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Tell me some good LIVE albums

The_Libertineq [Edit] [Delete] 99 replies 22:55 April 9th, 2009

Yes Ive got How the West Was Won ..... yes it is pretty amazing

But is there anything else?
Any bootlegs dare I say?

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the microphones live in japan

ThingsThatFly | 9 Apr '09, 22:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
when the balls drop by les savy fav is quite good.

grouchland | 9 Apr '09, 22:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads

Live at Royal Albert Hall - Spiritualized

charliepanayi | 9 Apr '09, 22:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
A smidge obvious

but Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy

Browno | 9 Apr '09, 22:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
Kick Out The Jams!!!

I like alot of the Hendrix live stuff as well.

jimitheexploder | 9 Apr '09, 22:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
Kiss - Alive & Alive 2

alive one is the 'classic' but alive 2 has the best songs.
both are infamously overdubbed

soapy | 9 Apr '09, 23:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- ^5
  
  Alive is ace.
  
  grouchland @soapy | 9 Apr '09, 23:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- haha
  
  i knew it were you soapy
  
  Saint_Cronin @soapy | 10 Apr '09, 00:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - :D
    
    y'know what else is great ... perhaps too good to be true ... Kiss Symphony (Alive 4)
    
    kiss with a fully made up orchestra in some stadium looking place in australia. amazing.
    
    soapy @Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 00:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I came in to say those two
  
  plus Siouxsie and the Banshees' Nocturne
  
  DiSassociated @soapy | 10 Apr '09, 02:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

The only Lizzy you need.

Also:
Ani DiFranco - So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense / The Name Of This Band...
That Petrol Emotion - Final Flame
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Pete Green - Live at the Cornubia, Bristol (ok, this is a bootleg, but you can get it free from his site, so...)
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

-dan- | 9 Apr '09, 23:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Oh, and James Brown
  
  Live at the Apollo 1962 is the "classic" one, Love Power Peace is probably better though...
  
  Oh oh, and Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps. Obviously.
  
  -dan- @-dan- | 9 Apr '09, 23:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Didn't think I'd see any Ani DiFranco mentions in here
  
  but yep, that's a great live one. I love Disc 2 especially.
  
  thephotobooth @-dan- | 10 Apr '09, 15:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mad for Sadness

Arab Strap

Oh yes!

Scout | 10 Apr '09, 00:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
- DEFINITELY THIS ^
  
  Lucyjay @Scout | 12 Apr '09, 20:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Holdy Steady's got a very favourable review in DiS.

I really must get it though.

Ekels | 10 Apr '09, 00:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
That Life Without Buildings one

INNIT.

Zapsta | 10 Apr '09, 00:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
- agreed
  
  also, kicking television by Wilco
  
  tanqueray @Zapsta | 10 Apr '09, 00:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
radiohead

yes_ | 10 Apr '09, 00:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
Space Ritual - Hawkwind

is my standard response for every time this thread comes up, I see no reason to change it.

theseabass | 10 Apr '09, 00:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
- what if you listened to Space Ritual Sundown
  
  which was recorded on the same tour and realised that it's the superior version?
  (especially sonic attack and time we left...)
  
  soapy @theseabass | 10 Apr '09, 00:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ever heard it
    
    way to make me look ignorant.
    
    theseabass @soapy | 10 Apr '09, 01:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - *Never
      
      theseabass @theseabass | 10 Apr '09, 01:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - if you've got a version of space ritual on cd
      
      with bonus tracks that are just alternative takes then the epic 15 minute improv of time we left is from this.
      
      soapy @theseabass | 10 Apr '09, 01:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - wow
        
        it appears I do have that. Gonna have to give that another spin then. Nice.
        
        theseabass @soapy | 10 Apr '09, 01:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
swans are dead - swans

mc5 - kick out the jams

Scatterheart1985 | 10 Apr '09, 00:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I saw swans are dead
  
  Saint_Cronin @Scatterheart1985 | 10 Apr '09, 00:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
You Goddamn Son Of A Bitch by Revolting Cocks

Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 00:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Clockwork by Oren Ambarchi is amazing
  
  only eighteen minutes though- guess it wouldn't actually qualify as an "album"
  
  Saint_Cronin @Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 00:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
MC5 - Kick Out The James

Cheap Trick - Live at the Budokan
Black Flag - Who's Got The 10 1/2?
The Stooges - Metallic K.O.
Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma

lemonbrickcombo | 10 Apr '09, 00:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
- * Jams
  
  James can get the fuck out as well, while we're at it.
  
  Also, that new Hold Steady one is great. I shouldn't feel guilty liking them, should I?
  
  One more must have:
  Neil Young - Weld
  
  lemonbrickcombo @lemonbrickcombo | 10 Apr '09, 00:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- ^^^^ 10 1/2 and Horrible Truth are amazing.
  
  stwerewolf @lemonbrickcombo | 10 Apr '09, 13:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - 10 1/2 is better than Live 1984, right?
    
    I can't be the only one who thinks this
    
    lemonbrickcombo @stwerewolf | 10 Apr '09, 16:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - yeah, pretty much
      
      i'm 'wierd' though, i like the slow Black Flag alot.
      
      stwerewolf @lemonbrickcombo | 10 Apr '09, 18:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
Life Without Buildings

and also The Clash's From Here to Eternity which is maybe the best thing they have released.

Guided_By_Starlight | 10 Apr '09, 00:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- It's good
  
  but not that good
  
  DillingersWheelman @Guided_By_Starlight | 10 Apr '09, 01:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
Lve at the hardback - HWM

Los Feliz - Chuck Regan

DillingersWheelman | 10 Apr '09, 01:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
nine inch nails - and all that could have been

guntrip | 10 Apr '09, 01:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Thats good
  
  but nothing is there anything on it that touches the live version of Hurt on Further Down...?
  
  DillingersWheelman @guntrip | 10 Apr '09, 01:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - There isn't one, it's just a softer mix of it.
    
    Ozymandias @DillingersWheelman | 10 Apr '09, 19:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - depends which version you have
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_Down_the_Spiral
      
      GoffBoy @Ozymandias | 11 Apr '09, 02:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
Just Another Band From L.A. by FZ & mothers of invention

Bongo Fury - Zappa/Beefheart

Rock n Roll Animal - Lou Reed

I have some fantastic Live Earth I got off some russian pay sites

Boris - Live Smile

DEVO - Live

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Live In Vegas

Einsturzende Neubauten - Live in Brussels and Palast Der Republic

Fantomas - Millennium Monsterwerk

Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes

Absolutely Live - The Doors

SWANS - Public Castration Is A Good Idea

Ummagumma - Pink Floyd (disc 1)

The Residents 13th Anniversary, Live In Tokyo

Tool - Salival

Jane's Addiction - the live ep

Ride - Waves (live at the beeb)

Type O Negative - Origin Of The Feces

Secret Machines (morning becomes electric- live at KCRW)

Press Eject And Give Me The Tape - Bauhaus

Neu 72

Roxy Music- Manifesto

Jimi Hendrix- the one with "red house" and "voodoo chile"

J. Geils Band - Full House

Grateful Dead "Europe 72"

Television - Live At The Waldorf

Get Yer Ya Ya's Out - Rolling Stones

Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 01:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Type O - Origin of the Feces
  
  Is the first thing that popped into my mind. What a wonderfully ridiculous band, I love them to death. Actually, the Paranoid cover from that album is one of my favourite covers ever. I really do love them.
  
  Aereomuffin @Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 02:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - me too- we've been to a couple of their gigs- The keyboardist shows his ass to the crowd immediately after coming on stage.
    
    and they really don't give two shits about the audience. In fact they at one show they purposely fucked with us and tried to piss us off. They had audience prompter signs which would flash words and phrases for us to chant like "YOU SUCK" or "BOO" and they played when you wish upon a star over and over again for 45 minutes before the show started- hilarious.
    
    They do do the best covers in rock and have the ONLY true sense of humor in rock (since Zappa died).
    
    Saint_Cronin @Aereomuffin | 10 Apr '09, 14:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- the hendrix one
  
  is Live in the West, by far his best album. It still hasn't been re-released on CD.
  
  tirard @Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 09:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I used to make out with my high school sweetie in my Vs
    
    Saint_Cronin @tirard | 10 Apr '09, 13:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - in my VW to "Live In The West"
      
      yeah, thanks for telling me the title- it is immensely rocking
      
      Saint_Cronin @Saint_Cronin | 10 Apr '09, 13:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - actually
        
        It's just called Hendrix in the West
        
        On your copy is the tracklisting all wrong?
        
        tirard @Saint_Cronin | 12 Apr '09, 16:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads

The Stooges - Metallic K.O.
Guided by Voices - Live in Austin Texas
Wilco - Kicking Televisions

Ozymandias | 10 Apr '09, 03:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
...........

Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah / Live! Tonight! Sold Out! VHS (and Unplugged In New York obviously)
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Devo - Devo LIVE
Radiohead - Live at the Astoria VHS
Smashing Pumpkins - Vieuphoria VHS
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy / Live in Chicago VHS
Fugazi - Instrument VHS (documentary + brilliant live stuff)
REM - Tourfilm VHS
Eels - Live at Town Hall
Hanson - Live from Albertane
Take That - Live at Wembley VHS

I hope these have all already been mentioned.

PS. Change VHS to DVD, I'm behind the times.

dan_thw | 10 Apr '09, 04:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pigpile by Big Black is great

"one, two, ONE TWO FUCK YOU!"
Fuck, I want to listen to this now, but I've no idea where my copy is.

JGJug | 10 Apr '09, 08:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ramones - It's Alive

JoeDiddly | 10 Apr '09, 09:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
the 65daysofstatic

has a good vibe in it. all their best bits too.

Miikka | 10 Apr '09, 09:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
Thrice - Live at The House of Blues

Maybe not a very DiS band, the set spans their whole career though, covering the early post hardcore stuff up to the ambient, acoustic stuff off the Alchemy Index. It's really great. And it's on Spotify.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0scnvH2uMnaSlxv1cH5A4s

Chris64 | 10 Apr '09, 09:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
Les Rallizes Denudes - Live 77

Harmonia - Live 74
Kraftwerk - Minimum/Maximum
The Fall - In a Hole
Stooges - Metallic KO
Devo: Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years
Black Flag - Live 84
The Fall - Totales Turns

tom_from_sparks | 10 Apr '09, 10:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
- The Who - Live At Leeds.
  
  Bundoz @tom_from_sparks | 10 Apr '09, 12:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- The best Fall live album
  
  is definitely 'The 27 points'
  
  bornin69 @tom_from_sparks | 10 Apr '09, 15:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Mongoloid Years is a hilarious recording- poor sound but worth having
  
  The EP recorded in San Francisco has amazing sound but it's short
  
  Saint_Cronin @tom_from_sparks | 11 Apr '09, 14:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos

and obvs Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

pichaelmarker | 10 Apr '09, 12:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
john martyn - live at leeds

davey graham - live at hull university

BlackGangElement | 10 Apr '09, 12:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- mf doom - live from planet x
  
  BlackGangElement @BlackGangElement | 10 Apr '09, 12:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
I can't believe noone has said

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense!

It's awesome!

Schadenfreude | 10 Apr '09, 13:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
IRON MAIDEN

LIVE AFTER DEATH

igethitbyemokids | 10 Apr '09, 13:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
Underworld - Everything Everything

thats a good un

jimitheexploder | 10 Apr '09, 15:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Possibly the best live album I've heard
  
  teamcooperuk @jimitheexploder | 10 Apr '09, 19:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Stop Making Sense IS Awesome.

Nirvana - Unplugged. The highlight of all the Unplugged sessions.
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison.
Neil Young - Weld. Its like a how-to for rock guitar playing, 'Like A Hurricane' Wow :)
Portishead's Live NYC album is good too, just thought I'd mention it as I don't think anyone has but its good - some interesting versions.
Prince - Sign 'O' The Times (DVD)

mwilliams | 10 Apr '09, 15:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
Curtis Live

By Curtis Mayfield. Small club, small band, classic songs and a fired up crowd = superb live album.

bornin69 | 10 Apr '09, 15:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
If you want blood... you got it

AC DC. Includes the ultimate version of Whole Lotta Rosie and a song about the clap, what more do you want?

harvesterofsorrow | 10 Apr '09, 16:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
.

Suicide Live on cassette was pretty intense.
Nocturne by Siouxsie and The Banshees- is a gem

messthetics | 10 Apr '09, 17:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
- there's a live bonus "suicide live" on the S/T reissue that's great
  
  Saint_Cronin @messthetics | 11 Apr '09, 14:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
Future Of The Left - Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires

Is fricking sweet

expostfacto | 10 Apr '09, 18:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
Joy Division

I only have a JD/NO live Peel Sessions comp -thing...but I gotta say I like JD better live than on album (where they always sound a bit flat).

semi-JAG. EATB Live In Liverpool. Siouxsie's Nocture is a gem: I'll second that motion.

The live stuff on Pavement re-issues. Lw/outB, yes. David Live. Kiss Alive, deffo; Kiss AliveII, pass.

oceanRain | 10 Apr '09, 19:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Cheap Trick Live At Budokan
  
  too.
  
  oceanRain @oceanRain | 10 Apr '09, 19:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
Re How The West Was Won

is it better than Song Remains The Same?

Until now I thought it was some compilation: which made me wonder why it was so popular with Metacritic. Now I know.

oceanRain | 10 Apr '09, 19:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
- its about 20 times better.
  
  even a year after it came out the band admitted the Song soundtrack was shit. shabby performances throughout on that one.
  
  Jamie_Summers @oceanRain | 10 Apr '09, 19:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
- it's a lot better
  
  soapy @oceanRain | 10 Apr '09, 23:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
another i've just remembered:

Liveage - Descendents

stwerewolf | 10 Apr '09, 19:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
i love the fact no one has mentioned muse at wembley

overrated?

The_Libertineq | 10 Apr '09, 19:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Typically pretentious disliking of Muse
  
  As it happens, though I'm reasonably snobbish about music, I will confess to being a big fan of Muse, and I think HAARP is a pretty enjoyable account of the Wembley gig.
  
  ovrdrv @The_Libertineq | 14 Apr '09, 11:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Daft punk - alive 2007

Surely?

XYZIA | 11 Apr '09, 00:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Alive 2007
  
  is pretty much the pinnacle of live electronic music, it's a work of genius.
  
  beepz @XYZIA | 12 Apr '09, 21:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mystery White Boy

By Jeff Buckley is good. I havent hear live at Sin-e so i dunno how they compare?

talskar | 11 Apr '09, 02:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Here...

MC5 Kick Out The Jams ... Otis Redding At The Whisky ... James Brown At The Apollo 1 & 2 ... Dylan Live 1966 ... Stooges Metallic KO ... Neil Young & Crazy Horse Weld ... Lou Reed Take No Prisoners

theintl | 11 Apr '09, 06:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
The make Up - Destination Love : live at cold rice

Is my fav live album, utter genius !!! It was their first album and it was so good they didnt need to record any of the songs in a studio.

http://fatboydeluxe.com/blog/images/makeup.jpg

GFontaine | 11 Apr '09, 15:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
That one with the 'I ALONE LURRRRVE YOU!' sub-pearl-jam stuff on it.

These early 90s corporate-grunge jokes doing anything for yer?

sunbakedsnowcave | 11 Apr '09, 17:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
Genuine Live '66 - Bob Dylan

yep. but anything bob dylan is amazing. got a buncha bootlegs that are way up there, too.

ladyshamble | 11 Apr '09, 20:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bonnie Prince Billy

Summer In The South East is awesome... It's Will Oldham with a great band and has a real earthy feel... almost Pearl Jam-esque in places. Really great re-workings of his songs. The newish one with Harum Scarum is good aswell... again the somgs are re-worked to have a great folky feel! What an artist

Carlos_Fandango | 11 Apr '09, 20:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
Depeche Mode: 101

vw_sb | 11 Apr '09, 20:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
...

'rank' of course!

Daviss | 12 Apr '09, 02:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
Elvis Costello - Live at El Mocambo

Fairly early, decent quality, frantic recording of Elvis with The Attractions around the time of This Year's Model. A brilliant band, especially the bass player.

Rosskel | 12 Apr '09, 03:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall

Playing 'new' songs like Old Man and Needle and the Damage Done. Just him and a guitar. Good stuff.

Rosskel | 12 Apr '09, 04:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
Portishead - NYC Live. The orchestra with them just sounds so effing amazing!!

You can also pick it up pretty cheaply from amazon marketplace or play methinks.

Not generalyl a live albums fan, but Marilyn Manson 'The Last Tour on Earth' and NIN 'And All That Could Have Been' are pretty decent.

medulla | 12 Apr '09, 16:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Iterpol's "Black Session" is amazing (if you can find the high bps for download)

The ep disc version has terrible sound and omits all the highlights except "The Specialist". The version I have includes "Obstacle 2" and "Untitled" which I have never seen them do live cause I missed their first tour cycle. It also includes the best versions of "Stella Was A Diver And She's Always Down" and "Roland" that I've ever heard- almost better than the album versions.

Saint_Cronin | 12 Apr '09, 16:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bob Dylan - Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue

is awesome too. With the band from the Desire album and a whole host of guests to boot. Its also home to the definitive version of 'Hurricane'.

A great place to start if you haven't checked him out before too!

SvenAlfred | 12 Apr '09, 19:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
um...

Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre - Tindersticks
Little Drummer Boy - Kozelek

notthat | 12 Apr '09, 21:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bob Dylan

Live at the Royal Albert Hall is amazing, he rips throuhg some old songs like One too Many Mornings and Baby Let Me Follow You Down but obviously the 'judas' is cool to hear to hear as well, but for me HARD RAIN is his best live recording, its similar in its defiant delivery as 1966, but it just edges it.

larrikinlloyd | 13 Apr '09, 12:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
- nononono
  
  Before the Flood is clearly better
  
  tirard @larrikinlloyd | 13 Apr '09, 14:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Nine inch nails

INCREDIBLE

spidermonkey | 13 Apr '09, 17:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Standard response but:
  
  Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East.
  
  Aslo.....
  
  Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
  AC/DC - If you want blood.....
  Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
  Bonnie Prince Billy - Summer in the Southeast
  Revolting Cocks - You Goddamn Son Of A Bitch
  
  silverfoxqpr @spidermonkey | 14 Apr '09, 12:28 | X | ^ This | Reply