Live In Las Vegas (Macy Gray album)
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Live in Las Vegas is a live album
by American R&B
-soul
singer-songwriter Macy Gray
. The album was recorded at the House of Blues
in Las Vegas
, Nevada
, in 2004 and released on DVD
and CD
in 2005.
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
by American R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
-soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
singer-songwriter Macy Gray
Macy Gray
Macy Gray is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her distinctive raspy voice, and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.Gray has released five studio albums, with her fifth studio album, The Sellout,...
. The album was recorded at the House of Blues
House of Blues
House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues first location was in Cambridge's Harvard Square. It was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, star of The Blues Brothers...
in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
, in 2004 and released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
and CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
in 2005.
Disc one
- "Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak" – 7:18
- "When I See YouWhen I See You"When I See You" is the lead single from Macy Gray's third studio album, The Trouble with Being Myself, released in 2003.In the United Kingdom, "When I See You" returned Gray to the top forty after "Sexual Revolution" fell short by several places. It became her fifth top forty hit and her seventh...
" – 3:52 - credited as "When I See You Again" - "Relating to a Psychopath" – 3:49
- "Don't Come Around" – 2:55
- "Caligula" – 7:42
- "Why Didn't You Call MeWhy Didn't You Call Me"Why Didn't You Call Me" is the fourth and final single from Macy Gray's debut album, On How Life Is .-Reception:In the UK, "Why Didn't You Call Me" became Gray's third consecutive top forty hit on the UK Singles Chart. The single also peaked at number twenty-five on the Adult Top 40 in the U.S...
" – 3:42 - "Things That Made Me Change" – 6:36
- "Hey Young World Part 2" – 5:05
- "I've Committed Murder" – 5:30
- "Do SomethingDo Something (song)"Do Something" is the lead single from Macy Gray's debut album, On How Life Is . The song samples OutKast's 1994 song "Git Up, Git Out" and Nice & Smooth's 1989 song "Funky for You", and therefore contained no less than seventeen co-writers including Gray herself.In the United Kingdom, "Do...
" – 3:45
Disc two
- "DemonsDemons (Fatboy Slim song)"Demons" is a song by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim, featuring Grammy Award-winning American R&B-soul singer Macy Gray. The song was released as a single from Slim's 2000 album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and later appeared on Gray's 2004 greatest hits compilation The Very...
" – 5:51 - "Sexual RevolutionSexual Revolution (song)"Sexual Revolution" is the second and final single from Macy Gray's second studio album, The Id .In the United Kingdom, "Sexual Revolution" became Gray's first single since her debut, "Do Something", to miss the top forty. The single had limited success in the United States as well, missing both...
" – 5:59 - "Oblivion" – 3:50
- "I TryI Try"I Try" is the second single from Macy Gray's debut album On How Life Is, released in North American in January 2000 . It was Gray's biggest hit to date...
" – 8:14 - "Sweet BabySweet Baby (song)"Sweet Baby" is the lead single from Macy Gray's second studio album The Id, released in 2001. The single is a collaboration with Erykah Badu, who was a featured vocalist, and John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played the guitar....
" – 5:22 - "She Ain't Right for YouShe Ain't Right for You"She Ain't Right for You" is the second and final single from Macy Gray's third studio album, The Trouble with Being Myself, released in 2003....
" – 4:38 - "I Can't Wait to Meetchu" – 4:13
- "The Letter" – 6:55