RADIO BIRDMAN
Living Eyes
Label: Citadel (Australia)
Catalogue No: (citcd581)
Format: Double CD in 6 panel wallet
Released: November 27th 2015
Catalogue No: (citcd581)
Format: Double CD in 6 panel wallet
Released: November 27th 2015
OUT OF PRINT
Living Eyes was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales during a break in the band's 1978 tour of Britain and Europe. Relations between members were falling apart and Sire had dropped the band prior to the start of recording. Their breakup soon followed.
"Indeed, Radio Birdman was, for a moment, the greatest Rock & Roll band in the world. In the pressure cooker of the Oxford Tavern, Birdman cranked the sound harder and faster and pushed every moment to its limit. Birdman never played at anything less than full intensity. When was the last time that you danced non-stop for an hour and a half? When was the last time that you actually saw a band so overload the sound system that it fell apart on stage? When did you see a band that really didn't give a fuck what you or anybody else thought of them? They never played the same set twice. It was inspiring. It was, in fact, exactly what they tell you Rock & Roll is about but almost never is." Toby Creswell August 2014
"Indeed, Radio Birdman was, for a moment, the greatest Rock & Roll band in the world. In the pressure cooker of the Oxford Tavern, Birdman cranked the sound harder and faster and pushed every moment to its limit. Birdman never played at anything less than full intensity. When was the last time that you danced non-stop for an hour and a half? When was the last time that you actually saw a band so overload the sound system that it fell apart on stage? When did you see a band that really didn't give a fuck what you or anybody else thought of them? They never played the same set twice. It was inspiring. It was, in fact, exactly what they tell you Rock & Roll is about but almost never is." Toby Creswell August 2014
Disc 1 - Living Eyes (Rockfield Version)
- More Fun (D Tek) (2:01 m:s)
- T.P.B.R. Combo (D Tek / C Masuak) (2:12 m:s)
- 455 SD (D Tek) (2:41 m:s)
- Do The Movin' Change (D Tek) (2:29 m:s)
- I 94 (D Tek / C Jones) (2:59 m:s)
- Iskender Time (D Tek) (1:49 m:s)
- Burn My Eye '78 (D Tek) (1:35 m:s)
- Time To Fall (D Tek) (3:14 m:s)
- Smith and Wesson Blues (D Tek) (2:56 m:s)
- Crying Sun (W Gilbert / D Tek) (2:53 m:s)
- Breaks My Heart (D Tek) (3:02 m:s)
- Alone In The Endzone (D Tek) (2:05 m:s)
- Hanging On (D Tek) (3:37 m:s)
Disc 2 - Living Eyes (Bonus Disc)
- Hanging On (D Tek) (3:38 m:s)
- 455 SD (D Tek) (2:45 m:s)
- Do The Movin' Change (D Tek) (2:28 m:s)
- T.P.B.R. Combo (D Tek / C Masuak) (2:12 m:s)
- I 94 (D Tek / C Jones) (2:49 m:s)
- Iskender Time (D Tek) (1:49 m:s)
- Burn My Eye '78 (D Tek) (1:35 m:s)
- Alien Skies (P Hoyle) (3:15 m:s)
- Time To Fall (D Tek) (3:11 m:s)
- Smith and Wesson Blues (D Tek) (2:55 m:s)
- Crying Sun (W Gilbert / D Tek) (2:56 m:s)
- Breaks My Heart (D Tek) (3:02 m:s)
- More Fun (D Tek) (2:00 m:s)
- Alone In The Endzone (D Tek) (2:07 m:s)
- Dark Surprise (D Tek) (3:29 m:s)
- Didn't Tell The Man (C Masuak) (3:12 m:s)
- Death By The Gun (C Masuak) (3:05 m:s)
- Dark Surprise (D Tek) (3:56 m:s)
- Breaks My Heart (D Tek) (2:54 m:s)
- More Fun (D Tek) (2:00 m:s)
Tracks 1 - 14: Original Rockfield tracks remixed for the Redeye Records CD reissue of Living Eyes
Track 15, 16: Rockfield outtakes. Track 17: Previously unreleased outtake
Tracks 18-20: From the 1989 12" EP 'More Fun!' (WEA / WEA0.257825)
Track 15, 16: Rockfield outtakes. Track 17: Previously unreleased outtake
Tracks 18-20: From the 1989 12" EP 'More Fun!' (WEA / WEA0.257825)