Best LIVE album - ever

[pasty]

are you perfectly sure you are not me!

I thought I'd get Seconds Out in the mix before you did

Great minds and all that DtG, Great minds

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Some great suggestions in this thread - has anyone put forward this?

 

[Gotsmanov]

BB King - Live at The Regal.

 

[Superphil]

You are all so wrong, listen to NSTH, just do it, then stop wasting your time on here.

 

[NMH]

Rockin' The Filmore by Humble Pie

Live in the City Of Light - Simple Minds

Live in The Big Apple - Yardbirds (3lp bootleg)

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

pink floyd-pulse.

enough said

That gets my vote.

 

[jevs]

Pink floyd ~ pulse

Dire straits ~ Alchemy

 

[Gwylan]

Keith Jarrett- The Koln Concert.

Good call.

No-one's mentioned Live! by Bob Marley and the Wailers or Misty in Roots Live at the Counter Eurovsion yet - two classics.

 

[Wozza]

So basically, pretty much nothing since the late 80s?!

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Madness - Madstock

Oh yes!!!

Also MSG - One Night at Budokan

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

And

Without the Use of a Safety Net... Big Country

 

[Gwylan]

So basically, pretty much nothing since the late 80s?!

But is that surprising? The live album was a conceit of the late 60s/70s/early 80s, although some still come out, there are fewer than there were. I suspect that this is partly fashion, partly contractural (weren't a lot of live albums slipped out to meet a contractural quota?) and partly to do with the economics - I don't think the cost differential between live and studio is as great as it was in the 80s. I'm sure Deano's Right Foot could expand more on this.

I suspect also that ears attuned to better hi-fis, music players want something more than the rough and ready live sound that we got on our Dansettes.

What amazes me is that there are albums mentioned on this thread that my 17/18 year-old self sold, after realising that what appealed to my adolescent self were in fact near-unlistenable.

 

[Kenneth Wattle]

are you perfectly sure you are not me!

Or me, that would actually be my top 5 and also I have seen each and every one of those live... I have the priveledge.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Rockin' The Filmore by Humble Pie

Live in the City Of Light - Simple Minds

Live in The Big Apple - Yardbirds (3lp bootleg)

I'm glag someone gave City of Light a mention. I never really liked Simple Minds studio stuff but I have loved that live album for many years. Others I would vote for would include many already mentioned, DP made in Japan, Pulse, Queen, Live & Dangerous etc. and add personally, Paul Weller Live Wood.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Zappa - Fillmore East

 

[tinx]

Spiritualized Live at the Royal Albert Hall.
Counting Crows Live at New Amsterdam

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Good call.

No-one's mentioned Live! by Bob Marley and the Wailers or Misty in Roots Live at the Counter Eurovsion yet - two classics.

Beat me to it... Misty's live at the Counter Eurovision is superb and i'm not even a particuarly big reggae fan.

Stiff Little Finger's "Hanx" is also bloody good.

 

[sully]

Wings Over America
Strangers In The Night - UFO
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Under A Blood Red Sky - U2
Paris - Supertramp

 

[Albion Dan]

Some great suggestions in this thread - has anyone put forward this?

Good call, would be in my top 3 and the supporting DVD must be the best live footage ever.

The other 2 for me would be:

Underworld: Everything, Everything
Queen: Live Magic

 

[Buzzer]

a few more that comes to mind:

Paul Weller - Live Wood
Elvis - Live at Hawaii
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison

How come Johnny Cash hasn't been mentioned before?


I've got a Vanessa Paradis live album too that's not too bad too.