Live and Let Live [Import, Live]

Twelfth Night | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 13, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Cyclops Records
• ASIN: B000009RX3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #896,008 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ceiling Speaks

2. The End of the Endless Majority [Instrumental]

3. We Are Sane

4. Fact and Fiction

5. The Post Sniffs a Flower [Instrumental]

6. Sequences

7. Creepshow

8. East of Eden

9. Love Song

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hidden progressive rock gem!, May 28, 2001

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Kidamadeus "kidamadeus" (Warner-Robins, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live and Let Live (Audio CD)

This CD captures a live performance of the long defunct nro-prog group "Twelfth Night". I first heard this in 1984 and was blown away. After wearing out my cassette copy, I spent the next 15 years trying to find a replacement. I finally located a vinyl of it in a rare record shop, and it became the only LP in my music collection. I only recently found this on CD, and it was like discovering the group all over again. This group was drastically different from the other neo-prog groups of it's day..encorporating a theatricality missing from groups like IQ and Marillion. Although the performance is a bit patchy at times, the earnestness of the performance more than makes up for it. Also, the encores seem a little lacking to me...but the first 45-minutes more than make up for this. Geoff Mann's voice remind me of a cross between Fish, Peter Hammill, and Freddy Mercury. The guy had a huge range, I'm betting 5-octaves. Muscially, the group ventures from Pink Floydish mood pieces to blistering rock a'la Zeppelin. I am very pleased to have this in my collection again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Live Album!, March 26, 2000

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Richard Marsden (Sunderland, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live and Let Live (Audio CD)

Twelfth Night were undoubtedly the greatest of the early 80s British neo-prog bands (Marillion, Pallas, Pendragon, IQ etc.) but unfortunately, for one reason or another, their studio outings never delivered. Live they couldn't be touched and I count myself fortunate to have caught them four times live, and forever unfortunate never to have seen them with Geoff Mann fronting the band. They should have been huge but it just didn't work out for them. Musically this album can't be touched, from the power of The Ceiling Speaks, the beauty of The End of The Endless Majority to the epic glory of Sequences. Every track is pure quality and with the addition of the bonus tracks has got to be an essential purchase. This album captures the power and the glory of Twelfth Night live and I echo the other reviewers in regretting that the rest of the set couldn't have been released. That this band never fulfilled its potential is one of the tragedies of the prog genre. Few live albums seem to capture the real excitement, energy and feel of a live gig - with <Live and Let Live> you'll feel as if you were there and bought the T shirt. I bought this album when it was first released and it has had pride of place ever since as scratchy vinyl at the very forefront of my collection.

Buy it, turn off the lights, turn up the volume and prepare to be blown away by the greatest prog band never to grace a stadium.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best live album ever released, September 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live and Let Live (Audio CD)

Well, the summary says it all really. Bought the album on vinyl two years after it's original release. Never had the chance to see Twelfth Night live during the Geoff Mann period and regret it to this day.

An absolute must have for any (progressive) rock fan.