A strange show this one. A mix of live interview & performance in front of an audience. It starts off with someone mimicking Jonathan and then a bizarre who is the real Jonathan contest happens, add to this some truly dumb ass questions from the interviewer and this makes a very strange tape indeed. The plus side of all this is that intermingled within is a very nice short performance from Jonathan.

WBCN Radio Broadcast (1980)

WBCN Radio Broadcast

A solo show in the main, except for a few songs with 'the Rockin Robins' on each set, joined by Andy Paley on piano for 'Up In The Sky Sometime'.

1982 Mar 2 Boston Cambridge USA Jonathan Swifts

JR Fan 1

JR is the man!  He lives near my family.  I want to wear his socks

Recently got hold of this one, and guess what... it's as good as the following nights show.And a couple of  very rare songs too.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/d2497f80.html

1982 Mar 20 New York City USA The Other End

1983 Oct 7 Amherst Bluewall USA University of Massachusetts

Sweet!!! Someone referenced this page: http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2012/06/01/jonathan-richman-is-the-crazy-uncle-you-wish-you-had

KCSC Radio Show (1983)

KCSC Radio Show

Very good audience recording of Jonathan with Ellie & Curly. Including an improvised and otherwise completely unknown song, 'Jonathan I feel so Bad'', the words of which Jonathan seems to be spilling out, line by line, in a stream of consciousness style of improvisation.

1984 Jul 31 Bath UK Moles Club

The single version of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmSH-628jI

Jerry

With Jonathan, Curly & Ellie Marshall. A few faults with the original taping : every once and a while the microphone seems to be getting a bit of a knock which then affects the recording levels for the next 30 seconds. This doesn't happen too much at the start though it's a lot more noticeable for the last 10 minutes.

"There is No Squiltage" and "There is No Abomination" are very short

1984 Aug 3 Edinburgh UK Queens Hall

Ramon

I am pretty sure that the instrumental, track 20, is really Malaguena De Jojo. 

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/bfcdd072.html

1985 Jun 24 Torino Italy Big Club

VinnieQ

i always wanted to hear the full version of CornerStore from the film Kingpin, but i never found it..

Not a weak track here. 14 solid songs. One of his best easily.

After years of deliberating with myself...this one always ends up being my favorite JR album. Favorite song: "Now Is Better Than Before"

Rockin' & Romance (1985)

Rockin' & Romance

Jonathan's pretty talkative tonight with a very lively audience that's only too willing to join in with the songs wherever possible. A super show for all, that ends with Jonathan saying how much he's enjoyed himself, unusually he's more than happy to do several encore's on this one. S. E. Rogie comes on stage as guest to sing 'African Lady', one of Sooliman's songs that's usually covered by Jonathan as an instrumental. 

1988 Jun 28 London UK Mean Fiddler

1988 Sep 10 Tokyo Japan

This song was written in the studio during the recording of "Modern Lover's 88"

Jonathan's pretty chatty tonight... inviting questions from the audience, etc, more so during the first set than the second. There's an interesting explanation of why 'Roadrunner' doesn't get performed much anymore and also an early embryonic version of You Can't Talk to the Dude'.

"Roadrunner" is a short instrumental version

1988 Nov 14 Columbus USA Staches

1990 Oct 3 Hildesheim Germany Vier Linden

I love it when JR writes songs about real people. Velvet Underground,Pablo Picasso,Walter Johnson, etc.

Another great show with several nice moments; the best of which occurs just when you think it's about to end - an unexpected and great 'I eat with Gusto' finale. Excellent.

1990 Oct 3 Melbourne Australia

His funniest song? Even though it's not really a song.

This song threw me off at first but now I think it's hilarious

A few great standout moments, particularly so with Monologue on Bermuda, Pablo Picasso, and a very early sounding version of Velvet Underground, for which Jonathan is still playing about with lyrics... sounds pretty different here!

1991 May 29 Manchester UK Manchester International

A strange JR song. Dark and almost evil sounding at times. Unless I'm missing the point of the song entirely. It wouldn't be the first time!

Yeah, this one and The Neighbors are both dark. Still not completely sure if I really get them...and I've heard them both countless times!

Jonathan is speaking Italian throughout this one, dropping some into the lyrics on a few songs, and even manages to do the whole of  'Monologue on Bermuda' in Italian. 

1991 Sep 14 Bologna Italy Festa Dell Unita

1991 Oct 30 Binghamton USA S.U.N.Y. Binghamton

1992 Jan 30 New Orleans USA Tipitinas

Soundboard recording - but as the audience are hardly being picked up there is little or no live atmosphere present. Probably not a bad show but not a favourite of mine - I much prefer hearing shows where there's lots of interaction between Jonathan and the audience.

1992 Jul 15 Winnipeg Canada Spectrum Cabaret

A fairly quiet recording this one ,Jonathan is joined on stage towards the end of the show by the Rockin' Robin's: Beth Harrington and Ellie Marshall.

1992 Oct 11 Boston Cambridge USA Nightstage

1993 Jun 19 Los Angeles USA Palomino

She's not so scary she's got all of my records! 

The term "Vampire Girl" has entered into my natural dialect because of this song

1993 Oct 21 Buffalo USA Nietzsches

A fun show with a few nice moments: especially so on the very funny and extended 'Down in Bermuda' 

1994 Aug 25 Manchester UK

Quite a good recording until the start of the last four songs, but from there on the recording is pretty flawed, sounds like there was a very bad burn done sometime ago, and because of this the end of the show is pretty much unplayable.

Flawed songs: Let Her Go into the Darkness, A Higher Power, You Must Ask the Heart, Now is Better Than Before

Songs with Beth and Ellie: Down in Bermuda, Somebody to Hold Me

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