Budokan 3CD
Moonraker
Catalog # 047/48/49
Release Year 1996  
3CD Length 72:02 | 73:48 | 73:57
Date/Venue Japan 1996
Source Audience Recordings
Quality VG+ / EX-
Rating 4.375/5.0

Track Listing
Tokyo 17/1/96 (disc 1 & disc 2 tracks 1 - 9)
Osaka 11/1/96 (disc 2 tracks 10 - 12 & disc 3 tracks 11, 12 & 16)
Tokyo 8/1/96 (disc 2 tracks 13 & 14 & disc 3 tracks 1 - 5 & 8)
Tokyo 9/1/96 (disc 2 tracks 15 & 16 & disc 3 tracks 13 - 15)
Tokyo 16/1/96 (disc 3 tracks 6, 7, 9 & 10)
Fukouka 13/1/96 (disc 3 tracks 17 - 19)

Disc #1
  1. 1999 intro.
  2. Endorphinmachine
  3. Shhh
  4. Days of wild / 777-9311
  5. Now
  6. Sex machine
  7. Funky stuff
  8. Mary don't you weep
  9. Johnny
  10. The most beautiful girl in the world
  11. P. control / Get wild
  12. Letitgo
  13. Starfish and coffee
  14. The cross
  15. The jam
  16. One of us
  17. Do me, baby
  18. Sexy MF
               Disc #2
  1. If I was your girlfriend
  2. Vicki waiting
  3. Purple medley
  4. 7
  5. Speech
  6. Billy jack bitch
  7. I hate U interlude
  8. 319
  9. Gold
  10. Days of wild
  11. Now / Babies makin' babies
  12. Sex machine
  13. Babies makin' babies
  14. Funky stuff
  15. Oriential intro.
  16. 7
               Disc #3
  1. Intro.
  2. We march
  3. Love...thy will be done
  4. Funky
  5. The ride
  6. One of us
  7. Do me, baby
  8. I hate U
  9. Johnny
  10. Glam slam boogie
  11. Letitgo
  12. Starfish and coffee
  13. The cross
  14. If I was your girlfriend
  15. Vicki waiting
  16. Purple medley
  17. I hate U interlude
  18. 319
  19. Gold

Comments
Deane's Comments (rates this release 4.25/5.0)
A superb document of this period. The set has every song played during the tour and the packaging is excellent. The sound quality varies but, all in all, is very listenable. Includes a small poster and booklet. I like these multi discs sets that document an entire leg of a tour.

Dale's Comments  (rates this release 4.5/5.0)
This is one of my favorite releases, mainly because of the content. The majority of the set consists of material from 'The Gold Experience, but it is also full of inspired performances of classic material as well as unreleased tracks like Days Of Wild, and Love...They Will Be Done. The sound quality is great as far as audience recordings go, and there isn't a lot of audience interference. The packaging is above average as is the case with most Moonraker releases.

Mike's Comments  (rates this release 4.75/5.0)
A fine bootleg. The main concert is energetic and features several extras not played every night like 'Johnny', 'Funky stuff' and 'Sex machine'. It also has the best live version of 'Vicki waiting' around. If that was not reason enough to recommend this set it also includes more than a disc's-worth of other songs from several of the earlier Japanese shows, among them a rare performance of  'I hate U' as a complete song rather than a 30-second snippet or interlude. A great tour round-up that should not be overlooked.

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