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Live It Up | 
 enlarge | Artist: David Johansen
Label: American Beat
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
Buy New: $5.96
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 28253
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 2487
UPC: 783722248720
EAN: 0783722248720
ASIN: B0013V2B98
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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Condition: Brand New, sealed & never played.
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| Tracks:
| • | We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life | | • | Frenchette | | • | Reach Out (I'll Be There) | | • | Is This What I Get For Loving You? | | • | Donna | | • | Build Me Up Buttercup | | • | Melody | | • | Funky But Chic | | • | Bohemian Love Pad | | • | Stranded In The Jungle | | • | Personality Crisis |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Broken Doll Re-Tooled for the MTV Crowd May 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A few years after the New York Dolls imploded down in Florida, and not long after a completely clueless Malcolm McLaren tried to recreate what was left of them as red leather, hammer-and-sickle-clad standard bearers of the Communist Party, Steve Paul and Teddy Slatus took control of the rudderless U.S.S. Johansen, cleaning David Jo up with a shave, haircut, cigarette, cuppa joe, and a new set of metrosexual, retrosexual togs that were, uh, funky but chic, grooming him for superstardom via a brand spankin' new record contract with Blue Sky.
After four woefully underappreciated albums ("David Johansen," "In Style," "Here Comes the Night," and the once promo-only "David Johansen Group Live"), Johansen steeled himself for this, his last serious blind grope for the brass ring while still portraying himself, "Live It Up" managing to garner him the most airplay of his pre-Buster Poindexter career and propel him all the way up to #148 in the U.S. album charts. That's called sarcasm...
Culled from an MTV New Year's Eve, 1981 broadcast that I have vague, boozy memories of arguing about with fellow party-goers from the tony Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield with less-than-stellar SAT scores who insisted on watching "Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve," this is a straight re-issue from American Beat Records - no bonus tracks or extras - but since it's been 26 years coming, I'm not quibbling. Much.
Long gone by this time was the original David Johansen Group (guitarists Tommy Trask and Johnny Rao, bassist Buz Verno, and drummer Frankie LaRocka) responsible for most of the high points on those early Blue Sky albums, four swarthy, vaguely threatening guys of apparent Mediterranean descent capable of tearing your heart out with wound steel strings and dried animal skins. They had it all; chops, chiseled looks, clothes (perpetually in black), and great hair. Pardon me, I think I'm getting in touch with my feminine side over here.
Their replacements (Huw Gower, David Nelson, Brett Cartwright, and Tony Machine) reek suspiciously of studio hackdom, capable of delivering the goods on stage with a certain professional panache, but sorely lacking in attitude and greasy charm and doggedly determined to stay on script. Something tells me none of them could improvise a lick if you put a gun to their heads but if they did try, they'd blow a headpipe like the Yul Brynner robot from "Westworld."
But Johansen didn't choose a career path as a front man for nothing, more than up for the dirty job of keeping things interesting if not devastating until the clock ticks twelve over into 1982, scattering four covers over an abbreviated track list of solo and Dolls touchstones. While the Animals medley which jumpstarts the album seems tailor made to guarantee him long overdue chart action, it's the Spector/King/Goffin chestnut "Is This What I Get for Loving You," breathless run through the Foundations' "Build Me Up Buttercup," and hair-raising, soul-baring rendition of his signature "Frenchette" that stick long after things peter out after a downright jaunty `Personality Crisis." No good-night's, thank-you's, or how-do-you-do's to be found; the crowd roar simply fades to black. For the life of me, I can't recall how the original broadcast ended, but there's no clues here.
"Live It Up" doesn't approach the sublime pleasure of, say, imagining what Bjork would look like being ripped apart by hyenas, but it doesn't go down bad with a six of Stroh's, a jar of olives, and a warm, starry spring night around the campfire in northern Michigan.
Fantastic Live Performer. April 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw David on this tour in 1981 and it is still one of the best live shows I have ever seen. All the songs on this cd are fantastic, but the David Johansen Group Live Cd is actually a better overall performance and a better value at over 30 minutes longer.
 David Johansen - Live it up --- as good as it gets!! July 30, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this on vinyl, and I must have played it a million times, I never ever get tired about this record. It's a gem, and probably one of the better concert ever done by anyone in that cathegory of musicians. Every song is pure gold .... I've tried so many times to get my hands on the cd ... all I have now is some badly ripped mp3 files from my old vinyl record, but I still listen to it, and I still wanna jump and scream and drink a couple of gallons of beer whenever I hear it.
If you find it, hold on to it ... or .. well even better, sell it to me :)
//Kenneth
I love this record November 30, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I remember the video for the excellent Animals Medley on MTV circa 1982. I was in high school and had never heard of the New York Dolls at that point but this definitely started me down that path. The whole album is a pleasure from start to finish.
most favorite live album EVER March 19, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have no idea what made me buy this record when it first came out, but I'm glad I did. David Johansen is a performer of such good humor and heart; he puts all of himself into these songs. This set opens with his ferocious medley of the Animals' "We Gotta Get Outta This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life". I'd take his version of "Build Me Up Buttercup" over the Foundations any day. His cover of "(Reach Out) I'll Be There" is just as urgent as the Four Tops. And he achieves just the right balance of sadness and rage for "Frenchette" and "Donna". And his humor shines on "Funky But Chic", "Stranded in the Jungle" and "Personality Crisis".
I really wish this cd was still in print!
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