
04. 7 Chinese Bros.
05. Talk About the Passion
06. Sitting Still
07. Harborcoat
08. Catapult
09. Gardening at Night
10. 9-9
11. Just a Touch
12. West of the Fields
13. Radio Free Europe
14. We Walk
15. 1,000,000
16. Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
Larry's Full Set List:
01. Wolves, Lower
02. Moral Kiosk
03. Laughing
04. Pilgrimage
05. Moon River
06. There She Goes Again
07. 7 Chinese Brothers
08. Talk About the Passion
09. Sitting Still
10. Harborcoat
11. Catapult
12. Pretty Persuasion
13. Gardening at Night
14. 9-9
15. Just a Touch
16. West of the Fields
17. Radio Free Europe
18. We Walk
19. 1,000,000
20. Carnival of Sorts
Article comments
1 - Mark Saleski
oh fer gawdssakes...they cut Moral Kiosk? i wish i didn't know that.
2 - Matt
Yeah, that no-show by the Darkness 30th anniversary set for this holiday season is a real bummer. He should make up for it by announcing Tracks 2, packed to the gills with Darkness outtakes.
3 - El Bicho
WTF, I bought all the expanded IRS discs when they added b-sides and live tracks years back. I ain't doing it again. Harumph!
4 - Glen Boyd
Has there been an actual announcement that Darkness 30 is NOT coming? If so, I haven't heard it.
-Glen
5 - Josh Hathaway
Exactly, El B. In exchange for some new they take away stuff they already gave us. I don't like it. They also failed to take advantage of the space they had and cut out some great stuff that people would want to hear.
Matt, I'm hoping you're right. Glen, I've not heard an official "no" but it's getting close to the point where no news is no release.
6 - JC Mosquito
There's a live REM boot called So Much Younger Then that has earlier material yet - does anyone know if any of those songs ever made the studio?
7 - Josh Hathaway
What are some of the track names, JC? I'll ask my R.E.M. encyclopedias 11 and S.Rod.
8 - Leslie Bohn
I believe this is the document that used to be called Athens 81, which is just awesome and crazy and raw and cannot be easily reconciled with, say, Up.
It's got, um, Body Count, Permanent Vacation, Chained to the Wall, Sheherazade... that one? Legendarily, it's a whole show from a place called Tyrone's in Athens, but some of the songs' sound qualities never matched on the versions we used to listen to obsessively instead of going to class. Long ago.
9 - Mat Brewster
How can this be both awesome and sucky? Why can't bands freaking release full shows? How hard is it?
10 - JC Mosquito
Yep - Body COunt, etc. - that's it.
11 - Tom Johnson
I'm looking forward to the live disc, but there is NO WAY IN HELL the album disc is going to supersede the MFSL version. That thing is a revelation.
12 - Josh Hathaway
There is probably a 0.0% chance they'll use the MSFL master, and that's a shame. I'd be excited for that even with an abbreviated show if they did.
13 - MArk
there were a few boots with those old songs.
bodycount
sheherazade
lisa says
and more
they were
"so much younger then"
and "bodycount at tyrones"
the sound quality on BAT is much better if you ask me. Also on the iTunes Essentials there are a few re-recorded songs from back then.
sadly no new version of Narrator though.....
14 - MArk
question. do the MFSl cd's sound as good as the LP's?
15 - Tom Johnson
I have not personally heard either version on vinyl, but the MFSL version of this album reportedly sounds better than the original LP - the master used for both LP and CD were both pressed with the bass rolled off, which the MFSL reinstates, and it sounds great! Very worth seeking out (and this and Reckoning can be found for relatively low prices, by out-of-print MFSL standards, anyway.) I would guess this deluxe is going to at least go back to the original master and correct the bass. I'll be curious to see some reviews, as I'm waiting for Christmas on this one.