Bad Brains: Spirit Electricity

Bad Brains: Spirit Electricity

1991

SST Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Return to Heaven  2. Let Me Help  3.  Day Tripper/She's a Rainbow  4. Banned in D.C  5. Attitude  6. Youth Are Getting Restless



The Bad Brains "I Against I" tour must be one of the most well-documented punk tours ever...Three official live albums from that tour ("Live," "The Youth Are Getting Restless" and this one)...Most classic punk acts only get one posthumous live album if they're lucky. The Brains get three from one tour! This one is pretty much just a 10-inch, 20-minute, mini-live album, though..

So what does this one have that the other two don't? Well, "Return to Heaven" and "Attitude" is the short answer. Some different and more specific politicizing in HR's spoken sections. So yea, nothing to replace the "The Youth Are Getting Restless" live album, which is a much longer and more exciting album (livelier, while "Spirit Electricity" has a sort of cleanliness that somewhat de-rocks some of the material...But not too much...Bad Brains have a lot of rock to spare, so if they lose a little it's not a deal-breaker)....

 Still, if you're as rabid a Bad Brains fan as I am there's no way you're not going to see this pretty little 10-inch on the wall and not buy it (I got the translucent green vinyl copy, btw)...Still, objectively I can see that this would be a pretty pointless release to most people. Especially if they own the other two full length albums from this tour...But I can't find anything wrong with it...It's a well-recorded, well-performed live EP from the band's late 80's heyday...So cool...

Here's "Attitude" by the Bad Brains...Enjoy...