Track listing
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Shaky City
- 3 Makin’ Time
- 4 Zero Hour
- 5 Hobo
- 6 Who’s Gonna Break the Ice
- 7 Fall on You
- 8 Oldest Story in the World
- 9 Magic Touch
- 10 A Million Miles Away
- 11 Jump, Jive and Harmonize
- 12 Jumpin’ in the Night
- 13 Now
- 14 How Long Will It Take
- 15 In This Town
- 16 Price of Love
- 17 You Can’t Judge a Book
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Beach Town Confidential [p] Archival, Digipak, Live
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Beach Town Confidential 33 rpm, Colored Vinyl, Limited Edition
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Stewart Lee's 310 album reviews for The Sunday Times, #264
The Plimsouls played melodic sixties mod pop with punk aggression, Peter Case’s grazed white soul vocals and Eddie Munoz’ plangent guitars bleeding through the surface noise and cheerleader air-punch rhythms.
This 1983 live recording, the group in explosive form after their second album, betters their studio output in terms of sheer energy and reveals The Plimsouls as one of the great lost groups.
A cover of Moby Grape’s Fall On You holds on to the hippy harmonies whilst serrating them with nerve shredding guitars at white knuckle velocity.
I’m sorry, but they don’t make them like this anymore.
Stewart Lee - Sunday, March 4th, 2012
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Boy, this is a real dandy. Can we call a "mere" power-pop live album great? OK, maybe "Beach Town Confidential" isn't truly great, and maybe it is truly rock 'n' roll instead of any other designation we can give the music. In any event, this is very good, everything a live album should be. It gives extra punch to well-known songs — yes, almost everything is as good as or getter than the studio versions, including the gem "A Million Miles Away," given a nice tuneful kick, and the highlight here. The Plimsouls had such a meagre recorded legacy that there wasn't a huge stock of songs from which to choose, but nonetheless the group touches all the main bases and throws a few covers in as well. Listening to Peter Case's solo albums — and I love them — it's easy to forget what a great rock frontman he was. As a bonus, the sound quality on this live album is surprisingly great. Buy/listen without worries.
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The Plimsouls have a reputation for putting on a terrific show and this disc delivers the goods. A recording from 1983 shows the band at the height of their powers, playing tight renditions of their best known songs and some tasty covers. Terrific live album by a terrific band.
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Like the live sound better than their album recordings, this is where I started and where I'd recommend starting too.
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