Favourite live albums

[Peejay]

Hi folks

Possibly been done before, but what are your favourite live albums?

A few of mine for starters:

* Joe Walsh - You can't argue with a sick mind

* Lynyrd Skynyrd - One more from the road

* Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous

* Nils Lofgren - Night after night

* Wishbone Ash - Live Dates

* Peter Frampton - FCA

 

All have great bass players - Willie Weeks, Leon Wilkeson, Phil Lynott, Wornell 'The Sonic Prince' Jones, Martin Turner, Stanley Sheldon.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

The Who Live at Leeds

Slade Alive

 

[Lozz196]

All Those Wasted Years by Hanoi Rocks, pretty much never out of my car stereo in 1986

 

No Sleep til Hammersmith by Motörhead, for the non Hanoi Rocks moments of 1986

 

Filthy Lucre by The Sex Pistols, their comeback gig in Finsbury Park in 1996, was a great gig

[TheGreek]

Done before...IIRC I nominated:

 

Live & Direct - Aswad
Rastafari Centennial - Steel Pulse
Stop making sense - Talking Heads

[James Nada]

Kiss - Alive (yes, I know it isn't)

Ramones - It's Alive

The Ventures - Live In Japan '65

 

 

 

Edited September 14, 2021 by James Nada
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[SH73]

Live After Death

[ezbass]

Secret World - Peter Gabriel 

Made in Japan*/Europe - Deep Purple

Bursting Out - Jethro Tull

Bob Marley & Wailers Live

Woodstock - Various

Four Way Street* - CSN&Y

Hot August Night* - Neil Diamond 

Live Dates - Wishbone Ash 

You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind - Joe Walsh

Live In The Air Age - BeBop Deluxe 

Live At Caesar’s Palace - Tom Jones (I grew up with this)

Slade Alive - Slade

 

*These albums changed my musical life when I heard them.

[Crawford13]

John Mayer - Where the light is

 

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Live from the fox Oakland

 

John Mayer Trio - Try! 

 

Snarky Puppy - Live from the Royal Albert Hall

 

Vulfpeck - Madison Square Gardens

 

Janek Gwizdala - Live at the 55 Bar

 

[Barking Spiders]

Stop Making Sense -Talking Heads

The Name of This Band is Talking Heads - have a guess

Everything Everything -Underworld

It's Alive - Ramones

Unplugged - Alice in Chains

At Budokan - Cheap Trick

What do you want from live -The Tubes

err...that's it

[Stub Mandrel]

Hawkwind - The Space Ritual Live in London and Liverpool

Hawkwind - Live Chronicles

Neil Young - Live Rust

Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

Various - Woodstock

Various - Live and Heavy

Barclay James Harvest - Berlin a Concert for the People

Yes - Yessongs

Ten Years After - Live at reading '83

 

 

Over-rated:

 

The Who - Live at Leeds

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

 

 

 

 

Another topic could be "What live albums feature u=you in the audience?"

[Velarian]

Travels - Pat Metheny Group

[Mudpup]

UFO - Strangers in the Night

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo

 

 

[Nail Soup]

The Ramones - It’s Alive

[Skybone]

Space Ritual - Hawkwind

[TimR]

Sorry I'm fairly bass centric.

Live After Death - I.M.

Exit Stage Left - Rush

Real to Real - Marillion

[Bassfinger]

Bursting Out - Jethro Tull.

 

Alchemy - Dire Straits.

 

Life Live - Thin Lizzy.

[Stub Mandrel]

Dang forgot Bursting Out.

[Guest]

Wake

[Paul S]

Made in Japan, Live and Dangerous, Live Dates and Strangers in the Night got a mention. I'll add Performance, Rocking the Filmore by Humble Pie. 

[Geek99]

27 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

Stop Making Sense -Talking Heads

also
 

Chic at the budokan (bernards last gig I think) 

u2 vertigo live from Chicago 

[Chaosanator]

I remember seeing a lot of love last time for Live After Death, which is (of course) a fantastic album.

However my favourite is:

Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio.

[Peejay]

Forgot Pulse by Pink Floyd

[ezbass]

How could I forget Live & Dangerous?

[paul_5]

Pulse - the Pink Floyds

live after death - Maiden

and a special mention to 

 

A Show of Hands by Rush

- the bass run down on the last track (side 4 if, like me, you had it on vinyl) is what inspired me to pick up the bass at the tender age of 17.

 

Decade of Aggression - Slayer

BBC Sessions - Led Zeppelin

[Doctor J]

Sweet - Live at the Rainbow 1973

The Who - Live at Leeds

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East

James - Getting Away With It... Live

Black Sabbath - Asbury Hall, NJ 1975

Soundgarden - Live from the Artist's Den

E.S.T. Symphony

Ronnie Scott's Quintet - Never Pat a Burning Dog

Morbid Angel - Entangled in Chaos

The Fall - Last Night at the Palais