Youth Are Getting Restless - Live at the Paradiso [Live]

Bad Brains | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B000000HT2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,833 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I

2. Rock for Light

3. Right Brigade

4. House of Suffering

5. Day Tripper/She's a Rainbow

6. Coptic Times

7. Sacred Love

8. Re-Ignition

9. Let Me Help

10. The Youth Are Getting Restless

11. Banned in D.C.

12. Sailin' On

13. F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers)

14. At the Movies

15. Revolution [Dub]

16. Pay to Cum

17. Big Takeover

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bad Brains at full throttle, April 21, 2006

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Juan C Mier Giraud (Mexico City, DF Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Youth Are Getting Restless - Live at the Paradiso (Audio CD)

The Bad Brains: four rastas, ex-jazz-fusion musicians, turned into one of the most powerful and creative punk bands of all time. Some claim that they were the inventors of the Hardcore genre.

This live album captures the Brains at what they did best, play mind-blowing shows. Being masters at both light-speed hardcore riffage and playing chilled out reggae and dub. This album combines both genres giving you a breather from the amazing and brutal hardcore assault with reggae interludes in between.

The Bad Brains' lineup was filled with talent in every instrument with Darryl and Earl providing a solid and groove filled rythm section, Dr. Know on lead guitar riffing and soloing at the same level or better than any metal guitar gods. Finally, HR on vocals which are correctly credited on liner notes as "throat". Indeed, HR uses his voice as another instrument: shaman-like chants, crooning, wailing, screaming, reggae stylin' and sometimes even barking. HR is on pair with Mike Patton and Maynard James Keenan when it comes to vocals.

Separeted like a three act play, the album is divided into sets of hardcore tracks separated by reggae interludes: Day Tripper / She's a Rainbow, The Youth are Getting Restless and Revolution. It is worth noting that Day Tripper / She's a Rainbow has one of the gooviest bass lines, better than anything put out by Marley or King Tubby.

All hardcore tracks are amazing, a few standouts: House of Suffering, Coptic Times, Banned in DC, Big Takeover.

Hardcore is an acquired taste, like a fine wine, the first time you sip it out of a glass the taste might be kind of nasty but with time it becomes a greate pleasure. The same thing happens with the Bad Brains.

It is a shame that the Brains don't tour anymore, it would be amazing if somebody would put live footage from this tour on DVD.

Enjoy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Brains Live, April 1, 2003

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T. Brown (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Youth Are Getting Restless - Live at the Paradiso (Audio CD)

Of the collection of live Bad Brains albums, this is head and shoulders above all else. The set has great sound, which for hardcore shows, is a rarity, and HR is absolutely at the top of his game. Their smoking version of "House of Suffering" gives me chills just thinking about it. Sonic blasts played at lightening speed and with staggering musicianship; the Brains were perhaps the tightest quartet in hardcore history, with Earl and Darryl providing the rumble and rhythm, and Dr. Know blowing contemporary "hair metal" axemen out of the water. And yeah, they can cool I down wid de roots riddims, me dready. "Day Tripper/She's a Rainbow" is a lovely excursion into King Tubby-esque dub and sing-jay stylee. Overall, this is the Brains at their best. Superb renditions of their early gems ("Banned in DC") as well as later classics ("At the Movies"). You just wish people could wake up from their MTV-induced love affairs with new wave "punk" bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182 and rediscover the geniuses of the genre (see Minor Threat, Black Flag, "Sold Out"-era Gang Green). The Brains were the real deal.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peerless Production of Destruction, August 12, 2001

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Greekfreak (Pusan Korea (South)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Youth Are Getting Restless - Live at the Paradiso (Audio CD)

With the glut of 'live' Brains albums on their various labels, it's hard to know which one to buy, simply because while the performances are never less than good, the production varies.

This is the gem of the pack.

"Spirit Electricity" and "Live" are fine, but the crisp production of "Youth..." will make you stand up and take notice at how good the band really was in it's heyday. Greg Ginn gets so many well-deserved props for his guitar histrionics on some of the more classic Black Flag albums, but it's clear that Dr. Know was the master among masters of hardcore/speedcore.

Check out "I", "At the Movies", "Banned in DC" for a primer in how to kick a$$, and my personal favourites, the "Day Tripper/She's a Rainbow" medley and thumping "Re-Ignition", which is far better than the studio version.