Best live album?

too late to stop now- van morrison

end of thread.

Live after Death - Lily Allen.

Unleashed In The East - Judas Priest

Rory Gallagher - Live at Cork Opera House.

Rage Against The Machine - Live & Rare

Kicking Television - Wilco



Best Live Concert Video: Tourfilm by REM. Simply peerless.

rory gallagher

Live 1969 - Velvet Underground

"Is this the long-lost Greatest Album Ever Made?" asked Paul Morley in the NME in March 1979.

Very possibly, if only for the moment in Rock And Roll when Doug Yule briefly turns his bass up to 11 for a startling, 5-second riff.

Don't know the album or the riff, but f*ck yeah that's what it's all about.

Definitely giving that a listen.

Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

best live rory gallagher has got to be live at montreux especially shadowplay

other than that its deep purple made in japan

julian temples live in concert  film about the sex pistols has got to be the best ever

Agree with Mr Spock

Also ' David Live. '

Bowie, recorded at concert in Philadelphia.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road
Eagles - Live
Scorpions - World Wide Live
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

Woodstock 1970 - Various Artists

The Last Waltz..a shocking omishun.

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive is probably my favourite followed by Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx!

Honourable Mentions:

Aswad - Live & Direct

Various - Dance Craze

Steve Hillage - Live Herald

The already mentioned - No Sleep'Til Hammersmith

I was just about to say Frampton Comes Alive but Gin beat me to it !

honourable mentions

Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
Be Bop De Luxe - Live In The Air Age

I saw the Frampton Comes Alive 35th Anniversary tour a few years ago - excellent. He has said that he hopes to tour the UK again soon.

A list of Live Albums, I always return to.... some cool, some not so, but you can tell a fair bit of effort has gone into them:

Supertramp - 'Paris'
The Who - 'Live At Leeds'
Frank Sinatra - 'Sinatra At The Sands'
Portishead - 'Roseland NYC Live'
Simon & Garfunkel - 'The Concert In Central Park'
Dire Straits - 'Live At The BBC'
Dexys - 'Nowhere Is Home Live' (sensational video also)
Johnny Cash - 'At San Quentin'

Rory Gallagher -Live in Europe
King Curtis-Live at the Fillmore West

Rock 'N Roll Animal by Lou Reed.

Mar 29, 2018 -- 11:08AM, sofiakenny wrote:

The Last Waltz..a shocking omishun.

that was my second choice but limited myself to one.

live at last by q -tips is very good.

sfbtw is correct
Velvet Underground 1969 best live album
possibly just the best album

Live 1969 is almost unique among live albums, in that half the tracks on it hadn't been recorded in the studio at the time they were performing those gigs. So it didn't fall into the trap which most other live albums do, of just being a second-rate attempt to sound like the studio version of the songs.

And with John Cale and Nico having departed, the rest of the tracks are so different, they might as well be new songs anyway.

The studio version of What Goes On, for instance, is almost the perfect 4/4 beat, melodic pop song. On Live 1969 it becomes an unstoppable, headlong, motorik thrash, years ahead of its time. Anyone who's heard this, and has access to a guitar, and not felt the urge to thrash those four chords for a minimum of ten minutes the way Lou Reed does here simply has no soul.

How could I forget The Who Live At Leeds !

other favs

Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
If You Want Blood  - AC/DC
All The Worlds A Stage - Rush
Exit Stage Left - Rush
Live and More - Donna Summer
Alive I - Kiss
Folsom Prison / San Quentin / Osteraker - Johhny Cash
Stage - Bowie
Seconds Out - Genesis
Live And Let Live - 10CC
Over America - Wings
At The Budokan - Cheap Trick
Hollywood Bowl - The Beatles
Tokyo Tapes - The Scorpions
Strangers In The Night - UFO
On Stage - Rainbow
Pulse- Pink Floyd ...........................................

Pulse rather than disc one of Ummagumma?

Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton

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.

^  Don't wait ! ... it is here :
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnyOs8buXw

nirvana unplugged being well backed

Im in bed but listened to both those and southbound,

Amazing how music can take you back.

Thank you so much Leopard.

with Steve Millar Gin, bloody good,id go defo

Live in the City of Light - Simple Minds

No mention of Made in Japan by Deep Purple.

Dukeofpuke made it his nb, Paddy.

That live version of Highway Star would be my number-one air-guitar track of all time (also number-one air-keyboard track, for Jon Lord's intro).

UFO - Strangers in the night - a SHOCKING omission.

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

The verve, haigh hall think 1998

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 !

Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Live

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

Quo live Apollo glesga

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've never heard it, but remember Lemmy from Motorhead saying The Who, Live At Leeds was the live album.

UFO's Stranger's In The Night was one of the first rock albums I ever listened to. Must of played it constantly through the summer of 79. But that album may well be a con, as the original starts with Natural Thing where as a later cd I have starts with Hot & Ready : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ytxzUynuFU

Lights Out and especially Rock Bottom (if they are genuine) might be the best two live songs ever put down - Michael Schenker's solo on the latter must be considered right up there as the best of all time - if it's all him.

The Thin Lizzy album is ok, but it drags at times. AC/DC's If You want Blood (another one i was weaned on) is good but I only really listen to their Powerage album now. I'm suprised no ones mentions Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan - that has its moments.

Here's one for you: Metallica - No Remorse @ The Lyceum [Full Bootleg Album (1984). Pretty raw. I was actually at this gig, but don't remember much about it apart form there being hardly anyone there - the touts couldn't give the tickets away. I'm amazed how big Metallica got seeing how so far up themselves they became & all that Napster nonsense.

I can't believe you can remember what an incredible performance Lizzy put on Facts, as i can hardly remember anything about the gigs I attended back in the 80's - and no I wasn't stoned or drunk

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

Eddie and the Hot Rods

Live at the Marquee

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.

screaming - is your failure to remember these events linked to being deaf?!

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.

I love Dylan but the one time I saw him live he was very disappointing.

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.

Funny how when most of these albums were recorded the bouncers were on you in a flash if they thought you were going to record any of it on a sh1tty little tape player.
And people paid money for cr*p tape bootlegs. Now concerts are filled with 15 rows deep of ars&holes not watching the concert but looking at their mobile phones recording a crap version of the concert.

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

Any of you mugs out there got any Irish in you? Any of you want some?
Planet Rock is playing all of Live and Dangerous at 11pm tonight.