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1 [1.35%]
20 [27.03%]
14 [18.92%]
6 [8.11%]
5 [6.76%]
15 [20.27%]
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A really surprising Top 10, voted for GG but there are many other live albums I prefer to many of these. Shocking not to see Seconds Out, Welcome Back My Friends, YesShows, A Live Record, not one Pink Floyd or Roger Waters...
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Crimson form this list, but In the Woods.. Liveathtecaledonianhall is easily my favourite overall.
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I like this comment I saw on a Youtube video of a Gentle Giant concert:
Quote I think Gentle Giant more than most other prog bands knew that technical
ability meant nothing if you weren't willing to play with it. Even at
their most rigid there was a sense of a amateur, punk energy almost.
When I listen to Yes or ELP (no offense to them) I hear musicians
showing how to play music. When I hear GG I hear musicians showing how
to have fun with music.
sums it up really well for me



I like this comment too, and voted GG. It takes a lot of guts and talent to mess around with such intricate music and make it work. Playing the Fool is my favorite album of theirs. So many other bands, like the aforementioned among others, largely play what they record. A live performance should be unique and made all the more special for those involved when it gets lost in time rather than recorded for posterity. It becomes and event unto itself and not just another stop on a tour.

Exactly...I love Gentle Giant because they were fearless live.  I saw them open for Yes on the tour Playing the Fool was recorded on.  Doing the 5 part a capella in "Knots" or the 4 piece recorder ensemble in "Excerpts from Octopus" in front of 10,000+ manic Yes fans took talent, balls, and a massive sense of humor Thumbs Up  
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Of the albums listed, Coma Divine by far.  On this release, they manage to make some of the songs actually sound better than on the studio releases.
 
Of any prog live album, I would choose Camel's creatively titled A Live Record.  A double album offering of their best from their first five albums, plus a superior version of The Snow Goose was nice to hear since I was never amazed by the studio version.


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Love the website but I'm always confused and surprised at what is on these top whatever lists and what is not.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I would choose Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Tull's Nothing is Easy: Isle of Wight, 1970, or Genesis' Seconds Out over any of these.


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Some great live albums.  I went with Grobschnitt "Solar Music Live"  Very tough choice though.
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I would choose Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Tull's Nothing is Easy: Isle of Wight, 1970, or Genesis' Seconds Out over any of these.
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SBB for me. That is one powerful album.
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Playing the Fool over Coma Divine Live.
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FZ over KC over GG.
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Well if this is the best 10 live prog albums???? I'm astonished that so many great live albums are missing, too many to mention.

From the list I'll go with Coma Divine, a superb album and one that might just possibly make my top 10 live prog albums.
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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

 Also a shout-out for some Prog Folk:
 
Jethro Tull - Live at the Isle of Wight 

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They're all formidable but Solar Music Live knocks my socks off every time I hear it.
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The Great Deceiver over Coma Divine Live. Dt's best live album is Live at Budokan IMO. I also like Playing the Fool Live by GG.
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One vote for the remastered and expanded version of Kansas 'Two for the Show'.
 
Also a shout-out for some Prog Folk:
 
Jethro Tull - Live at the Isle of Wight
Flarick - Alive
the Decemberists - We All Raise our Voices to the Air
Lisa o Piu - Cut the Air at Mello Club (w/Roger Wootten of Comus)
Rasputina - Melora a la Basilica
Mostly Autumn - The Story so Far
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Honorable mention for the missing - Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Magma, Yugen, Henry Cow, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I like this comment I saw on a Youtube video of a Gentle Giant concert:
Quote I think Gentle Giant more than most other prog bands knew that technical
ability meant nothing if you weren't willing to play with it. Even at
their most rigid there was a sense of a amateur, punk energy almost.
When I listen to Yes or ELP (no offense to them) I hear musicians
showing how to play music. When I hear GG I hear musicians showing how
to have fun with music.
sums it up really well for me



I like this comment too, and voted GG. It takes a lot of guts and talent to mess around with such intricate music and make it work. Playing the Fool is my favorite album of theirs. So many other bands, like the aforementioned among others, largely play what they record. A live performance should be unique and made all the more special for those involved when it gets lost in time rather than recorded for posterity. It becomes and event unto itself and not just another stop on a tour.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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