Take What You Can Live [Import, Original recording remastered, Live]

XYZ | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 28, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Axe Killer
• ASIN: B000007W2S
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #484,547 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Maggie

2. Take What You Can

3. Come on N' Love Me

4. What Keeps Me Lovin' You

5. After the Rain

6. Inside Out

7. Off the Sun

8. Nice Day to Die

9. Straight in the Night

10. Only Get You on the Phone

11. Connected to You

12. Slow Me Down

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUN, February 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Take What You Can Live (Audio CD)

This CD took me back to when I saw XYZ live. There's no fancy stuff here, just straight-ahead rock and roll, feedback and mistakes included. Don't miss this one, especially if you're a fan of late 80s-early 90s hard rock/heavy metal. Good rockers, good power ballads (and for the XYZ collector, four bonus tracks that were the EP that made it into Don Dokken's hands--cheesy, but fun!)

Gotta love it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great album and some comments to reviews below, January 21, 2005

By 

John DeWald "Jet pilot" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take What You Can Live (Audio CD)

First of all, the RELEASE of this album is French - that is what the album description above says. (This album is from Axe Killer, which is indeed a French company.) The album description above does not say that the band members are French. That said, if you read the liner notes included with CD, it clearly states the vocalist and the bassist are indeed French. The drummer and guitarist on the live portion of this CD are Americans.

On to the CD itself. If you enjoy polished American hard rock from the late '80's or early '90's, you should definitely check out XYZ. This live document seems to be a fair representation of them. The performance is quite good and the audio quality is also quite listenable. I get the feeling that only part of the set is presented, given that the rest of the disc is filled out with their original demo material. (Which, again, feature a different drummer and guitarist.) The demo material is a far cry in quality from what XYZ would produce on their two studio albums and this disc.

Overall, I really like the disc - it is what it is: a fun hard rock show. And I give a real "tip of the hat" to Marc Richard Diglio. He is really a great guitarist and I don't think he got enough credit for his musicianship.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Buy for an XYZ Fan, April 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Take What You Can Live (Audio CD)

All around good CD. Too bad the other XYZ titles are not available