Best live recorded "album" ever?

Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous" is where it's at! Slayer's Decade Of Aggression is up high, too.

By far my favorite is NoMeansNo's Live and Cuddly. Good recording(s), the band in Europe (their best crowds) at the absolute peak of their career. Utterly fucking amazing.

And yeah, I've got a soft spot for The Song Remains the Same.

1. The Who - Live At Leeds
2. Neil Young - Live Rust
3. Allman Brothers - At The Fillmore East
4. Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys
5. James Brown - Live At The Apollo
6. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
7. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live!
8. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
9. Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken

THE DAMNED - Live in Newcastle.

I'm no expert but I'd put money on it not being overdubbed, for starters it sounds like its recorded in mono - on a Walkman.

LP begins with the smashing of several glasses as they hit the equipment onstage, Captain Sensible shouts:

'RIGHT! the next fucker that throws a glass stops us playing and we're walking off. So if you see anyone throwing glasses, you stop 'em..'

and goes downhill from there. It's great.

off the top of my head:

oasis - familiar to millions
heaven and hell - live from radio city music hall
judas priest - '98 live meltdown
iced earth - alive in athens
metallica - live shit: binge and purge
metallica - S&M
ac/dc - live
sevendust- southside double wide: acoustic live
alice in chains - unplugged



i wish oasis released their unplugged as a cd. i loved that.

Primus - Suck On This

jeff buckley-mystery white boy
jeff buckley- live at sin e
radiohead-I might be wrong

I like Dave Matthews Band "Listener Supported"

Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense

The Band/The Last Waltz

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan

neat thread, I'm glad it got bumped. The first one that came to mind was Night of the Living Dead Boys just because it's way better than any of their studio albums. On the other end of the spectrum I really love Thelonious Monk Alone in San Francisco. There's lots of others already mentioned I agree with, but I didn't see these two.

i too am glad this was bumped (reminds me of many favorites have been mentioned, especially Live After Death & Delicate Sound of Thunder, amongst others.)...

two live ones I've always dug are Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Live Alive", especially Voodoo Chile & Superstition, and Neil Young & Crazy Horse's "Weld". I think those two recordings do a bit of justice to the tone those two wrenched out of their gear.

Do bootlegs count, or just official releases?

If just official, then:
1. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in new York
2. Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel
3. Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
4. Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
5. Pink Floyd - Pulse, Disc 2 (DSOTM Live)
6. The Doors - In Concert
7. Led Zeppelin - DVD Set
8. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends
9. Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
10. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

If we can include bootlegs, then...
1. Led Zeppelin - Snow Jobs - March 19, 1975
2. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in new York
3. Pink Floyd - Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex, England - November 16, 1974 - BBC Radio One Pre FM Master Tape
4. Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
5. Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
6. Led Zeppelin - The Only Way to Fly - August 31, 1969 - Texas International Pop Festival
7. The Doors - In Concert
8. Led Zeppelin - DVD Set
9. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - The Velvet Couts of Pirates - July 8, 1977 - Madison Square Garden, New York
10. Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock

I'm partial to Portishead's Roseland NYC Live. A few tracks are much better than their studio versions, most notably "Sour Times".

There can be only one.

Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club
Hamburg, Germany 1964

Hear the Devil's Music....er The Killer's music...unleashed on a bunch of drunk Germans.

metallica s&m for sure

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Hands down the greatest live show put to wax.

Within Temptation - Black Symphony

Nirvana - Unplugged
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds live at Luther College.. (Yes, it is awesome)