Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley has got hold of some of the worlds best artists to perform in the Live Lounge. Not only to perform there own tracks but to perform another artists song in their own style. The Live Lounge has become an integral part of her show and becuase of its success, the Live Lounge 2CD was released.
The Live Lounge sessions enable artists to let listeners hear what they are all about. The live and unrehearsed sessions allow the listeners to appreciate what an artist is really like (and how they can sign without digital enhancements)!!
The Live Lounge has encouraged artist to reproduce covers of their own personal favourite artists or tracks. Some of these have been truely outstanding as any listener to Jo Whiley's show will know.
Can you imagine hearing The Automatic covering Kanye West, or Franz Ferdinand covering Gwen Stefani, or even Corinne Bailey Rae covering Munich?
With a lot of pushing from the fans of the show, there was now doubt that the BBC would have to release an album of the very best bits of the Live Lounge sessions.
As accomplished as such moments are, however, its the cover versions that provide some of the definite highlights of this particular listening experience.
Other artists include The Kooks covering Gnarls Barkley, The Automatic covering Kanye West. All just very very special moments.
The CD contains 38 tracks. As a live album it is very good, however, a little dissapointing when I found myself skipping tracks to get to the next "good" one. Many of the tracks are great but when I think back to all the fantastic tracks I have heard on Radio 1, I can't help but wonder why they aren't on the compilation.
My recommendation is to borrow a copy from a friend.
The track listing is as follows:
Disc: 1
Foo Fighters DOA Arctic Monkeys Love Machine Snow Patrol Run The Kooks Crazy Razorlight Golden Touch Corinne Bailey Rae Munich The Automatic Goldigger The Editors All Sparks Boy Kill Boy Maneater Queens Of The Stone Age No One Knows Embrace How Come James Blunt If Theres Any Justice Natasha Bedingfield The Scientist The Kings Of Leon Mollys Chambers Jamie Cullum Frontin Sugababes Livin For the Weekend Lemar I Believe In A Thing Called Love Will Young Hey Ya Hard Fi Tied Up Too Tight Oasis Songbird
Disc: 2
Coldplay The Scientist Lily Allen Smile Keane With Or Without You K T Tunstall Other Side Of The World Franz Ferdinand What You Waiting For Pink Family Portrait Outkast Ms Jackson The Futureheads Hounds Of Love Jamelia Numb Dizzee Rascal Jus A Rascal Lemon Jelly Nice Weather For Ducks Mylo In My Arms My Chemical Romance Song 2 The Coral Dreaming Of You Maximo Park Gone Missing The Bravery Honest Mistake The Streets Lets Push Things Forward Basement Jaxx Romeo Orson Push The Button 50 Cent In Da Club
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Disc 1 Foo Fighters - DOA Arctic Monkeys - Love Machine Snow Patrol - Run The Kooks - ... more
Crazy Razorlight - Golden Touch Corinne Bailey Rae - Munich The Automatic - Goldigger The Editors - All Sparks Boy Kill Boy - Maneater Queens Of The Stone Age - No O...
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Advantages: Some excellent performance, shows the pure raw talents of some of the UKs top artists Disadvantages: some weaker tracks and some covers that dont work for me
Apr 26th, 2007
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