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Progarchives Top 25 Live Albums
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Miles Davis - Dark Magus
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ELP ' Welcome Back My Friends' or Henry Cow 'Concerts'.  Hey, what do I know - they are not in the 'top 25'?
Welcome Back... is 75th and Henry Cow Concerts is nowhere near the top 250

As I said, what do I know?  What I do know is that most of these albums are retrospective and not contemporaneous.  Would King Crimson have 'Earthbound' in there?  I think not.
Sure, I just know because I checked. Earthbound has a 2.49 average and probably not even in the top 1000. USA is somhwere near the bottom 200-250 though.
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I totally agree with the opening posting. This is a rather bizarre collection given that it's the top 25. I did a live albums tournament some time ago which was won by Yessongs (as was toi be expected), ahead of Deep Purple's Live in Japan (which probably doesn't qualify here).

Consequently, for me as a live album lover there's a rather embarrassing number that I don't know. I do like much King Crimson live (and know all but one of those listed) and will vote for Radical Action.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

ELP ' Welcome Back My Friends' or Henry Cow 'Concerts'.  Hey, what do I know - they are not in the 'top 25'?
Welcome Back... is 75th and Henry Cow Concerts is nowhere near the top 250

As I said, what do I know?  What I do know is that most of these albums are retrospective and not contemporaneous.  Would King Crimson have 'Earthbound' in there?  I think not.
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

ELP ' Welcome Back My Friends' or Henry Cow 'Concerts'.  Hey, what do I know - they are not in the 'top 25'?
Welcome Back... is 75th and Henry Cow Concerts is nowhere near the top 250
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Steve Hackett - an easy choice to make as I only know two other albums in the poll (by Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree) Embarrassed
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ELP ' Welcome Back My Friends' or Henry Cow 'Concerts'.  Hey, what do I know - they are not in the 'top 25'?
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Live Scenes from New York, ahead of Score and Genesis Revisited….
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Some great choices, but can't not vote for The Great Deceiver 
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Outside of all things jazz + Can, Magma, Tangerine Dream and a few other bands/artists with plenty of unique material in their live sets - sitting at home listening to live albums is not my thing. At all. But out of curiosity I checked out PA's top live albums. Maybe there was a relevant title or two of interest there to check out for someone like me.

I was surprised that only a couple of the widely known "classics" I took for granted to be in the top ten or at least twenty weren't even close. I located Yessongs, Roxy & Elsewhere, A Live Record, Ricochet and Seconds Out in between the top 35-50. Space Ritual, Live - Bursting Out and Exit...Stage, Left all resided somewhere outside of the top 100. What does this all tell me? Primarely that obscurities with few ratings/reviews, but with an abnormally high rating average (as most of their raters/reviewers are fanboys) are weighted too favorably. Compared to household names that are rated/reviewed by "everyone".

-I only really know the Magma and Miles' albums here, and I have checked out Playing the Fool + Solar Music - Live at some point. Just to try and understand what the fuss was all about. From the little handful I do know Retrospektïẁ I-II would have gotten my vote, but I'm not going to vote for anything. I've decided to give the ones that gets the most votes a shot though - even if that means I have to listen to Dream Theater.

Anyway, here's "your top 25" + a link to the top 250:


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