Six Live Tracks Recorded and Released in the 90s

The top three are three of my favourite songs off three of my favourite live albums where the live versions were recorded and released in the 90s (all are in PA but Portishead), and the song must not have been recorded in any format before the 1990s for me to choose it. Otherwise, say, Cardiacs' "Big Ship" off All That Glitters Is a Mares Nest would reside in the poll (that live version of the song was recorded and later released in the 90s, but it was not the first release of a "Big Ship").

The next three songs are off the top ranked live albums in PA that were released in the 1990s, and again I am trying to choose songs that were not recorded in any format before the 1990s. That Rush album covers various periods with recordings and compositions, but I am only choosing from 90s Rush.

Please try to vote for one that you like and feel free to mention any other live tracks off albums, be it off the same or different live albums, that were both recorded and released on live albums in the 1990s as well as having not been recorded in nay format before the 1990s;.

Fishmans "Long Season" (98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare, recorded on 28 December 1998, released on 29 September 1999)



Portishead "Sour Times" (Roseland NYC Live, album recorded 24 July 1997 - 3 July 1998, released 2 November 1998)



Swans "Blood Promise" (Swans Are Dead, album recorded     29 August 1995 - 1997 and released 20 January 1998)



Porcupine Tree "The Sky Moves Sideways" (Coma Divine, recorded March 25-27, 1997, released October 1997)



Camel "Rose of Sharon" (Never Let Go, recorded on 5 September 1992, released in 1993)

(16 second intro before 5:30 or so minute song starts, then follows other music from the album)*

Rush "Roll the Bones" (Different Stages - Live, track recorded, unsure, released 10 November 1998)



Despite Camel's live doing as well as it does in the rankings at PA (Camel is very popular here), I was limited by youtube with what I found that was available from it.

I hope I was right with all and none had had earlier than the 90s releases (please let me know if I am in error).

Feel free to vote for as many of these as you like and with little knowledge and mention any of your favourites off live albums where the songs/pieces were first recorded and released in the 1990s.

RRUUSSHH!!

RASH!

Porcupine Tree... predictably, I know the bottom three only.

Edited by Jared - 10 hours 47 minutes ago at 01:10

The Sky Moves Sideways and Long Season. We now makes pants for octopuses. 

Jared wrote: Porcupine Tree... predictably, I know the bottom three only. I do appreciate the effort you put in toward imagining new polls Greg...  My problem is the 1990s is quite a fallow area in my collection as its not a decade I tend to listen to much these days; I'd only give you some very obvious selections, such as IQ: Forever Live or Marillion: Made Again, which need no introduction from anyone... and you've already included PT. A live album from 1992 I do play quite a bit is Steve Hackett's Time Lapse, which I do really like, however it doesn't contain any 90's material!

Thanks. I like to try to be creative (this site gives me some kind of outlet for that) and know that sometimes the idea work out, sometimes not, sometimes others and/or myself seem to appreciate the results/effort, sometimes not. C'est la vie.

I have wanted to do this throughout the decades while encouraging people to mention their own faves. I would use an "other" option but then various people tend to neglect the offerings in the poll altogether.

I have shared this before, but I was not that big on 90s music in the 90s. I heard and liked some stuff on the radio from the decade. And I used to club a lot, but was not big on house/techno. In Japan I got exposed to some interesting, out there music, not that I knew Fishmans then. In the mid 2000s I sought to modernise my tastes more as I was mostly stuck in the 60s and 70s. I found a ton to love in the 80s, and then a fair amount in the 90s (Miriodor and U Totem were two of my first loves of the decade at that time) and I was looking into and finding 2000s music. I spent quite a while where I was heavily listening to new-to-me albums. I was into Air before that which released one of my favourite albums of the 90s after discovering video through a flash video site that featured lot of Aardman production works.

Some years ago before the pandemic I discovered a 90s Chris Morris radio show called Blue Jam which mixed surreal black comedy with largely 90s music creating a rather boozy-woozy experience often. That had a huge effect on my music listening. It led to me becoming a fan of Stereolab and Portishead, more into Bjork (I got to know Bjork's music while in Japan), and lots of other things, and that led to more and more and more. Got very into Radiohead etc.

So for my case I did not listen to the 90s much in the 90s, it was in the in the 2010s that I got most into 90s music. Now I love to listen to music of all of the decades from the 60s up especially. The 70s still dominates my collection much more than any other decade, followed by the 80s, and 60s, then the 2010s...

But in my live albums list where I chose to do but one album per act, it's clear to me that various of my absolute favourite live albums came from the 90s. That Fishmans and Portishead album can't be beat for me, plus I love Swans' Swans Are Dead and Omniscience, Cardiacs' All That Glitters is a Mares Nest. And while released later than the 90s, several of my favourite lives by Bjork were recorded in the 90s. And I like more Fishmans live.

Actually, while I did not listen to a lot of 90s music at home, I did go to plenty of concerts in the 90s, but mostly those were jazz=bars and classical concerts and seeing blues bands at the pubs. I was big on going out at night to music venues then and hanging out in bars. My friends pushed me into the clubbing thing. Then I got married and did other stuff.

Anyway, I love lives and the 90s put out some really great lives. Even though it's not Prog, I might have expected a vote for Portishead by now. Not for all tastes, but that album is great and is regarded by many as such a classic. Despite my penchant for experimental music, in some ways my tastes are more mainstream (okay, still alternative) than most here. Like with Portishead not getting any votes in this multiple vote poll, but then this is a small sample size and this is a Prog site. And the poll only came out about 20 hours ago.