Austin City Limits Festival

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B000A3DG08
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,117 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Debaser -- Pixies

2. Hands Down -- Dashboard Confessional

3. Darts of Pleasure -- Franz Ferdinand

4. Be Be Your Love -- Rachael Yamagata

5. Crazy Dream -- Los Lonely Boys

6. Walk in Jerusalem -- Blind Boys of Alabama

7. It's the Nighttime -- Josh Rouse

8. Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl -- Broken Social Scene

9. Streets Are Callin' -- Neville Brothers

10. Your Lies -- Shelby Lynne

11. Day John Henry Died -- Drive By Truckers

12. Wheels -- Cake

13. Way That He Sings -- My Morning Jacket

14. Alone Again Or -- Calexico

15. Brown Eyed Blues -- Ben Harper

16. First Tube -- Trey Anastasio

Editorial Reviews

Austin City Limits has, for more than 30 years, honored both artists and music fans, creating an intimate connection between the two. Aiming beyond style boundaries, trends, or geography, ACL promises an authentic music experience while delivering the highest standard of discovery and production. This musical mission has expanded and bloomed at the ACL Music Festival in a convergence of performance, culture, people, and the beloved green expanse of Zilker Park in Austin, Texas.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Makes you want to go!, April 17, 2006

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Warren Kelly (Southern Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Austin City Limits Festival (Audio CD)

Austin City Limits. For over 30 years, ACL has transcended style, age, and anything else that divides musicians (and their fans) to bring some of the best music around. I tend to be a bit musically schizophrenic, so I love the diversity that ACL brings. I looked forward to the CD, figuring I would be able to enjoy some old favorites and find some new 'must haves.' I wasn't disappointed.

The CD opens up with "Debaser" by the Pixies. I've never been much of a Pixies fan for whatever reason, but this was a pretty good selection (though I'm not sure I'd have started the CD off with it). Dashboard Confessional and Franz Ferdinand were both excellent. And the Blind Boys of Alabama doing "Walk In Jerusalem" (one of my alltime favorite spirituals) made the album for me.

A few bands I hadn't heard before were Los Lonely Boys, Calexico, and Drive-by Truckers. These bands reminded me why I love compilation CDs so much - you always find something new to listen to.

Every CD has its weak points, though, and this CD had a few. I wasn't impressed with Broken Social Scene - I found the vocals to be a little weak, but I chalk that up to my own musical taste. I'm also not a big Shelby Lynne fan. But the weak parts of the CD are more than made up for by the new discoveries I made.

They say that diversity is the spice of life. If that's the case, the Austin City Limits festival is a spicy dish indeed. And I like spicy.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much heat in Austin..., September 16, 2005

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Thomas D. Ryan "American Hit Network" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Austin City Limits Festival (Audio CD)

I'm glad that I can get to hear this music from the comfort of my air-conditioned living room, because I don't think I'd be as pleased as most attendees seem to be here, considering the size of the crowd and the high temperatures. Despite conditions that would send me reeling in search of the nearest air-conditioned tavern, the oversized crowd is apparently enjoying themselves, which makes sense as you listen to (or watch) these excerpts.
Diversity is the key here, with acts from virtually every corner of contemporary music contributing a song. Perhaps the best thing about this release is its diversity, because it allows the viewer to familiarize themselves with acts that otherwise might have been overlooked. Fans of the Pixies get a chance to hear My Morning Jacket (and vice-versa), while fans of Sheryl Crow get a gander at The Soundtrack of Our Lives (both on the DVD only).
The DVD is the better deal here, since it contains two disks, and contains eight performances not included on the CD release. Oddly, some of the best performances are edited from the CD, particularly the stellar performance of Soundtrack of Our Lives (perhaps the best of all included here) and Howie Day's odd `solo' performance with multiple tape-looped versions of himself as accompaniment.
Consistency is in short supply, though, and both the disk and the CD drag at times. Broken Social Scene's "Anthem for a 17 year-old Girl" is about as tedious as the title suggests. Los Lonely Boys make an attempt to channel the spirit of Stevie Ray Vaughan on a track called "Crazy Dream", but they end up falling far short of their mark. Better is the Old 97's, who get by just fine by sounding exactly like their smart-ass selves on "The New Kid", and Roseanne Cash, whose understated presence lends some grace to the disk with "Seven Year Ache." Unfortunately, though, 100-degree temperatures can suck the energy out of a person, and the languid, mid-tempo pace of many performances included here seems to reflect the heat in ways that might not translate, especially in the comfort of my regulated, 68-degree environment. All in all, the Austin City Limits Music Festival is impressive for attracting a wide variety of musicians, but its occasional lack of energy and continuity render it ultimately less than satisfying. B Tom Ryan

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some of the best names in the indie scene are here, November 14, 2005

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Austin City Limits Festival (Audio CD)

This compilation live album captures snippets of the performance of some of today's best independent artists around. Opening with a comeback performance by Pixies, the album dashes by great deliveries from the likes of Josh Rouse, Montreal-based Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket and Ben Harper to name a few. Granted that the full price is a bit too much, you can always get one of the used copies offered here for less.

Overall, an excellent selection of music. My only issue with it (and most of these live compilations) is that they can only capture a tiny piece of the real thing, which is why I give it four stars.