Like Flies on Sherbert/Live in London [Import]

Alex Chilton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Castle
• ASIN: B000071WFS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,310 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Boogie Shoes

2. My Rival

3. Hey! Little Child

4. Hook or Crook

5. I've Had It

6. Rock Hard

7. Girl After Girl

8. Waltz Across Texas

9. Alligator Man

10. Like Flies on Sherbert

11. No More the Moon Shines on Lorena

12. Bangkok [Live]

13. Tramp [Live]

14. In the Street [Live]

15. Hey! Little Child [Live]

16. Nightime [Live]

17. Rock Hard [Live]

18. Alligator Man [Live]

19. The Letter [Live]

20. The Train Kept A Rollin' [Live]

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An underrated classic, November 11, 2004

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J. D. Webb - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Flies on Sherbert/Live in London (Audio CD)

People who revere Big Star like to dump all over this album, but to me "Like Flies on Sherbert" is an immediately likeable rock and roll classic. "Boogie Shoes", the opening track just grabs you with Chilton's cool delivery of a missed vocal cue, followed by fat rock and roll guitars and a bright-sounding piano. The rest of the LP is mostly great, with some exceptions: "I've Had It" sounds like of a bunch of extremely drunk people trying to jam to an early 80's Stones song, and "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" tries to get by on pointing out that country music is hokey (well, duh), and would be much better handled by someone understated, like, say, Beck. "Girl after Girl," on the other hand, sounds like an insincere tribute to Fabian or Elvis, but Chilton's vocal is so well-executed it doesn't matter if he's being deliberately schlocky or not. Everything else is just as uneven, but overall it's refreshingly unpredictable rock. The squeaky-clean production works surprising well with the generally loose and sometimes sloppy playing of the musicians.
"Live in London" rocks even more, but alas the audio is a just-average club recording, so the real meat of these songs doesn't quite come through. "Bangkok" opens the set with a garage-punk thrash, followed by a cool, lock-downed beat of Otis and Carla's r+b hit "Tramp". Chilton charms throughout, but things sound a little too muddy to ever make you forget you're listening to a club recording. If you're an Alex Chilton fan, though, you'll probably end up listening to it as often as I do, which is often.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prime Chilton..., September 26, 2008

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Daniel Medrano (Anaheim, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Flies on Sherbert/Live in London [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

This record is a stone cold classic in my opinion. Yeah, it's messy, sloppy, drunk and all over the place but that's what makes it different and cool. If you dig the Stones at their most intoxicated or Tav Falco you will enjoy this record.