Bootleg: Oh God, What Have We Done? (Goodbye Cruel World Live)
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- Compilation of live versions of songs from the album Goodbye Cruel World
Tracks
01. The Only Flame In Town (4:18): with The Attractions, New York City 1984-08-16
02. Home Truth (3:34): with Steve Nieve, Vancouver 2004-03-07
03. Room With No Number (4:05): with The Attractions, Tokyo 1984-06-06
04. Inch By Inch / Fever (4:35): with Steve Nieve, Berlin 1999-05-10
05. Worthless Thing (3:27): solo, London 1984-12-03
06. Love Field (4:46): with Steve Nieve, Minneapolis 1996-08-18
07. I Wanna Be Loved (5:25): with The Imposters, Nashville 2002-10-30
08. The Comedians (3:07): solo, Glastonbury 1987-06-20
09. Joe Porterhouse (3:17): with The Attractions, London 1984-10-15
10. Sour Milk-Cow Blues (2:51): with The Attractions & Gary Barnacle, Philadelphia 1984-08-11
11. The Great Unknown (3:26): with Steve Nieve, London 2001-06-26
12. Deportee (3:16): solo, Dublin 1986-12-02
13. Peace In Our Time (4:47): with The Imposters, Emmylou Harris & Larry Campbell, Rochester Hills 2005-07-26
14. The Comedians (2:43): solo, London 1982-12-27
15. The Great Unknown (3:30): solo, Los Angeles 1983-09-18
16. Peace In Our Time (3:37): solo, London 1983-12-18
17. Home Truth (3:38): solo, Upper Darby 1984-04-12
18. Inch By Inch (3:03): solo, New York City 1984-04-15
19. Love Field (3:18): solo, Boston 1984-04-18
20. The Only Flame In Town (4:30): solo, Atlanta 1987-04-20
21. Lifeboat (2:41): solo, London 1983-12-22 London (late show)
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Release information
- Date: 2005-12-03
- Media: Fan-made CDR; FLAC files distributed via BitTorrent
Comments
Description from original BitTorrent post:
- Sound quality ranges from excellent to mediocre. These are mainly audience recordings, although tracks 3, 4, 6, and 10 are from soundboard or FM sources.
- Elvis Costello has described Goodbye Cruel World as his "worst album of good songs." The goal of Oh God, What Have We Done? (Goodbye Cruel World Live) is to present these songs in a new light. For the most part these arrangements are significantly different from their album counterparts.
- Joe Porterhouse is excerpted from an improvisation worked into a performance of Clubland. (The listener may notice that The Attractions initially seem unaware of which song Costello is performing, but they catch on quickly.)
- The final song, Lifeboat, was written around the same time as the other Goodbye Cruel World songs but did not appear on the album. Costello abandoned the song after a single performance, although he did reuse one line of its lyrics in Worthless Thing.
