Another mention for Deep Purple MIJ, and Ac/Dc IYWB.
Bon Scott still arguably the greatest rock voice ever!

i've got 3 ...stupidity, dr feelgood ...free live , free ...and the amazing kick out the jams , mc5 . the latter was their first album . live !

Sorry to disappoint you all: https://tonedeaf.com.au/truth-behind-live-albums/

olddesperado    29 Mar 18 22:48 
Another vote for Lizzy here.

I haven't listened to it in about 30 years (moved out of home and it went missing , vinyl as well ) but the cowboy song and still in love with you are in my head like I had just heard it yesterday.

Im going to buy it the weekend now.

I had forgotten it tbh.




Still got the vinyl record. And the programme and tickets from the live Tour concert. I saw them at De Montfort Hall in Leicester.
Will never forget their incredible  performance !!

I know Depeche Mode are not everyone's cup of tea on here but as live albums go, '101' takes some beating.

I know what you mean, McCoy Carp. I posted this in the Best Punk Records thread a few years ago, when discussion moved onto the Ramones:

I can't remember going to see the Ramones, but my mate Pete swears I did.

Brighton Centre, autumn 1979. Absolutely no recall of the band, the gig, my presence there or anything. But apparently I was there, right at the front, getting pogoed into the bouncers.

Same thing with the Undertones. I've got a ticket stub which says I saw them at Bracknell Sports Centre at that time, but if you asked me, I'd swear blind I'd never even been to Bracknell, never mind gone to see a band whose falsetto appeal I never understood.

And the Only Ones. The only reason I know I saw them somewhere in Windsor in the 1970s was because I was using a town centre urinal afterwards and the chap standing next to me started absent-mindedly humming Glad To Be Gay.

Possible, isn't it? When you're only experiencing a fraction of what's being performed, then the memory may not stick.

On the other hand, I can remember plenty of bad gigs I went to in the 1970s: Dylan at Blackbushe, for one. And all sorts of terrible, plodding rock acts at the Hammersmith Odeon: Rush and Lou Reed stand out as particularly plodding and terrible. Then there was Led Zep at Knebworth: I'll never forget Page's solo on No Quarter, which to my ears went plunk plunk plunkety plunkety plunk (I could hear the amplified sound of the plectrum hitting the strings, but not the notes - bizarre).

Thinking about it, the gigs which do stick in the memory were often for reasons other than the music, even if the music was brilliant: the astonishing stage presence of Ian Curtis with Joy Division at the Lyceum in the Strand (he was a huge bloke, nothing like the fay poet portrayed in the film Control); lighting a Rothman's for Ian McCullough of the Bunnymen at Brighton Art College Basement; A Certain Ratio's over-the-top strobe lights at the same microscopic venue; a few yards up the road at the Richmond I saw Vol Sec, one of the great lost acts which never made it, but it's the sax player in the support act (Eileen) who sticks in the memory - gawd knows what the name of her band was.

Same here.

If I wear earplugs, and hold a guitar against my chest, with my chin resting on the soundbox, I can hear the instrument to some extent; and I can tell you that bashing out the three chords of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues while impersonating the Zim's whine ("down on Rue Morgue AvenYOO-OO") is a lot more satisfying than being there when the man himself performs it.

Get Your Ya-Ya's Out - a truly shocking, shocking omission