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Track Listing 1. Chicago Introduction 2. Big Zombie 3. Trouble Down South 4. My Body J.F.K. Part One 5. Slightly South of the Border 6. Story of Nothing, The 7. Tex Rico 8. Flitcraft at the Iron Horse 9. Moby Dick / Shallow Bourgeois Smile 10. Dadaist Rhetoric in Boston 11. Prince of Darkness - (with Michelle Shocked) 12. My Body J.F.K. Part 2 13. Abernant 84/87 14. Tommy 15. San Francisco D. J./Audience Participation 16. I Can't Find My Money 17. Robert and Steven in the Heartbreak Hotel 18. Shape I'm In, The 19. Hard to Be Human 20. Beaten and Broken at Garage d'or 21. Not Long Ago 22. My Body J.F.K. Part Three 23. Shanty 24. My Body in Chicago 25. Revenge 26. Sophie 27. Chivalry 28. Where Were You? - (bonus track) 29. Never Been in a Riot - (bonus track)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Michelle Shocked | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The Mekons: Jon Langford, Tom Greenhalgh (vocals, guitar); Rico Bell (vocals, accordion); Robert Worby (vocals, organ, Casio, keyboards); Kevin Lycett, Ken Lite (vocals, bass); Sally Timms (vocals); Susie Honeyman (violin); Steven Goulding (drums). Additional personnel: Michelle Shocked (vocals). Recorded live in Chicago, Illinois & San Francisco, California in 1986 & 1987. Originally released on ROIR (5026). Includes liner notes by Chuck Eddy. All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Industry Reviews 4 stars out of 5 - The polar opposite of most airbrushed live albums....playing more like the booze-sodden, cowpunk soundtrack to a careening homemade road movie....implausibly entertaining... Q (03/01/2001)
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