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	Suicide Live 1977-1978 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Limited edition 2008 six CD box set of "audio verite" recordings that captured Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978 . These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City plus... more » « less
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All Artists: Suicide
Title: Live 1977-1978
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Blast First Petite
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 7/22/2008
Album Type: Box set, Import, Limited Edition
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Goth & Industrial, New Wave & Post-Punk
Number of Discs: 6
SwapaCD Credits: 6
UPCs: 8235664630238, 823566463023

Synopsis

Album Description

Limited edition 2008 six CD box set of "audio verite" recordings that captured Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978 . These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City plus their first ever tour across Europe and the UK. The package includes a 40 page booklet of Suicide and Red Star Records memorabilia (including very rare Red Star press releases) from the personal archives of Howard Thompson, the A&R man that signed Suicide to UK label Bronze Records, Out of all of these recordings, only the infamous '23 Minutes Over Brussels' has been legally released before. Blast First.

CD Reviews

Astonishing!

Lovblad | Geneva, Switzerland | 09/19/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Now this is a quite unique document. Suicide were a very unique group, situating themselves at the borders of punk and electronica. when it comes to electronic music, they may be only second to Kraftwerk in global influence. This is an astonishing box of live recordings from around the time of thier first album. While their first album is the most intense and most influential it is not in my opinion thier masterpiece: this is their second, Ric Ocasek produced second opus. However the importance of the recordings from the first album can not be disputed. What one gets here is of course a series of live recordings fo Ghost rider, frankie teardop and rocket usa (take or give one or two more). Real fans already have in one form or another the live Brussels recording which is one of the greatest live electronic (or simply live) recordings if all time This may be somewhat tiring since the recordings are of very varied quality, some OK and some not so OK. However the intensty of the songs really comes over in an incredible way and really demonstrates whs Suicide was such a different band. It was able to mix the repetitious nature of electronica with a real violent attitude brought on by Alan Vega. Some of this would be translated into his later solo work. The only other down-side is the rather hefty price for such a lo-fi collection that tends to repeat itself. It does contain a very nice booklet about the group with some historical writings. If you like them, you have to have this, also ebcause it seems to be somewhat of a limited edition item."