I usually don't go nuts for live albums, but when it comes to the Bad Brains, I'm a huge fan of every single live record that they released during their 80's heyday. All of their live discs on SST were on constant rotation for me throughout my youth, and I'm working on getting all of them in stock here for anyone who has yet to experience these fiery performances from the Rastafarian thrash masters. The one that I've been revisiting a lot lately is 1991's Spirit Electricity, a six-song Ep on SST that consists of recordings from a couple of different US performances in 1988, during the period between I Against I and Quickness, which was when the band was developing into a much more metallic, heavy sound. The disc begins with the crunchy, soaring strut of "Return To Heaven", then tears into the infectious thrash of "Let Me Help" and follows that opening salvo with the reggae medley "Day Tripper/She's A Rainbow", starting the Beatles cover with a deep reggae groove before breaking down into the spaced out dub of the second half. Then it's on to the explosive thrash classics "Banned In DC" and "Attitude" before settling back into the supreme dub on their anti-authoritarian battle cry "Youth Are Getting Restless", the languid spacey groove flecked wth electronic effects. Like their other live albums The Youth Are Getting Restless and Live, this is a ferocious live document.