Neil Young with Crazy Horse: Life - 1987

This Crazy Horse reunion (once again) was also cosiderably blighted by those goddamned tinny synths - such as on Around The World - but a track like Inca Queen is good enough to override that, as also is the Stonesy riffiness of Too Lonely. 

I am a fan of Mideast Vacation as well and Prisoners Of Rock’n’Roll has shades of later era Ramones about it as does the equally robust Cryin’ Eyes. When Your Lonely Heart Breaks is a nice ballad but despite these obvious good points - and they are good points - overall there is still something so very eighties about this album which subsequent albums Freedom, Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon managed to shake off, thankfully. These were bloody awful at times, weren't they? 

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Until this release, there had been a distinct paucity of Faces live material, which something of a surprise as they were known for being an energetic, always exciting live outfit, if not a little shambolic. They were a bit like Mott The Hoople in that respect - hard drinkers, saucy fun lovers, solid, prolific giggers - and you got what you got. Thankfully, they always gave of their best, warts 'n' all.  Anyway, all that existed from The Faces live in concert before this release was the long out-of-print Overture And Beginners album, which was roundly acknowledged to be of particularly poor quality (even by the band themselves), and a few extra live cuts included on the remastered re-releases of their studio albums. This release therefore comes as an unexpected and most welcome treat. This collection of live material played on various BBC Radio shows in the early seventies. As with all BBC live cuts, the sound quality is definitely variable. Some of it is bloody awful, but most
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