The Ocean Blue first album Cerulean live Lincoln Hall Chicago 3 19 16
This was a serious contender for one of my Chanukah shares a couple weeks back. I didnt want to wait until next December to post this, so here it is, an extra ninth night so to speak. It was just last year in fact that I delved into The Ocean Blue, by way of a clutch of demos and comp tracks recorded prior to their 1989 self-tiled album. Theres not much more I can extol regarding this long-running Hershey, PA combo that I didnt address previously. Chiming guitar pop may not have been their name, per se, but it certainly was their game, and they won people over like myself with a thoughtful predilection that persuaded both collegiate rock audiences and comparatively straight and narrow types.
The concept for the Ocean Blues concert at Lincoln Hall in Chicago last spring was pretty straightforward - performances of their first two albums (1989s Ocean Blue and 1991s Cerulean in their entirety. This is an above average audience recording with a meager amount of crowd noise. The reproductions here compared to the studio incarnations arent dramatically different, but when it comes to their ilk, it wouldnt make much sense to improvise or go on a tangent. All the classics are present and accounted for - "Between Something and Nothing," "Drifting Falling," "Ballerina Out of Control," and the strummy "Vanity Fair." We even get a Pet Shop Boys cover to close things out. Full tracklists are as follows, and these sets are available in both in MP3 and lossless FLAC.
Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL, March 19, 2016
Set 1 - 0:50:22 - Cerulean MP3 or FLAC
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01. The Ocean (by U2 - Intro Music)
02. Breezing Up
03. Cerulean
04. Marigold
05. A Seperate Reality
06. Mercury
07. Questions of Travel
08. When Life Was Easy
09. The Planetarium Scene
10. Falling Through The Ice
11. Ballerina Out of Control
12. Hurricane Amore
13. Ive Sung One Too Many Songs For a Crowd That Didnt Want To Hear
Set 2 -1:08:07 - The Ocean Blue MP3 or FLAC
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01. Intro
02. Between Something and Nothing
03. Vanity Fair
04. Drifting, Falling
05. Circus Animals
06. Frigid Winter Days
07. Just Let Me Know
08. Love Song
09. Ask Me Jon
10. Awaking To a Dream
11. Office of a Busy Man
12. Myron
13. Familiar Face - A
14. offstage
15. Big Ideas
16. Its a Lovely Game Louise
17. West End Girl (Pet Shop Boys Cover)
