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I was wondering, what do you guys think the best live album ever made is?

My top 5
1.Nirvana-Unplugged live in new york
2.Kiss-Alive
3.Lynyrd skynyrd-One more for from the road
4.Guns N' Roses-Live era 87-93
5.Variose Artist-Family values '98

What are your guys opions?

Ramones ~ It's Alive
Electric Frankenstein ~ How I Rose From The Dead
SOIA ~ Live In A World Full Of Hate
Misfits ~ Evilive
Iron Maiden ~ Live After Death

My opinion is that it is one of the worst live albums... obviously the songs are great, but as a live album, it's trash.  Blah, and I knew it would show up here.  :-\

My top 5 are:
1. Dave Matthews Band - Listener Supported
2. Dave Matthews Band - Live At Red Rocks
3. Kiss - Alive 3
4. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live At Luther College
5. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

You really can't fuck with DMB live, incredible musicians.

Now that I think about it with th re-recorded vocals it does make live era trash.

The rerecorded vocals, no listing of where the songs came from (what shows, what year), don't know which band members are playing on each song, lots of touch ups (wasn't Patience from two completely different shows?)...

Of course you can still listen to it because the songs are so great!.... Axl's vocals on Sweet Child aren't the best tho hehe....

Iced Earth- Alive in Athens

no particular order

prince one nite alone
bon jovi one wild night
kiss alive 1,2,3
peter frampton frampton comes alive
nirvana unplugged in ny
pearl jam live on two legs
aerosmith little south of sanity
guns n roses live era

didnt know motley crue put out a live album, im gonna have to check it out!

Which songs had re recorded vocals? All the vocals on that album didn't sound that great.....

Nightrain (dunno the place but I am sure from all the boots I have, Axl re-record it), It's so easy (Paris 92), November rain (Tokyo 92), Pretty tied up (Tokyo 92), Move to the city (Tokyo 92), You could be mine (Tokyo 92), Scom (Paris 92), Estranged (tokyo 92) Also Coma's last part seems re-recorded.  

All tokyo that sux. They should have chosen another one, not an official released concert.

Led Zeppelin "How The West Was Won"
Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been"
Nirvana "Unplugged In New York"
Pearl Jam "Live On Two Legs"




/jarmo

Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous

I would like to add one more to my list

Metallica Live shit binge and purge

Kiss-Alive IV

Tesla /Re-plugged
AC/DC live
GNR Live era

Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Queen - Live Killers
Metallica - El Paseo TX 1982 (don't remember the year actually)
Megadeth - Europe Tour 1992
Helloween - Donington 1988

As a matter of Fact all the Donington 1988, it rocks!!  :yes:

Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
The Rolling Stones - Stripped (man this one is fucking awesome)
AC/DC - Live
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won (although it doesnt come with a booklet, which sucks BIG time)
Ozzy Osbourne - Live at Budokan (I?m sure Live and Loud is better, but I have never listened to it so, I take Budokan, which is awesome)

That one Dead Kennedys Live CD (I forgot the name of it. Can someone help me? Chris, perhaps?)

James Brown- LIve at the apollo (Nuff said)

That Remastered Boston 2002 GNR show going around (though it ain't official)

Live Killers- Queen

Muddy Banks of Wiskah- Nirvana

My fav live albums are,

-M?tley Cr?e: Live Entertainment Or Death
-Poison: Power To The People
-Slayer: Decade Of Agression (best live album ever)
-Nine Inch Nails: And All The Could Have Been
-Ozzy Osbourne: Both Live at The Budokan and Live and Loud
-Kiss: Alive
-The Doors: The live cd from the box set.  Killer show.

all my favs have been mentioned
1. motley crue
2. metallica
3. gnr
4. kiss alive II
5. stones
but i gotta give honorable mention to rod stewart - absolutely live. awesome album. he puts on a show and he rocked back in the day.

Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-'93
Black Sabbath - Reunion
Kiss - Alive
Bon Jovi

A couple no-one else has mentioned:

Queen - Live at wembley (for historical value)
AC/DC - If you wnat blood...
           - LEt there be rock, the movie - live in Paris
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust, the motion picture soundtrack

Aerosmith: Live! Bootleg

Is the best fucking live album....

Motley Crue: Entertainment or Death
Guns: Live Era (just because it's Guns)

There's a couple of others, but I just don't remember....

 well my obvious choice for best live band ever would be Led Zeppelin. id have to choose a zep album for this . i'd go for How the west was won, although it's a postume album...
 most of the power a band is given by its live performances...
 .. another almost surprisingly great album (just re-listened to it today) . one of the best ever is Pulse by Pink Floyd////

OMG how could I forget that.. Pulse is absolutely fantastic

Sebastian Bach - Bring Em Bach Alive
Gilby Clarke - '99 Live
M?tley Cr?e - Live: Entertainment or Death
Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof
Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio
Skid Row - Subhuman Beings On Tour
Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been

Symphony X - Live on the Edge of Forever is pure perfection.

EDIT: Blasphemy, I forgot the best live album ever! Pain of Salvation - 12:5

I can't believe that many people here chose "Live" instead of "If You Want Blood".


1. AC/DC - If You Want Blood

I'm gonna say Kiss Alive! and Live Era...but I haven't heard too many other live albums.  I like Bryan Adams MTV Unplugged as well.

Metallica - S&M - okay the tracklist is lousy (too much from Load and Reload :rant:) but songs like Master of Puppets sound so much better with the orchestra!
GNR live era - i will go on record as saying the live versions of Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City are as good and maybe better than the studio cuts - the guitar tone is much better, its so much more raw and powerful, great stuff

I'm going to add a live bootleg to my favorite Live albums. Guns N' Roses- Live in Pittsburgh 11/22/02< this show is Phenomenal. : ok:

Guns n' Roses - Ritz /Live Era 87-93
Metallica - Live Shit Binge & Purge
Pantera - Offical Live 101  Proof
Pink Floyd - Is there Anybody out there?
Black Sabbath - Reunion / Live at Last  :yes:
Queen - Live Killers
Roger Waters - In The Flesh
Nine Inch Nails- All that could have been
Slayer - decade of Agression
John Lennon - Live in New York  :'(

Hate to break it to ya' guys but Guns N' Roses Live Era isn't that great. It's average, but it just isn't too special.

I would say Nirvana: Unplugged in New York is probably the best but I haven't listened to too many live albums.

I'm gonna have to go with...

The Who-Live at Leeds

Very important and historic concert for The Who

Honorable mention
Alice in Chains-Unplugged

Whoa, thanks for 'letting me in the know', I feel like a whole new person thanks to this revelation. Silly ole me thought it was great, but now I know much better! : ok:  :peace:  :-*

I am surprised more people havnm't mentioned S&M by Metallica. I thought it was a great concpet, didn't work with all of their songs but some turned out fucking awesome. Another favorite is a fistful of alice by alice cooper recorded down at sammy hagars cabo wabo (Slash plays on some tracks including a kick ass solo on only women bleed) and a classic Cheap Trick Live at Budokan.

KISS- Alive I-IV
John Lennon- Live In NYC

Misfits - Evilive
Faith No More - You Fat Bastards - Live at the Brixton Academy
Guns N' Roses - Live EP (Japan only)

Official releases please. ( That means no Bootlegs)
Mine...

Pantera - 101 Proof

Chris Misfit told me to buy this the first time i met him when he came to stay with me in Norwich. Ach The Memories.  :'(
Its awesome for anyone that hasnt heard it!

And as far as im aware it was recorded at one show, as opposed to 3-4 shows with fake crowd noise. Will be willingly proved wrong on that last point though...its just my understanding.

Pantera - 101 proof for sure!!! : ok: (its a multiple show recording though :-\ )

Nirvana - muddy banks of wishka
Nirvana - Unplugged
AIC - Unplugged
Metallica - S&M (awesome awesome awesome display, whether or not you like metallica's current status you can't deny the greatness of this show)

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous, though it does have overdubs  :-\
How the West Was Won was good to, it's from two different shows if I remember correctly

Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio
Queen - Wembley
Helloween - Live in the UK

I like these shows for the way the band treat the audience and make it interact with them  : ok:

AC/DC - Live at Donington
AIC - Unplugged
Nirvana - Unplugged
Metallica - Live Shit: Bing & Purge (the 3 cd set live in Mexico from this boxset is awesome!)
Metallica - S&M
Pantera - 101 Proof
Screaming Jets: Rock On Live

There's a few Unplugged albums that are spectacular: Alice In Chains, Seal, and Rod Stewart. Sarah Mclachlan had a live album a few years back that sounded unbelieveable, but there were rumors that she did alot of vocals in the studio, so I guess it truly cant be considered live.

Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio  :peace:

Backyard Babies - Live In Paris
Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous
Ramones - It?s Alive
Nirvana - Unplugged

I didn't remember I post this 2 years ago but I can see that my taste has change a little bit  : ok:

Guns N ' Roses- Live Era
Metallica- Live Shit
Pantera- Live 101 Proof
Alice Cooper- Fist Full of Alice
Nirvana- From the muddy banks of the Wishkah


 :peace:

You all should be ashamed of yourselves.  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/ 1975-1985 is the greatest live album ever made and no one has even mentioned it.  The master of the live show is also the master of the live album.  Maiden's Live After Death is also excellent.

Deicide - When Satan Lives
Nirvana - Muddy Banks
MetallicA - Live Shit
INXS - Live Baby Live
PanterA - 101 Proof
AC-DC Live
NIN - AATCHB

cant think of much more right now......LIVE ALBUMS FUCKIN' RULE!!!

I have to go with The Rolling Stones Get Your Ya-Yas Out.  Thats my all-time favorite live album.

Thin Lizzy .................Live & Dangerous.


Simply Untouchable  .

You`ve gotta be kiding me?Live Era one of the best live albums ever?I mean, GNR is my favourite band, but just because they put a live album it doesnt automatically makes it the best llive album.I think we should all be honest and admit that Live Era is a crappy album, most of the songs in the album arent even the best live version.There`s no Paris 92, no Ritz 88, no Ritz 91, no Argentina 93.Plus, its full of Tokio 92 songs, that are just horrible, and most of the songs were re-recorded, either the guitars or the vocals.So its not the best live album, not even close.
My list is:
Alice In Chains-Unplugged
Iron Maiden.Rock I n Rio (One of the best live bands ever)
Any AC DC live album is awsome.
Most of the Rollin Stones live albums are great too.


Baby Slash//

I never said it was the best. It is MY fav live album. You dont need to like it. But certain songs on it like Rocket Queen and Yesterdays and My Michelle I think are really awesome performances. And the Jap only version with Coma is even better.
So just remember I didnt says it is the Best live album but it is My fav Live album.


 :peace:

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same

Eric Clapton - 24 nights

Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East. Easily the greatest.
Machine Head- Made in Japan. A good 2nd.
Everything else- just doesn't come close.

 :)

The Who
Bob Dylan

Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps

I don't think Nirvana's live album is all that great, neither is GN'Rs live album for that matter.

The best live album is....

KISS-ALIVE

Yeah, Live Era is overrated among GNR fans. If there was a list of top 100 live albums in history, Live Era wouldn't even make the list.

I like megadeths live trax, Its cool how they kinda hid peace sells in there after reckoning day. I like metallica stuff better live than studio. Gunners live era was ok but coulda been better

My Favorites:

How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band
Band Of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix
Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads
If You Want Blood You've Got It - AC/DC
Is There Anybody Out There? - Pink Floyd
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
Benaroya Hall: October 22nd 2003 - Pearl Jam
In The Begining - Stevie Ray Vaughan
In Session - Albert King / Stevie Ray Vaughan
In Concert - The Doors

Last Live Album I Purchased :

Scab Dates - The Mars Volta

NINE INCH NAILS__AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN__GrEaT ALbum.

Garth Brooks "Double Live"

NIN - An All the THings That Could Have Been
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewyality Livr
Alice In Chains - Unplugged
Nirvana - unplugged

Thats right. The 75-85 album is simply AMAZING! But I dont have it, since I cant find it here in Brazil.... :(

Its a shame that they didnt include Prove it All Night and Jungleland though

I just slipped Live and Dangerous back in my player I hadn't listened ti it in at least two years, Christ is this a great record

Being from Detroit, I have to say the GREATEST live album ever is... drum roll please...

 Live Bullet, by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.  This album rocks, it grooves and the band is virtually flawless.  Seger is the Fuckin' Man!

good topic... my top are:

David Bowie - live at bbc radio city hall in 2000 - just amazing - back with a vengeance and just heart-stopping talent
Nirvana Unplugged
Depeche Mode - songs of faith and devotion live

gonna take some advice of the earlier posts and listen to some of your faves..thanks !

Although it's not really "live."

Kiss - Alive

I mean let's be real, unless it's a bootleg no live cd is really live.

Live Era (GNR)
Forty Flicks (Stones)
Live Rust (Neil Young)
One  more from the road (Skynryd)
Live in Tokyo (Deep Purple)

Yeah, a live version of Jungleland would've been awesome.  With Bruce though he's got somany great songs that its pretty much impossible to get them all in...even when the live album is 3 discs long.

Exodus - Another Lesson In Violence.