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NMC Records PILOT 61
Dog is Life
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| Righto, so here it is: a full document of The Fall's Kurious
Oranj performance from the Edinburgh Kings Theatre on 17th August 1988. Well,
full in a way, since most of the crowd noise is edited out and the tracks
separated, giving it much more of an LP feel than a live performance. The
excellent sound quality and flawless performance adds to this, making it
in the end much more of an alter-Oranj than a radically different product.
In the main, the readings of the majority of tracks are *very* similar to
those that appear on the album (and the Cab It Up rendition is the one we're
all familiar with).
The major changes are a longer Dog Is Life, no Overture (hooray!), the addition of a few more inter-song spoken lines by MES, along with Dead Beat Descendant and Frenz. Hip Priest's the stand-out: it starts with the Hex Hip Priest on tape, then the band kick into Big New Prinz with the tape carrying right on underneath - the band finish and the last third of tape drags it back to history. I was a bit underwhelmed the first time I heard it, but after a couple more listens it's growing. There's a bit more life to tracks like Jerusalem, and Wrong Place Right Time especially gels in a way it never quite did for me on the original album.Yes Oh Yes and Bad News Girl are still cracking, but Bremen Nacht's probably the least impressive version I've heard. Cover's all orange, with a few video stills inside. Credits detail Executive Producer: Steve Hanley for The Fall, so make of that what you will. Overall, a more even and probably better set that the original album. But they're not that different. Rich 25/7 |
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