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Poll Question: From the list, what is your favourite live LP?
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6 [5.08%]
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I'm listening to Frampton Comes Alive at the moment and it strikes me that there are few live albums that can stack up against it. 
But the BEST live album ever isn't on this list.  It is Rush's Different Stages.
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Tull Bursting Out for me thanks, that is one of the greatest albums ever released. The live versions of Sweet Dream and No Lullaby are so much more energetic and the whole album feels right. I used to listen to it all last summer, almost once a day. 
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 H,mmmm; Nektar, live at the roundhouse, Man, Maximum darkness; Simple Minds, City of Light, Ozric Tentacles, Pong Masters Ball; Steve Hillage, Live Herald; But how could Seconds Out be on this poll come on Genesis were a lost cause without Peter Gabriel who won my vote, or am I the only man in the world who thinks that Genesis went on many albums too many since LLDOB!!
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Heads up

You should've included Marillion's "Recital Of The Script"

From that list though, YESSONGS
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None of the above.

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1. Live At Leeds
2. Yessongs
3. Seconds Out
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Yessongs from the list.
 
I'm surprised there's been no mention of Hawkwind's mighty Space Ritual.
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Rush in Rio for me.  Yessongs has somewhat lousy sound.
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Rush in Rio for sure! Great album.
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Originally posted by A B Negative A B Negative wrote:

Yessongs from the list.
 
I'm surprised there's been no mention of Hawkwind's mighty Space Ritual.


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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Originally posted by A B Negative A B Negative wrote:

Yessongs from the list.
 
I'm surprised there's been no mention of Hawkwind's mighty Space Ritual.


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All the more for me to enjoy! Big smile
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From the list, "Berlin" (BJH), but I think that maybe the best prog live albums are not listed:
 
"A live record" (Camel)
"Welcome back my friends..." (ELP)
"Barclay James Harvest live" (BJH)
"The Tokyo tapes" (S.Hackett)
"Il best" (PFM)
 
and many others
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I'm only really familier with two albums up there, Secret World Live and The Thieving Magpie. SWL is good but I havnt heard it for years so I cant remember it too well and TTM is poor, such a flat production and mixing.

My personal favourit is Pain of Salvations 12:5. Other notables being King Crimson- the Great Deceiver, Dream Theater- Live Scenes From New York, Marillion- Real to Reel, Threshold- Critical Energy, The Tangent- Going Off On One, Muse- HAARP, Queensryche- Operation:LIVECrime, Van der Graaf Generator- Real Time, Pain of Salvation- Ending Themes and The Gathering- Superheat and Sleepy Buildings.
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Many favourite of mine but i will vote for the maximun live album:
The Who Live At Leeds album cover




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I would have expected other live albums on the list. None of these is a favorite of min. What about the live albums of Colosseum, Wishbone Ash, Grobschnitt, Guru Guru, Kraan or Steve Hillage? Not to mention those fantastic live bands like Gong, Hawkwind, Van der Graaf Generato, Magma, King Crimson or the many live albums of Peter Hammill


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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

...if there is an outstanding live LP from an artist not on the list, who is it and what is the LP?
I think I said this a while ago on another thread.  "Meet the Flower Kings" is impressive if for no other reason than it is hard to believe they are playing their choice epics LIVE!  There is such precision in their playing (and the recording is impeccable) that it is really hard to believe that it is a live album...
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Originally posted by prog4evr prog4evr wrote:

Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

...if there is an outstanding live LP from an artist not on the list, who is it and what is the LP?
I think I said this a while ago on another thread.  "Meet the Flower Kings" is impressive if for no other reason than it is hard to believe they are playing their choice epics LIVE!  There is such precision in their playing (and the recording is impeccable) that it is really hard to believe that it is a live album...


Yep - this should certainly have been on the list - it is a great LP. However, as I said at the start of what has been a good thread, there was no rhyme nor reason to the choices - it was just a selection of ones in my collection. If I had put them all on, it would have been a helluva long listTongue
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So many great choices! Curious about Rush in Rio however. Exit Stage Left is their best. Pink Floyd's Pulse is another missed CD. I love that one.
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Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

So many great choices! Curious about Rush in Rio however. Exit Stage Left is their best. Pink Floyd's Pulse is another missed CD. I love that one.


Cheers - I personally prefer Rush in Rio, and I really can't stand Floyd without Waters. To me they lost their creative edge and raison d'etre when he left.

However, I did deliberately only choose one live LP from bands such as Rush, when I actually own all of them, and, for example, Seconds Out instead of Genesis Live to prompt debate and discussion - seems like it workedBig smile
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Does anybody have ever think of Renaissance's Lave at Carnegie Hall as a best live album ?
For myself, it is on my top5 list !
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