Elvis Costello And Rude 5
Omiya, Sonic City Hall, Japan 2nd September 1991 (FM)
Disc One:
Intro
Tokyo Storm Warning
So Like Candy\ I want You
The Very Thought Of You
Watching The Detectives/Let Him Dangle
Couldn't Call It Unexpected
Almost Blue
That Day Is Done
Hidden Charms
Veronica
Everybody's Crying Mercy
Hurry Down Doomsday
All Grown Up
Disc Two:
I Hope You're Happy Now
Peace Love And Understanding
Pump It Up
Bonus tracks (audience recordings)
1991-08-26 Osaka, Osaka Festival Hall
After The Fall
The Other Side Of Summer
Playboy To A Man
Bamalamabamaloo
Gods Comic
1991-06-08 Tinley Park, IL, World Music Theatre
Alison
Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
Accidents Will Happen
You Bowed Down
Temptation
Gotta check this out this time round. Not sure I've heard So Like Candy live (apart from witnessing it on, I think, one occasion), and the comments on some of these versions sound great. re-reading the notes on the KOA reissue made me eager to here more of the Rude 5 live. Ta.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
The piano intro for CCIU #4 is the melody from the early part of "The Letter Home", (the "why must I always apologize" part...).
I don't recall ever hearing of this -- and he wasn't doing it on the US part of the tour, certainly. (I've got at least a couple of versions from that summer, and I don't THINK it's on there...)
Boy this is a good recording. Turquoise put it in his top 5 must haves, and I can see why. Great setlist, great band, Elvis on form, great sound quality. The MLAR tracks come across so well - SLC, of course, All Grown Up is just too perfect, and this for me is the ur-version of Hurry Down Doomsday.
Bit confused about line up of Rude 5 as I read somewhere that Ribot had left the band by the time they hit Japan, but he's all over this in majestic glory. Did he miss the first few dates and then join them? It's a shame the Costello home page doesn't give tour band line ups.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
