Best live album

[Trufflehound]

Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous

Is also the correct answer.

 

[Trufflehound]

Misty in Roots - Live at Counter Eurovision 1979

Is also the correct answer.

 

[Trufflehound]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds

Is also the correct answer.

 

[Gwylan]

Second page and no-one's mentioned Bob Marley Live at the Lyceum, which is the only correct answer - although MC5's Kick out the Jams has got some good moments.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Misty in Roots - Live at Counter Eurovision 1979

" ....if ya donn know ya 'istry, ya like a cabbage in this life....."

 

[pasty]

Seconds Out - Genesis

Knew you were going to say that. Good call though.

Also, Made in Japan, Deep Purple.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

I've got Live at the Budokan by Cheap Trick, on LUMINOUS yellow vinyl

It was superb verue in it's day. Wonder what it's like now.

 

[Hiney]

" ....if ya donn know ya 'istry, ya like a cabbage in this life....."

*pedant alert*

"like a cabbage in this society"

 

[Buzzer]

The Smiths live album - Rank would definitely be up there.

It's so good it's pure art.

Also Neil Finn and friends at the Albert Hall. Includes Johnny Marr, Eddie Vedder, some of Radiohead. It's very very very good.

 

[Grendel]

Live & Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

So heavily overdubbed that it barely qualifies as being a live album.

As a general rule, I dislike live albums. They're usually a shoddily recorded and produced stop-gap until a bands next studio release. However, the following stand head and shoulders above the rest, in my opinion:

UFO - Strangers In The Night
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

If you want blood - AC/DC

 

[beardy gull]

Spiritualized* Royal Albert Hall

 

[Monkster]

The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts strike back
Aerosmith - Little south of Sanity
Gilby Clarke - Live in London

And how could I forget

Neil Diamond - Live Diamond

 

[Staypuft]

Under a blood red sky-U2

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Knew you were going to say that. Good call though.

Also, Made in Japan, Deep Purple.

Made in Japan was always my favourite. Add Live and Dangerous, Alchemy Live and even though I don't particularly like Simple Minds studio stuff, Live in the City of Light is superb.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Metalica - S&M

 

[Hiney]

I uncovered an old cassette tape the other day - 'Live at The Roxy', with a load of old raw, classic punk stuff on it.

Slaughter & The Dogs
Eater
The Buzzcocks
Johnny Moped
Poly Styrene

and others

The sound quality is SHIT which is what makes it BRILLIANT!

 

[Nibble]

Pearl Jam-Live on two legs
Rollins Band-Insert Band Here/The only way to know for sure

 

[cheeseroll]

Live albums dont seem to work at all for me, too one dimensional. Live music - yes and studio album - yes but dont mix the two up.

However and coincidentally (as it was the same year moreorless), the live version of Faith on the B side of the Cure's Charlotte Sometimes 12' and the B side of an Echo and the Bunnyman 12' (think it was Never Stop) were superb.

 

[Juan Albion]

Green on Red 'Live at the Town & Country Club' would take first prize. A real live album. No overdubs, no remixes.