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Title: sloppy mess
Review: I like Sloan a lot and I also enjoy live albums, but this 2-CD set is just a mess. It's not unlisteneable, but it certainly tests my patience as a listener. As another reviewer noted, the playing is sloppy, the singing sometimes a bit "off", and nothing on here can match the studio versions. But the biggest annoyance for me is the audience; a rabid, screaming bunch of fans who sound like a group of over-excited teenyboppers at summer camp. It's nice that they are Sloan fans, and seem to know all the songs, but their constant screaming detracts from the music. It also doesn't help that some of the members of Sloan encourage the screamers and add their own inane banter between songs. I'll stick to the studio albums.
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