Here you can hear how rough and grandiose the four musicians, still without keyboardist - what on the tour to succeed and breakthrough album "Different Light" should be different already, rocked in its early years. And I write deliberately rocked because that's offered here 60s guitar pop with lots of punk and new wave list.
The audience responded audibly to the performance and with good reason enthusiastically. Because it is a radio recording there is not the usual in live albums repairs. Any small error and impropriety are there, but do not interfere. Lose some songs, compared to studio recordings, some of its charm, but what in the overall context hardly noticeable negative. Other songs benefit from the energy of the live implementation.
The most famous is probably the Bangles concert filmed by MTV in the breakthrough 1986 Pittsburgh show, and that's probably the best and most definitive live document of this band. (Unfortunately only on You Tube decora - where is the DVD release) But "Live At The Ritz" captures the band in all their youthful enthusiasm and with all their playfulness, a. A wonderful, raw, punky document.
Only negatives, and the cost to the fifth star to me the music would have been loose value per se, are the loveless presentation - since the music you can also download the same - and you probably had only one copy of the Radio Mitschnittes available and no multitrack tapes could remix. This means that the mix up is not perfect and, unfortunately, the CD Tape had underlying even one or two of aging, which are thus representing the small dropouts times on the left time on the right channel to hear - just like a old cassette - and here and there a little sound fluctuations occur. So it remains well in spite of all joy rather a product for fans ... yet. For each Bangles fan and Gutfinder a more than fine thing.
