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Post subject: Re: Live on Ten Legs: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue October 04, 2016 5:22 am
AnalLog
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:34 pm Posts: 1509
tragabigzanda wrote:
Ditto, Rangi.
Ditto for me too. I listened to it once and decided I'd rather make my own mixes.
FWIW I'm not a huge fan of the sequencing or track selection on Live on Two Legs either, but the performances are just so strong I can overlook it because it's all solid gold.
Post subject: Re: Live on Ten Legs: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue October 04, 2016 5:23 am
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47127 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
matt reeder wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Ditto, Rangi.
Ditto for me too. I listened to it once and decided I'd rather make my own mixes.
FWIW I'm not a huge fan of the sequencing or track selection on Live on Two Legs either, but the performances are just so strong I can overlook it because it's all solid gold.
Post subject: Re: Live on Ten Legs: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue October 04, 2016 8:15 am
AnalLog
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 9:02 am Posts: 1486 Location: Netherlands
there are some good versions on this record. But it does not flow very well. And after they released soo many official bootlegs this release feels redundant.
It's suppose to be a 'sequel'' to LO2L. But that one was more thought out. It was released in 1998 after they released 5 albums. For the tracklist they decided that every album should have 3 tracks on LO2L, they closed the set with 1 cover.
Between LO2L and LOTL they have released: Binaural, Riot Act, Lost Dogs, S/T and Backspacer.
Tracklist should have been this:
01-Severed Hand 02-Got Some 03-Grievance 04-Save You 05-Worldwide Suicide 06-All Night 07-I am Mine 08-Nothing as it seems 09-Sad 10-Down 11-Just Breathe 12-The Fixer 13-Life Wasted 14-Insignificance 15- 1/2 full 16- Arms Aloft
Post subject: Re: Live on Ten Legs: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue October 04, 2016 12:35 pm
The worst
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 39854
this suffers from the feeling of redundancy more than anything. I agree L02L is a better set of performances, but it is also greatly enhanced by the fact that it was the first extended set of official live songs we had other than the Atlanta concert. It made everything feel special in a way that could never happen today
this seems like it was just slapped together with little thought (fitting for the PRAMG era). sloppy performances.. the questionable inclusions of those covers as some attempt to say "hey look, we have punk cred".. this album is completely "meh".
i never listen to it. in fact, i don't think i've ever actually listened to the whole thing front to back.
Post subject: Re: Live on Ten Legs: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue October 04, 2016 4:00 pm
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8564
stip wrote:
this suffers from the feeling of redundancy more than anything
Redundancy, yes, but also randomness -- and worse, randomness that the album's programming asks us to accept as uniformity. Unlike "PJ20," which is elevated by its sort of iPod-shuffle, storytelling-via-scrapbooking aesthetic, this album asks that we suspend our disbelief enough to accept that sixteen performances of wildly variable sonic and performance quality across a six-year timeframe comprise a single concert experience which only vaguely resembles the actual flow of one of their shows. With as much live music as is available from PJ, it's probably impossible for any collection of this nature not to feel a bit random, but it should not be difficult to (1) find 16 excellent performances and (2) sequence them sensibly. RM's amateur archivists have proven time and again that these are completely achievable, if not easy, tasks. This album fails on both counts.
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