Thought that fans of this great band might be interested in this...

I was at a used record store this weekend and stumbled upon 3 Soul Coughing live albums released by Kufala Records. They're licensed by Warner Bros., so they're legit. The Kufala website says they've released 5 in total. I've got the ones from France and Japan and the "Live Rarities" disc. The sound on those 3 is pretty good, but not incredible. Probably going to order the other two to complete the collection. I love Soul Coughing, and it's great to get some live stuff from them. Here's the tracklists from the discs...

Rennes, France 12/03/1994
CD1
1. Moon Sammy
2. Bus to Beelzebub
3. Sugar Free Jazz
4. White Girl
5. Casiotone Nation
6. Blue Eyed Devil
7. Mermaid
CD 2
1. Screenwriter's Blues
2. Mr. Bitterness
3. Down To This
4. Uh, Zoom Zip
5. True Dream's of Wichita
6. The Woolly Imbibe
7. Blow My Only

Tokyo, Japan 02/03/1997
CD 1
1. Uh, Zoom, Zip
2. Disseminated
3. Soundtrack To Mary
4. Sugar Free Jazz
5. Collapse
6. 4 Out Of 5
7. The Idiot Kings
8. Sleepless
9. 212
CD 2
1. City Of Motors
2. Paint
3. White Girl
4. Bus to Beelzebub
5. Mr. Bitterness
6. Down To This
7. Super Bon Bon
8. Screenwriters Blues

New York, NY 08/16/1999
CD 1
1. Rolling
2. Collapse
3. Idiot Kings
4. Bus to Beelzebub
5. Blame
6. True Dreams of Wichita
7. St. Louise
8. $300
9. Circles
CD 2
1. Blue Eyed Devil
2. Maybe I'll Come Down
3. Miss The Girl
4. Mr. Bitterness
5. Super Bon Bon
6. Screenwriter's Blues
7. Moonsammy
8. Janine

Berlin/Amsterdam 1997
CD 1 (Berlin)
1. Mermaid
2. Disseminated
3. Soft Serve
4. Paint
5. Moonsammy
6. So Far I Haven't Found The Science
7. True Dreams of Witchita
8. The Idoit Kings
9. Funky Town
10. Unmarked Helicopters
11. Mr. Bitterness
12. Super Bon Bon
13. Lazy Bones
14. St. Louise is Listening
15. Down To This
16. Screenwriter's Blues
CD 2 (Amsterdam)
1. The Incumbant
2. Buddha Rhubarb Butter
3. Miss The Girl
4. Lemon Lime
5. 4 Out Of 5

Live Rarities
CD 1
1. City Of Motors
2. Supra Genius
3. Casiotone Nation
4. Laff on Fat Boy
5. Murder of Lawyers
6. Um, Zoom Zip
7. Disseminated
8. True Dreams of Witchita
9. Baby Elephany
10. Free Jazz
11. Woolly Imbibe
CD 2
1. Blue Eyed Devil
2. Screenwriter's Blues
3. I'm Living On Baby Food
4. Sugar Free Jazz
5. Moonsammy
6. Mr. Biterness
7. 212
8. White Girl

You can get all 5 for the price of 4 at the Kufala website. I havent ordered them yet, but I plan on doing so very soon. Also, fans of Soul Coughing should be catching Mike Doughty on his current tour and eagerly awaiting his new CD, hopefully dropping sometime this summer.

wow, thanks for that bit. had no idea.

i'm catching mike here on tuesday. $12 is a steal!

big soul coughing fan (atleast with the first 2 albums) but i don't really care for live music, in person or listening to a recording.

any reason to pick these up, do any of the songs vary from the album versions? lyrics ad libbed? funny or interesting things said to the crowd? etc.