Live at the BBC 1 [Import]

Lloyd Cole | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B000QJLP3G
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,426 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

First volume of rare BBC Radio recordings of Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, the Scottish '80s Rock/Pop outfit who could have been the next Smiths if only Morrissey and Co. weren't around at the same time! Lloyd's suave, cool and collected vocals and intelligent and personal lyrics plus a great band behind him inevitably brought comparisons to The Smiths, but The Commotions were far from copyists...they were the real deal. This volume covers the band's heavy promotion of their first album Rattlesnakes in 1984 and features classic Pop nuggets like 'Perfect Skin', 'Four Flights Up', 'Forest Fire', 'Rattlesnakes' and many more. Universal. 2007.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice to have, December 18, 2007

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J. Malnar (Zagreb Croatia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the BBC 1 (Audio CD)

I've been a Lloyd Cole fan since his eighties days of (britpop) glory with the Commotions, so I was really happy to get my hands on this album.
Lloyd Cole sounds as good live as he does in the studio, and although the album contains double versions of some songs, they variate slightly and the album is not boring or overbearing (thou 19 tracks is rather much).
I have a few of his other albums (mainstream, rattlesnakes, singles, antidepressant), and this one is my favorite of all.
If you are not familiar with Lloyd Cole, luckily for you Amazon always lets you listen to samples of music - nonetheless, should you have been born in the late sixties / early seventies, chances are you will like the sound, as it is the sound we grew up on.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sort of great but a mess ! (see star breakdown below), April 1, 2010

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John Willoughby "Zebrafish Mutant" (Amherst, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the BBC 1 (Audio CD)

OK, so I'm a Lloyd Cole fan and most all of these songs are from his excellent first two albums with the Commotions - in that you can't go wrong.

However, some of these songs are live in front of a crowd and some are 'live' in a studio with no audience at all and it makes for a bit of an odd mix. Added to that is the repetition of several songs and this seems like an odd package.
Some of the performances are really good, and it's fun having some different takes, but eventually I ended up buying Live at the BBC, Vol. 2 as well and putting contents from the three CD's together to cut myself a real live set which amounts to about one CD. I think that the producers or marketers were supposed to do that, not put out this jumble.
So music = ***** format = ** average about three stars