Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Rhythm of the heat
2. I have the touch
3. Not one of us
4. Family snapshot
5. DIY
6. Family and the fishing net
7. Intruders

Disc 2:

1. San Jacinto
2. Solsbury Hill
3. No self control
4. Shock the monkey
5. I don't remember
6. Humdrum
7. On the air
8. Biko

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94367 in Music
• Released on: 1988-02-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

pg does play live
this was the weirdly titled PLAYTIME 1988 tour- typically perverse PG anti- titling- as it was recorded in 1983!
Anyways contrary to the RISIBLE report above this is the definitive PG tour- streamlined shows, only monkey make up and lights- and BRILLIANT songs- long before RHYTHM really took over and guitars were thrown out of the window...........

DIY is a total standout here- and presents a snippet of the second album live- along with ON THE AIR- which we are unlikely to hear LIVE again from the great man.......

I THINK NEARLY ALL THE SONGS ARE PRESENTED DIFFERENTLY HERE- compared to the studio recordings and nearly all of them are better for that- apart from NO SELF CONTROL and possibly BIKO- which are still at least interesting in a completely different style- the former and possibly more emotional- biko

PGs voice is superb throughout and h NOT ONE OF US, I DONT REMEMBER, INTRUDER AND MONKEY- are all superb on here.........

AND Gabriels detached inbetween banter? is brilliantly self detached and ironic- harking back to his gabble ratchet dayze..... 'the title of this- i don't remember', 'THIS SONG IS FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEMSELVES CLEAN'- i go swimming- etc....

THIS IS AN ASTOUNDING ALBUM AND IS THE ALBUM I fell in love with and grew up with nearly 23 years ago-

secret world is poor in comparison..........

Beware!
I am a big fan of "early" Gabriel and recently purchased the single disk version of this album with great anticipation.
Contrary to the other reviews I was sorely disappointed.

This album lacks all the qualities of a great "live" album: the interaction with the crowd is non-existent; the sound is muddy (incredibly this is even after overdubs!); the tinny 80s drum sound dominates, (you can barely hear anything else) and some of the track choices are poor.

Classics like Biko and Family Snapshot are greatly inferior to the album versions, and others like DIY are risible. Avoid and stick with the studio versions.

....You can't blow out a fire
PG shows, of this era, are vastly underrated. Though a little later in time, the PG performance of BIKO during the Conspiracy
of Hope tour at RFK stadium in '86, just one year after LIVE AID, was one of the most compelling and hypnotic moments in rock'n'roll. There is a forcefulness in every syllable that really draws the listener in such songs as Family Snapshot, Biko, Lay you hands on Me and others. If you weren't there,
PLAYS LIVE allows you to join the festivites.