Living in Clip

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{{Infobox album

| name = Living in Clip

| type = live

| artist = Ani DiFranco

| cover = Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 22, 1997

| recorded = September 1995 – November 1996

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Indie rock, folk rock

| length = 124:54

| label = Righteous Babe

| producer = Ani DiFranco

| prev_title = The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Little Plastic Castle

| next_year = 1998

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/living-in-clip-mw0000099673|title=Living in Clip – Ani DiFranco|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=August 20, 2012|last=Cater|first=Darryl}}

|rev2 = Chicago Tribune

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/04/25/ani-difrancoliving-in-clip-righteous-babe-star/ |title=Ani DiFranco: Living in Clip (Righteous Babe)|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=April 25, 1997|access-date=June 28, 2013|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot}}

|rev3 = Christgau's Consumer Guide

|rev3score = A−{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=128|chapter=Ani DiFranco: Living in Clip|accessdate=October 25, 2018|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|year=2000|isbn=0-312-24560-2}}

|rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

|rev4score = A−{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/04/25/living-clip/|title=Living In Clip|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|issue=376|date=April 25, 1997|accessdate=June 28, 2013|last=Johnson|first=Beth|page=71}}

|rev5 = Los Angeles Times

|rev5score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-20-ca-50459-story.html|title=Fiery DiFranco, Hot Combos, Cool Polara|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 20, 1997|access-date=June 28, 2013|last=Cromelin|first=Richard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306183228/http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-20/entertainment/ca-50459_1_difranco-pumps|archive-date=March 6, 2016|url-status=live}}

|rev6 = Rolling Stone

|rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anidifranco/albums/album/88900/review/5943750/living_in_clip|title=Ani DiFranco: Living In Clip|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=May 15, 1997|accessdate=August 20, 2012|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|pages=111–12|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204110418/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anidifranco/albums/album/88900/review/5943750/living_in_clip|archivedate=February 4, 2009|url-status=dead}}

|rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev7score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Ani DiFranco|last=Hull|first=Tom|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/236 236–37]}}

|rev8 = Spin

|rev8score = 8/10{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JLoecqYeotYC&pg=PA111|title=Ani DiFranco: Living in Clip|journal=Spin|volume=13|issue=4|date=July 1997|accessdate=October 25, 2018|last=Cooper|first=Carol|page=111}}

}}

Living in Clip is a live album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1997. The title is from a comment made by live sound engineer Larry Berger, indicating that the amplifiers weren't merely being overdriven into clipping occasionally (which is not uncommon in live sound situations); they were clipping so much that they were "living in clip". Rolling Stone named it one of "The Essential Recordings of the ‘90s".{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#Recordings |title=Rocklist.net Rolling Stone Lists – Main Page |publisher=Rocklistmusic.co.uk |date=October 17, 2002 |accessdate=August 20, 2012}}

Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco, except where noted.

=Disc one=

  1. "Whatever" – 1:46 (Albuquerque, NM)
  2. "Wherever" – 0:06 (Santa Ana, NM)
  3. "Gravel" – 4:11 (New London, CT)
  4. "Willing to Fight" – 4:12 (Sacramento, CA)
  5. "Shy" – 4:29 (Houston, TX)
  6. "Joyful Girl" – 4:26 (Eugene, OR)
  7. "Hide and Seek" – 4:34 (Hightstown, NJ)
  8. "Napoleon" – 4:54 (Northampton, MA)
  9. "I'm No Heroine" – 4:16 (Berkeley, CA)
  10. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 6:17 (Buffalo, NY)
  11. "Anticipate" – 3:47 (Ithaca, NY)
  12. "Tiptoe" – 0:37 (dunno)
  13. "Sorry I Am" – 4:46 (New York, NY)
  14. "The Slant/The Diner" – 8:22 (Atlanta, GA)
  15. "32 Flavors" – 4:48 (Boulder, CO)
  16. "Out of Range" – 4:27 (Portland, OR)

=Disc two=

  1. "Untouchable Face" – 3:36 (Bloomington, Ill)
  2. "Shameless" – 4:35 (Portland, OR)
  3. "Distracted" – 1:08 (San Francisco, CA)
  4. "Adam and Eve" – 5:36 (New York, NY)
  5. "Fire Door" – 4:03 (Worcester, MA)
  6. "Both Hands" – 4:52 (Buffalo, NY)
  7. "Out of Habit" – 3:40 (Arcata, CA)
  8. "Every State Line" – 3:55 (Atlanta, GA)
  9. "Not So Soft" – 4:00 (New York, NY)
  10. "Travel Tips" – 1:05 (Spokane, WA)
  11. "Wrong With Me" – 1:57 (Ithaca, NY)
  12. "In or Out" – 3:22 (New York, NY)
  13. "We're All Gonna Blow" – 2:41 (Victoria, BC)
  14. "Letter to a John" – 3:58 (San Francisco, CA)
  15. "Overlap" – 11:28 (New York, NY)

Personnel

=Production=

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  • Ani DiFranco – record producer, mixing, design, layout design, photography
  • Andrew Gilchrist – mixing
  • Chris Bellman – mastering
  • James Mabry ("Amazing Grace" and "Both Hands") – arranger
  • Adam Sloan – design, layout design
  • Asia Kepka – photography
  • Susan Alzner – photography
  • Scot Fisher – photography
  • Matt Hagen – photography
  • [http://WWW.TH-Photo.com/ Thomas Hoebbel] – photography
  • Liam King – photography
  • [http://dankoeck.com Dan Koeck] – photography
  • Heidi Kunkel – photography
  • Liz Marshall – photography
  • Andy Stochansky – photography
  • Asia Kepka – cover photo

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Charts

Album

class="wikitable"
align="left"|Year

!align="left"|Chart

!align="left"|Position

align="left"|1997

|align="left"|The Billboard 200

|align="left"|59

References