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I was listening to a live album the other day and started idly compiling a top 10. Most of the time I'll take the studio album over a live version any day, but sometimes you'll get a different version of a song, or some audience participation that really lifts it. Anyone got any particular faves? I'll kick off with: Runrig - Once In A Lifetime Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous Iron Maiden - Live After Death Nirvana - Unplugged Rush - I like 'em all, but I'll go for Clockwork Angels Live because of the setlist Crowded House - Farewell To The World Japan - Oil On Canvas Johhny Cash - At Folsom Prison Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert In Central Park |
Greatest Live albums
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boo 13,901 posts
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Rhaegyr 5,499 posts
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Registered 10 years agoSome good choices there, love Stop Making Sense.
I'd add;
Ramones - It's Alive
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
The Who - Live at Leeds
Pavement - Slow Century
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Saul_Iscariot 4,399 posts
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Registered 9 years agoAC/DC's If you want blood is a favourite of mine. Not official releases but I have Nirvana's last concert and the Manic Street Preachers live at Reading Festival, 1992 I think, and they are both cracking albums. -
Alastair 24,828 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI was always a massive fan of Alchemy by Dire Straits. -
LittleSparra 7,926 posts
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Registered 6 years agoEarphoria by the Pumpkins, if only for Silverfuck.
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StrayBezza 1,218 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSaul_Iscariot wrote:
If you want blood - hands down the best live album - drips with power and energy and has some of Angus' best guitar work ever.
AC/DC's If you want blood is a favourite of mine. Not official releases but I have Nirvana's last concert and the Manic Street Preachers live at Reading Festival, 1992 I think, and they are both cracking albums. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoQueen live in Wembly '86 -
DaftFunker 59 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMy favourite is the following:
Alive 1997 - Daft Punk
The potential trend of Daft Punk touring and recording a live album every 10 years seems to be slowly fading away with no confirmation of a tour in 2017. I hold out hope they will.
I also just listened to the new De Staat (great band if you haven't listened yet) live album which is very nice, I may be under the influence of nostalgia after experiencing them live in Manchester recently. -
Both Nirvana & Eric Clapton's MTV Unplugged albums are ace. Love 'em. -
TheReevster 53 posts
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Registered 8 years agoMetallica - S&M -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoQueen - Live Killers (even if only for the fast version of We Will Rock You, which is so much better than the normal version)
Aqualung - Live at St James' Church (proof, even though Matt Hales won't listen to his own evidence, that more production does not equal better)
Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-é/Live a L'Olympia (not 'better' than the studio album, but both magnificent in their own way)
Elvis Costello - Live on Broadway, 1986
Peter Gabriel - Secret World
Green Day - Bullet In A Bible (so much energy)
Slipknot - Disasterpieces/9.0 (after Rick Rubin decided to record the first two albums underwater to create some unbearably badly engineered messes of some great songs, these are for me the definitive versions of everything from SK/Iowa)
Radiohead - The Basement Sessions (Glastonbury 2003 is my favourite live recording of all time, but it was never released officially, so these two incomparable live recordings will have to take honourary top spot)
Simon & Garfunkel - Concert in Central Park (I know it's been mentioned already, but it needs mentioning again)
Taylor Swift - Speak Now World Tour (bizarrely the only tour she's ever released an official live version of, but it's so good)
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You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFake_Blood wrote:
Best in terms of crowd pleasers for sure. Montreal is the best from their earlier days when they were really super energetic live. Just slightly better than Live Killers.
Queen live in Wembly '86 -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoRock in Rio with that crowd has got to be the best Maiden live album -
Duffking 16,964 posts
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Registered 15 years agoJudas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Between the Buried and Me - Colors Live
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boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI've got Daft Punk - Alive and Metallica's S&M. And I think I've got Queen - Live Killers, I need to check.
As for Peter Gabriel's Secret World, I used to really like that, but I worked on shift with a guy who went through a bad breakup and coped by playing that album constantly. Must have played it 5 times a night for about 3 months. We used to hide it, but he'd find it and stick it back on.
I'm less enamoured with it now. Still - that was a long time ago - maybe I'll give it another whirl.
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RichDC 9,177 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMaiden's Rock in Rio is definitely up there. Kreator - Live Kreation is another fave of mine. The set list and production are both perfect. -
AwesomeWells 1,119 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAlastair wrote:
Yep, this one. Also,
I was always a massive fan of Alchemy by Dire Straits.
Metallica, Live Shit (especially the Justice disc)
Pink Floyd, Pulse
Queensryche, Operation Live Crime
And another vote for Maiden's Rock In Rio. -
Lots of good one's in here that I totally agree with.
Marillion - Real to Reel (why? This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THDiD-erX1Y )
U2 - Under a blood red sky (and I don't even much like U2 anymore)
Pink Floyd - Pulse (though actually prefer Live at Pompeii though it's a film so doesn't count)
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boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOh yeah! Forgot about Pulse. Worth it just for Shine On You Crazy Diamond! -
the_milkybar_kid 8,474 posts
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Registered 7 years agoIt's not particularly special but I'm really quite fond of Rage Against The Machine's Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium -
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Arc/Weld
Pure energy. Neil Young later said they were full of anger fuelled by the news of the Iraq war during the tour. Their best album, imo. -
You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAlso controversially I think Alice in Chains unplugged is better than Nirvana. -
Reacher 3,104 posts
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Registered 10 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Quality. I like them both equally though.
Also controversially I think Alice in Chains unplugged is better than Nirvana. -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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jimnastics 1,893 posts
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Registered 10 years agoLed Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Hendrix - Live at The Fillmore East (I love Woodstock, but the Band of Gypsys groove has grown on me a lot over the years)
Pearl Jam - Pinkpop '92 (it's a bootleg... but my god what a show)
Nirvana - Unlpugged is perfection, but a shout out to Live at the Paramount. Nirvana live in late 1991 were just amazing. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHendrix - BBC Sessions is phenomenal imo. In fact, all BBC sessions I've listened to have been.
Queen - Live Killers is cracking.
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Registered 9 years agoI miss the days when you could pop to s hop to pick up boot leg CDs. I know that they are usually easily found on you tube, but I like to own things. -
As if we've all forgotten No Sleep til Hammersmith
One of the greatest albums live or otherwise
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