Beautiful live from the Crampi. (though—I shouldn’t even say it—it can't fully capture the live impact of such a band and the performances of the good Lux, so blessed are those who saw them). The only flaw is that it's just a mini-live; it doesn’t last long and thank goodness in the subsequent reissues they graciously added two very welcome extra songs (three, actually, but the last one is the classic bonus track thrown in randomly, not even live and two years after this live, "Surfin' Dead," which serves as the soundtrack to the amusing b-movie "The Return of the Living Dead"). A nice touch is that the live set consists of unreleased tracks (and/or new covers) and, although it’s live, it can be considered a new album (new in nineteen eighty-three, of course) in every sense. Another must-have album, Lux and Ivy in top form.
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