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A stray cats fan and them live in concert years ago. This group of cd's has songs I had never heard. Not the best digitally remastered I have heard, but good. Got a lot of good music for the cost.

Disk One is NOT The Stray Cats Toronto, 1983 as the box states it should be. It is some totally different cd called Underground Rockabilly, and definitely not Stray Cats!

One disk is not even the Stray Cats! What a rip off!

This is a 3 CD set in jewel cases presented in a slip case style card box.CD1 is "Toronto Strut" as in "Toronto Strut" - it's the very same CD in cellowrap (the others aren't in cellowrap!). CD 2 is stuff, so it says, taken-off tv: some of it sounds too good. It's a mixture of tracks - all with good sound, apart from last few (oddly 1990s!). It's a shame they haven't done some fades between some tracks as they are straight cuts and you can go from a thin sound to a fat sound! Performances are terrific. Short concert excepts from the Roxy in both 1982 and 1983. There's a semi legit (in UK) CD called Hollywood Strut - but that's Roxy 1981. I thought that was the best concert released so far (there is a BBC Live in Concert from 1981 that remains unreleased - be good to be paired with the first album!).To me the Stray Cats went "off" in 1983 - check out the Rockpalast CD/DVD set. They've slowed the tempos on that, so was pleased to hear the 1983 tracks on this set as loud and raucous!The 3rd CD is a live concert from New Jersey in 1992. An hour long radio broadcast. Well this is better than anything from the previous decade: Setzer is almost out of control on guitar and the band bangin' away behind him. The version here of "Something's wrong with my radio" rocks how it ought to (not lame as per Rockpalast - in 1983 - although they did split in 1984!).It starts with the old Pirates number "Please don't touch" - it nears the intensity of the Pirates versions (studio and live) from around 1978, but not the Headgirl release, that got to something like No 4 in the UK singles chart, with the pairing of Motorhead and Girlschool. I guess either of these versions the band must have heard - the ending here is the same as both those releases. They finish with 5+ mins of Mystery Train and Somethin' Else with Setzer dropping in all sorts of riffs a la Gene and Eddie song.So I bought this without seeing a review - but well worth the £12 for the two discs as I've played them non-stop + all versions here of Rock this Town are 7+ mins long!

Received a sealed box set today, only to find that Toronto Strut cd was replaced with UNDERGROUND ROCKABILLY Very disappointing as the was what I bought this set for it retails for around the same price as this set on its own.

On retrouve dans ce coffret les Stray Cats dans 3 prestations, le son étant excellent dans tous les cas: le 1er CD est le concert de Toronto en 1983, le 2e celui de Asbury Park (New Jersey) en 1992 (peut-être mon préféré, bien sauvage et au son très puissant) et le dernier une collection de passages télé (avec pas moins de 4 versions de Rock this town, titre que j'adore, je me suis régalé!!!). Ce dernier CD a comma défaut une prise de son inégale suivant les captations mais contient 9 titres formidables enregistrés au Roxy en 1982. Il faut bien sûr écouter bien fort ces concerts et quitte à n'avoir qu'un live des Stray Cats, pourquoi pas celui-là?

Leider war 2 mal eine falsche CD im Dreierpack. Schade

j ai eu un cd best of de rockabilly au lieu du Stray cats !!! de plus un des deux albums restants est le même qu un autre que j ai déja !! seule la pochette difère !! je peux donc difficilement être plus mécontent !