(pre-FM FLAC)
Robert Palmer
Town and Country Club, London 23rd May 1991
From *superior* *BBC* CD
BBC transcription CD > EAC > FLAC > you
NB this gig circulates as 30th May 1991 too - date was ascertained by careful checking of the Setlists website. This BBC version was shared by me before, the only changes since my earlier share of the BBC version is the date correction and minor changes to the text file/ description, none to the music.
As per the description - this differs from other shares as it's sourced from BBC pre FM and not the Westwood One version, which had more treble and overdubbed crowd noise.
01 Richard Skinner dj intro
02 Some Like It Hot
03 Happiness
04 Every Kinda People
05 I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
06 Change His Ways
07 Pride
08 Johnny and Mary
09 Early in the Morning
10 Light Years
11 You are in my System
12 Looking For Clues
13 Your Mother Should Have Told You
14 Simply Irresistible
15 Mercy Mercy Me-I Want You
16 Addicted to Love
This gig has circulated a lot from bootleg CDs and in a pre-FM version, so why is this superior?
Well, the bootleg version is from a tape recording of the FM broadcast - sometimes fine things, but the wear and tear is clear on that version. The similarly widely circulated version from the Westwood One (pre)FM broadcast FM LP has very irksome, loud, shrill shrieking crowds overdubbed over the ends and starts of each song, and excessive treble.
So here is the BBC version - from an early BBC transcription CD no less (there weren't many of those printed out at that time to my knowledge) - and it sounds wonderful, as it should. The bass is slightly sludgy as it was on early CD's but this is made up for a lot by the lack of heavy compression that got inflicted on the majority of CD's from the late 1990's onwards.
Highlights on this recording are Happiness, Change His Ways, and Pride, played and sung with a real joie de vivre. Very nice version of Johnny and Mary too.
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