Baby Blue Live is a live recording of Badfinger.
I found it on Amazon.co.uk but otherwise I don’t know anything about it.
Category: Power Pop Live Albums
Power Pop Live Albums
Power Pop is a name for music that comes in and out of fashion.
It fits within the gap created between The Beatles and The Who as a singles band.
The sound is melodic and features vocal harmonies but the guitars are amplified. Similar to AOR in some ways but without the pretensions.
Pete Townshend is credited with inventing the phrase when he said in 1967 “Power pop is what we play—what the Small Faces used to play, and the kind of pop The Beach Boys played in the days of ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ which I preferred.”
The early bands described as power pop included Badfinger, Big Star and the Rasberries in the early 1970s.
The power pop phrase disappeared for a few years and came back in the late 1970s with the Rich Kids (a great formed by Glen Matlock after he left The Sex Pistols and also featured Midge Ure before Ultravox.) Music by Nick Lowe and the first studio album by Elvis Costello, My Aim is True fit uncomfortably under the new wave and punk banner.
The phrase reappeared again in the early 1990s when Teenage Fanclub had modest success sounding like a more amplified version of Big Star.
To help you to find the best live power pop albums I have created a readers poll.
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Power pop live albums include:
10cc In Concert 1975 (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Big Star – Big Star Live 1974
Big Star – Columbia Live at Missouri University 1993
Blondie Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980
Cheap Trick At Budokan 1978
Dodgy So Far On Three Wheels Dodgy On The Radio 1996
The Kinks One For The Road 1980
The Knack Live From The Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun House
Raspberries – Live On Sunset Strip 2005
Squeeze A Round And A Bout 1990
Wings – Wings Over America 1976
XTC Live In Concert 1980
Badfinger Day After Day Live 1974
Day After Day Live is a live album by one of the original power pop bands, Badfinger.
It was originally recorded at the Agora in Cleveland, Ohio in 1974. However the recording has been extensively rebuilt in the studio by the band’s guitarist and singer Joey Molland.
The live album purist in me deplores these adjustments but the pragmatist says that if it makes the album sound better, it may be worth it. Of course, the ideal is a terrific performance that is recorded live and isn’t tampered with.
Big Star Live In Memphis 1994
Live In Memphis is a live album by power pop band Big Star.
It was recorded on their reunion tour in 1994 so that means that it is with Alex Chilton but without Chris Bell deceased.
Songs On Big Star Live In Memphis
1. In The Street
2. Don’t Lie To Me
3. When My Baby’s Beside Me
4. I Am The Cosmos
5. Way Out West
6. Till The End Of The Day
7. The Ballad Of El Goodo
8. Back Of A Car
9. Fire
10. Daisy Glaze
11. Jesus Christ
12. For You
13. Baby Strange
14. Feel
15. September Gurls
16. Big Black Car
17. Thank You Friends
18. The Girl From Ipanema
19. Patty Girl
20. Slut
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Dodgy So Far On Three Wheels Dodgy On The Radio 1996
So Far On Three Wheels Dodgy On The Radio is a live compilation by power pop group Dodgy.
It is a two set CD which has one disc of radio sessions recorded live in the studio and a second disc recorded live in concert at various venues in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
I discovered Dodgy with their first album and their updated power pop style of indie rock immediately appealed. They are best known in the UK for the hits Staying Out For The Summer and Good Enough.
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The Kinks One For The Road 1980
One For The Road is a live album by The Kinks recorded at concerts between March1979 and March 1980.
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Cheap Trick At Budokan 1978
Cheap Trick At Budokan is a live album recorded in Japan in April 1978.
It was originally released with ten live tracks – Hello There, Come On, Come On, Lookout, Big Eyes, Need Your Love, Ain’t That a Shame, I Want You to Want Me, Surrender, Goodnight Now, Clock Strikes Ten
Since then The Complete Concert version of Cheap Trick At Budokan has been released.
Cheap Trick At Budokan
Blondie Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980
Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980 is an early live album by new wave / power pop group Blondie.
This album has also been packaged as Picture This Live.
I lost count of the number of posters of Debbie Harry i saw when I was a student between 1978-1981. Her face and body was virtually everywhere and her sex kitten image tended to overshadow what a good group Blondie were.
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The Knack Live From The Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun House
Live From The Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun House is a live album by power pop group The Knack.
I don’t know when it was recorded.
The Knack are most famous for the insanely catch single My Sharona.
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Big Star Columbia Live at Missouri University 1993
Columbia Live at Missouri University is a live album by Big Star on their reunion tour in April 1993.
The success of groups like REM and Teenage Fanclub had made Big Star more popular in the nineties than they had been in the early seventies.
Members of Big Star in 1993 were:
- Alex Chilton – vocals, guitar
- Jon Auer – guitar, vocals (also a member of The Posies)
- Ken Stringfellow – bass guitar, vocals (also a member of The Posies)
- Jody Stephens – drums, vocals
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Big Star Live 1974
Live is the first live album from power pop group Big Star. It was recorded in 1974 while Big Star were promoting their second album, Radio City.
Big Star at this stage consisted of:
- Alex Chilton – vocals, guitars
- John Lightman – bass guitar
- Jody Stephens – drums, vocals
