Double Live (Rheostatics album)

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Double Live is a 1997 album by Rheostatics.

It collects a variety of live performances by the band, ranging from intimate club settings to record store sessions to their arena tour with The Tragically Hip in 1996.

The album includes a number of tracks which have never appeared on any previous Rheostatics album. In fact, a few of these tracks (notably "Good Canadian") were improvised on the spot.

The Hip's live album Live Between Us, released the same year, documents a show for which Rheostatics were the opening band. Gordon Downie acknowledges and thanks Rheostatics at the beginning of that album.

[edit] Track listing

As with many of the band's albums, the songwriting is credited to varying combinations of the band members: Martin Tielli, Dave Bidini and Tim Vesely. (Don Kerr does not receive songwriting credit, as virtually all of these songs predate his arrival in the band. In some cases, even the performance predates Kerr.) Former band member Dave Clark is also credited on some numbers. Songwriting credits for each track are listed below.

[edit] Disc one

1. "Saskatchewan" (7:59) - Bidini/Tielli
2. "Feed Yourself" (7:59) - Bidini
3. "Shaved Head" (6:05) - Bidini/Tielli
4. "Torque, Torque" (1:39) - Vesely/Paul Quarrington
5. "Claire" (5:50) - Vesely/Quarrington
6. "Legal Age Life at Variety Store" (4:07) - Bidini
7. "Dead is the Drunkest You Can Get" (2:57) - Tielli
8. "Bees" (1:46) - Bidini
9. "Dope Fiends and Boozehounds" (6:12) - Bidini/Tielli/Janet Morassutti
10. "Song of Flight" (1:54) - Bidini/Tielli/Clark
11. "Self Serve Gas Station" (5:11) - Tielli
12. "Horses" (8:52) - Bidini
13. "Dope Fiends (Ending)" (2:25) - Bidini/Tielli/Morassutti
14. "Record Body Count" (3:34) - Tielli

[edit] Disc two

1. "A Midwinter Night's Dream" (9:03) - Tielli
2. "The Royal Albert (Joey 2)" (2:16) - Tielli
3. "Introducing Happiness" (3:13) - Vesely
4. "Stolen Car" (5:36) - Bidini
5. "Jesus Was Once a Teenager Too" (4:25) - Bidini/Tielli
6. "Good Canadian" (0:31) - Tielli
7. "Bread, Meat, Peas and Rice" (3:18) - Bidini/Clark
8. "Christopher" (4:37) - Tielli
9. "The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Parts I and II" (5:16) - Bidini/Clark/Tielli
10. "Palomar" (5:10) - Vesely
11. "Triangles on the Wall" (3:58) - Tielli
12. "People's Republic of Dave" (4:04) - Bidini
13. "Regina" (1:02) - Rheostatics
14. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (8:14) - Gordon Lightfoot
15. "Desert Island Discs" (3:54) - Bidini/Clark