Search - Various Artists :: Live From the Masque, Vol. 2: We We Can Can Do Do What What

For Dedicated Punk Fans Only

weirdosx | 08/30/1999

(2 out of 5 stars)

"The poor sound quality on most of this album ruins some good performances by some very good bands. The liner notes describe how the master tapes used to make this album were in terrible shape and had to be put through some kind of baking process in order to be usable. Frankly, I don't think it was worth it. The best recordings are the ones featuring the Alleycats, and I like this band a lot -- their music has a New-York-punk kind of sound. Next in recording quality is the F-Word performance, incuding the classic "Do the Nihil." The problem with the X recordings is that they are such a great band that listening to their performance being defiled by this terrible sound quality is almost painful. For a much better live X recording, get "X - Live at the Whisley A-Go-Go." The Zeros tracks are problably the worst in sound quality, which is also a shame since they too were a really good band."