The best Live Album

[Chris]

Mary Coughlan - Love for Sale
John Martyn - can´t remember the title, black cover.

 

[guydarryl]

Ten years after - live

 

[Seeker_UK]

John Martyn - can´t remember the title, black cover.

Foundations - https://www.discogs.com/John-Martyn-Foundations/release/3315891

 

[Chris]

Cheers, Seeker.

 

[rough edges]

Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter

 

[Jono_13]

The name of this band is Taking Heads 1977-79 and of course Stop making sense.

Talking heads fan here.......

Good skills

 

[Jono_13]

If it's not been mentioned.

Kraftwerk Minimum Maximum

The DVD audio is stunning, the graphics are amazing as is the sound on a full blown BIG AV rig.

Saw them in Birmingham on my birthday in 2017 with 3D projection visuals. Brilliant.

 

[Jono_13]

Live in Copenhagen - Four Tet. I was lucky enough to be at the Alexandra Palace show last year with the Squid Soup light show.

42,000 individually controlled lights!! Like 2 hours of the best fireworks you’ve ever seen.

 

[Colin L]

Living in Clip. Ani Di Franco is excellent.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Leonard Cohen - Live in London,

and another favourite:

Sting -All This Time, which is all the more remarkable when you read in the sleeve notes that it was recorded in the evening of Sept 11, 2001...

 

[John]

Must have if you’re a fan.

 

[notevenclose]

Leonard Cohen - Live in London

Might I suggest 'Dublin?'

Much the same set, but the band has 4 more years under their belt, and the glorious addition of Alexandru Bublitchi on violin. London is perhaps the better recording, but Dublin is the one I invariably reach for.

 

[notevenclose]

Other personal favourites:

Van Morrison: One Night In San Francisco.

Eels: Royal Albert Hall

Jackson Browne & David Lindley: Love Is Strange

David Crosby: It's All Coming Back To Me Now...

Love and Money: Strange Kind of Love (Live In Glasgow)

Nanci Griffith: One Fair Summer Evening

Ry Cooder: ShowTime

The Waifs: A Brief History

 

[early]

Lots of great albums mentioned but a glaring omission is -

BB King - Live at the Regal .

 

[White Zombie]

I should probably pick a Neil Young one but I'll go for Live After Death by Iron Maiden

 

[gavreid]

Here's one from left field. New album coming this week to celebrate his 80th!

 

[Subito]

Its almost redundant to say this but....
Irish Tour 74 (if you have to ask who it is by, then it probably doesn't matter)
Recorded Live- Ten Years After
Exposed-Mike Oldfield (the version of Incantations is mesmerizing as are the harmony lead guitar in TB)

And about a hundred more...I will leave them up to subsequent contributors to mention.

I can’t think of any artist who had a greater gap between the genius of his live performances and the mediocrity of his studio albums. Rory was a stubborn so-and-so, it’s a shame he didn’t find a good producer to help shape his studio work.

 

[Adam3004]

Cage the Elephant - Unpeeled. Check it out on YouTube looks like most of the concert is in there.

 

[tuga]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014I5ZPWK/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[tuga]