Product Description

'Live From Dakota' is a double live album capturing the concert experience of British rock outfit the Stereophonics. Recorded throughout 2005, the two-disc set features all their biggest hits, including 'Local Boy In The Photograph', 'JustLooking' and, of course, their UK No.1 single 'Dakota'. Therecording also features a rare live performance of 'Carrot Cake And Wine' and a previously unreleased song entitled 'Jayne'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Superman
2. Doorman
3. Thousand Trees
4. Devil
5. Mr Writer
6. Pedalpusher
7. Deadhead
8. Maybe Tomorrow
9. Bartender And The Thief
10. Local Boy In The Photograph

Disc 2:

1. Hurry Up And Wait
2. Madame Helga
3. Vegas Two Times
4. Carrot Cake And Wine
5. I'm Alright (You Gotta Go There To Come Back)
6. Jayne
7. Too Many Sandwiches
8. Traffic
9. Just Looking
10. Dakota

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17619 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Amazon.co.uk Review
Stereophonics' first official live recording captures them out on the road in the USA--specifically, Dakota, the inspiration for their 2005 UK No.1 single--knocking out the Everyman anthems that, if the ecstatic crowd reaction here is to be believed, stretches far beyond their genesis in the sleepy Welsh valleys. Stretched over two CDs, Live From Dakota cuts through every strata of Stereophonic' career, from recent album moments like "Superman" and "Doorman"--played here as a bristly one-two opening salvo--to forgotten gems like "Carrot Cake And Wine", a B-side dating all the way back to Word Gets Around. The sound is crisp, belying little of the cavernous arena it's captured in, and crowd noise is generally unobtrusive, aside from when Kelly Jones vacates the microphone towards the close of "Traffic", the audience chorusing the words back with perceptible American twang. Inevitably, affairs end with a breezy run through "Dakota", capping a live set that should satisfy fans and work as a good entry to newcomers before that inevitable Greatest Hits materialises. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Excellent live album
When you first listen to the album, you are confronted with an awesome introductory track of 'Superman' that is arguably better than their studio version. Throughout the live album you hear there best songs performed live to a fantastic level.

A must for Phonics fans, and for any music lover - especially those who understand and appreciate excellent live performances. It is excellent value for money and comes on two discs - brilliant.

Wow!! but slightly annoying
Good this album is amazing! Every track is awesome live and takes me back to when I saw them in Cardiff at their homecoming gig. Definite highlights are the songs off word gets around like "thousand trees" and "local boy in a photograph".
The only problem i see with this album is the song selection. The album seems to contain a lot of tracks from the "just enough education to perform" which is widely regarded as there worst album. A definite omission that will annoy a lot of fans is "more life in a tramps vest", for me the highlight of there amazing gig.
Overall though the tracks that are there are amazing so defiantly worth buying!

Once a pub band, always a pub band
Kelly Jones has a great voice and past albums have shown what a class song writer and arranger he is. I really looked forward to this as a huge fan and was impressed when I saw them twice on the tour but this album, like LSVO was a huge let down.

Put it like this. This album and Kelly's current typical valley's 'inverted snobbery' attitude is similar to turning up at Gordon Ramsey's and being offered a pot noddle. We know it can be better than this so why make it sound like s**t just for the sake of it. Its not cool, its sad