live emrald city, new jersey '81

• CD in digipack with 4 page booklet
• Incredible performance live from Emerald City, New Jersey
• Includes the entire WMMR-FM broadcast
• It’s presented here together with background notes and images.

The Go-Go’s, live from Emerald City, New Jersey on 31st August 1981 One of the most successful all-female bands of all time, the Go-Go’s blazed a trail for future artists from The Bangles, through to Hole. Its bubble gum princess façade was just that – a thinly stretched skin barely containing the band members’ obsessions with sex, drugs and alcohol. Their youthful post-feminist dynamism was a direct challenge to the male-dominated music industry of the time, as was their 100 per cent female crew, from management to roadies. The Go-Go’s didn’t just break the glass ceiling, they smashed it and stomped it into a million pieces – probably laughing hysterically. They wrote their own music, taught themselves to play their instruments and transformed themselves from a guttersnipe punk band from L.A. to an internationally acclaimed pop act in three short years. This gig features the Go-Go’s at the start of this meteoric rise, and was broadcast live by WMMR-FM from the Emerald City date in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on 31 August 1981.

Track Listing:

• Intro > Skidmarks On My Heart
• How Much More
• Tonite
• Fading Fast
• London Boy’s
• Cool Jerk
• Automatic
• Lust To Love
• Can’t Stop The World
• This Town
• Vacation
• You Can’t Walk in Your Sleep (If You Can’t Sleep)
• Our Lips Are Sealed
• Let’s Have A Party
• We Got The Beat
• Surfing and Spying
• Beatnik Beach