Sunday, May 16, 2010

It's Alive / NYC 1978 Addendum

Extra Material

Both albums have no demos or rehearsal tracks. NYC 1978 includes a short essay by Kurt Loder describing the concert and the band. It's Alive includes a few photos of the boys playing in the concert.

Album Length

All time references are from my iTunes tracklists.

1. It's Alive (recorded 12/31/1977, London)
# of tracks - 28
Album Length: 53.5 minutes
Shortest Track: "Judy is a Punk" - 1:14
Longest Track: " Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" - 2:55

Length of "Blitzkrieg Bop" - 2:05

2. NYC 1978 (recorded 1/7/1978, New York City)

# of tracks - 27

Album Length: 55.6 minutes
Shortest Track: "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" - 1:31

Longest Track: " Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" - 3:14

Length of "Blitzkrieg Bop" - 2:05 (w/ cheers), 2:00 (without cheers)


About "Blitzkrieg Bop"

By this point in their career, the boys have the fastest recording of "Blitzkrieg Bop" at 2:05, beating Leave Home's bonus concert recording. However, the cut on It's Alive is faster and it includes cheers, so removing them gives the length of the song to be about 1:58-2:00 in length making it the shortest before the "Loco Live" era.

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