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By popular demand I try to reconfigurate their discography by adding the live record which would've prolonged the Very-imperialish era.
PSB only released the Rio concert on video. The album came out decades later. A pity, they should've done a live album already in 1995. And by album I really mean an album not the concert. Thereby only putting the best or the more partyish tracks on the album.

My version of this live album would have the following track list:
Tonight Is forever 01:59 - good intro, old song in new arrangement
Normally 03:46 - single from the last album
Domino 03:54 - old track, latino
One in a Million/Mr Vain 04:46 - great medley, the leading single from the album
Paninaro 04:27 - new version, a single in its new '95 studio arrangement
Rent 03:10 - acoustic
Suburbia 03:11 - acoustic
West End girls 04:38 - old hit in new light, released as a single on its 10th anniversy
Left to my own devices/rhythm of the night 05:59 - what a massive medley
Ab Fab 03:51 - latest single
Forgive Her 03:56 - single from the last album
Girls & Boys 04:55 - new track
Sin/Survive 06:48 - great medley
Go West 06:25 - the big hit with a cool outro

14 tracks, 61:45 in length.

The omitted tracks could've been released as b-sides:
Always on my mind 04:14 - no fun in Rio
Speak sin 04:59 - no fun in Rio
K-cross 05:00 - no fun in Rio
Liberation 04:09 - no fun in Rio
B Boring 05:24 - no fun in Rio
So Hard 04:05 - too much fun in Rio

No doubt in my mind that this would've been another hit album for PSB.

For me, their live rendition of 'Kings Cross' during the Discovery Tour has always been one of their greatest live moments. The instrumentation and Neil's fabulous vocals, not to mention the clapping of the crowd, always move me to tears.

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minimal wrote: Sun 11 Jan 2026, 10:40 pm For me, their live rendition of 'Kings Cross' during the Discovery Tour has always been one of their greatest live moments. The instrumentation and Neil's fabulous vocals, not to mention the clapping of the crowd, always move me to tears.

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Yep, it sounds great but it doesn't have the party vibe that the title "Live in Rio" induces. Neither is it a particularly different arrangement from the original (like Suburbia, Paninaro etc).