ALL LIVE album classification

[jj]

does it count as an album or a compilation?

I was looking to see what songs were on it, but can't find it here

http://www.corfid.com/gl/albums.htm

[jj]

i also checked out the Home Page here for the Live 8 at AOL Music video but only learned about a woman with 3 boobs…. i think Florian boobed here:

http://www.aol.ca/?r=www.aol.com

[johnfowles]

[quote=jj;185970]does it count as an album or a compilation?

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I do not think that there can be any doubt that "Live" is indeed a compilation because it is a collection of 19 previously released titles as of course the majority of Gord's concerts have been.
However it is a good question Jimbo since Sunday Concert is usually referred to by Gord as being one of the twenty so called "original albums". Possibly because five of its eleven tracks are not available elsewhere and yet therefore the balance (six) of its eleven tracks 6 are in effect a compilation.
It's therefore something of a moot point whether Sunday Concert is an album or a compilation, since over 50% of its content clearly constitutes a compilation perhaps it would have been better classified as a compilation.
Wayne speculates that the fifth United Artists "album" could have been based on the "33rd of August" session's collection, which apparently included Leaves of Grass in a different studio version, thankfully Sunday Concert emerged a UA5 complete with one of my favourite Lightfoot songs (Apology).
Live however is entirely a compilation of previously released titles.
IMHO it would ideally have contained at least one new track (the very suitable one would have been the third of 2001's trio of frequently performed new songs namely "Nighttime"
youtube.com/watch?v=05_eTABYpnk
the other two The No Hotel and Shellfish having been honoured by their inclusion on Harmony
Whilst on this subject Gord usually considers and states that he made 20 "Original" albums obviously comprising the 5 on United Artists his "contract " 14 for Warner/Reprise and Harmony on Linus Entertainment making a nice round total of twenty
Incidentally the Linus website no longer includes GL on their roster of artists and their previously displayed GL page which once included the Inspiration Lady video whilst being shown on the menu on pages archived by the Wayback Machine is itself out of bounds
"Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt"
That video(one of my personal all-time favourite music videos) was uploaded by Linus themselves later to YouTube
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RdwMoKJ6C4g
To further confuse the issue
I read on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album
"Albums have also been issued that are compilations of older tracks not originally released together, such as singles not originally found on albums b-side of singles, or unfinished "demo" recordings."
Regarding the number of albums or compilations there are of course a bazillion assorted compilation issues by United Artists plus there is one rarity the compiled Chateau singles on the LP "Early Lightfoot" issued by AME in 1972 (a title that was also used for the UK release of the first UA album otherwise known as "Lightfoot!" in the early 1970's (I found and bought my copy in 1979 apparently)

But there are surely one or two other LP /vinyl disc issues that qualify for the label "album".
(One must ignore the entirely unofficial and opportunistic Koala pair (Yellow Bird and Get Together)
These being "Two Tones at The Village Corner "whose sleeve back notes start by declaring
"To those who braved that stormy Saturday night of January 20th 1962 to attend the recording session of the Two Tones at The Village Corner we dedicate this ALBUM"
Those complete liner notes are legible on a large scan at
http://www.mocm.ca/HttpHandlers/Imag...&PhotoId=1096"
the other disc is the Warner Bros Demos which Valerie once told us was distributed as a pair of vinyl discs, but by the wikipedia definition they were compilations!!

Therefore if there ever is a next one it could be entitled Album 22 or 23?
(It's been done before albeit using the record company's issue number)


Anyway on
http://www.mocm.ca/Music/Title.aspx?TitleId=30507
it is writ
"Gordon Lightfoot's (born in Orillia, Ontario in 1938) legendary and iconic career has spanned six decades and is comprised of 21 original albums, "
In addition on
http://qctimes.com/entertainment/mus...0f0575ae0.html
It was reported
For the 50th anniversary tour, Lightfoot said half the concert will be his "standards," such as "Carefree Highway," "Sundown," "If You Could Read My Mind" and the unlikeliest hit of all, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The other half will be cuts from his 21 albums, in a rotation for each performance.
　
Those mentions of 21 must be Gord's 20 plus theTwo Tones??
8 of the 12 tracksof which may be previewed on a peculiarly deficient Museum of Canadian Music website at
http://www.mocm.ca/Music/Title.aspx?TitleId=305079
and see
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=22237

Originally Posted by jj

I was looking to see what songs were on it, but can't find it here
http://www.corfid.com/gl/albums.htm

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I initially read that as meaning you did not know what the Live compilation comprised
and found a great answer on a current ebay auction

then I realised that it was a snide reference to shortcomings on this website
Yes well the evidence is that Florian still thinks it's 2012 or 2013!!