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Bands Playing The Whole of An Album In Sequence

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Started by Dennis (Dudley Less) in Other Bands & Artists

OK bit of a shit title for a thread, cos it’s hard to put into a snappy one-line header, but…

I have seen two bands this week (Manics & Mastodon) play their latest albums in their entirety (and in the same sequence as on the album, start to finish).
Pink Floyd do it on the Pulse DVD with Dark Side of the Moon.

I’d love the Manics to have done The Holy Bible like that too, as, like their latest album, it is a self-contained entity that works best separate from the rest of their work.

So, my question is:-

Which band and album would YOU like to hear played end-to-end? And WHY?

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 13:36

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Dermot wrote:

I thought the Manics’ playback was great - just as good as the second half of the set (saw them on Saturday).

I think I’ve mentioned this on here before, but All Tomorrow’s Parties have specialised in live album playbacks for a few years now - since 2005 I think. For example, Spiritualized are performing ‘Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space’ live in London soon:

http://www.dontlookbackconcerts.com/

I’ve seen a few album playbacks - Slint doing Spiderland, Sonic Youth doing Daydream Nation and Dirty Three doing Ocean Songs (all at Primavera Festival 2007). Was a bit underwhelmed with all of them to be honest. Maybe it’s cos they were doing old albums, whereas the Manics’ was obviously their new one and it felt like a really special event.

But anyway, to answer your question (!) I think Pink Floyd doing Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall would be great, cos the songs on their albums all flow into each other. Tool performing Aneima would also be great for similar reasons

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 13:59

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KJC Dublin (Karl) wrote:

Well, I have seen Metallica do Masters of Puppets, Dio doing Holy Diver, Iron Maiden to A Matter of Life and Death and Therapy? doing Crooked Timber.

Would love to see Megadeth do Rust in Peace in its entirety!

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:01

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Gav wrote:

FNM doing Angel Dust - that would be awesome.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:02

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Dermot wrote:

Oh yeah, another *kind of* playback I saw was Blur on their greatest hits tour - they played every single they’d ever released in sequence. Had the really weird and, again, underwhelming effect of finishing the night with “No Distance Left To Run” :-/

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:08

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KJC Dublin (Karl) wrote:

deadsetgav wrote:

FNM doing Angel Dust - that would be awesome.

That indeed would be sweet!

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:43 in reply to an earlier post

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Epitome (Dave) wrote:

Green Day have played 21st Century Breakdown in full (and that’s a fairly long album), and as far as I know they’re doing that for the entire tour (plus a 2nd set of their older stuff).

Of course, this is the first time in 10 years I don’t have tickets to see them…

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 14:49

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Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:

Jimmy Eat World did it for Static Prevails I think, last year, but not in blighty :-(

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 15:49

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

therapy? could do it for crooked timber, but mix it up with a few old songs in between songs.

oh wait…

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 16:13

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Squall wrote:

Dream theater did Scenes from a Memory in its entirety and other songs. It wound up being a 4 hour gig, after which mike Portnoy almost passed out from exhaustion

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 16:21

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buffalo-boy wrote:

The wildhearts doing phuq from start to finish as well as Fishing For Luckies which were meant to be released together as a double album - that would be cool!

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 16:33

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Taunty Dan wrote:

I missed Dinosaur Jr doing You’re living all over me at the Don’t Look Back festival which i was gutted about, but saw Sebadoh doing Bubble & Scrape which was fookin’ ace. I’d love to see Soul Asylum doing Hang Time, and Dexys doing Don’t Stand Me Down.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 17:42

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glen wrote:

KJC Dublin wrote:

Well, I have seen Metallica do Masters of Puppets, Dio doing Holy Diver, Iron Maiden to A Matter of Life and Death and Therapy? doing Crooked Timber.

Would love to see Megadeth do Rust in Peace in its entirety!

yeah same i saw metallica do puppets all the way thru and fuckin loved it

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 18:53 in reply to an earlier post

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Pip (Philip Kelly) wrote:

Slayer doing Reign in Blood

but they have already

*roots through the DVD collection to fing “Still Reigning” *

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 19:08

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Epitome (Dave) wrote:

The Smashing Pumpkins doing Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Why? Because it’s my favourite album, and with the flow and variety (and length) of the album it would make a great live show. Also, there are one or two tracks from that album that they have never played live at all.

Course, I’d have to go back in time to when they had all the original* members… or even back to when they at least had two of them :P

* by original I mean the main 4 at the height of their success and the time of MCIS.

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 19:24

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Gav wrote:

buffalo-boy wrote:

The wildhearts doing phuq from start to finish as well as Fishing For Luckies which were meant to be released together as a double album - that would be cool!

They did Earth Vs the other year - but i think I would rather see phuq or fishing too to be honest - the earth vs stuff is overplayed and I think I prefer the songs off the latter albums

Posted on Mon, 8 June 2009 at 19:42 in reply to an earlier post

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

Pip wrote:

Slayer doing Reign in Blood

but they have already

*roots through the DVD collection to fing “Still Reigning” *

I’d much rather see them do Seasons In The Abyss, personally! “Still Reigning” is great but…the ultra-fast thing gets a bit monotonous after a bit.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 08:39 in reply to an earlier post

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vagabond wrote:

i’ve seen metallica doing the whole “master of puppets”, which was sweet!

apart from that, nothing like that so far.

would have liked to see maiden doing “a matter of live and death”. would like to see mastodon doing “crack the skye” too. and a few others.
and i’d like to see therapy? doing a album a day for 2 weeks or so … :)

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 08:59

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

^ Yeah, I really wish I’d seen Maiden do “A Matter of Life and Death” on that tour…*kicks self*

Never been sure about the Master of Puppets thing though. Orion live? No thanks!

Green Day could have got away with doing American Idiot like that, but they wimped out and started throwing older songs in half way through.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 09:26

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Squall wrote:

Actually they did play American Idiot in full at lots of dates.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:20

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

Apparently slipknot are doing the self titled album in full on saturday, and faith no more are doing live at brixton when they play brixtion tommorow lmao.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:36

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

Squall wrote:

Actually they did play American Idiot in full at lots of dates.

Ah, didn’t realise that. I stand corrected.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:46 in reply to an earlier post

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

diddnt iron maiden piss alot of people off when they played a matter of life and death in full at gigs? i think it was a good idea and certainly sticks a figner up at people casually showing up who only know about 5 of the bands hits.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:47

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KJC Dublin (Karl) wrote:

It was a good album and I enjoyed it to be honest, but yeah, it did piss alot of people off.

As for Slayer - Reign in Blood, that would be 30 minute gig!

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:54

#24

Cuchulain wrote:

Was gonna go for Reign in Blood as well but seeing as that’s covered already…

Maybe an old one , as Exodus are still going I wouldn’t mind a full version of Bonded By Blood !

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 11:56

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

KJC Dublin wrote:

As for Slayer - Reign in Blood, that would be 30 minute gig!

Yeah, there aren’t many bands that play an entire album as their encore!

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 12:24 in reply to an earlier post

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Beefgrinder wrote:

Citizen Erased wrote:

Jimmy Eat World did it for Static Prevails I think, last year, but not in blighty :-(

Was it not Clarity they did? Or was that this year?

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 13:46 in reply to an earlier post

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Beefgrinder wrote:

KJC Dublin wrote:

It was a good album and I enjoyed it to be honest, but yeah, it did piss alot of people off.

As for Slayer - Reign in Blood, that would be 30 minute gig!

I saw Slayer do Reign in Blood in its entirety at Wacken, but they spoilt (?) it by sticking Dead Skin Mask in the middle…

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 13:47 in reply to an earlier post

#28

g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

is it just me or has the entire album thing become quite common nowadays?

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 14:39

#29

Epitome (Dave) wrote:

Yeah, it seems to be. Especially a lot of bands doing “anniversary” shows etc of their most popular/famous album, playing it in full. I believe Millencolin are another band doing it.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 15:15

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Gav wrote:

I guess it makes sense - Bands aren’t making as much through album sales so they need to make more touring - If they are going to do 1 or two tours per album then they need to do something to mix it up a bit - something different to the standard ‘greatest hits’ type setlists.

Look at T - they will probably be doing the standard tour thing later in the year - but they’ve already done a mini tour playing the album - that way it is worth it for their fans to go out twice in one year to see them.

Posted on Tue, 9 June 2009 at 16:26

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