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A limited edition of only 1000 copies! This previously unreleased November 1984 recording features the Paisley Underground legends at their peak, playing songs from Emergency Third Rail Power Trip and Explosions In The Glass Palace. Steven Robak, Matt Piu
CD Reviews
New Interpretations
DMussay | San Francisco, CA United States | 02/04/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Here are very good new interpretations of great Rain Parade songs, recorded in 1984. The sound quality is a little raw, but if you are used to some of the low-fi music that has come out since the heyday of the Rain Parade, this will probably not bother you.
I think that this record is for fans of the band - if you are looking to listen to the Rain Parade for the first time, buy their studio records, because some of the better nuances are lost on this recording, as in a lot of live recordings.
That said -- this is great!! I've been waiting almost 20 years for any new Rain Parade songs or versions of songs, and this recording is so refreshing and cool! Tragically, I never saw the Rain Parade, though I lived in LA in 1984, I was a little too young or too stupid or something to go see them. But this album is probably the best I can do at this point, it sounds like there's about 25 lucky people in the audience, enjoying a brief and wonderful moment in music history."
Tony andrews
tony andrews | Modesto, California | 02/16/2003
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Whiny,sing-songy nonsense from a band that had seen better days.Drinking problems make this a sorry mess.Sloppy versions of material with out of tune guitars,painfull feedback and out of meter playing make you wonder why this was even released.I want my money back!Older brother David had been kicked out by this point.He went on to fame with Mazzy star,while this band faded into oblivion.The vocals are also painfully out of tune."
Really great set by the"Parade"
Wileytown | 01/09/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This cd has been slammed a bit by some,but the proof is in the pudding.These guy's rock drunk or not.Also not alot to document live wise w/the Rain Parade.Wish they could dig up another great sounding sound-board show in the future!"
I gotta digress...
James D. Morrow | Omaha,NE USA | 08/07/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"First off, this is a soundboard recording, pressed in a limited run of 1000. Obviously a fans recording, so expecting it to sound like a studio recording is a little beside the point. That said, it sounds quite good if you're not expecting top of the line sound reproduction from a major record company. Secondly, they were having fun and the remarks about untuned guitars and off-key vocals (way, way overstated) would be true of most groups live performances before an engineer gets ahold of them and "fixes" them. Honestly I don't hear much wrong until the last two tunes where they are joined by various Long Ryders and Chesterfield Kings in various states of confusion and inebriation. Like I said, they were having FUN, Scorgie's wasn't Madison Square Garden.
If you're a RP fan this is a nice treat, otherwise I would agree that you should get the studio albums first. Sound quality 3/5, performance 3&1/2/5. Coolness factor...priceless."
Explosions in the Beer Bottle Palace
Wileytown | Morristown, TN United States | 12/08/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Having been a fan since they first appeared in the early 80s, this disc presents a lovely nostalga trip.
There's not much variance between these performances and their studio counterparts, aside from some cool feedback here and there -no extended jams. I don't think excessive workouts were ever part of Rain Parade's psychedelic agenda. Still, I would have welcomed some extra jamming on songs like Broken Horse and You Are My Friend. PERFUME RIVER galvinizes my opinion that Pink Floyd would have sounded very similiar to Rain Parade, had they hired Neil Young for A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS instead of David Gilmore.
Having missed a now-impossible-to-find DEMOLITION release, PERFUME RIVER gave me the opportunity to hear Crashing Dream for the first time. It must have been written during the same trip as No Easy Way Down (which is not a bad thing at all!).
My favorite part of the whole release is the double encore of Neil Young's Like A Hurricane and the Velvet's What Goes On with members from the Long Ryders - a special little snap-shot, during a special little period, from a special little community of musicians.
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1