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UFO - Live Throughout the Years Audio CD

A fair review of the UFO "Live Throughout the Years" 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 Throughout the Years
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-11-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Intro -- Can You Roll Her 2: Doctor Doctor 3: Oh My 4: Out on the Street 5: Highway Lady 6: I'm a Loser 7: Let It Roll 8: This Kids 9: Shoot Shoot 10: Rock Bottom 11: C'mon Everybody 12: Boogie for George 13: All or Nothing 14: We Belong to the Night 15: Let It Rain 16: Long Game 17: Wild, the Willing and the Innocent 18: Only You Can Rock Me 19: No Place to Run 20: Love to Love 21: Doing It All for You 22: Makin' Moves 23: Too Hot Too Handle 24: Mystery Train 25: Natural Thing 26: Mother Mary 27: Self Made Man 28: Electric Phase 29: This Kids 30: Out in the Street 31: One More for the Rodeo 32: Venus 33: Pushed to the Limit 34: Love to Love 35: Too Hot to Handle 36: Only You Can Rock Me 37: Lights Out 38: Doctor Doctor 39: Rock Bottom 40: Shoot Shoot

A mixed bag but worth considering
Here's the good news:
* three UFO concerts on four discs
* a reasonably bargain price
* all three shows are relatively hard to find on their own and they represent distinctly different periods in UFO's history
* the version of Self-Made Man on the Vienna disc is positively ferocious and is clearly better than that on Werewolves of London


On the down side:
* all the material here is previously available
* the sound quality on the Roundhouse and Regenerator discs leaves a good bit to be desired
* the Regenerator disc omits Lights Out, which is a bonus cut on the stand-alone version of Regenerator
* the track list on the Vienna set is identical to that on Werewolves (although Vienna sounds better)
* packaging is thin, minimal information. . this is a shame as, by comparison, the packaging for the stand-alone version of Regenerator is excellent

In my case, I already had Regenerator and decided to buy this specifically for the Roundhouse disc (which is insanely priced all by itself. . . this show is ok, but it ain't worth $40!) so purchasing this box set was a no-brainer. I'm thrilled to have the material on Roundhouse (even with it's audio flaws) so I'll call this a victory.

Not the place to start for prime live UFO. I'd recommend (in order) Strangers, BBC Radio 1, Lights Out Live In Japan, and Showtime all as better products than any of this. . . but to me those are all pretty high standards to live up to. Recognizing that it's place in line is behind those, Throughout the Years is a good addition to the collection, especially for the price.
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Three UFO "live sets" in one package...
I picked this set up mainly for the Regenerator disc(usually fairly tough to find/expensive), since I already have Strangers In The Night and the "Vienna" album, and if you already have these three albums there's nothing new here. This box set includes three of UFO's many live albums in one package; "On With The Action"-The Roundhouse 1976, "Regenerator"-The Hammersmith Odeon 1982 and "Live On Earth/Vienna"-2 discs recorded in Austria 1998. If you don't have them, or want to hear the band in a live setting from the "Early Schenker" days through the "Paul Chapman Era" to the "Schenker Reunion" this set does the trick. The packaging is pretty simple, just the discs sleeved in a box with a few pictures - so nothing special. This set can also be fairly hard to get(not in stock alot), but I caught it in stock at a great price and if you see it and don't have these you should definitely pick it up.


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