Alive Behind the Green Door

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Alive Behind the Green Door
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Live album by
ReleasedLate 1997
RecordedLate 1997
Genre Punk rock, Celtic rock
Length46:20
Label 26f Records
Flogging Molly chronology
Alive Behind the Green Door
(1997)
Swagger
(2000)

Alive Behind the Green Door is a live album by the Celtic punk band Flogging Molly, recorded at Molly Malone's in 1997. [1]

Contents

Songs

The album features two cover songs, "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" and "De (That's All Right) Lilah", which is a combination of "Delilah" by Tom Jones and "That's All Right (Mama)" by Elvis Presley. Of the original songs on the album, the song "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" has not been recorded in the studio. "Every Dog Has Its Day", "Selfish Man", and "Black Friday Rule" were recorded for Swagger (2000), "Swagger" and "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" were recorded for Drunken Lullabies (2002), "Laura" was recorded for Whiskey on a Sunday (2006), and "Between a Man and a Woman" was recorded for Float (2008).

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Track listing

All songs by Flogging Molly unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Swagger" – 2:50
  2. "Every Dog Has Its Day" – 4:42
  3. "Selfish Man" – 3:08
  4. "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" – 3:36
  5. "Laura" – 4:40
  6. "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" – 3:44
  7. "Black Friday Rule" – 8:20
  8. "What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made a Loser Out of Me)" (Glenn Sutton) – 2:45
  9. "Between a Man and a Woman" – 4:00
  10. "De (That's All Right) Lilah" (Arthur Crudup, John Barry Mason, David Leslie Reed) – 8:35

Personnel

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  2. "Alive Behind the Green Door Review by AllMusic". allmusic.com. March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2022.