Your favourite live album?
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SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
The velvet underground- live with lou reed 1969 
Led zeppelin- how the west was won; amazingly, many of the songs sound better here than on the albums; especially immigrant song and bron yr aur stomp.
Led zeppelin- how the west was won; amazingly, many of the songs sound better here than on the albums; especially immigrant song and bron yr aur stomp.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
damnhippie said:
What about 'If you want blood you've got it'? Another great live album
Let me tell you about a woman i know...
When it comes to loving she really steals the show...
Ain't exactly pretty, ain't exacty small....
32-49-56 you can see she's got it all.....
or someting like that 
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Zion Train's Alive album. Used to love seeing them live but their records never really appealed. Alive captures the energy they give off when performing.
Agreed on live albums - they generally sound inferior to the studio version. It's best to either experience it properly live or just listen to the real thing.
But I digress.
My favourite live album is Cheap Trick - Live at the Budokan. Perhaps because I haven't got anything else by them, but it is superb. It somehow turned up in a little local CD shop in China, amongst the Kenny G and Carpenters albums
But I digress.
My favourite live album is Cheap Trick - Live at the Budokan. Perhaps because I haven't got anything else by them, but it is superb. It somehow turned up in a little local CD shop in China, amongst the Kenny G and Carpenters albums
DJ Squelch said:
did you get it packaged with that fucking awful remix set? there was a real battle with that - the label INSISTED they do it, ZT didn't want a bit of it. They squabbled, it was a dealbreaker but ZT pushed to include the live disc so fans wouldn't feel quite so ripped off. It bombed anyway
but the live disc is great - you can hear my mate telling them to turn the bass up
Juice Terry
rama lama fa fa fa
Kanda said:Simple Minds - Live in the City of Light
One of the first album I bought and can still listen to it tirelesly to this day
I was at the gig in Paris where that was recorded Not only did I have to endure the concert but a return coach trip full of mega fans who insisted on playing Simple Minds videos on loop for the entire journey.In my defence I was trying to impress a girl and did get rewarded with a very dirty weekend in Paris which kind of made up for it.
As for my favourites:-
On your feet or on your knees - Blue Oyster Cult
Kick out the jams - MC5
Double live gonzo - Ted Nugent
AverageJoe
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Cheap Trick - Live at the Budokan
Slayer - Live Undead
and some old John Michelle Jarre thing I had when I was a kid. It was Rendevous or something, but there a bit where they are intervewing a woman who is going on about how awesome it is and then just starts going "Kids! Get of my car! Get off my car!". And then something awesome sounding kicks in and its just.....great!
You prolly have to hear it really.
Slayer - Live Undead
and some old John Michelle Jarre thing I had when I was a kid. It was Rendevous or something, but there a bit where they are intervewing a woman who is going on about how awesome it is and then just starts going "Kids! Get of my car! Get off my car!". And then something awesome sounding kicks in and its just.....great!
You prolly have to hear it really.
A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
This thread's been going for 12 hours and nobody's come up with
Hawkwind - Spece Ritual
wake up at the back there!
Hawkwind - Spece Ritual
wake up at the back there!
Spion
I hear ya
Spector vs Rector, haha . . . in a WMC in Donny, muwaHAHAaaa. ExcellentNegativland said:
Steppin Out (as on live at the Electic Circus) is big a fave Fall live tune of mine.
The only other live tune I lurve that springs to mind is Ball & Chain on Big Brother and the Holding Company, but in general I like the live sound in preference to the clinically produced
Brel doing Amsterdam live is a recent discovery, and you can sound all poncey singing along in French
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
James Brown - Love Power Peace Live in Paris 1971
Rolling Stones - Ya-Yas and a Live in Austin 1972 bootleg
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
Banco de Gaia - Live At Glastonbury
Specials - Live at the Moonlight Club
Beach Boys - Live in London
I like live albums
Rolling Stones - Ya-Yas and a Live in Austin 1972 bootleg
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
Banco de Gaia - Live At Glastonbury
Specials - Live at the Moonlight Club
Beach Boys - Live in London
I like live albums
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
My fave live album is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Ok, it wasn't recorded in front of an audience, and it wasn't all recorded in one go (then again, most 'proper' live albums aren't either) but each track was recorded live in the studio, and, apart from one track which took two attempts, each track was recorded at the first go. That's even more remarkable when you consider that Miles gave the group hardly any practice time, just handed them a few scales and gave a brief verbal idea of how he wanted them played.
Miles also released some great 'proper' live albums recorded at gigs, such as Live Evil, Dark Magus and Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West - and many more.
Miles also released some great 'proper' live albums recorded at gigs, such as Live Evil, Dark Magus and Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West - and many more.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Revolting Cocks - Live! You Goddamn Son Of A Bitch!
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Her Shadows and Light live double album is good too.Tank Girl said:
Daft Punk and The Ramones have already been mentioned, which are both excellent, but I'll say Squarepusher's "Alive In Japan" which accompanies his "Do You Know Squarepusher" as a bonus disc. He really cranks it up on here in a fucked up mix, screaming at one point "If you can't make more fuckin' noise than that I'm fuckin' goin' home", all the while systematically destroying a whole soundsystem and bass whilst playing it as only he can.
