Even the panic orchestra sounds very clatter, despite the most prominent occupation. In "Grande Finale" is the background vocals only a mixture of shouting and cawing. The great songs of Udopia disc come as not to advantage.
The recording quality of the pieces that were recorded during the "heater-Tour" in 1980 and "Udopia Tour" in 1981, is subject to certain fluctuations. Overall, the sound is very dull even after remastering and lacks transparency. Who owns the non-remastered CD version, should stick to it. The tonal gain is unlike the studio albums the Teldec-years only very low. The booklet of the CD is extremely poor and disappointing for an expensive new edition.
The duet "What are Wars for" Udo sings sadly all alone (without Pascal Kravetz), whereby a large part of its effect is lost. Higlights of this recording are the beautifully successful duet with Helen Schneider "Baby, when I'm down," "Unfortunately, only a vacuum" and the song "No Future".
If I want to hear the great song material on "intensive care" contained, my finger moves in the future on CD shelf along, holding in "intensive care" short pause to finally much rather fish out the appropriate studio CD.
So this CD is especially suitable as an interesting document for fans, in my view.
