Fly the Flags
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Fly The Flags is a live album
by the band Stiff Little Fingers
, first released on October 26, 1994 (see 1994 in music
), and re-released (by Snapper
) in 1998 (see 1998 in music
).
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
by the band Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
, first released on October 26, 1994 (see 1994 in music
1994 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
), and re-released (by Snapper
Snapper Music
Snapper Music is an independent record label founded in 1996 by former head of Castle Communications Jon Beecher, Dougie Dudgeon and funded by the late Mark Levinson from Palan Music Publishing. In 1999 Snapper broke away from its parent company in an MBO in association with ACT and CAI venture...
) in 1998 (see 1998 in music
1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
).
Track listing
- "Long Way to Paradise" (Burns) – 4:20
- "Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 3:30
- "Nobody's Hero" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 5:05
- "No Surrender" (Burns) – 4:07
- "Gotta Gettaway" (Ogilvie, Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:08
- "Just Fade Away" (Ogilvie, Stiff Little Fingers) – 3:12
- "The Cosh" (Burns) – 3:40
- "Johnny 7" (Cluney) – 4:02
- "Barbed Wire Love" (Ogilvie, Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:16
- "Stand up and Shout" (Burns, Taylor) – 3:23
- "Johnny Was" (Bob MarleyBob MarleyRobert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
) – 8:13 - "Wasted Life" (Burns) – 3:24
- "Beirut Moon" (Burns) – 4:23
- "Fly the Flag" (Ogilvie, Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:14
- "Suspect Device" (Ogilvie, Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:44
- "Doesn't Make It All Right" (Dave Goldberg, Jerry DammersJerry DammersJeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers is a British musician who is a founder and keyboard player of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A...
) – 6:48 - "Each Dollar a Bullet" (Burns) – 3:24
- "Alternative Ulster" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 3:22
Personnel
- Jake BurnsJake BurnsJake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
– vocals/guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Dolphin TaylorDolphin TaylorBrian "Dolphin" Taylor is a British drummer.-Tom Robinson Band:His career started when he gave a friend a lift to an audition as bass guitarist for the Tom Robinson Band in 1976. As the band had no drummer at that point, Dolphin filled in...
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... - Henry CluneyHenry CluneyHenry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
– guitar - Bruce FoxtonBruce FoxtonBruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician who is best known as the bass player in punk rock bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers.-Biography:...
– bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....