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's third live album, and their first to document a single performance. The show in question, recorded on December 7, 1991, at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, was performed semi-acoustically, with synth-man

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instead handling an upright piano, and

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playing an amplified (and occasionally heavily distorted) acoustic guitar.

Track listing

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, Daved Hild, David Thomas, Garo Yellin, Tony Maimone) – 6:47 #"Life of Riley" (Thomas, Eric Drew Feldman, Jim Jones, Scott Krauss, Maimone) – 3:08 #"Wine Dark Sparks" (Chris Cutler, Thomas, Feldman, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 3:16 #"Heaven" (Ravenstine, Thomas, Krauss, Tom Herman, Maimone) – 3:28 #"Worlds in Collision" (Thomas, Feldman, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 2:49 #"Cry Cry Cry" (Cutler, Thomas, Feldman, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 3:10 #"Non-Alignment Pact/

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" (Ravenstine, Thomas, Krauss, Herman, Maimone/ David Alexander, Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton) – 3:41 #"Caligari's Mirror" (Ravenstine, Thomas, Krauss, Herman, Maimone) – 3:33 #"Invisible Man" (Cutler, Thomas, Feldman, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 3:38 #"We Have the Technology" (Ravenstine, Cutler, Thomas, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 3:10 #"Humor Me" (Ravenstine, Thomas, Krauss, Herman, Maimone) – 4:18 #"Busman's Honeymoon" (Ravenstine, Cutler, Thomas, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 3:20 #"Oh Catherine" (Thomas, Feldman, Jones, Krauss, Maimone) – 4:24 #"Misery Goats/Master of the Universe" (Ravenstine, Thomas,

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, Krauss, Maimone/

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) – 3:49

Personnel

;Pere Ubu * David Thomas - vocals, radio, swirl horn *

- acoustic guitar, rat pedal *

- honky-tonk upright piano *

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- acoustic guitar, electric bass *

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- drums, percussion ;Technical *Todd Petersen - engineer *John Thompson - artwork, photography

References

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