Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: 2010-2018

Yesterday, after posting "BBC Sessions, Volume 10" by Squeeze, it was pointed out to me that I had never posted Volume 9. Oops! I thought for sure that I had, since I had it all ready to go. So here it is now.

I found a couple of BBC concerts Squeeze did during this time period. But to be honest, I was getting a little tired of posting concerts mostly consisting of their old hits. In my opinion, they were still writing good new songs during this time period, and I was more interested in hearing those. So the first seven tracks are from a BBC concert in Newcastle, Britain, in 2010. Tracks 10 to 13 are from the 2016 Glastonbury Festival. Tracks 14 and 15 are from the Biggest Weekend Festival in Perth, Britain, which was broadcast by the BBC, just like the Glastonbury Festival.

So that makes up most of the songs. But there are two others. "Please, Please Me," a cover of the Beatles song, is from a 2013 BBC radio special called "12 Hours to Please Me" that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' debut album in Britain, "Please, Please Me." 

"Cradle to the Grave" is from the Andrew Marr BBC TV show. What's particularly interesting is that the lyrics were changed near the end of the song, just for this version. Here's the new lyrics:

I grew up in social housing
Part of what made Britain great
There are some here who are hell-bent
On the destruction of the welfare state

This seems to be a deliberate snub of David Cameron, prime minister of Britain at the time, who actually was on stage during the performance, because he was another guest on the show! Indeed, as a leader of the right wing Tory party, Cameron took part in that party's destruction of the welfare state that has be steadily and gradually weakening Britain's economy. Kudos to Squeeze to have the balls to sing that right to Cameron's face. Cameron clapped and smiled at the end of the song, probably oblivious about the lyrics.

Everything on this album is unreleased. I used the MVSEP program to remove all the crowd noise, so the songs with cheering fit in with the ones without. There are a couple of lesser known older songs here. But most of the songs are from the band's two albums of new material during this time period, "Cradle to the Grave" in 2015 and "The Knowledge" in 2017.  

This album is 47 minutes long. 

01 talk (Squeeze)
02 When the Hangover Strikes (Squeeze)
03 talk (Squeeze)
04 It's So Dirty (Squeeze)
05 If It's Love (Squeeze)
06 The Knack (Squeeze)
07 Model (Squeeze)
08 Please Please Me (Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook & Paul Jones)
09 Cradle to the Grave [Alternate Lyrics Version] (Squeeze)
10 Nirvana (Squeeze)
11 Open (Squeeze)
12 Happy Days (Squeeze)
13 Cradle to the Grave (Squeeze)
14 Please Be Upstanding (Squeeze)
15 Rough Ride (Squeeze)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oDsfXkk3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/HaQfqQInOsrgAGK/file

The only thing I know about the cover photo is that it was taken in 2015. 

Covered: Don Covay: 1961-1994

Here's another lesser known songwriter celebrated in my Covered series. This time, it's Don Covay.

Covay was born in South Carolina in 1936, but spent the latter half of his childhood in Washington, D.C. In 1957, he started out as a chauffeur and opening act for Little Richard. He had dreams of being a famous soul singer, but for years he drifted from record label to record label with poor sales.

His first success came into 1961, writing the song "Pony Time." He own version only reached the lower part of the singles charts. But then Chubby Checker covered it later that year and it went all the way to Number One. That established a pattern: while he kept his own solo career going for decades, other singers usually had much more success with his songs. 

In the mid-1965, he was signed to Atlantic Records and associated labels. Atlantic had a relationship with Stax Records, so Covay was able to co-write songs with Steve Cropper and other soul music greats there, like David Porter and Booker T. Jones. For instance, "See-Saw" and "Sookie Sookie" were co-written with Cropper. (I have different versions of both of those songs in my Covered albums for Cropper.) 

Probably Covay's most celebrated song is "Chain of Fools." Aretha Franklin had a big hit with it in 1967, but he'd actually written it about 15 years earlier after seeing a chain gang of prisoners working by the side of a road. Rolling Stone Magazine put it on their list of the top 500 songs of all time. 

He was the instigator being the brief soul supergroup "Soul Clan," consisting of himself, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Ben E. King & Arthur Conley. He wrote the band's one hit single. However, that was just a one-off. After that, his career declined for a few years. But he had a minor revival with a few hits in the early 1970s. I've included one of those as the only song here credited just to him, "I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In."

But musical tastes were quickly changing in the late 1970s, with the rise of disco, punk, and new wave. After a few years of declining sales, Covay quit the music business altogether. But he had some later revivals. For instance, in 2000, he put out his first new album in over 20 years, "Adlib," filled with famous guest star appearances. He died of a stroke in 2015 at the age of 78.

I tried when I could to use the original hit versions. But some of these were never hits, just songs that I thought were worthy of inclusion. And I did occasionally avoid the hit versions for various reasons. For instance, I only wanted one song mainly sung by Covay, so I used the Rolling Stones version of "Mercy, Mercy" when in fact Covay had a hit with it in 1964.  

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Don Covay - Wikipedia 

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long. 

01 Letter Full of Tears (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02 There's a Party Goin' On (Wanda Jackson)
03 Pony Time (Chubby Checker)
04 Long Tall Shorty (Kinks)
05 Mercy, Mercy (Rolling Stones)
06 Don't Drive Me Away (Ben E. King)
07 Tonight's the Night (Solomon Burke)
08 I Don't Know What You've Got but It's Got Me (Little Richard)
09 Three Time Loser (Wilson Pickett)
10 Love Bug (Lena Horne)
11 Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin)
12 See Saw (Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers)
13 Soul Meeting (Soul Clan [Don Covay, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Ben E. King & Arthur Conley])
14 I'm Gonna Take What He's Got (Etta James)
15 Demonstration (Otis Redding)
16 Sookie Sookie (Tina Britt)
17 She Said Yeah (Joe Tex)
18 This Old Town [People in This Town] (Staple Singers)
19 I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In (Don Covay)
20 Watch the One Who Brings You the News (Millie Jackson)
21 Thunder (Jimmy Witherspoon)
22 Back to the Streets (Soul Summit)
23 It's Better to Have [And Not Need] (Huey Lewis & the News)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4FVt63Gw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/GPhkEJUzyo26yQd/file

I don't know any details about the cover image, but it looks to date from the early 1960s. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it using the Kolorize program. 

Brandi Carlile - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Here we go with another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile.

I have posted many a Brandi Carlile album, and there's no denying her vocal talent. So it's easy for me to give this a thumbs-up. She mostly performed her own songs, but she also did two covers she's never released on record, "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Woodstock."

Everything here is unreleased. As I usually did for this festival, I converted video to audio and broke the music into mp3s. 

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

01 Broken Horses (Brandi Carlile)
02 talk (Brandi Carlile)
03 Swing for the Fences (Brandi Carlile)
04 talk (Brandi Carlile)
05 You and Me on the Rock (Brandi Carlile)
06 talk (Brandi Carlile)
07 The Story (Brandi Carlile)
08 talk (Brandi Carlile)
09 You without Me (Brandi Carlile)
10 talk (Brandi Carlile)
11 Pride and Joy (Brandi Carlile)
12 Fake Plastic Trees (Brandi Carlile)
13 talk (Brandi Carlile)
14 Hold Out Your Hand (Brandi Carlile)
15 talk (Brandi Carlile)
16 Right on Time (Brandi Carlile)
17 talk (Brandi Carlile)
18 The Joke (Brandi Carlile)
19 Woodstock (Brandi Carlile)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PbJwWM1d

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/KME6M2PSGS7MPWG/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Olivia Rodrigo - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2025

Here's more from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. I'm trying to post a couple of these a day until I'm all done. This time, it's Olivia Rodrigo.

In the last couple of decades, there have been a lots of young and beautiful female singers who are style over substance. They've got lots of charisma, but they often can't sing well without the help of Autotune, and they have a teams songwriters to write all their songs. Olivia Rodrigo is different. I realized she's actually a really good singer when I stumbled across a video of her singing "You're So Vain," which you can see here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2veI5qnKxo

And she actually writes her songs, as you can tell by looking at the credits on her albums. Incredibly, the average number of co-writers on hit songs these days is eight or nine. But she writes songs by herself or just one co-writer. Despite being only 22 years old at the time of this concert, she's already so big that she was one of the top headliners for the festival. So kudos to her.

Anyway, if you want to know more about her, here's her Wikipedia page:

Olivia Rodrigo - Wikipedia 

By the way, this set has a prominent guest star, Robert Smith of the Cure. He dueted with her on two famous Cure songs. 

Everything here is unreleased. As I usually did for this festival, I found a high-quality video file, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. 

This album is an hour and 25 minutes long.

01 Obsessed (Olivia Rodrigo)
02 Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl (Olivia Rodrigo)
03 Vampire (Olivia Rodrigo)
04 talk (Olivia Rodrigo)
05 Drivers License (Olivia Rodrigo)
06 Traitor (Olivia Rodrigo)
07 Bad Idea Right (Olivia Rodrigo)
08 Love Is Embarrassing (Olivia Rodrigo)
09 Pretty Isn't Pretty (Olivia Rodrigo)
10 Happier (Olivia Rodrigo)
11 talk (Olivia Rodrigo)
12 Enough for You (Olivia Rodrigo)
13 talk (Olivia Rodrigo)
14 Friday I'm in Love (Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith)
15 Just like Heaven (Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith)
16 talk (Olivia Rodrigo)
17 So American (Olivia Rodrigo)
18 Band Intros - Jealousy, Jealousy (Olivia Rodrigo)
19 Favorite Crime (Olivia Rodrigo)
20 Deja Vu (Olivia Rodrigo)
21 Brutal (Olivia Rodrigo)
22 All-American Bitch (Olivia Rodrigo)
23 Good 4 U (Olivia Rodrigo)
24 Get Him Back (Olivia Rodrigo)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sdnemAds

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qWvVTAHhciLZnYv/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Kiki Dee - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1967-1981

If you've been following this blog for a while, you maybe be aware that I have an anonymous musical friend who has been sending me "Top of the Pops" BBC radio recordings that usually are not in public circulation at all. He sent me some of those for British singer Kiki Dee. That inspired me to make this album. 

The Top of the Pops recordings mentioned above make up the first three tracks, all from 1967. They also make up tracks 9 and 10, from 1973, and tracks 11, 12, and 13, from 1974. By 1973, that radio show usually just played the recorded versions, and it was getting increasingly rare for them to play unique versions recorded just for the show. But I double checked these 1973 and 1974 and confirmed they all are unique.

By the way, a few of these Top of the Pops songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That was due to the usual problem of BBC DJ Brian Matthew talking over parts of the song. As usual, I fixed that with the help of the UVR5 program. 

Put together, all those Top of the Pops recordings only make up 27 minutes of music, which would make for a very short album. So I went looking for other BBC performances she did. I found some stray things here and there, mostly from BBC TV shows. Tracks 4, 5 and 6 are from "Scott," a 1968 TV show hosted by singer Scott Walker. Tracks 7 and 8 are from different TV shows in 1971. Tracks 16 and 17 are from a 1980 show, and track 18 is from a 1981 show.

That just leaves two songs. Track 14, "Water," is from a BBC concert she did in 1975. I'm only including the one song though, because I actually found two BBC concerts she did that year, and they're very similar. I'll be posting the other one in full, so the only thing that interested me from this one was that single unique song. I also found a 1977 BBC concert she did, so expect that one to be posted soon as well.

Finally, track 15, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," is the song Dee is best known for. This duet with Elton John was a massive hit in 1976, hitting Number One in the both the U.S. and Britain. I wanted to include a version of it on this album. However, the TV appearances I found just had Dee and John lip-syncing. But I did find a concert version from 1976 that featured both of them, so I included that one. For all the other songs with audience applause, I got rid of the applause using the MVSEP program. But I kept the applause for this one, due to the spoken intro and some other things that wouldn't have sounded right without crowd noise.

If you want to know more about Dee's career, here's her Wikipedia page:

Kiki Dee - Wikipedia 

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 Excuse Me (Kiki Dee)
02 If I Loved You [Edit] (Kiki Dee)
03 She Was Really Saying Something [Edit] (Kiki Dee)
04 Passing Strangers (Scott Walker & Kiki Dee)
05 Up, Up and Away (Kiki Dee)
06 Games People Play (Kiki Dee)
07 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Kiki Dee)
08 Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Kiki Dee)
09 Amoureuse [Edit] (Kiki Dee)
10 Loving and Free (Kiki Dee)
11 Little Frozen One (Kiki Dee)
12 Hard Luck Story (Kiki Dee)
13 I've Got the Music in Me (Kiki Dee)
14 Water (Kiki Dee)
15 Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John & Kiki Dee)
16 Star (Kiki Dee)
17 Twenty-Four Hours (Kiki Dee)
18 Midnight Flyer (Kiki Dee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6t6xHnDH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/FyUD0xC3QdCCv3P/file

The cover photo is from 1973. I don't know any other details.

Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 10: Quay Sessions, Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, Britain, 8-1-2024

Here's a concert by the band Squeeze, from 2024.

It's pretty amazing to consider that this band was formed in 1974, which means they've been together off and on for fifty years. Frankly, this concert mostly consists of their hits, with only three relatively new songs sprinkled in. So there isn't a big need for me to post this. However, this has been unavailable on the Internet, as far as I could tell. But an anonymous musical friend taped it off the radio when it was broadcast, and sent it to me. So by posting it here, I believe I'm making it available for anyone for the first time. So thanks to that person for their help.

One can find the full set list of this concert here:

Squeeze Concert Setlist at Summer Nights at The Bandstand 2024 on August 1, 2024 | setlist.fm 

That shows five songs were performed that didn't make it to the BBC broadcast, including the final encore, "Black Coffee in Bed." 

I do have to say that although the band members are getting up there in age, you wouldn't be able to tell just from listening to it. They still sound very good.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Take Me, I'm Yours (Squeeze)
02 Hourglass (Squeeze)
03 Up the Junction (Squeeze)
04 talk (Squeeze)
05 One Beautiful Summer (Squeeze)
06 talk (Squeeze)
07 You Get the Feeling (Squeeze)
08 Labelled with Love (Squeeze)
09 talk (Squeeze)
10 Goodbye Girl (Squeeze)
11 Trixie's Hell on Earth (Squeeze)
12 Slap and Tickle (Squeeze)
13 Pulling Mussels [From the Shell] (Squeeze)
14 Is That Love (Squeeze)
15 Tempted (Squeeze)
16 Cool for Cats (Squeeze)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xnDeRNXK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NbpY4woxNfMZ3mU/file 

The cover photo is from the 2024 Glastonbury Festival. That's Chris Difford on the left and Glenn Tilbrook on the right. In the original image they were further apart, but I used Photoshop to bring them closer together. 

The Libertines - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2025

The flood of albums from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival continues, with a set by the British band the Libertines.

I gotta say this band didn't impress me. It's not that they're bad, but they didn't make much of an impression. But I promised to post all the sets from this festival that got enough votes in the poll I put forward, so here you are.

If you want to know more, here's their Wikipedia entry: 

The Libertines - Wikipedia 

As usual for this festival, everything here is officially unreleased. Also as usual, I found a high-quality video file, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s.

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 Up the Bracket (Libertines)
02 The Delaney (Libertines)
03 What Became of the Likely Lads (Libertines)
04 Boys in the Band (Libertines)
05 Night of the Hunter (Libertines)
06 What Katie Did (Libertines)
07 Shiver (Libertines)
08 Merry Old England (Libertines)
09 Death on the Stairs (Libertines)
10 talk (Libertines)
11 Music When the Lights Go Out (Libertines)
12 The Good Old Days (Libertines)
13 Run Run Run (Libertines)
14 talk (Libertines)
15 Time for Heroes (Libertines)
16 Can't Stand Me Now (Libertines)
17 Don't Look Back into the Sun (Libertines)
18 talk (Libertines)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/R4nWx6q1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Q27pXNwXbl8XNPr/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Weezer - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Here's more from the flood of albums from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's the band Weezer.

In my opinion, Weezer's discography is a mixed bag. If you look at the crowd-sourced ratings of their albums at rateyourmusic.com, they have some very highly rated albums (their first two especially) and also some that are shockingly low. But they've been around for a long time, since the mid-1990s, and have enough good songs for a solid concert here.

If you want to know more about them, here's their Wikipedia:

Weezer - Wikipedia 

As usual for this festival, everything here is unreleased. I started from a high-quality video file, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Hash Pipe (Weezer)
02 My Name Is Jonas (Weezer)
03 talk (Weezer)
04 Dope Nose (Weezer)
05 No One Else (Weezer)
06 Perfect Situation (Weezer)
07 talk (Weezer)
08 Surf Wax America (Weezer)
09 Undone - The Sweater Song (Weezer)
10 Island in the Sun (Weezer)
11 Holiday (Weezer)
12 talk (Weezer)
13 Beverly Hills (Weezer)
14 Why Bother (Weezer)
15 You Gave Your Love to Me Softly (Weezer)
16 Pork and Beans (Weezer)
17 The Good Life (Weezer)
18 Say It Ain't So (Weezer)
19 Buddy Holly (Weezer)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YPCsWovz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bf8AxKEQ3wPUAqR/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 4-21-2003

Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers performed for the "PBS Soundstage" program twice, in 2003 and 2006. I recently posted the 2006 one. But I said I wasn't planning on posting the 2003 one, because it's too similar to another 2003 concert I wanted to post. However, I changed my mind, so here it is.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.) 

The other concert I'd been planning to post instead took place in the same city of Chicago just two days earlier, on April 19, 2003. So not surprisingly, the set lists are very similar. But that one is half an hour longer, and the sound quality is just as great. That's why I prefer that one. But more music is better. I figure I can post both of them eventually.

Virtually this entire concert has been released on DVD, which is why the sound quality is excellent throughout. However, it turns out the DVD song order was all mixed up, almost like someone threw them together at random. Part of that was due to a bunch of "DVD extra" songs at the end, selected from all throughout the concert. But there were other changes as well. So, being a stickler for accuracy, I carefully rearranged the song order to what was actually played.

Unfortunately, three songs didn't make the DVD at all, so they're not included here. There were two versions of "Peggy Sue," and one version of "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better," which was the last song played. 

This album is two hours and nine minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TdNfYrXx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/FloFdLBwDbOu0Hw/file

The cover photo is a screenshot from the DVD, taken from this exact concert. 

The Beatles - Grugahalle, Essen, Germany, 6-25-1966

I usually don't post music by the Beatles here, even though they're my favorite musical act of all time. I generally leave that to guest poster Mike Solof, plus there are zillions of other Beatles bootlegs out there. But I'm making an exception in this case. This is a soundboard bootleg that only became publicly available in the last month or so (as I write this in August 2025). In terms of sound quality, it has to be the best of any 1966 live Beatles recording, and it sounds better than most of their other live stuff, including much of those that are officially released. 

Even if you already downloaded this elsewhere, I recommend you download this version, since it has the significant improvement of making the drumming audible.

That said, this should come with a warning, because the Beatles played raggedly in their 1966 concerts in general, and this one is no exception. The problem was, they'd been performing to screaming fans, mostly consisting of teenage girls, for three years by this time, and they were sick of it. They could barely hear themselves playing, due to all that screaming as well as very poor sound systems. So, while they still played with energy, they didn't worry about nailing their harmony vocals and being careful not to make mistakes and so on. They figured nobody would notice or care about the details. 

On the plus side, the set lists in their 1966 concerts got a lot more interesting, in my opinion. They still played a few songs they'd been playing in concerts since at least 1964, but they were also playing challenging brand new songs. For instance, "Paperback Writer" had only been released as a single two months earlier. While they didn't play any songs from their "Revolver" album, as it wouldn't be released until August, they did play a couple from their most recent album "Rubber Soul," such as "Nowhere Man" and "If I Needed Someone," as well as the recent single "Day Tripper."

The one main complaint people have had about this bootleg is the drums are very low in the mix. So I used the MVSEP program to boost the drums relative to everything else. In some places on a few of the songs though, the drums were so low that there wasn't enough there for the program to find. The only song where I didn't boost the drum volume was "I Wanna Be Your Man." Since that one was sung by the drummer Ringo Starr, I'm guessing his vocals microphone picked up a lot of the drumming too. Also, by fixing the drumming volume, one interesting thing that comes through is "Yesterday." On record, and usually in concert, it was just Paul McCartney's vocals and acoustic guitar, plus sometimes strings. But this version was arranged for a full band, including drums.

Also, "If I Needed Someone" has "[Edit]" in its title because there were some sound problems going on during that song, leading to some roadie loudly saying "One, two" in the middle of the song, probably because that person was testing if a microphone was working. So I just got rid of that jarring voice while keeping everything else the same.

This album is 31 minutes long. 

01 talk (Beatles)
02 Rock and Roll Music (Beatles)
03 She's a Woman (Beatles)
04 talk (Beatles)
05 If I Needed Someone [Edit] (Beatles)
06 talk (Beatles)
07 Day Tripper (Beatles)
08 Baby's in Black (Beatles)
09 talk (Beatles)
10 I Feel Fine (Beatles)
11 talk (Beatles)
12 Yesterday (Beatles)
13 talk (Beatles)
14 I Wanna Be Your Man (Beatles)
15 talk (Beatles)
16 Nowhere Man (Beatles)
17 talk (Beatles)
18 Paperback Writer (Beatles)
19 talk (Beatles)
20 I'm Down (Beatles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZfZcCuJD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/bizGeJf2w0o4heY/file

It's a really lucky break that I was able to find a color photo of this exact concert. I found a bunch of black and white ones, but just one color one, but one was all I needed.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

I listened to this, and I have to admit I wasn't impressed. But I promised to post all the top vote getters from my poll about this festival, so here you are.

If you want to know more about this band, here's their Wikipedia page:

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Wikipedia 

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 Super-Sonic (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
02 Maybe Make It Right (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
03 Vacuum Boots (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
04 That Girl Suicide (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
05 No. 1 Lucky Kitty (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
06 talk (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
07 Fudge (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
08 When Jokers Attack (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
09 talk (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
10 Anemone (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
11 talk (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
12 Pish (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
13 talk (Brian Jonestown Massacre)
14 Forgotten Graves (Brian Jonestown Massacre)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rUz9F1Nx

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Fdyjkpxj8CgInS6/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert.  

Beth Gibbons - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's a set by Beth Gibbons.

Gibbons is best known for being the lead singer for the band Portishead. That band only released three albums in the 1990s and 2000s, but they were very well received, both critically and commercially. In 2024, Gibbons released just her second solo album, "Lives Outgrown." It too was critically acclaimed, making many best album of the year lists.

I'm keeping my write-ups for these Glastonbury albums short, so here's a Wikipedia entry on her if you want to know more:

Beth Gibbons - Wikipedia 

As with most albums I made from this festival, I took a high-quality video file of the concert, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 Tell Me Who You Are Today (Beth Gibbons)
02 Burden of Life (Beth Gibbons)
03 Floating on a Moment (Beth Gibbons)
04 Rewind (Beth Gibbons)
05 For Sale (Beth Gibbons)
06 Mysteries (Beth Gibbons)
07 talk (Beth Gibbons)
08 Lost Changes (Beth Gibbons)
09 Tom the Model (Beth Gibbons)
10 Beyond the Sun (Beth Gibbons)
11 Whispering Love (Beth Gibbons)
12 Glory Box (Beth Gibbons)
13 Reaching Out (Beth Gibbons)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TSZkmDr1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9Ni5cH5pxz6B6Zv/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.  

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Drivin' Down to Georgia - Non-Album Tracks (1993-1994)

Note that I'm experimenting with reviving the links for some Tom P. albums I'd had to hide due to concerns about copyright issues. For some reason, this one pops up as a new album, even though I made it years ago. But there are about ten others I revived today, all of the non-album tracks compilations. Do a search for "Heartbreakers" or use the side labels to find the other ones. If these manage to stay posted, I'll will revive the rest of his hidden albums soon.

Here's another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.) 

The first song here comes from "Finding Wildflowers." Tracks 2, 3, and 10 are unreleased, and come from a radio show of outtakes called "Behind the Glass." Tracks 4, 5, and 8 are from the "Playback" box set. Track 6 is from the "An American Treasure" box set. Track 7 is from "Live Anthology," and track 9 was released as a B-side.

A long-promised album consisting of outtakes from P.'s 1994 album "Wildflowers" was finally released in 2020, called "Wildflowers and All the Rest." In fact, so much material was released that there even was a "super deluxe" box set version. Note that NONE of the songs here come from "All the Rest." There were so many good previously unreleased songs on that that it makes for a nice single album all on its own. But P. was so prolific in the early 1990s that there's enough material for that, plus this, plus the another stray tracks album I've made,"Mary Jane's Last Dance."

This album is 39 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bb4UPyEt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hnRrbl3P4nW11JO/file

The cover photo was taken in Hollywood in 1993.

The Buggles - The Buggles Live (2004-2023) (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

When guest poster Mike Solof came to me recently with the idea of posting a live album by the Buggles, I have to admit I was pretty surprised. I only knew of the Buggles as a one-hit wonder, "Video Killed the Radio Star," from 1979. But Mike assured me that there's a lot more to this band than that, despite the fact that they only released two albums, one in 1980 and the other in 1981. So I said sure, let's do it, and here we are.

The three original members of the Buggles were only together for a short while because singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes were recruited to join the band Yes mere months after the first Buggles album came out. From there, both of them found even more success as producers, as well as being members of other bands. It turns out the original Buggles did no concerts at all, although they did lip-sync on TV a few times.

However, interest in the music of the Buggles remained strong, considering their short existence. In 2004, the three original members reunited briefly to play two songs at a high profile concert celebrating the career so far of Trevor Horn. Those two songs are here, but not in the album proper. Instead, Mike elected to have the videos of them included as bonus tracks.

Then, in 2010, the band got together again for a single concert. But there was no more activity until 2023, when the band finally went on tour for the first time. Most of this album (the first 13 tracks) are from a 2023 concert. The sound quality of those tracks is excellent. The remaining songs (tracks 14 through 18) are from the 2010 concert. The sound quality of those isn't as good. So only the songs not performed in the 2023 concert are included.

If you want to know more, please read Mike's PDF included in the zip download file. I think this album makes a strong case that the Buggles were much more than just a one-hit wonder. 

This album is 53 minutes long. Everything here is unreleased.

01 Two Tribes [Instrumental] (Buggles)
02 talk (Buggles)
03 Living in the Plastic Age (Buggles)
04 talk (Buggles)
05 Elstree (Buggles)
06 talk (Buggles)
07 I Am a Camera (Buggles)
08 talk (Buggles)
09 Close [To the Edit] (Buggles)
10 talk (Buggles)
11 Owner of a Lonely Heart (Buggles)
12 talk (Buggles)
13 Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
14 Kid Dynamo (Buggles)
15 I Love You Miss Robot (Buggles)
16 talk (Buggles)
17 Astroboy (Buggles)
18 Johnny on the Monorail [A Very Different Version] (Buggles)

Clean, Clean (Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club)
Living in the Plastic Age [2004 Version] (Buggles)
Video Killed the Radio Star [2004 Version] (Buggles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/v4BvriaB

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ZICz7OnKhnZCpz0/file 

The cover photo shows Trevor Horn in concert in 2004.

Covered: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Volume 2: 1968-2023

Here's the second and final album of the Covered series for the songwriting team of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham.

In the first volume, I noted that Penn and Oldham had a lot of success writing hit songs from about 1966 to 1968, while based in Memphis, Tennessee. The first song here is from 1968. But after that, there was a sharp drop with their musical successes. Penn later claimed that there was a lot of fruitful collaboration between white songwriters like Spooner and him and the black singers they were mainly writing for during that time period, but that changed as the years went on. He saw the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 as a key moment. After that, race became more of an issue, and the expectation grew that soul music songs sung by black singers would be written by black songwriters too.

Due to this changed environment, Penn and Oldham split up. Oldham moved to Los Angeles, where he found a lot of success playing keyboards as a session musician. That continued for decades, with him playing on albums by the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Aretha Franklin, Jackson Browne, the Everly Brothers, J.J. Cale, Linda Ronstadt, and many, many more. 

Meanwhile, Penn moved to Nashville, the home of country music, and tried to find success writing country songs. However, although his style had always been an interesting combination of soul and country music, he didn't do well writing just  for country singers. In 1973, he finally released his first solo album, "Nobody's Fool." While it was critically acclaimed, it sold very little. He did have some success as a songwriter and/or producer, but in a low-key way.

In 1994, Penn and Oldham reunited for Penn's second solo album, "Do Right Man." This mostly consisted of Penn's versions of his biggest hits from the 1960s. It was critically acclaimed. And while it also wasn't a big seller, it generated enough interest for Penn and Oldham to essentially start a new career as duo, going on tour to promote the occasional new album by Penn. Since then, Penn has released three more studio albums. The two of them have built up a following. As I write this in 2025, they are still going on tour, despite the fact that they're both in their early eighties.

Penn continues to write new songs, though it seems not often with Oldham anymore. He's had the occasional successful late career song. For instance, "Don't Give Up on Me" was the title track to Solomon Burke's acclaimed 2002 album by that same name. And "Memphis Women and Chicken" from Penn's 1994 album is usually performed in the concerts by Penn and Oldham.

Most of the songs here were written by Penn with others instead of Oldham. However, "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers" was written by Oldham without Penn. Unlike the hit-filled Volume 1, there really aren't any big hits here, though arguably some could be considered classics, and the songwriting is still at a consistently high level. Some of the songs were written much earlier than when the versions here were recorded. For instance, "Keep On Talking," recorded by Texas in 2023, was first released by someone else in 1965. In cases like that, these are the versions I like best.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 I Met Her in Church (Box Tops)
02 A Woman Left Lonely (Janis Joplin)
03 Rainbow Road (Percy Sledge)
04 Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (Bob Luman)
05 Zero Willpower (Irma Thomas)
06 Like a Road Leading Home (Jerry Garcia Band)
07 Where There's a Will [There's a Way] (Dan Penn)
08 Time I Took a Holiday (Nick Lowe)
09 Don't Give Up on Me (Solomon Burke)
10 Memphis Women and Chicken (Gary Nicholson)
11 I Hate You (Nicki Bluhm)
12 Keep On Talking (Texas)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9MFesvnn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ImNWdOz5yf5WAU7/file

I don't know what year the cover photo is from. But I did find this photo of the two of them together, probably in the 1990s. I used Photoshop to move them closer together.

Covered: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Volume 1: 1960-1968

If you don't know of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, you should. The allmusic.com website says, "Dan Penn is one of the major figures in soul music, composing many of the genre's standards," and he co-wrote most of those songs with Spooner Oldham. So this songwriting duo is the subject of the next albums in my "Covered" series highlighting great songwriters. I've found enough for two albums. Here's the first one.

Dan Penn has been the main figure in this duo, with Spooner Oldham playing a supportive role. Penn was born in 1941 in rural Alabama. He co-wrote his first hit in 1960, "Is a Blue Bird Blue" by Conway Twitty, while he was still in high school. However, after that, he struggled in the music business for a few years. Penn (who is still alive and performing as I write this in 2025) has an excellent, soulful voice. However, he wasn't able to find success as a performer.

But in the early 1960s, he began collaborating with Oldham, after the two of them were in an early band together. The earliest song here co-written by them is "Strangest Feeling," written in 1963. Oldham was also born in rural Alabama, two years after Penn. The two of them became very involved with writing, recording, and producing songs in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, especially at the FAME studio there. 

Things changed drastically for Penn and Oldham in 1966, when they co-wrote the song "I'm Your Puppet." The version by James and Bobby Purify was a big hit. When the royalty checks started coming in, Penn decided he could make a living just from songwriting. So he put his struggling career as a performer on the backburner. However, he usually made demos of the songs he wrote, and they often rivaled or even surpassed the hit versions. (A couple albums of these demos would be released decades later.)

Penn both wrote lyrics and music for his songs. However, aside from his first hit "Is a Blue Bird Blue," he almost never wrote a song by himself. He said he liked the instant feedback of songwriting collaboration. Most of his hits were co-written with Oldham (while Oldham only had one hit without him, "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers"). But he wrote with many others, and had some big hits with them. For instance, he only briefly wrote with Chips Moman in 1967, before they decided they clashed too much. But during that time, they co-wrote two of the greatest soul songs of all time, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "The Dark End of the Street."

1966 to 1968 was a particularly productive time for Penn and Oldham. If you look at the below song list, they wrote one classic song after another. 

I found an interview with singer-songwriter Elvis Costello in which he expressed his admiration for Penn and Oldham. I wrote down a bit of what he said: "They wrote this extraordinary group of songs, and they made no acknowledgement of all the road signs that people erect to try to separate music. You can't really tell where the country and the soul and the rock and roll and the gospel stops and begins."

Costello further praised Penn's singing ability. "Dan is one of the greatest singers American pop music has ever created. Dan Penn is Elvis Presley if he had better taste. Dan Penn is every bit as good a singer as Elvis Presley and some, 'cos he has humility and restraint." I've included one song sung by Penn here, "Strangest Feeling," and another one on Volume 2. Hopefully that can give you a sense of his singing talent.

All the songs here are the original hit versions, in rough chronological order. Only a couple weren't at least minor hits at the time, most especially "Strangest Feeling," which was one of those demos I mentioned above that weren't released until decades later. 

Here's the Wikipedia page for Dan Penn:

Dan Penn - Wikipedia 

And here's the one for Spooner Oldham:

Spooner Oldham - Wikipedia 

This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 Is a Blue Bird Blue (Conway Twitty)
02 Strangest Feeling (Dan Penn)
03 I'm Living Good (Ovations)
04 I'm Your Puppet (James & Bobby Purify)
05 It Tears Me Up (Percy Sledge)
06 You Left the Water Running (Otis Redding)
07 I Can't Stop [No, No, No] (Arthur Conley)
08 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Aretha Franklin)
09 Out of Left Field (Percy Sledge)
10 The Dark End of the Street (James Carr)
11 Happy Times (Box Tops)
12 Nine Pound Steel (Joe Simon)
13 Cry like a Baby (Box Tops)
14 Sweet Inspiration (Sweet Inspirations)
15 I Worship the Ground You Walk On (Etta James)
16 Everything I Am (Plastic Penny)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uRC6i55G

alternates:

https://bestfile.io/en/MT0xwo5fFZ371pP/file

The cover image is taken from a photo of a band called the Pallbearers, from around 1964. Both Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham were members. So, using Photoshop, I cut on their parts of the photo and rearranged them so their heads were close together. Also, it was black and white photo, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Oldham is on the left in the grey jacket. Penn is on the right with the black jacket. 

Father John Misty - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. It's a set by Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman).

As with most albums from this festival, I'm keeping my write-up short. I'll just say that Father John Misty is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. He hasn't had really big sales, but he did have a big hit in 2016 with the song "Real Love Baby." At the time of this concert, he was touring to support his 2024 album "Mahashmashana," and half of the songs performed here are from that album.

Here's his Wikipedia page, if you want to know more:

Father John Misty - Wikipedia 

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is one hour long. 

01 I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All (Father John Misty)
02 talk (Father John Misty)
03 Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose (Father John Misty)
04 Mr. Tillman (Father John Misty)
05 talk (Father John Misty)
06 Being You (Father John Misty)
07 Nancy from Now On (Father John Misty)
08 Chateau Lobby No. 4 [In C for Two Virgins] (Father John Misty)
09 Mental Health (Father John Misty)
10 She Cleans Up (Father John Misty)
11 Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings (Father John Misty)
12 Mahashmashana (Father John Misty)
13 Real Love Baby (Father John Misty) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/raFBo9PY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4rgvKr2uPY8gPPu/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Alanis Morissette - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-27-2025

Here is another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This one features a set by singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette.

As usual for this festival, I'm trying to keep my write-ups short so I can post more of these, faster. At the time of this concert, her big selling years are behind her. She sold tens of millions of albums in the 1990s, but her two most recent albums at the time of this concert did even go gold. However, she still put on a very entertaining concert, full of crowd-pleasing songs.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. The only problem was with the song "All I Really Want." It had a drop out, but I was able to patch it up. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Intro - Hand in My Pocket (Alanis Morissette)
02 Right through You (Alanis Morissette)
03 A Man - Hands Clean (Alanis Morissette)
04 Head Over Feet (Alanis Morissette)
05 Everything (Alanis Morissette)
06 You Learn [Edit] (Alanis Morissette)
07 Would Not Come (Alanis Morissette)
08 Smiling - I Remain (Alanis Morissette)
09 Ironic (Alanis Morissette)
10 Are You Still Mad (Alanis Morissette)
11 All I Really Want [Edit] (Alanis Morissette)
12 You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette)
13 Uninvited (Alanis Morissette)
14 talk (Alanis Morissette)
15 Thank U (Alanis Morissette) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JQ4B7EEa

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/lh2yKpHUBjiAXNL/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Garbage - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-23-2005

Here's another episode of the TV show "PBS Soundstage." This time, it features the band Garbage.

I'm happy to post this because I think Garbage are a good band. Their debut album "Garbage" in 1995 was a smash hit, selling four million copies in the U.S., and they've gone on to sell 14 million albums worldwide.

Here's a link if you want to know more about them:

Garbage (band) - Wikipedia

This concert took place when they were on tour to promote their 1995 album "Bleed like Me." It was a good time for an episode of this TV show, because that has been their last album that sold well. So all of their best known songs are performed here.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, with no editing problems. 

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 Queer (Garbage)
02 Bad Boyfriend (Garbage)
03 Boys Wanna Fight (Garbage)
04 Sex Is Not the Enemy (Garbage)
05 talk (Garbage)
06 I Think I'm Paranoid (Garbage)
07 Push It (Garbage)
08 Why Do You Love Me (Garbage)
09 talk (Garbage)
10 Vow (Garbage)
11 Stupid Girl (Garbage)
12 Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage)
13 talk (Garbage)
14 Right Between the Eyes (Garbage)
15 Happy Home (Garbage)
16 talk (Garbage)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3MTiy4VT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6pIYMc3YDra39bZ/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

John Fogerty - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Here's yet another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's American singer-songwriter John Fogerty.

As usual for this festival, I want to keep this short. But I will mention a couple of things. One, Fogerty was 80 years old at the time of this concert. But have no fear because he still was singing and playing like age had no effect on him. Another thing is that he won back the legal rights to all of his Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) songs in 2023. To celebrate that, he played almost entirely CCR songs, with the exception of his 1985 solo hit "The Old Man Down the Road."

Finally, I want to point out this is the second time he performed at the Glastonbury Festival. The first time was in 2007. I thought about posting that one at my blog as well. However, I've already posted another 2007 concert from him that is considerably longer, and I think is much better, so I decided against it. 

Oh yeah, I should also mention there was a drop-out in the song "Cotton Fields." I fixed it by patching in some music from elsewhere in the song. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

I found a high quality video file of this performance, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. So this is probably the first time it's available as an audio bootleg. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. Everything here is unreleased. 

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Up Around the Bend (John Fogerty)
02 talk (John Fogerty)
03 Green River (John Fogerty)
04 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty)
05 talk (John Fogerty)
06 Who'll Stop the Rain (John Fogerty)
07 talk (John Fogerty)
08 Lookin' Out My Back Door (John Fogerty)
09 talk (John Fogerty)
10 Fight Fire (John Fogerty)
11 Keep On Chooglin' (John Fogerty)
12 talk (John Fogerty)
13 Have You Ever Seen the Rain (John Fogerty)
14 Cotton Fields [Edit] (John Fogerty)
15 Down on the Corner (John Fogerty)
16 The Old Man Down the Road (John Fogerty)
17 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty)
18 talk (John Fogerty)
19 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
20 Proud Mary (John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LXaWGuk9

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Fl7IXr8OWXTDuKv/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Wet Leg - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-27-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. It's a set by British rock band Wet Leg.

I gave this a listen, and to be frank, I wasn't impressed. Lots of energy, but none of the songs stand out. But the band tied for third place in the Glastonbury poll I made, so here it is anyway.

As usual with this festival, I'm trying to keep my comments short. Here's the band's Wikipedia entry if you want to know more: 

Wet Leg - Wikipedia 

I found a high quality video file of this performance, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. So this is probably the first time it's available as an audio bootleg. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. Everything here is unreleased. 

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 Catch These Fists (Wet Leg)
02 Wet Dream (Wet Leg)
03 Supermarket (Wet Leg)
04 Oh No (Wet Leg)
05 talk (Wet Leg)
06 Liquidize (Wet Leg)
07 Davina McCall (Wet Leg)
08 Ur Mum (Wet Leg)
09 Too Late Now (Wet Leg)
10 Jennifer's Body (Wet Leg)
11 Being in Love (Wet Leg)
12 Mangetout (Wet Leg)
13 Pillow Talk (Wet Leg)
14 talk (Wet Leg)
15 Angelica (Wet Leg)
16 Chaise Lounge (Wet Leg)
17 CPR (Wet Leg)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QUbXgnNE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/847ud0KdMPLLmFz/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Pulp - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's the British band Pulp.

Once again, I'm posting this because of the poll I made about this festival. But in this case I'm happy to do it because I already like Pulp.

There's a lot I could say, but I want to keep this short so I can quickly post more from this festival. If you want to know more about the band, here's their Wikipedia page: 

Pulp (band) - Wikipedia 

I found a high quality video file of this performance, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. So this is probably the first time it's available as an audio bootleg. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. Everything here is unreleased. 

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 Sorted for E's and Wizz (Pulp)
02 Disco 2000 (Pulp)
03 talk (Pulp)
04 Spike Island (Pulp)
05 talk (Pulp)
06 O.U. [Gone, Gone] (Pulp)
07 talk (Pulp)
08 Acrylic Afternoons (Pulp)
09 talk (Pulp)
10 Something Changed (Pulp)
11 talk (Pulp)
12 Do You Remember the First Time (Pulp)
13 talk (Pulp)
14 Mis-Shapes (Pulp)
15 talk (Pulp)
16 Got to Have Love (Pulp)
17 talk (Pulp)
18 Babies (Pulp)
19 talk (Pulp)
20 Common People (Pulp)
21 talk (Pulp) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ynNK3nRC

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1LVUQmuaxFHudog/file

The cover of the band's lead singer Jarvis Cocker is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - A Country Music Celebration, Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, TN, 1-13-1993

There are so many interesting tribute concerts that have taken place over the years but then were largely forgotten because they didn't get an official release. Here's another one I happened to find recently. 

There have been many country music themed TV specials over the years. I'm not familiar with most of them. But in terms of sheer star power, I couldn't overlook this one. The vast majority of the biggest names in country music at the time performed, back before country music went downhill with "bro country," rap, Autotune, and so forth. I don't know how often the Country Music Association has put on shows like this. I did find their 25th anniversary concert on YouTube, but it's less than an hour long and not as impressive a line-up.

This concert crammed in a surprising number of songs in the amount of time it had. That's because it often only allowed for truncated versions of songs, meaning two minutes or less. In the worst case, Glen Campbell's version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was under a minute long. But the plus side is the show kept moving, so if there's a song you don't like, it wasn't long until the next one started.

I pretty much kept the show intact, until near the end. Very late in the show, around track 45, there was an extended tribute to Dolly Parton. I cut the vast majority of it out, because it was a video presentation, with short snippets of the recorded versions of her most famous songs. I cut all that because it was meant to be seen more than heard, with no live musical performances in it. However, immediately following that was a speech by Parton, and I kept all that.

The sound quality is excellent, even though this all remains unreleased. The only problem I had was with the last song, "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton (with Kenny Rogers assisting). Clearly, the time allotted for the TV show came to an end, because the song was cut short, at only about a minute long, and then faded out. But at least it seems the performers knew the version was going to be a short one, because they only sang the chorus over and over. However, even that short version was marred by an announcer speaking over part of it to hype up the next shows coming up on that TV channel. I managed to cut that out by largely repeating one of the choruses. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

Oh, by the way, this website has a couple dozen nice photos from the event:

Nashville Then: A Country Music Celebration to honor CMA in 1993 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 This Nightlife (Clint Black with Ricky Skaggs, Glen Campbell & Mark O'Connor)
03 talk (Clint Black)
04 Road Scholar (Lee Roy Parnell & Delbert McClinton)
05 talk (Clint Black)
06 Here I Am (Lyle Lovett)
07 talk (Clint Black)
08 Heartland (Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson)
09 One More Last Chance (Vince Gill)
10 talk (Vince Gill & Travis Tritt)
11 What Would Elvis Do (Pam Tillis)
12 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (Rodney Crowell)
13 T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Travis Tritt)
14 Devil in Disguise (Trisha Yearwood)
15 That's All Right, Mama (Vince Gill)
16 talk (Reba McEntire)
17 A Little Bit of Love (Wynonna Judd)
18 talk (Reba McEntire)
19 Goodbye Again (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
20 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
21 Take It Back (Reba McEntire)
22 talk (Randy Owen)
23 Old Time Rock and Roll (Little Texas)
24 talk (Randy Owen)
25 It's a Heartache (Lorrie Morgan)
26 talk (Randy Owen)
27 Hard Working Man (Brooks & Dunn)
28 Drive South (Suzy Bogguss)
29 I'm in a Hurry (Alabama)
30 talk (Vince Gill)
31 The Heart Won't Lie (Reba McEntire & Vince Gill)
32 The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore (Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart)
33 Love Certified (Ronnie Milsap & Patti LaBelle)
34 Silver Bells [Instrumental] (Charlie Daniels, Mark O'Connor & Sam Bush)
35 talk (Charlie Daniels & Emmylou Harris)
36 Too Far Gone (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
37 Two More Bottles of Wine (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
38 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Glen Campbell)
39 talk (Glen Campbell)
40 The Ride (John Anderson)
41 Talking to Hank (Mark Chesnutt & Joe Diffie)
42 talk (Glen Campbell)
43 Midnight in Montgomery (Alan Jackson)
44 You Decorated My Life (Kenny Rogers)
45 talk (Kenny Rogers)
46 talk (Dolly Parton)
47 Full Circle (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Glen Campbell)
48 talk (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
49 I Will Always Love You [Edit] (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eosyj9Qd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2l2znKTYkfdFKDm/file 

The cover photo is from the finale of this exact concert. From left to right: Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson.

Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Le Zenith, Paris, France, 9-10-1985

Sometimes, there are musical acts I really love but I just don't have anything I consider worthy of posting from them. That's been the case for Kid Creole and the Coconuts. I think they're great, and very underrated. And now, I've finally found something worthy to post from them. This is a full concert from 1985, which was when they were in their prime.

Normally, I'm not that into dance music just as something to listen to, because it's designed for dancing. But Kid Creole and the Coconuts did something unusual, creating dance music for thinking people, with interesting lyrics and musical creativity while still making you want to get up and shake your ass. In a better world, they would have been massive.

Their failure to become as popular as they should have been must have been due to a lack of promotion or bad luck or some other factors not related to the music, because they were very popular for a little while. In 1982, their third album "Tropical Gangsters" reached Number Three in Britain, going Platinum there. It put three songs in the Top Ten there. And while that was one of their better albums, all of their early albums were about equally as good. If you look at the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com, for instance, their first five albums (from 1980 to 1985) got roughly similar scores. So why did just that one do well, and only in Britain? In the U.S., they never got close to having a Top Forty single or album, despite appearances on Saturday Night Live, the Johnny Carson Show, and other appearances in movies and TV. 

If you haven't heard of them before, I strongly suggest you give this a listen. It's ideal music for partying and dancing, and yet the lyrics are often surprisingly deep and about unusual topics. If anyone knows of other musical acts that managed that combination successfully, I'd love to hear about them.

Anyway, this is an officially released album called "Live in Paris." But I'm posting it here for two reasons. For one, it seems to be very obscure. For instance, it's not mentioned in the band's Wikipedia page, or at their rateyourmusic.com page. That makes me wonder if it might be some kind of grey market release. The second is that I noticed the lead vocals were low in the mix, so I used the UVR5 program to fix that. So this now sounds noticeably better than the soundboard source. 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long. 

01 Don't Take My Coconuts (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
02 My Male Curiosity (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
03 Table Manners (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
04 Mr. Softie (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
05 Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
06 I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
07 No Fish Today (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
08 Dear Addy (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
09 Stool Pigeon (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
10 Say Hey (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
11 Laughing with Our Backs Against the Wall (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
12 Mona (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
13 The Lifeboat Party (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
14 Endicott (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
15 Indiscreet (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
16 Caroline Was a Dropout (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7Pd7MJyP

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/h0mfuLHfuy7xLsY/file

The cover photo shows the band's lead singer August Darnell in concert in Oostende, Belgium, on July 21, 1985.

Olivia Newton-John - Olivia in Concert, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, 10-13-1982

Over the past week or two, I've posted all the Olivia Newton-John albums I have worthy posting. This if the fifth album I'm posting from her, and the last. (Unless I find things I'd previously missed, of course.) In my opinion, this is the ideal live album of her in her musical prime. So if you had to get just one of the five albums from her I've posted, I'd suggest this one.

Newton-John became a superstar in 1978, thanks to her lead role in the movie "Grease." But in 1981 she took her superstardom to an even higher level, mostly thanks to the title song of her 1981 album, "Physical." That song spent 10 weeks at Number One in the U.S., tying the record for the longest, and was the best-selling song of the 1980s. 

However, it turned out that her early 1980s peak didn't last that long. She had a few more big hits through 1983 (like "Make a Move on Me," "Heart Attack," and "Twist of Fate"), but only minor hits after that. I suspect some of that commercial decline was that she essentially stopped touring for many years. She did a big tour in 1982 to promote the "Physical" album. But after that, she didn't tour again until 1998! (She started a tour in 1992, but quickly canceled it after she was diagnosed with cancer, and had to seek treatment.) She has put out four live albums, but all of them date from after her resumption of touring in 1998, long after her commercial peak. 

She did document her 1982, but only on video format. This concert was released as the video "Olivia in Concert." I simply took that video and converted it to audio, then chopped it into mp3s. I also cut out a video presentation of the highlights of her career at the start of the video, since one has to see that to appreciate it. The sound quality is excellent, with no problems. 

In this concert, Newton-John played just about all her biggest hits, from the early 1970s until "Heart Attack," which had been released earlier in 1982. So this also doubles as an effective "best of" collection.  

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long. 

01 Deeper than the Night (Olivia Newton-John)
02 talk (Olivia Newton-John)
03 Let Me Be There (Olivia Newton-John)
04 Please Mr. Please (Olivia Newton-John)
05 If You Love Me [Let Me Know] (Olivia Newton-John)
06 talk (Olivia Newton-John)
07 Jolene (Olivia Newton-John)
08 Sam (Olivia Newton-John)
09 Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John)
10 Magic (Olivia Newton-John)
11 Suddenly (Olivia Newton-John)
12 A Little More Love (Olivia Newton-John)
13 Silvery Rain (Olivia Newton-John)
14 Falling (Olivia Newton-John)
15 Heart Attack (Olivia Newton-John)
16 Make a Move on Me (Olivia Newton-John)
17 talk (Olivia Newton-John)
18 Hopelessly Devoted to You (Olivia Newton-John)
19 You're the One that I Want (Olivia Newton-John)
20 Physical (Olivia Newton-John)
21 I Honestly Love You (Olivia Newton-John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/STrbk7mg

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/gkavzBxQvQk6spu/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert, I think. It's from promotional material for the DVD of it, at least.

Franz Ferdinand - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-27-2025

Here's another album I'm posting due to my 2025 Glastonbury Festival poll. Franz Ferdinand tied for the third most votes, so here's their set.

Prior to listening to this, I wasn't really familiar with the band's music, other than their biggest hit, "Take Me Out." I ended up liking them more than most of the musical acts from this festival that I didn't know well already.

If you want to know more, here's their Wikipedia entry: 

Franz Ferdinand (band) - Wikipedia

All the music here is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. Like most of the sets from this festival, I found a high-quality video file of the set, converted it to audio format, and broke it into mp3s.

This album is an hour long. 

01 The Dark of the Matinee (Franz Ferdinand)
02 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
03 Night or Day (Franz Ferdinand)
04 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
05 Do You Want To (Franz Ferdinand)
06 Walk Away (Franz Ferdinand)
07 Build It Up (Franz Ferdinand)
08 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
09 No You Girls (Franz Ferdinand)
10 Audacious (Franz Ferdinand)
11 Michael (Franz Ferdinand)
12 Black Eyelashes (Franz Ferdinand)
13 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
14 Jaqueline (Franz Ferdinand)
15 Love Illumination (Franz Ferdinand)
16 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
17 Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand with Peter Capaldi)
18 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
19 Hooked (Franz Ferdinand with Master Peace)
20 talk (Franz Ferdinand)
21 This Fire (Franz Ferdinand)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uXJKbiN1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3WiqxUystgQIo70/file

The cover photo of the band's lead singer Alex Kapranos is from this exact concert.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 21: Quay Sessions, Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline, Britain, 4-15-2024

A-ha! The last Paul Weller BBC concert I had posted dates to 2021. I figured it was just a matter of time until he did another one. This one took place over a year ago (as I write this in August 2025), but while I knew about it, I couldn't find a recording of it. Happily, a few days ago, an anonymous musical friend sent me the recording which he taped off the radio. 

This concert took place a month prior to the release of his studio album "66." He played three songs from it. Also, he played four songs from his previous album, 2021's "Fat Pop." Other than that, it's the expected mix of songs from his time in the Jam, the Style Council, and his solo career, performed with a full band.

The sound quality is excellent, even though this remains unreleased. Two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That's because during the applause at the end of the songs, a BBC DJ gave a station ID mention. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to wipe out that DJ talk.

Paul Weller keeps going strong, seemingly unaffected by age. The only disappointment with this concert is that even though it has the length of a full concert, an additional seven songs were edited out of it. In case you're curious, here are the missing songs:

Nova
All the Pictures on the Wall
Glad Times
More
Headstart for Happiness
Broken Stones
My Ever Changing Moods 

If anyone has them, please let me know so I can add them in.  

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Rip the Pages Up (Paul Weller)
02 Cosmic Fringes (Paul Weller)
03 talk (Paul Weller)
04 Soul Wandering (Paul Weller)
05 talk (Paul Weller)
06 A Man of Great Promise (Paul Weller)
07 That Pleasure (Paul Weller)
08 talk (Paul Weller)
09 Stanley Road [Edit] (Paul Weller)
10 talk (Paul Weller)
11 Above the Clouds (Paul Weller)
12 Village (Paul Weller)
13 talk (Paul Weller)
14 Fat Pop (Paul Weller)
15 talk (Paul Weller)
16 Hung Up (Paul Weller)
17 Shout to the Top (Paul Weller)
18 talk (Paul Weller)
19 Jumble Queen [Edit] (Paul Weller)
20 Nothing (Paul Weller)
21 talk (Paul Weller)
22 You Do Something to Me (Paul Weller)
23 talk (Paul Weller)
24 That's Entertainment (Paul Weller)
25 Start (Paul Weller)
26 Peacock Suit (Paul Weller)
27 talk (Paul Weller)
28 Wild Wood (Paul Weller)
29 Rockets (Paul Weller)
30 talk (Paul Weller)
31 Town Called Malice (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/F3rSkkm9

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/narmguNR7lh45rO/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Some Updates

Here's just a notice about a few updates I did in recent days, so you won't miss them.

The main one I want to mention is the album "BBC Sessions, Volume 5," by Richard Thompson. I posted this one only a few days ago. But after I posted that, I had a musical friend contact me, and told me they had better versions of the songs from one of the radio sessions that made up that album, as well as some other relevant stuff. So I ended up removing a few songs, adding a few others, and upgrading a few more. In the end, the cover and title changed slightly, because it's now dealing with the years 1988 to 1991, instead of going to 1992. The 1992 songs will be on the next volume in the series.

Here's the updated link: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/08/richard-thompson-bbc-sessions-volume-5.html

Also, while I was on vacation, a commenter noted that I'd missed three songs on one of my Joan Osborne non-album tracks collections. Thanks for the tip. I've added them in. Here's the update: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/03/joan-osborne-real-love-various-songs.html

I ran across three Carole King demos I'd previously missed. I put one on this album:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/08/carole-king-it-might-as-well-rain-until.html 

And two more on this one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/carole-king-so-goes-love-more-legendary.html

I found two more songs for Paul Weller's "BBC Sessions, Volume 18." Here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/04/paul-weller-bbc-sessions-volume-18-2018.html

Finally, I found two songs that belong on this Bobbie Gentry album. It helps fill out that album, since it had been rather short.

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/04/bobbie-gentry-thunder-in-afternoon.html

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 6: 2024-2025

I first discovered the mash-ups created by Bill McClintock on YouTube in 2023. I posted four albums of his creations that year. Then, in 2024, he made enough new ones for me to post a fifth album. Here it is a year later in 2025, and I've found enough songs for a sixth volume.

I'm going to repeat what I posted in my write-up for "Volume 5," because this is more of the exact same thing:

If you heard and liked any of the earlier volumes, you should definitely like this. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there are a lot of people who have made mash-ups, combining the recordings of two songs to hopefully create something new and interesting. But in my opinion, McClintock is the master of this technique, and his soaring YouTube views are evidence of that.

I've mentioned in the past that McClintock has pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music, "soul metal," by combining soul songs with heavy metal songs. The resulting mash-ups are fascinating. In my opinion, many of them could be big hits in some bizarro alternate universe. I'm not even much of a heavy metal fan, but I don't think you have to be to enjoy these.

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There's only a couple of things I want to add to that. One is that it's very hard to give adequate song titles and artist names for each track, and it's getting harder all the time. That's because, generally speaking, he mashes two songs together. But more and more, he's drawing on other songs as well as adding them into his edits. So often these credits are oversimplifications. Check out his YouTube and look at each song for more detailed and accurate information. In some cases, he's really gone wild, using many source songs. The last track is an example of that, drawing from 12 songs! 

The other thing I want to mention is that at the same time I'm posting this, I'm reposting the five earlier volumes. The music is the same for those, but I upgraded the cover art. Thanks to improving AI technology, I was able to improve the clarity and detail. I also changed the main color of the first two volumes, to better create a rainbow effect if you look at all the covers together.

If McClintock keeps posting new material at the same rate of the past couple of years, I hope to have a Volume 7 to post some time in 2026.    

This album is an hour and eight minutes long. 

01 Somebody's Snowblind [Somebody's Watching Me vs. Snowblind] (Rockwell vs. Black Sabbath)
02 Let the Bodies Get Off [Get Off vs. Bodies] (Foxy vs. Drowning Pool)
03 Fire in the Abyss [Fire vs. Seasons in the Abyss] (Jimi Hendrix vs. Slayer)
04 You Make Me Feel like Stayin' a Rocket Queen [Rocket Queen vs. Stayin' Alive vs. You Make Me Feel like Dancing] (Guns N' Roses vs. Bee Gees vs. Leo Sayer)
05 Best Unsainted Day of My Life [Best Day of My Life vs. Unsainted] (American Authors vs. Slipknot)
06 Sleigh Bitch [Sleigh Ride vs. Crazy Bitch] (Carpenters vs. Buckcherry)
07 Sabbath Toxic Sabbath [Toxic vs. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath] (Britney Spears vs. Black Sabbath)
08 Whip My Lonely, Dark Heart [Owner of a Lonely Heart vs. Let It Whip] (Yes vs. Dazz Band)
09 Motor City Woman [I'll Be Around vs. Jet City Woman] (Spinners vs. Queensryche)
10 Come as the Cat [Year of the Cat vs. Come as You Are] (Al Stewart vs. Nirvana)
11 Twist of Freak [Le Freak vs. Twist of Cain] (Chic vs. Danzig)
12 Hit the Bottoms, Jack [Bottoms Up vs. Hit the Road, Jack] (Van Halen vs. Ray Charles)
13 Hotter than a Highway to Hell with the Devil [To Hell With the Devil vs. Highway to Hell] (Stryper vs. AC-DC)
14 I'll Be a Disciple for You [I'll Be There for You vs. Disciple] (Rembrandts vs. Slayer)
15 Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie [Killing in the Name vs. Terrible Lie] (Rage Against the Machine vs. Nine Inch Nails vs. Various Artists) 

pixeldrain.com/u/UnHfYRqZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ereZQHYCbJBtZhw/file 

The cover is basically the exact same as the previous ones in this series, with only a bit of the text and the background color changing. That's a photo of McClintock in the center.