Greatest Live Album of All time?

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What do you think the Greatest Live Album of All Time is?

― Oapie Elvis, Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape. Hands down! And no, tht's not the white russians talking!

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretty damn great, it is. "That was what I was just going to say!...No, this is how it goes..."

Surely Kiss Alive is in there somewhere. And personally I thought Fields of the Nephilim's Earth Inferno beats out most of their studio work...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

we have done this but for the record.

Fushitsusha: double Live.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Having Fun on Stage, obv (I would've said 'Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends', except I like the studio versions better)

― dave q, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

~~Woodstock~~

I'm guessing the Ramones' It's Alive, even if Joey fucks up the lyrics to "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World".

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Not the best, but much better than it has any right to be- Slade On Stage. It's recorded sometime in the early 80's, long after their heyday, and it ROCKS- certainly one of my best bargain bin purchases.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Mayhem, 'Live in Leipzig'

― dave q, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Spiritualized @ Royal Albert Hall is a pretty good one.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

DAMAGE - Sylvian / Fripp (1994)

― bahtology, Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown 'Love Power Peace', Maceo Parker 'Life on Planet Groove', John Coltrane 'Live at Birdland', Mingus 'Live at Antibes', blah blah blah. Iron Maiden.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams, if that's not too cliche.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Daft Punk-Alive
Young Gods-Live sky tour

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

jeff mills-live at the liquid room

― robin (robin), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, that live album did more to damage my love for Jason Spaceman than Let It Come Down ever did. (i.e. that would be a LOT)

I mean, I personally hold him responsible for this:

http://www.thestrokes.com/photos/6c/6c22.jpg

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

frampton - Comes Alive

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Curtis Mayfield Curtis Live. So great it makes you forget how bad the second side is.

― Vic Funk, Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

''MC5 - Kick Out the Jams, if that's not too cliche.''

no! that's just WRONG.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

another vote for 'curtis live', which is miles better than anything he ever recorded in a studio, sho'nuff. man, those GROOVES...

― angelo (angelo), Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Hawkwind "Space Ritual" 0\/\/|\|Z. The huge filthy riffs! The deranged VCS3 splurge & wibbling! The deranged mentalist acid "poetry" between tracks! The fact that it goes on for ever and ever, and is says on the cover that they had to edit b/c they went on 2 long! I may go and listen to it right now!

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Saturday, 9 November 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Otis Redding / Hendrix at Monteray Pop is pretty intense. There's a new Lightning Bolt show up on their site that has the best sound from Gibson on it I've ever heard from a live LB recording. (The St. Paul show.)

― Dave Fischer, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Poison - Swallow This Live

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

IT'S ALIVE by the Ramones.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown Live at the Apollo 1962.

― Douglas, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah and Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies/Live at the Fillmore East & King Crimson 'Absent Lovers' for being better than their respective studio material of the time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 9 November 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Revised answer:

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 November 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

You've made me do this, Alex in NYC:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d798/d79843j7g8e.jpg

― Motel Hell (vassifer), Saturday, 9 November 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Uhmm... Id say the one Bob Marley one, cause apparantly its his definitive album, but I bought it and listened to it once. I guess its cause I cant get into him.

MC5 Kick Out the Jams, best or not, rocked my face of, although I do have to skip through the first minute and twenty seconds, so I dont have to hear his stupid rant.

― David Allen, Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

but the stupid rant is the only good thing about "kick out the jams!

― adam b (adam b), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

what, no Killing Joke, alex?

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fragments of a Rainy Season" by John Cale. Much better than the crap 70's boogie woogie studio albums.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 10 November 2002 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheap Trick: Live at Budokan and the John Cale.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 10 November 2002 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

johnny cash,live at folsom prison

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

johnny cash,live at san quentin, of course

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread wouldn't be complete if I made my FZ-related contribution, now would it? And those nominations would be The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2, and the live bits of Weasels Ripped My Flesh.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:32 (twenty-three years ago)

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― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 10 November 2002 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

me likey livealbums

who, 'live at leeds'
mc5, 'kick out the jams'
thin lizzy, 'live and dangerous'
rolling stones, 'get yer yayas out'
curtis, 'curtis live'
miles davis, 'live evil'
fleetwood mac, 'live' (1980)
sonic youth, circa nycgaf (bootleg)
sonic youth, 'anarchy on 14th st' (bootleg)
black flag, 'who's got the ten and a half'

i'm probably forgetting plenty...

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 10 November 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

venom - eine kleine nachtmusik

― your null fame (yournullfame), Sunday, 10 November 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown Live at the Apollo 1968 gets the nod from me, but I think that Tabla Beat Science's Live at Stern Grove from this year should get some serious consideration.

― Matt C., Sunday, 10 November 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Many good suggestions, and James Brown gets close, but you are all wrong! The greatest live album ever, and probably the most exciting album ever, is Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 10 November 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Space Ritual.

Or that Dylan one where the guy shouts Judas.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 10 November 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.aol.com/johnnyradpants/sc.jpg
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/Mag-Live.jpg

http://www.talking-heads.net/graphics/album-name.jpg

http://www.lyrics.com/t/tool/opiate.jpg
http://www.chedsey.com/images/firehose/live.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 10 November 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

No you're ALL wrong! Underworld owns this thread, the whole thing is amazing, the last 3 songs is the greatest live performance I've ever heard.

Also like Spiritualized, Johnny Cash, Daft Punk, James Brown.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 10 November 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

joy division - live at preston, because it made me get into jd and it was such a fuck-up technical-wise. concerts shouldn't be perfect.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 11 November 2002 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Not a big fan of live albums as a rule, but...

The Cure's Concert is still amazing, that Radiohead one wot came out last year is great too (although I accept it might be disqualified due to not being from one specific gig), and am I allowed Pulp's F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.I.V.E. even though it's strictly speaking a live video? Hope so!

The new Squarepusher one's fab as well. Hmmm, maybe I don't mind live albums after all...

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 11 November 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't The Who's Live At Leeds meant to be amazing?

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 11 November 2002 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Shirley Bassey, 'Live at Carnegie Hall'
The Jazz Butcher, 'Western Family'
Throbbing Gristle, "Live at the Lyceum"
(loved as a teenager, not sure I could get
through it now)

― sherri, Monday, 11 November 2002 05:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Albert Ayler Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Sessions and VU's 1969 are my favorites.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Neil Young, "Weld"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 11 November 2002 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Flipper, 'Blow'n Chunks'. Not only the best 'live' album, but best album ever as well

― dave q, Monday, 11 November 2002 06:14 (twenty-three years ago)

the clash's from here to eternity....you pricks.

jeff buckley's live CDs from mystery white boy to whatever upcomin releases...

manic street preachers' astoria94 gig available on the bootleg "if u want blood..." total fuckin chaos and ricHey was playin guitar!

― esiotrot, Monday, 11 November 2002 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously The Last Waltz - proper music by skilled profesionals on real instruments.

― tigerclawskank, Monday, 11 November 2002 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Add another vote for Space Ritual.

And yeah, Who's Got The Ten And A Half just for that demented rant "Kira's got the ten and a half! If you bend over, and let Kira come over..." or whatever it was. Brilliant.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

by definition they're all bad.

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 11 November 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d145/d1451834q7p.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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http://www.arlo.net/discography/Together_In_Concert.JPG
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d106/d10612fb0ga.jpg
http://www.rumproast.com/tomjones/records/images/liveinlv64.gif
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(Live in Japan)
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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002B01.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
(The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic)
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― christoff (christoff), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Curtis Live (good call by a couple of people further up the thread)
Viva Roxy Music
Rock of Ages - The Band (I'd place it slightly above The Last Waltz)
BB King - Live at the Regal
Bobby Womack - The Womack Live

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I"m gonna go with...

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Miles Davis - Pangaea, Agharta, Live: Evil
The Roots - ...Come Alive
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy

...and then there's this one, which is really cool in that it is the only live record I've ever heard of that is all new songs, instead of a fulfilling-our-record-contract-greatest-hits-collection type live recording...

Fishbone - Live at the Temple Bar & More

― nickalicious, Monday, 11 November 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"what, no Killing Joke, alex?"

A fair question, that, but it should be noted that Killing Joke's live representation hasn't been up to par since the comparitively early live e.p., HA! Submitted for your perusal:
http://killing-joke.com/HA.sml.gif
While HA! is indeed a fine sounding representation, it's track-listing is somewhat lacking and it's pretty brief. Beyond that, there was the thoroughly shoddy BBC IN CONCERT album...
http://killing-joke.com/BBCInConcert.sml.gif
....which is cursed not only with meh sound, but also captures a performance of "Chessboards" in which, presumably due to sound problems, Jaz Coleman's vocals are deplorably out of synch with the band....I know everyone has a bum night sooner or later, but why would they include that on a live album?

Lastly, there was last year's NO WAY OUT BUT FORWARD GO....
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e769/e76928bg9ta.jpg
...which finds the Joke in front of a festival crowd....i.e. one that wasn't necessarily there to seem them. It's cool, and recorded during one of the band's more interesting eras (`85, just after the release of NIGHTTIME), but not exactly as exciting a live document as one would hope.

There are also two cd-singles circa `94 that came appended with live tracks, but they're not full albums, so I won't cite them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Flipper, 'Blow'n Chunks'. Not only the best 'live' album, but best album ever as well

"Turn...turn the tape over! Over!"

I love how they kept that on the CD version.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The VU 1969 hasn't had a drop yet. Live Dead also. Quite clearly tho, it's Dylan in Manchester '66, closely followed by the Last Waltz.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Who wrote that review in Melody Maker around 1996 slating every live album ever, after Blur released their 'Live At The Budokhan'? The reason being, of course, that if you weren't there, you wouldn't understand why people are cheering, and if you were there, why not just use your memory?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr Fascist, great call on the first three there.

Though I prefer 'Rock of Ages' to the Last Waltz as I said a bit higher up. The horns swing it for me (no pun intended).

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

you fuckers don't know shit

the best live album of all time is Clive James presents Margarita Pracatan Live at the Palladium.

PRACATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

― Queen G (Queeng), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Marley: Babylon By Bus!

― Conor (Conor), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"You know, that live album did more to damage my love for Jason Spaceman than Let It Come Down ever did. (i.e. that would be a LOT)"

Kate, why is that? That live album had all the best Sun Ra style noise and gospel choir singing.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

jayz unplugged

― ep, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall

― gazza, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

My Top 5:

Phish - A Live One
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Built To Spill - Live
Stranglers - All Live And All Of The Night
Dire Straits - Alchemy

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Elvis Presley - A Golden Celebration
2. Bob Dylan - Live 1966
3. Duke Ellington - The Duke at Fargo 1940
4. Beatles - Live at the Star Club
5. The Velvet Underground - 1969

The Last Waltz sucks so bad.

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I own 3 exclusively live albums;
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http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d088/d088803p73l.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d705/d705961b535.jpg

― Nick H, Thursday, 5 June 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://kinks.it.rit.edu/lyrics/regular/kelvinhall/lrg-kelvinhall.jpg

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, why does everybody hate that album? It's SO FUN!! Any album with tons of screaming teenage girls is cool in my book.

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Numan - Living Ornaments

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 5 June 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Babylon by Bus seconded

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 5 June 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana: Unplugged in NYC

― Chris Clark, Thursday, 5 June 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"From The Muddy Banks of The Wishkah" is pretty under-rated.

Most of my faves have already been called (Leeds, Dylan 66, Cheap Trick, JB) altough I'd like to add "Blow Your Face Out" by J.Geils.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ted Nugent - Intensities In Ten Cities

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 June 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

if I missed it already being on here, I apologize, but I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d685/d68587792km.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 June 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Seventy-something answers on a live albums thread and nobody's mentioned Isaac Hayes? There's no God.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

If there's a Black Moses, there must be a God.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't heard a lot of these but there's something to be said for The Allman Brothers Band at Filmore East.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 6 June 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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