CD Sleeve
The CD Life In A Day includes a slightly inferior recording of this concert.
Live Adventures documents the same concert as the bootleg LP The Best Years Of Our Lives.
Here Comes The Fool to Factory also appear on A Voyage To Remember bootleg.
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- Tracks
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- Format
- Single CD in jewel case with colour sleeve insert.
- Release Information
- Living Legend LLRCD 141
- Concert Source
- Paradiso Club, Amsterdam, 23rd March, 1980
- Quality
- 8/10
- Additional Information
- Live Adventures is taken from the same source as one of the band's earliest bootlegs:
The Best Years Of Our Lives. It's not a direct copy of that LP - it's of better quality, plus it
doesn't include the bonus track on the LP: White Light-White Heat. (That was taken from
another concert.)
The description is the same as the LP's.
- Simple Minds were quick to drop the majority of Life In A Day from their
set list, which is apparent in the track list for this Real To Real Cacophony era concert. The only
remaining Life In A Day songs were the title track itself and Pleasantly Disturbed. The
concert was further expanded with the new song Capital City (which would appear on vinyl later
in the year) and Here Comes The Fool (a later Life In A Day style composition that
escaped being released officially).
- The set started with the very slow pulse of Capital City. Indeed, the whole set seems rather
slow and restrained.
The lyrics are almost the same as the eventual album cut ("To a city that we live on") and the
chorus simply consists of "Pulse...Pulse...Pulse...", the original title of the song.
- Here Comes The Fool, breaking in literally at the end of Capital City, speeds the
proceedings up somewhat, but it wasn't the manic keyboard rush it usually is.
- "This is our first time in Amsterdam" says Jim before the band dip into Real To Real
Cacophony. As with all the tracks from this new album, the vocals are missed at times - here Jim misses
the vocals for the first verse, breaking into the chorus first.
- Life In A Day never changed much from the album version, and this is no different. The keyboards,
too high in the mix, are too instrusive here, whilst the bass is missing entirely. But the band are much better
with Citizen (Dance Of Youth), a song already changing from its album counterpart. The keyboards
are great - really stabbing and direct. And the song charges straight into Factory, with Jim
repeating the final line from Citizen - "An American... With a Camera... American... Camera...
Takes A Picture... OF YOU!
- Factory and Changeing are much the same as the album, with Changeling
sounding particuarly good. And then Mick's creepy synths open Pleasantly Disturbed. Jim attacks the
song, working it up and up during the first half, and shouting the lyrics before the bridge into the
Streetlight section. "RED is that colour... colour... colour..., Take it till you break,
take it, TAKE IT, BREAK, BREAK,..." And then tragically, it fades out! The rest of the song is missing.
- It's of much better quality than The Best Years Of Our Lives and is highly recommended.
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