Favorite Live Albums
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Favorite Live Albums
I was on another message board talking up "Fucked Up Inside" would like to know what people here consider the best live albums they've heard. A few off the top of my head...
Fucked Up Inside - Spiritualized
Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 - Spiritualized
Bootleg Series Volume 4 "Royal Albert Hall 1966" - Bob Dylan
Bootleg Series Volume 5 "Rollling Thunder Tour 1975" - Bob Dylan
Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recording - John Coltrane
Live In Japan - Primal Scream
Live At Leeds - The Who
How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
Curtis Live! - Curtis Mayfield
Decade of Aggression: Live - Slayer
Fucked Up Inside - Spiritualized
Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 - Spiritualized
Bootleg Series Volume 4 "Royal Albert Hall 1966" - Bob Dylan
Bootleg Series Volume 5 "Rollling Thunder Tour 1975" - Bob Dylan
Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recording - John Coltrane
Live In Japan - Primal Scream
Live At Leeds - The Who
How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
Curtis Live! - Curtis Mayfield
Decade of Aggression: Live - Slayer
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Shit yeah. Good call. I guess another obvious one would be James Brown at the Apollo 1962.a beautiful noise wrote:sam cooke - harlem club, hands down the best.
Also spaced on leaving out Cash's Live at San Quentin and Live at Folsum Prison.
I also love the live tracks that Spiritualized have included as b-sides in the past. The live stuff off the Electricity EPs (from their tour with Neil Young) are more intense than the same songs recorded on the Royal Albert Hall CDs, IMO.
first live album I ever heard was It's Alive by Ramones. Still brilliant.
Agree with many of the ones listed so far.
Others for honourable mention...
Live'r Than God - Thee Hypnotics
Stripped - Rolling Stones
Live - The Cure
and the Roir Sessions for Television and Question Mark and the Mysterians
and is no-one mentioning Kick Out The Jams cos it's too obvious..?
Agree with many of the ones listed so far.
Others for honourable mention...
Live'r Than God - Thee Hypnotics
Stripped - Rolling Stones
Live - The Cure
and the Roir Sessions for Television and Question Mark and the Mysterians
and is no-one mentioning Kick Out The Jams cos it's too obvious..?
good call starfish!
live'r than god, what an album, remember seeing them support gaye bykers on acid in manchester in 89 and the walls shook! played the best version of manic depression ive ever heard. i recently picked up a cd of their early singles if you are interested in a copy? pm me.
velvet underground live 1969
joy division les bains douches
jimi hendrix concerts
massive attack live in heaven
big black pig pile
live'r than god, what an album, remember seeing them support gaye bykers on acid in manchester in 89 and the walls shook! played the best version of manic depression ive ever heard. i recently picked up a cd of their early singles if you are interested in a copy? pm me.
velvet underground live 1969
joy division les bains douches
jimi hendrix concerts
massive attack live in heaven
big black pig pile
a beautiful noise wrote:sam cooke - harlem club, hands down the best.
xyox
agreed, except for the soul stirrers shrine concert, 1955. nearer my god will rip your fucking head off, and if it doesn't, where did you leave it... the bit with sam singing about his mother stealing off to pray... too fucking much! believe it, sam was the most gospel singing MF ever. it's too soulful to be denominational. everybody get nearer
live'r by the hypnos was choice also.
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ohhhh thanks stimey, thats on my hitlist now. is it readily available or some obscure bootleg?? and if so...
and what the fuck, only becuase i just got it on dvd, hendrix at the monterey pop, simply jaw dropping. total machismo and "cock rock" to the max, but what a performance. apparently he had to upstage the who, both of the bands had a slight tussle when deciding who should open up, a coin toss decided it and our boy made history.
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and what the fuck, only becuase i just got it on dvd, hendrix at the monterey pop, simply jaw dropping. total machismo and "cock rock" to the max, but what a performance. apparently he had to upstage the who, both of the bands had a slight tussle when deciding who should open up, a coin toss decided it and our boy made history.
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ericdbn wrote: Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recording - John Coltrane
I have eight records with trane - none of them a concert..twentysixdollars wrote:Trane live at the Village Vanguard. Either volume, whatever your poison might be.
... with Cannonball Adderley as leader.
Guess I´ll have to get this one then..
Cannonball at the lighthouse is a favourite.
better than the studio albums..herman wrote:Frank Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere (1974)
Starfish wrote: Live'r Than God - Thee Hypnotics
I sold it ten years ago but kept the two first studio albums..hmm..hrmm.. now I want it back!burdman72 wrote:good call starfish!
live'r than god, what an album
milesdavis - dark magus
the soundtrack to "appledelphy becomes a grass widower and brings out the dusty old bong"
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off the top of my head;
spiritualized rah
spiritualized radio session vol 1
fucked up inside
sp3 live in europe/performance
mogwai bbc sessions
smashing pumpkinds drown
smashing pumpkins 3 feet high
janes addiction gift double disc
janes addiction live at cotton club
spiritualized rah
spiritualized radio session vol 1
fucked up inside
sp3 live in europe/performance
mogwai bbc sessions
smashing pumpkinds drown
smashing pumpkins 3 feet high
janes addiction gift double disc
janes addiction live at cotton club
let it flow
i think i wanna tell the world....probably aint listening..
i think i can fly ...probably just falling..
i think i wanna tell the world....probably aint listening..
i think i can fly ...probably just falling..
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what no 'kick out the jams'?
sam cooke at harlem square club for me too. and james brown at the apollo. loads mentioned here that i want to check out now though, great stuff.
suicides '23 minutes over brussels' is pretty (in)tense! amazing how you can feel the bad vibe, but it just serves to bring out the bands fantastic attitude all the more.
''listen, we're just a bunch of poor musicians like you, give us our microphone back.....please....
...well FUCK YOU!!
sam cooke at harlem square club for me too. and james brown at the apollo. loads mentioned here that i want to check out now though, great stuff.
suicides '23 minutes over brussels' is pretty (in)tense! amazing how you can feel the bad vibe, but it just serves to bring out the bands fantastic attitude all the more.
''listen, we're just a bunch of poor musicians like you, give us our microphone back.....please....
...well FUCK YOU!!
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haha, i'm listening to that live suicide album right now. nice packaging as a bonus disc!
speaking of james brown, i can't decide if it's worth shelling out $60 bucks to see him in a few weeks.
help me out here crew, would you go guys??? is he 'still' worth $60 bucks. the last thing i remember hearing about james brown wasn't his show stopping live performances, but his cracked up ass fleeing across state lines while beating his ol' lady being followed by a gaggle of cop cars. and oohhh that mug shot.
hmmmmmmmm? but it is the hardest working man in showbiz. i just don't know.
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speaking of james brown, i can't decide if it's worth shelling out $60 bucks to see him in a few weeks.
help me out here crew, would you go guys??? is he 'still' worth $60 bucks. the last thing i remember hearing about james brown wasn't his show stopping live performances, but his cracked up ass fleeing across state lines while beating his ol' lady being followed by a gaggle of cop cars. and oohhh that mug shot.
hmmmmmmmm? but it is the hardest working man in showbiz. i just don't know.
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ohhh and back to the live albums, how about tom waits and nighthawks at the diner.
well ok it's still technically a live show but the audience is all friends of his, and i beleive it was recorded in the middle of the afternoon, but hey it's still done live and it's one hell of an album.
'coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend itself.'
xmex
p/s- anybody here ever see tom waits live, i would love to hear some funny tale or great story, he's simply brilliant.
well ok it's still technically a live show but the audience is all friends of his, and i beleive it was recorded in the middle of the afternoon, but hey it's still done live and it's one hell of an album.
'coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend itself.'
xmex
p/s- anybody here ever see tom waits live, i would love to hear some funny tale or great story, he's simply brilliant.
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Good call squirrel, Live at the Star Club is an incredible album! Pretty much from the first note it's BAAAM!
Also glad to see Dark Magus there too. I must also add 'Agharta' to the most strung out live evil I have heard. You can't really dip into that music, you really have to immerse yourself right in it. In at the deep end...
Shonn, you ought to here Big Time by Tom Waits, it's a mostly live album and is great. Some good anecdotes inbetween songs
Also glad to see Dark Magus there too. I must also add 'Agharta' to the most strung out live evil I have heard. You can't really dip into that music, you really have to immerse yourself right in it. In at the deep end...
Shonn, you ought to here Big Time by Tom Waits, it's a mostly live album and is great. Some good anecdotes inbetween songs
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bza, big time is brilliant, i had forgotten all about that album. we are going for pizza at napoleans where tom used to work at. it's excellent little hole in the wall, the sam guy still owns.
if your'e ever over here, you gotta slice on me.
and the live primal scream album that is most readily available comes as a japanese import.
and yes jiggity jig, the 14 minute version of maggot brain is scorching!!
as for the 'rust never sleeps' i always cringe when i hear one hippy tell an audience of hippies "if we try really hard maybe the rain will go away".
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if your'e ever over here, you gotta slice on me.
and the live primal scream album that is most readily available comes as a japanese import.
and yes jiggity jig, the 14 minute version of maggot brain is scorching!!
as for the 'rust never sleeps' i always cringe when i hear one hippy tell an audience of hippies "if we try really hard maybe the rain will go away".
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