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Live at the Club, Melbourne, 8-26-84 + Live in Milan Italy 4-13-88 (2 CD) (Homemade CD - Melbourne from tape, Milan from video)
Disk 1: One day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant in Opal, Volumes, Just for You, It's No Reason, A Month of Sundays, You Took, Shadow Cabinet, 10,000 Miles, When You Were Mine, Too Fast for You, Almost With You, An Unguarded Moment.
Disk 2: All Too Much, Is This Where You Live?, An Interlude, Travel By Thought.  Live in Milan, Italy, 4-13-88: When You Were Mine, NSEW, Destination, Columbus, You Took, Under the Milky Way, Myrrh, An Unguarded Moment, Reptile, Tantalyzed
Rating: 8/8 Comments: Melbourne: Not a great recording - maybe the tape has been copied too many times. Milan: Sound is kind of bass-heavy, but it is an otherwise clean recording.

 

Live at Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach, CA, 10-19-84 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles
Disk 2: Just For You, It's No Reason, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, The Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, Is This Where You Live
Comments: Very good audience recording.

 

Live at Wolfgang's, San Francisco, 10-22-84 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
Disk 1: Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles (cut)
Disk 2: Just for You, It's No Reason, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, The Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, Is This Where You Live, An Interlude (cut)

Rating: 8   Comments: Good recording.  One of those strange shows with a keyboard player.

 

Live at Tommy Trojan's, USC, L.A., 10-24-84, Plus Live at Prospect Hill, Melbourne, 11-3-85 (1 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, You Took, Just for You (short cut in middle), Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, The Unguarded Moment (short cut in middle), When You Were Mine.  Live at Prospect Hill, Melbourne, 11-3-85: Myrrh, Tristesse, Electric Lash, Roman, Almost With You, One Day, Columbus

 

Live at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH, 11-4-84 (1 CD) (CD-R Copy)
One Day, Electric Lash, Constant in Opal, Volumes, You Took, Life Speeds Up, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, The Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, This Where You Live?
Comments: Good/very good audience recording.  One of the better 1984 recordings… unfortunately it's a short set!

 

Live at Decade, Pittsburgh, PA, 11-7-84 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: One Day, Electric Lash, Tear It All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles
Disk 2: Just For You, Life Speeds Up, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, The Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, Is This Where You Live?, Remote Luxury (cut)
Comments: Fair/good audience recording.  Is there a good recording in existence of Remote Luxury???

 

Live at the First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 11-14-84, Plus Live at Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany, 6-10-86 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles, Just For You, Life Speeds Up, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, An Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine
Disk 2: Is This Where You Live?, Remote Luxury, An Interlude, Travel by Thought.  Live in Hamburg, Germany, 10-6-86: Myrrh, Columbus, Life Speeds Up, Almost With You, Chrome Injury, For a Moment We're Strangers, Fraulien, Bel-Air, Just for You, Is This Where You Live?, The Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, Desdemona

Rating: 8/8  Comments: Both good audience recordings - Remote Luxury is great live!  The Hamburg show is especially interesting, as this is when Marty had quit the band for a short time, and the band carried on as a 3-piece...

 

Live at The Paradise Theater, Boston, 11-20-84 (1 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles, Into My Hands, Life Speeds Up, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, An Unguarded Moment

Rating: 8.5   Comments: Good show.  Fades out between songs.

 

Live at The Living Room, Providence, RI, 11-21-84 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
Disk 1: Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles
Disk 2: Just for You, Life Speeds Up, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, An Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, Is This Where You Live?
Comments: Excellent audience recording.

 

Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey, 11-25-84 (1 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles, Life Speeds Up, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet, An Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine

Rating: 8.5  Comments: Good sound quality, a bit better than the Melbourne 84 show...

 

Live at The Ripley, Philadelphia, 11-28-84, Plus Live in Stockholm, 10-2-82 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
Disk 1: Fly, One Day, Electric Lash, Tear it All Away, Constant In Opal, Volumes, The Night is Very Soft, Bel-Air, You Took, 10,000 Miles, Now I Wonder Why, Life Speeds Up, A Month of Sundays, Almost With You, Shadow Cabinet
Disk 2: An Unguarded Moment, When You Were Mine, Is This Where You Live, Remote Luxury (cut short).  Live in Stockholm 10-2-82: You Took, Secret Corners, Field Of Mars, Is This Where You Live, The Unguarded Moment, Fraulein, Just For You, Fighter Pilot...Korean War

Rating: 7/8.  Comments: Both recordings are kind of muddy and bass-heavy.  Great to have a live version of Now I Wonder Why, though!

 

   

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