favorite live albums

[Zooberwerx]

Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live.

Riis

 

[sequel91]

A few that haven't been mentioned:

- Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends...Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson Lake, and Palmer
- Sting - Bring on the Night
- Clapton - Unplugged
- Steps Ahead - Smokin' in the Pit
- Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Live at the Quick

 

[fishdreams]

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live

 

[Gorn]

Jethro Tull - A Little Light Music

The best versions of songs from concerts around the world.

For the last 20 years, Ian Anderson's voice has kinda sucked, but the music is outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgqhWVrTmn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic-09LC2Ao4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kJsB-GdhUM

 

[Lee Moses]

I have one complaint. I thought we were talking live albums, so why are there so many mentions of Kiss' Alive???

Maybe because it's a live album?

 

[Milk]

Depeche Mode- 101

I was trying to think of the live records I even owned and couldn't come up with more than three one of which I wouldn't put in this list anyway. But somehow I'd criminally forgot this one.... great record. It's only weakness is not having been recorded on the violator tour instead.

 

[N.F.A.]

Loggins and Messina - On Stage (Great versions of Angry Eyes and others.)
Bongo Fury - Zappa (Well Muffin Man is live and it shreds!
Uriah Heep
Just trying to add some not already listed. I love most live albums I've ever run across. Who, Grand Funk, Grateful Dead, , etc.

 

[rtav]

Paul McCartney and Wings - Wings Over America
Rush - Different Stages
Kansas - Two for the Show
Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (DVD)
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan

 

[karl_em_all]

UFO - Strangers in the Night

+++1

That album is amazing. Songs are great and it sounds great. What really makes it standout especially for me is that the guitar tracks were not retracked at all in the studio. Truly face melting, jaw dropping, mind blowing guitar work.
Michael Schenker.

 

[Beatlejuice53]

Yessongs-Yes
Live at the Filmore-Allman Bros.
Pulse-Foyd
Live at the Forum-Three Dog Night
Reunion Concerts-Cream

 

[marko138]

6 pages and not one mention of Pantera's 101 Proof? FOR SHAME.

 

[Roscoe East]

I actually don't like live albums -- I tend to prefer my music recordings be "iconic" and so I gravitate towards the definitive studio recordings rather than subsequent renditions -- but I can't deny getting hours of pleasure listening to

Fillmore East, June 1971 - The Mothers Of Invention
Yessongs - Yes
The Night Watch and USA - King Crimson
Low Life - Tim Berne's Bloodcount
Get Your Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
Smokin' At The Half Note - Wes Montgomery

 

[billgoodwin]

+++1

That album is amazing. Songs are great and it sounds great. What really makes it standout especially for me is that the guitar tracks were not retracked at all in the studio. Truly face melting, jaw dropping, mind blowing guitar work.
Michael Schenker.

++++1

 

[tangentmusic]

YESSHOWS

 

[chuck norriss]

I actually don't like live albums -- I tend to prefer my music recordings be "iconic" and so I gravitate towards the definitive studio recordings rather than subsequent renditions -- but I can't deny getting hours of pleasure listening to

Fillmore East, June 1971 - The Mothers Of Invention
Yessongs - Yes
The Night Watch and USA - King Crimson
Low Life - Tim Berne's Bloodcount
Get Your Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
Smokin' At The Half Note - Wes Montgomery

I know what you mean &I usually agree but I appreciate a good live album too.

Esperanza Spalding's first album was recorded in studio but it sounds live to me.

 

[chuck norriss]

6 pages and not one mention of Pantera's 101 Proof? FOR SHAME.

ha at least the op has metal in it.

 

[chuck norriss]

I was trying to think of the live records I even owned and couldn't come up with more than three one of which I wouldn't put in this list anyway. But somehow I'd criminally forgot this one.... great record. It's only weakness is not having been recorded on the violator tour instead.

Waiting for the night is a good soong

 

[Pokerdweebz]

Alchemy Live - Dire Straits
Stand in the Fire - Warren Zevon

 

[dmac1961]

Forgot to mention - if you get 11/17/70, don't get the remix. Although they added a few songs, they screwed up the mix, as they did a Spector echo-fest. The original is much better.

+1. Although on a positive note, the bass is more forward in the mix than the original release.

Also +1 to Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus.

 

[Michedelic]

Maybe because it's a live album?

In name only; hate to burst your bubble, but it's no secret that the album received extensive(and I do mean extensive)studio doctoring/parts re-recording. Moving along...
Plenty of the rock stuff is covered(you just can't beat "Live At Leeds"---the hard panning made it the perfect instructional tool!). My nominations would be Jimmy Smith's "Root Down" with wicked bass lines and solos from Wilton Felder, and James Brown's "Live At The Apollo".