Greatest Live Rock Album

[bluesbassman]

Here are nine of my favorites in no particular order except for The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East which I think slightly edges out The Who - Live At Leeds as the best live Rock album ever produced. The rest are all close thirds. :)

Only room for nine on the poll though, so let's hear what your favorites are.

[givemebackmycountry]

1. All of 'em.

Now take thy ass to a website called "Wolfgangs Vault".

I'll see you in about a month when you get back.

:toast: :pals:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. Wow!

Wolfgangs Vault I mean............. :bounce: Great tip, thanks!!!!

[Tikki]

2. It's Alive....RAMONES

Tikki

[rug]

3. Can't be more live than this.

[Taverner]

4. None of the above

I suggest going through the concert CDs of Pearl Jam, Phish, Greatful Dead, Led Zep and Pink Floyd

VU's live double makes the cut too, as it was an 'on' night for Lou

[here_is_to_hope]

5. Pearl Jam...

Fox Theatre shows circa 1994...
And how do you leave 'Song Remains the Same' off of this list?

[Taverner]

6. Live LZep was somthing that, as a live music fan, few artists have met

[Joe Fields]

7. Hard to pick a favorite. Depends on my mood. You listed some good ones.

I would add Neil Young's Live Rust, Pink Floyd's Animals (Live) which they play out of order from the studio version, but still kicks total ass, AC/DC Live (guilty pleasure), John Fogerty's Premonition CD,

and let's not forget Woodstock, Frampton Comes Alive (hey, you had to be there...another guilty pleasure), Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Joni Mitchell's Miles of Aisles, Lynnerd Skynnerd's 1976 King Biscuit Flower Hour performance in Cardiff, Wales...

I'm done.

[bluesbassman]

8. Great calls. Frampton's has a special place in my heart...

I was painting a house that summer when it came out, and this neighbor kid had his window wide open and played it non stop for a week. I memorized every song. :)

[shanti]

26. frampton

heh! i saw that concert live in 1973 or 74, anaheim stadium. that's way back when the boomers would fill stadiums on a regular basis. no longer the case...

[Common Sense Party]

9. Other: Cheap Trick at Budokan

Accept no substitutes.

[zen_bohemian]

23. agreed

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. 4-way tie (ironically, as you'll soon see) for me:

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1. Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal
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1. David Bowie - David Live
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1. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
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1. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4-Way Street
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Honorable Mention for Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
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Saw Seger live around 1972 in between "The Bob Seger System" and "The Silver Bullet Band" and
he SUCKED!!! It didn't help that he was the closer at the all-day Goose Creek Music Festival in
Michigan and he followed "The MC5" and Ted Nugent (post-Amboy Dukes and pre-Gonzo). They
were pure fucking jetstream molten lava rocket-propelled energy and he came on so mellow that
I bet 3/4 of those in attendance just got up and started the long journey home.
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[Iggo]

11. UFO -- Strangers In The Night

Just barely edges out Judas Priest -- Unleashed In The East.

(EDIT: I spel gud)

[musiclawyer]

48. +1

Many tracks better than studio versions. Criminally underrated band

[6000eliot]

12. Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous.

But from this list I'll go Lou.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

36. A 2 CD + DVD Deluxe Edition of that has just been released...

Disc: 1
1. Jailbreak
2. Emerald
3. Southbound
4. Rosalie - Cowgirls Song
5. Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In A Spotlight)
6. Massacre
7. Still In Love With You
8. Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed

Disc: 2
1. Cowboy Song
2. The Boys Are Back In Town
3. Don't Believe A Word
4. Warriors
5. Are You Ready
6. Suicide
7. Sha La La
8. Baby Drives Me Crazy
9. The RockerBonus Tracks
10. Opium Trail (Wild One-L & D Outake)
11. Bad Reputation (Wild One-L & D Outake)

Disc: 3
1. Introduction/Rosalie
2. The Boys Are Back In Town
3. Emerald
4. Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In A Spotlight)
5. Massacre
6. Call On Me
7. Don't Believe A Word
8. Are You Ready
9. Sha La La
10. Baby Drives Me Crazy
11. Finale/Me And The Boys
12. Jessie's Song (unreleased studio track)

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Dangerous-Deluxe-2CD-DVD/dp/tracks/B004D2XOMC/

[chollybocker]

14. The Rise &Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: The Movie

and Talking Heads 'Stop Making Sense.'

Technically, both soundtrack albums.

[Mendocino]

15. Allman Brothers,

nothing else comes close. Second rock concert I ever saw was ABB, February 1971.

[Mudoria]

16. Other:

Thin Lizzy "Live and Dangerous"

[Mopar151]

17. I've gotta at least nominate

Lynrd Skynrd - One More From The Road - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6wpoeL-Tbs

[dawg]

18. Yessongs!

Triple-live with a Roger Dean gatefold cover, baby.

[Ryano42]

19. This has to be mentioned...

I remember the summer this was released and it was the big album that year...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3nNkcQ1t7hM/SbcRdDFeo6I/AAAAAAAAJfM/WRQc8TtXF6Y/s400/Peter+Frampton+-+Frampton+Comes+Alive!+-+Front.jpg

[Paladin]

20. I'm With You---It's Gotta Be "Fillmore East"..... (n/t)

[Faygo Kid]

21. The Who - Live At Leeds

Knocked me out then, knocks me out now. Summertime Blues. Wow.

[NoGOPZone]

22. Dylan's "Royal Albert Hall" Concert

Actually recorded at Manchester Free Trade Hall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjTIZ-DqpU

One could also make a strong case for other live albums featuring the Band. Rock of Ages, Before the Flood, and the Last Waltz

[Arkansas Granny]

24. Three Dog Night Captured Live at the Forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByuMT1igrAI

Crappy video, but great concert.

[OmahaBlueDog]

25. Bob Seger "Live Bullitt" and Little Feat "Waiting for Columbus"

Incredible albums capturing these artists at the peak of their careers.

Someone mentioned Zeppelin. "How the West Was Won" is good, but the best live compillation is the live DVD (called "DVD") with cuts from Earl's Court, Knebworth, MSG (The Song Remains the Same) and other venues.

[TuxedoKat]

43. Little Feat -- was going to mention that album

I saw that concert too!

TK
(born in Omaha)

[OmahaBlueDog]

53. Most of WFC was recorded at Lisner Auditorium in DC

A couple of cuts in London

For whatever reason, Little Feat was big in the DC area, as were their then-frequent backup singers, Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris.

[alsame]

27. Woodstock nt

[bif]

28. A tie. MC% & The Who.

If you ever saw the MC5 Live you'd agree. They absolutely kicked ass!

[underpants]

29. Oasis Familiar to Millions

Okay look someone had to say it

there is really cool version of Don't Look Back in Anger in which the Wembley crowd takes over the song and sings it themselves. Some of it could just be sound editing but it sounds like a reall good time was had by all....except the Liam of course

[Lindsey]

30. Frampton Comes Alive. Great songs and good memories...n/t

[TZ]

31. Rush in Rio

I never liked ANY live album until I discovered Rush. They are awesome live and Rio was an incredible end to their first tour back together after I guess about 5 years apart.

[Bake]

51. God no! Spare us!

:rofl:

Bake

[TZ]

57. Did I mention I'm going to see Rush in Baltimore next month

And I'll be sitting 16 rows from the stage? And no, I won't spare you afterwards here either...:evilgrin:

[Badfish]

32. Gotta go with Priest , Unleashed in the East

and maybe Kiss Alive II

[av8rdave]

33. Too many to list in a poll like this. Notable by their absence are:

Rush in Rio

Jethro Tull Bursting Out

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Year of the Horse

[Badfish]

34. Ozzy , Speak of the Devil

[Amerigo Vespucci]

35. Split for #1 between Allmans & The Who

The 40th Anniversary Edition of "Leeds" is pretty damned awesome. My favorite moment on the whole album is at the 6:37 mark of "Magic Bus" where Townsend hits 5 fat, ominous "chords of doom," culminating in Daltrey's tortured "magic Buhhhhhhhhhhhhhuhhhuhhhhhhssssssssssss."

The difference, for me, is that the Who was always good for blowing up my stored reserves of male aggression. That's still true to this day. I love the Shepperton (final Moon sessions) version of "Baba O'Riley" that's on "The Kids Are Alright," the 1:50 mark, right after Daltrey sings "I don't need to be forgiven," and there's Townsend again with those CHORDS.

If I'm pissed off or agitated or anxious and I put on The Who, I blow out the aggression.

The Allman Brothers are a different band for a different mood. I am less likely to "actively listen" to the Fillmore album...I'll put it on of I'm doing something else. Like the Dead (or Miles Davis or John Coltrane), sometimes their music was / is about the song, sometimes it's about strapping yourself in for the ride, sometimes you get both.

But I need to be reasonably mellow or as much as I love them, I don't wanna hear them.

And the Humble Pie album? That is one snarling MoFo. I'd call it a close second, not third. "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" is inexplicably tight and precise...it masquerades as a sloppy blues jam but if you listen to the way they fit all of the pieces together, it's genius.

:toast:

[Throd]

37. I'll go with "The Song Remains the Same"

Half the people mentioned on this thread are dead.

[rbnyc]

38. siouxsie and the banshees - nocturne

http://www.google.com/search?q=siouxsie+and+the+banshees+nocturne&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADSA_en#q=siouxsie+and+the+banshees+nocturne&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7ADSA_en&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=gRN0TcDoNMGqlAfBtLh0&ved=0CDkQqwQ&bav=on.2,or.&fp=2baff43110dac2bf

[old mark]

39. Live At Leeds...I wore 2 of them out back when there was vinyl...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWgxjc7kv3Q

The Who Live at Leeds - Shakin' All Over...


Someone once told me you can't get good music out of an SG...

(I own 2 of them now)
mark

Actually, I have 2 more tied for first- "Rockin' the Filmore" - Humble Pie...

And "Five Guys Walk Into a Bar..." by The Faces with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood... Cheating, maybe because it is a multi CD collection...

ANY of these 3 are hot enough to set your hair on fire.


mark

[CrownPrinceBandar]

40. Blue Öyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live..........

This was the album that started it all for me.

[WinkyDink]

41. J. Geils Band: "Full House Live."

[Forkboy]

42. Nomeansno:Live and Cuddly

[ceile]

44. Depeche Mode 101

Not "rock", I know, but still an amazing live album.

[begin_within]

45. Cheap Trick at Budokan was a huge seller.

[nomorenomore08]

46. Not necessarily *the* best, but Neil Young - 'Live Rust' deserves a mention.

The second, "electric" half (formerly second LP) has only 7 songs, but every one of those is a definitive, near-flawless performance. "Tonight's the Night" title track as an encore just puts it over the top.

[OhioChick]

47. Alice in Chains/Unplugged

:headbang:

[InvisibleTouch]

49. For some reason I have always really really hated live albums.

I just find it a distraction to the music.

[kwassa]

50. "Wheels of Fire" Cream

two disc album, one was live, one was studio.

Cream was revolutionary at the time, for doing long, extended improvisational jams. They were far more radical than most things that followed, including the rest of Eric Clapton's more conservative career.

Four songs live: Toad, Traintime, Crossroads, and Spoonful.

Crossroads is the single best live rock recording ever, IMHO.

[Bake]

52. If it doesn't have to be a single band, how about Concert For Bangladesh?

That's a good 'un! Leon doing Jumping Jack Flash/Younglbood!

Bake

[Taverner]

54. Why is "The Last Waltz" not on this list????

[Capn Sunshine]

55. THAT is an EXcellent damn question, Taverner!

excellent indeed

"my biggest mistake was lovin' you too much, and lettin' you know"

[Capn Sunshine]

56. Black Zepplin/Led Crowes

Oh Jeesus what a great show; Jimi Paige with the Black Crowes doing every Led Zepplin tune you love.
It was Epic. The Greek is the perfect concert venue in the summertime.