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Gandalff

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Topic: Your favourite live album (Prog or non-Prog)
Posted: August 19 2010 at 00:52

Mine:

King Crimson: The Nightwatch

Camel: Gods Of Light

Collegium Musicum: Live

Omega: Kisstadión

Slade: Alive

The Who: Live At Leeds

Deep Purple: Made In Japan

Edited by Gandalff - August 19 2010 at 01:17

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 02:13

Havn't done this for a while so:

1 ELP - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends ...Ladies and Gentlemen

2 Rush - Different Stages

3 Muse - H.A.A.R.P

4 Genesis - Seconds Out

5 Yes - Yessongs

6 Par Lindh Project - Live In Iceland

7 Procal Harum - In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

8 Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine

9 Mike Oldfield - Exposed

10. Tangerine Dream - Pergamon

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 06:33

Pain of Salvation- 12:5

Muse- HAARP

In the Woods...- Liveatthecalledonian

Marillion- Recital of Script

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Live in Hyde Park

Threshold- Critical Energy

The Gathering- Superheat and Sleepy Buildings

King Crimson- The Great Deceiver

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 06:45

Frank Zappa: Roxy and Elsewhere

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 06:47

Leonard Cohen - Live Songs
The Birthday Party - Live 1981-82
Tangerine Dream - Logos
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
Japan - Oil on Canvas
King Crimson - USA
Portishead- Roseland NYC Live
Crime & The City Solution - The Adversary
Rush - Exit . . . Stage Left
Yes - Yessongs
Depeche Mode - 101

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 06:50

Hmmmmmmm...

CDs only, or video too?

With video included:

Pink Floyd - Live At Pompeii
Led Zeppelin - The Songs Remains The Same
Led Zeppelin DVD
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
Depeche Mode - A Night In Paris
Deep Purple - Live In Japan
The Who - Live At The Isle Of Wight
Collegium Musicum - Marian Varga & Collegium Musicum
Genesis - Live
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends
Natsumen - Never Wear Out Your Summer!!!
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
The Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds
Alanis Morissette - Unplugged

I still have a huge number of essential live releases to acquire, such as those from Magma, Sigur Ros, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, etc.

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 06:55

Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York by Dream Theater
and Lamentations live DVD by Opeth

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Edited by Stoned420 - August 19 2010 at 06:56

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 12:26

Brainstorm-Bremen 1973
Brainstorm-Last Smile
Bloodrock-Bloodrock Live
One Live Badger
Triumvirat-LA 1975 (not a complete album, only 3 songs, but very good-it is on the Friday Music issue of Spartacus)
Birth Control-Live 1974
Colosseum Live -1971
Le Orme-In Concerto 1974
Passport-Doldinger Jubilee
Soft Machine 3

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 12:32

npjnpj wrote:

Frank Zappa: Roxy and Elsewhere

This, and Magma's live albums I've heard thus far (cds and DVDs) including Live/Hhai, Retrospektiw I-II, La Trilogie Theusz Hamtaahk (cd version) and Mythes et Legendes Vol. 3.

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 13:12

Ange-Tome VI

Barclay James Harvest- Live

Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer Group- Live

Blue oYster cult- Some enchanted evening

Family- Anyway (live side)

focus- At the Rainbow

Genesis-Live

Rory Gallagher- Irish Tour 74

Grateful Dead- Europe 72

Grobschnit- Solar music Live

Roy Harper- Flashes from the archives of Oblivion

Steve Hillage- Live Herald

Robyn Hitchcock and the egyptians- Gotta let this Hen out

Jefferson Airplane- 30 seconds over Winterland

Man- Back into the future (live sides)

New Trolls- tempi dispari

Santana - lotus

Yes- Yessongs

etc etc etc

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 15:03

Prog:

The nightwatch- King Crimson

Kinda Prog:

Live after Death- Iron Maiden

Not Prog:

The Dave Matthew's band so good live, so any of there live albums.

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Posted: August 19 2010 at 15:25

Genesis Seconds Out and Live

Led Zep Song Remains the Same

Ramones It's Alive

Japan : Oil

Jethro Tull: Burting Out

Tangerine Dream: Ricochet

Cheap Trick: Budakan

Gong: Live Etc and Paris 73

Hillage: Live Herald

Hawkwind: Space Ritual

Motorhead: Whats Wordsworth

Edited by akamaisondufromage - August 19 2010 at 15:27

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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

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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 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 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 06:58

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 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 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 07:51

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