Is Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison the best ever live album?

[Buzzer]

I'm trying to think of a finer live album but all my other favourites don't even come close:

Smiths - Rank
Depeche Mode - 101
Nick Cave at the Albert Hall
Beach Boys live in London
Elvis in the 69 vegas comeback tour

We haven't had a Friday music debate for ages. What do you peeps think is the best live album?

 

[Icy Gull]

Van Morrison Too Late To Stop Now
The Band The Last Waltz
Dire Straits Alchemy ( expects hoots of derision but still reckon it's one of the best live albums ever)
Neil Young Live Rust

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

 

[Icy Gull]

Woodstock

 

[Insel affe]

gotta agree that johnny cash is No 1

but..."Stomping at the Klubfoot Vol 1" is a close 2nd with the Guanabatz on fine form.

but no ones knows what im on about anyway....!

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

Will Conrad - Live at Buxted Village Hall (The '87 Ball Bag' tour)

 

[Codner's Crackpipe]

The Ramones - It's Alive never fails to get me all revved up and ready to go

 

[keaton]

Yes, both his prison live albums ae class

 

[Rusthall Seagull]

I'm trying to think of a finer live album but all my other favourites don't even come close:

Smiths - Rank
Depeche Mode - 101
Nick Cave at the Albert Hall
Beach Boys live in London
Elvis in the 69 vegas comeback tour

We haven't had a Friday music debate for ages. What do you peeps think is the best live album?

I think you are correct

 

[Trufflehound]

Fulsom Prison and San Quention are both classics.

Nick Cave - Live Seeds

Ramones - It's Alive

Misty in Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision

 

[Trufflehound]

The Ramones - It's Alive never fails to get me all revved up and ready to go

Well, after eatin' all that chicken vindaloo, I WANNA BE WELL.

Take it Dee Dee...

 

[Trufflehound]

I also have a big soft spot for The Stranglers Live X-Cert, if nothing else for the way it begins with Huge Cornball just 'AAARGH AAARGH AAARGH AAARGH' into the mike before it explodes into 'Grip'.

Still breaks my heart that The Stranglers were so shit live every time I actually saw them.




And on another completely different note, to pre-empt what is to come, yes Live and Dangerous is a great album, but its "Live" credentials are dubious.

 

[Race]

Think you'll find the winner is

The Who - Live at Leeds

 

[Northstander]

Although it now sounds dated, I still listen now to .....

Simple Minds, Live in the City of Light.

That for me is a bit spesh!

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Think you'll find the winner is

The Who - Live at Leeds

Is the right answer, followed by in no particular order
Ramones, Its Alive.
Stiff Little Fingers, Hanx
Nick Cave Albert Hall
Oh yes Fulsom Prison

(got my Dengee Fever tickets in the post yesterday)

 

[1959]

Yes, both his prison live albums ae class

Both? Aren't you forgetting the Swedish one, På Österåker, recorded at Stockholm's Österåker Prison? Worth it just to hear him sing the amended opening line of San Quentin, "Österåker, you've been living hell to me". Brilliant!
Check it out on Spotify.

 

[Buzzer]

Is the right answer, followed by in no particular order
Ramones, Its Alive.
Stiff Little Fingers, Hanx
Nick Cave Albert Hall
Oh yes Fulsom Prison

(got my Dengee Fever tickets in the post yesterday)

Excellent! That's you, me and Merry P booked then. I'll keep an eye out for my tickets too.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Although it now sounds dated, I still listen now to .....

Simple Minds, Live in the City of Light.

That for me is a bit spesh!

That is a quality album, haven't heard that since it came out. Years later, I went out with a Parisian girl who claimed to have BEEN there on one of the nights they recorded it.

Sinatra and Count Basie at the Sands, 1966. With Quincy Jones as musical director, no less. Dreadful rat pack jokes and very swinging groovy music.

 

[medicine man]

The Who Live at Leeds is the best, of course.
Rank by The Smiths is not anywhere near as good as it could've been- there are 'semi-official'(?) live Smiths concerts out there which are far superior, IMHO.
'Live and Dangerous' by Thin Lizzy is always up there in the polls- but never heard it, anyone?
'Folsom' is great as is his appearance at Glastonbury, which I have- the crowds impromptu 'whoo-whoo' during "Let the Train Blow the Whistle", which wasn't released at this point is fantastic, and even made Johnny chuckle.
And there are great Prince live albums out there- if only some had been released officially (esp. Parade and Lovesexy tours!)

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Well in answer to the question posed by Mr B - I would have to say YES, YES & THRICE YES!!

Some of my other Live faves include:-

Live! Warts 'n' Audience - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

It's Alive - The Ramones

Space Ritual - Hawkwind

And All That Could Have Been - Nine Inch Nails