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Popoff and Pardo are not at it again - but what a pleasure to watch Scot Lade and Pete discuss Live Prog albums that they believe should be in a media library. Scot''s enthusiasm always comes through so clearly and this. A great episode, guys. Thanks for taking some time during your Thanksgiving week to provide the continued great content on SoT.
I'm an old 80's metal head and loving all this old (New to me) Prog. I absolutely love Prog. Started with Dream Theater and the heavier side of Prog. I am enjoying listening and buying all this Prog You and Scot have been talking about. Really digging Genesis, Camel, Wobbler, Nektar and thanks to Scot Lars Fredrik Froislie. My absolute favorite is Marillion. Thanks for getting this old metal head excited about Prog.
Looking forward to this episdoe. Thank you Pete and Scot. Many great live prog albums to choose from. One of my top favorite live prog albums is PFM - Live in the USA (1974). Some other favorite live albums are from early Genesis, Camel and IQ. God save the King Scot!
Yes - Yessongs King Crimson - The Great Deceiver Gong - Love From Planet Gong (whole shows from 73-75) Oceansize - Feed to Feed Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize Rush - Moving Pictures Remaster Live Show Camel - A Live Record (extra tracks) Kansas - Two For the Show (extra tracks) Dave Gilmour - Remember That Night Frank Zappa - YCDTOSA Vol 2 Pain of Salvation - On The Two Deaths of PoS
1.- USA (enhanced with Starless and Fracture) - King Crimson 2.- Two for the Show (30th anniversary, they doubled a perfect live album!!) 3.- Seconds Out - Genesis 4.- A Live Record - Camel 5.- Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two - Yes 6.- Playing the Fool - Gentle Giant 7.- Live - Barclay James Harvest 8.- Welcome Back my Friends yada yada - ELP 9.- Live at Carnegie Hall - Renaissance 10.- Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 - Caravan
A great one guys. Really enjoyed this. Not really a ranking one because I couldn't put one before the others, but between you both they were all covered. Thanks for inviting Scot, this was great fun.
My Top 10. A lot of these live albums got me into the bands(Kansas, GG, PFM and Hillage) 1. Kansas - Two for the Show 2. Genesis - Seconds Out 3. Yes - Yessongs 4. Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool 5. PFM - Cook 6. Camel - A Live Record 7. Barclay James Harvest - Live 8. ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition 9. Steve Hillage - Live Herald 10. Hawkwind - Live Chronicles
I was at the King Crimson Penn State show and was blown away when the Great Deceiver box came out. Then the complete show was included in the "Road to Red" box!
What a superb show this one is! Well done guys. And very hard to disagree with a word you both said! Scot and Pete together make a really, really great double act. Really enjoyed this, guys - thank you!
Great episode today. Far too many to choose from. Pete I'm glade you mentioned the live show from Moving Pictures. That was my first time seeing Rush. I saw 2 of the 3 shows at Maple Leaf Gardens. Such great memories.
That King Crimson live stuff is the greatest, add to that "The NightWatch" I think some of that concert was incorporated into LTIA.. My album pick is Stomu Yamashta's GO "Live in Paris", Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve, a very Young Al Di Meola, Klaus Schultze.. I would love SoT to investigate the few Stomu Yamashta albums.
Yessongs is my number 1 (I saw the tour in 1972); 2): Saga - The Chapters LIve 3) Kansas - Two for the Show 4) Genesis - Live 5) Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall 6) Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures of an Exhibition 7 ) Transatlantic- The final Flight live At L'Olympia 8) Neal Morse Band - An Evening of Innocence & Danger Live in Hamburg 9) Nektar- Live in Bremen 10) Procol Harum - Live In concert with the Edmonton Symphonic Orchestra
I have a real soft spot for Seconds Out and Bursting Out (both Out) as I saw them on those concerts. I always go for Welcome ... by ELP, agree with Scot on what a great version of Tarkus is on there. Pictures .. is my favourite ELP album, but I don't think of it as a live album because the music isn't on a studio album. The live part of Umma Gumma is one of my favourite live albums as well. On the "new" stuff Arriving Somewhere ... by Porcupine Tree is a stonking album, as is Get All You Deserve by Steven Wilson. Which of the many live albums by Steve Hackett doing his mix of his stuff and Genesis material gets the honourable mention? Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind is a great King Crimson live album of the recent lineup, I saw that lineup (ish) live, my last concert before Covid, and they were amazing.
Scott is an amazing guest. Other great prog live albums : - Magma : Live Hhai - Saga : In Transit - Univers Zero : Live - Caravan : Live at Farfield Halls - Banco : Seguendo le Tracce
Marillion released a zillion live albums. Among those the best prog live album of the eighties The Thieving Magpie. That one deserved a mention in my book.
Here are some lesser known prog live albums I really enjoy in no particular order: - The Mars Volta - Scabdates - Area - Are(A)zione - Hawkwind - Live Chronicles - Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 - Ozric Tentacles - At the Pongmasters Ball - Genesis - Discs 1 and 2 of Archive #1 (1967-1975) - Hawkwind - Coded Languages: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in San Francisco 16 Great video as always!
Bursting out was the first album of Tull I bought myself 40 some odd years ago and it remains a favorite after all this time - I haven't tired of it even though I probably like Benefit & TAAB even more.. This made me think about some other records which have been maybe not the "best" or always my favorite but ones which if I start it I listen all the way through because there isn't any bad cut or anything - if I was on a desert island I have been thinking I wouldn't bring necessarily my favorite but ones which I haven't gotten tired of and ones that show no signs of my tiring of them - maybe you could do a future show ... I know this may be a little long but I made a listing of a number of ones in different genres (all metal or all prog only would get to be a bit much of the island) that might illustrate - almost none of these have a bad cut, they have been ones I've listen too all the way through for many years and have not gotten tired of them: Jeff Beck Group - Truth Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (US version with Wicked World), Paranoid Blodwyn Pig - Ahead Rings Out, Getting To This Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult, Cultosaurus Erectus, Fire Of Unknown Origin Boston - Boston (really the only one that has a duff song - the last song) Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Camel - Rain Dances Caravan - Caravan The Cars - The Cars Charlatans UK - Some Friendly Cream - Disraeli Gears Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Jack Johnson Jack DeJohnette - Parallel Realities ELP - Brain Salad Surgery Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays David Gilmour - On An Island Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills Bellyaches It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful Day Jethro Tull - Benefit, TAAB, Bursting Out John & Vangelis - Friends of Mr. Cairo Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East Love & Rockets - Express Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed (people are missing out if they've ignored side 1) Pink Floyd - More, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals Procol Harum - Procol Harum (aka A Whiter Shade Of Pale) Queen - A Night At The Opera Rush - Exit Stage Left Spirit - Spirit Spooky Tooth - I's All About, Spooky Two Steely Dan - Aja Strawbs - Bursting At The Seams Sylvian Fripp - Damage Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys Yes - Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Big Generator (I think it's under-rated, and I got tired of 90125...) Now, which 10 of these would I finally pick - I don't know - I can see why it isn't always easy for you to rank things sometimes. Cheers.
I loved this episode. All these albums are "Must-have" for any Prog Rock fan. And Scot Lade's enthusiasm for the music is so tremendous! And I was so glad to see both of you, including the underrated and beautiful "Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall." I have Yessongs as my top one.
I love DEERHOOF, and I'm an old guy. Prog means progressive and Deerhoof is precisely that. I'm a sucker for quirkiness and they've got that covered too. If Zappa would've heard Deerhoof, I bet he would've loved them.
Full Roxy - Zappa and the Mothers. The worlds greatest band. End. Of. Story. Ruth for days!!! Glad you added YCDTOSA Vol 2. I am hoping for a future Zappa box set of the European leg of that tour of that band.
Its so hard to narrow down to 10. While some will argue whether its Prog or not I would have Live in the Air Age by Be Bop Deluxe on my list or at least an honorable mention. Great selections guys!
My Top ones: Marillion - La Gazza Ladra Pink Floyd - Pompeji Anathema - Untouchable Yes - Keys to Ascension I/II Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited Band & Opera Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize Peter Gabriel - Secret World Opeth - Royal Abert Hall Genesis - Live Dream Theater - The Score Grobschnitt - Solar Music For Opeth, DT, Anathema, Hackett there were multiple possibilities
Some missing: - King Crimson Absent lovers - Jethro Tull Carnegie Hall 1970 from the 25th anniversary box set - Gentle Giant Giant on the Box German concert 1974 -Rush Hammersmith 1978 from Different Stages
I was lucky enough to be present for the Kansas Detroit performance that is on 'Two for the Show ". Vivid memories of that night Grateful it's been documented
Many great live albums. KC has so many its hard to choose. I'd like to offer up Porcupine Tree Anesthetize live, Riverside Lost and Found, and Sylvian and Fripp Damage Live.
Yessongs Genesis - Seconds Out Kansas - Two For the Show Rush - All The World’s A Stage or Exit…Stage Left ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition or Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends Pink Floyd - P.U.L.S.E.
Excellent show! You picked a lot of my favorites. I'm going to get that Renaissance live album. I saw them in Maryland at some venue that was in a strip mall (can't remember the name) and they were fantastic!
I had to get the 40th Anniversary of Moving Pictures after hearing about the live recordings. Came in today. Super looking forward to it. Thanks for the heads up Pete.
I mentioned elsewhere. Finally saw someone remember Mountain. No one ever remembers them! That whole original Nantucket Sleighride album is a masterpiece ( Felix , producer of Cream) voice is amazing . Their live Nantucket from “ The Road Goes Ever On” is amazing. And thanks Scott for remembering my favorite band of all Procul Harum, who also seem to be forgotten You guys are great together! Keep doing what you do!
thought this deserves mention although I know it's not for everyone: Concerts Vol 1 and 2: Henry Cow. I think the Supertramp, Zappa, Great Deceiver, Renaissance choices were inspired. good choices!
Interesting lists! Lots of things I wouldn't have thought of, so kudos for that. Nice to see things like the Steve Hillage live disc given a thumbs up! Played that to death... Surprisingly missing: Live! In the Air Age by Be Bop Deluxe. Focus Live at the Rainbow.
Great lists!..I've never heard that Supertramp record (although I recall hearing something on my local Classic Rock station many years back, but I think it may have been like a King Biscuit thing with them). I would include some Jazz-Rock fusion (Weather Report - Live and Unreleased, Billy Cobham and George Duke - Live in Europe, and maybe Between Nothingness and Eternity from Mahavishnu).
Thatz so friggin crazy! Last week! I just bought a copy of Genesis Live from '73 (on SoT recommendations I might add!) IO love that album it is amazing! It was only five dollars at the great Oak Park records!
Some people think of Procol Harum as the inventors of PROG ...but their best live recording is SF 1969 aka "Easter Island" with Fisher on organ (doing Whiter Shade) and Trower on a fat smoking guitar . Their 2nd best live recording is 1973 @Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philhatmonic- a radio broadcast.
Same opinion as Pete with Rush on the album "Live in YYZ 1981" ! It's now their best live album ! Honorable mention : Marillion with The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra).
Gotta love it when they suddenly break into Blues Variation to spice things up on that live ELP album…a proper progressive blues jam prog rocker. I’ve literally listened to that Kansas Two for the Show so many times and still never get tired of it….in fact I actually somewhat prefer the live versions of particularly Icarus and Song for America…Steve Walsh shines vocally and as a musician on this live album. I like all these choices guys ! 👌🏼🎷🎸🎹🦃
Great episode. Fantastic to see the love for Renaiisance and Badger. (Was hoping Steve had a version with the pop=up Badge on the inside cover to show). Not mandatory, but Royal Hunt's 'Paradox' and BJH's 'Berlin' are both essential live prog albums for me. Would also love to hear both your thoughts on new Arena live album 'Lifian Tour.' Quickly beoming an essential live album to my ears.
My favorite live Progressive Rock albums are Pink Floyd - PULSE Rush - Exit…Stage Left Genesis - Seconds Out Jethro Tull - Bursting Out Live ELP - Welcome Back My Friends Yes - Yessongs Supertramp - Paris Kansas - Two For The Show Styx - Caught in the Act Live David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk Roger Waters - In the Flesh Live Genesis - Three Sides Live Should have been released live albums : Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (audio is on the 1972 Early Years Obfuscation set as CD Two) Genesis - Live at Lyceum 1980 (BBC Box) Rush Live in YYZ 1981 (Moving Pictures 40th) Jethro Tull - Live at L.A. Sports Arena 1980 (A La Mode set)
Love you guys tog together. I do like most of your picks but I was hoping to see if one of you just might pick a band that a lot of people might not know that well the band mystery have some great live albums. Live at the prob dreams festival 2016 ,caught in the whirlwind of time, tale's from the Netherlands 2014,and live at pozman part 1 and part 2 I hope you give one of them a listen and again great show
I saw Kansas 8 times before Kerry & Steve left. What terrific shows…even better than the studio albums. They were one of those bands you’d listen to on vinyl & think, “How could they sound that great live?” But they actually sounded better. Especially songs like “Miracles out of Nowhere!” And they’re still sounding fabulous after 50 years. My absolute favorite, as Pete well knows 😉
Hi Pete/Scot, great show but you missed out one stonking classic, Focus live at The Rainbow, which I find very hard doesn't even get an honourable mention. If you don't know it please give it a listen
Sure, "Yesshows" sounds better than "Yessongs" and Squire's bass is awesome (in fact he produced the album). Also, what about "Logos", by Tangerine Dream?
Genesis - Seconds Out David Gilmour - Remember That Night Rush - All The Worlds a Stage Peter Gabriel - Plays Live Kansas - Two For The Show AndersonPonty Band - Better Late Than Never U.K. - Live Yes - Yessongs Al Di Meal, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Friday Night In San Francisco Supertramp - Paris
Before we started the countdown it was without question, whatsoever, gonna be "Genesis Live" as the best live prog album of all time.. really comforting to know both lads pick exactly this album as their number 1 too.. "The Musical Box" wow 😱 👍👍
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Scott is a great guest and a cheerful character.
Scot and Pete together amazing combination 🎉
Scott is always so upbeat, it's contagious.
Popoff and Pardo are not at it again - but what a pleasure to watch Scot Lade and Pete discuss Live Prog albums that they believe should be in a media library. Scot''s enthusiasm always comes through so clearly and this. A great episode, guys. Thanks for taking some time during your Thanksgiving week to provide the continued great content on SoT.
I'm an old 80's metal head and loving all this old (New to me) Prog. I absolutely love Prog. Started with Dream Theater and the heavier side of Prog. I am enjoying listening and buying all this Prog You and Scot have been talking about. Really digging Genesis, Camel, Wobbler, Nektar and thanks to Scot Lars Fredrik Froislie. My absolute favorite is Marillion. Thanks for getting this old metal head excited about Prog.
Looking forward to this episdoe. Thank you Pete and Scot. Many great live prog albums to choose from. One of my top favorite live prog albums is PFM - Live in the USA (1974). Some other favorite live albums are from early Genesis, Camel and IQ. God save the King Scot!
Is that PFM Cook Sal? That's the only PFM record I've came across in the wild great stuff on that one
I will have to check that one out Sal. Not too familiar w pasta prog.
Listened to it. Amazing stuff. Thanks Sal. 👍
Love Pete and Scot together. 40 years later I still listen to Paris and Seconds Out at least once a month.
Dig your appearnaces, Scot! Knowledge and great passion for great music. Thanks, Pete for the program. Keep it rocking, gentlemen!
Great episode. Love Scot. Great addition to this fantastic channel.
Greetings Scott! So much enthusiasm! Great guest! And props to Pete for finding these great guest hosts. Or should we say friends!
Yes - Yessongs
King Crimson - The Great Deceiver
Gong - Love From Planet Gong (whole shows from 73-75)
Oceansize - Feed to Feed
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Rush - Moving Pictures Remaster Live Show
Camel - A Live Record (extra tracks)
Kansas - Two For the Show (extra tracks)
Dave Gilmour - Remember That Night
Frank Zappa - YCDTOSA Vol 2
Pain of Salvation - On The Two Deaths of PoS
Such a fun show! It is great to see Pete and Scot together talking prog.
Renaissance at the Rutgers Camden Gymnasium 1977... Amazing concert with surprisingly good sound for a gym...
If Pete doesn't pick Barclay James Harvest Live after our double header...... 😉
Yeah. Davy/ after watching you two guys praise that/ I would 💯be shocked 👍💯
best live BJH live album of 1974... full of mellotron goodness!!
..and Live Tapes by BJH would be in my top 10
Scott. Can’t believe you said Deer Hoof. One of my favorites that I thought no one else knew. That made the whole show for me !
1.- USA (enhanced with Starless and Fracture) - King Crimson
2.- Two for the Show (30th anniversary, they doubled a perfect live album!!)
3.- Seconds Out - Genesis
4.- A Live Record - Camel
5.- Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two - Yes
6.- Playing the Fool - Gentle Giant
7.- Live - Barclay James Harvest
8.- Welcome Back my Friends yada yada - ELP
9.- Live at Carnegie Hall - Renaissance
10.- Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 - Caravan
This is going to be great so looking forward to it ❤
A great one guys. Really enjoyed this. Not really a ranking one because I couldn't put one before the others, but between you both they were all covered. Thanks for inviting Scot, this was great fun.
My Top 10. A lot of these live albums got me into the bands(Kansas, GG, PFM and Hillage)
1. Kansas - Two for the Show
2. Genesis - Seconds Out
3. Yes - Yessongs
4. Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
5. PFM - Cook
6. Camel - A Live Record
7. Barclay James Harvest - Live
8. ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
9. Steve Hillage - Live Herald
10. Hawkwind - Live Chronicles
That Procol Harum live album is a masterpiece. No arguments!!!
It is!
Fun list! I’d throw in Spock’s Beard “Snow Live”. You got all of the classic members together. Really fun record.
For me hard to beat Genesis live that one and Foxtrot opened my mind to a completely different style of music. Will be a great show!
Exactly same for me, a mate did me tapes of the 2. Mind blown in 1973/4, I think!
Two of my favorite channels together. 👍
Scot and Pete are the best team for progresive rock reviews.It's a great show reviewing the albums that I love.👍
Pictures at an Exhibition does have original music in it. The Sage is overwhelmingly beautiful.
And The Curse of Baba Yaga , Blues Variation
@@grahamallen9393 right!
Much thanks for posting this; you beat me to it. One of my all-time fav albums, and "The Sage" is quite possibly the most elegant moment on it.
I was at the King Crimson Penn State show and was blown away when the Great Deceiver box came out. Then the complete show was included in the "Road to Red" box!
What a superb show this one is! Well done guys. And very hard to disagree with a word you both said! Scot and Pete together make a really, really great double act. Really enjoyed this, guys - thank you!
Great episode today. Far too many to choose from. Pete I'm glade you mentioned the live show from Moving Pictures. That was my first time seeing Rush. I saw 2 of the 3 shows at Maple Leaf Gardens. Such great memories.
That King Crimson live stuff is the greatest, add to that "The NightWatch" I think some of that concert was incorporated into LTIA.. My album pick is Stomu Yamashta's GO "Live in Paris", Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve, a very Young Al Di Meola, Klaus Schultze.. I would love SoT to investigate the few Stomu Yamashta albums.
Yessongs is my number 1 (I saw the tour in 1972);
2): Saga - The Chapters LIve
3) Kansas - Two for the Show
4) Genesis - Live
5) Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
6) Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures of an Exhibition
7 ) Transatlantic- The final Flight live At L'Olympia
8) Neal Morse Band - An Evening of Innocence & Danger Live in Hamburg
9) Nektar- Live in Bremen
10) Procol Harum - Live In concert with the Edmonton Symphonic Orchestra
I have a real soft spot for Seconds Out and Bursting Out (both Out) as I saw them on those concerts.
I always go for Welcome ... by ELP, agree with Scot on what a great version of Tarkus is on there. Pictures .. is my favourite ELP album, but I don't think of it as a live album because the music isn't on a studio album.
The live part of Umma Gumma is one of my favourite live albums as well.
On the "new" stuff Arriving Somewhere ... by Porcupine Tree is a stonking album, as is Get All You Deserve by Steven Wilson.
Which of the many live albums by Steve Hackett doing his mix of his stuff and Genesis material gets the honourable mention?
Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind is a great King Crimson live album of the recent lineup, I saw that lineup (ish) live, my last concert before Covid, and they were amazing.
If I were stranded on an island and could only have one album with me it would be Two For The Show by Kansas! The extended version is the best.
Scott is an amazing guest.
Other great prog live albums :
- Magma : Live Hhai
- Saga : In Transit
- Univers Zero : Live
- Caravan : Live at Farfield Halls
- Banco : Seguendo le Tracce
Really enjoy Pete and Scot, keep it up.
Marillion released a zillion live albums. Among those the best prog live album of the eighties The Thieving Magpie. That one deserved a mention in my book.
Here are some lesser known prog live albums I really enjoy in no particular order:
- The Mars Volta - Scabdates
- Area - Are(A)zione
- Hawkwind - Live Chronicles
- Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81
- Ozric Tentacles - At the Pongmasters Ball
- Genesis - Discs 1 and 2 of Archive #1 (1967-1975)
- Hawkwind - Coded Languages: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1982
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in San Francisco 16
Great video as always!
Thank you for introducing me to Deerhoof! What an awesome experience. And plenty of albums to dig through, as well.
Bursting out was the first album of Tull I bought myself 40 some odd years ago and it remains a favorite after all this time - I haven't tired of it even though I probably like Benefit & TAAB even more.. This made me think about some other records which have been maybe not the "best" or always my favorite but ones which if I start it I listen all the way through because there isn't any bad cut or anything - if I was on a desert island I have been thinking I wouldn't bring necessarily my favorite but ones which I haven't gotten tired of and ones that show no signs of my tiring of them - maybe you could do a future show ...
I know this may be a little long but I made a listing of a number of ones in different genres (all metal or all prog only would get to be a bit much of the island) that might illustrate - almost none of these have a bad cut, they have been ones I've listen too all the way through for many years and have not gotten tired of them:
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (US version with Wicked World), Paranoid
Blodwyn Pig - Ahead Rings Out, Getting To This
Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult, Cultosaurus Erectus, Fire Of Unknown Origin
Boston - Boston (really the only one that has a duff song - the last song)
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Camel - Rain Dances
Caravan - Caravan
The Cars - The Cars
Charlatans UK - Some Friendly
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Jack Johnson
Jack DeJohnette - Parallel Realities
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays
David Gilmour - On An Island
Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills Bellyaches
It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful Day
Jethro Tull - Benefit, TAAB, Bursting Out
John & Vangelis - Friends of Mr. Cairo
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Love & Rockets - Express
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed (people are missing out if they've ignored side 1)
Pink Floyd - More, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals
Procol Harum - Procol Harum (aka A Whiter Shade Of Pale)
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Spirit - Spirit
Spooky Tooth - I's All About, Spooky Two
Steely Dan - Aja
Strawbs - Bursting At The Seams
Sylvian Fripp - Damage
Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Yes - Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Big Generator (I think it's under-rated, and I got tired of 90125...)
Now, which 10 of these would I finally pick - I don't know - I can see why it isn't always easy for you to rank things sometimes. Cheers.
Great show. Love this combo!
So many to choose from. One I really like that wasn’t mentioned: Harmonium’s En Tournee.
U.K. - "Night After Night".
I loved this episode. All these albums are "Must-have" for any Prog Rock fan. And Scot Lade's enthusiasm for the music is so tremendous! And I was so glad to see both of you, including the underrated and beautiful "Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall." I have Yessongs as my top one.
I’m blushing.
I love DEERHOOF, and I'm an old guy. Prog means progressive and Deerhoof is precisely that. I'm a sucker for quirkiness and they've got that covered too. If Zappa would've heard Deerhoof, I bet he would've loved them.
Full Roxy - Zappa and the Mothers. The worlds greatest band. End. Of. Story. Ruth for days!!! Glad you added YCDTOSA Vol 2. I am hoping for a future Zappa box set of the European leg of that tour of that band.
Great show - Can’t wait to pick up some of the albums you guys mentioned :)
Its so hard to narrow down to 10. While some will argue whether its Prog or not I would have Live in the Air Age by Be Bop Deluxe on my list or at least an honorable mention. Great selections guys!
Oh hell yes! I still have my vinyl from back in the day.
Great show! Thank you guys!
Scot is a fun addition to the SoT family. It would be great to have him at least once a month on a Friday.
I agree!!!!
My Top ones:
Marillion - La Gazza Ladra
Pink Floyd - Pompeji
Anathema - Untouchable
Yes - Keys to Ascension I/II
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited Band & Opera
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Peter Gabriel - Secret World
Opeth - Royal Abert Hall
Genesis - Live
Dream Theater - The Score
Grobschnitt - Solar Music
For Opeth, DT, Anathema, Hackett there were multiple possibilities
Some missing:
- King Crimson Absent lovers
- Jethro Tull Carnegie Hall 1970 from the 25th anniversary box set
- Gentle Giant Giant on the Box German concert 1974
-Rush Hammersmith 1978 from Different Stages
Thank you guys!
I know "Playing the Fool" by Gentle Giant will be up there.
Possibly All the Worlds A Stage and Exit Stage Left will get a mention?
"Solar Music Live" by Grobschnitt is excellent. One of the best sounding live prog recordings.
Krautrock has a lot to offer.
@@eldorado852 So much great music came out of Germany in the 70`s.
Yes, I was glad to hear "Solar Music Live" get some love! It would be in my top ten, for sure.
I was lucky enough to be present for the Kansas Detroit performance that is on 'Two for the Show ". Vivid memories of that night
Grateful it's been documented
Many great live albums. KC has so many its hard to choose. I'd like to offer up Porcupine Tree Anesthetize live, Riverside Lost and Found, and Sylvian and Fripp Damage Live.
Really enjoyed that, some albums I wouldn’t class as Prog, but Pete did mention that they covered a wide spectrum.
I guessed your #1! It's a magical live album. Totally immerses you. Should and sure could have been a double though.
Yessongs
Genesis - Seconds Out
Kansas - Two For the Show
Rush - All The World’s A Stage or Exit…Stage Left
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition or Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
Pink Floyd - P.U.L.S.E.
Nice to see 2 ELP choices.
I also recommend, the king
biscuit flower hour discs. 😊
Deerhoof all the way! The riffs are truly endless with that band. The Runners Four is a pretty good starting point for anybody interested!
Excellent show! You picked a lot of my favorites. I'm going to get that Renaissance live album. I saw them in Maryland at some venue that was in a strip mall (can't remember the name) and they were fantastic!
Classic episode of sea of tranquility, well done
This was a great one.
I had to get the 40th Anniversary of Moving Pictures after hearing about the live recordings. Came in today. Super looking forward to it. Thanks for the heads up Pete.
Scot reminds me so much of "Leo" of "That 70s Show" 😂 Love that guy! 🍺🤘
I mentioned elsewhere. Finally saw someone remember Mountain. No one ever remembers them! That whole original Nantucket Sleighride album is a masterpiece ( Felix , producer of Cream) voice is amazing . Their live Nantucket from “ The Road Goes Ever On” is amazing.
And thanks Scott for remembering my favorite band of all Procul Harum, who also seem to be forgotten
You guys are great together! Keep doing what you do!
thought this deserves mention although I know it's not for everyone: Concerts Vol 1 and 2: Henry Cow. I think the Supertramp, Zappa, Great Deceiver, Renaissance choices were inspired. good choices!
Interesting lists! Lots of things I wouldn't have thought of, so kudos for that. Nice to see things like the Steve Hillage live disc given a thumbs up! Played that to death...
Surprisingly missing:
Live! In the Air Age by Be Bop Deluxe.
Focus Live at the Rainbow.
Thanks Pete for turning me on to Barclay James Harvest. The album is great. The Moody Blues with punch.
Great lists!..I've never heard that Supertramp record (although I recall hearing something on my local Classic Rock station many years back, but I think it may have been like a King Biscuit thing with them).
I would include some Jazz-Rock fusion (Weather Report - Live and Unreleased, Billy Cobham and George Duke - Live in Europe, and maybe Between Nothingness and Eternity from Mahavishnu).
Vital is in my top 5. An essential album from the band - reworkings, whole new sound, material not found anywhere else, and so atmospheric!
Thatz so friggin crazy! Last week! I just bought a copy of Genesis Live from '73 (on SoT recommendations I might add!) IO love that album it is amazing! It was only five dollars at the great Oak Park records!
Thatz so frickin' crazy.. Listening to my vinyl of Badger right now!
Some people think of Procol Harum as the inventors of PROG
...but their best live recording is SF 1969 aka "Easter Island" with Fisher on organ (doing Whiter Shade) and Trower on a fat smoking guitar . Their 2nd best live recording is 1973 @Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philhatmonic- a radio broadcast.
Same opinion as Pete with Rush on the album "Live in YYZ 1981" ! It's now their best live album ! Honorable mention : Marillion with The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra).
Gotta love it when they suddenly break into Blues Variation to spice things up on that live ELP album…a proper progressive blues jam prog rocker.
I’ve literally listened to that Kansas Two for the Show so many times and still never get tired of it….in fact I actually somewhat prefer the live versions of particularly Icarus and Song for America…Steve Walsh shines vocally and as a musician on this live album.
I like all these choices guys ! 👌🏼🎷🎸🎹🦃
Focus - Live at the Rainbow 1974 👌👌👌
Hey 👋🏻 great turkey 🦃 jerky show • missed great live Prog album,although a single LP is: NIGHT AFTER NIGHT by UK
awesome show as always!
Great episode. Fantastic to see the love for Renaiisance and Badger. (Was hoping Steve had a version with the pop=up Badge on the inside cover to show). Not mandatory, but Royal Hunt's 'Paradox' and BJH's 'Berlin' are both essential live prog albums for me. Would also love to hear both your thoughts on new Arena live album 'Lifian Tour.' Quickly beoming an essential live album to my ears.
My favorite live Progressive Rock albums are
Pink Floyd - PULSE
Rush - Exit…Stage Left
Genesis - Seconds Out
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out Live
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends
Yes - Yessongs
Supertramp - Paris
Kansas - Two For The Show
Styx - Caught in the Act Live
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
Roger Waters - In the Flesh Live
Genesis - Three Sides Live
Should have been released live albums :
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (audio is on the 1972 Early Years Obfuscation set as CD Two)
Genesis - Live at Lyceum 1980 (BBC Box)
Rush Live in YYZ 1981 (Moving Pictures 40th)
Jethro Tull - Live at L.A. Sports Arena 1980 (A La Mode set)
Most of my favorites were mentioned with exception of Roxy Music Viva, UK's Night after Night and Yes Keys to ascension
Love you guys tog together. I do like most of your picks but I was hoping to see if one of you just might pick a band that a lot of people might not know that well the band mystery have some great live albums. Live at the prob dreams festival 2016 ,caught in the whirlwind of time, tale's from the Netherlands 2014,and live at pozman part 1 and part 2 I hope you give one of them a listen and again great show
Genesis Live was the first LP I ever bought so it's cool to find it as the number one choice for both. 👍
Tangerine Dream, Encore Live. I love that album.
Love! In the Air- age! Be-Bop Deluxe
I saw Kansas 8 times before Kerry & Steve left. What terrific shows…even better than the studio albums. They were one of those bands you’d listen to on vinyl & think, “How could they sound that great live?” But they actually sounded better. Especially songs like “Miracles out of Nowhere!” And they’re still sounding fabulous after 50 years. My absolute favorite, as Pete well knows 😉
Wonderful ranking, guys! I'd add Utopia Live somewhere in there.
Hi Pete/Scot, great show but you missed out one stonking classic, Focus live at The Rainbow, which I find very hard doesn't even get an honourable mention. If you don't know it please give it a listen
Sure, "Yesshows" sounds better than "Yessongs" and Squire's bass is awesome (in fact he produced the album). Also, what about "Logos", by Tangerine Dream?
Genesis - Seconds Out
David Gilmour - Remember That Night
Rush - All The Worlds a Stage
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live
Kansas - Two For The Show
AndersonPonty Band - Better Late Than Never
U.K. - Live
Yes - Yessongs
Al Di Meal, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Friday Night In San Francisco
Supertramp - Paris
I remember Geddy Lee saying Barriemore Barlow was one of his favourite drummers. Mine too.
Before we started the countdown it was without question, whatsoever, gonna be "Genesis Live" as the best live prog album of all time.. really comforting to know both lads pick exactly this album as their number 1 too.. "The Musical Box" wow 😱 👍👍
Great show Prog on
BJh live’74, agreed seminal live album from that era
Tull was on fire for Heavy Horses tour...Barriemore Barlow...is just sick! Totally agree with Scot's accolades about him.
I think that Phil Ehart is also a very underrated drummer.
All the best ones are there, only one other I could think of: Hoelderlin - Live Traumstadt.
Honorable mentions:
Uriah Heep Live
Pink Floyd “Pulse”
Rush “Stages Live”
Steve Hackett “Live Archive 70’ 80’ 90’ “ (4 CD set somewhat rare)
Wigwam-Live Music from the Twilight Zone (1975) 🤘
My number 1 is without doubt Live IN Poznan by MYSTERY