Best Live Albums?

This is not so much a "which is the best overall" so much as the ones that you like enough to recommend to others. This has probably been done before, but what the hell?

Anyway, three obvious ones and a not-so from me:

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison - There's more going on here than just a musical performance. Cash is giving the prisoners a spirit and a feeling of confidence that they may have lost thanks to the cruel prison conditions they had to endure. Of course, some of these men heard enjoying the concert were murderers and other hard types, but they seem tamed by the music. Very good, intense listening.

The Who: Live at Leeds - The Who totally kicked ass and took names at this show. A fantastic, scorching performance.

Precise Modern Lovers Order - An obscure band that I love, the first edition of the Modern Lovers plays here at two shows entirely (with one song lifted from another performance) and make some of the most exciting sounds for a bewildered audience.

Live at Preston - This is my favorite of the JD live releases just because the band overcomes the technical problems to perform a riveting show.

Anyway...

The Cure - Show. Depeche Mode - 101.

Happy Mondays - Live The Durutti Column - Domo Arigato A Certain Ratio - Live in America

New Order - Glasto 87 The Section 25 live albums Happy Mondays - Live (Good call, Tokoloshe Man - good name, too) JD - Preston (nice one, Trevor) and Les Bains Douches

JD - Les Baines Douches

NO - Electronic Ecstasy (Reading 1993)

The Durutti Column - Live at the Venue

The Clash - From Here to Eternity

Just about the only live abums I have are New Order and Joy Division ones, so I'll have to go with those.

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Just about the only live abums I have are New Order and Joy Division ones, so I'll have to go with those.

Good choices!:D

TOP TEN:

1. THE SEX PISTOLS - Better Live Than Dead (this title has a lot of reincarnations, though; recorded in March 1976)
2. Beach Boys' Concert (1964)
3. Elvis In Person At The International Hotel (1969)
4. The Cure - Show (1993)
5. 10 СС Live (1977)
6. DEEP PURPLE - Made In Japan (1972)
7. THE DOORS - Live At The Holliwood Bowl (1987; recorded in 1968, I believe)
8. An Evening With LOUIS ARMSTRONG, vol. 1 (1987; recorded in 1964)
9. One of THE FALL's 50 live albums.

Motorhead - No Sleep Till Hammersmith AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You Got IT Killing Joke - XXV Gathering Black Sabbath - Reunion Nirvana- From The Muddy Banks of the Whistka Rolling Stones - Flashpoint Aerosmith - A Little South Of Sanity Guns N Roses - Live Era 87-93

The Cure--Entreat Ministry--In Case You did Not Feel Like Showing Up Skinny Puppy--Aint it Dead Yet?

The Smiths - Rank

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Velvet Underground - Live Vol 1 + 2 Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners Dylan - Live At Budokan Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

twist wrote: The Cure--Entreat Ministry--In Case You did Not Feel Like Showing Up Skinny Puppy--Aint it Dead Yet?

How could I POSSIBLY forget Ain't It Dead Yet? Great performance, although the semi-official Fractal Zoom (a show from 85) blows it out of the water, to be honest. Ever heard this one, Twist? When I return to the States in December, I'll burn you a copy if you don't have it already - it's incredible. They open with Film (one of my favorites) and the renditions of Smothered Hope and Assimilate are absolutely unbelievable; some of the most intense music I have ever heard in my entire life.

Front 242 - Re:Boot Live 98 The Wake - Assembly (sorry everybody, but I really dig those guys...and that girl) The two PiL live albums

101/Depeche mode

Rush- Exit Stage Left Jesus & Mary Chain-Live in Concert Motorhead- No Sleep Till Hammersmith Iron Maiden-Live After Death

Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum The Cure - Concert Talking Head - Stop Making Sense New Order - Glastonbury 1987 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne

"Live At the Regal" BB King "Irish Tour" Rory Gallagher "Frampton Comes Alive" Peter Frampton

Wire the Scottish play Alain Bashung la tournée des grands espaces Joy Division Amsterdam 80 - because it introduced me to JD

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10. One of THE FALL's 50 live albums.

Indeed, though I'm quite partial to the Iceland 83, Fall In A Hole Plus, and A Part Of America Therein.

A Certain Ratio Live In America

the XTC live one from the BBC 1 Concert live in 1980, the same set I caught six weeks earlier

Cheap Trick At Budokan and Neil Young Live Rust (especially the second disc for the latter): the partial soundtracks to many a party.

at least nobody has yet mentioned a hot august night. as far as your parents tastes go it aint too bad.

Neil Young - Weld

that CULT one.

fucked if i can remember what it was called though

Thank you for giving us a new occasion to speak about Depeche Mode. I'm sure this will make Digimike happy.

So, I'd like to mention (and I'm not the first one) 101 as a great live album. I should consider replacing my old copy by the recent SACD version of it.

The Cure - Concert

Kraftwerk - Minimum/Maximum

The Sound - Err, what was the title again. Can't remember, But Missiles is great live.

The Chameleons - Live at the Academy (2002)

And, of course, lots of bootlegs :D

Nobody mentioned Kiss Alive and Kiss Alive 2. Rockin' Bastards they are.

twist wrote: Nobody mentioned Kiss Alive and Kiss Alive 2. Rockin' Bastards they are.

KISS are

GO ON AEROSMITH!!!!!!!!

paris au printemps , public image ltd. jd ,wharehouse preston ac\dc, if u want blood

all three are spit and sawdust performances.

Kraftwerk "Minimum Maximum" Eric Clapton "Unplugged" Simple Minds CD 3 and CD 4 of the "Silver Box"