Best Live Album

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Unchainme
thats not exactly live though, it was overdubbed somewhat.

As are 98% of all live albums.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Well, there's the obvious ones...

Made In Japan-Deep Purple
Unleashed In The East-Judas Priest
Live And Dangerous-Thin Lizzy
Live Killers-Queen
If You Want Blood-AC/DC
No Sleep Til Hammersmith-Motorhead
At Budokan-Cheap Trick
Live At Leeds-The Who

then, there's...

Reach Up And Touch The Sky-Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Strangers In The Night-UFO
Rush In Rio-Rush
Rock In Rio-Iron Maiden
Live-AC/DC
Return of the Champions-Queen + Paul Rodgers
Live...In The Heart Of The City-Whitesnake
At The Royal Albert Hall-ELP
Live at Hammersmith-Twisted Sister
House of Yes: Live at the House of Blues-Yes
Live and Loud-Ozzy Osbourne
P.U.L.S.E.-Pink Floyd
Live Licks-Rolling Stones

[Mr Badguy]

All great!

My favourite : Judas Priest "Unleashed in the East".

Others worth mentioning:

ELP "Works live"
Yes "Yessongs" + "Yesshows"
Journey "Captured"
Rush "Exit stage left"
Deep Purple "Made in Europe"
Jethro Tull "Bursting out"
Halford "Live insurrection"
Jimmy Page/Black Crowes "Live at the Greek"

[Casemeister]

My favourite, and my vote for best, is Waylon Jennings - Waylon Live (The Expanded Edition). So good it's amazing. That album has as many non-country fans as country fans, it seems. Everyone who hears it seems to love it. Over 40 tracks and they're all brilliant.

If you want live rock, I love the Deluxe Edition of Skynyrd's One More From The Road. It's the album that got me into hard rock. Classic stuff.

Live At Leeds is another classic.

[EbDawson]

By the year 2006, the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department of your local public library . . .

[bastardog]

Life after Death - Iron Maiden
Tribute - Ozzy
Beast from the East - Dokken
Speak with the Devil - Ozzy

[Mr. Vengeance]

I threw out my favorite earlier, but if we want to throw in others that aven't been mentioned:

Get yer Ya Yas Out- Rolling Stones
Rockin' the Fillmore- Humble Pie
Absolutely Live- Doors

[Mr. Vengeance]

Originally posted by FORD
Since a lot of people mentioned AC/DC's "If You Want Blood", I wonder if that album will ever get the same treatment as "Live at Leeds" or Cheap Trick's "Budokan".

You know there's more of that concert on the master tapes than just the 40 minutes on that album. They could do one 80 minute CD easily, or possibly a double album.

If you have the AC/DC Bonfire Box Set, you kind of get it already. You get a cd soundtrack of the movie Let There Be Rock. You also get the classic Live at the Atlantic Recording Studios, radio release.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by EbDawson
By the year 2006, the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department of your local public library . . .

Love that one too. "Shotgun Blues" has a great blues guitar solo.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I also forgot "Fistful of Alice" by Alice Cooper, despite it being recorded at Cabo Wabo and Sammy Hagar making a guest appearence.

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
If you have the AC/DC Bonfire Box Set, you kind of get it already. You get a cd soundtrack of the movie Let There Be Rock. You also get the classic Live at the Atlantic Recording Studios, radio release.

The "Let there be rock" soundtrack sucks.

It sounds worse than a bootleg due to the loss of the original master tapes.

"Live from the Atlantic studios" is better than "If you want blood" IMO.

It sounds like AC/DC playing right there in the same room.

I also have a bootleg from circa 1981 from a radio show and it kicks ass, it should get an official release in a second AC/DC boxset hopefully.

[DavidLeeNatra]

some of the mentioned and QUEEN live killers...

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra
some of the mentioned and QUEEN live killers...

and that was already mentioned, too...

[Dave's Bitch]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
I also forgot "Fistful of Alice" by Alice Cooper, despite it being recorded at Cabo Wabo and Sammy Hagar making a guest appearence.

fist full of alice rules

[BruinJer]

Originally posted by EbDawson
By the year 2006, the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department of your local public library . . .

You know what... That live album from the Blue Brothers is a GREAT fucking listen. Good Call!


Has anyone seen the Videos for AC/DC's "For Those About To Rock" & I put the Finger On You" (from 1983).... Is that show floating around the bootleg circles??? I would LOVE to get my hands on that.