Luna / Live
Artist Luna
Album Title: Live
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Primary Genre Alternative
Format CD
Released 02/06/2001
Reissue Date 00/00/2006
Label Arena Rock Recording Company
Catalog No ARE 017-2
Bar Code No 6 3998-00017-2 3
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Bewitched (4:38)
2. Chinatown (4:53)
3. Double Feature (4:14)
4. Pup Tent (6:00)
5. Sideshow By The Seashore (3:05)
6. Anesthesia (4:43)
7. Tiger Lilly (5:03)
8. 4000 Days (4:12)
9. Hello Little One (4:29)
10. Moon Palace (3:38)
11. Lost In Space (3:35)
12. 23 Minutes In Brussels (7:46)
13. 4th Of July (4:57)
14. Bonnie And Clyde (6:04)
Date Acquired 11/01/2012
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 9.99

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Notes

Recorded at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C., December 10 1999 and the Knitting Factory in New York City, July 14-15, 2000.
Mixed at TMF Studios.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.
Bass, Vocals – Britta Phillips (tracks: 1 to 3, 11 to 14), Justin Harwood (tracks: 4 to 10)
Design, Typography – Chris Griggs
Drums – Lee Wall
Engineer [Assistant] – Tom DeKorte
Engineer [Front Of House] – Dave Curran, Evan Player
Engineer [Recording, For Big Mo Mobile Recording (washington, D.c.)] – Greg Hartman
Engineer [Recording, Knitting Factory] – Rob McCabe
Engineer [Recording] – Kramer
Guitar, Vocals – Dean Wareham, Sean Eden
Liner Notes – Joe Levy
Mastered By – Steve Fallone
Mixed By – Mario Salvati
Photography [Band Photos] – D.S. Resch, Jutta Brandt, Pablo Chang, Rhea Flaten, Yoriko Tanaka
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Analyzed Folder: Luna - Live_dr.txt
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DR         Peak       RMS        Filename                      
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DR9        -0.01 dB   -12.31 dB   01 - Bewitched.flac          
DR9        -0.01 dB   -10.59 dB   02 - Chinatown.flac          
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.64 dB   03 - Double Feature.flac      
DR9        -0.01 dB   -10.76 dB   04 - Pup Tent.flac            
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.74 dB   05 - Sideshow by the Seashore.flac
DR8        -0.01 dB   -10.68 dB   06 - Anesthesia.flac          
DR9        -0.01 dB   -10.87 dB   07 - Tiger Lily.flac          
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.60 dB   08 - 4000 Days.flac          
DR8        -0.01 dB   -10.62 dB   09 - Hello Little One.flac    
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.67 dB   10 - Moon Palace.flac        
DR8        -0.01 dB   -10.53 dB   11 - Lost in Space.flac      
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.96 dB   12 - 23 Minutes in Brussels.flac
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.11 dB   13 - 4th of July.flac        
DR8        -0.01 dB     -9.97 dB   14 - Bonnie and Clyde.flac    
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Number of Files: 14
Official DR Value: DR8
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Sam Samuelson
Dean Wareham told Ice Magazine, "Generally speaking I don't like live albums, except for bands like Television and a few others. But having just made one I now know that you can capture all the live energy that's just about impossible to capture in the studio -- unless you're a band like AC/DC, that is." Despite his initial reservations, Luna Live is a hypnotic, bittersweet, transcendental pop masterpiece. It finds the band in great form at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and also New York's Knitting Factory, and yet the presentation of the sound quality and the mastering are situated in such a way that it seems like one evening. Even a personnel change in the middle of the record goes almost unnoticed as the previous bass player Justin Harwood plays the middle seven tracks and his apt replacement Britta Phillips plays the front three and last four. Ten years of Luna are presented here by way of inspired presentations of songs from each of their studio efforts. Luna Live uses this material as a departure point, pulling out smart and inspired versions of "Double Feature" (mistitled as "Friendly Advice" on the back cover), "Pup Tent," and if they have (or if anyone has) ever soared to the heights of "Marquee Moon," it's with this version of "23 Minuets in Brussels." Wareham and second guitarist Sean Eden completely take this one away to places of guitar eminence where they are in complete and utter control of sound. Any good rock show (and one is certainly translated here) is like a good film. Participating in either of them makes one feel like they can do anything: like you have escaped from your cube and have decided to walk around the city all day watching the world go by while thinking about lost love and aspirations for a future that is at once so distant and unattainable. [The Arena Rock Recording Co. also released a vinyl version of Luna Live with four bonus tracks.]
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