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    Your most listened-to live album?

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    1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

    In the days before "Greatest Hits" or "The Best Of" became more commonplace the live album was often the only source of all of a band's best songs collected together in one place, and very often performed with a bit more "verve" than the studio recordings. And being composed of two or more discs were often better value for money.

    Having had another look through my iTunes library and there are lot of live albums that I owned in my early days of record buying that I had forgotten about because they don't get a massive amount of plays these days, but would have been staples of my listening when I was in my teens.

    So as well as the two I mentioned in my original post I would also have to submit the following:

    Runaways Live In Japan
    Steppenwolf Live
    Yessongs
    Blow Your Face Out by The J Geils Band
    Frampton Come Alive (of course)

    However it did occur to me that two of my most listened two live recordings have AFAIK never been officially released, and have exited for me on cassette only. Firstly The Baker Gurvitz Army recorded off the TV around the time of the release of their first album, and secondly Freur from a Radio One "In Concert" broadcast from early 1986 IIRC which featured songs from their yet to be released (and when it was almost impossible to get hold of) second album.

    How could I forget J Geils Band? Though for me, it was Full House rather than Blow Your Face Out.

    Your most listened-to live album?

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    Posted · Edited by howdenspur
    Additional content - nostalgia overcame me

    I wore a groove in the groove of "On your feet or on your knees" by BOC. It's not the best live album going - in fact it's not even their best live effort, but I played it to death in '75/76 especially.

    "Live at Budokan" by Cheap Trick also got extensive play and singing along in the car to.

     

    Oh and "Live" and Dangerous of course!

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