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Live at Whelan's, Dublin, 1-17-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Ritz, Shadow Cabinet, Tristesse, Mistress, Fly, Bel-Air, Already Yesterday, 10,000 Miles, Comedown, My Little Problem
Disk 2: Will I Start to Bleed, Providence, The Night is Very Soft, Almost With You, Don't Look Back, Grind, Under the Milky Way, Hotel Womb, Myrrh (cut)
Rating: 9.5  Comments: Great soundboard recording of an acoustic Steve/Marty show.

  

Live at Connoly's, Leap, Ireland, 1-20-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Ritz, Shadow Cabinet, Tristesse, Mistress, 10,000 Miles, The Night is Very Soft, Comedown, My Little Problem, Will I Start to Bleed, Providence, Don't Look Back, Grind, Under the Milky Way, Hotel Womb, Myrrh

 

Radio Shows 1998 (1 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
GLR, London, 9-12-98: Louisiana, Under the Milky Way, Buffalo.  GLR, London, 12-22-98: Comedown, Louisiana.  WRUW, Cleveland, 10-4-98: Louisiana, Buffalo, Under the Milky Way.  Demos: Anyway (1), Anyway (2)
Rating: 9  Comments: Nice acoustic versions with lots of interview bits, and a couple Anyway demos...

 

Live at the Borderline, London, 9-11-98 Plus Rare Live Tracks (Steve and Marty Acoustic (2 CD) (Homemade CD from cassette source)
Disk 1: Constant in Opal, Comedown, Shadow Cabinet, Providence, My Little Problem, Buffalo, Tristesse, Lost, Almost With You, Mistress, A Month of Sundays, Grind, Louisiana, Under the Milky Way
Disk 2: Reptile, Hotel Womb.  Live at the Marquee, London, 5-14-86: Travel By Thought.  Live in Hamburg 10-6-86: Desdemona, Chrome Injury, For a Moment We're Strangers.  Live at the Palace, Melbourne, 4-91: Friction.  Live in Melbourne, 8-26-84: All Too Much.  Live on Melbourne Radio '82: Too Fast For You
Rating: 8.5/Various  Comments: Cool Borderline show.  Much shorter than the next night.  The rare live tracks are mostly pretty good quality, and really interesting.

 

Live at the Borderline, London, 9-12-98 (Steve and Marty Acoustic (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Constant in Opal, Shadow Cabinet, Comedown, Providence, Tristesse, Buffalo, Mistress, Almost With You, Louisiana, Grind, Life's a Gas, Into My Hands
Disk 2: The Night is Very Soft, My Little Problem, Under the Milky Way, Green Grass of Home, A Month of Sundays, 10,000 Miles, Femme Fatale, Reptile, Hotel Womb, Myrrh, Cortez the Killer
Rating: 9 Comments: This is a great recording of a "warmup" show before the electric tour kicked off... Steve and Marty sounded loose and seemed to be having a great time.

 

Live in San Diego, CA 9-18-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from Video source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, Ripple, NSEW, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Buffalo, Day of the Dead.
Disk 2: Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, You Took.  Bonus Tracks: Live in Denver, CO 10-17-98: Tranquility, Aura
Rating: 9 Comments: The first show of the 98 electric tour - great recording, and the band sounded excellent!

 

Live at the Edge, Palo Alto, CA, 9-21-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, Ripple, NSEW, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way
Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, You Took.
Rating: 8.5   Comments: Cool show, good quality, and it has You Took!

 

Live at 815L, Sacramento, CA, 9-22-98, Plus Live in San Francisco, 1-30-95 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, Ripple, NSEW, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once
Disk 2: Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed.  Live at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1-30-95: Hotel Womb, Is This Where You Live, Constant in Opal, Reptile
Rating: 8.5   Comments: Another good HOB tour set.

 

Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 9-23-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, NSEW, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way
Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, You Took
Rating: 8   Comments: Sound is a bit thin on this one.

Live at the 7th House, Pontiac, MI, 10-2-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, NSEW, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way
Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, You Took
Rating: 8.5   Comments: This is the Church show I made it to on the HOB tour... and it was fantastic, of course!

 

Live at the Odeon, Cleveland, 10-4-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, NSEW, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind (short cut near beginning), Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way
Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination (cut), Tantalyzed, You Took (short cut)
Rating: 8.5   Comments: Very clear sound, unfortunately a few songs are cut.

 

Live at the Trocadero, Philadelphia, 10-8-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, NSEW, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way
Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, You Took
Rating: 4   Comments: From the internet broadcast.  The computer could not keep up with the incoming data stream so there are many jumps in the sound.  Very hard to listen to.

 

Live at the Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO, 10-17-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, An Interlude, NSEW, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Tranquility, Buffalo
Disk 2: Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, You Took
Rating: 8  Comments:  Great show!  There is a bit of tape hiss on this, but otherwise it's a great recording.

 

Live at the Metro, Sydney, Australia, 10-30-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, An Interlude, North, South, East, West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead.
Disk 2: Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, Silver Machine, You Took(cut).. Bonus track: You Took from 11-7-98
Rating: 8.5  Comments: This is a great sounding show - great performance, too.  Too bad You Took is cut...

 

Live at the Forum, Melbourne, Australia, 11-7-98 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, An Interlude, North, South, East, West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead.
Disk 2: Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, Silver Machine, You Took.
Rating: 8

 

Live at the Hallum Road Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, 11-8-98 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, An Interlude, North, South, East, West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead.
Disk 2: Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, Silver Machine, You Took.
Rating: 8  Comments: This is a kind of noisy audience recording... the audience noise is faded out between songs because it's so loud.  Sounds a bit slow, and the band was not as tight as they sometimes are.

 

Tour Rehearsal, Stockholm, 12-10-98 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, Anesthesia, An Interlude, Ripple, North, South, East, West, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Tranquility, Buffalo
Disk 2: Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, All The Young Dudes, Reptile, Destination.  Amsterdam Soundcheck: North, South, East, and West, Two Places at Once
Rating: 8.5   Comments:  Sound is mostly good, but fades out in spots.  SK was going through the motions on the lyrics, mostly out of tune, but the band did improvise a bit on most of the songs.

 

 Live at Pardiso, Amsterdam, 12-17-98 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, North, South, East, West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind (short cut in middle), Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You
Disk 2: Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, Silver Machine, You Took
Rating: 8.5  Comments: I'd give it a 9, but there's a little bit of CD encoding problems on disk 2... SK sings Dream On in the quiet part of Grind.

 

Live at Ekko, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 12-18-98 (2 CD) (CD-R Copy)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, North South East and West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind, Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead
Disk 2: Under the Milky Way, Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalized, Encore 2: You Took
Comments: Very good audience recording.

 

Live at the Garage, London, 12-21-98, Plus Live at Tramps, NYC, 10-9-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, North, South, East, West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind (short cut in middle), Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way.

Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile.  Live in NYC, 10-9-98: Interview, Tantalyzed, Buffalo, Interview, Destination, Under the Milky Way
Rating: 7/10  Comments: Not a great recording for the London show, but the NYC excerpt is from a radio show, and sounds perfect!

 

Live at the Garage, London, 12-22-98 (2 CD) (Homemade CD from tape source)
Disk 1: Aura, Myrrh, Anesthesia, North, South, East, West, Ripple, Old Flame, Louisiana, Hotel Womb, Grind (short cut in middle), Tranquility, Buffalo, Day of the Dead, Under the Milky Way.
Disk 2: Two Places at Once, Almost With You, Reptile, Destination, Tantalyzed, Comedown, You Took, Silver Machine
Rating: 9  Comments: Amazing show, great recording.  The last show of the HOB tour.  

      

 

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