Grab Your Lighters And Dissect This - The Top 50 Live Albums Of All Time

1fastdog.

Posted to Music on Fri Nov 10, 2006 at 02:45:51 AM EST (promoted by kiwiana). RSS.

The art of the live album seems antiquated these days. Back in the 70s, artists like Kiss, Cheap Trick and Peter Frampton found their greatest success with live albums, enjoying multi-platinum sales and even spinning off radio hits, while other artists like The Allman Brothers and the MC5 enjoyed their greatest artistic and critical successes with live albums as well. However, somewhere along the line, in between popular rock moving away from the ideals of virtuosity and pure energy (and popular music moving farther away from rock in the first place), live shows becoming excessively easy to bootleg, and supposedly legendary live acts like Phish and Widespread Panic soiling many on the form, the live album essentially lost its power, becoming increasingly less of an artistic or commercial prospect and increasingly more like a mere collector's item.

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Go Vote, Then Come Vent about it.

shane.

Posted to Politics on Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 09:21:18 AM EST (promoted by kiwiana). RSS.

I can't vote but you can. So get out there and vote, then come back and tell us how you felt about this election.

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YoooooouTube?

profwhat.

Posted to Business on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 02:36:52 AM EST. RSS.

For most of us, the words "YouTube" and "$1.65 billion" do not go naturally into the same sentence.  The phrases "pet videos," "small-time copyright infringement," and "low-grade amateur porn" seem to fit better.  But now the Valley is swinging like it's 1999 again: Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.

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