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Old 04-10-2010, 20:30
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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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Old 04-10-2010, 20:34
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Old 04-10-2010, 20:43
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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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Old 04-10-2010, 20:51
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Metallica - S&M (Live)
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Old 04-10-2010, 20:52
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Toyah - Warrior Rock

Gary Numan - Living Ornaments 1979

Gary Numan - White Noise 1984

Duran Duran - Arena
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Old 04-10-2010, 20:56
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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.
I know what you mean and they are normally poorly recorded and just dont replicate the buzz you get at the concert.
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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Old 04-10-2010, 20:57
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Oh yes, I forgot about that. Got the dvd as well
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Old 04-10-2010, 20:58
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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?
Wonderful album.

May I suggest Thin Lizzy's 'Live and Dangerous'?
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Old 04-10-2010, 21:01
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Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
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Old 04-10-2010, 21:29
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I forgot to add

Japan - Oil on Canvas
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Old 04-10-2010, 21:31
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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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Old 04-10-2010, 21:34
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Old 04-10-2010, 21:43
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Old 04-10-2010, 22:04
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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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Old 04-10-2010, 22:43
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Old 04-10-2010, 22:47
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Old 04-10-2010, 22:48
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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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Old 04-10-2010, 22:49
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Old 04-10-2010, 22:50
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Old 04-10-2010, 22:59
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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
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to name but a few
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Old 04-10-2010, 23:12
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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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Old 04-10-2010, 23:31
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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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Old 05-10-2010, 08:30
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Pink Floyd - Live for a friend
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
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Old 05-10-2010, 08:43
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Old 05-10-2010, 08:53
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I've always preferred Ricochet. Part 2 has always been one of my favourite pieces of music.

Logos is a good call though!
Space Ritual ~ Hawkwind
You beat me to it! Space Ritual will always be my favourite live album, i think it still sounds stunning 37 years after it was recorded!
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