Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo

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Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 21, 1983
RecordedSeptember 24, 1983
Venue Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Heavy metal
Length75:25
LanguageJapanese
Label Nippon Columbia
Producer Loudness, Mikio Shimizu, Toshi Nakashita
Loudness chronology
The Law of Devil's Land
(1983)
Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo
(1983)
Disillusion
(1984)
Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo
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Cover of the remastered DVD
Video by
ReleasedDecember 21, 1983
RecordedNovember 2, 1983
Venue Shibuya Kokaido, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Heavy metal
Length60:00
Label Columbia
Producer Masayoshi Kubo, Masaharu Takayama, Toshi Nakashita, Masayuki Miyashita
Loudness video chronology
Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo
(1983)
Eurobounds
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo is the first live album by the Japanese band Loudness. It was recorded and released in 1983. The instrumental track "Tusk of Jaguar" appears on Akira Takasaki's first solo album with the same name. The opening theme is taken from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, performed by the Orchestre National de l'Opera de Montecarlo, conducted by Antonio de Almeida. [2] The home video release of another concert of the same tour was released as the band's first live VHS/Beta and Laserdisc at almost the same time of the double LP and with the same title. The video was remastered and re-released in DVD in 2005. [3]

Contents

Track listing

Double LP

Side one
  1. "Opening Theme - Mars the Bringer of War" - 2:24
  2. "In the Mirror" - 3:44
  3. "Road Racer" - 4:27
  4. "I Was the Sun" - 4:12
  5. "Fly Away" - 3:30
Side two
  1. "Black Wall" - 5:20
  2. "Tusk of Jaguar" - 3:13
  3. "Drum Solo" - 4:22
  4. "Mr. Yesman" - 6:59
Side three
  1. "Exploder" - 3:30
  2. "Heavenward" - 2:29
  3. "Loudness" - 5:20
  4. "Sleepless Night" - 7:50
Side four
  1. "Speed" - 5:41
  2. "Shinkiro" - 4:00
  3. "Burning Love" - 5:38
  4. "Ending Theme - Theme of Loudness II"

VHS and DVD

  1. "Opening - Theme of Loudness II"
  2. "In the Mirror"
  3. "Lonely Player"
  4. "Angel Dust"
  5. "Drum Solo"
  6. "Exploder - Heavenward"
  7. "Loudness"
  8. "Sleepless Night"
  9. "Speed"
  10. "Road Racer"
  11. "Sexy Woman"
  12. "Burning Love"
  13. "Ending - Far from the Mother Land"

Personnel

Loudness
LP production
VHS production

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