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Village People - Live And Sleazy Audio CD

A fair review of the Village People "Live And Sleazy" 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 Village People reviews here, or go back to the Village People tabs.

Village People Band: Village People
Title: Live And Sleazy
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Release Date: 1995-04-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Sleazy 2: Rock & Roll Is Back Again 3: Ready for the 80's 4: Save Me [Ballad] 5: Save Me [Up Tempo] 6: Hot Cop 7: Fire Island 8: Medley: San Francisco (You've Got Me)/In Hollywood (Everybody Is a Sta 9: Macho Man 10: In the Navy 11: Y.M.C.A.

Live and Whatever, Just Buy It!
Live albums became a vogue in the 1970's and the best ones helped to validate the stars and the worse show who were wannabes. Following in the lines of Donna Summer's Live and More, and Millie Jackson's Live and Uncensored (see my reviews), we have The Village People's Live and Sleazy, from late 1979.

Simply put The Village people could sing, above the camp and the gay stereotypes, these Men could vocally deliver, and here they are backed by a full live band. Taped during their 1979 tour, the live section features their biggest hits, YMCA, Macho Man, and In The Navy, with 3 of their earliest songs, Fire Island, San Fancisco, and Hollywood. The directness of Fire Island, and San Francisco may have gone over the heads of their mainstream fans, but to the tribe, we understood perfectly (see my review of their first album).

The studio recordings here were supposed to transition the group from the 70's to the 80's, but a fickle public
saw the group as Disco and little else. Ready For The 80's and Sleazy both received heavy rotation on the pre-MTV show, Video Jukebox, and they are both good Pop songs (Sleazy is far tamer than it's name implies).
Rock N Roll Is Back Again was another Pop song that seemed to aknowledge that Disco was fizzling at least to the masses.

This release that we now happily have on CD, is good, sleazy, American Fun, Village People style.

Ken

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makes you dance!!!!

this cd is great, makes you want to dance, i love the village people.


Live & Scrapy
I am very disappointed in the quality, worst I have ever had. This was obviously recorded at a concert with poor sound equipment and shows it.

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A 1979 CLASSIC!!!...still!
The live stuff is good fun. This is by far the most entertaining Village People album the group ever put together. . . even if "Y. M. C. A. " has been played to death by every DJ, sporting event and wedding reception known to mankind. That said, "In The Navy," "Hot Cop" et al. are well done.

The true GREATNESS of this one comes from the studio cuts that are simply the best tunes Village People ever released. My favorite all-time VP song (hands down) is "Rock N' Roll Is Back Again. " I saw them "perform" this on Dick Clark's 'New Year's Rockin' Eve '79-'80" and was floored. I also saw them do it (another lip-synch) on the Playboy Roller Disco Party at Hef's pad in '79. . . and it killed! CLASSIC non-disco Village People (although the beat is still there!)

The other great songs: "Ready For The '80's," (another VP Classic!)"Save Me," (Alex Briley-led ballad deluxe) and "Sleazy" (David Hodo's grimy sleazefest) have lost none of their shine in the 25 years since they were unleashed. The one down moment is the uptempo version of "Save Me" which simply sounds like filler for lack of material.

Village People were all about fun. Campy and exagerated. No more - no less. I never cared that their sexual habits got more publicity than their music. This album is ALL about the music.

Listen to "Live And Sleazy" and you'll hear one of the last great gasps of the dying disco phenomenon. Too bad in a way because it sure sounds likes Village People were just hitting their stride. ENJOY!.


A Guilty Treat!
That said, I will also stipulate that it's the only disco CD in our collection that was not purchased by my wife. I'm not ashamed to confess that the this was the first CD I ever purchased.

But what the heck, this is fun listenable music! If you can listen to the Village People without the urge to bust a move or two (whether in private or public) you just don't have rhythm. Classic hits like YMCA and In the Navy still get radio play from time to time, but this collection of live performances will make you wonder how this group could ever have faded away from the music scene. Forget the camp, forget the costumes! Just listen to some outstanding, upbeat tunes!.


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