The Chameleons - Lyon, France 1985

The Chameleons - The West Side Club

Lyon, France

May 28, 1985

Soundboard or FM Source @flac

SBD (possibly FM?) > ??? > CDR from trade > EAC > WAV > 

Trader's Little Helper > FLAC (level 8)

Set List:
Silence, Sea and Sky
Pleasure And Pain
Here Today
Singing Rule Britannia (While The Walls Close In)
Intrigue In Tangiers
Return Of The Roughnecks
Monkeyland
In Answer
Less Than Human
A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days
In Shreds
Home Is Where The Heart Is
One Flesh
Second Skin
Tomorrow Never Knows*
Splitting In Two (incomplete)

* The Beatles cover

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uploaded it. Enjoy, and please don't circulate as MP3 or sell!

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The Chameleons - Prime Club Koln, DE 2002

The Chameleons - Prime Club Koln, DE
(Cologne, Germany)
November 18, 2002
Very Good Audience Recording @160-192vbr (7 of 10)

Track List:
01 Swamp thing
02 A person isn't safe anywhere these days
03 Pleasure and pain
04 Here today
05 Return of the roughnecks
06 Less than human
07 Dangerous land
08 Intrigue in Tangiers
09 Anyone alive
10 Indiana
11 Tears
12 Soul in isolation
13 Perfume garden
14 Caution
15 Second skin
16 Monkeyland
17 Don't fall
18 Splitting in two

As always, thanks to the original source!

The Chameleons - Paper Tigers Live



Prime Club '82

The Chameleons - Radio 1 Evening Show 1983

The Chameleons - Radio 1
Evening Show Sessions 1983
BBC Studio recordings
@HQvbr - Out of Print

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The Chameleons output in the eighties was fleeting enough to leave new fans (myself included in that demographic) hungry for more in no time. Evening Sessions is a worthy addition, not quite as compelling as Peel Sessions but not far off either.

"On A Beach" is the only song here which actually sounds weak; an early version that misses out a lot of the final arrangement. Otherwise it's all pretty compelling; "Monkeyland" and "Home Is Where The Heart Is" in particular are raw, visceral versions that rival their studio counterparts for sheer energy and emotional clout.

Taking about half from the first album (with two different takes of the wonderful "View From a Hill"), three songs from their second album (all very good, but the version of "Home is Where the Heart Is" is simply fantastic), and the somewhat rare "Nathan's Phase", which only appeared on the Fan and the Bellows compilation. A few songs (namely "Thursday's Child") are lacking the edge they had on the studio versions, but it's still a very worthwhile. This collection goes hand in hand with the Peel Sessions and is about equal quality.

Track List:
1. Thursday's Child
2. Pleasure and Pain
3. Monkeyland Listen
4. Singing Rule Britannia (While the Walls Close In)
5. On the Beach
6. View from a Hill
7. Nathan's Phase
8. Up the Down Escalator
9. Home Is Where the Heart Is
10. View from a Hill [Previously Unbroadcast Session Recording]

Radio 1 Sessions

The Chameleons - View From a Hill -Live 1982

The Chameleons - Auffuehrung in Berlin 1993

The Chameleons - Auffuehrung in Berlin
Soundboard @HQvbr
Imaginary Records-Out of Print

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Track List:
1-Less Than Human (3:51)
2-Paper Tigers (4:02)
3-Monkeyland (5:11)
4-Thursday's Child (3:36)
5-Second Skin (6:19)
6-Pleasure And Pain (4:15)
7-Singing Rule Britannia (While The Walls Close In)
8-Perfume Garden (4:11)
9-One Flesh (3:38)
10-In Shreds (4:06)
11-Splitting In Two (4:56)

Berlin

The Chameleons - Soul in Isolation Live