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Joined: November 29 2006
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:07
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.
What do you mean "official" ? Listen Now is their official album and a very good one too, although most will prefer the live album I think they are equally good.
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:28
I would like to mention Guru Guru's first live album from 1978. One of the very best life albums ever. Here it is:
Also Van der Graaf Generator's "Vital", for which the same is true as for the live album of Guru Guru, and "Real Time" and Peter Hammill's "There Goes the Daylight" and "The Margin +".
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:37
Sagichim wrote:
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.
What
do you mean "official" ? Listen Now is their official album and a very
good one too, although most will prefer the live album I think they are
equally good.
I meant "801 Live" is the only album
credited exclusively to 801. I didn't count "Listen Now" (which I think
is mostly fantastic) as it was released as a "Manzanera/801" album
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:10
Rednight wrote:
Yeah! Acclaim on this site for Listen Now!
You bet! Flight 19, Law & Order, City of Light, That Falling Feeling, fantastic stuff! Can't really get into the opening funk-disco-prog-track but the rest more than makes up for a shaky start
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:17
In jazz I can think of plenty - not so much in rock or popular music. The "well behaved" jazzmen such as Bill Evans, Ahmad, Jamal, Yusef Lateef, Herbie Mann (and many more less well behaved) truly shines on many live albums where they stretch out and go a little wilder. Within rock... I can't think of and band where I actually prefer a tune live if I have the studio version. Most of them tend to get lost when they stretch out and those who don't stretch out are usually to close to the original for me to care. I do love some Can, Magma, Tangerine Dream live albums but that is mostly because they often released original material live. I've sat beside enthusiastic friends spinning some live Zappa, Grateful Dead or whatever... and even horrible sounding bootlegs - loving it. But I just want to leave the room. One of my main issues is a little silly: I really hate listening to a recorded audience applauding and shouting - stuff like that (the jazz audience are usually well behaved and the concerts are often very intimate so that's kinda cozy).
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:49
There are so many great live recordings across so many years from King Crimson that choosing one is not only difficult to impossible but also an excercise in futility because tomorrow it'll just be something else.
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Posted: October 10 2017 at 16:11
Two have been already mentioned- Holderlin, Traunstadt live and Hawkwind, Space ritual. I also particularly love Pat Metheny 'Travels'. Barclay James Harvest 'Live' (1974) is another live lp that (I feel) has a life of its own.
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