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Offline gumba  
#1 Posted : 09 September 2009 20:22:59(UTC)
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For me Cicatriz on Scabdates by The Mars Volta. But then I go gooey at the knees about anything Mars Volta. If Omar Rodriguez-Lopez recorded a fart I'd probably put it on my iPod.
Oh right, the question. What's the best live track you've heard?
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#2 Posted : 09 September 2009 20:59:09(UTC)
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For me Cicatriz on Scabdates by The Mars Volta. But then I go gooey at the knees about anything Mars Volta. If Omar Rodriguez-Lopez recorded a fart I'd probably put it on my iPod.
Oh right, the question. What's the best live track you've heard?

He pretty much does that anyway, doesn't he?
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#3 Posted : 09 September 2009 23:32:19(UTC)
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hard thing to say. Simply because some songs i have never really liked on an album have blown me away when i saw the band live, and every single band ive seen has had at least one song which i have thought this is the best bloomin live song ever......
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#4 Posted : 10 September 2009 00:01:53(UTC)
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hard thing to say. Simply because some songs i have never really liked on an album have blown me away when i saw the band live, and every single band ive seen has had at least one song which i have thought this is the best bloomin live song ever......


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#5 Posted : 10 September 2009 01:15:58(UTC)
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#7 Posted : 10 September 2009 09:20:05(UTC)
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Anyway probably that bonus track ("My Generation") on Patti Smith's Horses with Mr. John Cale on bass
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#8 Posted : 10 September 2009 09:54:21(UTC)
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Not sure if you mean songs I've heard performed live that were really great, or live recordings that sounded great, or some mixture of both.

The one that sticks out for me that I actually witnessed with my own eyes is Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band playing "There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow", June 1st 2006 at the ABC2 in Glasgow (I remember because we moved out of our flat three days earlier so I had to come through from Perth for the gig even though a week earlier I was living literally three minutes away from the venue).

At the time the one Silver Mt. Zion release I did not have was the "Little Lightning Paw" EP, which I bought at the end of the show. Now this EP is something of an oddity, containing four new tracks recorded primarily by vocalist Efrim in a stripped-down demo kind of way, and then Efrim in his infinite wisdom decided to play the finished result back on a cheap ghetto blaster and record it playing with a microphone in the room and THAT is the actual audio on the release. The result is a very strange lofi kind of effect that does work, but is kind of frustrating.

So anyway, the last track on this record is "There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow", and the first time I heard it was as the last song of the set that night, and it was one of the most incredible most beautiful moments I have ever experienced. The full scale version they do live completely blossoms out of a distorted tinny and slightly distant-sounding demo into a beautifully intimate song about hope+joy+love+light and all other kinds of Silver Mt. Zion hallmarks.

I was therefore somewhat disappointed by the record version when I actually listened to it.


On a live album though, I'd say the version of "Psycho Killer" on the soundtrack to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense concert film, with David Byrne doing the song with a simple synth drum beat and an acoustic guitar. A lot of the early Talking Heads studio stuff suffered from the production style of the day, sounding sparse and slightly too airy by today's standards, but Stop Making Sense has a much broader filled-out sound. This version of Psycho Killer is, for my money, the definitive version.

Plus, I have a massive boner for David Byrne's dancing.
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#9 Posted : 10 September 2009 10:12:36(UTC)
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Not sure if you mean songs I've heard performed live that were really great, or live recordings that sounded great, or some mixture of both.

The one that sticks out for me that I actually witnessed with my own eyes is Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band playing "There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow", June 1st 2006 at the ABC2 in Glasgow (I remember because we moved out of our flat three days earlier so I had to come through from Perth for the gig even though a week earlier I was living literally three minutes away from the venue).

At the time the one Silver Mt. Zion release I did not have was the "Little Lightning Paw" EP, which I bought at the end of the show. Now this EP is something of an oddity, containing four new tracks recorded primarily by vocalist Efrim in a stripped-down demo kind of way, and then Efrim in his infinite wisdom decided to play the finished result back on a cheap ghetto blaster and record it playing with a microphone in the room and THAT is the actual audio on the release. The result is a very strange lofi kind of effect that does work, but is kind of frustrating.

So anyway, the last track on this record is "There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow", and the first time I heard it was as the last song of the set that night, and it was one of the most incredible most beautiful moments I have ever experienced. The full scale version they do live completely blossoms out of a distorted tinny and slightly distant-sounding demo into a beautifully intimate song about hope+joy+love+light and all other kinds of Silver Mt. Zion hallmarks.

I was therefore somewhat disappointed by the record version when I actually listened to it.


On a live album though, I'd say the version of "Psycho Killer" on the soundtrack to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense concert film, with David Byrne doing the song with a simple synth drum beat and an acoustic guitar. A lot of the early Talking Heads studio stuff suffered from the production style of the day, sounding sparse and slightly too airy by today's standards, but Stop Making Sense has a much broader filled-out sound. This version of Psycho Killer is, for my money, the definitive version.

Plus, I have a massive boner for David Byrne's dancing.


Yes, one of the best concert movies ever. From start to finish.
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#10 Posted : 10 September 2009 10:23:17(UTC)
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Yes, one of the best concert movies ever. From start to finish.


Absolutely. Even that slightly cheese-smelling Tom Tom Club track.
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#11 Posted : 10 September 2009 10:37:21(UTC)
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Stop Making Sense is one of my favorites, but best concert movie for me is The Last Waltz. But they are both very nice to watch.
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#12 Posted : 10 September 2009 10:48:21(UTC)
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My old flatmate kept telling me to watch The Last Waltz, but I've never really been into any of the bands in it so I've never gotten round to it. I'm sure I'll get to it someday though.

Speaking of great music movies, the Sigur Rós film Heima is pretty damned incredible. Not one concert, but many, small scale and large, including several acoustic performances in foggy, drizzly Icelandic moors.

Oh, and Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii of course.

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And what about Rush In Rio. Is shot in Holland Yeah. First disc i believe.
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And what about Rush In Rio. Is shot in Holland Yeah. First disc i believe.


That one's great, you cant go wrong with live rush, and for DVDs probably Black Sabbath's Reunion, Imaggine in Cornice from PJ, and Megadeth's That One Night
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#19 Posted : 12 September 2009 07:00:40(UTC)
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My old flatmate kept telling me to watch The Last Waltz, but I've never really been into any of the bands in it so I've never gotten round to it. I'm sure I'll get to it someday though.

You should nick it from my old man. He's got it.

I just want to praise Electric Wizard. Live, Return Trip sounds fucking stunning.

Not live, but y'know, still ace.
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#20 Posted : 12 September 2009 10:56:19(UTC)
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ive thought long and hard....

and the best live track i have ever heard was by the soundtrack of our lives in Leeds during the fine year of 2001, playing the song infra riot.. Best live musical moment in my life for many reasons... none of which i feel like going into on here...
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