04.11.1987
Chicago, University of Illinois, Circle Pavilion
Work Tour Chicago Night I
good Aud.

Disc 1: [1:01:25]
01. Finest Worksong [4:31]
02. These Days [3:36]
03. Harborcoat [4:05]
04. Disturbance At The Heron House [3:32]
05. Fall On Me [3:00]
06. Exhuming McCarthy [3:34]
07. Orange Crush [3:42]
08. Feeling Gravitys Pull [5:43]
09. King Of Birds [4:31]
10. White Tornado [2:06]
11. Cuyahoga [4:20]
12. Tired Of Singing Trouble [0:58]
13. I Believe [3:45]
14. Maps And Legends [3:24]
15. Superman [2:56]
16. Caroline, Lake, Eell Digging Story [5:02]
17. Auctioneer (Another Engine) [2:38]

Disc 2: [49:59]
01. Oddfellows Local 151 (start cut) [5:31]
02. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) [3:56]
03. Begin The Begin [6:39]
04. Strange [2:40]
05. Wolves, Lower [4:21]
06. Driver 8 [3:36]
07. Just A Touch [5:47]
08. The One I Love [3:35]
09. Pop Song 89 [3:17]
10. See No Evil [4:14]
11. Harpers [1:18]
12. Crazy [3:03]
13. After Hours [1:58]

Converted from audio tape to wav by Mitch. Probably 2nd gen tape or higher, there’s bit of hiss, but otherwise great sounding.
Additional track markers added in Audition 1.5 by myself.

This is the first of the truly excellent recordings from the Work Tour. I understand that the Circle Pavilion, is like many of the other venues on this tour, a basketball arena with much-maligned acoustics. However this recording, I hope you will agree, is pretty darned good. This show has a cool setlist with Harborcoat, Wolves, Crazy in addition to the usual suspects. Plus this is first appearance in this series of the fledgling Pop Song 89 (which premiered live in Indiana on 10/27/87). The other main highlight is the 5 min introduction to Auctioneer (which though long is by no means the longest), which I felt deserved it’s own track marker. There is another recording of this show which was taped by somebody called “David” (not Dave Thomas), and it is also pretty wonderful, but sadly there is 45mins missing from the middle of the copy I have. The record presented to you is pretty much complete save for the chunk missing from start of Oddfellows. Tomorrow I’ll be upping a diamond find, a first gen recording of 11/5/87 at the same venue, it’s a beautiful recording and worth waiting for. 

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