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progkidjoel View Drop Down

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 19:15

- Coma Divine - Porcupine Tree
- Yessongs - Yes
- Seconds Out - Genesis
- BE live - Pain Of Salvation
- Live In Bonn, Germany, October 7 2009 - Kayo Dot

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 19:03

tarkus1980 wrote:

UndercoverBoy wrote:

Real Time - Van Der Graaf Generator

An immaculate setlist that pretty much includes all the fan favorites, but still manages to be interesting and lively enough to be more than just a "Best of" album. Amazing performances.

Hammill sounds AWFUL on that album. I'd have rated that album as 4 stars if he didn't essentially ruin the experience.

To each his own, but I found some of the tracks to be better than the studio versions (particularly "The Undercover Man.") Peter Hammill sounds great, but I am biased.

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 19:01

Here's my list of 20 best live albums, excluding live DVD's which would just increase the list further, and one album per band, otherwise Neil Young would be there many times. No particular order

- Yes - Yessongs
- Ange - Tome VI
- Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
- Neil Young - Live Rust
- Deep Purple - Made In Japan
- Genesis - Seconds Out
- Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
- Hawkwind - Space Ritual
- Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
- Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
- The Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East
- Bruce Springsteen - Live 1975-85
- Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
- Ten Years After - Recorded Live
- Procol Harum - Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
- Metallica - S&M
- Golden Earring - Live
- The Flower Kings - Meet The Flower Kings
- The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out
- Emerson Lake and Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends...

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:33

UndercoverBoy wrote:

Real Time - Van Der Graaf Generator

An immaculate setlist that pretty much includes all the fan favorites, but still manages to be interesting and lively enough to be more than just a "Best of" album. Amazing performances.

Hammill sounds AWFUL on that album. I'd have rated that album as 4 stars if he didn't essentially ruin the experience.

"History of Rock Written by the Losers."

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:32

The Who - Live at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival

"History of Rock Written by the Losers."

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:14

Real Time - Van Der Graaf Generator

An immaculate setlist that pretty much includes all the fan favorites, but still manages to be interesting and lively enough to be more than just a "Best of" album. Amazing performances.

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:00

Non-Prog: The Bee Gees: "One Night Only"

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 13:27

Prog:

Grobschnit- Solar music Live
Genesis - Seconds Out
Jethro Tull: Bursting Out
Gentle Giant-Playing the Fool
Renaissance: Carnegie Hall
Finch: The making of Galleons of passion (disc 2)
Novalis: Konzerten
Peter Hammill: Skeletons of songs

Not prog:

Dire Straits: Alchemy

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 12:30

Oh, I´m sclerotic, Led Zeppelin "The Song Remains The Same" was my first record on MC. I like it!

801: Live is amazing too.

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 09:22

ELP - Picutres, Welcome Back.....
Genesis - Seconds Out
LZ - The Song Remains.......
Purple - Made In Japan
Rush n- All The Worlds......, Exit, Stage Left
Gentyle Giant - Playing The Fool
Camel - A Live Record (Disc 1), Coming Of Age ( Disc 1)
Magazine - Play
Queen - Live Killers

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 09:10

harmonium.ro wrote:

Dean wrote:

Rush - Different Stages (but only for the Hammersmith Odeon "bonus" disc)

Coming from you, I would expect to find out that you've attended that very concert Tongue

I've never seen Rush live.

...I was in the audience of only one of the albums I listed (The Enid) - I did see one of the only two gigs 801 ever performed, but not the recorded one (I do believe there is a recording of it though) and I did see Bowie during the Stage tour, Tangerine Dream during the "Ricochet" tour and Oldfield during the Incantations tour, but not the shows recorded.

I would have sold my soul (if I had one) to see the ACNE 1974 concert.

What?

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 07:51

Dean wrote:

Rush - Different Stages (but only for the Hammersmith Odeon "bonus" disc)

Coming from you, I would expect to find out that you've attended that very concert Tongue

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 07:43

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet

Amon Düül II - Live in London

Pink Floyd - would be improper of me to list my fave's here, let's just say they are of independant origin and leave it at that.

Ayers, Cale, Nico & Eno - June 1, 1974

801 - 801 live

The Enid - Live at Hammersmith (vol 1 & 2)

Mike Oldfield - Exposed

Deep Purple - Concerto for Group and Orchestra

David Bowie - Stage (sides 2, 3 & 4)

TheGathering - Sleepy Buildings

Rush - Different Stages (but only for the Hammersmith Odeon "bonus" disc)

Pain of Salvation- 12:5

Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine

Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Nocturne

Bauhaus - Press Eject and Give Me The Tape

The Photos - The Blackmail Tapes

...I'd also list dozens of BBC sessions albums - there is something "special" about all those.

Edited by Dean - August 20 2010 at 07:44

What?

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 07:29

Live albums by a single group

Yessongs

The Reunion Concers (Colosseum)

Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP

Live at Leeds (The Who)

Wheels of Fire (Cream)

Ummagumma (Pink Floyd)

Kick Out The Jams (MC5)

Live at the Queen Elizabeth (Quintessence)

Curved Air - Live

Free - Live

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 06:58

In no particular order:

Genesis-Seconds Out

ELP-Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends

Yes-Yessongs

Jethro Tull-Bursting Out (Album version, the cd cuts out several unique instrumentals)

Genesis-Live

Gentle Giant-Playing the Fool

Pink Floyd-Is There Any Body Out There (The Wall Live)

Rush-Different Stages

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 06:52

sleeper wrote:

The Gathering- Sleepy Buildings

Sleepy buildings is one of my all time favorites! Not expecting seing mentioned here

"when routine bites hard and ambitions are low,
and resentment rides high but emotions won´t grow
And we´re changing our ways, taking different roads..
Then love, love will tear us apart again.."

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Posted: August 20 2010 at 06:50

Woodstock - the original soundtrack is my favourite album ever.

The second album in particular is possibly the best bit of vinyl ever cut:

CSNY - Wooden Ships (prog heaven),

The Who - We Ain't Gonna Take It (the definitive version),

Joe Cocker - Little Help From My Friends (sublime),

Santana - Soul Sacrifice (more prog heaven),

Ten Years After - I'm Going Home (Rock n Roll heaven).

It really doesn't get any better,

Then of course there's the little matter of Hendrix's magnum opus, Jefferson Airplane, Sly Stone, a beautiful set by Baez, Suite Judy Blue Eyes (even better than Wooden Ships), Canned Heat at their best etc etc etc.

Add to this the atmosphere of the stage announcements, the crowd and the Fish cheer.

Judged purely by the music Yessongs is probably better,but Woodstock is a piece of history.

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 23:45

Genesis Live just edges out Yessongs. The rest are far back.

Casting doubt on all I have to say...

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 15:54

ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition - 1972
Deep Purple - Made in Japan - 1972
Yes - Yessongs - 1973
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe - 1972
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Concerts - (Released 1982)
Woodstock - 1969

Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.

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