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Artists touring a classic album from start to finish
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Do you like it when an artist does this? Or would you prefer them to sing stuff from all their career and new material in a show? Is it lazy?
I loved the Echo and the Bunnymen orchestral tour of Ocean Rain. I love that album, I grew up with it, but was far to young to have ever heard them perform the songs at the time. And next year, apparently Delays are going to tour Faded Seaside Glamour. Again, I love that album, so it will be fantastic.
But some artists have spread their best work over so many albums, it would be disappointing to go to, say, a Billy Joel show and only hear music from the Innocent Man era.
It also lacks the element of surprise, when you always know what song is coming next. ;-)
I loved the Echo and the Bunnymen orchestral tour of Ocean Rain. I love that album, I grew up with it, but was far to young to have ever heard them perform the songs at the time. And next year, apparently Delays are going to tour Faded Seaside Glamour. Again, I love that album, so it will be fantastic.
But some artists have spread their best work over so many albums, it would be disappointing to go to, say, a Billy Joel show and only hear music from the Innocent Man era.
It also lacks the element of surprise, when you always know what song is coming next. ;-)
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Primal Scream doing 'Screamadelica' and The Undertones doing their first album 'The Undertones'.
The former sounded quite boring on second hearing, lyrically very weak.
The Undertones sounded refreshing for a while with their short, no nonsense songs but it was in the middle of the gig that I realised for the first time how much The 'Tones had been influenced by The Ramones.
Bad luck because Billy Joel has just announced a series of concerts at Madison Square Garden during this year, each to feature a classic Billy Joel album in its entirety,
Blur did a tour where they played all their singles in chronological order some years ago and that was quite good.
And some artists have toured complete albums of other people's work
The Pink Floyd concerts in 94 were good because they were extremely long anyway and DSOTM was just a short part of it (they did tracks from the whole career including several from the Division Bell). I did go to see Roger Waters perform the Wall live and did come off feeling slightly short changed (it was over £80 a ticket I remember). Just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
One thing about artists touring classic albums is that they have moved on from where they were then musically and as people at the time and to re-create where they were for an entire concert might prove difficult.
A while back Gorillaz did play their album 'Demon Days' in full when it was pretty new, which was awesome!
One of the 'Berlin' performances is preserved in a Julian Schnabel movie.
They were both amazing, and worked because they were concept double albums.
Throwing in a single album during a show with other material is not so good for me. I'd rather see a selection.
The Cure actually played 3 complete classic albums for their Trilogy concerts though there were a few encore tracks from other albums.
Then later they played their first 3 albums at a one-off concert in Australia, then encored with all the B-sides and single only releases from that era.
I liked the idea of Sparks who did a London residence and played their entire album discography one album each night, expensive to see all shows though - don't know if there were "season tickets" on sale.
I saw Peter Gabriel tour"So" last year, but he performed it sandwiched in the middle of what he described as a "three course meal" with other material included before and after the album. It proved interesting to see the album ( on it's 25th Anniversary ) performed live although one or two songs required slight reworkings else would have seemed dated.
Yep, £300 for a 'golden ticket' (all 21 shows).
Me too.
And the UK Pink Floyd Experience (who do the "Pulse" set in its entirety).
Apart from being far and away his most popular albums, this trilogy formed 1 of 4 very identifiable phases of his career so I can understand togally the logic of doing it.
But otherwise no, I like the mix of the old and w gotta keep fresh to move forward.
I'd love Kate Bush to do anything live at this point
Generally speaking, I agree with most people that it's better to have a mix of material in a live performance. That said, I'd be over the moon if I got to hear one of my all-time favourite albums performed in its entirety.
Me too. I also saw them do Wish You Were Here, and The Wall.
The Wall was the best, because that has to be listened to in it's entirety to be fully appreciated.
I saw Peter Gabriel tour"So" last year, but he performed it sandwiched in the middle of what he described as a "three course meal" with other material included before and after the album. It proved interesting to see the album ( on it's 25th Anniversary ) performed live although one or two songs required slight reworkings else would have seemed dated.[/QUOTE]
What show were you at? In Glasgow, "So" was the dessert....;-)
The first half of the gig was them playing the album track by track then the second half was a couple of new numbers followed by a few more of their classics and the usual encore of Love Games.