Live at Raji's


Live at Raji's is a live album and by Los Angeles band The Dream Syndicate.

Background

Containing songs from throughout the band's career, it is the last album released before the band broke up, and came out as a double album on the heels of their last studio album, Ghost Stories. The album was incorrectly reported to have been recorded after Ghost Stories; in fact, the recordings were made on 31 January 1988, before Ghost Stories was recorded. The show took place at Raji's, a Los Angeles club, "in front of a delirious hometown audience".
The album was produced by Elliot Mazer, and was re-released in an expanded edition, with the original running order, in 2004. This re-release was reviewed in No Depression, the reviewer praising "Cutler's jagged, eight-legged leads" and compared the album to Neil Young's Live Rust and Warren Zevon's Stand in the Fire; "Rajis is the Syndicate's Television-meets-the-Velvet-Underground sound pushed as far as it would go. It was also the end of an era."

Track listing

Original 1989 edition

  1. "Still Holding on to You" - 4:15
  2. "Forest for the Trees" - 4:25
  3. "Until Lately" - 7:09
  4. "That's What You Always Say" - 4:47
  5. "Burn" - 5:52
  6. "Merrittville" - 7:46
  7. "The Days of Wine and Roses" - 8:22
  8. "The Medicine Show" - 8:51
  9. ""Halloween" - 6:55
  10. "Boston" - 7:35
  11. "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" - 12:11

    2004 edition

Disc 1

  1. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" - 4:53
  2. "Still Holding on to You" - 4:15
  3. "Forest for the Trees" - 4:25
  4. "Until Lately" - 7:09
  5. "That's What You Always Say" - 4:47
  6. "When You Smile" - 3:44
  7. "Burn" - 5:52
  8. "All Along the Watchtower" - 2:39
  9. "Tell Me When It's Over" - 3:52

    Disc 2

  10. "Merrittville" - 7:46
  11. "The Days of Wine and Roses" - 8:22
  12. "The Medicine Show" - 8:51
  13. "Halloween" - 6:55
  14. "Boston" - 7:35
  15. "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" - 12:11

    Personnel