Rock'n Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta

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Rock'n Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta
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Live album by Oblivians
Released 1995
Recorded August 1994
Genre Garage punk
Length43:21
Label Sympathy for the Record Industry
Oblivians chronology
Soul Food
(1995) Soul Food1995
Rock'n Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta
(1995)
Sympathy Sessions
(1996) Sympathy Sessions1996
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Rock'n Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta was an early live show of Memphis-based garage punk rockers Oblivians, recorded in August 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia. The recording was originally issued in 1995 as a vinyl bootleg on Negro Records, of which 500 copies were produced. It was later re-released by Sympathy for the Record Industry in 2003 on both vinyl LP and CD.

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Garage punk is a rock music fusion genre combining the influences of garage rock, punk rock, and other forms, that took shape in the indie rock underground between the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bands drew heavily from stripped-down 1970s punk rock and Detroit proto-punk, and incorporated numerous other styles into their approach, such as power pop, 1960s girl groups and garage rock, hardcore punk, early blues and R&B, and surf rock.

The Oblivians are an American garage punk trio that has existed since 1993. In the 1990s, their blues-infused brand of bravado, crudely recorded music made them one of the most popular and prominent bands within the underground garage rock scene.

Track listing

  1. "Motorcycle Leather Boy" (Milan the Leather Boy) – 3:24
  2. "Viet Nam War Blues" (Lightnin' Hopkins) – 3:01
  3. "Jim Cole" – 1:17
  4. "Feel Real Good" – 2:22
  5. "Static Party" – 1:55
  6. "And Then I Fucked Her" – 2:33
  7. "Someday You'll Be Loved" – 3:04
  8. "Love Killed My Brain" – 2:24
  9. "No Reason to Live" – 1:42
  10. "Plate in My Head" – 2:12
  11. "Shut My Mouth" – 2:36
  12. "Happy Blues" – 5:31
  13. "Blew My Cool" – 2:14
  14. "Shake Your Ass" – 3:38
  15. "Nigger Rich" (Jack Oblivian/Richard Peeples) – 2:40
  16. "Never Change" – 2:46

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