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

[The Lemming Stomper]

The Clash...Live in Shea Stadium my all time fav

' if you don't know what this is about, ask the person standing next to you...'

 

[crasher]

Oh, and The Velvet Underground - Live 1969.

If nothing else, for the 10-minute version of What Goes On that just, er, goes on...

Seconded. (Although technically not all the album is live is it?)

 

[bright1064]

I doubt many people on here will know about this one, but I'm sure most will know the band.

My nomination is Big Country - Come Up Screaming

Recorded at Barrowlands, Scotland. It was their last gig in their homeland before singer/guitarist Stuart Adamson committed suicide a year or two later. Adamson, and in fact the whole band are HUGELY underrated imo. Most people on here will only know of their mainstream success in the 80's, with their trademark 'celtic' sound. In actual fact, they got better with age, and produced their best material after the limelight had gone.
This fantastic concert just goes to prove it. They were fantastic live. This is HIGHLY reccommended.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Think you'll find the winner is

The Who - Live at Leeds

I concur!

 

[fire&skill]

'Folsom Prison'?

It's certainly better than 'Dig The New Breed' by The Jam

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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?

Elvis was 68 btw.

 

[Storer68]

 

[NMH]

Omigod: what a f***ing TOP shout Mr H! Totally forgot about this absolutely fantastic album. My fave of all time too - so sorry Mr Cash, I made a dreadful mistake.

Worth having if only for 'A Million Miles Away'.
Which I just so happen to have right here in my pocket (needs a bit of volume as it's a quiet recording);

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[element]

The Clash...Live in Shea Stadium my all time fav

' if you don't know what this is about, ask the person standing next to you...'

That sounds a great title for a live album, but weren't they supporting The Who?

 

[Don Quixote]

Can you imagine Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band live?! WOA!

 

[NMH]

A few moments more of Rory, for the fan or the uninitiated;

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Quo fans tear up your boogie bibbles, and follow Rory
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[Buzzer]

Can you imagine Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band live?! WOA!

The Brighton Beachboys do it as a back to back with Pet Sounds. Check out their website

 

[NMH]

Ten Years After issued a tasty live double album in the seventies. Here's a video of them doing a song they also recorded on that LP;

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[Norman Potting]

Don't see any mentions of "Stupidity" by Dr Feelgood. Oh how I would have loved to have seen the original Feelgoods live.

For all you "Lizzy" fans there is a new live album out - "Still Dangerous" - which I think is from a year or so before "Live and Dangerous" and is free of overdubs. Not that I mind too much as I saw them live at the "Centre" and they almost certainly didn't have any overdubs then!

 

[Gwylan]

That Misty in Roots one is top ("If you are not conscious of your 'istory, you're like a cabbage in this society")
John Coltane at Newport '63 and the definitive version of My Favourite Things
MC5's Kick out the James as a reminder of when Americans believed there could be a revolution
Bob Marley at the Lyceum
Robert Wyatt at Drury Lane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

 

[e77]

Fat Boy Slim - Live On The Floor At The Big Beat Boutique.

 

[Buzzer]

Elvis was 68 btw.

As ever HT you beat me hands down on this stuff.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

The Tubes - What Do You Want From Live. And I was there.

 

[Barry Izbak]

'Live and Dangerous' by Thin Lizzy is always up there in the polls- but never heard it, anyone?

I prefer live albums and this was one of my favourites, until the recent release of "Still Dangerous" which is a non overdubbed and more raw version. Bloomin marvellous.

Joe Bonamassa's From Nowhere in Particular is my favourite recent live album.

But don't make your mind up until you have heard One More From The Road from the unbelieveably brilliant live band Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[METALMICKY]

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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.[/QUOTE]

Sorry but Lizzy's Live & Dangerous IS the greatest live album. Over the years any detractors only ever been able to bitch about the overdub. Let's get real on the reality that virtually every live album will get touched up in the studio. L&D is to many the perfect blend of great songs and the 'lords of rock' Marshall & Gibson.

I thought the Stranglers went pear shaped after the Raven album and of course have only limped along since Cornwalls departure.