Submitted by hjvkjvkjvg t3_118zrzs in Music
When I mean full album, I mean all songs from the album played in the exact order as the album.
Bonus points if the artist can play multiple full albums in one show.
P.S. I never heard hip hop artists who did that.
That sounds insane!
It really is. From Rubber Soul onwards, the Beatles were strictly a studio band. They had to figure out how to do on stage what the Beatles did with a full studio. They have more musicians and modern technology, but Revolution #9 is challenging, and they make Tomorrow Never Knows an absolute banger live. Plus they play everything without breaks. They do rotate musicians, so individuals can sit out a few songs to eat and pee, but they keep going for 13 hours solid.
Coheed and Cambria does this every five years or so with tours they call "Neverender." They're getting ready to do one this spring/summer for their album "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Volume II: No World For Tomorrow"
Came here to say this
It is increasingly common, especially indie and rock acts. They can tie it in with a re-release and tour that album playing it in full. I have seen a handful of bands do it, the Super Furry Animals did their first two albums. Manic Street Preachers did the Holy Bible followed by a greatest hits encore. I saw Boris do one album and I didn't even realise it was a full album set. Fucked Up did one too, the David Comes to Life album. Works well for cult acts with older legendary albums that maybe they don't play many tracks of live in a normal set. Really exciting for the hardcore fans then.
I'd sell my soul to see 4st 7lb live
That was the thing, I got into the Manics around 98/99 when they were heading more into mellow chart territory. They never played stuff like that, so seeing the Holy Bible in full was like a dream come true. It was in the grounds of Cardiff Castle too.
I'm so fucking jealous man. The holy bible is one of my straight up favorite albums and one of my biggest inspirations, music-wise
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Dream Theater did Images & words,Scenes from a memory & Astonishing live.They also did whole cover albums Dark Side of the moon, Master of puppets, Number of the beast & Made in Japan.
I don’t remember if Metallica did any of their albums live.
Not Metallica but Dream Theater https://youtu.be/DoEhnpl8SQY
The black album was played in its entirety for the 30th anniversary live.
As someone who saw Dream Theater 2 or 3 times on the original Images & Words tour, that would have been amazing. That was one of my favorite albums at the time. They played a few songs from it, but also their stuff from When Dream & Day Unite.
I saw Umphrey’s McGee play Anchor Drops a few years back
That would have been great to see. Anchor Drops was my first taste of UM back in '06.
I belive they played Songs For Older Women straight through in the past few months
Smaller metal shows. A lot of bands will play their most recent album.
Bigger metal shows too! I saw Pig Destroyer a couple years ago and they played Prowler In the Yard in its entirety. Also saw Wolves in the Throne Room perform Two Hunters from front to back. Both incredible performances
I caught the 20th anniversary tour Clash of the Titans. Megadeth, Slayer and Testament each had an album that was 20 years old: Rust in Peace, Seasons in the Abyss and Souls of Black. Every set began with their respective album, played start to finish. Those are either my absolute or among my favorite albums by those bands so it was great to hear all of the deep cuts live.
I have tickets to see They Might Be Giants doing Flood plus a second set of greatest hits.
I caught Peter Murphy and David J touring for the anniversary of In the Flat Field. They did every song except Crowds, which Peter Murphy had not played live since the album was released. They had an opening act chosen specifically to play that song. Eventually later in the tour he would come out and sing it.
Flood would be great, but I'd really love to see TMBG do Apollo 18 live in its entirety- including all parts of Fingertips!
Hey, I have tickets for that TMBG show as well! Very much looking forward to it.
Primus has done it several times. They've performed Sailing the Seas of Cheese, Frizzle Fry, Pork Soda, Green Naugahyde, Wonka, and Desatruating Seven. Most recently, they toured performing Rush's "A Farewell to Kings" in its entirety. Les Claypool's Frog Brigade is gearing up to perform Pink Floyd's "Animals" this Spring, which they also did 20 years ago.
I've seen Steely Dan perform Aja in its entirety. They were doing a tour where they would play it one night, then The Royal Scam the next.
I once saw Roger Waters perform Dark Side of the Moon. He's also toured The Wall.
I also once saw Reel Big Fish perform Turn the Radio Off except they skipped Beer and saved it for the encore.
They Might Be Giants tour performing all of Flood (sometimes in reverse order) every few years.
Many years ago, Weezer toured performing Blue Album one night, then Pinkerton the next.
Failure did a tour playing the Fantastic Planet album and they sounded incredible.
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Yeah hip-hop artists might do it as well, Nas did Illmatic several years ago
I’ve heard Springsteen play Born in the USA and Pearl Jam play 10 both nose to toes as I like to call it. It’s always an exciting moment when you realize this is what the artists is doing.
Going into the Springsteen show I was aware an album would be played but not which one and the PJ playing of Ten was a total surprise.
Between the Buried and Me doing Colors. That was a fantastic show.
Every Coheed and Cambria Neverender show.
Around 2008, I saw Sonic Youth play all of "Daydream Nation" at the McCarron Park pool in Brooklyn. I think that it was the anniversary of its initial release. Good fun, and The Slits opened up. I had never seen The Slits before, so a good night overall.
Slayer played "Reign In Blood" in full at Chicago's 2014 Riot Fest. I was there!
It's like 28 minutes
Slayer slays, I don’t care if it’s short.
In 2008, Sparks played their 21 albums in 21 nights...
http://allsparks.com/sparks-live-spectacular-21-albums-in-21-nights/
Came here to say this. As the dates approached they regretted committing themselves to rehearsing their entire back catalogue but it was too late!
Floyd's done DSOTM a couple times I think. I hear Pearl Jam's done Ten.
I’m pretty sure Pink Floyd also did The Wall in its entirety.
oh crap of course they did (facepalm)
I saw Pink Floyd in 77. They played all of Animals and Wish You Were Here.
The Cure ...trilogy live......they played 3 albums in a row..Pornography, Disintergration and Bloodflowers
I just saw the Gin Blossoms do this with New Miserable Experience to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its release. (Yes. That album is 30 years old)
Don't do that to me! I still remember hearing about them when they were a local band playing at Long Wong's bar in Tempe, AZ and I was still to young to get into their shows.
CAN I GRADUATE?!
edit- just remembered that was Third Eye Blind. Barely any difference.
Rush has done 2112, but I'm not sure if they've done the whole album
They never the album 2112 all the way through, but they did do Moving Pictures back on the 2010 tour. That was an awesome tour
I don't think they ever did the entire album all the way through. Would have been cool if they had, though.
I’m sure Rush did play Moving Pictures in its entirety. One of my favourite bands and albums!
Of all the bands I've seen live, the only one I remember doing a full album all the way through was Queensryche doing Operation Mindcrime. That was pretty cool.
U2 did a world tour for the 30th anniversary of Joshua Tree and they played the entire album in order at each show
Queensryche (before the messy breakup) did Mindcrime in its entirety. Was an amazing sight to see/hear!
One of the best shows I’ve ever seen
A Dead tribute band here in the Southeast called Cosmic Charlie did Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety between sets of the Dead. It was so cool to hear that album live and as you can imagine the entire show was…long. But wow was it fun!
Yes played Close to the Edge, the Yes Album, and The Final Cut in their entirety all in a row, and did Roundabout as an encore. Best theatre show I've ever seen!
The Who did a Quadrophenia (double album) tour and played from start to finish in every city
GZA just did a tour where he played Liguid Swords in its entirety.
Eagles. Hotel California
Stevie Wonder. Songs in the Key of Life.
Def Leppard. Hysteria.
A few years ago I saw My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult perform their entire album Confessions of a Knife. It was the 30th anniversary of its release. Awesome show!
Roger Waters and The Eagles come to mind. Both have done this in the past decade.
I saw Mercury Rev play all of Deserters Songs and The Lemonheads do all of It's A Shame About Ray. Both excellent but Evan Dando was a little bit worse for wear and looked like he had just crawled out of a skip/dumpster.
Megadeth did it with the Rust in Peace album Nuclear Assault did it with the Handle With Care album Just two that I can remember off hand
I think Steely Dan did a tour where they played a different album each night.
Between the Buried and Me have done this at various point with almost every album they’ve released.
Mastodon has done it with most of theirs, too.
Pink Floyd has many, many times.
Primus, Glassjaw, The Mars Volta, Failure, Father John Misty, AFI, Brand New, Thrice, Coheed & Cambria, Dredg, Smashing Pumpkins, City & Colour, Alkaline Trio… those are just ones that I’ve seen do just this.
Lots and lots of rock bands do this when they’ve had several albums and one album in particular was most successful / well-known.
Frightened Rabbit did “The Midnight Organ Fight” for that albums 10th anniversary. I’m pretty sure Jimmy Eat World did the same thing with “Clarity”
About 12 years ago Faith No More played king for a day in its entirety. Wish they'd play Angeldust too
> Never heard HipHop Artistes who did that
Lol
I recently saw THE SHINS play their entire OH, THIS INVERTED WORLD 🌍 album for it's 20th anniversary release. Exact order from the album, it was AMAZING 🤩. They had some time left to play some other hits after.
Man. I wouldn't mind seeing Port of Morrow from end to end.
THIS.
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible anniversary tour
Phish used to cover an entire album love every Halloween.
I saw the original lineup Pixies play “Doolittle” front to back sometime in the last 15 years or so.
I suppose Pink Floyd did that back in the 70s with the Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals
Local H had a whole tour where they let someone pick a name of one of their albums from a hat and played it plus some of their more popular songs after.
I saw the Alkaline Trio perform Goddamnit from top to bottom. Years later they played a series of shows at the same venue, performing two albums in their entirety each night.
On a similar note, watching a film with the soundtrack performed live is awesome. Got to see Amadeus and 2001: a Space Odyssey with symphony orchestras (2001 was especially awesome). I also got to see Goblin perform to Suspiria, which was badass, but the follow-up set they played was even better.
I went to all of those Alk3 shows!
radiohead did this at 93 Feet East in 2007 when they released In Rainbows.
The contortionist has been doing that if your into prog metal
I saw Metallica play Master of Puppets in full on the 20 year anniversary of the album.
Ride is currently alternating their "Nowhere" and "Going Blank Again" albums on their sets.
I saw Elvis Costello doing all of Imperial Bedroom, though I’m not sure he did it all in order, just made sure to do all the songs every night.
I saw the Who do Quadrophenia, and saw the Tubes doing the Completion Backward Principle. Steely Dan did a tour a few years back with multiple nights in the same city and a different album each night. Missed that one
Metallica played Masters of Puppets in its entirety at Download a while back. I decided not to go and have regretted it ever since.
Pearl Jam has played Vs, Yield & No code in their entirety over the years.
The Avett Brothers have done this also
Green Day played the whole of Dookie at Reading Festival 2013, was fucking awesome.
311 so every now and then.last year they played 6 different shows doing full sets of their 1st 6 albums.
Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service are playing their first album this fall in a few different cities
Wilco have done this a handful of times with some of their classic albums.
Brian Wilson has done this for Pet Sounds and Smile.
I saw Ian Anderson play Think As A Brick 1 and 2 in their entirety. Small intermission between them.
Pink Floyd played the entirety of Dark Side Of The Moon live, I believe it was in the 90’s.
When Porcupine Tree was touring after releasing The Incident (2007?), they did two sets-- one of the entire album, the next a regular set. Amazing show, and I'm glad I went, especially because it was fifteen years till we got another album.
In 2018 My Morning Jacket played all 7 of their studio albums in order over 3 nights. The band was planning an indefinite hiatus after that but fortunately got back to touring/recording in 2020.
I recently saw The Contortionist play Language and then immediately play Exoplanet, after Rivers of Nihil opened with all of The Work. Great show. The Nihil vocalist left the band a few shows after that
Wilco does every now and again. Caught their 20th anniversary Yankee Hotel Foxtrot show in Chicago last year. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to
I saw Brian Wilson do Pet Sounds
Blue Oyster Cult does this and it’s great!
Queensryche used to play Mindcrime from start to finish.
Eagles doing it right now with Hotel California.
El-P did it on his last tour before Run the Jewels formed. He played the entirety of Cancer4Cure front to back.
I'm a juggalo and I've also been to different Twiztid and Blaze Ya Dead Homie tours where they did full albums but they were anniversary tours.
I saw the Pixies do all of Doolittle a ways back. The funny part is I didn't realize that was the show until about 3 songs in 😅
Mammoth WVH do when they play headline shows but they’ve only got one record so far
UncontrolableUrge t1_j9k4sgd wrote
Not the original artists, but there is a group called Sargent Peppercorn's Lonely Hearts Club Band that comes together once a year in Columbus, Ohio and plays every Beatles album in a 13-hour marathon, usually along with a solo album from one of the Beatles members and a few tracks by the others.
They have the blessing of Paul and Ringo, both of whom have recorded introductions for the show.