Live Albums Recorded and Released in the 1990s

From this list: IQ - Forever Live, followed by:
Peter Gabriel
Yes - Keys to Ascension; great setlist, but dodgy DVD editing.

Cardiacs everything else is irrelevant.

Ok Crimson and Floyd 2nd

Love the Fishmans

Not sure, something between Coma Divine, PULSE and Keys to Ascension. I think the 90's were a sweet spot for the classic 70's artists doing live albums. They were usually still in top shape (though sadly often no longer with their classic line-ups), but with better equipment for playing and recording, and more experience and time playing and polishing their songs, resulting in some really great versions of their original classics.

Mellotron Storm wrote: I forgot that I have started a "best of" live list. In the early stage of it but I noticed I had two 90's records on there that I need to mention. Djam Karet- Live At Orion Radio Massacre International- Knutsford In May

Thanks, John. I also was working on a best, meaning best for me of what I know, list of lives. I kind of gave up on it just because I usually like to do at least 25 acts and just one album per act but with some acts I really wanted multiple albums for a poll. I think I know how I will do it. For many, as is common it would be a dissatisfying. Maybe we already have a great topic on live albums in Top 10s and Lists. I would not wish to limit myself to those in PA. I mean the one I have been most enamoured with of late in this poll is not in PA, the Fishmans. By the way, Ian and Lewian, really glad you appreciate it.

Here is kind of where I was with just one favourite by a band albums I have liked over the years (with The Necks, I have not even heard the whole thing yet, so long, but the first is great):

Laurie Anderson - United States Live
Björk - Homogenic Live
Boris - Performing "flood"
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Camel - A Live Record
Cardiacs - All That Glitters Is a Mares Nest
Ciśnienie - Brass Album
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Dead Can dance - Toward the Within
Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
Fishmans - 98.12.28 男達の別れ (98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - ライブ ''開かれた合唱'' 十年の展開 (Live ''Hirakareta Gassho'' Junen No Tenkai)
Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool
Grobschnitt - Solar Music: Live
Henry Cow - Concerts
Anna von Hausswolff - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Kraan - Kraan Live
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Magma - Rétrospective Vol. 1 & 2 (love Live (Hhaï)
The Necks - Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab
Thee Oh Sees - Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
Rush - Exit...Stage Left
Santana - Live at the Fillmore 1968
Sigur Rós - Inni
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Nocturn
Swans - Swans Are Dead
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
The Who - Live at Leeds

If I do a poll, I might do it as live tracks. I would do an Interactive poll but various of my fave tracks are very long indeed


Edited by Logan - November 04 2024 at 14:22

Logan wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: I forgot that I have started a "best of" live list. In the early stage of it but I noticed I had two 90's records on there that I need to mention. Djam Karet- Live At Orion Radio Massacre International- Knutsford In May Thanks, John. I also was working on a best, meaning best for me of what I know, list of lives. I kind of gave up on it just because I usually like to do at least 25 acts and just one album per act but with some acts I really wanted multiple albums for a poll. I think I know how I will do it. For many, as is common it would be a dissatisfying. Maybe we already have a great topic on live albums in Top 20s and Lists. I would not wish to limit myself to those in PA. I mean the one I have been most enamoured with of late in this poll is not in PA, the Fishmans. By the way, Ian and Lewian, really glad you appreciate it.

I hadn't heard of the Fishmans until this poll, I'll try to check them out today. I would like one day to have some sort of a "best of" live list, but I'd also like to have a "best of" EP list too, and also to be in my 40's again.

P.U.L.S.E

Voted Anekdoten a must have imo

AND:

Änglagård - Buried Alive     
Camel - Never Let Go     
IQ - Forever Live     
King Crimson - THRaKaTTaK     
Marillion - Made Again     
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine: Recorded Live in Rome
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live     
Yes - Keys to Ascension     
Peter Hammill - Typical     
Ozric Tentacles - Live Underslunky