Live - Rank The Albums, You Asked For It! Options

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When was the last time there was a post where everyone ranked the Live albums in order?

Ask and you shall recieve!

If you are inclined rank Live's albums from favorite (#1) to least favorite. If you want to go big time include it all!

Feel free to throw in any commentary.

Live Studio Albums:

- Mental Jewelry
- Throwing Copper
- Secret Samadhi
- The Distance To Here
- V
- Birds of Pray
- Songs From Black Mountain

Other Live Albums (If You Want To Include):

- Death Of A Dictionary
- Radiant Sea
- Live At The Paradiso
- Awake

Other Works By Live Members (If You Want To Go Big!):

- Alive
- The Gracious Few

[Merica]

1. Throwing Copper - It's all been said before.
2. The Distance to Here - Ed's masterpiece and, for me, a unique record that offers inspiration and a sound that no other album on the planet even comes close to.
3. Secret Samadhi - I probably don't give this album enough props and that's just because first two get spun just that little bit more, and are a little bit more openly accessible, to me. But still, this album is pure art. Some breathtaking songs. Ghost, Gas Hed Goes West... pure ART. And of course, MERICA~~!~!~!
4. Mental Jewelry - A great album that showed their amazing talents at such annoyingly tender age. By the time they were made age, I think they'd made this album? The bastards!

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5. V - I appreciate that it's lyrically trashy, but I quite like a lot of it. A guilty pleasure, I guess.
6. Birds of Pray - I rarely play this, to be honest. Just really not all that memorable. Even Like I Do isn't as good as people profess it to be, in my opinion.
7. Songs From Black Mountain - Well, yeah. Apart from Show, which I have a soft spot for, this is even more forgettable than BoP and massively further away from what we want Live to be musically.

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I'm not sure how to fit in the rest of the material, to be honest. To me, only Alive and TGF are on the same wavelength. Comparing live CDs and compilations etc, I don't think is quite right. But I can hazard a guess that, after a significant length of time given to see if the albums stand up, TGF will jump into the top section, and Alive will nestle into the bottom.

This post has been edited by Merica: Jul 19 2011, 3:38 am