Live (X Cert)

Infobox Album
Name = Live (X Cert)
Type = Live
Artist = The Stranglers


Released = February 21, 1979
Recorded = 1977 and 1978 at:
"The Roundhouse" Battersea Park
Genre = post-punk
Length = ??:??
Label = United Artists
Producer = Martin Rushent
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxbyxdkbjols link]
Chronology = The Stranglers live albums
Last album = "Live at the Hope and Anchor"
(1977)
This album = "Live (X Cert)"
(1979)
Next album = "The Stranglers & Friends Live in Concert"
(1980)

Live (X Cert) is a live album by the The Stranglers released in 1979. It contains tracks recorded at "The Roundhouse" in June and November 1977 and at Battersea Park in September 1978.

It captures the raw punk sound of the band prior to the more experimental music of their 4th album, the Raven. It also contains some amusing between-song audience baiting and provides a fairly accurate picture of the Stranglers' live sound during this period.

CD Reissues were augmented with extra live tracks recorded at The Nashville in 1976 and The Hope And Anchor in 1977.

The album spent 10 weeks on the UK album charts, peaking at no.7. It was the band's fourth album release and their fourth consecutive top ten album in the UK.

Track listing

# "(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)"
# "Dagenham Dave"
# "Burning up Time"
# "Dead Ringer"
# "Hanging Around"
# "I Feel Like a Wog"
# "Straighten Out"
# "Curfew"
# "Do You Wanna?"
# "Death And Night And Blood (Yukio)"
# "5 Minutes"
# "Go Buddy Go"CD Bonus Tracks:
# "Peasant in the Big Shitty" (originally a free 7" with the "Rattus Norvegicus" album)
# "In the Shadows" (originally included on the "Don't Bring Harry" EP)
# "Sometimes"
# "Mean to Me"
# "London Lady"
# "Goodbye Toulouse"
# "Hanging Around"