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In the early days Rush would release a live LP after a "cycle" of maybe three or four studio albums are that seemed the right kind of balance to me. In the case of All the World's a Stage, I bought that before I bought the early studio albums and I still prefer the live versions.
Also, back then in the 1970s, studio albums often sounded a bit feeble so for certain bands the live recordings would show them in their best light - Thin Lizzy, UFO, Rory Gallagher, the first Scorpions lineup. The Wishbone Ash live albums are great. Robin Trower Live is probably my favourite album ever.
Since you mentioned Ozzy, Talk Of The Devil, with Brad Gillis on guitar, is my absolute favourite Ozzy album. It came out about the same time as Black Sabbath's Live Evil and I love the contrast between the two approaches to the same songs.
A lot of the time when people go on here about X artist from the 70s, not the big ones we all like a few songs from like Led Zep but the 2nd division, I often listen to a tune or two and think "yep, that's definitely some more 70s rock".
Not that I think much of it is actual shit (I save that for things that clearly are not things I just don't like) but my reaction is just "meh".
It's what I also find funny when I see 100k songs a day are uploaded to Spotify.
Most things from any single perspective are staggeringly mediocre.
I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
Rory's Live In Europe, Irish Tour and Beat Club Sessions are all top notch.
I tend to prefer live bootlegs, less mucking about with the sound.
You just don’t seem to grasp the sociality of your own psychic makeup, which is the only thing driving your opinion on any of this. All you are really saying is, “I was young then, but not now,” which isn’t very interesting.
I will give you this. You are wrong on caliber, but probably correct on magnitude because our choices in music are so much more diverse and expansive now than they were in the 60s-80s. Pop rock simply doesn’t have the same market share as it used to, and rightly so. There’s also the fact that music is an industry, a function of the marketplace, which is increasingly global and complex, so the amount of music you don’t like is going to grow at least as large as the amount of music that you do like.
Surely you understand how pointless, childish and wrong it would be for either of us to say “if you don’t understand that A is better than B then you just don’t get it”. Today’s pop rock is fine, even if it is comparatively sidelined. What kids are doing with guitars these days is incredible.
He's a clever one?
I'll also echo the feelings expressed by someone here earlier about live albums, which may also be unpopular: that they are invariably a disaster. They remind me of occasions when a stage play, one performed at a theatre, is filmed and put on TV. It just doesn't work. The point about live performance is that it is 'live,' as in 'experienced at the moment of execution.' There is a magic in that which does not translate well to recording and posthumous appreciation. For that, we are usually (not always!) better off with the technical assistance of recording and film studios.
I don’t find “kids these days” and “they don’t make them like they used to” to be unpopular opinions at all.
I, too, agree about live albums, with the exception of some MTV unplugged albums and Live at Leeds. I guess Foo Fighters have a decent live album (Skin and Bones, I think). Otherwise it’s always studio recordings for me.
Prince. The artist formerly known as. I can't stand him.
I'm sure he was a towering musical talent, I'm not saying all those people who hail him as a genius are idiots, I know many people on here are fans... but I can't listen to him. No doubt there would be individual tracks in his oeuvre I would like, but the general style and sound, his persona, that bloody voice of his... Just no. It's not for me.