Best Live Albums - What are yours?

mr_goo
mr_goo Posts: 3,770
edited November 2012 in The cake stop
These are my list of best Live Albums. All rock bands for me. Cannot limit mine to 5 and they are in no particular order. There are many more, but I have never owned or listened to them. I note that James Brown comes out top in many all time lists. Anyone got this and how good is it?

1. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
2. UFO - Strangers in the Night
3. Rammstein - Volkerball
4. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
5. Queen - Queen of Fire (live at MK Bowl...I was there, awesome gig)
6. Queen - Live Killers
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More for the Road
7. AC/DC - If You Want Blood
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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    AC/DC, yepp, brill.
    Ramones, it's alive...c'mon, gabba gabba hey!
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Yeah both UFO and AC/DC are both up there, deservedly so. Both GREAT albums. I'm not a Queen fan so wouldn't know bout those, but I'll chuck Kiss Alive I in there also.
  • Andy525
    Andy525 Posts: 58
    Saxon - The Eagle has landed.
    Deep Purple - In the Absence of Pink - Knebworth 1985
    Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City.
    Rainbow - Live in Germany 1976
    Motorhead - No Sleep Till Hammersmith.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    +1 for Motorhead (awesome band - coming to a gig near me in a couple of weeks!)

    Rory Gallagher - Live! In Europe
    Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
    The Who - Live at Leeds
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    In order of release and I "think" these are my only ones as recordings rarely capture a live performance.

    Allman Brothers - Live at Filmore East. Superb guitar work.
    Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous. Probably my favourite.
    Cheap Trick - Budokan. Better than their reputation.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,388
    From Here to Eternity - The Clash
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  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    Gary Numan's Living Ornaments '79, '80 & '81.
  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Live Seeds
    Depeche Mode, 101.
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  • pipipi
    pipipi Posts: 332
    Motorhead -No Sleep at All ( a great version of Killed By Death, and a throbbing Just cos you got the power(that don't mean you got the right))

    Iron Maiden Live after Death ( my first live album, a double album, loads of great songs)

    and Marillion's live album

    but I'd certainly include AC/DC on there as a live album. Some bands like Pink floyd are great for sitting down and washin over you on a summer's afternoon
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  • nunowoolmez
    nunowoolmez Posts: 865
    Jeez, you guys are well old! Kidding!!!

    Here's mine...

    Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
    Justice - A Cross The Universe: Live in San Francisco
    The Fall - Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004.
  • Tattooine
    Tattooine Posts: 23
    Muse - Haarp

    Absolutely love this album and just seems better live.
  • bjl
    bjl Posts: 353
    Couple of classics for me :
    Frank Sinatra - Live at the Sands.
    Neil Diamond- Love at the Greek.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

    Nothing else comes close!!
  • pots
    pots Posts: 109
    Remember that night - David Gilmore
    The way we walk/the longs - Genisis - ( 'home by the sea' my fav )
    Slade Alive
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    slade alive, brilliant sleeve as well

    ganna have to get up in the loft now
  • Flexisurfer
    Flexisurfer Posts: 249
    Mine

    Underworld - Everthing Everything

    Pearl Jam - Live at The Gorge

    Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones
  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    Underworld - Everything EVerything (KIng of Snake is ace!)
    Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum (if only for Aerodynamik, reminds me of my rave days...)
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  • nunowoolmez
    nunowoolmez Posts: 865
    Underworld - good call. I forgot to put that on my list too. Remember seeing them live at some festival somewhere sometime ( you know how it is!). Incredible. Distinctly remember hearing the opening of Dark & Long & literally stopped what i was doing & running across the field to get there.
  • harrydaisy
    harrydaisy Posts: 131
    If you class the unplugged MTV session's then Nirvana unplugged has got to be up there. Also in that genre Skin and Bones by Foo Fighters s cool. Otherwise I have a great incubus live recording but it's a bootleg so not released.
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  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    edited October 2012
    The Fall - Austurbaejarbio and Totale's Turns is fun too.
    Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner

    Most of my favourite live stuff are unofficial recordings.

    Edit to add:
    Captain Beefheart - Live at My Father's Place 1978
    Neil Young - Live Rust
    Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy on the French Riviera
    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Live
    Sonic Youth - Hold That Tiger
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  • DevonClimber
    DevonClimber Posts: 90
    Rainbow - Final Vinyl
    Maiden - Live After Death
    Runrig - Once In A Lifetime :oops:
    Nirvana - Unplugged
    Dire Straits - Alchemy Live :oops:
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Anyone who raves about the Ramones never saw them live!

    The most stoned-up, out-of-tune act I ever saw - they couldn't even play a single chord in tune!
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  • xscreamsuk
    xscreamsuk Posts: 318
    Rank, The Smiths
    Live at Earls Court, Morrissey
    Smell of Female, The Cramps
  • stevewj
    stevewj Posts: 227
    Roger Waters - In the Flesh
    Loudon Wainwright III - The BBC Sessions
    Roy Harper - BBC Tapes Vol VI
    Dave Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
    Led Zepellin - BBC Sessions
    King Crimson - Cirkus
    Rammstein - Volkerball
    Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
    Matching Mole - Smoke Signals
  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    Mr Goo wrote:
    These are my list of best Live Albums. All rock bands for me. Cannot limit mine to 5 and they are in no particular order. There are many more, but I have never owned or listened to them. I note that James Brown comes out top in many all time lists. Anyone got this and how good is it?

    1. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
    2. UFO - Strangers in the Night
    3. Rammstein - Volkerball
    4. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
    5. Queen - Queen of Fire (live at MK Bowl...I was there, awesome gig)
    6. Queen - Live Killers
    6. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More for the Road
    7. AC/DC - If You Want Blood
    Agree with most of these but Judas Priest unleashed in the east should be there. Although the priest UFO and lizzy were heavily overdubbed in the studio
  • Kendal Black Drop
    Kendal Black Drop Posts: 638
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

    Nothing else comes close!!

    Another vote for Stop Making Sense.

    Green On Red: Live at the Town And Country Club

    Also loads of Grateful Dead albums from the Dick's Picks series, in particular -
    Dick's Picks Vol.8 (Harpur College, May 2nd 1970)
    Dick's Picks Vol.2 (Columbus Ohio, Oct 31st 1971)
    Dick's Picks Vol.6 (Hartford Civic Centre, Oct 14th 1983)

    Johnny Cash at San Quentin
    Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

    Velvet Underground Live 1969 (Vol 1&2)

    Swiss Movement - Les McCann and Eddie Harris

    Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk

    Mingus at Antibes - Charles Mingus
  • kentphil
    kentphil Posts: 479
    Pink Floyd the Wall live is awesome.
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  • Kendal Black Drop
    Kendal Black Drop Posts: 638
    Forgot to mention -

    Live at Leeds - The Who

    (Recorded on the day my parents got married - Feb 14th 1970)
  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    Ooohh, forgot....

    VU live at Max's Kansas City.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Mogwai- Special Moves although their BBC sessions album Government Commissions has better versions of a couple of tracks
    Wilco- Kicking Television (especially the stuff off A Ghost is Born)
    Muddy Waters- Can't remember the title but it's the band off Hard Again with Bob Margolin, Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith etc.
    Richard Thompson- Live in Texas
    Rocket From The Crypt- RIP (The DVD is far superior to the CD)
    Bob Dylan- Hard Rain
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