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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 14:21 |
Playing The Fool
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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.
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Larree
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 14:38 |
Great selection of live albums. I vote for Colosseum - Live. Rope Ladder to the Moon, baby!
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Melomaniac
Prog Reviewer
Joined: May 07 2006
Location: Canada
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 15:12 |
Can't say I've listened to all of them, but out of those I know, Playing The Fool is my choice !
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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richardh
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 15:42 |
Stool Man wrote:
Each of these albums is currently PA's toprated live album for the year given. Which do you think is best? (There seems to be no live albums released in 1969, so for that year I have substituted the live half of Ummagumma, which is a favourite of several of us) |
You could add half of The Nice self titled 1969 release and have a whole 1969 live album
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richardh
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 15:43 |
Got to go with Yessongs.
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octopus-4
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RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
Joined: October 31 2006
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 16:35 |
progmatic wrote:
Renaissance is my fave live album of all-time, the versions here are 10 times better than the studio tracks. But it was still tough because Gentle Giant, ELP and Zappa are all 5 stars too. Yessongs is right up there but the sound quality is lacking so that knocks it down a bit. Two live albums that definitely should have been on one of these lists: ELP "Welcome Back My Friends..." and Caravan "Caravan and the New Symphonia". Both are awesome. Marillion's "The Thieving Magpie" is great too. And let's not forget Sinkadus' "Live at Progfest '97"
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Regarding Marillion I prefer Real to Reel. The version of Forgotten Sons on that album is I think the best thing ever recorded by them.
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com
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MFP
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 17:37 |
Great list .
Live/Hhai followed by Ummagumma for me.
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dwill123
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 18:12 |
Wrong choice for Herbie Hancock, you should should have selected "V.SO.P.".
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Hercules
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Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Near York UK
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 18:26 |
Stool Man wrote:
Hercules wrote:
Or the best live prog album ever, Camel, A Live Record (but it's not there!!!!!!!)?
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1978 is in part 4 of the poll - but Grobschnitt are top for that year, so no Camel until 1993 (& they're leading the part 3 poll at the moment) |
Mea culpa - I thought from memory it came out in 1977 as the Rain Dances tour was in that year.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Matti
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 15 2005
Location: Finland
Status: Online
Points: 2071
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Posted: March 27 2013 at 05:25 |
I voted STRAWBS because that album has new material, making it more significant part of the discogrpahy than an ordinary live album would be. (I'm not very big live album fan in general.)
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Snow Dog
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Joined: March 23 2005
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Posted: March 27 2013 at 05:33 |
richardh wrote:
Got to go with Yessongs. |
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richardh
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Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: March 27 2013 at 16:31 |
Snow Dog wrote:
richardh wrote:
Got to go with Yessongs. |
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If Welcome Back My Friends had been on the list then my vote would have been different
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Stool Man
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 11:36 |
dwill123 wrote:
Wrong choice for Herbie Hancock, you should should have selected "V.SO.P.".
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It's not my choices, it's whatever albums happen to be top for each year at the moment. VSOP was released in 1977, not 1968.
Edited by Stool Man - March 28 2013 at 11:36
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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akaBona
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Posted: March 29 2013 at 13:49 |
Hhai followed by Yessongs
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memowakeman
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Posted: March 29 2013 at 14:49 |
So many masterpieces here. My favorite is the Renaissance one.
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timbo
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Posted: April 04 2013 at 15:21 |
This just had me reaching for my vinyl copy of Pictures at an Exhibition - I was sure that was 1971. Yes indeed, it was recorded 26 March 1971, but not released until 1972. I never realised that in all the years I've owned it.
As for the best, definitely missing Welcome back my friends, but surely the biggest omission from the list is Seconds Out. Scores 4.26 apparently, compared to 4.52 for Playing the Fool. Not having heard Playing the Fool, I can't really comment, but Seconds Out is my favourite live album of the 70s, possibly all time.
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HolyMoly
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Joined: April 01 2009
Location: Atlanta
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Posted: April 04 2013 at 17:02 |
Magma Possibly their best overall album, too.
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