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UFO - Live on Earth Audio CD

A fair review of the UFO "Live on Earth" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all UFO reviews here, or go back to the UFO tabs.

UFO Band: UFO
Title: Live on Earth
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Release Date: 2008-01-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Natural Thing 2: Mother Mary 3: Self Made Man 4: Electric Phase 5: This Kids 6: Out in the Street 7: One More for the Rodeo 8: Venus 9: Pushed to the Limit 10: Love to Love 11: Too Hot to Handle 12: Only You Can Rock Me 13: Lights Out 14: Doctor Doctor 15: Rock Bottom 16: Shoot Shoot

Blasting Off with a Sizzling Gig


Three tracks are from the 1995 studio album, Walk on Water (Venus, A Self-Made Man, Pushed to the Limit), with the "signature" numbers - Too Hot to Handle and Lights Out - on disc two. Recorded in January 1998, the 16 tracks are from a Vienna, Austria, concert and showcases a band that can still sizzle in concert and breathe extraordinary life into older material that continues to get cranked out on "Classic Rock" FM radio formats.

Drummer Simon Wright joins members of the most famous line-up - Phil Mogg (v), Pete Way (b), Michael Schenker (g) and Paul Raymond (k) - on the 2003 release. Zoom Club Records does an outstanding job in re-releasing albums from rock artists and delivering unique "limited edition" pressings of bands who remain fan favorites after many years on the road and in the sudio. . . . this solid recording falls in the latter category. .


Strangers Revamped
This copy of the Vienna concert is good value and essentially the best part of the 4-disc version (in effect another copy of the 'Werewolves of London' set). Reviewers seem to be confusing this 2-disc set from Vienna with the 4-disc box set. Two thirds of the stuff here is just "Strangers" revamped, notable additions being the "Walk on Water" tracks which are performed really well live. Even though the performance is fraught with mistakes the sound quality is good and encapsulates a lot more raw power than "Strangers".
This is a nice addition to any UFO collection but I still prefer "Strangers in the Night" for it's perfection or the "BBC Sessions/Live In Concert" from earlier in their career.
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Another good live CD but a bit unexpected...
I don't think this recording ever saw the inside of a studio for editing. The sound production is soundboard. Having said that, it is a pretty good soundboard recording. It has a very raw appeal to it with a bitter mixing of the bass, which was really lost on the "Werewolves of London" CD. It is well balanced for the most part and sounds very different than most live CD's you'll find. It literally sounds like you're right in the bar in Vienna, Austria where it was recorded. It was performed at a small venue.

The setlist is awesome. It has all the classic tracks and the best from "Walk on Water". I say the best from Walk on Water, but Walk on Water doesn't really have a bad song. The whole CD is good. Overall, although "Strangers" is more professionally recorded, Live in Vienna is somehow very appealing. At this point, it is my UFO CD of choice, had I to pick one. Everyone in the band sounds pretty good and the UFO classics do not lend themselves to anyone but Phil Mogg on vocals. He does well.


UFO !
The band is in fine form and Mogg's voice in top shape. Wow! Quite simply, this album rocks. Sound quality is excellent. One knock on this album is Rock Bottom. My most beloved UFO tune pales here in comparison to the Strangers version IMHO. On RB, Herr Schenker seems to be noodling around with some harmonic notes rather than just ripping. Just a minor complaint really. Rock and roll like this never goes out of style. Loved the disc one, track one "Faith Healer' intro tribute to The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Highly recommended.

This is a two disc set. Other reviewer's were discussing a third and fourth disc? Must have been repackaged since the reviews.


Could Be Their Best !
You will never play it again after you hear this CD. If you love UFO Live (Strangers in the Night). It could be their absolute BEST!.


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