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| MUSIC The Monoxides With more and more bands recording studio albums that try to capture a live, off the floor sound, Moncton's heavy rock contingent The Monoxides are going one better and releasing an actual live album as the follow-up to their major label debut/swan song (the band recently parted ways with BMG), Galaxy of Stooges. The foursome are also promoting the soon-to-be released record in an original way - by asking their fans to name the album. Ballot boxes will be set up at Sam the Record Man locations as well as at Monoxides' shows and through Chart Magazine, with the winning name earning prize packages as well as immortality for the lucky fan. For those looking for an advantage in the name game here are guitarist Derek Robichaud's top five - in content, not moniker - live albums of all time: 1. The Who Live at Leeds: "For The Who it's such a heavy album and you can tell that they were really on that night." 2. Humble Pie Performance: Rockin' at the Fillmore: "It's so much more heavy than their studio records and they did an amazing job of getting the crowd into it." 3. KISS Alive II: "It was the first live record I ever got and I like the songs way better on the second one than (KISS Alive I). And the whole packaging of the album is great - the booklet, the tattoos...." 4. Cheap Trick Budokan I and II: "Both albums are great - I haven't picked up the Complete Concert yet, though. The songs on the second one are way heavier than the first one." 5. MC5 Kick Out the Jams: "It is so loud and so powerful. I can't imagine being in the audience and hearing something like that in 1968, when there was nothing else like it." |
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