Last of the New Wave Riders

Last of the New Wave Riders Artist: Utopia
Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 7


UPC: 060768465121
EAN: 0060768465121
ASIN: B0000DZTKV


Release Date: 2003-11-04

Last of the New Wave Riders


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Tracks:

  1. Too Much Water
  2. Rock Love
  3. Princess of the Universe
  4. If I Didn't Try
  5. Bring Me My Longbow
  6. Hammer In My Heart
  7. Abandon City
  8. Set Me Free
  9. Itch In My Brain/Love With A Thinker
  10. You Make Me Crazy
  11. Swing to the Right
  12. The Very Last Time
  13. Trapped
  14. Caravan
  15. Last of the New Wave Riders
  16. Crybaby
  17. Love is the Answer

Tracks:

  1. I Just Want to Touch You
  2. Where Does the World Go to Hide
  3. Silly Boy
  4. Feel Too Good
  5. The Road to Utopia
  6. Set Me Free
  7. Common Man
  8. Crazy Lady Blue
  9. One World
  10. Back on the Street
  11. Crystal Ball
  12. All Smiles

Tracks:

  1. Shot in the Dark
  2. Caravan
  3. The Very Last Time
  4. Alone
  5. Always Late
  6. Take It Home
  7. That's Not Right
  8. Everybody Else Is Wrong
  9. I Saw the Light
  10. Trapped
  11. Love In Action
  12. Couldn't I Just Tell You
  13. Love is the Answer

Tracks:

  1. Intro
  2. Trapped
  3. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  4. Abandon City
  5. Love of the Common Man
  6. Back on the Street
  7. Black and White
  8. Crazy Lazy Blue
  9. Love In Action
  10. The Death of Rock 'N' Roll
  11. Communion With the Sun
  12. When the Shit Hits the Fan - International Feel
  13. The Last Ride
  14. Gangrene

Tracks:

  1. My Angel
  2. The Seven Rays
  3. Heavy Medtal Kids
  4. Singring And the Glass Guitar - Utopia Theme
  5. Love Is The Answer
  6. Couldn't I Just Tell You
  7. Just One Victory

Tracks:

  1. Trapped
  2. Love In Action
  3. Abandon City
  4. Love of the Common Man
  5. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
  6. Shot in the Dark
  7. The Seven Rays
  8. Can We Still Be Friends
  9. Gangrene
  10. The Wheel
  11. Love Alone - Kaz's Song

Tracks:

  1. Last of the New Wave Riders
  2. The Death of Rock 'N' Roll
  3. The Verb 'To Love'
  4. Hiroshima
  5. A Dream Goes On Forever
  6. Black Maria
  7. Eastern Intrigue
  8. Initiation
  9. Couldn't I Just Tell You
  10. Hello It's Me
  11. Just One Victory

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Disappointed!.......2005-12-13

I was pretty happy with this Box set until I put it into the CD player. The Oops! Wrong Planet set sounds just horrible. Foolishly I purchased this on a whim while at Tower Records without checking into it first here at Amazon. The money could have been better spent on their studio albums.

3 out of 5 stars For Rundgren fans who need to replace old bootlegs..........2004-01-16

Perhaps to counter accusations of being a megalomaniac control freak, Todd Rundgren pared down the original Utopia lineup to a 4-piece by the late 70's and decided it would be a democracy. Nice concept, but it would've worked better had the others in the band been as talented as Rundgren. They weren't: wunderkind bassist Kasim Sultan was a big-piped arena rock wannabe; technogeek keyboardist Roger Powell was probably more at home in a lab inventing instruments than on stage playing them; drummer John Wilcox was a conservatory-trained hack whose previous gig was playing on Broadway with Bette Midler. They could all play just fine, even though their individual styles didn't always blend real well. But instead of letting sidemen be sidemen, Rundgren let them sing and write songs, including Powell and Wilcox, who were suited to neither. The result was often that, despite efforts (or appearances) to be simply one quarter of the band, Rundgren's own material had to save the day.

Perhaps inspired by Zappa's series of bootleg-beaters, this set of 7 disks from 4 shows was given official release. Sound quality varies- the 1979 set from Tokyo is nice and clear, while the 1978 Oops! Wrong Planet disks sound like the work of a fan smuggling in a handheld cassette recorder. Rundgren devotees will appreciate this set (many have owned them as taped radio broadcasts, etc), although it could have been edited down a bit. The disks don't cover a long period of time, so there's a lot of repeated material...how many versions of "Love In Action" or "Trapped" does one need? There is no insert, liner notes or much info at all.

For me, the most fun is probably the disks from a Halloween 1980 radio broadcast from the Capital Theatre in Passaic, NJ with material from Utopia's Beatles soundalike lp, Deface the Music. A strange idea for a whole album, but Rundgren's strong suit has always been pure pop. The song titles may as well be "I'd Like to Hold Your Hand" or "I Am Almost the Walrus"...pretty much The Rutles minus much of the humor. The rest covers the mostly-good material from LP's like Ra and Oops! Wrong Planet, with a liberal dose of material from Rundgren solo lp's as well. There's a single disk from the weak Oblivion album, skipping over the underrated Swing To the Right.

I used to go see Rundgren with and without Utopia a lot during this period, so this box set is a fun trip down memory lane, and I suspect that his fans will enjoy it. I just would have left out about half of it.

1 out of 5 stars Crap.......2003-11-21

I feel like I wasted 55.00. (I bought mine at Tower). The recordings are all bad quality. The "Oops" disc being the worst. Clearly an audience recording from the '70's recorded on a cheap tape recorder. The rest being taken from radio broadcasts or soundboard, but still bad. Very clear that this mess was just thrown together with no attempt at all to try and remaster or digitally enhance these recordings. This should have been a fantastic live Utopia retrospective document, but instead is a BIG disappointment. I expected more coming from Todd R. who is supposedly such a perfectionist. Too Bad!

1 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Snafu 10-31-'91 ~ The Radiators
  2. Eastbound & Down
  3. Dance to the Underground ~ Radio 4
  4. Singles ~ Alison Moyet
  5. Leaving VA ~ Los Halos
  6. The Preacher: Live 1983 ~ Spear of Destiny
  7. Knife in the Marathon ~ Planes Mistaken for Stars
  8. Whoracle ~ In Flames
  9. Antidote ~ Jenny Toomey
  10. Suburban Rock 'n' Roll ~ Space

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Music Album

Music CD

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ~ Jimmy Smith

Grappelli Plays Grappelli ~ Stephane Grappelli

Little Ramblers 1924-1927 ~ Little Ramblers

Timeless ~ Art Pepper

Interplay ~ Finn Savery

Les Lettres Rouges ~ Lynda Lemay

Pipes and Drums ~ Various Artists

Yakusoku/Good-Bye ~ Ding Fei

Intergrale, Vol. 1: Charles et Johnny 1933-1936 ~ Charles Trenet

Owari Hajimaru ~ Goro Nakagawa