Live on Earth (Cat Empire album)

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Live on Earth
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Released21 February 2009
Recorded2006 – 2008
Genre Alternative rock
Length136:10
Label EMI
The Cat Empire chronology
On the Attack
(2004)
Live on Earth
(2009)
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Live on Earth is the first full-length live album released by Melbourne band The Cat Empire. (The band had previously released an EP disc titled Live @ Adelphia ).

Contents

The album is a compilation of tracks recorded at shows between August 2006 and December 2008. It included songs recorded at venues in Australia, France, the UK, the US and Canada. The album was originally scheduled to be released on 28 February 2009 in Australia, but was officially released a week earlier (though many retailers released the album days before the 21st.)

Live on Earth was available with a signed album cover via online pre-order.

The first single from the album, "How to Explain?", was released on the iTunes Store on 13 February 2009. The album also features a French-language cover version of the Eagles song "Hotel California" recorded in Montreal, Canada.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Fishies" – 5:01
  2. "The Car Song" – 9:21
  3. "So Many Nights" – 4:09
  4. "Lonely Moon" – 4:33
  5. "How to Explain?" – 5:51
  6. "Days Like These" – 4:21
  7. "Dumb Things (P. Kelly)" – 3:51
  8. "The Lost Song" – 7:45
  9. "The Rhythm" – 5:17
  10. "The Wine Song" – 10:40
  11. "All That Talking" – 6:50

Disc two

  1. "The Chariot" – 7:17
  2. "'Til the Ocean Takes Us All" – 4:08
  3. "Sly" – 5:33
  4. "Hello" – 3:55
  5. "Hotel California" – 3:55 (Felder/Frey/Henley)
  6. "Rhyme and Reason" – 6:34
  7. "Two Shoes" – 5:29
  8. "In My Pocket" – 12:06
  9. "No Longer There" – 3:51
  10. "The Darkness" – 9:24
  11. "Sunny Moon" – 6:26
  12. "Sol y Sombra" – 7:52 – (iTunes exclusive track)

Live at the Bowl

A 2-disc DVD was also released the same time as Live on Earth entitled Live at the Bowl. The first disc contains footage of their entire concert at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The second disc contains a 'backstage pass' with moments from their recent overseas tour captured on Ryan's camera. It also contains videos from their first concert as a six piece in 2001, 3 tracks from Triple J's AWOL in 2007 at Burnie, Tasmania, and 2 tracks from their performance with the Australian Youth Orchestra in 2008.

Track listing

  1. Sunny Moon
  2. So Many Nights
  3. Til the Ocean Takes Us All
  4. The Rhythm
  5. In My Pocket
  6. Sly
  7. No Longer There
  8. Two Shoes
  9. The Wine Song
  10. Fishies
  11. The Darkness
  12. The Chariot

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