I have to say this was a triumph, I love nearly every album here and I'm especially chuffed with your inclusion of Renaissance who are usually overlooked. It's like you've just mentioned all my friends!
Thank you, Frank. I spent weeks thinking about it and changed it about 20 times but it’s pretty much how I hear it. Wishbone Ash and Focus were my last two cuts…
Camel`s Live Record Lp2 is infact The Snow Goose (And the LP edition have re-recorded Drums on it, The Expanded 2CD Edition have the original Live Drums, Its a masterpeice!!)
Epic List! I've never heard the Supertramp though, so I will have to check it out soon per your endorsement. I do love a lot of their music, just last year I was won over by Crime of the Century in fact. Yessongs Genesis Live Two for the Show' Live at Carnegie Hall Made in Japan and Song Remains the Same as well. My favorite live records overall are Jazz-Rock stuff: -Billy Cobham & George Duke - Live in Europe -Weather Report - Live and Unreleased and then anything Marillion and Kevin Gilbert have been in regular rotation for me with my massive fanboy bias I supppose.
Love a lot of the live albums on your list, but my favourite live album is 801 Live. Not Prog, but the best live-sounding, atmospheric live album I've heard.
Glad you did it! I was waiting for this list, and all my favourites are here!! Yes, Scot, you continue to make the prog world an amazing, melancholic and charming place. Keep on!!
Melancholic? Really? I try very hard to hide the darkness in my soul. Surprised to hear you detected it. I over compensate by being bubbly and “up” with a “fake it ‘til you make it” attitude. I can trick myself into being a well-adjusted person. Leave it to Wizardo to discern the truth!!! 👍❤️🤘
@@TheProgCorner yes Scot, I think that the great difference between yours and other prog related channels, is that you lived everything that happenned during that time period. You experienced it, You breathed that air. And that characteristic translate into a melancholic feeling we all share. Thanks!
That’s a great observation and will deviously exploit that emotional response. No seriously, I guess I was needing to figure out what makes this channel different and why it’s working. And I think you just hit the nail on the head!!! 👍👍👍
word up! i got it in 1977. i loved it then and i love it now! the cd is in 1 or 4 in my car. it's my favorite live album too! genesis live would be my #2. great list. thank you.
Awesome list. This was fun. The first live Rush album got me started with the group. Have been a big Supertramp fan, and forgot I have that album. The Renaissance album is great. Thanks.
Great stuff, I enjoyed the video plus I have a few things to check out now. Many people will moan that you missed something and yes, I am one of those! My fave band of all time has put out some amazing live albums. I am talking about often overlooked long-runners Pendragon. They are one of those bands that really excel live and their last 4 live albums are incredible - 'Concerto Maximo', 'Out of order comes chaos', 'Masquerade 20' and 'the first 40 years'. Anyway, very enjoyable so I'm subscribing!
@@TheProgCorner Check out any one of these songs live on TH-cam - Breaking the spell, Indigo, Masters of illusion, Sister bluebird, It's Only Me. Some of my faves.
Can't argue with Playing the Fool! Excellent album! I would have put Camel a lot higher. And since you included Dire Straights and Deep Purple, you could have included Allman Brothers.
Yea. '73 "Genesis Live" is great. "Seconds Out" is cool, too, with Bruford and Chester Thompson. Don't forget Brand X "Livestock" '77 I believe. Thanx!
Great list, and nice to see GG get your no 1 spot, not to mention the Grobschnitt. I have to say I do love a good live album, even those that have been touched up a bit like Crimson's USA - though for Crim my favourite is their 4 CD Great Deceiver set. Being a big Barclay James Harvest fan I'd have to add in either their 'Live' album from 74 or their second Live Tapes from 78. As you have both Uriah Heep and Deep Purple in your list, and while not necessarily Prog as we would see it today I do think they were both progressive or had prog tendencies and deserve to be included, you could also add in Wishbone Ash with Live Dates and even stretch to any of teh three Blue Pyster Cult live albums On your feet, Some Enchanted Evening , Extra Terrestrial Live all have some fantastic proggy moments on them. If you include a bit of fusion I'd have to add in Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live; Al Di Meola's our De Force and Jean Luc Ponty's Live - all three of whichshould have been doubles - as should Focus Live at the Rainbow. I'd agree with Seconds Out over Live or 3 sides live - and how about any of the Steve Hackett live CDs released over the last few years. There are times though when I reach for Yesshows ahead of Yessongs - especially for the Moraz tracks. Rick Wakeman also had a double CD released some years ago that had his appearance on the UK's Old Grey Whistle Test (OGWT) with a live show from The Maltings alongside a BBC In concert recording from Hammersmith Odeon that has a selection from his albums up to No Earthly Connection - I wore out my tape of the OGWT show (taped from the TV speaker back when it was first aired) - so was glad to get an official release with a couple of tracks not broadcast - though I also have a bootleg with the remainder of the Hammersmith show and that recording really should have been relased as a live album at the time.
Focus and Wishbone Ash got serious consideration but i didn’t even think about the mighty BÖC!!! On Your Feet Or On Your Knees should have been there. That record meant a lot to me growing up!!!
I totally agree with you upon your list Especially Van Der Graff Generator being number 7 and yes Number 3, what's interesting about that Album is you find it'd turn into a movie and see the sound from the movie, is better then the album. I saw Peter Hammil with gram Smith , a worthwhile concert only keyboards and violin, but good .
Just when I was getting ready to express my grievance over Gentle Giant's Playing the Fool not making the list it came up as number one in the end. Awesome live album.
Good morning Scot! Can't believe I missed this one? The store must of been out of Mountain Dew. Lol! You are very tame here. I don't like it! Lol! Once again you just couldn't put the boys at #1. Really thought while watching that you would have Genesis at the top. Yesterday was a very hard day. My sister Judy would of been 67. She went to heaven on 7-11-21. Very emotional day for me. She was a big Genesis fan. About 5 years ago she got a new stereo. I sent her like 10 Genesis cds. A few weeks later her place burned to the ground. She got out only wearing her robe. She lost everything! I miss her dearly!! Well only a few days left til Christmas. Bought a huge prime rib yesterday. I invited my brother and nephew from Wisconsin to come here to Michigan. I doubt they come. I can't travel anymore, too painful. So, I guess we have ProgRadio today and The Rock of Prog livestream on Sunday! The four faces of Jon. Lol. Peace my brother. Time for some breakfast. 👍☮️👑🎅🏻🤶🧑🎄🎁☃️🎄😎
Renaissance...Manfred Mann's Earth Band...Curved Air...three of the many progressive rock groups who perhaps don't receive the attention and plaudits they deserve.
Totally get why Deep Purple is here. But Dire Straits, I did not know anyone considered them prog. I know mark Knoppler (sp) is a great guitarist, and I definitely dig someo f their songs, but are they really more of a prog band than, well, iron maiden? Doesn't matter though; great list, man. Going to have to check out a few of these I haven't heard. the Gentle Giant one is awesome.
One of the earliest references I ever heard to the phrase “progressive rock” was regarding Hendrix!!! So why not?!?! Was he not way ahead of his time? Yep!!! 👍
I could make an argument for Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. It's a great live album and as prog as Dire Straits! And I love both of those albums! Overall I must admit I'm not the biggest fan of live albums. Particularly for prog bands. They're better in the studio IMO. I mean who wants to visualize Yesthongs? Sorry, I had to do it. Just joking. Yessongs was one of the first ten albums I ever owned and dear to my heart. So okay some live albums are classics! I actually have ten of your selections. So rock on you live album lovers.
Ooooooooooh! "Playing the Fool" shocked the hell out of me. Otherwise. you added a bunch of non-prog bands to the list. Prog is a non-commercial genre so Dire Straits, Supertramp, Kansas and others shouldn;t be here.
I agree with you that both Supertramp and Dire Straits are “grey area” bands. But Kansas, on the other hand, are very much a Prog band - a Prog band with a couple hits. At least up through Monolith. After that they were AOR - along with Boston, Journey, Foreigner, etc. But the first six Kansas albums were Prog AF!!! 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
any prog lists that is live that has Deep Purple-Made In Japan,Uriah Heep-Live '73.Jethro Tull-Bursting Out,Gentle Giant-Playing The Fool,and Yes-Yessongs is ok by me.Love all these plus of course Porcupine Tree
This was a great list! However, a couple of live albums that could make the list would be Dream Theater's "Live Scenes from New York" and Steven Wilson's "Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall". The former captured Dream Theater at their creative peak and the latter summed-up Steven Wilson's (and Porcupine Tree's) prog period nicely.
Great list! Some stuff I love and some things for me to check out. Have you heard A Little Light Music, from Jethro Tull? It's from 1992, a unique four-piece lineup including Dave Mattacks on drums! It's not your typical live Tull and it is really special.
King Crimson USA,ELP Pictures at an Exibition,Tangerine Dream Encore,The Strawbs Just...,jeżeli Deep Purple to Made In Europe,Rush Exit...Stage Left,SBB same,UK Night After Night.
Deep Purple = Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, Dire Straights Rock...these two bands I'd never consider prog, would like to have seen Peter Gabriel Plays Live and/or Secrete World Live along with Genesis Live I don't care if you double dip those 3 PROG albums I mentioned are better than some of your picks any day. Totally agree with the Gentile Giant being on the list but maybe not the top, Yessongs I wouldn't rate #2 either not a very good recording it wouldn't make the list, Genesis and Peter Gabriel should be firmly at the top 1-4 which ever order you choose, King Crimson Meltdown Live In Mexico, Pink Floyd Pulse, ANY Steve Hackett LIVE album, Gentile Giant, 801 Live, The Pineapple Thief Where We Stood, Supertramp Live In Paris, UK Night After Night. Bottom line for me IF it is a bad recording it wouldn't make the list. And unfortunately a lot of the earlier '70's stuff falls prey to that...I wish were better recorded.
Yet again the enthusiasm is infectious. Many albums and artists that I've heard of but never really connected with... Your no. 25 was, is and will always be my no. 1. Agreed that Deep Purple aren't really prog, but some tracks definitely have elements.... Saying that.. the same can be said about Led Zep, so maybe The Song Remains the Same could be added.... Great shout concerning Thin Lizzy. Live and Dangerous is an absolute belter ❗ Brave move (IMHO) putting Seconds Out ahead of Genesis Live. YesSongs is awesome, ELP Welcome back my Friends, totally agree 👍.. Finally... A huge thank you for the inclusion of the excellent A Live Record by Camel.... I've just purchased it from my local music store.... So happy to be reacquainted with this little gem. Nice one Scott 👍
Yeah, Dan. That’s kind of why i wanted to do this channel!!! A place where we can talk about these amazing albums. I’m not a huge label guy so it pains me to leave certain things out (this the preamble) but I have painted myself into a corner (so to speak) by calling this The Prog Corner!!!
@@TheProgCorner 👍. Just a thought.... but, if you want to include some of the harder, heavier content why not refer to those posts as The Prog Corner (Plus)... Oh, I also really like your shouts on Dire Straits Alchemy and Paris by Supertramp. I've always loved Crime of the Century and Crisis, What Crisis ? I'm gonna check out Paris, because of your recommendations ❗👍
Please do!!! Such a great album. I was thinking about maybe doing a second channel so I’ve been looking for ideas. You might have just hit on something there!!!
Scot I would put 801 "Live" on this list and it would rank towards the top, also No Peter Gabriel? both "Plays Live" and "Secret World Live" why why why 😭 at least one, they're both fantastic and excellent sound quality 10/10...and when it comes to LIVE albums the sound quality HAS to be there or else 👎
Scot, I like you the first time I heard Genesis was their Genesis Live album and I was hooked, I'll never forget that experience being in the "import record" shop and looking for more Yes (my favorite band at the time) or Yes like music and while browzing the shop owner put Genesis Live on and got goose bumps immediately went to owner "who's this I love it" he said Genesis...Where's the album he pointed to the wall of new releases I went over and saw Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Live...Which one is this he said the Live album...I was amazed, I'd never before heard a live album sound so good. Surprisingly I didn't buy it instead I bought Foxtrot...within a few weeks I had them all. The New Releases were "new" (to US) because they were imports he'd just received ALL four albums.Yes became my second favorite band. So, the Genesis LIVE album would have to be my first choice without a doubt...it changed my musical life from that day forward.
That album cover. It DEMANDED my attention. It COMMANDED me to buy it. I had never even heard of Genesis. But as soon as I got home and Tony’s Mellotron starts…
Oh god yeah f yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats my good man-You are a gazillion % correct-Gentle giant is/was not only the greatest live album ever but the greatest most criminally underated band ever
I know it's not a popular opinion but Different Stages is my favourite live Rush album. Love Exit Stage Left but Stages never seems to get any love. I think it's fantastic.
Different Stages was released after Neil's daughter was killed in a car crash. I think it's a great set too. One disc was drawn from the Test For Echo tour, the other from the Counterparts tour. Throw in a Hammersmith show from the Farewell to Kings tour and that's the album. I love the Hammersmith disc. Cygnus X-1 is excellently done. The old show sounds great too. Better than All the Worlds a Stage sonically, for sure. It is possible that the band does not even like to think about this period in their history. It was a tragic time. Neil was reeling from the loss of his daughter and a year or so later his wife passed away because of illness. Geddy and Alex, plus the entire Rush family were profoundly affected by the these sad events as well.
No bitching, because there is plenty of room for everbody's list. If my list would be a one entry only for every band, I would have to exclude "Genesis Live" and Yes' "Keys to Ascension 1&2" for the same reason, namely I cannot for the life of me exclude "Yessongs" and "Seconds Out". They are part of my DNA. The same goes for ELP's "Live at the Royal Albert Hall", which I adore. I must have "Welcome back my Friends..." on my list. I must even throw out "Pictures at an Exhibition"...and that's a tough one for me. About Floyd, then....I must include "Live at Pompeii", even if it's not really a proper official release. Gentle Giant on top? Why not? Come to think of it there is no live prog album that I know of that is definitively better, so I can go along with that. And yes, "Made in Japan" must be there. Haven't heard Transatlantic, Big Big Train or Flower Kings yet, but apart from "Alchemy" there is no album in your list that I wouldn't concider. Tell you a fun fact about Supertramp's first visit to Norway, though. They were booked to play at a venue on the Island of Karmøy outside the town of Haugesund. Now this was in the fall of 1971and they weren't very well known. This was on the west coast, in a pretty rural part of the country with a bit of a Bible belt dimension to it. Now, this booking was a classic mismatch, since the audience were the dressed up dancing kind and not at all ready for a proggy blues band. So they were booed during the first set and firmly told not play the second. Little did they know who they threw out.
That reminds me of an early Moody Blues gig in LA where they had no idea what to think of the band and subsequently got kicked off stage. Nights In White Satin came out a week later…
@@TheProgCorner I think it counts. Agree LZ aren't best categorised as prog, but TSRTS album ticks all the prog boxes: Long songs with episodic structures, fantasy/occult based lyrics, virtuoso solos and - in Dazed and Confused - innovative sonics (such as the violin bow section) that other bands (like sigur ros) would build a careers on. Perhaps time to give it another listen.
Other great prog live albums (more on the fusion side) : 1- Magma : Live/Hhai 1975 2- Frank Zappa : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 2 Helsinki Concert 3- Mahavishnu Orchestra : Between Nothingness and Eternity 4- PFM : Cook 5-Weather Report : Live in Tokyo 6- Area : Areazione 7- Rush : Live in YYZ 1981 8- Jean-Luc Ponty : Live 9- Univers Zero : Live 10- Happy The Man : Live
Great list, but IMO Deep Purple and Uriah Heep are Hard Rock not Prog, but who cares. In my 25 are also Spock's Beard-Snow live and Neal Morse Band-Alive again.
Stone & Steel is not really a live album, it's songs recorded in Real World with the whole band performing together to prepare for the Kings Place live shows. Shouldn't you choose any or all of the BBT live albums - A Stone's Throw From The Line, Merchants of Light, Empire?
was not very focussed on live albums cause often disapointed by the quality of sound not confortable for my delicate ears :-)).... and it's a shame so now after watching your 25 prog live i'll push a lil ' more and try to find time listenin' to all of 'em .... hats off again for your enthousiasm and passion
Great list - GG very deserving of the top spot. I'd be swapping out "Welcome Back My Friends" with "Pictures at an Exhibition" but other than that, hard to fault your picks here!
@@TheProgCorner 1975, maybe "Attahk" or "Mekanik Destruktiw KOmmandoh" will serve you perfect as the gateway, Or if you want something truly special try their magnus opus "De Futura" a 17 min tour de force
I have tried and so far I remain baffled. It’s almost like when I l visited Morocco. Took me a while to get used to the musical language (and in Magma’s case, a language all their own…) It’s a lot to take in. I think I just need time. Time to decode things. Cardiacs, Zappa, Beefheart - all took me a while to figure out!!!
Good list. Love the inclusion of "Vital" by Van der Graaf. The very best is missing though: "Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogy" by Magma from 2000. A triple CD with just one track each: "Theusz Hamtaahk", "Ẁurdah Ïtah" and "Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh". Magma at their very best. This album takes you straight to the planet Kobaïa. Absolutely brilliant performance of which a video version also exists. Here the link to "Theusz Hamtaahk"; you can skip the first 90 seconds that only show the band backstage and the audience entering. th-cam.com/video/rbXi7WN5n-c/w-d-xo.html
Magma is still a bit much for me at times but I am really trying. Too many people love them for me NOT to make the attempt. Thanks for the link. I’m gonna go check this out!!! 🤘
@@TheProgCorner Seeing them play their music live helps a lot in understanding it. Being at a Magma concert is actually a spiritual experience. It is not just we who say this; many people who have been at a Magma concert say the same. In 1998 we were at concert of Magma at the Leverkusener Jazztage (meaning "Jazz Days of Leverkusen"; Leverkusen is a German city near Cologne), a yearly festival that was originally meant for jazz only, but they opened up to other music too over the years (Van der Graaf Generator played there too once). It can be about 2 weeks long. That day 3 acts played. We forgot the name of the first act; it did not really impress us. Then came Mari Boine with her band. She is a shaman of the Sami, an ethnic group that lives in Norway, Sweden and Finland; she is from Norway. Her music was excellent, and normally we would have said "this was the concert of the day". But then came Magma and made her excellent performance sound mediocre; they were absolutely brilliant. When the concert was over a woman beside us who had never heard of Magma before and only was at the concert because it was a music festival stood there with eyes and mouth wide open and her arms limp at her side and slowly said "What the hell was that? That was out of this world"! She definitely had this spiritual experience. As did we, but we had already been at several Magma concerts, so for us it was not new to have this experience.
Sounds amazing. I would loved to have seen them back in the day!!! I’m slowly becoming familiarized with their music. They are not an easy band to figure out!!! ❤️
I heard about a new album. I thought 2019’s Zëss was awesome - even if Zander wasn’t drumming on it (Morgan Ägren is no slouch!!!) Cannot wait for the new one.
Glad you included Dire Straits " Alchemy "... people forget that Mark Knopfler tips his toe in the Prog pool occasionally. Plus, " Alchemy " has great production/engineering too, and Knopfler on guitar...awesome. Thanks for including Kansas' " Two For The Show "and Supertramp's " Paris "( I'd call them 1 and 2, but they're my two favorite artists)...two more albums that have great production/engineering...and captures them at their peak. The rest of your list is excellent ( I might take "Pulse" by a smidgen over your choice for Pink Floyd, but both are superb). Genesis" " Three Sides Live " captured them at their best after Steve Hackett left, enjoyable ( Seconds Out is better though).
I have to say this was a triumph, I love nearly every album here and I'm especially chuffed with your inclusion of Renaissance who are usually overlooked. It's like you've just mentioned all my friends!
Yes!!! That’s the type of comment that gets pinned!!!
Actually this was the best top prog list I can recall. GG at #1 didn't hurt.
Thank you, Frank. I spent weeks thinking about it and changed it about 20 times but it’s pretty much how I hear it. Wishbone Ash and Focus were my last two cuts…
Great list Scott. Know most of and own about 2/3 of the albums mentioned. One I would include is the double vinyl PETER GABRIEL PLAYS LIVE from 1983
That’s a GREAT record!!!!
Wow. This was a stellar list. Great choices and not typical ones. Well done, Scott.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!
Camel`s Live Record Lp2 is infact The Snow Goose (And the LP edition have re-recorded Drums on it, The Expanded 2CD Edition have the original Live Drums, Its a masterpeice!!)
Epic List!
I've never heard the Supertramp though, so I will have to check it out soon per your endorsement. I do love a lot of their music, just last year I was won over by Crime of the Century in fact.
Yessongs
Genesis Live
Two for the Show'
Live at Carnegie Hall
Made in Japan and Song Remains the Same as well.
My favorite live records overall are Jazz-Rock stuff:
-Billy Cobham & George Duke - Live in Europe
-Weather Report - Live and Unreleased
and then anything Marillion and Kevin Gilbert have been in regular rotation for me with my massive fanboy bias I supppose.
Another Genesis Live fan!!! Such an incredible album!!! George Duke! Yeah, I was just listening to some Zappa…
Love a lot of the live albums on your list, but my favourite live album is 801 Live. Not Prog, but the best live-sounding, atmospheric live album I've heard.
801 sounds progressive to me. Maybe not Prog per se but really great record!!!
Glad you did it! I was waiting for this list, and all my favourites are here!! Yes, Scot, you continue to make the prog world an amazing, melancholic and charming place. Keep on!!
Melancholic? Really? I try very hard to hide the darkness in my soul. Surprised to hear you detected it. I over compensate by being bubbly and “up” with a “fake it ‘til you make it” attitude. I can trick myself into being a well-adjusted person. Leave it to Wizardo to discern the truth!!! 👍❤️🤘
@@TheProgCorner yes Scot, I think that the great difference between yours and other prog related channels, is that you lived everything that happenned during that time period. You experienced it, You breathed that air. And that characteristic translate into a melancholic feeling we all share. Thanks!
That’s a great observation and will deviously exploit that emotional response. No seriously, I guess I was needing to figure out what makes this channel different and why it’s working. And I think you just hit the nail on the head!!! 👍👍👍
word up! i got it in 1977. i loved it then and i love it now! the cd is in 1 or 4 in my car. it's my favorite live album too! genesis live would be my #2. great list. thank you.
Yes yes yes!!! Your number one choice is awesome! I saw them live in the 70s and love them so much!!!!!! E cellent list! 👍😊
Thank you very much!!! #1 may be an obvious choice but the truth is the truth!!!
Great choices! Does the "Grand Funk Live Album" count? 😃
I don’t know but I sure do love early GFRR. Probably doesn’t fit the criteria but who cares when the songs are that good!!!
Awesome list. This was fun. The first live Rush album got me started with the group. Have been a big Supertramp fan, and forgot I have that album. The Renaissance album is great. Thanks.
I love All The World’s A Stage. 2112. Enough said!!!
Great list! Two for the show by Kansas is my favorite, especially the extended version.
The extended version is magical.
Great stuff, I enjoyed the video plus I have a few things to check out now. Many people will moan that you missed something and yes, I am one of those! My fave band of all time has put out some amazing live albums. I am talking about often overlooked long-runners Pendragon. They are one of those bands that really excel live and their last 4 live albums are incredible - 'Concerto Maximo', 'Out of order comes chaos', 'Masquerade 20' and 'the first 40 years'. Anyway, very enjoyable so I'm subscribing!
I really like Pendragon but I have never listened to any of their live stuff. My bad!!! I will correct that!!! 👍❤️🤘
@@TheProgCorner Check out any one of these songs live on TH-cam - Breaking the spell, Indigo, Masters of illusion, Sister bluebird, It's Only Me. Some of my faves.
I will let you know what I think!!!
Grobschnitt means well cut"! Wow and their first lp had the knife with that killer platter of hashish
Nice!!!
Saw GG on this tour where they played these songs. A great show and a great live album.
Wow. So jealous. I never got to see them…
The only thing missing was Focus' live album "At The Rainbow" such a marvelous thing that i've ever heard since 14 years old hehe.
Nice!!!
Can't argue with Playing the Fool! Excellent album! I would have put Camel a lot higher. And since you included Dire Straights and Deep Purple, you could have included Allman Brothers.
True. True.
Yea. '73 "Genesis Live" is great.
"Seconds Out" is cool, too, with Bruford and Chester Thompson.
Don't forget Brand X "Livestock" '77 I believe.
Thanx!
Brand X!!! Never heard the live album but yeah, they were amazing. I need to check that one out. Is Phil on that one?
Good vid .Yessongs for me is #1. I would have swapped out Rush's All the Worlds A Stage, Earthbound for Crimson. Genesis is a tough call. Awesome job!
It’s just an emotional attachment to USA. Earthbound is way more interesting but I didn’t come around to it for a long time!!!
Great list, and nice to see GG get your no 1 spot, not to mention the Grobschnitt.
I have to say I do love a good live album, even those that have been touched up a bit like Crimson's USA - though for Crim my favourite is their 4 CD Great Deceiver set.
Being a big Barclay James Harvest fan I'd have to add in either their 'Live' album from 74 or their second Live Tapes from 78.
As you have both Uriah Heep and Deep Purple in your list, and while not necessarily Prog as we would see it today I do think they were both progressive or had prog tendencies and deserve to be included, you could also add in Wishbone Ash with Live Dates and even stretch to any of teh three Blue Pyster Cult live albums On your feet, Some Enchanted Evening , Extra Terrestrial Live all have some fantastic proggy moments on them.
If you include a bit of fusion I'd have to add in Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live; Al Di Meola's our De Force and Jean Luc Ponty's Live - all three of whichshould have been doubles - as should Focus Live at the Rainbow.
I'd agree with Seconds Out over Live or 3 sides live - and how about any of the Steve Hackett live CDs released over the last few years.
There are times though when I reach for Yesshows ahead of Yessongs - especially for the Moraz tracks.
Rick Wakeman also had a double CD released some years ago that had his appearance on the UK's Old Grey Whistle Test (OGWT) with a live show from The Maltings alongside a BBC In concert recording from Hammersmith Odeon that has a selection from his albums up to No Earthly Connection - I wore out my tape of the OGWT show (taped from the TV speaker back when it was first aired) - so was glad to get an official release with a couple of tracks not broadcast - though I also have a bootleg with the remainder of the Hammersmith show and that recording really should have been relased as a live album at the time.
Focus and Wishbone Ash got serious consideration but i didn’t even think about the mighty BÖC!!! On Your Feet Or On Your Knees should have been there. That record meant a lot to me growing up!!!
I totally agree with you upon your list Especially Van Der Graff Generator being number 7 and yes Number 3, what's interesting about that Album is you find it'd turn into a movie and see the sound from the movie, is better then the album. I saw Peter Hammil with gram Smith , a worthwhile concert only keyboards and violin, but good .
I love Peter Hammill.
Just when I was getting ready to express my grievance over Gentle Giant's Playing the Fool not making the list it came up as number one in the end. Awesome live album.
It had to be number one. Just had to be!!!
The Live part of Ummagumma
Good morning Scot! Can't believe I missed this one? The store must of been out of Mountain Dew. Lol! You are very tame here. I don't like it! Lol! Once again you just couldn't put the boys at #1. Really thought while watching that you would have Genesis at the top. Yesterday was a very hard day. My sister Judy would of been 67. She went to heaven on 7-11-21. Very emotional day for me. She was a big Genesis fan. About 5 years ago she got a new stereo. I sent her like 10 Genesis cds. A few weeks later her place burned to the ground. She got out only wearing her robe. She lost everything! I miss her dearly!! Well only a few days left til Christmas. Bought a huge prime rib yesterday. I invited my brother and nephew from Wisconsin to come here to Michigan. I doubt they come. I can't travel anymore, too painful. So, I guess we have ProgRadio today and The Rock of Prog livestream on Sunday! The four faces of Jon. Lol. Peace my brother. Time for some breakfast. 👍☮️👑🎅🏻🤶🧑🎄🎁☃️🎄😎
So sorry about Judy!! I know you’ve told me about her before but it still makes me sad. Merry Christmas, my brother.
@@TheProgCorner 👍🎅🏻😎
Renaissance...Manfred Mann's Earth Band...Curved Air...three of the many progressive rock groups who perhaps don't receive the attention and plaudits they deserve.
Yes!!!! 100%!!!
Spiritualized live at Royal Albert Hall
That's a really good call.
Pink Floyd Live From Pompeii
Totally get why Deep Purple is here. But Dire Straits, I did not know anyone considered them prog. I know mark Knoppler (sp) is a great guitarist, and I definitely dig someo f their songs, but are they really more of a prog band than, well, iron maiden?
Doesn't matter though; great list, man. Going to have to check out a few of these I haven't heard. the Gentle Giant one is awesome.
I for one strongly believe that Iron Maiden is Prog so what the hell do I know!!!???❤️🤘
Either of the live Fantamos albums
They had no live album, but Oysterhead was amazing live!
Grobschnitt's stellar, astounding SOLAR MUSIC LIVE is my all-time #1, and it's not even on this list.
Excellent choice!!!
Joy Division Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
And five months later Ian hangs himself with a clothes line…
Could Hendrix’s live album Band of Gypsys qualify as Prog? Certainly Machine Gun does.
One of the earliest references I ever heard to the phrase “progressive rock” was regarding Hendrix!!! So why not?!?! Was he not way ahead of his time? Yep!!! 👍
I could make an argument for Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. It's a great live album and as prog as Dire Straits! And I love both of those albums! Overall I must admit I'm not the biggest fan of live albums. Particularly for prog bands. They're better in the studio IMO. I mean who wants to visualize Yesthongs? Sorry, I had to do it. Just joking. Yessongs was one of the first ten albums I ever owned and dear to my heart. So okay some live albums are classics! I actually have ten of your selections. So rock on you live album lovers.
I was never a huge live album guy but there were a few in my childhood that meant a lot to me!!! Little Feat included!!!
At least seven of those are from Rush.
Not truly live but UFO Stangers un the Night. Not prog, but great. Mostly.for Schenker's playing
I was going to mention that one in my intro/disclaimer but completely forgot. That is an example of a band’s best album being a live album!!!
Ian Chricton
Have you heard Six By Six? (Yeah, he’s awesome!!!)
Didn't know that Dire Straits was prog.
They are and they aren’t.
www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123354
Genesis Live 1972 is better than Yessongs and Seconds Out. Playing the Fool is astonishing, I admit. Wishbone Ash Live Dates II is great also.
Wishbone Ash!!! Good call. ❤️
Not a true live album but Sigur Ros' Heima
Ooooooooooh! "Playing the Fool" shocked the hell out of me. Otherwise. you added a bunch of non-prog bands to the list. Prog is a non-commercial genre so Dire Straits, Supertramp, Kansas and others shouldn;t be here.
I agree with you that both Supertramp and Dire Straits are “grey area” bands. But Kansas, on the other hand, are very much a Prog band - a Prog band with a couple hits. At least up through Monolith. After that they were AOR - along with Boston, Journey, Foreigner, etc. But the first six Kansas albums were Prog AF!!! 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
@@TheProgCorner - It just seems that Kansas is a bit too commercial to be called progressive. Thank you!
Nice show. I have just uploaded my Camel show with all albums on Harold's Prog Rock Show.
All righty then. Can’t wait to watch that!!!
any prog lists that is live that has Deep Purple-Made In Japan,Uriah Heep-Live '73.Jethro Tull-Bursting Out,Gentle Giant-Playing The Fool,and Yes-Yessongs is ok by me.Love all these plus of course Porcupine Tree
Thanks, Thomas!!! Those were the soundtrack to my youth…well, not Porcupine Tree obviously but yeah man. Prog on!!! 👍🤘
This was a great list! However, a couple of live albums that could make the list would be Dream Theater's "Live Scenes from New York" and Steven Wilson's "Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall". The former captured Dream Theater at their creative peak and the latter summed-up Steven Wilson's (and Porcupine Tree's) prog period nicely.
I should have thought harder about Dream Theater!!!
Great list! Some stuff I love and some things for me to check out. Have you heard A Little Light Music, from Jethro Tull? It's from 1992, a unique four-piece lineup including Dave Mattacks on drums! It's not your typical live Tull and it is really special.
I have not. I love Dave Mattacks!!! That sounds awesome!!!
King Crimson USA,ELP Pictures at an Exibition,Tangerine Dream Encore,The Strawbs Just...,jeżeli Deep Purple to Made In Europe,Rush Exit...Stage Left,SBB same,UK Night After Night.
Deep Purple = Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, Dire Straights Rock...these two bands I'd never consider prog, would like to have seen Peter Gabriel Plays Live and/or Secrete World Live along with Genesis Live I don't care if you double dip those 3 PROG albums I mentioned are better than some of your picks any day. Totally agree with the Gentile Giant being on the list but maybe not the top, Yessongs I wouldn't rate #2 either not a very good recording it wouldn't make the list, Genesis and Peter Gabriel should be firmly at the top 1-4 which ever order you choose, King Crimson Meltdown Live In Mexico, Pink Floyd Pulse, ANY Steve Hackett LIVE album, Gentile Giant, 801 Live, The Pineapple Thief Where We Stood, Supertramp Live In Paris, UK Night After Night.
Bottom line for me IF it is a bad recording it wouldn't make the list. And unfortunately a lot of the earlier '70's stuff falls prey to that...I wish were better recorded.
Ciao.
Have you never listened to "Live In Usa" by Premiata Forneria Marconi?
Great Live of a great Italian Prog Band.
I love PFM!!!
Yet again the enthusiasm is infectious. Many albums and artists that I've heard of but never really connected with...
Your no. 25 was, is and will always be my no. 1. Agreed that Deep Purple aren't really prog, but some tracks definitely have elements.... Saying that.. the same can be said about Led Zep, so maybe The Song Remains the Same could be added....
Great shout concerning Thin Lizzy. Live and Dangerous is an absolute belter ❗
Brave move (IMHO) putting Seconds Out ahead of Genesis Live. YesSongs is awesome, ELP Welcome back my Friends, totally agree 👍..
Finally... A huge thank you for the inclusion of the excellent A Live Record by Camel.... I've just purchased it from my local music store.... So happy to be reacquainted with this little gem. Nice one Scott 👍
Yeah, Dan. That’s kind of why i wanted to do this channel!!! A place where we can talk about these amazing albums. I’m not a huge label guy so it pains me to leave certain things out (this the preamble) but I have painted myself into a corner (so to speak) by calling this The Prog Corner!!!
@@TheProgCorner 👍. Just a thought.... but, if you want to include some of the harder, heavier content why not refer to those posts as The Prog Corner (Plus)... Oh, I also really like your shouts on Dire Straits Alchemy and Paris by Supertramp. I've always loved Crime of the Century and Crisis, What Crisis ? I'm gonna check out Paris, because of your recommendations ❗👍
Please do!!! Such a great album. I was thinking about maybe doing a second channel so I’ve been looking for ideas. You might have just hit on something there!!!
Scot I would put 801 "Live" on this list and it would rank towards the top, also No Peter Gabriel? both "Plays Live" and "Secret World Live" why why why 😭 at least one, they're both fantastic and excellent sound quality 10/10...and when it comes to LIVE albums the sound quality HAS to be there or else 👎
801 is such a good call.
I loved seeing Playing the Fool at number one.
Great list! Love seeing the great GG on top! Probably my favorite prog band right now.
Oh yeah!!! I adore them soooo much. Since the first time I heard them I was in love…
Scot, I like you the first time I heard Genesis was their Genesis Live album and I was hooked, I'll never forget that experience being in the "import record" shop and looking for more Yes (my favorite band at the time) or Yes like music and while browzing the shop owner put Genesis Live on and got goose bumps immediately went to owner "who's this I love it" he said Genesis...Where's the album he pointed to the wall of new releases I went over and saw Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Live...Which one is this he said the Live album...I was amazed, I'd never before heard a live album sound so good. Surprisingly I didn't buy it instead I bought Foxtrot...within a few weeks I had them all. The New Releases were "new" (to US) because they were imports he'd just received ALL four albums.Yes became my second favorite band.
So, the Genesis LIVE album would have to be my first choice without a doubt...it changed my musical life from that day forward.
That album cover. It DEMANDED my attention. It COMMANDED me to buy it. I had never even heard of Genesis. But as soon as I got home and Tony’s Mellotron starts…
YESSONGS And ELP.WELCOME BACK...GREAT ALBUMS..BUT POOR RECORDINGS..WHICH FOR ME TAKES THEM OUT.
A valid point - overcome by amazing performances?
Zappa Live at the Roxy!
Oh god yeah f yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats my good man-You are a gazillion % correct-Gentle giant is/was not only the greatest live album ever but the greatest most criminally underated band ever
I almost pulled the trigger and went with Yessongs at #1. And then I came to my senses!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
@@TheProgCorner Yeah i wouid not be that upset with you because yessongs is my second favorite live ever.
Sweet.
nice ranking
I know it's not a popular opinion but Different Stages is my favourite live Rush album. Love Exit Stage Left but Stages never seems to get any love. I think it's fantastic.
I actually like every Rush album. But I’m a fan so…
Me too.. Don't think the band think much of it. It's the only album not re-released on vinyl. What a monster that would be!
Really? It’s the only one, huh? Yeah, that tells you something. But bands are often the worst judges of their own material!!!
Different Stages was released after Neil's daughter was killed in a car crash. I think it's a great set too. One disc was drawn from the Test For Echo tour, the other from the Counterparts tour. Throw in a Hammersmith show from the Farewell to Kings tour and that's the album. I love the Hammersmith disc. Cygnus X-1 is excellently done. The old show sounds great too. Better than All the Worlds a Stage sonically, for sure. It is possible that the band does not even like to think about this period in their history. It was a tragic time. Neil was reeling from the loss of his daughter and a year or so later his wife passed away because of illness. Geddy and Alex, plus the entire Rush family were profoundly affected by the these sad events as well.
No bitching, because there is plenty of room for everbody's list.
If my list would be a one entry only for every band, I would have to exclude "Genesis Live" and Yes' "Keys to Ascension 1&2" for the same reason, namely I cannot for the life of me exclude "Yessongs" and "Seconds Out". They are part of my DNA. The same goes for ELP's "Live at the Royal Albert Hall", which I adore. I must have "Welcome back my Friends..." on my list. I must even throw out "Pictures at an Exhibition"...and that's a tough one for me.
About Floyd, then....I must include "Live at Pompeii", even if it's not really a proper official release.
Gentle Giant on top? Why not? Come to think of it there is no live prog album that I know of that is definitively better, so I can go along with that.
And yes, "Made in Japan" must be there.
Haven't heard Transatlantic, Big Big Train or Flower Kings yet, but apart from "Alchemy" there is no album in your list that I wouldn't concider.
Tell you a fun fact about Supertramp's first visit to Norway, though. They were booked to play at a venue on the Island of Karmøy outside the town of Haugesund. Now this was in the fall of 1971and they weren't very well known. This was on the west coast, in a pretty rural part of the country with a bit of a Bible belt dimension to it. Now, this booking was a classic mismatch, since the audience were the dressed up dancing kind and not at all ready for a proggy blues band.
So they were booed during the first set and firmly told not play the second.
Little did they know who they threw out.
That reminds me of an early Moody Blues gig in LA where they had no idea what to think of the band and subsequently got kicked off stage. Nights In White Satin came out a week later…
Santana isn't truly prog, but their "Lotus" album with the 1973 lineup was the proggiest they ever got imho.
Santana definitely had some Prog moments. Absolutely!!! Especially the first few records.
Not that its a prog album, but one of the funnest live albums is S.O.D. live at Budokan
Speak English Or Die!!!! (I used to love them!!!)
Night after Night by U.K.
I don't know why I didn't consider that one being that I just did a UK episode...
Dire Straits prog? 😉
Maybe? Some think so…
Huge omission: Led Zep's The Song Remains The Same. Epic fail!
Maybe. But are LZ really a Prog band? And is The Song Remains The Same one of the 25 best live albums? I never really warmed to its sonics...
@@TheProgCorner I think it counts. Agree LZ aren't best categorised as prog, but TSRTS album ticks all the prog boxes: Long songs with episodic structures, fantasy/occult based lyrics, virtuoso solos and - in Dazed and Confused - innovative sonics (such as the violin bow section) that other bands (like sigur ros) would build a careers on. Perhaps time to give it another listen.
@@tomhilditch2328 Indeed. I really like LZ so it's a labor of love!!!
Other great prog live albums (more on the fusion side) :
1- Magma : Live/Hhai 1975
2- Frank Zappa : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 2 Helsinki Concert
3- Mahavishnu Orchestra : Between Nothingness and Eternity
4- PFM : Cook
5-Weather Report : Live in Tokyo
6- Area : Areazione
7- Rush : Live in YYZ 1981
8- Jean-Luc Ponty : Live
9- Univers Zero : Live
10- Happy The Man : Live
PFM!!! That’s a great live album!!!
Great list, but IMO Deep Purple and Uriah Heep are Hard Rock not Prog, but who cares. In my 25 are also Spock's Beard-Snow live and Neal Morse Band-Alive again.
I hear you on UH and DP!!! Big Morse fan here so I’m in love with Snow Live!
Stone & Steel is not really a live album, it's songs recorded in Real World with the whole band performing together to prepare for the Kings Place live shows. Shouldn't you choose any or all of the BBT live albums - A Stone's Throw From The Line, Merchants of Light, Empire?
Good call on that. Merchants Of Light almost made the cut. Yeah, is S&S even a real live album???
was not very focussed on live albums cause often disapointed by the quality of sound not confortable for my delicate ears :-)).... and it's a shame so now after watching your 25 prog live i'll push a lil ' more and try to find time listenin' to all of 'em ....
hats off again for your enthousiasm and passion
Thank you, OG!! I was never obsessed with them like some people I know…but there’s definitely a nostalgia thing at play…
Great list - GG very deserving of the top spot. I'd be swapping out "Welcome Back My Friends" with "Pictures at an Exhibition" but other than that, hard to fault your picks here!
Pictures is next level!!! ❤️
I love Yes' Symphonic live album; I wish all the big prog bands could've performed with an orchestra just once while they were in their prime
That’s a great record!!!
How could you forget Magma - Hhai (aka Live Kohntark) 2 LP ???!!!
Magma is a bit above my pay grade. I appreciate what they do but I don’t understand it. I am not familiar with that album. What year was that?
@@TheProgCorner 1975, maybe "Attahk" or "Mekanik Destruktiw KOmmandoh" will serve you perfect as the gateway, Or if you want something truly special try their magnus opus "De Futura" a 17 min tour de force
I have tried and so far I remain baffled. It’s almost like when I l visited Morocco. Took me a while to get used to the musical language (and in Magma’s case, a language all their own…) It’s a lot to take in. I think I just need time. Time to decode things. Cardiacs, Zappa, Beefheart - all took me a while to figure out!!!
Good list. Love the inclusion of "Vital" by Van der Graaf. The very best is missing though: "Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogy" by Magma from 2000. A triple CD with just one track each: "Theusz Hamtaahk", "Ẁurdah Ïtah" and "Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh". Magma at their very best. This album takes you straight to the planet Kobaïa. Absolutely brilliant performance of which a video version also exists. Here the link to "Theusz Hamtaahk"; you can skip the first 90 seconds that only show the band backstage and the audience entering.
th-cam.com/video/rbXi7WN5n-c/w-d-xo.html
Magma is still a bit much for me at times but I am really trying. Too many people love them for me NOT to make the attempt. Thanks for the link. I’m gonna go check this out!!! 🤘
@@TheProgCorner Seeing them play their music live helps a lot in understanding it. Being at a Magma concert is actually a spiritual experience. It is not just we who say this; many people who have been at a Magma concert say the same.
In 1998 we were at concert of Magma at the Leverkusener Jazztage (meaning "Jazz Days of Leverkusen"; Leverkusen is a German city near Cologne), a yearly festival that was originally meant for jazz only, but they opened up to other music too over the years (Van der Graaf Generator played there too once). It can be about 2 weeks long. That day 3 acts played. We forgot the name of the first act; it did not really impress us. Then came Mari Boine with her band. She is a shaman of the Sami, an ethnic group that lives in Norway, Sweden and Finland; she is from Norway. Her music was excellent, and normally we would have said "this was the concert of the day". But then came Magma and made her excellent performance sound mediocre; they were absolutely brilliant.
When the concert was over a woman beside us who had never heard of Magma before and only was at the concert because it was a music festival stood there with eyes and mouth wide open and her arms limp at her side and slowly said "What the hell was that? That was out of this world"! She definitely had this spiritual experience. As did we, but we had already been at several Magma concerts, so for us it was not new to have this experience.
Sounds amazing. I would loved to have seen them back in the day!!! I’m slowly becoming familiarized with their music. They are not an easy band to figure out!!! ❤️
@@TheProgCorner They are actually still around, give concerts and will release their new album "Kartëhl" on Sep 30th.
I heard about a new album. I thought 2019’s Zëss was awesome - even if Zander wasn’t drumming on it (Morgan Ägren is no slouch!!!) Cannot wait for the new one.
I would have included "Forever Live" by IQ
Dude!!! Great call!!!
Glad you included Dire Straits " Alchemy "... people forget that Mark Knopfler tips his toe in the Prog pool occasionally. Plus, " Alchemy " has great production/engineering too, and Knopfler on guitar...awesome. Thanks for including Kansas' " Two For The Show "and Supertramp's " Paris "( I'd call them 1 and 2, but they're my two favorite artists)...two more albums that have great production/engineering...and captures them at their peak. The rest of your list is excellent ( I might take "Pulse" by a smidgen over your choice for Pink Floyd, but both are superb). Genesis" " Three Sides Live " captured them at their best after Steve Hackett left, enjoyable ( Seconds Out is better though).
I took some heat for including Dire Staits - “They’re not Prog, dummy!!!” But they kinda are!!!
@@TheProgCorner tell them to listen to the " Making Movies " and " Love Over Gold " albums...prog all over those albums
Right on!!!