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Hercules 
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In no particular order, and sticking to one per band:
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall BJH - BJH Live Camel - A Live Record Wishbone Ash - Live Dates Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool Rush - Exit Stage Left IQ - Subterranea Live Marillion - Real to Reel Genesis - Seconds Out |
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Lewian
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:13 |
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Live albums are hard to cover by a list these days as so many shows have been published, but most of these were only bought by the most committed fans of the band. I see a distinction between "big" live albums (mostly from the past) which were put out by bands pretty much like a regular release and appreciated by many, and the releases just targeted at a small audience that were put out because you can do that cheaply even if only a few people buy it. Still some of these can be quite good. Of course it isn't black and white like that and what I just write will not allow for a sharp classification, still Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall is a mightily good album and has 266 ratings on PA whereas Day of the Dreamer has 15 and I've never heard of "King Biscuit Flower Hour", which I don't even find on PA, but this is highest on the list followed by Day of the Dreamer, whereas Carnegie Hall isn't on there. Weird! (Obviously the two listed ones may be great, what do I know?) For Tangerine Dream on the other hand they just list "regular" live albums, chances are they didn't even know that Ricochet is live (seen as better than Poland, Encore, and Logos by maybe most), and of course TD has hundreds of "fan-targeted" live albums, but the list makers apparently don't know them and for Renaissance they do. I shouldn't be very suspicious of nationalism but it also jumps at me that great German live albums such as Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live, Kraan Live, Hoelderlin Live Traumstadt are missing. But then, as I wrote, putting together a meaningful live albums list is super hard, they can try, I can disagree, but I guess not much harm is done...
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moshkito
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:14 |
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Hi, This one deserves a mention just by the ending of one piece ... where your ears get blown out ... even DD (never Deputy Dan!) got wow'd by it and surprised.
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Cristi
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:15 |
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^ I thought we were supposed to comment on the list in the original post.
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Lewian
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:21 |
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Not sure whether we're supposed to discuss specific albums here. This one has some stellar material (the Never Let Go version is one of the best things I have heard), but it is also somewhat disjointed, putting together stuff from different years with different formations in a not necessarily optimal way. It's not like a concert experience from start to finish (and generally doesn't win much from playing it "in order"), so I would probably rate it quite a bit lower than most of its parts separately.
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Lewian
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:23 |
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The highest ranked GG album is also "King Biscuit Flower Hour" and Playing the Fool isn't there... maybe I just don't get the joke!?
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Lewian
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There isn't much of a specification of what "we were supposed to do" but discussing good live albums is probably not the worst thing that can be done with such a thread.
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Cristi
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:26 |
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True Here is the working link nevertheless
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 07:33 |
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Yes - Yessongs
Rush - Exit ... Stage Left Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii Kansas - Two for the Show Peter Gabriel - Plays Live Discipline - This One's for England Van der Graaf Generator - Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios, London |
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Logan
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I already commented on seeing Depeche Mode's 101 at 75 on that progressive rock list which stood out not so much because I would expect 101 to not be in a top 100 but instead just outside of it (101 is just the album name), but because I would not expect to find it in a Prog list of albums. That said, Björk is on my list (due to her being in PA), and I would not expect that many to associate her with Prog.
Lists are a dime a dozen, and I commonly take issue with lists that claim to be the greatest representatives, and I don't find that list compelling (thoughts on the list are of interest to me). For a list itself, I am more interested to see my fellow poster's lists as I care about what individual think. I don't know who made that list in the OP, how many contributed, the methodology... If not based on personal tastes, then I would rather a more meta list. Problem is, not everyone agrees on what is progressive rock and a site like PA does not label by the album, so the results could be better if drawing from various sources. I have more Magma lives than any other band, lots, but here is a more general list of my favourites. Some ones in PA that I like that spring to mind. Area - Are(A)zione (1975) Björk - Livebox (2003), Homogenic Live (2004), Post Live (2004), Vespertine Live (2004) Cardiacs - All That Glitters Is a Mares Nest (1995), Cardiacs Live (1998) Ciśnienie - Brass Album (2022), JazzArt Underground (2019) Miles Davis - Live-Evil (1971), Pangaea (1975), Agharta (1975), Dark Magus (1977) Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness (2005) Anna von Hausswolff - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2022) Hawkwind - Space Ritual (1973) Henry Cow - Concerts (1976) Kraan - Live (1975) Magma - Rétrospective Vol. 1 & 2 (1981), Live Hhaï (1975), Concert 1976 - Opéra de Reims (released in 2000), Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie (2001) etc. Pink Floyd - the live album of Ummagumma (1969) Swans - Omniscience (1992), Deliquescence (2017), Swans Are Dead (1998) Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (1975), Encore (1977) Robert Wyatt and Friends - Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 (released in 2005) Out of PA and not really relevant , but mentioning because I love Portishead: Portishead - Roseland NYC Live (1998) If Portishead released on album their live performances of their album Third, then that would be more relevant as that has Krautrock, Post Rock, experimental rock and prog folk qualities. Edited by Logan - September 09 2023 at 11:16 |
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Add King Crimson - Great Deceiver and that would essentially be my list.
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The Dark Elf
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Procol Harum - Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Jethro Tull - Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight FestivalGenesis - Seconds Out Deep Purple - Made in Japan ELP - Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends Frank Zappa - You Can't Do that on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 (The Helsinki Tapes)
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I'm not sure which I would consider the best live album. Even though I love them, I usually find them lacking something... specially if I want the classics in the 70's. They don't have the whole concert, or they don't have the best line-up, or whatever. Yet, if only Pink Floyd's Animals tour had been properly recorded and released, the complete show, that would surely have become (for me at least) the ultimate live album.
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pleased to see Different Stages at the top even if I managed to forget it in my list. Always like 90's Rush so I like to hear the mix of music across their (at the time) 3 decades of excellence. You get the 78 Hammy Odeon as a bonus disc as well. All very nice. ELP at No2 with Pictures At An Exhibition is quite ballsy considering it was just an encore performance. Personally as a fan I find it a bit anaemic and lacking any real fun. Very clinical, a criticism that was levelled at ELP and is fully evident here. Lyceum 1970 was more gritty and too my taste, I also much prefer the triple album and Mar Y Sol 1972 as far as ELP live goes. On the theme of being too clinical I actively dislike Seconds Out with a passion. For me it's totally dull. A lot of my selections didn't make the list but then some of them are DVD's rather than live albums. Also I presume Led Zep would have had at least 2 entries if they were counted as a prog band (clearly not in this case). |
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Lewian
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Apparently "King Biscuit Flower Hour" was a radio show and they also produced a good number of live albums of bands, probably what they had played on the show. Both Gentle Giant and Renaissance have that album listed highest in this list (both inexplicably without having their most well known, and actually great, live albums listed). The Renaissance one isn't even listed on PA. Has anybody here heard these albums or at least one of them? Are they as good as the list suggests?
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You guys named bunches of superb live albums. I'd like to add one to the list.
SBB- Karlstad Live
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My favorite is Two For The Show by Kansas, but recently I have also been listening to King Crimson's Night Watch. Some stellar stuff from their best, imo, era
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Rush - Exit... Stage Left
Kansas - Two for the Show Dream Theater - Live at the Marquee Angra - Holy Live Mike Oldfield - Live at Montreux (DVD) Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadić - Live at Belgrade Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall |
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Yes - Yessongs E,L&P - Welcome back my friends.... Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York Kansas - Two for the Show Rush - Exit... Stage Left |
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Hi, It sure made for an excellent set of bootlegs ... complete with raging RW, too! It was a very good show for sure! And I think it was better than the DSOTM show.
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