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Never listened to the live CD before today.

Why is "Anything for love" such a useless short edit but more importantly why is "Runnin for The Red Light (I gotta life)" a "fake" live track? It isn't live at all. Just the album version with audience cheer mixed into it at the very end.
Did Meat ever perform this song live? It wasn't on the Born To Rock setlist.
Why not leave this off the CD and give us a more proper rendition, possibly non edited at all, of AFL.

Very strange.

I see it was performed in 2012. But it's not that version for sure.

Redlight been performed at every show since 2012. it opened the last at bat shows you were at.

My biggest question is why not put not a dry eye on the CD instead of Redlight and the truncated Hudson Theater 1994 performance of AFL. Dry Eye was literally aired on TV!!

Shows you I don't pay much attention to this song at all. But why fool us with a non live version branded as live? I find it a bit insulting when you fog something off like that branded as "Collector's Edition" Presumably a Collector isn't an idiot and would notice the difference between an album and live version of a song.

Dry eye was a proper single. Red Light was some fake thingy over here in the UK without a video. Don't get why that would get priority indeed. :shrug:

especially when the studio version is in the same set. stupidness. had dry eye been included on the live disk itd be a perfect set

I actually remember buying this CD (a red CD if I remember rightly, with an orange/yellow 'pulp art' cover with a 1950s style automobile on the front) for a friend in the 90s. He was a big ML fan (in fact, we went to the 'Very Best Of' tour in Sheffield together), and I always thought that he loved that CD ... right up to the point where I opened up the glove compartment one day, took out that red CD, and in a perfectly flat tone he just said, yeah, don't play that one, I hate it!!

Redlight is honestly not the best.

Would have made more sense if the collector's edition had the Beacon Theatre Show on DVD along with the promo videos and interview and the live CD was only that of the show. No idea why they added some stuff from Live Around the world and the aforementioned non live track.

Ha, what am I talking about? That's a completely different version. This was the Red Light 'single' with Lemon, Amnesty, and Dead Ringer live tracks.

my sigle has midnight live and revved live

Apart from Took the Words and Bat, all songs on the live disc were taken from the single B-sides. That edit of "Anything for Love" was one of the Japanese bonus tracks, and is also on the "Lie for You" single.

The album version of "Running for the Red Light" appeared on the "Limited Edition" digipack (along with "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning") and with quality control being, well, crappy, I can see how it got on there. It has been removed from subsequent versions.

Sure, but with these things it's a matter of what they have available. Perhaps putting the full Beacon show on the DVD would have required remastering, digital polishing, rights needed to be acquired, whatever...

On CD? if so, details please. I thought those two were only on the 12" picture disc.

That's very interesting. Indeed I see it isn't on the digital release now.
It is a shame that the few live TV shows in the 90s have never properly been released in full and indeed probably never will (except for Storytellers).

It's a good song but "Where the rubber meets the road" would have been a better single. For a song without a video nor any promotion it did quite well to get to #21 in the UK.

Love Where the rubber meets the road...

Yes very impressive, also considering it was also a B-side to I'd lie for you before the album's release. I thought there was a preclusion to releasing former B-sides as A-sides later on, but this one must have slipped through the net.

A live version was the b side

Red Light is based on a classic Vanda & Young song called 'Good Times'. I've never understood why the rewrite.

I think you're mixing up Red Light (album version on the limited edition Lie for You single) and Rubber (live version on the Not a Dry Eye single here).

never knew this !!

Didn't know this either but is indeed almost the same. Just different lyrics. Much prefer the original chorus lyrics:
"I'm gonna have a good time tonight
Rock and roll music gonna play all night
Come on, baby, it won't take long
Only take a minute just to sing my song"

Terrible lip sync video of that song: Watch out for the terrible piano re-enactment.

YouTube Video

Guess the best bit about runnin is the bridge
"Got the time to take it.
Got the balls to break it.
Gotta a car that it'll make it.
South of the border,
Don't drink the water."

Actually, Red Light is based on the (far superior) INXS version of 'Good Times' from the Lost Boys movie:

YouTube Video

Meat heard it in the early 90s and wanted 'something with a similar vibe' :cool:

Nope, as Rubber never became a single, and never reached number 21. I was talking about Red Light. I never mentioned Rubber, just quoted someone who said Red Light was a good song that did well to get to 21 without a video

Live version of what? I'm talking about Red Light

I think there was a promo single for Amnesty Is Granted as well, right?

My single for Red Light has a live version of Amnesty.