Top Five Live Albums Of All Time

[Gusboll]

As per mikeparker59's sugestion:

Genesis - Seconds Out

UFO - Strangers In The Night

Deep Purple - Made In Japan

Miles Davis - Live At The Plugged Nickel

Gong - Live Floating Anarchy

 

[jeff1967]

Genesis - Seconds Out

Genesis - Three Sides Live

UFO - Strangers In The Night

Rainbow - On Stage

Tangerine Dream - 220 Volt

 

[John Duncan]

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

UFO - Strangers in the Night

Kansas - Two For The Show

U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky

Judie Tzuke - Road Noise (The Official Bootleg)

 

[steve_1979]

Anything live by AC/DC

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

James Blunt - Chasing Time The Bedlam Sessions

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

RHCP - Live in Hyde Park

It's not an album but this is my favourite live track: Clicky

 

[Gusboll]

Not Strangers In The Night??

 

[CarlDW]

Tough one, I don't have that many live albums, but here goes...

Blur - Parklive

Pendulum - Live at Brixton Academy

Muse - Hulabaloo

Nirvana - Unplugged

Raging Speedhorn - Live and Demos

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

James Blunt - Chasing Time The Bedlam Sessions

Surely there's a law against this kind of thing. :O

 

[steve_1979]

James Blunt - Chasing Time The Bedlam Sessions

Surely there's a law against this kind of thing. :O

I like it.

 

[richardw42]

Raging Speedhorn - Live and Demos

not heard that. Saw them when they supported Rammstein. Can't say I was that impressed tbh. But I'll still stick them on once in a while.

Mine are

NINE INCH NAILS - AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN

RAMMSTEIN - LIVE AUS BERLIN

WITHIN TEMPTATION - An acoustic night at the theatre

nirvana - MTV UNPLUGGED

KORN - MTV UNPLUGGED

 

[BillDay66]

Wilco - kicking Television

Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Filmore

Johnny Cash - San Quentin / Folsom Prison

Bob Dylan - 1966 RAH

Neil Young - Live Rust

Wilco & LW head and shoulders above the others

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live

Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx

The Who- Live At Leeds

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds

AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It

 

[jeff1967]

RAMMSTEIN - LIVE AUS BERLIN - good choice, i missed that one!

 

[Freddy58]

Colosseum - Live

The Who - Live At Leeds

Woodstock

Neil Young - Unplugged

Pink Floyd - Pulse

 

[richardw42]

NINE INCH NAILS - AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN

RAMMSTEIN - LIVE AUS BERLIN

WITHIN TEMPTATION - An acoustic night at the theatre

nirvana - MTV UNPLUGGED

KORN - MTV UNPLUGGED

First reserve to be

PORTISHEAD - ROSELAND NYC LIVE.

 

[marou]

Best Live Rock Albums:

Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat

Last Exit - Traffic

Get Your YaYas Out - Rolling Stones

Wheels Of Fire - Cream

Live In America - Steely Dan

 

[knaithrover]

Live at Leeds - The Who

How the West Was Won - Led Zep

Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits

Royal Albert Hall - Dylan

Live at the Royal Vic - The Who

 

[cj_random]

James Blunt - Chasing Time The Bedlam Sessions

Surely there's a law against this kind of thing. :O

Yeah, and said law should have written in it somewhere 'anyone found listening to Katy Melua will be subjected to a public stoning'

 

[Tarxman]

Acoustic Live - Nils Lofgren

Acoustic Citsuoca - My Morning Jacket

 

[hammill]

Genesis Seconds Out

Camel A Live Record

Di Meola, McLaughlin De Lucia Friday Night in San Francisco

Steve Hillage Live Herald

Return to Forever Returns

Yes Keys to Ascension

I know, that is six

 

[Al ears]

Most of my 'best of' albums are live so picking 5 difficult, without referring to Jazz or Classical here goes ;-

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour

Alain Stivell - A L'Olympia

Allman Brothers - Live at the Filmore East

Joe Bonamassa - An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House

Hawkwind - Space Ritual Live in London

 

[Al ears]

Acoustic Live - Nils Lofgren

Acoustic Citsuoca - My Morning Jacket

Your are right, forgot to add Nils Lofgren to my 5.

Scratch the Hawkwind and replace with Nils.

 

[jjbomber]

Led Zeppelin - For Badgeholders Only (Bootleg but the best ever live concert, Bonham and Moon together on drums.)

Deep Purple - Made In Japan

Rainbow - Captain Cornflakes (Bootleg but Blackmore's best ever Japanese concert)

UFO - Strangers In The Night (OK. it's a studio album really!)

Rush - All The World's A Stage

 

[DocG]

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within

Leonard Cohen - Live in London

De Lucia [RIP], Di Meola & Mc Laughlin - Friday Night in San Francisco

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live

 

[Anonymous]

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Queensryche - Operation:Livecrime

Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk

Anathema - Universal

I love live albums - could add loads to that list, including Dream Theater - Score & Live At Budokan, Blaze - As Live As It Gets, Dire Straits - Alchemy etc etc etc

 

[Clarkey_71]

Anything that gets close to The Who Live at Leeds has got to be a bit special.

4 Incredble musicians at the very top of their game. Incredible recording too. :rockout: