Bands of which your favorite album is live
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Topic: Bands of which your favorite album is live
Posted By: Lewian
Subject: Bands of which your favorite album is live
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:01
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I surely have a weak spot for live albums. Fair enough, the sound is often not optimal, but many bands have more energy and bite live, which I love. I wonder whether live albums are somewhat underappreciated on this site... (or overappreciated by me). Without even thinking much I can nominate Live (1973) as by far the best Genesis album, the live album of Ummagumma as towering over everything else Pink Floyd ever did. I'm tempted even to say that I like Yessongs more than any of their studio albums but this is a tighter affair. Less surprisingly some of my German compatriots are rightly far more famous for their live performances than for their studio output, as documented on the fabulous live albums Kraan - Live Grobschnitt - Solar Music live Hoelderlin - Traumstadt. I'll probably find more. Further offerings? |
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Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:09
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ELP with Pictures at an Exhibition popped to mind right away. Also, not exactly prog, but my favorite Miles Davis album is Live-Evil. I'm sure I could find more, but can't think of anything else right now. ------------- Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:22
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I have a few... Twelfth Night. I'll take "Live and Let Live" over anything else they did by a mile... Pallas. I love "Arrive Alive" more than any studio album (even though it's pretty rough sound quality)... Iron Maiden (are they prog related?): I'll take 1985's "Live After Death" over any of their studio work... Marillion (Fish era). "Real to Reel" and "The Thieving Magpie"...much better live versions of the songs... 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. Wow...Captcha is brutal today  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:42
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As a general rule: Live King Crimson > studio King Crimson Live Magma > studio Magma ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:46
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Just to mention two: Love You Live - Rolling Stones Whirld Tour 2010 - Transatlantic
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 13:48
| I don't really recall a band, at least not among my favourite ones, that my favourite album is a live one. But there are many bands in which many of my favourite versions of their songs are live. Indeed they often sound more alive, more organic, less plastic, more energetic, than their studio counterparts... and sometimes the songs are extended to the point that the studio versions seem like incomplete versions of the songs. But of course, it mostly depends on the band and the particular versions. There are bands whose improvs just don't work for me. Bands that I love live are Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Yes, Renaissance. But ELP just doesn't work very well live for me. There should be many other examples, but these are the ones at the top of my head. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 04 2017 at 15:50
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Not prog (and only one song), but Skynyrd's Free Bird live smokes, I feel, the studio version. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 04 2017 at 16:31
First one I thought of  Magma - Triologie Du Trianon Henry Cow - Concerts Deep Purple - Made In Japan King Crimson - Great Deceiver Cardiacs - The Special Garage Concerts Nik Bartsch Ronin - Live Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness Hawkwind - Space Ritual ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
The.Crimson.King wrote:Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 04 2017 at 16:37
I'd probably pick that one, Mares Nest and Live before any of their studio albums, and their studio albums are damn cool, too! Also agree with Hawkwind. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 04 2017 at 18:44
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Rush - Different Stages ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 04 2017 at 21:35
My favourite Transatlantic album is also the Whirld Tour one... but mostly because that's the first one I got, I really loved The Whirlwind set, and haven't got/heard the original one, since I already have the whole piece live, so I don't really know if I would like the studio version better or not. But they were playing great, and many of the other songs I do have heard live and studio I liked better on the version from this set, so I might just as well like the version I have better anyway. |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 01:27
| Mostly Autumn. I've not found a studio album of theirs that I like from start to finish. Even Passengers doesn't take off for me until the fourth or fifth track. However I love the live albums Live 2009 and That Night In Leamington. They both contain a setlist that represents the best of Mostly Autumn without the filler that the studio albums include. They sound great too. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 01:35
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Easy, Yessongs is the only album of their's that I have listened to on purpose for some time now. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 04:43
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Triumvirat with "The Road To Nowhere", a Japanese remastering of the bootleg of their North American debut concert live at the Ultrasonic Studios, Oct. 1st, 1974. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 04:51
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Rik Emmett - Live at Berklee ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 06:21
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I generally prefer live albums to studio albums because of the spontaneity. here a few good ones: Colosseum - Live Wishbone Ash -- Live Dates Gong - Live au Bataclan (and generally all Gong live albums) Deep Purple - Live in Japan Hawkwind - Space Ritual (and generally all Hawkwind live albums) Magma - Live Hhai (and generally all Magma live albums) Steve Hillage - Live Herald Frumpy - Live 1972 not in the archives: Atlantis (a band with almost the same line-up as Frumpy, which is why I think they should be in the archives as prog-related, especially due to their self-titled album and their second "It's Getting Better" - Live at Fabrik -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 07:39
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One that comes to mind immediately is "Anyone's Daughter Live". Their "Requested Document Live (Vol 1)" is also probably better than any studio album. Many people would rate the live "Piktors Verwandlugen" as their best as well, though I am not in agreement on that Not prog (although prog related IMO), but "Once in a Lifetime: by RUNRIG is probably my favorite by them. but generally I prefer studio albums
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Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 07:43
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 08:51
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Grobschnitt Solar Music is the one I thought of immediately, the live version is just something else. Another stand out live album is SBB Karlstad. And of course pretty much any live album by Hendrix is better than the studio albums, especially Fillmore East. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 08:52
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Curved Air Live (1975) |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:07
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. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:28
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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 +". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:37
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   ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:41
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Yeah! Acclaim on this site for Listen Now! ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 09:57
| Dixie Dregs - Bring 'em Back Alive |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:10
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  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date 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). |
Posted By: Frankh
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:49
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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. lol But, today let's go with Heavy ConstruKction. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 11:00
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Caravan's Live At Fairfield 74 deserves a shout out. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 12:38
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 19:17
This  ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: MattGuitat
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 19:32
| Not prog, but Made in Japan is definitely the best Deep Purple album. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 06 2017 at 04:05
| Saga - In Transit (1982) |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 07 2017 at 11:22
| Japan - Oil on Canvas |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 07 2017 at 15:03
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: October 10 2017 at 16:11
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Wounded Land
Date Posted: October 13 2017 at 10:04
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Deep Purple Made in Japan, no question about it! |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: October 13 2017 at 21:01
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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. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 14 2017 at 08:43
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 14 2017 at 16:17
That's a good choice  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: October 14 2017 at 16:20
| Colosseum Live is the obvious one - absolutely flattens anything else they put out. Peter Hammill's Skeletons of Songs bootleg is probably my favourite thing of his, though many of the studio albums are magnificent. I feel ELP's Welcome Back My Friends is arguably more consistent than any of the studio output. Nic Jones' live compilation thingummy Game Set Match comes very highly recommended for anyone with an interest in British folk. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 14 2017 at 21:19
| After reading many opinions, I have been reminded of two live albums that I do think are the best those bands have released: "Live at Carnegie Hall" by Renaissance, and "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple. |
Posted By: Jzrk
Date Posted: October 14 2017 at 22:02
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Wishbone Ash Live Dates Rolling. Stones Get Yer Yas Yas Yessongs Allman Bro Fillmore East |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 16 2017 at 18:45
Agree on both. (When I started this I knew there are actually quite a number of them but I needed some reminders. Now I wonder whether bands for which a live album is my favourite are actually the majority, at least out of those who have a proper live album.) |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 17 2017 at 05:11
| I can't think of any prog examples but for me "Live and Dangerous" and "Strangers in the Night" are better than the equivalent studio albums. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 17 2017 at 15:35
as an ELP fan I would certainly concur. You get BSS without BTB and a kick arse version of Tarkus with extended synth freak out section. The version of Hoedown is also the best I've heard by them (and I've heard a lot!) Perhaps another one that springs to mind is Procol Harum - Live with the Edmonton Symphony (I've probably got that title completely wrong but you know the one I mean) The appeal of a good live album is getting all the best stuff in one place and having that extra tingly live experience to go with it.
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: October 17 2017 at 16:00
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Brand X - Livestock Allman Brothers - Fillmore East Be Bop Deluxe - Live in the Air Age Free - Live Santana - Lotus Tim Buckley - Dream Letter Van Morrison - It's Too Late to Stop Funkadelic - Live, Meadowbrook Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 18 2017 at 20:05
Colosseum Live Nektar Complete Live In New York 1974 Wishbone Ash Live Dates |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 19 2017 at 08:50
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I can't think of even one to be honest. Some that come close: Genesis Live Made In Japan (Deep Purple) Uriah Heep Live On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (BOC)
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Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: October 19 2017 at 08:52
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Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus Grateful Dead - Live/Dead Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live Wishbone Ash - Live Dates 2 Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine Camel - A Live Record Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails Janis Joplin Big Brother & th Holding Co. - Cheap Thrills Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall 801 - Live Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: October 19 2017 at 21:44
| Fusion bands tend to be better live. It depends then on how much the band is prepared to depart from the original. If they just play by the book, there is not much you can get from the live release that you won't on the studio album. An exception to this would be Dream Theater's Live at the Marquee for me. They don't change things much, but perform with a ferocity not obtained on the studio recordings which makes it a win. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 01:40
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Kraan - Live Grobschnitt - Solar Music live ABB - Fillmore East Pat Travers Band - Go For What You know (when does this album get expanded to a double) Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 Deep Purple - Made in Europe (when does this album get expanded to a double) Floyd At Pompeii is definitely very close to being my fave as well. ... and more that I can't think of as of now Live and double live albums were usually where I started discovering bands, and sometimes the only album I ever owned from them
Not really an historically released album (tough it did get a French-only release in 79 as a Best Of Live) |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 02:01
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^ Kraan - Live ‘75 is close as it gets within Prog. Nice choice Hughes. Otherwise, Double Dose by HOT TUNA, and Live Dead by THE GRATEFUL DEAD are definitive. |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 03:19
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A Show of Hands by Rush still is my favorite Rush album. Maybe because it´s the first Rush album I ever heard and made me fell in love with the band. ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 21:13
For me, their masterpiece run of albums would go "Live at Pompeii", "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish you were Here", and "Animals". |
Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 21:18
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Grobshnitt with Solar Music Live. Maybe, just maybe The Allman Brothers Band with At Fillmore East and The Grateful Dead with Live/Dead. That's all. I'm not huge on live albums. ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 04 2017 at 21:56
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I am not a fan of live albums in general, but this topic hits home in that Anekdoten's Waking the Dead (Live in Japan 2005) and Grobschnitt's Solar Musik - Live happen to be my favorite albums by those two bands. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 05:41
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ELP's Welcome Back My Friends Yessongs Symphonic Yes Eloy - Reincarnation on Stage Genesis Live Genesis Seconds Out Deep Purple Made in Japan Metallica S & M ------------- 
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Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: November 17 2017 at 08:04
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In addition to my previous post: The Tubes - What Do You Want From Live |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 12:59
I will add Barclay James Harvest - Live and Camel - A Live Record. There is also Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous to think about (despite the overdubs). I love many of the live albums listed, but if the criteria is that the live album tops everything a band did studio-wise, Argus still tops Live Dates, Close to the Edge beats Yessongs, Pictures is just beaten by later albums etc. An honourable mention for All the World's a Stage - Rush - which trumped all the earlier studio albums, but the studio albums that followed were never surpassed by Exit... A Show of Hands etc. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 13:01
God..... The best live album ever, and I completely forgot to post it! Irish Tour '74 by Rory Gallagher! Apologies, Rory!  I know it isn't prog, but...... ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 15:04
The Moody Blues - A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra------------- 
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 15:10
| Deep Purple- Made in Japan |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 04:10
Definitely those two. Add to the list, Curved Air Live, Jimi Hendix Band of Gypsys and the Colosseum Live. While Pink Floyd, Yes , Genesis and Camel made some great live albums they don't qualify as favourite in my mind over their best studio albums.
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: December 17 2017 at 12:58
third with Curved Air - Live and second with
^this is basically BJH's the-best-of played live 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 17 2017 at 21:59
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Made in Japan. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 12:49
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Ted Nugent- Double Live Gonzo King Crimson- "Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind" DVD Marillion -Live at Loreley DVD Arena- Caught in the Act DVD
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 16:17
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Ahh my kind of thread. I tend to prefer live albums as I love the raw and unfiltered - the small improvs and different shadings to otherwise classic tunes...heh some times I go back and hear the studio cut and it feels tame and far too polite. Some bands are far superior in a live setting - others not so much. Yeah I caught Red Hot Chili Peppers on two different occasions and they sucked big time. I dig the studio albums. Anyways erm listing albums that were the pinaccle of said band's oevre: The Doors - Absolutely Live Magma - Live Hhaï Jimi/Band of Gypsys - Live at the Fillmore Floyd - Pompeii (not sure that counts) Cream - Live Colosseum - Live! Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal Kiss - Alive SBB - Karlstad The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks vol errmm....can't decide. Metallica - Binge & Purge Iron Maiden - Live After Death Duke Ellington - Newport 56 The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (tied with a few other seminal studio albums) Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within (ditto the above) Santana - Lotus King Crimson - The Night Shift (among many others) Kraan - Live Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live Floating Points - Mojave Desert (from 2017. Folks who dig Pompeii should immediately look this thing up on jootoob) James Brown - Live at the Apollo Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore Derek & the Dominos - Live at the Fillmore The Who - Live at Leeds Jethro Tull - Isle of Wight David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture (tied with a bunch of studio albums no less...though not the original studio album which is dull compared to this baby. You can feel the intensity of the room - fans thinking this will be the last ever Bowie show...which again fuels the, granted high af, musicians.) Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive Area - Are(A)zione (tied a couple of studio ones) Caravan - Live at the Fairfield Flats (ditto the above) I am forgetting so many right now but I am not home, so can't flip through my collection. Safe to say there are many many more. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 07:11
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^ Absolutely love Lour Reed's - Rock and Roll Animal. Also like the 1975 Lou Reed Live album. ^ That Duke Ellington - At Newport is also a winner (I think that lady dancing the isles is still going :) ) Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore Uriah Heep - Live (January 1973) Ten Years After - Recorded Live (1973) Hope to add this one after Christmas, should be getting King Crimson's - Official Bootleg, Live in Chicago 2017. ------------- 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 09:19
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Oh yeah I love that Ten Years After album! I am also quite partial to the earlier Undead offering. I really dig the intimacy of the whole thing and it's as if you can reach out and touch the sweaty smokestained walls. Heh when I think of Alvin I always envision this speedmouthing chipmunk up on the Woodstock stage Kinda reminds me of Lou completely off his noggin trying to sing Kicks: Damn I love that clip ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 10:01
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Sweet Smoke - Just a Poke Embryo - Live ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 10 2018 at 00:27
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Brand X - Livestock Great choice of tunes frim their studio albums and a fantastic capture of the live performance. By far my favorite Brand X. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: January 14 2018 at 10:47
These are the 5 albums from 5 bands that came to mind right away. I tend to like live albums more than studio albums, but if the criteria is, that the live album is better than anything else the artist did, I can only think of those 5 albums at the moment. I often have the feeling, especially with Renaissance and BJH, who I like very much, that the studio albums are kind of 'over-produced', too much of 'this and that', while live they sound more 'pure'. ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 15 2018 at 04:32
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Deep Purple - Made in Japan ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 15 2018 at 10:25
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Hi, As you can see by a previously mentioned piece, Pink Floyd's Live in Pompeii was a magnificent example of what Pink Floyd was like in concert way before the big fame hit them with DSOTM, when the shows became more mechanized and choreographed and the moments that were different than the album kinda dropped to none throughout any concert. This, was one of the reasons why the early days, had so many Pink Floyd bootlegs, since they were all different, even though one fan or another might say that the differences were minor and no big deal, but hearing 10 different versions of "Set the Controls of the Heart of the Sun", or 10 different versions of "Echoes", or even better, 5 different versions of "Atom Heart Mother", up to and including the Ballet version that rock critics just plastered because they hated ballet and could not bed the dancers after the show because they were not groupies! One might say that this is subtle, but it is one of the main reasons why so much of the early days of PF survive so strongly, and not only the days of Syd Barrett, but also the time right after it, which is only a couple/three years, but they are magnificent and it was during that time that they were doing their shows in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND, and they were, to my knowledge, the first one to do it, and turn their experiments into a sound experience ... that eventually developed into DSOTM and then TW. However, by that time, the charm of the original creativity had been destroyed by the fanatic and sadistic fame that followed it and still lives! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: ProfPanglos
Date Posted: January 25 2018 at 17:39
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For me, it's unusual that I'd prefer a live album to a studio effort. There are only two I can think of: Magma's Trilogie au Trianon, and Marillion's Thieving Magpie
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Posted By: Walkscore
Date Posted: January 25 2018 at 19:33
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Many of Frank Zappa's best albums were recorded live 'Roxy and Elsewhere is (to my mind) his best album, although he overdubbed background vocals and horns onto some of the live tracks
'The Helsinki Concert' is close too... |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 25 2018 at 19:59
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^As near as I can tell, most of his albums have at least some live material. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 02:32
While I love me some studio Frank, you're not wrong. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2018 at 06:57
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not surprisingly since they are 1a and 1b of the greatest live rock albums ever made... and two of my absolute favorite bands as well as being considered the greatest live bands ever... At Fillmore East and Live at Leeds ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 09:09
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Hi, I hate making these kind of choices, because a band is a band is a band, and one day they are good and the next they are not as good. GONG, for example, when they came through the West Coast with Pierre Moerlin, did not sound very good in Portland at all, but the next night, in Eugene, they were excellent, and their sound was a bit deeper and stronger. Sadly, stuff like that never got "recorded" and shared, because Pierre's touch was so different than Pip's, or even Chris Taylor. One was jazzy, one was more disco'ey and the other rock-bottom solid! AMON DUUL 2's Live in London is an outstanding concert, and probably the very best musical show I have ever heard them together, considering that some mp3's and some of the other, later, live albums were not that good, and were an excuse for a band gone crazy that didn't care whatever they did. However, on the tube is a concert or two from 2015 (I think it was ... sorry) and it featured two drummers (just like old days!) and it also had some excellent things done, although I would still think they could use a rehearsal or two to clean up some things! Rehearsal ... on a German Theatrical group? You gotta be kidding me! CAN's live material, specially with Damo, is finally showing up, and it makes one think that most things were not that good, and that the only stuff that was good was already done on "Tago Mago" and "Ege Bamyasi". I kinda think that there are more tapes, of this stuff, but they are another "Mago Tago" ... and I'm not sure that another version of "Augmn" or equivalent, would sell well and be worth the attention and listen. I would love to hear it, though, but even Damo has been very quiet about these things, and I have a feeling that they were OK, but not very good or ... maybe the word is "concise" and usable within a musical context, like some of their work was. HOWEVER, I think that some of it, specially "Tago Mago", was mixed and spliced so well, that we do not know what was real or not, except what Damo performed later on his own. PFM, has at least 3 or 4 versions of "Celebration" and not one version is better than the other. And their early years, it was different every time. And fun to hear. Though I'm not sure that Americans enjoy Italians doing classical music! (Hehehehehe!!!!!!) EGBERTO GISMONTI is/was exceptional in concert and the bits and pieces of him with Charlie Haden show something that is probably ... way beyond what is considered "music" ... and it works together very well. I would like to see this video stuff cleaned up and released properly. GURU GURU's early shows with Ax Genrich, were phenominal, and Bald Friedel has already mentioned that live album in 1971 ... it is the very best Jimi Hendrix that you have never heard, and you know that Jimi probably wanted to go wild and add some crazy things like this to the music itself ... but the record company would not touch it, or have it. I'm sure there are many others out there with similar stories. BTW, SOLAR MUSIC LIVE Remastered is fantabulous ... and those different versions of some things and expanded some are ... awesome. Love the transitional drumming by Eroc ... his transitions start "last week" ... as my joke about a drummer trying to add yet another cheap this and that ... and come back with the same thing. Now, that's got to be creative music design, hey? If you were the professor you would have given that guy a D- and the minus just for the time it took to put it together ... 3 minutes! PEACE! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: January 29 2018 at 13:18
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I'm not big on live albums but there are a few that rival the respective band's best: Yessongs Genesis Live Solar Music Two For The Show Bursting Out **and especially** Playing The Fool
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