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RHCP rocks

From the RHCP official site:
Live In Hyde Park rocks the charts

Only just released, Live In Hyde Park, the Chili Pepper's first live album, prooves itself to be the soundtrack to this summer's theme by taking the European charts by storm. Here are the first official chart ratings, a sequel is expected...

#1 in the UK
#1 Switzerland
#2 Austria
#3 in Italy
#4 in Holland
#5 in Ireland
#5 in France
#8 in Germany

I love collecting recordings of concerts i went to. Otherwise there are very few live recordings that interest me, but concerts i went to are special. This one is on the same level of coolness as the recording of the August 2003 Vancouver REM gig i went to. I hunted that down on murmurs and even though it's sort of crap to actually listen to (music quality is bad), the fact that i have the little monologue from Stipe about the Mars being close to Earth and how the Moon is shining above us, that perfectly reminds me of the place, the sound, the people and everything is really really cool.

Even though this Hyde Park concert was not as good as the one they gave in Wiener Neustadt (see my feelings about that one here), but the two CDs still rock. (no pun intended)

Get it. Now.