Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a look back at live albums, "Boppin' Comes Alive!"
The article mentions a number of live albums I've enjoyed over the years, from the Cowsills to KISS to Otis Redding, and it gets a little bit into bootleg live albums (a subject I discussed in more detail elsewhere).
My all-time favorite live album is probably It's Alive! by the Ramones. God, what a record. While going through some of my old Goldmine stuff for another project, I found my review of the CD reissue of It's Alive! I'm loathe to retype old articles (because I'm--let's face it!--lazy), but I'd like to transcribe that review and preserve it here. Soon. Definitely soon.
The Pop-A-Looza piece mentions The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl as the first live album I ever bought (as opposed to the in-concert LPs I borrowed from my sister). The story of my acquisition of The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl is told here, as part of a reminiscence about the Monkees and one of my best friends in high school.
And speaking of live albums, Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse the Flashcubes are preparing a CD release of an incendiary live show recorded at the Firebarn in Syracuse in 1979. Flashcubes On Fire is due out this fall, and I've already turned in my liner notes.
Hmmm. Ramones, Beatles, Monkees, and Flashcubes. I'd best tag on a gratuitous mention of The Live Kinks (pictured up top), so that all five of my all-time favorite groups are represented here. We are the world!
And the world loves it live. My history of enjoying live albums provides the subject for the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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