The Last Record Album – one of the fine albums that Little Feat delivered – is about to get the luxury, wallet-shredding treatment.
For my money, over recent months rather too many lacklustre discs have received these dee-lux reissues, causing a wallet-tightening effect with the suspicion of rampant barrel scraping from mercenary territory. This one, however, is nothing of the sort. It’s one of my all time favourites, even though not Feat’s finest hour.
The eager CD purchaser, we are told, will also benefit from a bonus CD included in the package, but this promise is followed by the tummy tightening phrase, “While Supplies Last“.
It features the band’s electrifying performance at the Charlton Athletic Football Ground in London in 1976.
Message ends.
Money no problem. I’m sure it’ll be on Tidal. I can’t understand why people still allow themselves to get wallet raped for some bits of card and paper they’ll look at once.
I was and am a big fan of Little Feat and saw them at Charlton. Can’t remember anything about it at all now. Maybe Lowell wore a cowboy hat?
All I can say is that I consider $10 a month for access to nothing at all that you actually own, and only then while you have a connection to the internet, to be one form of wallet-raping.
Fair enough.
I don’t feel the need to own music. I used to, so perhaps I do understand really when I think about it.
Anything available via a stream can be downloaded for use offline. In about 1/10th of the time it takes to burn onto a cd.
Surely the huge, gigantic advantage of streaming is having everything you might ever want available for less than the price of one CD. Perfectly understand the pleasure of physical product whether CD or vinyl but, let’s be honest here, how many mistakes over the years have we all made when reading a review or listening to one track and rushing out to buy? My constant refrain used to be “Give it time, it really grows on you “. Yeah, right.
Stream then, if it’s your thing, by all means buy the CD but calling that “wallet rape” is just silly – more like “save my wallet “…
My use of “wallet rape” was in reference to overpriced special edition releases, not CDs in general.
Understood, but in my opinion the Little Feat expanded reissues don’t really fall into that category. They are a long way from the three-figure territory some labels have been pumping (or pimping) out these last few years.
But it disappears if you stop subscribing
I agree. I treat it like borrowing an album from a mate. If I love it l buy it.
That’s what I’m saying. If you like it after streaming then buy it. I don’t, got rid of all my records and CDs a few years back as part of my “Simplify Life” project but if you want a room full of CDs and vinyl that is absolutely, perfectly, understandably fine. Streaming companies shaft artists, especially the less-commercial ones, but the musical freedom they have let loose, IMHO, does nothing but good.
Classic example – I’ve said elsewhere I was in the audience for the Who at The Oval and thought their performance was pedestrian at best. Fifty years later with no streaming I’d have still gone and shelled out hard dosh for the CD just to see if I was Wrong. Others will disagree but I was Right fifty years ago and I am Right today.
I too was at the Oval. TBH I can’t remember much about the performance, but I’m fairly sure I enjoyed it. I was 16 and it was the first time I’d seen the Who. How could I not have?
As for the live album. By about the 3rd track when they hit their groove, I think it’s great and I have played and really enjoyed it several times. Pretty much a dream setlist as well.
Not sure how useful this is, but I saw Charlton Athletic lose 1-2 to Blackpool at the Valley in 1976.
I can’t remember Derek Hales wearing a cowboy hat that day but memory can play tricks.
TLRA not Feat’s finest hour? I know it’s a minority opinion, but – yes it is!
Wrongety wrong! Though that’s how it was reviewed BITD. Wrong then too.
You have the nerve to type that, while quoting Long Distance Love further down the thread?? Words fail me…
I think we’re at cross purposes. I thought you were saying it is not their finest hour. Doh! It’s a masterpiece.
I was disagreeing with the OP, to wit: “It’s one of my all time favourites, even though not Feat’s finest hour”
I agree (with you).
You’re both wrong. Nothing tops the Chicken.
Fair cop. The trouble is what about Feats Don’t Fail Me Now? That first run of 6 are all brilliant.
So right. Unmatched sequence, really, all the way to Hoy-Hoy!
“Unmatched sequence” of albums – sounds like a thread idea…
…or have we already done it?
“Unmatched run of albums”?
For sure.
“Have we already done that?”
Possibly not
I’m sure we have but I can’t find it.
I love the album but I already have several versions of it and all the extras other than the Charlton set. I hope they’re haven’t replaced the Lowell version of All That You Dream with the Linda version (excellent as it is) as on Spotify.
Hmm.
Yeah, I know, but… it’s the Feat, innit? I must have at least thirty different recordings of most of the songs that made up their 70s live set, but I’m a sucker for more!
I agree in spirit but I’m increasingly anti-stuff. I’m trying to get rid of lots of stuff I’ve accumulated though obviously this doesn’t include my Little Feat albums!
Elbows @Twang out of the way.
Hang on, mate, I’m selecting huge quantities of stuff to get rid of so stop lowering the market prices until my shelves are more thinly populated please!
(so I can buy more stuff)
Arf.
But its worth noting that the recent deluxe editions of the previous albums have all sounded superb and I presume that this will have similar remastering.
Yeah they have been a sonic improvement and my vinly of TLRA never sounded that flash.
“I’ve been down
But not like this before”
One of my favourite opening couplets
“Ah hello
Give me missing persons, they said
What is it that you need?
I said oh I need her so
They said you’ve got to stop your pleading”.
Dust.
Can’t see any mention of Charlton in the blurb — it says the live recordings are from the Orpheum Theatre, Boston. Have pre-ordered on Amazon — hopefully the remaster will sound better than the version from the mammoth Feat box set a few years ago. That was like listening to it being played next door.
This is the page I linked to in the OP – I’ve circled the bit about the limited availability of the bonus disc featuring the Charlton gig:
Ah… missed that bit!
Thundering typhoons can be distracting.
Allow me.
Disc One: 2025 Remaster
“Romance Dance”
“All That You Dream”
“Long Distance Love”
“Day Or Night”
“One Love Stand”
“Down Below The Borderline”
“Somebody’s Leavin’”
“Mercenary Territory”
Disc Two: Hotcakes, Outtakes, Rarities
“Down Below The Borderline” (Demo)
“Rockin’ Shoes” 1 & 2 (Demo)
“Fool On The Avenue” (Demo) *
“All That You Dream” (Alternate Version) *
“Mercenary Territory” (Alternate Version) *
“Long Distance Love” (Alternate Version) *
“Romance Dance” (Alternate Version)
“High Roller”
“Day Or Night” (Instrumental) [Rough Mix] *
“Front Page News” (Outtake)
“Long Distance Love” (Rough Mix) *
“All That You Dream” (Single Version)
Disc Three: Hellzapoppin’: Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA (10/31/75)
“Two Trains” *
“Skin It Back” *
“Fat Man In The Bathtub” *
“Walkin’ All Night” *
“A Apolitical Blues” *
“Oh Atlanta’ *
“On Your Way Down” *
“Day Or Night” *
“All That You Dream” *
Disc Four: Hellzapoppin’: Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA (10/31/75)
“Romance Dance” *
“Long Distance Love” *
Medley: “Cold Cold Cold/Dixie Chicken/Tripe Face Boogie/Bag Of Reds/Tripe Face Boogie (Reprise)” *
“Willin’” *
“Teenage Nervous Breakdown” *
“Spanish Moon” *
LIVE AT CHARLTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL GROUND, LONDON, ENGLAND (5/31/76)
CD Track Listing
“Skin It Back” *
“One Love Stand” *
“Rock And Roll Doctor” *
“Oh Atlanta” *
“On Your Way Down” *
Medley: “Juliette/Lafayette Railroad/Day Or Night” *
“All That You Dream” *
“Cold Cold Cold” *
Thanks @Twang.
Worth pointing out that the Orpheum gig boot from October 31st 1975 has been available for a very long time.
I think I got my copy from the Audio Archive in flac form. It’s a reasonable FM mix I think – there’s a one minute intro from some radio jock who yells ‘Happy Halloween everyone!’ to start the proceedings, and then intros the band – it’s a little muddy in places, but with some really fine playing, with Lowell in great form. I’m hoping they might have been able to either find a better source, or work some remastering magic for this new release. Either way it’s a great gig.
Ordered via the dodgers although there does seem to be some confusion over the release date.
Yes, it will be on streaming, or at least all the previous releases have been
Thing is ver Feat were not a jam band. I have the Waiting For Colombus box set. Multiple live shows. They all… pretty much… sound the same. If you are a guitarist or a musician more generally you might think the differences are huge but to the average punter… moi… they are pretty damn alike. All excellent mind you, but alike.
Tell me, Junes, I’m in the market for a recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. So which specific orchestra/conductor/performance of it should I buy, or doesn’t it matter? They all sound pretty much the same, after all.
😉
Well , quite. When it comes to classical I’d have even less motivation to duplicate.
I do have 3 vinly boots of LF, plus the live, the waiting for colombus boxset and some dvds. So it’s not as if I stopped at one but it’s not like other bands. Say the Dead, jazzers or even the Stones IMO.
Couldn’t agree more with Senior: pretty much my favourite band but no idea whatsoever why you’d want more than one or three live recordings – they all really do sound the same, cos they were not (thank god) the Grateful Dead!
Top 5 Beethoven 5th’s
Riccardio Chailly
Sir Richard Norrington
Carlos Kleiber
Leonard Bernstein
Charles Mackerras
Well…I’ll give you the Mackerras!
You mean, you have a copy and want to give it away?
That would be yes; and no.
My top 5, in no particular order, would be
Charles Mackerras
Igor Markevich
Felix Weingartner
Otto Klemperer
George Szell
…the point (within the context of the comments above) being that these nine recordings are not duplicates and don’t sound the same…
Thanks guys. I’m not really in the market for another Fifth, though I may follow up the Mackerass, as you’ve both listed it!
Fitter has a copy to give away. 😉
I refer you to the answer that I gave some hours ago…
…and Carlos Kleiber is over-rated. So there!
His dad’s version is better artistically but less well recorded. 😉
Karajan joking, Tiggs.
First Feat album I ever bought and love it to bits despite the bad reviews
it got at the time. That said, I am all deluxe, box-setted out and will give
this a miss
I got this beauty which is fab.
The Broadcast Collection https://amzn.eu/d/4eJheQb
Helluva diversity of reviews on Amazon.
A 12 minute Dixie Chicken. Hmmm ok maybe they did jam a bit.
You say that like it’s a bad thing
Twenty sovs for a big wodge of CDs was a bargain – even allowing for the fact that a lot of the content can be grabbed from Archive.org. Don’t think it’s still available mind – might have crossed a few copyright lines along the way.
There’s always stuff like that on Amazon these days. Got myself a 2 x 2 LP set of Van M’s Pacific High live album and a Box Scaggs Pacific High CD a couple of weeks back
In theory these are remastered etc though I haven’t done any A/B comparisons.