Best Live Albums - What are yours?

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  • thebigredone
    thebigredone Posts: 23
    Quo - Live
  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    jonomc4 wrote:
    Exit Stage Left - Rush

    never could work out why rush always had a picture of a bloke's bare arse on every album cover.

    so much so they should have renamed the albums

    A Farewell to Arses
    Caress of Arse
    All the world's an Arse

    etc
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Ten Years After - Undead: Live at Klook's Kleek
  • dee4life2005
    dee4life2005 Posts: 773
    David Gilmour - Remember that night, recorded at Royal Albert Hall, is definitely my "best" live album. The accompanying DVD is awesome!
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  • jefflad
    jefflad Posts: 315
    Paul Weller - Live Wood
    The Jam - Live at the Rainbow
    Depeche Mode - 101
    Simple Minds - Live in the City of Light
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Horowitz in Moscow - famous hanky flouncer Vladimir Horowitz.

    My live piano album would be Martha Argerich/Riccardo Chailly - Rachmanoninov 3. Though you can't exactly go wrong with Horowitz doing this one, too.

    +1 for VU 1969, the Johnny Cash prison albums and Nirvana Unplugged.

    'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl', despite being nailed together from two separate shows with only fair sound, is an old favourite for its atmosphere. Strange this never made it to CD, if only to add to (the other) Apple's mountain of cash.

    Obscure - Kristin Hersh 'Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken'. Her first solo album, given away as a bonus disc with early copies of Throwing Muses' 'Red Heaven'. Starkly beautiful, intense acoustic versions of Muses songs, ending with the definitive 'Delicate Cutters'.
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    jefflad wrote:
    Paul Weller - Live Wood
    The Jam - Live at the Rainbow
    Depeche Mode - 101
    Simple Minds - Live in the City of Light

    +1 for Simple Minds and Depeche Mode.

    Simple Minds album is unreal and I just unearthed it again after about 10 years. Made buy a ticket for their greatest hits tour next year.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Some have been mentioned before, but I'll go for, in no particular order...

    Dire Straits ~ Alchemy
    Talking Heads ~ Stop Making Sense
    INXS ~ Live Baby Live
    Depeche Mode ~ 101
    John Mayer ~ Where the Light Is
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    cooldad wrote:
    Oh and Gary Moore Blues Alive (or pretty much anything else he's done live).
    Thanks for that. Picked it up at the weekend.
    If you like that, chances are you would enjoy Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King - In Session.

    I have found out that I have more "live" than I thought.

    Eric Clapton - Unplugged. Pure class.
    Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - Sinatra at the Sands. Exactly what you'd expect.
    INXS -Live Baby Live. Exactly what you'd expect.
    James Brown - Sex Machine (Live). Exactly what you'd expect, a showman and a supremely tight band.
    Mariah Carey - Unplugged. :oops: Eh, well recorded? :oops:
    Nirvana - Unplugged. Excellent but maybe not if you are looking for grunge.
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Live in Hyde Park. Just what you would expect but rubbish recording.
    Simple Minds - Live in the City of Light. Better than you'd expect and nice to hear a band rearranging their songs for the live show.
    Sting - Bring on the Night. Sting does jazz versions of his songs. You are either going to love it or loathe it.
    Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Brilliant but doesn't really have a live feel to it.
    Vatersay Boys - The Sound of Vatersay. Studio recording but more of a live feel than most live recordings.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    daviesee wrote:
    Sting - Bring on the Night. Sting does jazz versions of his songs. You are either going to love it or loathe it.

    The double whammy, Sting and Jazz? Put me in the loathe it camp. :)
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    Iron Maiden - Live After Death - Easily the most definitive way to do a live album
    NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live - Captures the NOFX show atmosphere really well
    Nirvana - Unplugged.
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  • TheEnglishman
    TheEnglishman Posts: 587
    Sadly so many of the 70's and 80's 'live' albums were heavily overdubbed in the studio afterwards. That's not to say they're not great, it's just they're not quite 'live' as in what the audience heard at the time.

    But then tons of the 50's and early 60's stuff is almost 'live' - they just took the best take. Elvis - Hound Dog - stunning!
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  • garryc
    garryc Posts: 203
    Four pages and no one's mentioned Framption Comes Alive!
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    garryc wrote:
    Four pages and no one's mentioned Framption Comes Alive!
    I wondered about that too. Maybe everyone agrees that it "isn't all that".
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • garryc
    garryc Posts: 203
    Maybe everyone agrees that it "isn't all that".

    +1 on that.

    I bought it back in the 70s and don't think I ever got past "Show me the way".
    Back then almost everyone had a copy of it.
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Oh meant to add Tears for Fear - Secret World

    Would also say Going to California by them to but it wasn't strictly an album was some form of early incarnation of DVD by Philips.
  • cyclopath
    cyclopath Posts: 71
    Jethro Tull - Bursting Out - Live
    Neil Young - Live Rust

    I can't be the only Tull fan. :?
  • domhnall_dearg
    domhnall_dearg Posts: 401
    Cyclopath wrote:
    Jethro Tull - Bursting Out - Live
    Neil Young - Live Rust

    I can't be the only Tull fan. :?

    You're not. I'm also a bit partial to Barclay James Harvest - Live Tapes. Oh God I'm an aging hippy :oops:
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Another one to my list.

    Joe Bonamassa - Live from the Royal Albert Hall.

    Have listened to the 2 disk set this evening, whilst supping Whitechapel Porter. A great live set and what a fantastic guitarist he is. Only became aware of him by listening to Planet Rock. Going to pick up the Black Country Communion new album next week, they've been playing this on PR.
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  • captain_oakley
    captain_oakley Posts: 222
    Great thread, in no particular order:

    1. Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzie
    2. Nine Tonight - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
    3. Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
    4. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads (superb film by Jon Demme)
    5. Seconds Out - Genesis
    6. Les Miserables (Albert Hall Concert) - everyone should see this play (IMHO)
    7. Ziggy Stardust Gig the Film Soundtrack
    8. Live - Fleetwood Mac
    9. Live - The Police
    10. Bursting Out - Jethro Tull (you are not the only one!)


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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Rocket From The Crypt- RIP (The DVD is far superior to the CD)

    This one. I was scanning through the pages hoping you wouldn't have beaten me to it, DG.

    There's an excellent bootleg Buzzcocks album, I think it's called "Razor Cuts", but seeing as I still have a broken leg I can't be bothered to go upstairs to check.
  • pollys_bott
    pollys_bott Posts: 1,012
    Springsteen - Live 1975-1985 and MTV (Un)-plugged
    Genesis - Live over Europe: Mama, Domino, Carpetcrawlers... sublime... (The 'When in Rome' DVD's on You Tube, a great way to spend 2 1/2hrs)
    Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder

    More votes for Alchemy, 101 & Live in the City of Light...
  • redballoon
    redballoon Posts: 55
    There is only in my opinion: Live at Leeds - The Who
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    redballoon wrote:
    There is only in my opinion: Live at Leeds - The Who
    Well yes, that goes without saying, but may I also offer:-
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,091
    Have we had Live at Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash. So much energy.
  • eede
    eede Posts: 58
    For the Metal heads, Unleashed in the East by Judas Priest has to be in there.
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  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    Isis - Live I-VI
    Green Carnation - A Night Under the Dam
    Red Sparowes - Oh Lord, God of Vengeance, Show Yourself!
    Opeth - In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
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