All Live and All of the Night is a live album by The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

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In the fall of 1986 The Stranglers played their first concerts for two years. By now the band were into their ninth studio album

Studio album

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, Dreamtime, and had added a horn

Horn (instrument)

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-section to the live presentation. The concerts from which tracks were taken span the period from April 1985 to August 1987. One interesting aspect is that the live recording of All Day and All of the Night was dropped in favour of a "live" version specially recorded in the studio -- the story goes that the true live recording was not considered to be up to the desired quality for this album.

Track listing

1. "'No More Heroes'"
2. "'Was It You'"
3. "'Down In The Sewer'"
4. "'Always The Sun'"
5. "'Golden Brown'"
6. "'North Winds'"
7. "'European Female'"
8. "'Strange Little Girl'"
9. "'Nice 'N' Sleazy'"
10. "'Toiler On The Sea'"
11. "'Spain'"
12. "'London Lady'"
13. "Souls" (Bonus Track)
14. "Uptown" (Bonus Track)
15. "Shakin' Like a Leaf" (Bonus Track)
16. "Who Wants the World" (Bonus Track)
17. "Peaches" (Bonus Track)
18. "Straighten Out" (Bonus Track)
19. "Nuclear Device" (Bonus Track)
20. "All Day and All of the Night" (Bonus Track)
21. "Punch and Judy" (Bonus Track)

Additional information

Live sets recorded at: Le Zenith, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 April 29, 1985, Hammersmith Odeon, London

London

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 March 31, 1987 & The Reading Festival August 30, 1987.

Credits

• Album mixed by Jet Black & Ted Hayton.
• Alex Gifford: Saxophone
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• Chris Lawrence: Trombone
  Trombone
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• Jason Votier Screen 3
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  : Trumpet
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