Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey Baby

1 If There Is Something, 3:53

2 Amazing, 4:09

3 I Can’t Read, 6:30

4 Stateside, 8:13

5 Under The God, 4:08

6 Goodbye Mr. Ed, 3:34

7 Heaven’s In Here, 12:09

8 You Belong In Rock ‘N’ Roll, 6:59

Recorded: Orpheum Theatre, Boston

Academy, New York

Riviera, Chicago

NHK Hall, Tokyo

Kouseinenkin Kaikan, Sapporo

(20 November 1991 – 11 February 1992

Musicians: David Bowie, vocals, guitar, saxophone

Reeves Gabrels, guitar, vocals

Tony Sales, bass, vocals

Hunt Sales, drums, vocals

Eric Schermerhorn, guitar, vocals

Producers: Max Bisgrove, Tom Dube, Reeves Gabrels,

Dave Bianco, David Bowie

Released: 27 July 1992

Label: London 828 3282

Released on a wave of indifference in the summer of 1992, Tin Machine’s final assault on the market has the ignominous distinction of being the only new Bowie album since 1967 not to have entered even the lowest reaches of the UK chart. A live Tin Machine album was hardly likely to tempt the casual buyer, but even the most devoted fan might have hoped for a more imaginative track listing. During the ‘It’s My Life’ tour the band had performed covers of ‘Debaser’, ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’ and ‘Go Now’ which, had they been included here, might at least have loosened the wallet of the completist. Instead the album was dominated by a sprawling eight-minute rendition of the dreaded ‘Stateside’ and a twelve-minute ‘Heaven’s In Here’, ensuring that even the most patient loyalists thought twice before buying it.

Nick Pegg