Stiffs Live [Import, Live]

Various Artists - Alternative - Punk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 15, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Mau Mau
• ASIN: B00000115Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,035 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll) - Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In The Soup

2. Let's Eat - Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In The Soup

3. Semaphore Signals - Wreckless Eric & The New Rockets

4. Reconnez Cherie - Wreckless Eric & The New Rockets

5. Police Car - Larry Wallis' Psychedelic Rowdies

6. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

7. Miracle Man - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

8. Wake Up And Make Love With Me - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

9. Billericay Dickie - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

10. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Chaos - Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In The Soup/Wreckless Eric & The New Rockets/Larry Wallis' Psychedelic...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Punk Classic--Too Often IGNORED!, May 9, 2000

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Anon (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stiffs Live (Audio CD)

Okay. I confess I love this album and saw NOTHING about it here on amazon. Protest the lack of info! Every punk worth his or her safety pins should own this classic. It has a heartbreakingly lovely version of the young and angry Elvis Costello singing Burt Bacharach--more honest and also a little meaner than on his other more recent album. Lots of fun punk stuff: Ian Drury and The Blockheads doing Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll, and the Austin Powers of Punk, Wreckless Eric with great big power pop songs. Nick Lowe, too. Much more. Great fun. Happy bouncy punk with a streak of explosive noise and madness. Kind of a classic. A great party album. Looking back (it's almost 20 years old) it seems sweet, insane, and wonderfully optimistic about music in the post-disco era.

You cannot go wrong. Rock on!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memories of a great gig, May 19, 1999

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[e-mail] (Preston UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Stiffs (Audio CD)

This is a strange assortment of the artists that were on the Stiff records label in 1977. I saw this tour and the CD brings it all back. There are a number of highlights - I like Wreckless in particular - but the outstanding track is Elvis Costello singing I Don't Know what to do With myself. If you remember the late seventies you must buy this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have..., April 26, 2002

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Mark J. Urbin (Westborough, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stiffs Live (Audio CD)

A rare gem I didn't expect to see on CD. I have loved this record since I found it in a used record store in Poughkeepsie in the 80's. Early Elvis the C, Nick Lowe, Dave Edumunds, Wreckless Eric...All recorded live in clubs with real drunk fans out for a good time.