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Albums Find New Life ... Live
Monday, December 03, 2007
As sales of "digital singles" continue to rise, a familiar format -- the album -- is enjoying a reprieve at live concerts. Veteran acts like Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and even Lucinda Williams have staged live, full-album performances of fan favorites. Guest host Elisabeth Vincentelli asks Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm and Chicago Tribune pop music critic Greg Kot about the appeal of live-album shows and what they suggest about the music industry.
Weigh in: If you've seen an album performed life, what did you think? If not, what album would you pay to see performed live?
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Give me a break. This guy is wishing for the Stones to play exile songs live - he clearly has not gone to a Stones show recently...
i saw patti smith preform "horses" at BAM a year or two ago, and it was an incredible experience to hear all those songs, especially for someone who wasn't born yet when the album first came out.
This is totally cliche and lame but I would love to hear Radiohead do OK Computer.
I would LOVE to hear Slayer's Reign in Blood. Would that be excellent or what?
I heard Sonic Youth's show at McCarren Park in Brooklyn this past summer performing "Daydream Nation". After not seeing them perform live for some years, it was a treat, they rocked as only they can. The album has songs with great hooks along with the sonic experiments and it hung together, and seemed as fresh now as when I first heard it in '88.
The format for a concert works if the artist(s) intended all their songs to work together in sequence on an album, an almost extinct idea.
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