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Greatest Live Albums
After finding it amongst a pile of old books in the loft yesterday
just had a very pleasureable two hours reaquainting myself with the sheer brilliance of Neil Young's thrilling 1991 album 'Weld' and wondered what everyone else's favourite live albums were?
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Tangerine Dream - Logos
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I hate live albums. I believe that live music is meant to be listened to... live. When it's recorded there's so much missing from it.
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Metallica - S&M (Live)
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Toyah - Warrior Rock
Gary Numan - Living Ornaments 1979 Gary Numan - White Noise 1984 Duran Duran - Arena |
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I hate live albums. I believe that live music is meant to be listened to... live. When it's recorded there's so much missing from it.
Yesterday amongst my cds I found a live cd of The Wonder Stuff. Fantastic live when I saw them in 94/95, but the cd was a bit of a letdown. My faves are probably Seconds Out by Genesis and Live at Earls Court by Morrissey (recorded 2 days after I saw him in Brighton!! )
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the sheer brilliance of Neil Young's thrilling 1991 album 'Weld' and wondered what everyone else's favourite live albums were?
![]() May I suggest Thin Lizzy's 'Live and Dangerous'? |
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Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
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I forgot to add
Japan - Oil on Canvas |
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Iron maiden - Live after death.
Deep purple - Made in japan. acdc - if you want blood you got it. Some of my faves you will find some of the best live albums ever made are bootlegs raw and unedited. |
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Robbie Williams - Live at Knebworth
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The Levellers - Headlights, White Lines, Black Tar Rivers.
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Deep Purple, Made In Japan
Led Zeppelin, How The West Was Won Queen, On Fire Live at the Bowl Status Quo, Live at the Glasgow Apollo Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous Slade, Slade Alive |
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Wings Over America
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lauryn hill - unplugged
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AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You Got It
The closest I have ever heard to the live experience being transferred to a CD recording. I prefer to listen to many of the versions from this over the studio, including 'Whole Lotta Rosie' and 'Let There Be Rock'. Honourable mention goes to Led Zeppelin's How The West Was Won, although that's more for the sheer virtuosity of the performance than anything else. |
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nirvana - unplugged
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Babylon By Bus, Bob Marley & The Wailers
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Neil Young - Weld or Rust Never Sleeps
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous UFO - Strangers in the Night Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Pack Up The Plantation Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Leonard Cohen - Live in Concert (1994) Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ... to name but a few |
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Live albums have fallen out of fashion and Ive never been ken on them. Nirvana - Unplugged is however a great album as it was so diffrent to their studio material.
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Beverley Knight - Music City Soul
Not recorded live from a concert but live in the studio. i.e. No multi-track layering, vocal layering, vocal editing, post production, weeks spent prefecting each song or any of that crap; literally walked into the studio with session musicians, hit the record button and recorded it all in one take. What you hear is exactly what was captured in that moment, no going over certain vocal lines or the diluting stages of post production and piecing it together. And thanks to Carmen Quesy, I was able to locate a very rare LP analogue version of this record which I had spent a few years looking for. |
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Pink Floyd - Live for a friend
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe |
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Space Ritual ~ Hawkwind
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just had a very pleasureable two hours reaquainting myself with the sheer brilliance of Neil Young's thrilling 1991 album 'Weld' and wondered what everyone else's favourite live albums were?

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