2010 to 2024 Recorded AND Released Live Albums

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ I like The Flaming Lips too and my favourite song from the four CD albums I own is "Do You Realize??" from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - and Hear It Is....

If I had to choose one album, then it would be Embryonic. And when others were poo-pooing the idea of the Flaming Lips in PA around 2009 and saying it had no place, that was an album that I thought I thought deserved serious consideration. Playing it again now, and love it more than ever. I think it may be rather too experimental for you in large part. I love the Lips Neo-Psych/ Space Rock Revival music. I am into so much music of that ilk.

For a chill song off it, I love this:



And this track melts in your brain, not in your hands:



Such a great band and Embryonic is so good to my ears. Despite any naysayers, was happy to give it a serious evaluation for Prog Related and add it to PA.

Edited by Logan - November 02 2024 at 05:58

^ I like The Flaming Lips too and my favourite song from the four CD albums I own is "Do You Realize??" from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - and Hear It Is. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 01 2024 at 09:54

Somewhat ironically, I really like Anathema's Universal album too, whereas some of the other artists in the poll are an anathema to me. Not mentioning any names. 

Logan wrote: Cristi wrote: Jared wrote: richardh wrote: Jared wrote: the Anathema album is arguably their finest hour.. looking at the comments above Rich, we appear to be the only two... I like that, too and one of the few i know from this poll.  I don't know if i should vote for it or vote at all here.  Please do. While it's not altogether to my taste, it's clearly a quality concert. It's not a contest, people don't need to compare choices, I just ask people to choose an album they like from the list if they like any of them, and to mention any others they like if they so wish. Really, I'm mostly just happy to see people expressing their interest in music. For me lives are wonderful, not just seeing lives in concert, or watching the musicians play, but it can add another dimension to music, another sound, be more playful, spontaneous in some cases or gritty than studio albums, and in various cases the live releases are my favourite albums that acts put out. I would not expect most here to know many of these albums and seven in the poll aren't even in PA, but I wanted to include those acts and albums. Most of this is pretty representative of my rather [insert adjective of your choice] tastes.

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets - Live at the Roundhouse

Jared wrote: richardh wrote: Jared wrote: the Anathema album is arguably their finest hour.. looking at the comments above Rich, we appear to be the only two...

Edited by Cristi - November 01 2024 at 02:33

Jared wrote: the Anathema album is arguably their finest hour..

King Crimson all the way.

BrufordFreak wrote: I am not a fan of live recordings--unless there is high-quality videofootage accompanying--but I have really loved Anekdoten's <i style="font-weight: bold;">Waking the Dead (<i style="font-weight: bold;">Live in Japan 2005) as well as both Magma's Trilogie au Trianon and their Mythes et légendes video series.

BrufordFreak wrote: I am not a fan of live recordings--unless there is high-quality videofootage accompanying--but I have really loved Anekdoten's <i style="font-weight: bold;">Waking the Dead (<i style="font-weight: bold;">Live in Japan 2005) as well as both Magma's Trilogie au Trianon and their Mythes et légendes video series.

I enjoy seeing bands play live, but don't get out to concerts enough. While I had some issues with the sound-system, I did enjoy seeing Magma live in Vancouver. I also have enjoyed seeing Magma videos and there are various Magma live albums of which I love to listen. For me some of those album released as lives are my favourites. With Magma, I adore Rétrospective Vol. 1 & 2 (recorded 1980 and released 1981), which features my favourite version of "Theusz Hamtaahk" as well as "MDK". And I love Hhai and others. Tangerine Dream's Ricochet is another particular favourite of mine.   Cardiacs' All That Glitters is a Mare's Nest (also love watching that) and lots of more modern ones.

I generally like the lives which contain material not released on studio albums as well as those which contain significantly different versions of the music from what was released on studio albums. Ciśnienie is a favourite of mine and it releases lives instead of studio albums. If I just heard it, and there weren't sounds of audience clapping at the end of tracks, I would not now how it was released (and of course audience sounds can be added in production).

Sometimes the line is blurred between lives and studio albums and it's something of a combination of both. And mixed and mastered a live can be very hard to distinguish from studio album. Some "live' aren't even done in front of an "audience" (well even if some involved hear and observe it).

Two of the the first "live" albums I really liked were Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys and the Led Zeppelin soundtrack for The Song Remains the Same (I also saw that on video).

I am not a fan of live recordings--unless there is high-quality videofootage accompanying--but I have really loved Anekdoten's Waking the Dead (Live in Japan 2005) as well as both Magma's Trilogie au Trianon and their Mythes et légendes video series.