floydfanatic111 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Here are some of the greatest live albums in rock I have ever heard, owned, etc Pink Floyd I picked two Pulse and Is There Anybody Out There Rush I picked two Different Stages and Exit Stage Left Queen I picked two Live Killers and Queen On Fire Live at the Bowl The Who Live at Leeds Deluxe Edition Genesis Seconds Out Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo David Bowie Ziggy Stardust Soundtrack(Hammersmith Odeon July, 1973) Humble Pie Performance Rockin the Fillmore Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive Supertramp Paris Black Sabbath Live Evil Rainbow Live in Germany 1976 Eagles Eagles Live Thin Lizzy Alive and Dangerous(who knows how much was live) Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil KISS Alive(or Alive in the Studio) Triumph King Biscuit Flower Hour 1981 AC/DC If You want Blood You've Got It Deep Purple Made in Japan ELP Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends Yes Yessongs Iron Maiden Rock in Rio Kansas Two For the Show Judas Priest Unleashed in the East(remastered version) Journey Live in Houston 1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppetKing2112 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 The greatest live album of all time is NIN's And All That Could Have Been Other favorites, non-Rush: The Who - Leeds and Isle of Wight David Bowie - Stage and David Live Depeche Mode - 101 Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong Nirvana - MTV Unplugged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustard Death Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Tool - Salival Pretty much any Phish live set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ES-335 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 personal favs are: RUSH: ESl and Rush in Rio Queen: Live killers Aerosmith: Bootleg Peter Framptom: Comes Alive Kiss: Alive Fogat: Live Cheap Trick: Live at Budokon (sp?) and some others I can't remember right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 i'm usually not too into live music and rarely listen to live albums. the two notable exceptions are the grateful dead, primarily their 60's and 70's live stuff, and early pink floyd up through 1973. great stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydfanatic111 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jan 24 2006, 09:00 PM) i'm usually not too into live music and rarely listen to live albums. the two notable exceptions are the grateful dead, primarily their 60's and 70's live stuff, and early pink floyd up through 1973. great stuff! I have many illegitimate live PF recordings from 1967 BBC to 1994. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 QUOTE (floydfanatic111 @ Jan 24 2006, 06:25 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jan 24 2006, 09:00 PM) i'm usually not too into live music and rarely listen to live albums. the two notable exceptions are the grateful dead, primarily their 60's and 70's live stuff, and early pink floyd up through 1973. great stuff! I have many illegitimate live PF recordings from 1967 BBC to 1994. yeah, i shoulda said that all the early live floyd i have with the exception of one disc of ummagumma are bootlegs. the grateful dead aren't really bootlegs as they're legitimately sold recordings and/or recordings traded legally since the Dead let people record their live shows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZYRANNIX Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 SAGA - DETOURS, a great sounding album which covers pretty much their whole history TRAGICALLY HIP - LIVE BETWEEN US, ditto I'll try and think up some more but I've got a bit of a brain cramp at the moment, I'm at work after all!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oberon Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 UFO - Strangers In The Night (THE Live album, period) Rush - A Show Of Hands, In Rio Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine Marillion - The Thieving Magpie, Real To Reel Iron Maiden - Live After Death The Mars Volta - Scabdates Japan - Oil On Canvas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plodder Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Genesis - Live I'm not that great a fan of live albums usually, but this is fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamline Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Nothing touches Made In Japan Lizzy's Live and Dangerous, On Your Feet and On Your Knees and of course RiR come close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABZ Highlander Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Non- Rush, Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous Zappa/Mothers- Just another Band from LA Zappa/ Mothers- Filmore East The Who- Live at Leeds Wilco- Kicking Television Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppetKing2112 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Morrissey - Live at Earl's Court is one I forgot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Favorite live albums... Depeche Mode - 101 Iron Maiden - Live After Death John Lennon - Live In New York City Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been Gary Numan - Scarred Rush - A Show Of Hands Roger Waters - In The Flesh The Who - Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 King Crimson - Absent lovers Genesis - Seconds Out Led Zep - How The West Was Won Roxy Music - Viva! Neil Young - Weld Aerosmith - Live Bootleg Yes - Yessongs Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous Wishbone Ash - Live Dates Rory Gallagher - Live In Europe Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 Rory Gallagher - Stagestruck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebbish Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Favourite live album - non RUSH... THIN LIZZY......Live & Dangerous UFO.......Strangers In The Night LED ZEPPELIN.......The Song Remains The Same ........How The West Was Won ERIC CLAPTON.........Just One Night .........Unplugged DEEP PURPLE..........Live In Japan LYNYRD SKYNYRD........One More From The Road PINK FLOYD...............Pulse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 My favourites, non-Rush are: UFO - Strangers in the Night THIN LIZZY - Live and Dangerous QUEEN - Live Killers MARILLION - Real to Reel FISH - Sushi GENESIS - Live HAWKWIND - A Space Ritual TESLA - 5 Man Acoustical Band WHITESNAKE - Live in the Heart of the City QUEENSRYCHE - Operation: Livecrime SLADE - Alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Rank - The Smiths The Cure - Berlin - DVD Song remains the same - Led Zep Bauhaus - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydfanatic111 Posted January 31, 2006 Author Share Posted January 31, 2006 My favorite live albums updated Pink Floyd Pulse(as far as post-Roger Waters live albums go and the performances are amazing) Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There The Wall Live(best Waters era live recording and makes The Wall studio album sound pale) Rush Different Stages(excellent live recording from our Canadian boys) Rush Exit Stage Left(album was stepping stone to me being a Rush fan) Queen On Fire Live at the Bowl(excellent show from the Hot Space tour and arguably had Queen at top of peak as a live band) Queen Live Killers(some of the best of Queen live as a four piece) The Who Live at Leeds Deluxe Edition(the original issue and 1995 issues are just highlights now the complete Leeds is WAY BETTER!!!!) Genesis Seconds Out(no other live Genesis recording equalled this) The Rolling Stones Love You Live(even for just the El Mocambo section and the band was on fire in 1975/76) Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies re-issue live disc(Alice Cooper Band's greatest moment as a live band) Cream Royal Albert Hall(this recent album proved Cream does get better with age) Queensryche Operation Livecrime and Live in Tokyo(which is bonus album on re-issue of Queensryche EP) Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same(I always loved this album) Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won(excellent performance) Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo David Bowie Ziggy Stardust Soundtrack(Hammersmith Odeon July, 1973 and had Bowie at top of his game) Humble Pie Performance Rockin the Fillmore(great album) Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive(arguably one of rock's greatest live recording) Supertramp Paris(Supertramp at the pinnacle of their game) Black Sabbath Live Evil(Dio singing Ozzy songs WAY better than Ozzy) Rainbow Live in Germany 1976 Eagles Eagles Live Thin Lizzy Alive and Dangerous(who knows how much of this album was actually live) Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil KISS Alive(or Alive in the Studio as everything save drums were re-recorded in the studio) Triumph King Biscuit Flower Hour 1981(Triumph during the Allied Forces tour showing they could kick anyone's a** off-stage AC/DC If You Want Blood You've Got It(Bon Scott's finest hour) Deep Purple Made in Japan(still Deep Purple's best hour) ELP Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends(ELP on top of their game) Yes Yessongs(Yes would not ever match this brilliance in concert again) Iron Maiden Rock in Rio Kansas Two For the Show(excellent album I am waiting fro Sony BMG to re-issue the damn thing with bonus tracks like Closet Chronicles and Miracles Out of Nowhere) Judas Priest Unleashed in the East(remastered version as it was over an hour of great 70s Priest stuff and I also do like Priest...Live) Journey Live in Houston 1981 Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tull Fan Too Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Umm.... do DVDs count? If so I nominate The Who: Tommy Live as the best live show ever. If we're only talking CDs I vote for The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight (I much prefer that one to Live at Leeds although both are good). For Rush, I haven't gotten into the live stuff completely but of what I've heard Rio tops the list. Heck, that's one of the best concerts, period. I seem to remember Fleetwood Mac's The Dance being pretty good (the DVD) but my taste has changed a bit since I last heard that so my opinion might be different now. For Kansas- I've never really been impressed with Two for the Show, and the truncated CD just makes it worse. The new Kansas live album, Device- Voice- Drum is better, IMO. I have a couple of boots (one from the Masque tour and one from Point of Know Return), and both of them are better than Two for the Show, if you ask me. Jethro Tull- I have boots that are better than any of the offical stuff, but the new, complete Bursting Out set is probably the best you can get off the shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progrush2112 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Great thread! My (non-rush) favorites include... B.B. King - Live at San Quentin Blind Guardian - Live Blues Traveler - Live at Red Rocks (7/4/05) Blues Traveler - Live at the Fall Dave Matthews Band - Listener Supported Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert Dream Theater - Live Scenes From New York Dream Theater - Live at Budokan Garth Brooks - Double Live (Central Park) Green Day - Bullet In A Bible King Crimson - Vroom Vroom Kiss - Alive! Kiss - Alive III Metallica - S&M Thelonius Monk And John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall O.A.R. - Any Time Now Opeth - Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire Ozomatli - Live at the Fillmore Pink Floyd - Delicate Sounds of Thunder Paul McCartney - Back In the US Frank Sinatra - Live at The Sands with the Count Basie Orchestra 311 - 311 Day 2004 in New Orleans Tower of Power - Soul Vaccination Yellowjackets - Mint Jam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydfanatic111 Posted February 2, 2006 Author Share Posted February 2, 2006 QUOTE (Tull Fan Too @ Feb 1 2006, 11:47 PM) Umm.... do DVDs count? If so I nominate The Who: Tommy Live as the best live show ever. If we're only talking CDs I vote for The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight (I much prefer that one to Live at Leeds although both are good). For Rush, I haven't gotten into the live stuff completely but of what I've heard Rio tops the list. Heck, that's one of the best concerts, period. I seem to remember Fleetwood Mac's The Dance being pretty good (the DVD) but my taste has changed a bit since I last heard that so my opinion might be different now. For Kansas- I've never really been impressed with Two for the Show, and the truncated CD just makes it worse. The new Kansas live album, Device- Voice- Drum is better, IMO. I have a couple of boots (one from the Masque tour and one from Point of Know Return), and both of them are better than Two for the Show, if you ask me. Jethro Tull- I have boots that are better than any of the offical stuff, but the new, complete Bursting Out set is probably the best you can get off the shelf. Bursting Out is a superb live album. The Who Tommy Live 1989 was awful with Patti LaBelle, Billy Idol and Steve Winwood all sucking. Phil Collins was tolerable as Uncle Ernie but I miss Keith. Elton reprised the Pinball Wizard but was better as him in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tull Fan Too Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on the Tommy show. That performance (on VHS) was my first introduction to Tommy and to The Who. It made me into a life-long Who fan and without that, I probably would not be a Rush fan. That being said, I can understand why many people don't like it. It isn't "classic Who", or even strictly "post-Moon Who", but a completely different animal altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
launchpad67a Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Frampton Comes Alive Eagles - Hell Freezes Over Pink Floyd - Pulse & Delicate Sound of Thunder Kiss Alive 1 Sarah McLaughlin - Mirrorball Live Bob Seger - Live Bullet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydfanatic111 Posted February 3, 2006 Author Share Posted February 3, 2006 QUOTE (Tull Fan Too @ Feb 2 2006, 12:58 AM) Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on the Tommy show. That performance (on VHS) was my first introduction to Tommy and to The Who. It made me into a life-long Who fan and without that, I probably would not be a Rush fan. That being said, I can understand why many people don't like it. It isn't "classic Who", or even strictly "post-Moon Who", but a completely different animal altogether. I saw The Who on that 1989 tour in Foxboro Stadium in July of 1989, my first ever concert I went to. They did 1/2 of Tommy to start which was Overture and It's a Boy then 1921(with Daltrey singing), Amazing Journey, Sparks, The Acid Queen(Pete sang), Pinball Wizard, Do You Think It's Alright, Fiddle About(The Ox sang), I'm Free, Tommy's Holiday Camp(Pete singing and acting goofy) and We're Not Gonna Take It. Plus their early singles(I Can't Explain, My Generation, Substitute, I Can See For Miles, Magic Bus(just Daltrey, Townshend and Entwistle)) some album tracks(I'm One from Quadrophenia with Townshend by himself, Too Much of Anything from Odds and Sods just Daltrey and Townshend, A Trick of the Light with The Ox singing instead of Roger, My Wife), the obvious classics(Summertime Blues, Baba O' Riley, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again(which closed the show), 5:15, Love Reign O'er Me, Who Are You, You Better You Bet) and Pete even played some solo tracks(A Little is Enough, A Friend is a Friend, Face the Face, Rough Boys) and also a version of Love Hurts(the Roy Orbison song made famous by Nazareth). Great show it was but the all-star performance of Tommy was not my cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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