The Five Live in Pittsburgh 1981

Pittsburgh's quintessential mutant-blues band, THE FIVE, whose music was never available on anything but indie singles and underground tapes, have, of course, been immortalized on LP now that they're defunct. 'Sort of like dressing a corpse up for the prom, isn't it?' is how the band's former front - and affront - man, Reid Paley, describes this good, loud anthology Ripped from a dvd of a tape of a show at the Balcony.