Had a few listens to the 3CD box now and the sound quality is superb! Can’t complain about that. Setlist wise it has quite some skippers for me. I think I only listen to 6 out of the 15 live tracks and the first feeling I had with Wild West End is that it’s a copy-paste of R&J (or the other way round actually).
Quite the same arrangement and for a newbee I think both songs sound exactly the same: saxophone intro, some national strumming, guitar outro, almost similar length. Also the sequence of songs feels very unnatural to me, I don’t know why but it doesn’t catch me in that sense giving the feeling listening to a concert with a start and end. Just a random bunch of DS songs. Complete lack of flow. The Sydney ‘86 record seems ro give me a more coherent concert feeling, but not completely. RATR is great, but it doens’t work as opener for me and TOL seems to miss some natural flow, already starting with the announcement “The song is Tunnel of Love”. Feels like MK says it too early resulting in a hard cut and AC not being finished yet. If I would need to reshuffle the songs, I’d go for this sequence:
Expresso love
Walk of life
Private investigations
Romeo and Juliet
Sultans of swing
One world
Ride across the river
Wild west end
Tunnel of love
Two young lovers
Money for nothing
Brothers in arms
Why worry
Solid rock
Going home
Glad I bought the 3 disc version and finally have a BIA copy (I barely have any orignal DS studio albums!), but I prefer alchemy and OTN.
