The Jukebox Shuffle Outtakes compiled here are live recordings from the post-punk years. Some of them still sound remarkably well and some of them have been very special to me once. I’ve always been a huge fan of Wire (I think the best band of the whole post-punk era) and I consider Television’s Little Johnny Jewel as one the best compositions of the seventies. The original track already appeared in the Jukebox Shuffle Series and here’s a wonderful live version, “recorded somewhere in the seventies”, according to the sleeve notes. The last three tracks are special to me since I was present at these shows in the Netherlands. John Cale’s Heartbreak Hotel (forget Elvis) still gives me the shivers. O yeah, like so many of us, I too had that (short) Flipper moment.
1 Wire: Lowdown (Roxy, London, 1977)
2 Tom Robinson Band: Martin (UK, 1977)
3 John Cale: Mercenaries (CBGB’s, NYC, 1979)
4 Talking Heads: Take Me To The River (USA-Tour 1979)
5 Sham 69: What have We Got (UK, 1979)
6 UK Subs: Telephone Numbers (Rainbow, London, 1980)
7 UK Subs: Organised Crime (Rainbow, London, 1980)
8 Television: Little Johnny Jewel (NYC, 1976)
9 Wire: Piano Tuner (Electric Ballroom, London, 1979)
10 Wire: Revealing Trade Secrets (Electric Ballroom, London, 1979)
11 Flipper: We Don’t Understand (USA, 1983)
12 Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia (Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1984)
13 Sonic Youth: Brother James (Emma, Amsterdam, 1983)
14 John Cale: Heartbreak Hotel (Vredenburg, Utrecht, 1983)
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