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The Greatest Day Live: Take That Present The Circus Live is the reinvigorated pop act’s latest emanation – two CDs of live tracks and stripped down versions recorded at Abbey Road. We bravely strapped on a pair of Sony Ericsson MH907s to take a listen to what those Mancunian pop giants have made and here are the results in our The Greatest Day Live review.
Take That has not only returned but taken hold on the charts with the ferociousness of a bad verruca. But if we can’t slice them out of lives, do we really have to listen to their new live record – The Greatest Day Live: Take That Present The Circus Live?
The Greatest Day Live is a record of Take That’s stadium crushing clowntastic Circus Tour, packing in one CD of that live show and another of “the boys” doing stripped back versions of their songs at Abbey Road.
Songs like Back For Good and Never Forget are great pop songs but frankly, they bring back too many memories of bad school discos – the real kind and those awful club nights too. Take That are poppy, perky and painfully sincere throughout with Mark Owen alone delivering dangerous levels of saccharine banter.
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And as if the main live CD of The Greatest Day Live was not enough, the second disc of stripped down Take That tracks performed at Abbey Road studios is total overkill. It’s not that the band’s simple takes on songs like their number one single, Patience, are bad. In fact, they perform them well. It’s just…why?
The Greatest Day Live exists entirely to bulk up the present haul your mum or least favourite aunt will get on Christmas day. The original versions of these songs are marginally better and mostly available for about a £5 on Take That’s older Greatest Hits album. We’d love to say we listened to The Greatest Day Live so you don’t have to but we fear you just won’t be that lucky.
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