Steve Earle: Shut Up And Die Like An Aviator CD Track Listing

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Steve Earle Shut Up And Die Like An Aviator (1991)
Originally Released September 17, 1991\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Released on MCA in 1991, Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator was recorded live in Ontario, Canada, in October of 1990. The live hits collection was the last for Earle on MCA, as the songwriter was released after his contract with the label ran out despite having issued a string of critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated records. Shortly afterward, the singer's addictions got the best of him and he ended up in prison for a while and out of the music scene completely for four years. So this live collection could be considered the last of Earle's pre-prison and personally dark years. Culled from the track lists of the songwriter's seminal MCA catalog, which includes monumental releases like Guitar Town and Copperhead Road, the songs on this live effort are unrepentant, almost effusive odes to hard-living, blue-collar American life, rich with their perfectly drawn characters and tragic narratives. Along with his band the Dukes, Earle blasts through country-rock (in the greatest sense of the term) anthems and heartbreakers like "Devil's Right Hand" and "Copperhead Road." A couple upbeat rockabilly numbers like "Snake Oil," twangy ballads like "Billy Austin," and nice covers (most notably the Jagger/Richards-penned "Dead Flowers") get tossed in to add to the live show's dynamic, making the whole thing one big rootsy riot that's just about as good as contemporary American music can get. -- Vincent Jeffries\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nLive album with overdubs, June 17, 2005\nReviewer: kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States)\n\nThis is a live CD that has been overdubbed in parts due to "technical difficulties". It gives the CD a strange sound, like someone playing along to their favorite songs. \n\nThis is Steve Earle just before he fell completely over the deep end. Normally, that might not be a bad thing. People like Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan have actually lost thier spark once they cleaned up. Sad to say, but some of the greatest music of all time comes from the drug addicted, including Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. \n\nBut, the problem with Earle is that he may have been too far gone. The other guys kept it under control and let it out in their music. Earle is paranoid and edgy. \n\nBecause of the sound problems and the performance, this not a great live CD. I think the studio versions of these songs are much better. \n\nEarle does have a lot to say. But, I'm not sure that I always agree with Earle's good ol' boy, loser, paranoic view that the world is out to get you and that there is nothing you can do. I am also not so sure about his anti-death penalty stance. I don't favor making sympathetic characters out of murderers. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nInteresting Live CD, March 15, 2002\nReviewer: A music fan\nRecorded during a Canadian tour of the early 90's, this appears to be a fan's dream: a greatest hits package recorded live with Earle and the experienced Dukes performing at their peak-Earle, however, was in the depths of his drug addiction during this tour, so the performances are restless at best. A live reference to an incident in Ottawa points to Earle's growing spirit of social conscienceness. His stellar writing rescues this project, with new tour staples such as the anti-death penalty anthem "Billy Austin," the auto-biographical "I'm The Other Kind," and "West Nashville Boogie," (all from "The Hard Way") providing shining moments. A teasing "Guitar Town" is tell-tale: there are only shreds remaining of the exhuberant 27-year-old laureate who took the country and rock communities by storm only 4 years earlier. Most frightening is a transcending, gut-level version of Jimmy Rogers' "Blue Yodel #9," showing that Earle remembers from whenst he came, but leaving the listener wondering where Earle is going. Or if he'll survive the journey.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nTruly great live albums are a rarity, and always have been.., July 31, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nTruly great live albums have always been a rarity. "Shut Up And Die Like An Aviator" ranks among the best. Having read some of the other (decidedly negative) reviews of this album posted on this site, I can't help but wonder WHY the "critic" didn't like it. What are they...on DOPE? To wit, what's with this hoo-hah about "poor choice of songs?" I've always thought that this album was one helluva generous intro to the uninitiated. What is there to pick nits over? The live version of "Billy Austin" (with that unbelievable opening guitar that gives ya the willies...BRRR!) is all by itself worth buying the album for! The version of "Dead Flowers" will even make you forget it's a Stones song for a while, and brother, that's no easy feat! I haven't even mentioned the truly rockin' parts 'cause they speak for themselves. As far as foregoing this beaut in favor of the studio albums, get those too! However, if you enjoy your favorite bands' live albums because they aren't a verbatim recital of their studio recordings, then "Shut Up..." is right up your alley. This is a "dangerous" album; a real, honest-to-pete rock n' roll record. It sounds as if it could blow apart at any second, and just maybe take you, the listener, right along with it.
This country cd contains 17 tracks and runs 77min 1sec.
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