Soul Coughing - Berlin Amsterdam (21 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Soul Coughing
Berlin / Amsterdam
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Mermaid
2. Disseminated
3. Soft Serve
4. Paint
5. Moonsammy
6. So Far I Haven't Found The Science
7. True Dreams of Witchita
8. The Idoit Kings
9. Funky Town
10. Unmarked Helicopters
11. Mr. Bitterness
12. Super Bon Bon
13. Lazy Bones
14. St. Louise is Listening
15. Down To This
16. Screenwriter's Blues
Track Listings (5) - Disc #2
1. The IncumbantBuddha
2. Rhubarb Butter
3. Miss The Girl
4. Lemon Lime
5. 4 out of 5

CD Details

All Artists: Soul Coughing
Title: Berlin / Amsterdam
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: KUFALA Recordings
Original Release Date: 3/30/2004
Release Date: 3/30/2004
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 825084002623

Synopsis

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.

CD Reviews

OK, not the best

Joseph Geni | Evanston, Illinois United States | 08/13/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"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.

Heck, it's still Soul Coughing and the songs are great. But this release isn't the best example of that."

Better than New York

Ryan Nelson | 10/19/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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."