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Points: 6632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:07
Originally posted by The.Crimson.King 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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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 4596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:37
Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

Originally posted by The.Crimson.King 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 Wink
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Yeah! Acclaim on this site for Listen Now!
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 Dixie Dregs - Bring 'em Back Alive 
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Originally posted by Rednight 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 LOL
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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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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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But, today let's go with Heavy ConstruKction.

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Caravan's Live At Fairfield 74 deserves a shout out.
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

 Dixie Dregs - Bring 'em Back Alive 


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Not prog, but Made in Japan is definitely the best Deep Purple album.
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Japan - Oil on Canvas
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Points: 4812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2017 at 15:03
Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

 Dixie Dregs - Bring 'em Back Alive 
Also the live parts of Night of the Living Dregs.
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Points: 3718 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Deep Purple Made in Japan, no question about it!
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Points: 7311 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2017 at 21:01
I always thought Frank Zappa's "Roxy and Elsewhere" was a masterwork!  

Also, much of King Crimson's "Starless and Bible Black" was recorded live.  That is one of my favorites.  
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Points: 20630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2017 at 16:17
Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Easy, Yessongs is the only album of their's that I have listened to on purpose for some time now.

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