Very few post-punk outfits released live albums during the heyday of the genre in the early and mid-eighties. Since then, when albums have been reissued with bonus discs decades later, live sets recorded in dingy halls in Nijmegen or Augsburg have surfaced. But that doesn't count. It is too much of a conincidence for this to have been an oversight and I can only assume that many post-punk bands were shy of their ability to reproduce their sound live to a sufficient degree not to attempt to do so.It should therefore come as no surprise that this album has to be regarded as the leading post punk live album along with Under a Blood Red Sky by U2. Given that not many bands of the genre made it to vinyl live at the time, there is not really that much in the way of competition. The Cure obviously had the confidence to do what many of their contemporaries did not. Still, there are both positives and negatives to this recording. Among the positives are the crisp and tight sound the band have managed to generate. Amon
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