Great live albums
Discussion
mp3manager said:
My favourite live album ever, although why there is a studio track tacked onto the end is anybody's guess.
I haven't heard that album, but there's a similar thing on a later Stranglers live album. They were releasing their cover of "All Day and All of the Night" around the same time as the album, the live version that they did at Reading Festival didn't come out well (and Hugh kept getting the words wrong) so they put the studio version on the album instead. Could that be the same reason?JLC25 said:
Stop Making Sense - also the best concert video of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA4xNxwyxK0
Talking Heads in their pomp, mixing Indie post punk weirdness with superb funk. The yardstick for all concerts.
You beat me to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA4xNxwyxK0
Talking Heads in their pomp, mixing Indie post punk weirdness with superb funk. The yardstick for all concerts.
Another great live act was Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01whTqJps00
i'd go with "David Live" as well. Earl Slik and David Sanborn duelling on "Sweet Thing" make my small hairs stand up.
there's another show from that tour now available as an official release - "Cracked Actor". same track listing but has "Time" where it should
be and debuts "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)" worth checking if you're inclined to hear Bowie imploding in a YSL style.
a close run thing though as the bootleg formerly known as "The Thin White Duke" is now officially available and that's never too far from my ears. Nassau Coliseum, NY, 1976 - most of "Station to Station" and a few assorted goodies from the archive. the legitimate release includes "Queen b
h" which is sadly lacking on my copy of TTWD
paul
there's another show from that tour now available as an official release - "Cracked Actor". same track listing but has "Time" where it should
be and debuts "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)" worth checking if you're inclined to hear Bowie imploding in a YSL style.
a close run thing though as the bootleg formerly known as "The Thin White Duke" is now officially available and that's never too far from my ears. Nassau Coliseum, NY, 1976 - most of "Station to Station" and a few assorted goodies from the archive. the legitimate release includes "Queen b
h" which is sadly lacking on my copy of TTWDpaul
Edited by paulmakin on Wednesday 9th August 22:48
droopsnoot said:
geezerbutler said:
Marillion - La Gazza Ladra. The playthrough of Misplaced Childhood album is better than the studio version
I remember buying that on a double CD when it first came out, and being quite disappointed that there were gaps between tracks where the crowd sounds were faded out and back. For me, the point of a live album is to be able to play and imagine you're at the gig, and it ruined it.Now, the earlier Radio 1 FM broadcast where they played perhaps all of one side of that same album, but (I think) before it was released and with some different lyrics, was much better IMO. I've still got a tape of it somewhere, but no idea if it works any more.
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The Radio 1 broadcast was released as part of the early stages boxset and is available on deezer. I had recorded the orginal and still have it on tape somewhere. The official release clips some of the intro/waffle to "Track 1 from an album to be called Misplaced Childhood".
Interestingly the DVD documentary sent with the recently released Misplaced Childhood box sets has Fish and Marillion discussing how on the tour he hadn't finished the lyrics and so made them up on the tour.
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