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 Local HLocal H Comes Alive Release Date 2005 09 13 Label Cleopatra Rating:  "The guys play their greatest hits -- only faster! Louder! Harder!" Well, that's the joke on the inside artwork to this collection of live tapes from Local H's post-Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? road trip (along with amusing graphic parodies of both Frampton Comes Alive! and Kiss Alive!), but while that isn't too far from the truth, there's a good bit more to this album than that. Local H are usually at their best when they're at their most elemental, and on-stage, when the band is stripped down to Scott Lucas with his homemade guitar/bass combo rig and Brian St. Clair on drums, they have little choice but to come out swinging, and in this context they consistently deliver the goods. Local H Comes Alive certainly finds Lucas and St. Clair in suitably no-frills form, but that's not to say it's one 80 mph tear through the back catalog -- the slower and more skeletal performance of &"President Forever" boasts a menace absent on the original studio recording, the long guitar feature on &"No Problem" gives the tune a decidedly different feel from the more tricked-up take on As Good as Dead, and in this context &"California Songs" gets to be the anthem it was always meant to be. And though Local H may be serving up basic meat-and-potatoes hard rock on the bulk of this disc, cranked up loud it's a medium-rare New York strip with a big side of garlic mashed spuds, which is to say it truly satisfies. And the amped-up studio recording of Britney Spears's &"Toxic" that closed out the disc shows Lucas has more smarts and wit than most anyone covering this territory today. Not quite essential, but well worth a spin (or a purchase) for anyone who digs these guys. Mark Deming, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Everyone Alive | Local H | 4:22 |
| 2 | Bound for the Floor | Local H | 3:34 |
| 3 | Lovey Dovey | Local H | 2:36 |
| 4 | Heaven on the Way Down | Local H | 2:29 |
| 5 | Hands on the Bible | Local H | 4:21 |
| 6 | Manipulator | Local H | 4:16 |
| 7 | All the Kids Are Right | Local H | 3:21 |
| 8 | All-Right (Oh, Yeah) | Local H | 3:44 |
| 9 | Hey, Rita | Local H | 5:00 |
| 10 | Deep Cut | Local H | 2:05 |
| 11 | President Forever | Local H | 3:34 |
| 12 | How's the Weather Down There? | Local H | 3:30 |
| 13 | Fritz's Corner | Local H | 3:35 |
| 14 | Creature Comforted | Local H | 3:50 |
| 15 | No Problem | Local H | 6:23 |
| 16 | California Songs | Local H | 4:02 |
| 17 | Hi-Fiving MF | Local H | 7:54 |
| 18 | Toxic | Karlsson, Dennis, Jonback, Winnberg | 5:54 |
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