After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom June 28, 1998 [Gold CD, Import, Live]

Soul Asylum | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 14, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Gold CD, Import, Live
• Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
• ASIN: B001F57BX8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #581,881 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. School's Out

2. Misery

3. Black Gold

4. See You Later

5. Without a Trace

6. Losin' It

7. Somebody to Shove

8. Just Like Anyone

9. The Tracks of My Tears

10. Runaway Train

11. We 3

12. I Know

13. Sexual Healing

14. The Game

15. I Can See Clearly Now

16. Black Star

17. To Sir With Love

18. Rhinestone Cowboy

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For those late to the Soul Asylum party, which began in 1981 on cozy Minneapolis stages as Loud Fast Rules, the "Best-Live-Band-in-the-Country" badge pinned on them by countless longtime fans from David Letterman to George Wendt may seem like an exaggerated yarn. After the Flood finds the foursome at the pinnacle of their runaway-train popularity, a potent, airtight foursome living up to its reputation on a Saturday night at an airplane hangar in North Dakota, circa 1997, playing for high schoolers in a northern town ravaged by floods that summer. The applause meter on "hits" like "Black Gold," "Misery" and "Runaway Train" proves that most of the audience hopped aboard during 1993’s Gravedancer’s Union. And while the band fails (purposely neglects?) to sample from its essential punk rock back pages--Made to Be Broken or While You Were Out--it manages to revive those legendary stage chops on a half-dozen covers, including a metalish jaunt through Alice Cooper's "School’s Out," a straight shot of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now," a flannel-soul edition of Marvin Gaye’s "Sexual Healing" and LuLu’s "To Sir With Love," on which chameleon vocalist Dave Pirner wails with grace. -- Scott Holter

Customer Reviews

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I was there..., January 27, 2005

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Casey D. Hillebrand "A Happy Customer" (Good Ole' ND) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom June 28, 1997 (Audio CD)

Wow, I can't believe this got released! I was at the hanger for the Prom that night... the only High School dance I ever attended. I can tell you first hand that the atmosphere in the town at the time was pretty depressing. Most everyone I knew had lost pretty much everything they owned; houses, vehicles and almost everything else was fair game for the raging Red River that spring.

Our graduating High School class had spent the weeks leading up to the eventual evacuation sandbagging the dikes around the river, trying (in vain it turned out) to keep the flooding river out of our homes and lives.

Many families didn't realize the severity of the situation until the National Guardsmen came to our doors and told us to "pack for about 3 days, you need to be gone in 2 hours". That 3 days turned into upwards of 2 months for many of us. Friends were seperated with no way to get back in touch with one another and not knowing who was going to make it back for graduation... or even if we were going to have one.

When they announced that we would be still having a graduation and would even still hold the Prom, we were ecstatic. It was a much needed break from all the rebuilding that was going on. Even more exciting; somehow, someway, someone had managed to get Soul Asylum to agree to play our Prom!

When Soul Asylum took the stage, the energy in the hanger was palpable... you could almost taste excitement in the air. They didn't just *play* for us though, they got up there and poured their hearts into making the best of a bad situation for us and for that, I will be forever grateful. It was a stellar show and made for some pretty interesting stories when we started returning tuxedo's with tore-off sleeves and jackets that got ripped while crowd surfing.

Thanks again gentleman for giving yourselves to a town that needed a little pick me up, it was a much needed boost and it's not something that we'll soon forget!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Live CD - Great Cover Choices, February 25, 2005

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R. Curtis (Lake In The Hills, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom June 28, 1997 (Audio CD)

This band is a phenomenal live band and this CD features them playing a great set list at the peak of their popularity. While their most memorable hits are here, what really makes this set list great is the cover tunes that they chose to play. The extraordinary Alice Cooper rock anthem 'School's Out' kicks the CD off. 'I Can See Clearly Now' is very appropriate given that they were playing a post flood prom. 'To Sir With Love' is awesome. 'I Know' is really fun to listen to. Even 'Rhinestone Cowboy' is given the royal rock treatment and becomes a sing along favorite. I gotta believe that this track was added for the cheesiness factor, but it's done very well.

The only negative to this CD is that Dave Pirner's voice sounds off at times during Misery. But I didn't mind that so much because it only adds to the credibility of this being a true live CD and not an over produced piece trying to pass for a live CD.

I've seen Soul Asylum live multiple times. They are an incredible live band. It's great to be able to be able to bring that energy home or in the car via this CD. I'm impatiently awaiting their next studio album. (Soul Asylum, if you are reading this, I'd love to hear you guys cover Shawn Cassidy's `That's Rock & Roll' for the cheesiness factor. I think you could make it rock) This is an excellent buy. Do yourselves a favor and buy this CD.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Asylum Best Live Band......Ever, January 15, 2005

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OJ Salamone (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom June 28, 1997 (Audio CD)

Soul Asylum is the best live band I have ever seen......and this album captures them at their best. Listening to it, you can just picture Dave Pirner jumping and dancing around the stage giving every song his complete, undivided attention. Soul Asylum deserves to be one of of the most popular bands of all time, this album shows us why. Buy it, now! All the hits are here, Shove, Train, Black Gold......and some great covers that you haven't heard and can't believe Soul Asylum is covering. I am very proud to have this album in my large collection. Thank you, Soul Asylum.