Who likes to listen to Live albums in here?

marker
marker Posts: 1,084
edited August 2005 in Music & Movies
I've always liked them a lot. Right now as I'm typing this, I'm listening Aerosmith's A Little South Of Sanity. Great disc that I highly recommend

I also really dig those Instant Live CDs.

There are many, way too many to list that I think are great, but my all time favorites are the first Kiss Alive and AC/DC Live (the deluxe 2 disc version).
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    Best Live Albums Off The Top Of My Head

    ("Best" meaning, capturing a band at its absolute best, and boasting perfect production and song performances. "Off The Top Of My Head" meaning, the ones I can think of without looking at my CD rack.)

    Little Feat "Waiting For Columbus"
    Deep Purple "Made In Japan"
    Emerson Lake & Palmer "Welcome Back My Friends..."
    Billy Joel "Songs From The Attic"
    Neil Young "Live Rust"
    Lou Reed "Rock N Roll Animal"
    The Who "Live At Leeds"
    The Allman Brothers "Live At Fillmore East"
    Jethro Tull "Bursting Out"
    Kansas "Two For The Show"

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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited July 2005
    some more.....

    Fleetwood Mac, The Dance
    John Mayer, Any Given Thursday
    Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive!
    Ben Folds, Ben Folds Live
    Bob Mayo, on the keyboards. Bob Mayo.
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  • tecmo04
    tecmo04 Posts: 421
    edited July 2005
    eagles - hell freezes over
    My Stuff
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    RUSH "Exit Stage Left" and several of the one's you fellas have already mentioned.

    Cheap Trick "At Budokan" is another from my youth, that sticks out.
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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited July 2005
    Cypress Hill - Live at The Fillmore?

    best rap live album^^

    I listened to Ben Folds Live alot as well.
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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by swerve
    Cypress Hill - Live at The Fillmore?

    best rap live album^^

    I listened to Ben Folds Live alot as well.

    NO WAY!!!:D :D Another Ben Folds fan?? I thought there were only the two of us, myself & Tryrrthg. That's great.
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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited July 2005
    well i thought about the army... dad said son your ******* high...

    ^^^that line had to hooked from the get go
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited July 2005
    "Give me my money back you ****" - Song for the Dumped

    What's not to like, big Ben Folds fan here, and he's actually a good piano player. Selfless, Cold, and Composed is one of my favorites off that album...depressing as hell though.

    FWIW, the one song of theirs that got radio play that I know of, Brick, is actually one of my least favorites...
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Polkmaniac
    [B Selfless, Cold, and Composed depressing as hell though.
    [/B]

    That's why I couldn't get into it, maybe I should give it a listen again???????
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited July 2005
    All the stuff you guys are mentioning is the old, Ben Folds Five, which has disbanded.

    Ben Folds in now a solo act, with a new backing band, but still goes by just "Ben Folds".

    He has had 2 solo albums out now, Rockin' the Suburbs and Songs for Silverman, along with a 3 EP set about 2 years ago.

    The new Ben Folds material is much more mature & serious, no more silly songs like Song for the Dumped (as good as it is, it is silly).

    If you can't tell, I'm a bit of a super fan (nerd). Check out the new stuff, I actually like it better.
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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited July 2005
    I like my live cd...
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  • Mike682
    Mike682 Posts: 2,074
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by gmorris
    All the stuff you guys are mentioning is the old, Ben Folds Five, which has disbanded.

    Ben Folds in now a solo act, with a new backing band, but still goes by just "Ben Folds".

    He has had 2 solo albums out now, Rockin' the Suburbs and Songs for Silverman, along with a 3 EP set about 2 years ago.

    The new Ben Folds material is much more mature & serious, no more silly songs like Song for the Dumped (as good as it is, it is silly).

    If you can't tell, I'm a bit of a super fan (nerd). Check out the new stuff, I actually like it better.

    I liked the song Brick from BFF...

    I always wondered what happened to them.

    Thanks for the info, maybe I will check out his new solo stuff
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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Mike682
    I liked the song Brick from BFF...

    I always wondered what happened to them.

    Thanks for the info, maybe I will check out his new solo stuff
    Brick qualifies as depressing just like Arms Of An Angel by Sarah McLachlan. Both songs that can be easily misunderstood.... Brick just isn't a song you should be a fan of. It's one of the more known songs... but I remember listening to the radio when I was 13-14 and liking the song yet not knowing what it was about... so I wonder how much of that song's success is due to kid's like myself who didn't understand?



    I have a few live DJ Shadow recordings.... they all rock.
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited July 2005
    Been on vacation so getting in to this late, but I LOVE live albums; here are a few of my favorites:

    Rush - Exit Stage Left and All the World's a Stage
    Sting - Bring on The Night
    Lyle Lovett and His Large Band - Live in Texas (an exceptional recording, too)
    Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (the live LP)
    ELP - Welcome Back My Friends...
    Led Zep - The Song Remains the Same
    Cheap Trick at Budokhan
    Foghat Live
    Skynard - One more From the Road (new 2 disc version)
    Yes - Yessongs
    Chet Baker in Tokyo
    Diana Krall - Live in Paris
    Supertramp - Paris
    Dire Straits - Alchemy
    Genesis - Live (1st live album back in '72), Seconds Out and Three Sides Live
    SRV - Live at Carnegie Hall
    Jimmy Buffett - You Had to Be There
    Ben Folds Live (yep me too)
    Joe Jackson - Live 1980/86
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    This is a good list. But... Foghat? Yikes.

    See, I think you might be trying to just list albums that are live recordings by musicians whose studio work you like also. For instance, Zeppelin. Of course, in the studio they were peerless. But "The Song Remains The Same" is a really **** live document of the band. (The film as well, is said to be a really third rate performance. Which is nuts because it blows you away how great they are on stage!)

    And "Yessongs" is really awful; it's not even the real Yes! "Save The Whales"? Crap!

    I dunno. Maybe I'm too serious about this. Like, in my opinion, even tho "Alchemy" is a great live document of the band (and Mark weeps during "Romeo & Juliet," which always breaks me up), I think that Dire Straits is better on their first three studio albums than they are live. More intimate, more production value, the best songs. So, "Alchemy" never figures into the mix for me.

    (Whereas, on my list, Billy Joel's "Songs From The Attic" is really the only perfect document of his best work, done live when he and the band were hungry in small clubs with superb production -- it's better than the studio albums! I sold back all my Billy Joel studio recordings. All I need is this one album and I have all the Billy Joel I need.)

    And, is it me, or is Cheap Trick's "Budakon" better as the original single disc, and boring as the new 2-disc complete show release? I think the 2-disc is boring, while the single disc from my childhood is just about the only Cheap Trick you may need.

    "You know, Cheap Trick? Ya mama's alright, ya daddy's alright... The dream police, da-da-da-da-da?" (Mike Damone)

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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited July 2005
    I grew up buying mostly live albums...when I was 18 I probably owned more live albums than studio albums....I like the energy of the live albums and they generally were pretty much greatest hits albums. I didn't like many of the current bands when I was a teenager (preferring the older stuff), so live albums were a great way of getting introduced to the bands without having to buy a whole pile of studio albums (which of course I have almost all of from the bands listed below now).

    Definitely true about Cheap Trick - Budokhan is all you need. I think the only other good song they ever did that is not on Live at Budokhan (the orignal single LP version) is "Dream Police".

    Now I must defend my choice of the Led Zep... I grew up listening to "The Song Remains the Same", and never got to see the band live...so although "how the West was Won" might have superior performances (and recording), "The Song Remains the Same" is still the one I listen to (except Stairway to Heaven...the vocals are just dreadful). It is what I know.

    And Yessongs rocks. It is their 1973 triple live LP. You are thinking of Yesshows, their second live album (a double) (with "Don't Kill the Whale" and other lame crap). It does blow, comparatively.


    OOOooooooh, and I forgot one more favorite:

    The Kinks - One for the Road

    And I won't attempt to defend Foghat. Lol. At least I didn't inlcude Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush Live and Mountain Live...
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Is it me or is Rush's live recordings just kickass or what? When I saw them live, they were flawless, and I don't mean they played the songs just like the studio cuts, just flawless, perfectionists...
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  • marker
    marker Posts: 1,084
    edited July 2005
    Keep in mind too that not all "live" recordings are truly live. For example Dokken's (don't laugh) Beast From The East, on George Lynch's (not the basketball player either who led Carolina to the '93 NCAA title) guitar solo, you can clearly tell where they spliced a studio recording into the actual live part.
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  • jrlouie
    jrlouie Posts: 462
    edited July 2005
    Coldplay - Live 2003
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  • gmorris
    gmorris Posts: 1,179
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by jrlouie
    Coldplay - Live 2003


    Duhh!! How'd I miss that?? I've got it on DVD & CD. Nice job.
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  • marker
    marker Posts: 1,084
    edited July 2005
    I can't believe noone has mentioned Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo yet.
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    You are thinking of Yesshows

    Yer right. Sorry. But I'm not a big fan of live Yes anyway. I seen em a couple times, and whatever. They can't match the flawlessness of something like "Close To The Edge" outside the studio. They are a studio band to me.
    I must defend my choice of the Led Zep
    Why? Why not just say, "You know, Zeppelin never produced a top notch live show recording, and so I'm happy knowing that TSRTS is sort of third rate and that their studio recordings are all perfect"?

    I remember seeing TSRTS in the movie theater when I was like 13, and it changed my life. But (they say) it's still a crappy show, in the scheme of things.

    THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME may well be a third rate Zepp show, but... "Coldplay"? What's that?

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  • nellis8166
    nellis8166 Posts: 292
    edited July 2005
    Pearl Jam- North American Leg of the Riot Act tour 2003. Saw 12 shows, have all the bootlegs. Good stuff.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2005
    I'll stick with the Bens.
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  • marker
    marker Posts: 1,084
    edited July 2005
    Micah you forgot the best ever, Lynard Skynard's One More From The Road.
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    Why you gotta bring that up? Didn't I just go thru that?

    Goldarn Lynyrd Skynyrd. I want all that time I spent liking them BACK. They owe me. :mad:

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  • marker
    marker Posts: 1,084
    edited July 2005
    Actually, I agree with you 100%. If I NEVER hear Sweet Home Alabama or Freebird again it would be fine with me.
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    So waddaya doing? Poking me with a stick like dat? Gettin me all worked up? :mad:

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  • marker
    marker Posts: 1,084
    edited July 2005
    Just fooling around Micah!:D
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  • jgido759
    jgido759 Posts: 572
    edited July 2005
    Deep Purple - Made In Japan
    The Allman Bros - Live At The Filmore
    Johnny Winter - And Live
    J Geils Band - Full House & Blow You Face Out
    Elton John - Here & There
    Ian Hunter Band - Welcome To The Club
    Paul McCartney & Wings - Wings Over America
    Paul McCartney - Trippin' The Live Fantastic
    Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - Live From The Bottom Line
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