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    Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:01
I surely have a weak spot for live albums. Fair enough, the sound is often not optimal, but many bands have more energy and bite live, which I love. I wonder whether live albums are somewhat underappreciated on this site... (or overappreciated by me).

Without even thinking much I can nominate
Live (1973) as by far the best Genesis album,
the live album of Ummagumma as towering over everything else Pink Floyd ever did.
I'm tempted even to say that I like Yessongs more than any of their studio albums but this is a tighter affair.
Less surprisingly some of my German compatriots are rightly far more famous for their live performances than for their studio output, as documented on the fabulous live albums
Kraan - Live
Grobschnitt - Solar Music live
Hoelderlin - Traumstadt.

I'll probably find more.

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ELP with Pictures at an Exhibition popped to mind right away.
Also, not exactly prog, but my favorite Miles Davis album is Live-Evil.
I'm sure I could find more, but can't think of anything else right now.
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Points: 4596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:22
I have a few...

Twelfth Night.  I'll take "Live and Let Live" over anything else they did by a mile...
Pallas.  I love "Arrive Alive" more than any studio album (even though it's pretty rough sound quality)...
Iron Maiden (are they prog related?):  I'll take 1985's "Live After Death" over any of their studio work...
Marillion (Fish era).  "Real to Reel" and "The Thieving Magpie"...much better live versions of the songs...
801.  Sure "801 Live" is their only "official" album, but it's mostly made up of songs from Eno & Manzanera's studio albums...I much prefer the live versions.

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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:42
As a general rule:

Live King Crimson > studio King Crimson
Live Magma > studio Magma
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Just to mention two:

Love You Live - Rolling Stones

Whirld Tour 2010 - Transatlantic
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I don't really recall a band, at least not among my favourite ones, that my favourite album is a live one. But there are many bands in which many of my favourite versions of their songs are live. Indeed they often sound more alive, more organic, less plastic, more energetic, than their studio counterparts... and sometimes the songs are extended to the point that the studio versions seem like incomplete versions of the songs. But of course, it mostly depends on the band and the particular versions. There are bands whose improvs just don't work for me. Bands that I love live are Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Yes, Renaissance. But ELP just doesn't work very well live for me. There should be many other examples, but these are the ones at the top of my head.
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Not prog (and only one song), but Skynyrd's Free Bird live smokes, I feel, the studio version.
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Points: 21240 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2017 at 16:31
Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

 
801.  Sure "801 Live" is their only "official" album, but it's mostly made up of songs from Eno & Manzanera's studio albums...I much prefer the live versions.


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Magma - Triologie Du Trianon
Henry Cow - Concerts
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
King Crimson - Great Deceiver
Cardiacs - The Special Garage Concerts
Nik Bartsch Ronin - Live
Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:


Cardiacs - The Special Garage Concerts
 

I'd probably pick that one, Mares Nest and Live before any of their studio albums, and their studio albums are damn cool, too! Also agree with Hawkwind.


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Originally posted by Quinino Quinino wrote:

Just to mention two:

Love You Live - Rolling Stones
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My favourite Transatlantic album is also the Whirld Tour one... but mostly because that's the first one I got, I really loved The Whirlwind set, and haven't got/heard the original one, since I already have the whole piece live, so I don't really know if I would like the studio version better or not. But they were playing great, and many of the other songs I do have heard live and studio I liked better on the version from this set, so I might just as well like the version I have better anyway.
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Mostly Autumn. I've not found a studio album of theirs that I like from start to finish. Even Passengers doesn't take off for me until the fourth or fifth track. However I love the live albums Live 2009 and That Night In Leamington. They both contain a setlist that represents the best of Mostly Autumn without the filler that the studio albums include. They sound great too.
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Points: 8602 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2017 at 01:35
Easy, Yessongs is the only album of their's that I have listened to on purpose for some time now.

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Triumvirat with "The Road To Nowhere", a Japanese remastering of the bootleg of their North American debut concert live at the Ultrasonic Studios, Oct. 1st, 1974.
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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2017 at 06:21
I generally prefer live albums to studio albums because of the spontaneity. here a few good ones:

Colosseum - Live
Wishbone Ash -- Live Dates
Gong - Live au Bataclan (and generally all Gong live albums)
Deep Purple - Live in Japan
Hawkwind - Space Ritual (and generally all Hawkwind live albums)
Magma - Live Hhai (and generally all Magma live albums)
Steve Hillage - Live Herald
Frumpy - Live 1972

not in the archives:

Atlantis (a band with almost the same line-up as Frumpy, which is why I think they should be in the archives as prog-related, especially due to their self-titled album and their second "It's Getting Better" - Live at Fabrik


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Points: 9068 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2017 at 07:39
One that comes to mind immediately is "Anyone's Daughter Live".  Their "Requested Document Live (Vol 1)" is also probably better than any studio album.  Many people would rate the live "Piktors Verwandlugen" as their best as well, though I am not in agreement on that

Not prog (although prog related IMO), but "Once in a Lifetime: by RUNRIG is probably my favorite by them.

but generally I prefer studio albums
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Grobschnitt Solar Music is the one I thought of immediately, the live version is just something else.
Another stand out live album is SBB Karlstad. And of course pretty much any live album by Hendrix is better than the studio albums, especially Fillmore East.
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