The best LPs ever

[threebikesmcginty]

If it's live rock and roll, after The Killer's Star Club LP it's anything live by The Pirates, Mick Green, Johnny Spence and Frank Farley - that's rock and roll that is!

 

[MontyVeda]

here's a few that'll never make any other 'best LP' list but my own...

Radio Gnome Invisible Part Two: Angel's Egg - Gong
Pickled Eggs & Sherbet - All Seeing I
Chill Out - KLF
Entroducing - DJ Shadow
Casino Royale OST - Burt Bacharach
Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

and for the live album....

Burt Bacharach Live in Japan

 

[Doseone]

Saw one of Phil Lynott's last ever gigs with Lizzy at Reading Rock Festival. Will never forget that for lots of reasons.

Best live albums - there are lots but MSG live at the Budokan, Sabbath Live Evil, Purple Live in Japan, Supertramp Live in Paris, Motorhead No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Genesis Seconds Out, Rush Exit Stage Left would all be well up there IMO.

 

[migrantwing]

Was lucky enough to see Lizzy a couple of years back. Despite lynott not being there they were awesome. Gorham should have got hold of Robbo and completed it.
All over now though, renamed as Black Star Riders.

Saw 'em at The Olympia in Dublin over a Decade ago, when Sykes was handling vocal/guitar duties. I was in my early Twenties around that time and the guys I went with were 10, 12 and 15 years older than me. We were all in tears by the end of the night

Agreed! Robbo should have been more of a member over the years. Heard he thought it was all a bit of a farse though, without Philo. I don't know what the hell all this Black Star Riders stuff is about. Bad idea in my eyes.

 

[migrantwing]

Saw one of Phil Lynott's last ever gigs with Lizzy at Reading Rock Festival. Will never forget that for lots of reasons.

Best live albums - there are lots but MSG live at the Budokan, Sabbath Live Evil, Purple Live in Japan, Supertramp Live in Paris, Motorhead No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Genesis Seconds Out, Rush Exit Stage Left would all be well up there IMO.

You lucky barsteward! Would have loved to have been there, sadly, I was 7 years old at the time I do have the CD, though. It was released years ago via the BBC: In concert series....and yes, I can imagine it was a momentous night.

Agreed on the Exit Stage Left album, too

 

[Flying_Monkey]

This place really is filled with men of a certain age in rawk t-shirts, isn't it?

But sort of slightly more seriously, I do find it hard to understand people who honestly think that Thin Lizzy are the high point of popular music. Let's just take a look at 1976 when what most people would say was their best album, Jailbreak, was released. Granted it was one of the worst years in history for the singles charts, but in terms of albums, that year saw:

ABBA - Arrival
AC/DC - High Voltage and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil
Blondie - Blondie
David Bowie - Station to Station
Can - Flow Motion
Bootsy Collins - Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Bob Dylan - Desire
Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
The Isley Brothers - Harvest for the World
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Na Poi
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Harry Nilsson - Sandman
Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
Jaco Pastorious - Jaco Pastorius
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Cafe
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Queen - A Day at the Races
Ramones - Ramones
Rush - 2112
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - It's Your World
Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat
Sun Ra - Cosmos
The Upsetters - Super Ape
Tom Waits - Small Change
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon

Now, granted that even though this is just my edited selection from that year I still may be overegging this pudding just a little but surely, whatever your tastes there are at least 10 records in that list that are better than Thin Lizzy's best LP just in that one year it was released, let alone ever (and I say this as someone who hates Rush with a passion). And if you say, yeah, but we were talking about Live and Dangerous, don't even get started, because 1978 was a much better year for music...

People generally know what they like and like what they know, but with the Internet there's no excuse for not exploring just a bit more...

 

[ArDee]

Saw him live at Cheltenham last weekend with orchestr, choir, Ashley Holt and Guy Protheroe performing excerpts from the new (extended) version




Now to show your age, next year is the 40th Anniversary of the original release and there are plans for the whole piece to be performed at the Royal Albert hall next year to commemorate

40th Anniversary, Bu**er, I went to see him perform it live - as his new album at Crystal Palace, along with the 6 wives of Henry the 8th. Or perhaps it’s something my grandparents told me about, that must be it .

 

[tyred]

Bob Dylan - Desire.

End of discussion.

 

[Velo711]

How about Srgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band.

 

[Acyclo]

Rock - Larks Tongues in Aspic
Jazz - Kind of Blue
Classical - Beethoven Nine, Fourth Movement
Opera - Madame Butterfly

 

[MontyVeda]

....
Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
...

I'd like to add...

Earth Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes

 

[ufkacbln]

40th Anniversary, Bu**er, I went to see him perform it live - as his new album at Crystal Palace, along with the 6 wives of Henry the 8th. Or perhaps it’s something my grandparents told me about, that must be it .

1974 Wembley Aarena - Myths and Legends of King Arthur on Ice!

We are simply old fogies!

 

[ufkacbln]

...and look a Rick Wakeman smiley....

 

[migrantwing]

This place really is filled with men of a certain age in rawk t-shirts, isn't it?

But sort of slightly more seriously, I do find it hard to understand people who honestly think that Thin Lizzy are the high point of popular music. Let's just take a look at 1976 when what most people would say was their best album, Jailbreak, was released. Granted it was one of the worst years in history for the singles charts, but in terms of albums, that year saw:

ABBA - Arrival
AC/DC - High Voltage and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil
Blondie - Blondie
David Bowie - Station to Station
Can - Flow Motion
Bootsy Collins - Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Bob Dylan - Desire
Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
The Isley Brothers - Harvest for the World
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Na Poi
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Harry Nilsson - Sandman
Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
Jaco Pastorious - Jaco Pastorius
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Cafe
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Queen - A Day at the Races
Ramones - Ramones
Rush - 2112
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - It's Your World
Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat
Sun Ra - Cosmos
The Upsetters - Super Ape
Tom Waits - Small Change
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon

Now, granted that even though this is just my edited selection from that year I still may be overegging this pudding just a little but surely, whatever your tastes there are at least 10 records in that list that are better than Thin Lizzy's best LP just in that one year it was released, let alone ever (and I say this as someone who hates Rush with a passion). And if you say, yeah, but we were talking about Live and Dangerous, don't even get started, because 1978 was a much better year for music...

People generally know what they like and like what they know, but with the Internet there's no excuse for not exploring just a bit more...

Obviously not a Lizzy fan then...and what makes you think that anyone sees Thin Lizzy as the highpoint of Popular music? They were a great, great band with a uniquely charismatic and talented frontman/bassist/songwriter. Yes, there were other great bands around the time that released equally great albums as Thin Lizzy, no one said otherwise.

Ramones, Bryan Ferry and Warren Zevon. Really?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Obviously not a Lizzy fan then...and what makes you think that anyone sees Thin Lizzy as the highpoint of Popular music? They were a great, great band with a uniquely charismatic and talented frontman/bassist/songwriter. Yes, there were other great bands around the time that released equally great albums as Thin Lizzy, no one said otherwise.

Ramones, Bryan Ferry and Warren Zevon. Really?

I think you missed both the humour and the point of my post. The last line is the key one...

And yes, really - If you have an open mind to more than rawk. Mind you, if you can't see the genius of the Ramones, you don't even deserve to have an opinion.