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jscooper22 t1_j9jswnx wrote

Floyd's done DSOTM a couple times I think. I hear Pearl Jam's done Ten.

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terryjuicelawson t1_j9ju2fa wrote

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.

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Nurb8 t1_j9jwfvq wrote

Yeah hip-hop artists might do it as well, Nas did Illmatic several years ago

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Wargmonger t1_j9jwgbx wrote

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.

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L4nn1ster t1_j9jydf5 wrote

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.

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Wonderful_Ad3017 t1_j9jz48p wrote

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.

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amorningofsleep t1_j9k0b5n wrote

Between the Buried and Me doing Colors. That was a fantastic show.

Every Coheed and Cambria Neverender show.

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terryjuicelawson t1_j9k0zcw wrote

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.

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SweetCosmicPope t1_j9k3xzr wrote

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"

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FullRollingBoil t1_j9k3yu9 wrote

I saw Umphrey’s McGee play Anchor Drops a few years back

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UncontrolableUrge t1_j9k4bqv wrote

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.

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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.

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mcgato t1_j9kaen9 wrote

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.

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UncontrolableUrge t1_j9kawe9 wrote

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.

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bwnomad t1_j9kd5sr wrote

Slayer played "Reign In Blood" in full at Chicago's 2014 Riot Fest. I was there!

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thejesuslizard74 t1_j9kfdul wrote

The Cure ...trilogy live......they played 3 albums in a row..Pornography, Disintergration and Bloodflowers

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Expensive-Material-3 t1_j9kh3ci wrote

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)

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poindxtrwv t1_j9khbbh wrote

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.

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SadAcanthocephala521 t1_j9kkta1 wrote

Roger Waters and The Eagles come to mind. Both have done this in the past decade.

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Static_King1 t1_j9klizt wrote

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.

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dunkeebutt t1_j9kmd7n wrote

Failure did a tour playing the Fantastic Planet album and they sounded incredible.

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scottreds2k t1_j9kme8h wrote

Rush has done 2112, but I'm not sure if they've done the whole album

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The_Observatory_ t1_j9kocdv wrote

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.

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The_Observatory_ t1_j9kp0z8 wrote

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.

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Far-Ad-8618 t1_j9kpcd4 wrote

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

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campy86 t1_j9kpv5a wrote

I think Steely Dan did a tour where they played a different album each night.

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okay_ya_dingus t1_j9ku9mb wrote

U2 did a world tour for the 30th anniversary of Joshua Tree and they played the entire album in order at each show

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SaintWithoutAShrine t1_j9kv4ri wrote

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.

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3MinuteRecord t1_j9kwpg5 wrote

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”

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TechnicalTrash95 t1_j9kwvtw wrote

About 12 years ago Faith No More played king for a day in its entirety. Wish they'd play Angeldust too

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HippieGlamma t1_j9kxkx2 wrote

Queensryche (before the messy breakup) did Mindcrime in its entirety. Was an amazing sight to see/hear!

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Be4IsawU t1_j9l0d8r wrote

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.

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DextellaHolles t1_j9l1p1q wrote

Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible anniversary tour

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treykindlinger t1_j9l6adb wrote

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!

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Practical_Price9500 t1_j9l9k8v wrote

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.

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FradonRecords t1_j9l9ynz wrote

I suppose Pink Floyd did that back in the 70s with the Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals

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alexjaness t1_j9laqqx wrote

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.

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Klouted t1_j9lcjqd wrote

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!

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clander270 t1_j9lf6hb wrote

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

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EndItAlready666 t1_j9lio3x wrote

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.

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Leather_Trash_7751 t1_j9lnveu wrote

The Who did a Quadrophenia (double album) tour and played from start to finish in every city

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vonsnape t1_j9lqyqx wrote

radiohead did this at 93 Feet East in 2007 when they released In Rainbows.

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jayblaze521 t1_j9ltsz1 wrote

The contortionist has been doing that if your into prog metal

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TokenFeeder t1_j9lusyc wrote

I saw Metallica play Master of Puppets in full on the 20 year anniversary of the album.

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RulerD t1_j9m05x7 wrote

Ride is currently alternating their "Nowhere" and "Going Blank Again" albums on their sets.

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jerrybettman t1_j9m2pzy wrote

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

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MaxBulla t1_j9m6mo5 wrote

Metallica played Masters of Puppets in its entirety at Download a while back. I decided not to go and have regretted it ever since.

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Elegant_Spot_3486 t1_j9mbgr2 wrote

Eagles. Hotel California

Stevie Wonder. Songs in the Key of Life.

Def Leppard. Hysteria.

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allminorchords t1_j9mcw63 wrote

Pearl Jam has played Vs, Yield & No code in their entirety over the years.

The Avett Brothers have done this also

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TardyMoments t1_j9mgiqg wrote

Green Day played the whole of Dookie at Reading Festival 2013, was fucking awesome.

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patronsaintpizza t1_j9mmpxs wrote

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

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satanshark t1_j9mq2sr wrote

Wilco have done this a handful of times with some of their classic albums.

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Mom_of_Cats t1_j9mq5za wrote

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!

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H2Oloo-Sunset t1_j9mrnar wrote

Brian Wilson has done this for Pet Sounds and Smile.

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FWGoldRush t1_j9mvotk wrote

I saw Ian Anderson play Think As A Brick 1 and 2 in their entirety. Small intermission between them.

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CheckYourStats t1_j9mx0ee wrote

Pink Floyd played the entirety of Dark Side Of The Moon live, I believe it was in the 90’s.

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cereselle t1_j9mx9xu wrote

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.

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coloradoute98 t1_j9n02jn wrote

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.

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PricelessLogs t1_j9n1xd1 wrote

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

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iam_melon_lord t1_j9n2da8 wrote

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

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[deleted] t1_j9n3zvg wrote

Blue Oyster Cult does this and it’s great!

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RickLeeTaker t1_j9n8wy5 wrote

Eagles doing it right now with Hotel California.

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wildlotusmedia t1_j9ndnzq wrote

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.

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toypianos t1_j9nvmo3 wrote

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 😅

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purpdrank2 t1_j9o7g6x wrote

Mammoth WVH do when they play headline shows but they’ve only got one record so far

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