STILL LIFE was an unexceptional live document of their 1981 American tour. The performances are too polished and even a bit mechanical sounding by their standards. The raw rock & roll danger of their earlier live recordings has been replaced with an almost corporate predictability. It's also a rather truncated sampling of their live set and only includes a single track ("Start Me Up") from the excellent TATTOO YOU record they were promoting at the time. Their cover of "Going To A Go Go" received a lot of FM airplay at the time and the album still sold well. In retrospect, STILL LIFE just isn't really a live recording I'd revisit too often. Not as terrible as Allmusic seems to think (just 1 star rating there), but disappointingly average.
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