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Kid Calamity
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Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 09:21
pooley wrote:
Talking heads - stop making sense


Good call! Not familiar with your other choice, though.
Kid Calamity
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Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 09:23
Cheap Trick: "At Budokan"
Stevo
Stevo
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Edited Sep 08, 2010, 10:45
Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 09:44
some I missed
Sun Ra Detroit Jazz Centre (28 discs, not sure what's best)
Hawkwind Space ritual
Swans Feel good now Mean Fiddler March 88
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker Home (live in studio)
Velvet Underground Gymnasium 67
Led zep US tour '69 not sure which best but 21/4 San Fran is pretty great.
MC5 Teenage Lust
Kaleidoscope (trying to think of date, will check)
H.P.Lovecraft May 11th 1968
Great Society Matrix thing that was released as Conspicuous & How It was.
Quicksilver Messenger Service Lost Gold & Silver (though I could really live without the drum solo)
Big Brother & The holding Co Winterland 68
James Brown zaire '74
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
356 posts

Edited Sep 08, 2010, 11:33
Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 09:46
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Sly & The Family Stone - Complete Woodstock Set
Primal Scream - Live In Japan
Miles Davis - Dark Magus and Live At The Fillmore 'It's About That Time'
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Velvet Underground - Live 1969
Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - At The Fillmore and his Masey Hall solo one
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live At The Star Club
James Brown - Live At The Apollo
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is......
Spiritualized - Royal Albert Hall

plus that one by The Who, Live/Dead, Bob Marley........
The Sea Cat
The Sea Cat
3608 posts

Edited Sep 08, 2010, 10:27
Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 10:26
How could I forget this little known gem:

John Renbourn & Robin Williamson : Wheel Of Fortune

Wonderfuly warm and intimate live set from 'The Impenetrablestringtangle'
(sic). Superb musicianship and great fun as well. Class.
Seb
Seb
600 posts

Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 10:48
Dog 3000 wrote:
Just realize I misspoke in my original post -- Sabbath "Live At Last" is the munged-out crudathon to which I meant to refer. The Dio live album is a little too produced for my taste.

One of the most absurd live albums ever is Ozzy's "Speak Of The Devil" -- for one thing it's obviously NOT live, since Oz sounds hoarse and out of breath when he talks to the audience, but as soon as the music starts all of a sudden he's double-tracked and buried in reverb! And his shit band consists of: the lead guitarist from Night Ranger, the bass player from Quiet Riot and the drummer from Black Oak Arkansas!! They do 100% Sabbath songs, because this album was rushed out to compete with Dio-Sabbath's "Live Evil" album. And the punchline is the Ozzy record sold a lot more copies.

Anyway, "Spock" is a bootleg and I'm sure it's not too hard to find online, or else someone around here can trade you a copy. The sound (and performance) is waaaaay better than "Live At Last".

Video-wise, that Sabbath TV gig from Paris 1970 is one of the greats. I used to have a VHS bootleg, think it might have been legitimately released by now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvuI8d57N9I


Strongly disagree! I've always loved Speak of the Devil. For many people (myself included), that LP was a route into the Sabs' back catalogue. Brad Gillis does an amazing job, I reckon, all things considered.

My favourite live albums are:

Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Jeck & Kirkegaard - Soaked
AMM - Combine and Laminates / Treatise 1984
Hanoi Rocks - All Those Wasted Years
IanB
IanB
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Edited Sep 08, 2010, 11:00
Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 10:57
In the mid 70s when money for records and tickets was tight I loved live albums as they were a kind of instant "best of" and you got an inside track to the vibe of the band - especially as so many pre Punk acts were badly served in the recording studio. Anyway, assuming we are not including bootlegs, jazz and classical, I would have to go for this lot:

Yessongs
Spiritualized - Royal Albert Hall
Magma - Live / BBC Live / Trilogie au Trianon / Live In Tokyo
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
Springsteen - Hammersmith 75
Genesis - Seconds Out
David Live
Rainbow - On Stage
TDream - Ricochet
The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
Jimi - Isle of Wight (unexpanded)
Band Of Gypsies (unexpanded)
John Martyn - Live At Leeds (unexpanded)
Man - Maximum Darkness
Nils Lofgren - Back It Up Official Bootleg
Peter Hammill & Stuart Gordon - Veracious
Rheostatics - Double Live
The Band - Rock of Ages
Uriah Heep Live
Van - It's Too Late To Stop Now
Traffic - On The Road
Zappa - The Yellow Shark
War - Live!
James Brown - Sex Machine & Love Power Peace
Misty In Roots- Countervision
Dylan - Hard Rain
Allmans - Eat A Peach
Santana - Lotus
Lou Reed - R&R Animal / Live & Animal Serenade
VU - !969 Live
King Crimson - USA
Cope - Concert Climax
Magazine - Play
SAHB - Live
TMV - Scab Dates
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
The Who - Live At Leeds
Thin Lizzy - Live n Dangerous
Neil Young - Arc / Weld
Fitter Stoke
Fitter Stoke
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Edited Sep 08, 2010, 11:28
Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 11:17
'Made In Japan' and 'The Who Live At Leeds' natch, plus:

'Viva! Roxy Music' - hopelessly contrived (listen to the cheering audience tape loop at the start of 'Pyjamarama') but searing performances nonetheless;

Man 'Live At The Padget Rooms, Penarth' - my fave Man album, live or studio;

Van der Graaf 'Vital' - raw and intense;

Dr Feelgood 'Stupidity' - essential;

Yes 'Yessongs' - Steve Howe is allowed to really rip here, making every track far more involving and HEAVY than its studio equivalent, the lack of a proper church organ in 'Close To The Edge' notwithstanding;

Kiss 'Alive!' and 'Alive II' - again, seriously dishonest as live documents, but what excitement;

UFO 'Strangers In The Night' - a stone classic hard rock double live album;

Henry Cow 'Concerts' - their best album;

Caravan 'Live With The New Sinfonia' - containing unique material and especially fine in its expanded CD edition;

Eddie and the Hot Rods 'Live At The Marquee' - ok, just an EP - but nothing else captured their raw live energy better;

Black Sabbath 'Live Evil' - wherein the late, great Mr Dio makes Ozzy's songs all his own with aplomb - and the band rocks like never before or since.

Loads more will come to mind.
mingtp
mingtp
2270 posts

Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 11:17
IanB wrote:
Misty In Roots- Countervision
Neil Young - Weld


Those two, along with the various live bits off Opiate by Tool would be my choices.
keith a
9565 posts

Re: Live Albums
Sep 08, 2010, 12:09
TBH I tend to listen to live stuff a couple of times and file them away these days, but there was a time when as Ian says they had more impact. These are a few I've loved....

Absolutely Live - The Doors
Not sure anyone else here has mentioned this. Not heard it in a long time, but always thought this was a classic. Fab version of When The Music's Over. Must give a mention to one called Bright Midnight - Live In America that came out a few years ago, too. Meant to get the others in that series but never got round to it.

1969 - Velvet Underground
Really nice feel to this one.

Totales Turns - The Fall
Raw as anything!

Babylon By Bus - Bob Marley & the Wailers
I know this was considered inferior to the earlier 'Live' one, but aged 18 or whatever I hadn't heard that one and loved the lengthy Exodus that Peel played from this one and bought this - unusually for me on cassette - a couple of years later.

Les Douches / Preston - Joy Division
Both absolutely top notch.

I was a big fan of Gentle Giant's Live: Playing The Fool back in the day and keep meaning to give it a play. One day....

It's All In The Brochure - Wire
The RFH gig from 2000. I was there! Still debating whether to spend 60 odd quid on the Wire live downloads. I've liked the live Wire stuff that has come out in recent yrs but it seems like a lot to shell out without getting a hard copy - for a dinosaur like me at least.
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