Mad for Sadness
- Arab Strap
- Band Name: Arab Strap
- Record Label: Jetset
- Release Date: Jul 4, 2000
User Score
tbd
No user score yet- Awaiting 2 more ratings
- Summary: This live recording features 10 tracks, mainly consisting of material from the band's first two albums.
- Record Label: Jetset
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative, Live
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 7 out of 8
-
Mixed: 1 out of 8
-
Negative: 0 out of 8
-
Malcolm Middleton's moody musical constructions -- sometimes punchy, sometimes hallucinatory and somnolent -- positively glisten in the live setting, and serve due notice that the most important trait of the band is its sound.
-
82This 1998 set, recorded in its entirety with minimal interaction with the audience, melds the finer points of their best work into a potent display.... this succinct live recording stands as their most direct and effective release to date.
-
You may be surprised to learn that the roadside corpse does more than twitch; it gets up and positively rumbas in places ("Girls of Summer"), while "New Birds" heaves with the same fidgety agitation that occasionally made Joy Division seem special. [#147, p.83]
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 1 out of 1
-
Mixed: 0 out of 1
-
Negative: 0 out of 1
-
SteveW.10The best live album ever made from one of the best bands of the last 10 years.
-
Recommended Products
Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
- Release Date: Dec 6, 2011
I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone - Crime In Stereo
- Release Date: Feb 23, 2010
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II - Billy Bragg & Wilco
- Release Date: May 30, 2000
-
Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 - Miles Davis
-
Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition] - Smashing Pumpkins
-
The SMiLE Sessions - The Beach Boys
-
National Treasures: The Complete Singles - Manic Street Preachers
-
Satan Is Real/Handpicked Songs 1955-1962 - The Louvin Brothers
-
Some Girls [Deluxe Edition] - The Rolling Stones
-
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down - Ry Cooder
-
Unto the Locust - Machine Head
-
Quadrophenia [The Director's Cut] - The Who
-
Rio [Live] - Keith Jarrett
-
What Were You Hoping For? - Van Hunt
-
Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
-
Charity Starts at Home - Phonte
-
Nevermind [20th Anniversary Edition] - Nirvana
-
Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller, Vol. 1 - Drexciya
-
Bad as Me - Tom Waits
-
The Singles - Goldfrapp
-
Undun - The Roots


