Wednesday, March 12, 2008

DICTATORS - Live in Stockholm, 1996



I'm not gonna waste a second of my time covering the history of this seminal band-- ya know 'em, ya love 'em... if not, who cares about you anyway? This music is a soundtrack to my life-- be it that unforgettable euphoria I felt the first time I heard "Go Girl Crazy!" or lying on the floor, waaay beyond inebriation screaming, "I think Lou Reed is a CREEP!" along with Handsome Dick Manitoba, the 1000th time I played it-- the Dictators are Eternal. I loved Manitoba's Wild Kingdom too-- so what if it had hair metal production? The songs were killer, and that's always the bottom line in my book. Here we have NYC's Finest tearing through the kinda set that'll make so-called punks half their age cower like the spoiled little non-entities that they are. I have no recollection as to how I got my grateful mitts on this 'un, nor do I have a clue which venue they were playing (don't care, either)-- what I do know is that they play tighter'n nun cootch, and that the source is a radio broadcast someone was astute enough to record for posterity.

Tracks:

1. New York, New York
2. Haircut & Attitude
3. Master Race Rock
4. I Want You Tonight
5. Faster & Louder
6. Baby, Let's Twist
7. I Am Right!
8. Call Me Animal
9. The Party Starts Now!!
10. I Stand Tall
11. Science Gone Too Far
12. Had It Coming
13. Search & Destroy
14. The Next Big Thing
15. Stay With Me

Look in comments, and leave one or die!

10 comments:

  1. part 1: http://lix.in/953daae1
    part 2: http://lix.in/ce977c90

    pw = sln2008

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  2. Hey Blood Brother,

    You got my cars and girls all worked up for this and now i find out that you linked one part twice... what's up with that?

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  3. Oops!

    Link fixed now, apologies, kids.

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  4. I am with you 100% in what you wrote. Ride on, now give me some Chicken vindaloo.

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  5. Conspiracy TheologianMarch 13, 2008 at 12:17 PM

    D.F.F.D.

    Thanks for the post!

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  6. Much thanx. Hard to find any live Tators stuff.

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  7. thanks from Ukraine!!!

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  8. Handsome Dick Manitoba is still the handsomest man in Rock 'n' Roll, not to mention a role model to us all. And Adny Shernoff is a pure goddamn genius. Thanks for posting this, it's great .... have you checked out EVERY DAY IS SATURDAY, the Dictators demos and rarities comp on Norton? Well worth a listen if you haven't.

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  9. Haven't checked it yet. I dropped close to 500 bucks on shiny silver things and black groovy things a coupla weeks ago, but I'll get around to that one eventually.

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