The ol' album-from-start-to-finish trick

Who have you seen do the full-album show, whether revisiting it nostalgically or delivering a new album as a full work? For me, it's been more acts than I realized, until Mr Toland's comment made me think a bit about it:

Pink Floyd (Animals)
Hüsker Dü (Warehouse: Songs and Stories)
Joe Jackson (Blaze of Glory)
Queensrÿche (Operation: Mindcrime)
Prince (Purple Rain)
Rush (Moving Pictures)
Roger Waters (The Wall)
Bob Mould (Copper Blue)
U2 (The Joshua Tree)

I guess I could say that I've seen the Sex Pistols, The Postal Service and Television do this sort of show as well, since they played all the songs from their respective albums in concert -- just not in order.



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I saw Paul Weller do Sonic Kicks (not in order if I remember correctly) as the first half of a show in 2012, the other half being selections from his solo career, as well as a couple of songs from In the City at the end. It was not advertised as such however, and the next time I saw him it was a mix of old and new songs all the way.

Three occasions that I can recall specifically.

1) Todd Rundgren - "Arena" tour in 2008 where he played about six songs from all over the place [inc. "Open My Eyes!"] followed by the full, then current album. Which sounded great live. Not so much once I got the CD.

2) Psychedelic Furs - "Talk Talk Talk" tour 2011 Full UK version of the album followed by intermission and first five album setlist. Excellent!

3) Magnetic Fields - "50 Song Memoir" 2017 tour where the band played only all 50 songs over a two night residency at each venue. What a treat to see Magnetic Fields where 100% of the material was brand new. Since the show was only a few days after the album's release, we had only heard discs 1-3 thus far! So much of the set was as new as it gets.

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John Cale playing PARIS 1919 in its entirety on piano, backed by a string quartet and percussion.

Steevee, I'm envious!

I've seen several solo guys doing beloved albums by their old bands -

Bryan Ferry, Avalon
Hugh Cornwell, No More Heroes
Jay Farrar, Trace

I was supposed to see U2 doing The Joshua Tree, but that got cancelled due to one of St. Louis' many riots over the last few years. I would've been upset about that if they'd been doing Boy or Achtung Baby, but I wasn't overly saddened about missing The Joshua Tree.

A friend of mine bought me a ticket to see the Lemonheads doing It's a Shame About Ray, but neglected to tell me until after the event because he got his months mixed up. And I had a ticket but blew off seeing Luna do Penthouse because the temperature outside was five below zero and it would've taken Bewitched to get me out of the house at that temp.

And Heff's post below reminded me of Adam Ant Friend or Foe.



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As I've gotten and older and the artists I see have aged, I tend to go to a lot of anniversary shows. Most of the time, the band seems to play to get through the album, no talking to the audience. It's like they not sure of the material so the sooner they get though it, then they can get to stuff they want to play. A few exceptions, Eddie Spaghetti of the Supersuckers can never shut up so he's constantly talking about the album (usually criticizing the song they're going to play); Keith Morris would talk after every 5 song block but that was because being in his 60s, he needs the break (he also blamed recovering from Covid, which might have explained his rambling). Jake Burns told us that SLF wasn't going to play "Closed Groove" because they don't like that song anymore. Sloan has been releasing an album, touring to support it and then rerelease an album that is celebrating its 20th anniversary and tour for that one, though on one the anniversary tours when the band was playing some of their other songs, Chris Murphy introduced a song from 'Action Pact' saying that "here's a song from an album that most likely will not get the anniversary treatment".

Of the shows listed below, I think that the Church, Supersuckers and RFFT were the best.

On other side of the spectrum, once when I saw Pat Travers, he mentioned that he had a new album out and then didn't play anything from it.

Anthrax - Among the Living
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Tubes - Completion Backwards Principle
Sloan - Navy Blues
One Chord To Another
Twice Removed
Adam Ant - Friend or Foe
Supersuckers - Evil Powers of Rock and Roll
The Smoke of Hell/La Mano Cornuda (mixed up)
The Church - Starfish
Lee Ranaldo - Electric Trim (minus "Purloined")
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Helmet - Betty
Rocket From the Tombs - Black Record (mixed up)
Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Testament - The Legacy (all in order except "C.O.T.L.O.D" which was played later, weird)
The Damned - The Black Album/Damned Damned Damned
Sugar - Copper Blue
Swami John Reis and the Blind Shake - Modern Surf Classics*

*this was the only album they released and when they finished, people were clamoring for an encore and Reis told that's all they knew.

Only once: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Choir at the Opera House performing Push The Sky Away.
I saw Bob Mould (with Narducy and Wurster) separately showcase Copper Blue and Silver Age (followed by a heap of greatest hits)
but he didn't do either in track order for some reason and he omitted Fortune Teller.



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this was the only album they released and when they finished, people were clamoring for an encore and Reis told that's all they knew

Reminds me of seeing Big Country in 1983. They played their debut album in its entirety (not in order) as their set, then when came time for the encore, played "In a Big Country" a second time. I was hoping they would play a Skids song at some point, but they did not, and they did not throw in a cover either. It was a bit strange for a headlining band to do this.

Another thread coming up.

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> Reminds me of seeing Big Country in 1983. They played their debut album in its entirety (not in order) as their set, then when came time for > the encore, played "In a Big Country" a second time. I was hoping they would play a Skids song at some point, but they did not, and they did > not throw in a cover either. It was a bit strange for a headlining band to do this.

And it's not like they didn't have other songs. I've learned as a BC fan they recorded TONS of music that wasn't released on proper albums.

My memory's garbage at this point, so I reserve the right to re-edit and add more stuff later.

Bob Mould - Copper Blue (twice - once during a SXSW day show where they had limited time and left off "Fortune Teller," one of my favorites, and again a few months later at Fun Fun Fun Fest where he did the whole thing, along with announcing that it was the last Copper Blue show)
The Church - Starfish (probably my favorite full album show)
Swervedriver - Raise/Mezcal Head
Hugh Cornwell - Rattus Norvegicus (along with a set dedicated to his then-new solo album and a few Stranglers hits)
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
The Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
Yes - Close To the Edge/Going For the One
Peter Hook and the Light - New Order's Substance/Joy Division's Substance
Doom Side of the Moon [Kyle Shutt from the Sword] - Dark Side of the Moon
Jon & Ing Play Classic Albums Vol. 2 [Jon Lundbom from Big Five Chord and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten from Atomic, the Thing, Young Mothers and about a million other bands scattered around Texas, Chicago and Scandinavia] - Sonny Rollins' Live at the Village Vanguard/Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners

Edit: how garbage is my memory? I forgot the most recent example of this I saw, just a few months ago: the Black Crowes doing Shake Your Moneymaker.



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I was at the Joshua Tree 30th anniversary and the Copper Blue shows. I also saw Ted Leo do ... I think, Hearts of Oak straight through? Not that huge a Ted Leo fan; there with a friend of mine who is bigger into him than I am. One song he held off until the encore because it's a real throat-mangler.

Cheap Trick did four of their own and Sgt. Pepper's

The Church - Starfish
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Steve Hackett - Selling England by the Pound (Genesis album)

These things are kinda cool, but it takes the anticipation of "what are they going to play next?" out of the experience.

Porcupine Tree (The Incident)