Berlin / Amsterdam
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Artist: Soul Coughing
Label: KUFALA Recordings
Category: Music
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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
UPC: 825084002623
EAN: 0825084002623
ASIN: B00068RDOC
Release Date: 2004-03-30 |
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Tracks:
- Mermaid
- Disseminated
- Soft Serve
- Paint
- Moonsammy
- So Far I Haven't Found The Science
- True Dreams of Witchita
- The Idoit Kings
- Funky Town
- Unmarked Helicopters
- Mr. Bitterness
- Super Bon Bon
- Lazy Bones
- St. Louise is Listening
- Down To This
- Screenwriter's Blues
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- The IncumbantBuddha
- Rhubarb Butter
- Miss The Girl
- Lemon Lime
- 4 out of 5
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Album Description
In the middle of their US Tour during 1997 Soul Coughing headed off to Europe for a week to take in a few sites and please the European fans. The first disc a full show from Berlin and features a rare version of Funky Town. Disc 2 captures a short set at the North Sea Jazz Festival which sounds amazing and has a few rarities thrown in as well.
Customer Reviews:
Better than New York.......2005-10-19
I basically just want to disagree with the guy who said the New York concert is better than this one. I originally got the New York show first, in a super-excited state of wanting to hear more Soul Coughing. I was highly disappointed. The sound on that recording is tinny, and the whole thing sounds like... DRUGS. (That's probably not surprising.) The experience was so bad, it deterred me from evening bothering to listen to any of the other live Soul Coughing releases.
Months later, I decided to try out thie Berlin/Amsterdam complication.
By contrast to the New York show, the Berlin portion of this set sounds extremely warm and coherent. The songs all sound great, especially the seven-and-a-half minute version of Down To This, featuring an entire verse of War Pigs. It is, in my opinion far superior to the New York noise-fest.
OK, not the best.......2005-08-13
Basically, if you're buying this album you're getting it for the quirkiness. Hearing M. Doughty attempt "Funky Town" is hysterical and darn near worth the price of this album alone. A couple of the Amsterdam recordings are great. But overall this is a bit of a disappointment compared, to, say, the New York concert. The audio quality is rather mediocre and the El Oso material in general sounds rather unpolished, not exactly in a good way.
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