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I seem to remember hearing that several of the tracks on Life were
recorded live and then cleaned up in the studio. To my ears, I
believe they were

Too Lonely
Prisoners
When Your Lonely Heart Breaks

Anyone know for sure, and possibly which shows they came from (a long
shot I know)?

--PunkDavid

Here's what Ghosts On The Road says about the Life album as far as
live tracks and identification.

"The Neil Young and Crazy Horse album "Life" also contained live
material from the 1986 tour. However, the recordings were edited and
overdubbed to such an extent that identification of venues is virtually
impossible and to some extent, irrelevant. The following songs have,
however, been identified.

Mideast Vacation - Los Angeles - 11/18/86
Long Walk Home - Los Angeles - 11/18 & 11/19/86
Around The World - Los Angeles - 11/18/86
Inca Queen ?
Too Lonely ?
Prisoners Of Rock n'Roll ?
Cryin Eyes - Studio
When Your Lonely Heart Breaks ?
We Never Danced - Studio

Shawn McCorkle - Just Riding My LLama

After we saw Neil and Crazy Horse in Chicago in Fall of 1986, I figured the
next album was going to be great. And I was ready for a great Crazy Horse
album, too. Here's what I heard that night and thought was coming:

Too Lonely - simple but fun
Eldorado Town - couldn't hear the lyrics well in that barn that is/was the
Horizon, but the riff sounded great
Inca Queen - this blew me away live
Around the World - I think maybe this was played, I remember there being
another new rocker.
Mideast Vacation
Long Walk Home - a great one/two punch, intriguing lyrics
Prisoners of Rock n Roll - this was a great closer - a rededication, I thought

So there we had in 7 songs the beginnings of a great album. Add a couple
more great tunes and you have a classic, but when Life came out I was
somewhat underwhelmed. Why?

Studio tinkering messed up good songs - like others have said. I didn't
like the middle section of Around the World. I didn't need the bombs in
Long Walk Home - more subtle in concert in 1986, though they included the
bomb sounds in 1987. I also didn't like the monkey sounds in Inca Queen.

Ultimately, what did in Life for me was that the song order didn't flow
well. Prisoners is an opener or a closer and sounded out of place in the
middle. We lost Eldorado Town and gained one good rocker (Crying Eyes) and
2 slow tunes. With the ballads on the end the album ended with a big bag
of downers. The two songs weren't bad, as such, but they didn't sound good
on the end, and they were only good not great songs.

When I recorded my albums to tape in the late 80's I broke up Life to use
as filler for among other things the superstars in concert radio broadcast.
Recorded during the same tour, the show didn't include any of the new
songs, so it made sense to me to put live sounding Life tracks there.

I've got it on CD now, but I do wish it had been done differently. Not
bad, just fumbled, IMHO. Maybe it should have been done as a live album
like Time Fades Away. Oh well ...

Joe

joe tells us:

I also didn't like the monkey sounds in Inca Queen.

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don't remember any monkey sounds in inca queen.
of course, haven't heard this song in a looooooong time.
will listen again... for the monkey sounds.

...one for the monkey
...two for the show
...three to get ready
...now GO CAT GO...

mira