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Live albums are great. They're how you tell who's really good. Post your favourite / the best live albums.    
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Apr 22, 2017 12:40
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Apr 22, 2017 12:44
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Here's another that I rate fairly highly (don't laugh):
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Apr 22, 2017 20:33
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Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club James Brown Live at the Apollo, & Love Power Peace (though you can hardly go wrong with any live James Brown) Yellowman live at Reggae Sunsplash Goblin Live '78
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Apr 22, 2017 20:42
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Stop Making Sense
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Apr 22, 2017 23:50
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Apr 23, 2017 06:28
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Not technically an album, but I always liked this VHS cassette. 
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Apr 23, 2017 06:51
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The Band, Rock of Ages (stupid title, incredible set, this was The Band in their prime--better than The Last Waltz) Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Live at the Fillmore East Mississippi John Hurt, Live Hank Williams, Live at the Grand Ole Opry
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Apr 23, 2017 07:00
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Probably the only band I've ever loved more live and also it was a DVD but whatever.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP581mozBYk An acquired taste. incoherent light has a new favorite as of 09:59 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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Apr 23, 2017 09:52
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Apr 23, 2017 10:26
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Apr 24, 2017 11:25
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One of my all-time favorite live albums, and I usually hate live rock albums.
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Apr 24, 2017 13:17
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Apr 24, 2017 22:15
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The Beatles Live At The BBC is one of my favorite albums, live or otherwise.
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Apr 25, 2017 03:44
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Apr 25, 2017 03:51
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Slightly  Hawkwind - Space Ritual Has the superior version of Down Through the Night and some beautifully insane poo poo from Robert Calvert, such as 10 Seconds of Forever. RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 04:16 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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Apr 25, 2017 04:14
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Comptroll The Forums posted:The Beatles Live At The BBC is one of my favorite albums, live or otherwise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMSUQE36us
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Apr 25, 2017 09:42
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JnnyThndrs posted:One of my all-time favorite live albums, and I usually hate live rock albums. Definitely one of top contenders but I have to go with this one, it's just nuts: 
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Apr 27, 2017 14:07
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o my love   o, my love
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Apr 27, 2017 14:12
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There's a really great early punk band called THE SCREAMERS (emphasis not mine) who never even recorded a demo, much less an album, so all that remains are some live recordings. Check out 22 Hours to Live if curious, it's usually on youtube. While I'm at it I'd like to nominate the following: Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic Judas Priest Unleashed in the East KISS Alive! Link Wray/Robert Gordon Cleaveland '78 Nirvana Reading '92 ('91 is great too, as are a ton of bootlegs, don't know if it's kosher to post them). David Bowie Nassau Coliseum '76
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Apr 30, 2017 23:40
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Yeah, Unleashed in the East is a great album, it's in my top five.
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May 1, 2017 04:04
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Its kind of dumb but always gives me a happy feeling. 90's socal punk scene was so full of energy
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May 1, 2017 04:11
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Bulgaroctonus posted:THE SCREAMERS
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May 1, 2017 05:17
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Foghat... Live! Iron Maiden - Live After Death Crazy Lixx - Sound of the Live Minority Steel Panther - Live From Lexxi's Mom's Garage
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May 1, 2017 17:50
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The soundtrack album for Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is, really, a live album from the last concert Bowie did as Ziggy (it was filmed, played once on ABC, then once in a theater, but a planned full theatrical release never materialized.) In addition to a bunch of his own material Bowie sings Let's Spend the Night Together, All The Young Dudes, and White Light / White Heat, and while I normally prefer studio versions to live ones I gotta say a lot of the live cuts here stand out- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, the last song on the last show of the last tour, is especially impassioned, Changes gains a lot from the energy, as does Space Oddity. Really recommended to any Bowie fan.
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May 1, 2017 20:07
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^ My favorite version of Moonage Daydream too. I'm surprised we're at the bottom of the first page with no Live at Leeds.
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May 1, 2017 20:25
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This is another one I enjoy a lot: This was Nine Below Zero's best album; one of the bands who sounded good live but never quite replicated the sound on record.
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May 1, 2017 22:40
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I'm a fan of Metallica's S&M album, and also a more obscure group The Gathering does good live music, although I don't have a gull album, just Youtube stuff.
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May 2, 2017 00:49
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Built To Spill has a great live album that paints them as kind of an unlikely jam band except they're good
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May 2, 2017 03:29
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Black Flag - Live '84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjHa3mNcbpk&t=1339s I really like the later, sludgier days of Black Flag, but I think their studio albums don't really do them justice. This version of Nothing Left Inside is amazing
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May 2, 2017 07:39
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Cypress Hill - Live at the Fillmore Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been Mindless Self Indulgence - Alienating Our Audience Reel Big Fish - Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album
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May 2, 2017 17:54
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Nomeansno - Live And Cuddly. So much energy, so much berating the audience.
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May 3, 2017 07:17
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While hosed Up Inside has a possibly better version of "Medication", this double LP is amazingly gorgeous and face melting. The "Shine A Light/Electric Mainline" alone is worth the trip alone, and this has by far my favorite "Walkin' with Jesus." Drugs never sounded so religious.
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May 10, 2017 23:16
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Flyball posted:Awesome poster graphics too. Are you old enough to have seen them? I missed it by a couple years, but they have a great reputation around here. Nope, I was born in Texas in 1981, not too many opportunities for a baby to check out a band that I don't think ever toured. : ) Anyway, back in the early '90's I would go to comic/record conventions back when they were held in scuzzy hotels. I got friendly with a guy that sold 4 hr VHS tapes of pretty much anything one could think of, so give him lists of like Flipper, Sonny Sharrock, Slayer, Mowtown, Stax/Volt, you name it, this dude could drat near anything. If there was space at the end he'd just fill it up with random like old public access stuff, and that's how came across them. Blew my little 14 yr old mind.
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May 10, 2017 23:51
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two recent (ish) faves 
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May 21, 2017 22:22
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Pfft. Bloody young people. I am amazed no-one has put up Hot August Night yet. My dad used to play this album all the time in teh car on long car trips, so maybe my love for it is a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome. But I truly think it is good. YAY for the tree people.
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May 22, 2017 00:29
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Live albums = best albums.  Frank Zappa's Bongo Fury and The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life are both awesome. Former is some mid-70s insanity with Captain Beefheart, complete with spoken word sections and country-western shenanigans, in addition to some excellent guitar work. The latter comes from his final tour in 1988 and featured a 12-man band giving some crazy arrangements to songs that just sound amazing. Both are albums I grew up listening to and love.   Personal favorites of bands with better known other live albums, Iron Maiden's Maiden England '88 and Rush's Grace Under Pressure Tour. In both cases, I tend to like the sound mix of these albums more than the more famous preceding live albums by either band, Live After Death and Exit... Stage Left, respectively. Those albums are excellent as well, and probably feature better track choices, but these are two I've listened to a hell of a lot over the years... And on the subject of live stuff, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Van Halen's Live Without A Net video. It remains probably my favorite concert performance, video, audio or otherwise, and it's a shame that a band that was some amazing live for so many years had only two official live albums (1993's Live: Right Here, Right Now and 2015's Tokyo Dome Live In Concert) that were both kinda meh for various reasons.
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May 22, 2017 03:35
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AC/DC Live.
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May 22, 2017 03:43
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 A video but I ripped the audio years ago for portable listening.
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