New York, NY

Soul Coughing | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 30, 2004)
• Original Release Date: March 30, 2004
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: KUFALA Recordings
• ASIN: B00068RDO2
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,892 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Rolling

2. Collapse

3. Idiot Kings

4. Bus To Beelzebub

5. Blame

6. True Dreams of Wichita

7. St. Louise

8. $300 Circles

Disc: 2

1. Blue Eyed Devil

2. Maybe I'll Come Down

3. Miss The Girl

4. Mr. Bitterness

5. Super Bon Bon

6. Screenwriter's Blues

7. Moonsammy

8. Janine

Editorial Reviews

This 2 CD set represents Soul Coughing at their finest moment and unfortunately the last headlining show the band ever played. This Multi Track Recording will blow your mind, from Sebastian’s bellowing bass tone on Rolling to the crowd taking the lead in the closer Janine. Yuval’s amazing drumming skills are evident on this release. If you want to learn how to play live drum n’ bass beats listen up. This is the best release in the series. If you can only get one this is the one.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Such a Great Band Deserves Better Sound, January 11, 2006

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Billy Duke "squagmire" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New York, NY (Audio CD)

Soul Coughing is one of my all-time favorite bands. I saw them live multiple times, and at every show, their performance was never less than amazing. I'd rank them among the best live acts I've ever seen. All that considered, the CD version of their final show EVER (which, unfortunately, I didn't get to see) should sound a hell of a lot better than it does.

The show itself is as fantastic as I'd come to expect. Songs familiar from their studio albums are more often reconstructed than plainly reproduced, occasionally taking unexpected detours into fresh territory. Masterful frontman Mike Doughty talks, sings, chants and scats, improvising as needed, keeping the energy high and the crowd involved.

But you really can't begin to enjoy it until the end of the first disc, when the sonic murk that has inexplicably enveloped the earlier songs just as inexplicably begins to dissipate. I can only assume that the audio inconsistencies are due to the recording equipment used and the circumstances and/or microphone placement involved in capturing the show, because the band never sounded at all indistinct when I saw them, let alone murky.

I wish that the people responsible for this release had incorporated recordings directly from the soundboard, then it might have had a chance of reproducing with clarity the uniqueness of Soul Coughing's precise cacophony. If what's on these discs IS from the soundboard, then the technician responsible for mis-twiddling these knobs deserves a public flogging.

The result doesn't sound like any attempts at remastering would do it much good in terms of rendering the entire show consistently listenable. So you're left with one great live show and approximately 1/2 of a great live recording. It's just a shame that this is what stands as the historical artifact of their last performance...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor sound quality, July 6, 2005

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C. Andrews (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New York, NY (Audio CD)

If you're looking to recreate the experience you had at a Soul Coughing show, I'd suggest you look elsewhere. This recording is a weak (at best) audience recording that is muffled, muddled, and boomy. I was almost entirely disappointed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Performance, Poor Audience Recording, August 9, 2005

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L. OBrien (Westerville Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New York, NY (Audio CD)

It's a great performance from Soul Coughing, and the quality of the audience recording (this is obviously not a soundboard) is just good enough to make it worth it. This could have been so much better with a better quality recording. I find it hard to believe that the band doesn't have some better archival material, but I'll take this anyway.