Greatest Hits Live (Stiff Little Fingers album)
Encyclopedia
Greatest Hits Live is a live punk
album by the band Stiff Little Fingers
, released in 1988
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Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
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...
, released in 1988
1988 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....
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Track listing
- "Alternative Ulster" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:08
- "Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:29
- "Silver Lining" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:28
- "Wait and See" (Burns/Ogilvie) – 4:46
- "Gotta Gettaway" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:19
- "Just Fade Away" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:27
- "Wasted Life" (Burns) – 3:57
- "Nobody's Hero" (Burns/Ogilvie) – 4:49
- "At the Edge" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:06
- "Listen" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 4:02
- "Barbed Wire Love" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:02
- "Fly the Flag" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:21
- "Tin Soldiers" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 5:07
- "No Sleep 'Til Belfast" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 2:37
- "Suspect Device" (Stiff Little Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:11
- "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...
) – 8:45
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 - Ali McMordieAli McMordieAlistair Jardine "Ali" McMordie is a bass guitarist, who made his name with, and was a founding member of, Stiff Little Fingers...
– bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....