Best Live Albums - What are yours?

Tom Butcher

Off the top of my head the three I've probably enjoyed most over the years
The Who - Live at Leeds (worth it just for Mose Allison's Young Man Blues)
Georgie Fame - Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo
Alan Bown Set / Jimmy James and the Vagabonds - London Swings live at the Marquee (never liked the Alan Bown set's studio stuff but live great energy - Jimmy James is pretty good on the flip side too)

Pross

Live After Death - Maiden for me too.

Tom Butcher

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?

Live at the Apollo ? I like James Brown and I've got that album somewhere but it's not one I play much - I prefer his slightly later more funky stuff and studio stuff over live.

A soul artist I prefer live to studio is Otis Redding - I've got one of his live albums which is great - he's also good on the live Ready Steady Go special and best at Monterrey - would love that one on LP.

BigJimmyB

Babylon By Bus - Bob Marley and The Wailers

machman

The Stranglers Live certificate X

Magazine Play

raymondo60

A couple of my faves;

Dr Feelgood - "Stupidity" - Lee Brilleaux and Wilko Johnson at their drunken, rebellious best. You can cut the tension with a knife.

Joe Jackson - "Big World". Interesting in that, while it is genuinely 'live', it was stage-managed so that the audience remained silent until after the songs were complete. While that sounds clinical and cold, its is actually a fabulous example of a really talented songwriter backed by excellent musicians.

Caller

Roger Waters - In The Flesh

Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971

noiseboyfeetman

Orbital - Live at Glastonbury 1994 - 2004

Jeff Mills - Blue Potential

Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum

Metallica - S & M

Coldcut - Live at The Big Chill 2006

cooldad

Various already mentioned - the rock ones anyway. Plus Seconds Out - Genesis.

cooldad

Oh and Gary Moore Blues Alive (or pretty much anything else he's done live).

wiffachip

Monty Dog wrote:

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!

I do and I did, lots of times

wiffachip

dmclite-3.0 wrote:

Ooohh, forgot....

VU live at Max's Kansas City.

isn't it just flippin great, the second side is simply beautiful

AlBundy99

Monty Dog wrote:

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!

I saw them several times, they were fantastic. Really tight, fast and loud.

alihisgreat

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

ilm_zero7

Thomas Dolby - The Sole Inhabitant - truly excellent, songs you know, but completely new versions

Calpol

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

+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

I think those would be on mine also. Live at Leeds is a brilliant album.

Queen - Live Killers
Deep Purple - Live in London (Mk 3 line up)
Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs
Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Show
Led Zeppelin - How the west was Won or the Song Remains the Same
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts - Somewhere in England
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

jonomc4

Exit Stage Left - Rush

thegreatdivide

A couple already mentioned but fuxk it - they're superb:

The Cramps - Smell of Female
Depeche Mode - 101
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

flipp

Marillion- The thieving magpie
Marillion - Marbles live
Gary Moore - blues alive (wish they would release "Blues for Greeny live") in any form the man was amazing
all above mentioned made better due to seeing the related concerts

Snakbar

thegreatdivide wrote:

A couple already mentioned but fuxk it - they're superb:


The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

Is that the album with a really long version of little fluffy clouds that bangs on about a fella with a morphine drip in his stomach?

Actually, thinking about it, that might be Orb Live Evil Bro..

Snakbar

flipp wrote:

Gary Moore - blues alive (wish they would release "Blues for Greeny live") in any form the man was amazing
all above mentioned made better due to seeing the related concerts

Have you not heard what he did to Peter Green's Guitar?

thegreatdivide

Snakbar wrote:

thegreatdivide wrote:

A couple already mentioned but fuxk it - they're superb:


The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

Is that the album with a really long version of little fluffy clouds that bangs on about a fella with a morphine drip in his stomach?

Actually, thinking about it, that might be Orb Live Evil Bro..

It was free CD that came with the video of the same name and a free record that came with some copies of 'U.F.Orb'. It's excellent.

Snakbar

thegreatdivide wrote:

Snakbar wrote:

thegreatdivide wrote:

A couple already mentioned but fuxk it - they're superb:


The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

Is that the album with a really long version of little fluffy clouds that bangs on about a fella with a morphine drip in his stomach?

Actually, thinking about it, that might be Orb Live Evil Bro..

It was free CD that came with the video of the same name and a free record that came with some copies of 'U.F.Orb'. It's excellent.

Just had a quick skim through my CDs. The one I was thinking of is Live Orb '93. I probably haven't listened to it in 15 years so it will be on tomorrows play-list.

flipp

Snakbar wrote:

flipp wrote:

Gary Moore - blues alive (wish they would release "Blues for Greeny live") in any form the man was amazing
all above mentioned made better due to seeing the related concerts

Have you not heard what he did to Peter Green's Guitar?

no what did i miss?????

richk

Caught in the act - The Steve Gibbons Band

Snakbar

flipp wrote:

Snakbar wrote:

flipp wrote:

Gary Moore - blues alive (wish they would release "Blues for Greeny live") in any form the man was amazing
all above mentioned made better due to seeing the related concerts

Have you not heard what he did to Peter Green's Guitar?

no what did i miss?????

Peter Green gave it to him under the understanding that he keep it and play it and not sell it to make a quick penny. Bear in mind that this guitar is a 1950s Gibson Les Paul. 1950s Les Pauls are considered to be the best guitars money can buy and Greens guitar is said to be the best example of all the Les Pauls. So what does Gary Moore do? He flogs it on the quite to a rich American. Unfortunately for Moore the rich yank goes and puts a video up on youtube of him playing his new axe and Gary Moore ends up looking a bit silly and very greedy.

Snakbar

Journey through the past - Neil Young
Bertrand Burgalat meets A.S Dragon

Hanners

Nivana unplugged fav live album
The radio one live lounge 1 is pretty good

Cleat Eastwood

The Fall totales turns

Magazine Play

Wedding Present Live 1989 (cd 2)

Horowitz in Moscow - famous hanky flouncer Vladimir Horowitz.

dynamicbrick

Sixth vote for Iron Maiden - Live After Death.
Stone Roses - Blackpool '89 (although you'll need to put up with Ian Brown butchering the whole set to hear the seminal 13 minute I Am The Resurrection)

Not an album as such, but this is what all live performances should be like;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmMoE2ZVvs
Must get round to seeing both of them before they expire.