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EDIT: Extracted from this 9 year old thread - Great live albums
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not that I've heard of everything in this thread but it looks more like a list of live albums.

I'd have conceded on Neil Young and The Who. I love those albums. And I'd forgotten about Johnny Cash in San Quentin.

I'd even stretch to Under a Blood Red Sky (younger me loved it), or Christy Live at the Point (same).

I dunno, I just think live should be experienced live. I can listen to a live album but rarely feel that compelled to return to it.

I think I only started thinking this since The Charlatans (one of my absolute favourite bands, live or otherwise) put out a live album, and a live DVD and, meh.
 
there are other albums that I'm very glad they exist (Jeffy Buckley, Live at l'Olympia), but I still wouldn't listen that often.

And I love the Bruce live boxset, but that's not really an album per se.
 
Christ! Have I already posted in this yoke? I tell you what's great. Live in the City of Light, Simple Minds. Yeah.
There are very few, though, that are worth the time. Live and Dangerous, i mean, that's just bombast.
 
haven't re-read the thread yet.

all improv/many jazz albums are effectively 'live', even in the studio, not to mention orchestral recordings, but i'm struggling to think of any indispensable live albums of people playing existing songs.
 
The live renditions on Roy Harper 's Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion are mostly better than the studio versions and it has a lot of his most loved songs. It is a great live album in its own way but it's a bit too all over the place to be fully satisfying.

Edit - I see that I already mentioned it in October 2007, sorry about that
 
i'm struggling to think of any indispensable live albums of people playing existing songs.

I'd have more time for live albums where songs are reworked. Even those MTV Unplugged yokes. At least they're offering something a bit different. Some of those are worthwhile (Neil Young), but not when songs are just played, warts-and-all, note from note from the recorded version.
 
I'd have more time for live albums where songs are reworked. Even those MTV Unplugged yokes. At least they're offering something a bit different. Some of those are worthwhile (Neil Young), but not when songs are just played, warts-and-all, note from note from the recorded version.
good point. the unplugged idea became debased pretty quickly but i was an r.e.m. fanboy 25 years ago and their '91 set was a vhs staple for a good while (wasn't released as an album until 2014). they had form though e.g. the swan swan h/dream cuts from the athens,ga inside-out movie:
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good point. the unplugged idea became debased pretty quickly but i was an r.e.m. fanboy 25 years ago and their '91 set was a vhs staple for a good while (wasn't released as an album until 2014). they had form though e.g. the swan swan h/dream cuts from the athens,ga inside-out movie:
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I just stuck on Jarret's Koln concert. That's a live album, so that gets into the canon.

Might be an unpopular one, but Under a Blood Red Sky by the U2 is a great live record. I stand by it. Fuck you.
 
I agree. I mentioned Under a Blood Red Sky earlier somewhere. It's great.
Phew. Acceptance.

I picked it up on vinyl in a charity shop in some arseend of a town last year. I think it was a euro. A bit knackered, but plays ok. Still sounds fucking great.
 

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