Top 10 Live Albums On PA
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Topic: Top 10 Live Albums On PA
Posted By: zravkapt
Subject: Top 10 Live Albums On PA
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 11:11
| These are the current 10 highest rated live albums on PA. I was a bit surprised at both what was there and what wasn't. |
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 11:19
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Extremely difficult to pick between KC Grobschnitt and GG. Hmmmmm....... Crimson! |
Posted By: maniax976
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 11:44
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i ch-ch-cho-choose DEEP - MADE IN JAPAN.....so li..lis..listen th...that:))))))) ------------- don't give up |
Posted By: maniax976
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 11:44
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...deep purple...sss...soo...sorry:)))) ------------- don't give up |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 12:29
Impossible to choose between "Playing the Fool", "The Great Deceiver" & YCDTOSA 2...I'll go with "Playing the Fool" since I saw them open for Yes on that tour  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 12:30
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Easily Coma Divine. That's one of Swilson's best outputs. Love it! ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 12:30
| Surprised there is no Magma, considering the huge number of amazing live albums they have. Voted for Playing The Fool, live GG is always a treat to hear |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 12:41
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^^ what he said.
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 12:43
I like this comment I saw on a Youtube video of a Gentle Giant concert:
sums it up really well for me |
I think Gentle Giant more than most other prog bands knew that technical
ability meant nothing if you weren't willing to play with it. Even at
their most rigid there was a sense of a amateur, punk energy almost.
When I listen to Yes or ELP (no offense to them) I hear musicians
showing how to play music. When I hear GG I hear musicians showing how
to have fun with music.Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 13:51
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Playing the Fool, easily. ------------- |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 14:09
I like this comment too, and voted GG. It takes a lot of guts and talent to mess around with such intricate music and make it work. Playing the Fool is my favorite album of theirs. So many other bands, like the aforementioned among others, largely play what they record. A live performance should be unique and made all the more special for those involved when it gets lost in time rather than recorded for posterity. It becomes and event unto itself and not just another stop on a tour. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 14:54
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King Crimson Honorable mention for the missing - Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Magma, Yugen, Henry Cow, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 15:21
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One vote for the remastered and expanded version of Kansas 'Two for the Show'. Also a shout-out for some Prog Folk: Jethro Tull - Live at the Isle of Wight Flarick - Alive the Decemberists - We All Raise our Voices to the Air Lisa o Piu - Cut the Air at Mello Club (w/Roger Wootten of Comus) Rasputina - Melora a la Basilica Mostly Autumn - The Story so Far ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 15:26
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The Great Deceiver over Coma Divine Live. Dt's best live album is Live at Budokan IMO. I also like Playing the Fool Live by GG. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 15:34
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They're all formidable but Solar Music Live knocks my socks off every time I hear it. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 15:48
Nice  ! |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 15:51
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Well if this is the best 10 live prog albums???? I'm astonished that so many great live albums are missing, too many to mention.
From the list I'll go with Coma Divine, a superb album and one that might just possibly make my top 10 live prog albums. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 17:18
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FZ over KC over GG. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 17:35
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Playing the Fool over Coma Divine Live. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 17:37
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SBB for me. That is one powerful album. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 18:55
| Playin' da Foo |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 20:23
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I would choose Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Tull's Nothing is Easy: Isle of Wight, 1970, or Genesis' Seconds Out over any of these. ------------- ...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: Magic Mountain
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 21:14
| Some great live albums. I went with Grobschnitt "Solar Music Live" Very tough choice though. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 21:18
And of these? ------------- |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 22:18
| Love the website but I'm always confused and surprised at what is on these top whatever lists and what is not. |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 23:09
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Of the albums listed, Coma Divine by far. On this release, they manage to make some of the songs actually sound better than on the studio releases.
Of any prog live album, I would choose Camel's creatively titled A Live Record. A double album offering of their best from their first five albums, plus a superior version of The Snow Goose was nice to hear since I was never amazed by the studio version.
------------- http://gamercards.exophase.com/xbox/user/MillsLayne/" rel="nofollow">  ht |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 23:52
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Crimson ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 19 2013 at 23:53
Exactly...I love Gentle Giant because they were fearless live. I saw them open for Yes on the tour Playing the Fool was recorded on. Doing the 5 part a capella in "Knots" or the 4 piece recorder ensemble in "Excerpts from Octopus" in front of 10,000+ manic Yes fans took talent, balls, and a massive sense of humor  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 05:53
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Crimson form this list, but In the Woods.. Liveathtecaledonianhall is easily my favourite overall.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 06:24
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A really surprising Top 10, voted for GG but there are many other live albums I prefer to many of these. Shocking not to see Seconds Out, Welcome Back My Friends, YesShows, A Live Record, not one Pink Floyd or Roger Waters... Regarding Purple, remember that Proto-Prog and Prog-Related do not count for the Top lists.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 08:38
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KC ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 08:54
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1° King Crimson TGD 2° Gentle Giant PTF 3° Porcupine Tree CD 4° Grobschnitt SM These are masterpiece. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 09:26
Exactly.
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 11:09
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Posted By: bobthenob
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 13:14
| No "Genesis Live", and I'm the first to comment on this fact? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 13:48
| I even prefer Kansas' Two For The Show than many of those in the list. |
Posted By: trackstoni
Date Posted: July 20 2013 at 15:47
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I Wish i have more Tools to Vote one Million times for Coma Divine , it's the Best second Live Album after PF Pompei , but , all the Other Live Albums are Amazing as well ! Gentle & King are exceptional in those albums ! ------------- Tracking Tracks of Rock |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: July 22 2013 at 01:53
| by miles Grobschnitt - Solar Music |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: July 22 2013 at 10:00
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Dream Theater's "Score" is the only one of these I've heard. My vote goes there (because it's a great live album). Allmann Brothers' "Live @ Fillmore East" is my favorite live album of all time though. |
Posted By: courtzz
Date Posted: July 22 2013 at 13:03
| Grobschnitt - Solar Music-Live |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 22 2013 at 18:55
| I haven't heard most of this albums, but I really liked Coma Divine a lot, and that album got me into Porcupine Tree. On the other hand, I was tremendously disapointed when I got "Playing the Fool", and even after many listenings I do rather dislike that album (except for "Funny ways", which is outstanding); actually, it almost put me off from getting any more Gentle Giant albums, however, I ended up getting all up to "Octopus", and though I really loved the first 2 albums, I don't expect to get the rest. |
Posted By: jacek1969
Date Posted: July 31 2013 at 02:29
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Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2
------------- Call any vegetable And the chances are good That a vegetable will respond to you |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: July 31 2013 at 03:53
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Can't decide between the Zappa and Crimson albums. The Who are on PA and 'Live at Leeds' takes some beating. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: July 31 2013 at 07:37
Right on John!!!! I voted for Karlstad too. For any of you people out there into classic prog and haven't yet heard this band, come on now! this is one heck of an album! ------------- “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: chopper
Date Posted: August 01 2013 at 07:13
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: August 01 2013 at 19:12
| I voted for Playing the Fool. But I would have voted for either Welcome Back My Friends or Seconds Out, had they been on the list. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: August 01 2013 at 19:17
| ^They're both on my other live album poll. |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: August 02 2013 at 15:20
| Whither "Meet the Flower Kings" (2003)? |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 02 2013 at 22:45
| Playing The Fool |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: August 09 2013 at 08:57
This |