Favorite Live Albums

[jerryskid]

I figured I'd post this here since live is what it's all about..Do you have a favorite live album? A lot of live albums are not very good,
I.E. Aerrosimth's "Live Bootleg" but some are just smokin.......here is a few of mine:

"Europe '72"- Grateful Dead
"Kiss Alive"- Kiss (yeah I know some parts are rerecorded)
"Live at Budokan"- Cheap Trick
"Journey to the Centre of the Earth"- Rick Wakeman

All of these have excellant sound quality for live recordings with hardly any studio overdubs....(except maybe the Kiss)


I reccomend all of these for your collection......

[Mixerpuppet]

Tribute - Randy Rhoades and ozzy

Kiss Alive II - KISS

Alive in a Ultra World - Steve Vai

Live Extreme Volume - Racer-X

[peter]

I have to disagree, there are Tons of real good Live Albums out there. I consider DVD also as album. Here a list without particular order:

Toto - Absolutely Live

Pink Floyd - Pulse

ELP - Welcome Back My Friends

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Lyve from Steel Town

Eric Clapton - Live in Hyde Park

Robbie Williams - Live at the Albert

Leningrad Cowboys - Total Balalaika Show

Cream - Royal Albert Hall

Alice Cooper - Brutally Live

Peter Fremptom - Live in Detroid

[pounce]

i'm also fond of jonatha brooke - live

frankly, i like it better than her studio albums. she is even better live, the vibe is excellent.

[floodstage]

Little Feat - Waiting for Colombus

Genesis - Seconds Out

[E. Shaun]

Genesis Live (The first one)
Exit, Stage Left - Rush
Exposed - Mike Oldfield
Live Seeds - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (bought last month...thanks Tammikuu)

[floodstage]

Genesis Live (The first one)



Not recorded well, but it still rocks!

[eagan]

Well, I will also stretch things and consider live DVD stuff as part of the category.

With that in mind, I nominate "Yes Symphonic Live".

I've always loved those guys, and got this as my first DVD purchase. I found it was a fine pick for the first thing I ever bought on DVD. Besides really liking the music and that show, the more I watched and listened to it, the more I started thinking that it's one of the best live recordings I've ever heard.


JLE

[E. Shaun]

Not recorded well, but it still rocks!

I like the version of "The Knife" on this live album FAR better than the original. Indeed, this version stands as one of my favorite prog tunes ever, despite the occasional keyboard slip-up.

Also, I forgot to add the live album of Ummagumma to my last post. That's a great live album. I'd also list certain King Crimson albums, but I'm not sure if they're considered "live" given that there's no crowd noise...

[gbacklin]

Zappa - Just Another Band from L.A.

Take Care,
Gene

[jerryskid]

A couple I forgot:

Genesis- "Three Sides Live" -my introduction to Genesis..I went back and bought everything after this one....

Rush- any live album they've done. This band cooks...I reccomend the DVD "Rush In Rio"

[slabrock]

"Kiss Alive"- Kiss (yeah I know some parts are rerecorded)

More like every part...
:-D

I've always appreciated if a band has a no-nonsense approach to playing live, so my favourites are:

-Ramones - It's Alive (basses rerecorded, probably some vocals too)
-Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
-MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (terrible sounding, but what an energy)
-Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
-Doors - Absolutely Live (probably partly rerecorded, sounds far too good for its age)
-Slade - Alive I & II
-Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live

[bunnerabb]

Humble Pie - Rockin' The Fillmore.

This is, for my money, the best live rock album ever made.

Amazing clarity and sense of the room, the band is ripping the fucking paint off the walls, every song is a definitive version... energy, impeccable recording techniques and you can actually tell what the room sounded like.

If this album doesn't but a smile on your face, you might not dig rock and roll, y'all.

Wait..almost fergot..

Play this REALLY FUCKING LOUD.

[Swafford]

Live records are my favorite, here are a sample of the ones I listen to over and over and over.
Allman Brothers - Filmore East
David Bromberg - How Late'll Ya Play Till?
The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars - Alive and In Person
Talking Heads - The Name of this Band Is The Talking Heads
Tim Buckley - Live In London
John Coltrane - Live At Birdland
Vassar Clements/Tony Rise - With the Low Country All-Stars
Phil Ochs - In Concert
Charles Mingus - Live At The Boheme

[ggunn]

I second the Humble Pie, Allman Bros., and Bromberg albums, 'specially the Humble Pie one. Back in the day, I saw them in person do pretty much the same show as is on that album, and that, gentlemen and ladies, was one hell of a band.

I'd add the Grateful Dead's "Without a Net" and the live disk of Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma" to the list.

[Fulcrum]

ELP - Welcome Back My Friends...
Genesis - Live
Genesis - Seconds Out
King Crimson - USA
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
Rush - All The World's A Stage
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Rush - In Rio
Pat Metheny Group - Travels
Pat Metheny Group - The Road To You
Bruce Hornsby - Here Come The Noisemakers
The Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Weather Report - 8:30
Joe Jackson - Summer In The City
Miles Davis & Quincy Jones - Live At Montreux

to begin with.

[omikl]

UFO : Strangers In The Night.
Be+Bop Deluxe : Live! - In The Air Age.
Thin Lizzy : Live and Dangerous. (Yes. I realise it's overdubbed to fuck, and there's an edit in Scott Gohram's solo during "Still In Love With You" that's "Aaaaagh! What drugs were you on to leave it like that!???")
BB King : Live at Cook County Jail.

My, aren't I dating myself ;)

[AxeSlash]

Dire Straits - Alchemy has gotta be my fave live album of all time. They just left all the crap out and went to town on their best stuff at the time.

"On The Night" ain't too bad either, the version of Calling Elvis on that is great (just because I love that guitar fill that they do about ten times live and only once on the studio version!)

Dave Matthews also does some incredible live stuff, seen some footage of one of their shows that was pretty damned awesome. Carter Beauford (sp?) is god.

If you like your death metal, anything by Vader or Cannibal Corpse is gonna be spotless live. Vader are in fact tighter live than in the studio in my opinion. Testament's Live In London DVD they did recently is a complete turnaround for them as well - they normally suck live, but that particular DVD kicks ass in many ways.

I've got an Mp3 here of Donald Fagen doing Pretzel Logic with Michael McDonald as well, which rules, but I ain't got a clue which album it's off.

[Fulcrum]

Jay-zus. Of course. Be-Bop Deluxe (thx OMIKL) and Dave Matthews (ta AxeSlash). Stone forgot about those guys-- Live At Red Rocks especially.

Axe, could that MP3 of yours be off the New York Rock'n'Soul Revue?

Also gonna give props for Squeeze - A Round And A Bout and Jethro Tull - Bursting Out.

[Tim Armstrong]

The Greatest Live Album Of All Time:

The Who - Live at Leeds.

I also really dig The Guess Who - Live at the Paramount (first LP I ever bought!), The Flying Burrito Brothers - Last of the Red Hot Burritos, Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus, Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun - Hot Rod Lincoln Live!

Cheers, Tim

[AxeSlash]

Fulcrum: I think it is...is that the name of the album/gig then?

[bunnerabb]

The Who - Live at Leeds.

Definitely in the top two.

[Fulcrum]

Fulcrum: I think it is...is that the name of the album/gig then?

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:acu1z83ajyvj

The rest of you lot are going to drive me crazy if you don't stop remininding me of more outstanding live albums like Live At Leeds. cough, cough, tarm, cough, bunner, cough

[tammikuu]

Live + Cuddly - NoMeansNo

[freepatriot]

Allman Brothers - Filmore East

I can't believe I had to get halfway through the page to see that finally listed. What a great live album.

[con mucho gusto]

James Brown...really anything, but live at the apollo comes to mind
donny hathaway live
miles davis...live evil
zappa...roxy and elsewhere
david bowie...david live
led zep...how the west was won
p funk earth tour
bill frisell trio live

i'm sure there are more on my list

[maccool]

Well Tarmadilo beat me to it with The Last of the Red Hot Burritos and Waiting for Columbus, so I give you Ry Cooder's Showtime and Friday Night In San Francisco with Messrs. Di Meola, McLaughlin, & de Lucia.

[ggunn]

James Brown...really anything, but live at the apollo comes to mind
donny hathaway live
miles davis...live evil
zappa...roxy and elsewhere
david bowie...david live
led zep...how the west was won
p funk earth tour
bill frisell trio live

i'm sure there are more on my list

You've jogged my memory... Uncle Frank had some other great live shots - the "You Can't Do That On Stage Any More" series, and "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" which was, according to the liner notes, supposed to have been a series as well, but I've only been able to find one installment.

And, of course, the Grateful Dead "Dick's Picks" recordings (some of them, anyway).

[jerryskid]

And, of course, the Grateful Dead "Dick's Picks" recordings (some of them, anyway).



The "Dick's Picks" seem to be alot like the Star Trek movies. The even ones (2..4...6...12...14...20) seem to be the best ones....:Roll eyes:

[omikl]

FZ : The Best Band You Never Heard In You Life
FZ : YCDTOSA Vol whatver. They are all essential.
UFO : Strangers In The Night.

[CloseToTheEdge]

Sound quality:
Yes - Keys to Ascension

Performance:
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East

My $.02

[ajcamlet]

I really dont think you can count Kiss Alive. I'd like to spark a debate here, I think the only tracks that were actually *not* re-recorded were the drums. Even the Crowd is from a football game....

I always liked "if you want blood" ac/dc. like '77 or 78 i think.

[omikl]

"If You Want Blood" oh boy. That brings back memories.

I just played a loud half-cut version of "The Jack" in memoria ;)

[Shiko2000]

porcupine tree - Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome

Janes Addiction - Janes Addiction

The Doors - In Concert

Reel Big Fish - Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album

[jerryskid]

Jethro Tull - Bursting Out.


Oh yeah I forgot that one...lots of fattys smoked in the car to that album.

[jacvenza]

I no particular order:
Steely Dan - Alive in America
Toto - Livefields
Kenny Loggins - Outside: From the Redwoods
Spyro Gyra - Access all Areas
Rush - Exit...Stage Left

[burak]

Eagles Live (the first one)

[Crowass]

Zappa - Just Another Band from L.A.

Take Care,
Gene

LMAO! Daughter of the smog filled winds of Los Angeleez........:lol:

[Calvin]

Lots of great stuff here. Fulcrum's list is real close to what I would have posted. I also need to add John McLaughlin - The Heart of Things, Live in Paris.

Calvin

[The Egg]

One of my favorites is a recent one...Lucinda Williams Live at the Filmore...Great songwriter, great performances, great recording...

Love live at leeds too

[Watershed]

Richard Clapton - Best Years Of Our Lives.

[Mr. dB]

"Live At Leeds"
"Rockin' The Fillmore"

Nothing else comes close. Nothing else matters.

[ericswan]

More votes for Live at Leeds and Rockin the Fillmore but I am also a huge fan of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live! Those guys never got their due in the States but the band is ferocious on this record.

[Johnny]

So much of FZ's stuff is a hybrid (which he was totally upfront about, which is why it's so cool). But anything remotely live is awesome.

Ditto the UFO record.

NIN's And All That Could Have Been. I like it better than the new one, but I need more listens/views.

Porcupine Tree's new live DVD is the business.



Okay, and Journey's Captured. I don't care what anybody says, I loved it.

[MGMc]

Well except for a very large stack of PHISH cds most of my favorites have been listed except for 'The Last Waltz' by The Band. I recently got Warren Zevons 'Stand in the Fire' and it's very good but I'm not sure if it's going on the all times list yet.

Oh yeah! 'Kicking Television' by Wilco. Good God! I've loved Wilco for a long time but I had no idea they could bring in like that live! I've seen them since and it was no fluke. I would highly recomend that one to all of you that like Wilco, and even as an introduction to anyone not familiar with them.

[shlampe]

One of my favorites of recent is moe. warts and all volume 1 (winter stout). It's great album and with "warts and all" being the title, you can get the fact that there are moments of brilliance and a clunker here or there.

My favorite of all time is probably billy joel songs in the attic, mostly 'cause it was the first live album that I ever got (aside from a bunch of classical/choral stuff) and some of the stuff that's on there was a huge influence.

Waiting for columbus, man, that's just about fucking perfect.

James McMurtry and the heartless bastards - live in aught three. Fucking great album (and one of my favorite songwriters in the world)

CSNY 4 way street, Dylan Before the flood, Live at leeds, And although I don't know if it ever made it into dicks picks or not, the dead from may 8, 1977 (30 year anniversary of one of the best concerts ever was just 2 days ago)

[moaus]

slade alive - 1+2
AC/DC - if you want blood (you got it)
thin lizzy - live n dangerous - yes its overdubbed - however sounds better than thin lizzy on record
zep - how the west was won - kevin shirley did a fucking amazing job there
deep purple - made in japan
cheap trick - at budokan

[amopae]

Almost all of my favorite live albums have been listed by someone here:

- Pink Floyd: PULSE
- King Crimson: Eyes Wide Open (the DVD)
- Thin Lizzy: Live n Dangerous (I'll have to agree about the overdubbing thing, but it still is a GREAT album)
- Deep Purple: Made in Japan (how come this one has been mentioned only twice?)
- Led Zeppelin: How the West was Won
- Porcupine Tree: Arriving Somewhere (this is one helluva show by one helluva band, i'm telling you)
- Iron Maiden: Rock in Rio (the energy on this one really gets me going)
- Brian Wilson: Smile (this DVD is really something beautiful to watch, specially the chick doing backing vocals :wink:)
- Peter Gabriel: Secret World and Growing Up (a masterclass about staging a show, both of them)
- David Gilmour: Live at Royal Albert Hall (his newest dvd, if you haven't seen this, you HAVE to)

[pounce]

i regularly listen to the jonatha brooke live cd. it's great. she is on the list of folks who are arguably better live than in the studio.

[G cubed]

Alright...Gotta jump in here. ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition. Nothing like a little Blues Variation to get the flames stoked.
G3

1st post
....go easy on me
...don't make it hurt
...as I relinquish my virginity. :icon_eek:

[moaus]

completely forgot to add

rolling stones - get yer yayas out

[bobzilla77]

Thelonious Monk Quartet w/John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall

Incredible to think this was recorded for broadcast by Voice of America, on the fly, and then dropped in a box and forgotten for near 50 years. The sound quality is magnificent, and the performances are just stunning. That it's the only live recording of any quality of these two playing together just adds to the package. This is quite possibly the greatest album I own.

And ain't Live At Leeds great? That was definitely a band with different personalities for stage and studio, and that captures them at their most unchained.

I always dug Neil Young's live recordings too - Rust Never Sleeps, Time Fades Away, Weld - and the recent archive releases have been just amazing. The original Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten, rocking the hell out of the Fillmore East in 1970, is pure pleasure.

[jdub]

Little Feat Waiting for Columbus
Allmans Fillmore
Derek Trucks Live at the Georgia Theatre
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
Crosby Stills and Nash at woodstock