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    Posted: August 20 2005 at 06:26
So?

Which is better,Ummagumma Live or Ummagumma Studio...

My vote goes for option C,I consider them as a whole album...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 14:55
i only listen to the studio because i have live at pompeii and always go to that for live performances.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 14:57
I would normally take option C, because this IS one album.  But disc one is one of the very best live performances of all time, and one of my favorite Floyd albums.  So I vote "A".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 15:52

Its just one album, cool concept I think.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 20:54
Originally posted by Anonymous2112 Anonymous2112 wrote:

Its just one album, cool concept I think.

Agree

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2005 at 03:16
Two different sides on the same coin really.  The album would not be the same if one set was left out.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2005 at 03:45
none is better,it is one album, ablolutely
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2005 at 21:54
It IS one album! so C!! but if I had to choose between the two, then the live one would be my choice! But really, I like to listen to it as a whole, since it is one album!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2005 at 02:04
none is better,it is one album etc.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2005 at 13:56
even though i have bootlegs that cover it, the live still beats the studio.  Interestingly, some people believe the live album was re-recorded in the studio and dubbed with crowd noises. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2005 at 14:00
The live, without any doubt. There are some good tracks on the studio side (notably Waters' Grantchester Meadows), but as a whole I find it rather hard going. The live side, however, is a masterpiece.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2005 at 14:04
The live side is a good interpretation of very good tracks from the previous albums (well,without Careful With The Axe,Eugene,I guess)...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2005 at 00:27

I've always viewed it as two albums .. and I've been kind of sad that the Floyd put them out together ...

The superb live album is just about my favourite live album of all time ...

And I think the studio set is distinctly inferior to the other albums that surrounded it ie. Piper, Saucer, Atom Heart Mother and Meddle  (I exclude the More soundtrack) ...

If I were using PA ratings it would be a 5 for the live and a 3 for the studio

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2005 at 06:03

The live set is essential stuff, live versions of some of Floyd's best early works which sound better than the original studio takes (especially Saucerful).

The studio album mostly sounds like they're stumbling around in search of some ideas. There are a few ok moments, but I bet they cringe when they hear it these days.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2005 at 02:04
Another one of those cool polls that slipped away ...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2005 at 04:43

Hmm, I realy don't think this album should be considered as a whole, because the live album as few to do with the studio one :  the live song are psychedelic songs that PF played since one year and more and are the result of the perpetual collaboration between the 4 players and the studio songs are experimental songs written only by one of the member of the group.  But anyway, for me, the live album is better; in fact, it's one of the greatest live album I ever heard.  CwtAE is pure madness, I have always shivers when Waters start to scream !  And of all the live versions I have heard on several bootleg, ASoS of Ummagumma is the best one, the final is just to beautiful.

Of course, the studio is good too and there are there some really great moments :  Sysyphus, pt. 4; Grantchester Meadows; The Narrow Way, pt. 3.

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