Tag: 1970s Art Rock

Live Art Rock Albums Recorded In The 1970s

Art Rock is clever music where the musicians are trying to do something different by combining various art forms and musical styles. It’s not prog rock but it may be close, it’s not normally a big commercial success although some artists like David Bowie and Peter Gabriel are the exceptions.

Wikipedia says “Art rock was a form of music which wanted to “extend the limits of rock & roll”, and opted for a more experimental and conceptual outlook on music. Art rock took influences from several genres, notably classical music, as well as experimental rock, psychedelia, avant garde, folk, baroque pop, and, in later compositions, jazz.” I’d add in the influences of world music as well.

Art Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 1970s

Barclay James Harvest Live 1974
Barclay James Harvest After The Day The Radio Broadcasts 1974 to 1976
Barclay James Harvest Live Tapes 1977
Be Bop Deluxe At The BBC 1974-1978
Be Bop Deluxe Tremulous Antenna Radioland 1976 &1978
Be Bop Deluxe BBC In Concert 2nd October 1976
David Bowie Live Nassau Coliseum ’76
David Bowie Stage 1978
Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1979
City Boy BBC In Concert 1975
Electric Light Orchestra The Night The Light Went On 1974
Electric Light Orchestra Live In Winterland ’76
Family Live 1971
Fripp & Eno Live in Paris 1975
King Crimson Ladies of the Road 1971 1972
King Crimson Earthbound 1972
King Crimson The Night Watch 1973
King Crimson The Great Deceiver Part 2 vols 3 & 4 1973 1974
King Crimson Live in Central Park NYC 1974
The Moody Blues Live At The BBC 1967-1970
Procol Harum Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra 1971
Procol Harum BBC Live In Concert 1974
Queen Live At The Rainbow 1974
Queen Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1975 video
Queen Live Killers 1979
Roxy Music Viva 1973 to 1975
Roxy Music Concerto or Ladytron 1979
Supertramp Is Everybody Listening? 1975
Supertramp Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1975 (with Crime Of The Century Deluxe Edition)
Supertramp Paris 1979
Supertramp Live In Paris 79
Supertramp Live Tracks With Breakfast In America Deluxe 1979
Talking Heads The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Talking Heads Real Live Wires 1978
Talking Heads The Boarding House San Francisco 1978 (TAJ)
Talking Heads Performance 1979
Talking Heads The Boston Tea Party 1979
Television The Blow Up 1978
Television Live At The Old Waldorf 1978
10cc In Concert 1975 (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
10cc Live And Let Live 1977
10cc Live In Concert 1977
Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 1 – 1969 to 1984
Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 2 – The Helsinki Concert 1974
Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 3 1971 to 1984
Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 4 1969 to 1988
Frank Zappa Carnegie Hall 1971
Frank Zappa Zappa In New York 1976
Frank Zappa Baby Snakes 1977
Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti 1977 1978
Frank Zappa Hammersmith Odeon 1978

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The All Time Best Live Art Rock Albums

I don’t have a poll to find the best art rock live albums of the decade but I do have a poll for the all time best art rock live albums which will help guide you:

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Art Rock Live Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – http://www.bestlivealbums.com/tag/1990s-art-rock/ – 2000s – 2010s

Be Bop Deluxe At The BBC 1974-1978

At The BBC 1974-1978 is a 3 CD and 1 DVD live album by Be Bop Deluxe.

It is made up of live in the studio sessions for John Peel, three In Concert recordings including the 2nd October 1976 concert from the Modern Music tour that I liked so much and videos from the Old Grey Whistle Test and Sight And Sound In Concert.

Much of this has been released before on Radioland / Tremulous Antennae including the 1978 Drastic Plastic concert and Tramcar To The Future. However this release does involve some previously unreleased songs.

Frustratingly it also has some omissions from what’s been released before so it’s still not the complete BBC recordings.

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Fripp & Eno Live in Paris 1975

Live In Paris is a live album by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno.

It was recorded on May 28, 1975.

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Queen Live At The Rainbow 1974

The marketing department has been busy with this live album recorded by Queen from concert(s) in 1974 at The Rainbow theatre in London in 1974 but only released 40 years later. There are plenty of versions to choose from depending on how much you’re prepared to spend.

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Roxy Music Viva 1973 to 1975

Viva is the first live album by glam / art rock group Roxy Music. It has been pulled together from three concerts at the Glasgow Apollo in November 1973, Newcastle City Hall in November 1974 and the Wembley Arena in London in October 1975.

This is Roxy Music after Brian Eno left. All three concerts feature his replacement Eddie Jobson.

I’m very conflicted about this live album and I’ve been putting off writing a review in the hope that we might get a remastered, extended version that takes away all my criticisms.

But I’ve been waiting for years to get a better version of Viva and I don’t even hear any rumours.

Roxy Music Viva

My overall rating – 25 out of 30 (mainly marked down for being too short – I want MORE!)

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Family Live 1971

Family Live is a live album by art rock group Family (including singer Roger Chapman) from a concert in November 1971 when the band were promoting the Fearless album.

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Supertramp Paris 1979

Paris is the first live album released by Supertramp. It was recorded in November 1979 in Paris on the tour to promote their mainstream breakthrough album Breakfast In America.

I remember seeing Supertramp on the Even In The Quietest Moments tour in 1976. I don’t know why but I can remember feeling the bass continually thudding into my chest, something that even Black Sabbath didn’t manage to achieve. Of course, with Sabbath I may have been too worried about protecting my hearing to notice.

Supertramp have never fitted into my definition of progressive rock so I’m treating them as an art rock group.

A combined DVD/CD release called Live In Paris ’79 has the missing six songs from the original concert and is therefore a more sensible purchase.

Supertramp Paris

My Rating – 28 out of 30 (9+9+10)

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Electric Light Orchestra The Night The Light Went On 1974

The Night The Light Went On In Long Beach is the first live album released by the Electric Light Orchestra. It was recorded in May 1974 in California.

There aren’t many official live albums for ELO when they were at the top of their success in the mid to late 1970s.

Electric Light Orchestra The Night The Light Went On

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Procol Harum Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra 1971

Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is a live album by Procol Harum recorded in 1971 in Edmonton in Canada.

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Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1979

Live at Hammersmith Odeon is the only Kate Bush live album and was recorded in 1979. This is a souvenir from the only live tour she gave.

Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon

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City Boy Live At My Father’s Place 1978

Live At My Father’s Place is a radio broadcast recording of City Boy performing on Long Island, New York in 1978 on the tour to promote Book Early.

There are five live tracks recorded by the BBC for the Radio 1 In Concert programme available as bonuses on the two-for-one off of City Boy + Dinner At The Ritz.