Audio CD review:
Golden Earring - 2nd Live

Golden Earring - 2nd Live

Band: Golden Earring Title: 2nd Live Rating: Release Date: 01 November, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Don't Stop the Show 2: My Town 3: No for an Answer 4: Heartbeat 5: Save Your Skin 6: I Don't Wanna Be Nobody Else 7: Long Blond Animal 8: Prisoner of the Night 9: Weekend Love 10: Sleepwalkin' 11: I Do Rock 'N Roll 12: Slow Down 13: Buddy Joe 14: Back Home

Customer Reviews A Hidden Jewel!! This album quickly became one of my favorites along with "Live" and "Live From The Twilight Zone". I bought this album never hearing any songs on it because I love Golden Earring Live. "2nd Live" reflects a period of basic rock and roll. The songs are not as sophisticated as the "Live" or "Twilight Zone" periods with the bulk of its songs from "No Promises, No Debts" and "Prisoner of the Night", but "2nd Live" keeps a fast pace throughout, and the songs are better live than in the studio. The music is more of a raw rock sound with a pounding beat through most of the songs. The guitar work is in a grinding fashion, yet it is brilliant. The bass and drums are no less than fantastic. I find "Sleepwalkin'" with its bass solo intro to be the highlight of the album. The album is great from beginning to end with Barry playing flute at the end on "Back Home". The band is full of enthusiasm and this album is charged with energy. If you are a fan of live Golden Earring you may try this one. Save Your Skin is fantastic here! It's a fantastic, gorgeous, ever-changing song. You MUST hear this version of Save Your Skin. Sleepwalking is also fantastic, with a much more rocking, stepped up pace than the studio version, even though I still love the studio version. I also love this version of Weekend Love. My only complaints are that Will and Mercy off of the Prisoner Of The Night/Long Blond Animal album isn't included (but the dull I Don't Wanna Be Nobody Else is), the version of My Town is weak, and the bass is turned up way to high so that it's much louder than the lead guitar. But the loud bass does work in the favor of some songs, like Weekend Love, giving it a more fast-paced "bouncy" feel to it. The real blast! E. Golden Earring has always been a LIVE BAND!If their first live album didn't really recreate the power ofG. on stage, this 2nd LIVE really does! Recorded on their PRISONER OF THE NIGHT tour, this live album contains lots of highly boosted songs taken from that album. A couple of old tracks BACK HOME, BUDDY JOE bring us back to an almost forgotten period-before RADAR LOVE. The marvelous SLEEPWALKIN' and its bass/drums duo, SAVE YOUR SKIN (stairway to heaven's dutch brother) and the classics Long Blond Animal and Week-end Love, all in their best versions! A REAL KILLER-LIVE album featuring the energy, the sweat and the sincerity of a Golden Earring concert. . You can see a complete list of all Golden Earring discography, or go back to the Golden Earring tabs