Top 5 Favorite Live Albums

[Roscoe East]

Anthony Braxton - Quartet (London) 1985
Yes - Yessongs
King Crimson - USA (although The Great Deceiver is probably a better album, I'm just not nearly as familiar with it as I am with USA)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
The Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya-Ya's Out
Tim Berne - Lowlife
Frank Zappa/Mothers - Fillmore East - June 1971


edit: Oh, crap, I'm only supposed to list five? Er, okay...delete the Berne & Mahavishnu.

[Tituscrow]

Clutch, Live in Flint
Clutch, Live at the 9.30
Clutch, Full Fathom Five
Clutch, Heard It All Before
Clutch, Live At The Corner Hotel

I suppose I'd have Kiss 'Alive!' and Rush 'Exit Stage Left' bubbling under...

[ack]

Originally Posted by Tituscrow

Clutch, Live in Flint
Clutch, Live at the 9.30
Clutch, Full Fathom Five
Clutch, Heard It All Before
Clutch, Live At The Corner Hotel

You sir, have great taste...and have won.

[Marial]

The Who ~ Live at Leeds
Miles Davis ~ Evil Live/ Live Evil
Talking Heads ~ Stop Making Sense
John Zorn's Masada ~ any of their live albums
Muddy Waters ~ Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live

Special mention to Double Trouble Live

[FlemptonBass]

In order of favorite - least favorite

#1 Between the Buried and Me - Colors Live
#2 PanterA - Live: 101 Proof
#3 Protest The Hero - Gallop Meets the Earth
#4 August Burns Red - Home
#5 Meshuggah - Alive

[dougjwray]

Allman Brothers at Fillmore East
Band of Gypsys (Jimi Hendrix)
Live Cream (the first one)
Live at the Regal (B.B. King)
Live at the Hollywood Bowl (The Beatles)

[iamthebassman]

Originally Posted by virgindog

A great but rarely mentioned live album is Elton John's 11-17-70, recorded in New York on that date. It's just him, drummer Nigel Olson and the late Dee Murray on bass, and it freakin' rocks. Murray is magnificent from start to finish.

First one that came to my mind. And if you like 11/17/70, you NEED the complete broadcast.
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[Kink Rimson]

Live at Leeds
Slade Alive!
Slade on Stage

And that's it.

[Curmei]

Live After Death - Iron Maiden
At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
Live at The Kitchen - Swans
Swans are Dead (Live) - Swans
Jazz at The Philharmonic - Billy Holiday

If Reverend Horton Heat ever puts out an official live album, that is likely to move to the top, or close to it

[bearhart74]

Jazz excluded...
Aretha at the Fillmore
Almans at the Fillmore
Nugent - Double Live Gonzo (pure fun)
Think Lizzy - Live Life
Heads - Stop Making Sense

[AlvarHanso]

The Who-Live at Leeds
The Allman Brothers Band-The Fillmore Concerts (wish they'd put out a box set featuring all 6 shows, including the horns on Liz Reed and Stormy Monday!)
Pink Floyd-Live at Pompeii
The Grateful Dead-Europe '72 Complete Box Set
The String Cheese Incident-A String Cheese Incident (Carnival '99 is better playing, but for sentimental reasons ASCI)
Phish-A Live One (again, Slip Stitch & Pass is better playing...)
The Ramones-Loco Live

[rashrader]

Dave Holland Quintet: Extended Play, Live at Birdland
Rush: All the World's a Stage
Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live
Eivind Aarset and the Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts
E.S.T.: Live in Hamburg

Those are in no order... There is a long list of honorable mentions.

[basszillla]

in no particular order:
Urgh - a music war
Bauhaus : press the eject & give me the tape
Michael W. Smith : the big picture tour live
An Evening with Windham Hill Live (1984)
UB:40 : Live

[klyph]

Zawinul Syndicate World Tour 1997
Eddie Gomez & Jeremy Steig Outlaws
Kinks 12" or longer (bootleg)
James Brown Love Peace Power
The board tape a friend gave me of Marvin Gaye's last show- recorded by Motown but unreleased (which I stupidly lost-been trying to find that *#&^@$ cassette for ages!)
Getz/Gilberto II

[sammyp]

Exit Stage Left - Rush

Livin' Right Now - Keith Urban ....DVD ...i had to make an audio album on my own from the DVD.

[TN WOODMAN]

Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East-Original one

The Nighthawks-10 Years Live

Frank Zappa and The Mothers-Live At The Roxy and Elsewhere

The Rolling Stones-Get Your Ya Yas Out

Bob Dylan and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band-Newport Folk Festival 1965

[Petethebassman]

The Band - Rock Of Ages
Sublimely beautiful and funky, horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint
Donny Hathaway - Donny Hathaway Live
True classic among live albums, ecstatic and inspired playing, the band is so on on these cuts.
Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
At their absolute prime
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Gorgeous ballads done very beautifully
Johnny Winter And - Live
The most ferocious rock'n roll live album I've ever heard.

[Lazylion]

Lotta good ones listed here! Mine:

1. Humble Pie - Rockin' The Fillmore
2. Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
3. Jefferson Airplane - Bless It's Pointed Little Head
4. Neville Brothers - Live On Planet Earth
5. Grateful Dead - Europe '72 and Live/Dead, gotta have 'em both!

Honorable mention: Peter Tosh - Complete Captured Live with his killer versions of Johnny B. Goode and Get Up Stand Up!
Flecktones - Live Art
Any number of live Frank Zappa efforts
Woodstock & Woodstock 2
Hendrix, Santana, James Gang, Allmans, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Yes, on and on...
And yes, Elton John's 11/17/70 is great, one of the first live albums I ever heard!

[gkbass13]

Talking heads-stop making sense
Portishead-live at the roseland ballroom
Jimi and the band of gypsies- live at the Fillmore east
Wilco- kicking television
The roots-come alive

[foq1978]

I don't know why, but only recently I have acquired the taste for live albums.

I don't even have 5 favourites:

Tom Waits - Big Time
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Abattoir Blues Tour

I accept suggestions on other 3 live albums that could follow those in my list...