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Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds (1965)

Track listing:
  1. Too Much Monkey Business 3:52
  2. I Got Love If You Want It 2:40
  3. Smokestack Lightning 5:35
  4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 2:44
  5. Respectable 5:35
  6. Five Long Years 5:21
  7. Pretty Girl 3:00
  8. Louise 3:43
  9. I'm A Man 4:33
  10. Here 'tis 5:12
  11. Smokestack Lightin' 6:50
  12. You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover 2:57
  13. Let It Rock 2:19
  14. I Wish You Would 5:55
  15. Who Do You Love 4:13
  16. Honey In Your Hips 2:29
  17. I'm A Man 5:47
  18. Shapes Of Things 2:19

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Featuring Eric "Slowhand" Clapton on lead guitar, this concert recording presents the Yardbirds at their most blues-wailing. Of the band's four actual albums, it's definitely aged the poorest; Clapton's playing is unquestionably sweet, and the extended rave-ups on "Smokestack Lightning" and "Here 'Tis" are genuinely exciting, but mostly the band just sounds like British art students earnestly negotiating their way through their favorite blues tunes--which is, in fact, what they were. As excellent a guitarist as Clapton was, the band didn't really come into its own until Jeff Beck signed on as his replacement, bringing with him an arsenal of fuzz tones, raga scales, and rockabilly licks; the blues-influenced pop mutations that followed are, in retrospect, far more interesting than the rote covers included here

1. Too Much Monkey Business
2. I Got Love If You Want It
3. Smokestack Lightning
4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
5. Respectable
6. Five Long Years
7. Pretty Girl
8. Louise
9. I'm a Man
10. Here 'Tis
11. Smokestack Lightning [Live]
12. You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover [Live]
13. Let It Rock [Live]
14. I Wish You Would [Live]
15. Who Do You Love? [Live]
16. Honey in Your Hips [Live]
17. I'm a Man [Live]
18. Shapes of Things [Live]