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Certain Songs #1958: Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Acid Bird (London 04-27-1985)”

November 16, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Gotta Let This Hen Out!
Year: 1985

. . .

The 1980s were not a good time for live albums.

When the subject comes up, of course, people usually cite Stop Making Sense, but in my TED Talk, I will show that while Stop Making Sense remains an absolutely superlative concert film, the original issue of the album remains underwhelming. Not only did they repeat three titles from 1982’s superior The Name of This Band is Talking Heads, two of them — “Take Me To The River” & “Life During Wartime” — were inferior to the the ones they captured with the Adrian Belew version of the band.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Acid Bird, Gotta Let This Hen Out!, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egpytians

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