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3LP Live! Yessongs vs. Welcome Back My Friends... |
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Sacro_Porgo 
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 Topic: 3LP Live! Yessongs vs. Welcome Back My Friends...Posted: July 04 2021 at 15:36 |
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Two massive triple live albums from two massive live bands in the 70s. But which do you prefer?
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Heart of the Matter
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 16:15 |
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Yessongs all the way
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 16:42 |
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I think ELP's is a better live rendition.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 16:46 |
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Both are among my favorite live albums. I went with ELP, but not by much.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 17:21 |
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Yes gets the nod.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 17:26 |
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YESSONGS
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 17:51 |
This. I like the songs on Yessongs more, but the ELP live rendition adds more to them.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 18:32 |
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 20:18 |
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Yes.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 20:25 |
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The set list of ELP is fantastic but needs a real very good remaster.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 20:41 |
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Yessongs isn't my favourite Yes live album, but I do like it better than Welcome Back my Friends... both are great, of course. If only Genesis had released it's own classic 70's live album with the complete show (I don't know if it would have needed to be a double or a triple), it would have made a perfect match with these other two.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 21:28 |
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Prefer ELP as a band to Yes hands down but have never cared for much of the sprawling acoustic centerpiece of Welcome Back (e.g. Take a Pebble gets bo-toxed to 25 minutes) The slapstick 'Keystone Cops' tempos on live staples like Hoedown merely represent a hollow victory for accuracy over feel. That said, it has perhaps the best live versions of Tarkus and Tocatta ever released and Emerson's improvisation and homage to Dick Hyman on Aquatarkus is a neglected Prog treasure. Voted for Yessongs for the superior production and set-list. Just want to echo the previous sentiments from arturfd: Welcome Back is begging for a remaster (My vinyl version sounds boggy and horrible)
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Well, even though Genesis never did the triple live album, I think both Genesis Live and Seconds Out are fantastic releases and easily compete with these two triples, particularly Seconds Out.
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Posted: July 04 2021 at 23:34 |
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This is almost impossible to answer. You could not find two better live performances let alone ones which were released in the triple lp format.
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Yes it is.
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Posted: July 05 2021 at 00:58 |
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Yessongs is my overall favourite live album,
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Posted: July 05 2021 at 01:50 |
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ELP but not an easy choice. For me, it's the improvisations that put ELP's just above Yes's collection but side vs side it is something like this:
Side 1: Yes Side 2: ELP Side 3: ELP Side 4: Yes Side 5: ELP Side 6: ELP
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Posted: July 05 2021 at 02:39 |
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Yessongs is an untouchable live prog recording for me.
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Posted: July 05 2021 at 02:48 |
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I haven't listened to either album in a long time.
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Posted: July 05 2021 at 03:12 |
A new remaster was done in 2016, and it was re-issued on both 3LP and 2CD formats. |
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