Top Ten Live Albums, According to Jim!
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Great job as always, Jim. Just a few notables...
For me, any live album list begins with UFO - Strangers In The Night. Not only the magnificance of this performance, setlist etc, but the significance that this marked the end of the Michael Schenker era with the band. They were on the cusp of greatness. Then they weren't. But for this shining, brief moment, they were on top.
The album that really made people realize that live albums were about to become very important: Cream Live vol 2. Were the Cream Live albums a cash grab by the label to milk the market of the retired supergroup - yes. But something happened on the way to the bank... fans loved it! A whole new market was born that was part live album, part greatest hits. Remember, back then, the average fan couldn't afford to buy every album by evey band they loved. Live vol 2 set the precedent where if you had only one album by a band, you'd look for live. "What are we doing tonight? Bobby just got Cream Live vol 2 and we're all going over to his place to check it out!" Unimaginable today perhaps, but that was music fandom back then.
Jim - you appreciate Steven Wilson... but have you discovered Blackfield? NYC 2007 reveals a different side of Mr. Wilson. Decidedly NOT prog (capital or lower case 'P'), this live set features a rather small venue performance by a band that could have been quite a commercial success, had SW not been involved in 57 other projects. Shades of "Stupid Dream" era PTree. Song-oriented, excellent live production. Well worth a listen. I caught this tour on its Philly stop at World Cafe Live and they didn't disappoint.
Finally - Friday Night in San Francisco - Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia, John McLaughlin - unsurpassed acoustic guitar artistry. Jaw dropping stuff and ALL ACOUSTIC...!
Thanks for an interesting list and talking me into the Live Recordings you mentioned by Snarky Puppy, Devin Townsend and Haken. I'm quite curious now and am looking forward to listen to them. I agree with the Thin Lizzy and Muse Recordings. My favorite Liverecord would be Jethro Tulls Bursting Out and I love 1973's Uriah Heep Live a lot too. Boing, We'll Do It Live! by The Aristocrats is always a good listen too.
That Maiden tour was my first rock concert, I was 14.
Live After Death is an album that doesn’t get spoken about often enough in my eyes. It had a massive impact on me, as did the video that was released. I’m so pleased that you picked it. Dave Murray is probably the reason I play guitar.
Rush - Exit…Stage Left had the same impact on me as Delicate Sound of Thunder had on you. Agree with AC/DC, yet another teenage album played to death along with Iron Maiden - Live After Death. I was there for Steven Wilson at the RAH on the first night and it is the only gig that brought my mate to tears when he played Pariah. I haven’t let him forget that ;)
1. Anesthetize - porcupine tree. 2. The song remains the same - Led Zeppelin pelin (msg 1973)
Some top choices Jim, nice to see Snarky Puppy there! A live album I rate is “Play” by Magazine. Also Marillion’s live performance at the Albert Hall “All One Tonight” though this is better watched. “Exit Stage Left” is worth watching and I’d add “This New Noise” by Public Service Broadcasting!!!
My first ever live gig was Iron Maiden playing in Bristol on the World Slavery tour back in 1984. It was a night that changed my world forever. 'Live After Death' is a remarkable album and worthy of being number one in anybody's list.
Renaissance, Live at Carnegie Hall. THE greatest hits of this band recorded with an orchestra and choir.
For me-
Pictures At An Exhibition- ELP
WBMFTTSTNE- ELP
Yessongs-Yes
Tokyo- Deep Purple
Two For The Show- Kansas
Delicate Sound Of Thunder - Floyd
Live At Leeds- The Who
Pulse- Floyd
Yesshows-Yes
Seconds Out- Genesis
This list is based on what has remained in rotation for me over the years , as well as influence
1) Rush "Exit Stage Left"
2) Journey "Captured"
3) U2 "Live At Red Rocks:Under A Blood Red Sky"
4) Sting " Bring On The Night"
5) Judas Priest " Unleashed In The East"
6) Porcupine Tree " Anesthetize"
7) IS A TIE..... Steven Wilson "Home Invasion" and "Get All You Deserve"
8) Joni Mitchell "Shadows And Light"
9) Neil Finn and Friends " Seven Worlds Will Collide"
10) Oingo Boingo " Boingo Alive" ( recorded live , much like Snarky Puppy)
Dancing In The Moonlight from Live & Dangerous isn't a cover, Jim! It was penned by Lynott & released on their Bad Reputation album in '77. Another band had a big hit years later with an entirely different song that had the same title.
I saw Simple Minds at Wembley Empire Pool in 89. Played for 3 hours plus. SENSATIONAL. Also Pink Floyd at Wembley stadium in 88 on that tour. SENSATIONAL. As for Steven Wilson....GENIUS. Great choices Jim. I'd have to include Live at Leeds having seen the Who at London's Roundhouse in 1970. I spent the entire show pressed against Pete's P.A. at front of stage. Couldn't hear for a week! Hammersmith Odeon is now Eventim Apollo.
Live After Death is also top of my live album list, although I’ll generally go straight to studio recordings. I’m glad your other YT followers have mentioned AIC MTV Unplugged and Dire Straits Alchemy. They obviously have great taste in music 😎
A few days late owing to my mini-break, but Yessongs, Welcome Back my Friends and Live at Leeds would be in my top 10. If You Want Blood was recorded at the Apollo in Glasgow (same as Status Quo Live - also in my top 10) which was a typical 'theatre' though famous for its very high stage and disarmingly bouncy balcony. It was THE rock venue in the 70s and seated 3500 so not exactly small but very loud and atmospheric. I saw Quo, Yes (for £1.25!), Rush, Genesis, Sabbath, Camel, Be Bop Deluxe, Nazareth, 10cc and a few others there. Those were the days!
Sadly our holidays aren’t synced, you’re going to miss more than most!
Great list 🙂Personally I would add Porcupine Tree Anesthetize
Yeah. I was waiting when you will bring out Live after Death.
Check out Kansas Two for the Show (30th anniversary release has more songs that were not originally released in 1978), and of course Genesis Live 1973, Seconds out 1977, and Three sides live ( the release that has 4 sides live is preferred).
Enjoy those when you have time, you will not be disappointed.
A few of my favorites that, if you haven’t heard them, you should check out.
Portishead, Roseland NYC. Absolutely stunning.
King Crimson, The Night Watch. every live recording from this line-up is good, but this one is my favorite.
Neil Young, Arc/ Weld. Including a track that’s about a half hour of weird feedback and guitar noise is risky, but this album is amazing.
Another great idea ... and as I am also a big "list freak" I looked at the one I wrote sometime last year and have to say I don't know how to select 10 albums.
I've got already about 70 live albums - all of the 70s - which was the best time for live albums, when the music on the albums was real, raw, rough whatever.
So let me comment on your choices:
AC/DC - I completely agree with you, awesome power, great song selection and the best AC/DC singer, that has ever been - Bon Scott - RIP 🤘
fun story: when I learned typewriting (mechanical) at the age of 20, I practiced a lot to the music of AC/DC, hitting real hard, but the machine could take it 😆
Snarky Puppy - great band, I know only a few tracks in YT, but they are on my bucket list of concerts ... missed them last year due to late announcement and being sold out
Simple Minds - for me just ok, but I understand when you say, you discovered them at the age of 15 - Frank Fahrian, the producer and man behind Boney M once said, the
music you listen to at the age of 15 you will listen to for the rest of your life - I agree.
Pink Floyd - I have to say I wasn't into Pink Floyd in the 80s, so I missed a lot ... I might have to sit down and listen 🤔
Muse - I have this DVD, it's impressing but also hard to listen to in complete ... but I understand your feelings about it when you were at this concert
Steven Wilson - I like lots of his stuff, but don't know this album
Haken - we talked about it before
Thin Lizzy - an absolute must for each record collector ... if I had to do a top 10 or 20 of the 70s, it would be part of it ... and Emerald was on my first live mixtape
Devin Townsend - still have to find my way into the Devin Universe
Iron Maiden - I knew it before you said it, great live album of the 80s and another fun story : when Dream Theater tried new singers between Jack Dominici and James LaBrie,
there was this guy, whom Mike Portnoy wanted to be a bit more extrovert on stage. So he told him to do like Bruce when he told the crowd to "scream for me
Long Beach. So DT played in a small city somewhere near NYC and all of the sudden the singer told the crowd "scream for me Long Beach" ; Mike and the guys
looked at each other thinking WTF ??? I think it was the guy's last try 🤣🤣🤣
I own half of those albums, and Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous will always be the unassailable number one for me. It's funny how many fans swear that their favourite is one of the "few bands that are better live than in a studio," so I think that's often the case if you are a fan of the band, and not true at all if it's a band you don't particularly care for. Other personal favourites of mine would be: Deep Purple - Made in Japan, UFO - Strangers in the Night and Rainbow - On Stage.
I don't collect or love LIVE albums too much, but the ones I have and love are;
1. Simple Minds - Live In the City Of Light
2. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky (Live at Red Rocks)
3. Dire Straits - Alchemy
4. The Who - Live Leeds
5. Any Pink Floyd Live
6. Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged
7. Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged
8. Nirvana MTV Unplugged
And “Nothing But The Truth” by The Pineapple Thief!!!
Some notable live albums on my list would be Cheap Trick Live at the Budokhan, Marillion’s Thieving Magpie, Deep Purple Live in Europe and Live in Japan, Yessongs of course and UFO Strangers in the Night
Top notch video Jim. Great albums and beautifully described. This is a 11/10 video by any means. All the best. Dave✅✅
Some cracking choices there jim, (except the last one) Lizzy live and dangerous is my favourite live album ever.
Good afternoon Jim,
Great list Jim. My list would be a bit different and would contain:
Ayreon Universe live
Ayreon - The electric castle live and other tales
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Yes - Yes symphonic live, or Yes live at Montreux.
Grobschnitt - Solar music live
Neil Young - Live Rust
Ozric tentacles - live at the Pongmasters ball
Dream Theater - breaking the fourth wall
Peter Gabriel - Secret world live
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Also very good:
Riverside - Lost ‘n’ found
IQ - A show of resistance live
Heilung - Lifa live at Castlefest
David Gilmour - Remember that night
I was at the Muse gig too…. The new Wembley Stadium, the crowd and my first time seeing Muse it was just amazing. I could not believe how a 3 piece could reproduce their studio albums so well live. Great choice …. Oh, nearly forgot the floating balloon dancers too
I'd have bet my next paycheck that Live After Death would be on this list. 😁
Aside from that, I only guessed Devin, but didn't know what album.
For me Marillion Lorelei 1987 number 1
I wished there was a Devin Townsend Plovdiv live album. Live albums, I prefer to watch DVD or UA-cam to get the whole experience.
There is! I have it.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Machine_-_Live_at_the_Ancient_Roman_Theatre_Plovdiv
@@JimNewstead I've watched it on UA-cam many many times and figured that was from a real DVD version but didn't know there was a CD! Maybe they'll bless us with a nice vinyl box set soon.
I’m guessing Dire Straits’ Alchemy and Rush’s Exit Stage Left didn’t make the list because Jim hasn’t heard them yet. 😂
The ophidian trek-Meshuggah
Disasterpieces-Slipknot
My favorites are The Song Remains The Same, and Yessongs.
I prefer studio recording for the most part.
Some great choices there Jim. I would add Scorpions Tokyo Tapes and numerous Rush live albums. The bootleg of Thin Lizzy at Preston Guildhall is special to me because I was there.
Wow, surprised to see Delicate Sound of Thunder in there! Excellent (double) album! I saw the tour (May 15th 1988 in Philadelphia) that this album was recorded from (not at the specific venues the nights it was recorded), and it was an AMAZING show. Still ranked as the best concert I've ever been to (tied with Foo Fighters in 2003).
Oh, and for clarity about why I'm surprised, whenever people typically recommend live PF, they always suggest Pulse (which is also a great album), but to me, there's just something special about Delicate Sound of Thunder...probably because the playlist was very close to the playlist at the show I saw.
My favorite live experience was the Judas Priest Reunion Tour in 2004, the dueling guitars, Halford screaming electric eye, in the center of an electric eye!! My god it was magical. Some others include Front Row at Slayer the day after Dimebag passed, then a few months later King Diamond in another super small club. But favorite live album? Easy Greatful Dead at Cornell, especially when “elevated” 🫢, I won’t elaborate beyond that. * Edit The Band - The Last Waltz deserves a mention.
My favourite live band experience was seeing Porcupine Tree in Wembley Arena....
....because i was with you Jim🤗☺️🎸.
.....2nd place Broadcast at The Koko (the band who inspired me hugely as an outsider artist/ producer)....but in terms of albums gotta say i don't frequently listen to many live albums. Guess id better get a copy of those two classics ive somehow always put off getting Thin Lizzy, Live after Death and i will also grab a copy of Townsend at Roundhouse...the cd/dvd version is ok price!☺️☺️☺️
I’m commenting prior to viewing. I’m just gonna say…Allman Bros Band, Live At Fillmore East. Now let’s see!
Update - never mind, different era! 😄
definitely in my Top 10 of all times 🤘
I tend to not listen to a lot of live albums unless I'm watching concert recordings, which I do do quite a bit, but not often shows that were released as albums. When I do listen to live albums it tends to be different genres. I don't think I've listened to a live metal or rock album in a decade, for instance.
There is only one live album that I listen to many times a year and that is The Rippingtons - Live in LA.
Hey Jim! Well your opening remarks seem to be exactly what i didn’t want to hear! Obviously this list are your personal favorites not " the best live" albums of all time. That's cool. No Live at Leeds, no Yessongs, bummer! Have a great day my friend.👍😎
Jeff, you hardcore Yes fan 😆 How many people do you want to ask, to get some kind of "objective" list ? I'm sorry to say, but I'm sure Yessongs wouldn't make it into TOP 20, even though I love this album very much and it's my favourite Yes live album .... but It's not mainstream enough ... so let's just all go with our personal lists, I've stopped expecting people to like the music I like. I'm glad to have at least a few people with a similar taste ... 😄🤘
Nice to see "live in the city of light" on your list 👍 along with " The delicate sound of thunder"🤌✨
A few below are worth a mention.
Deep Purple "Made in Japan" even though I'm not a big fan of them its a excellent live performance.
Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003) by Opeth is excellent live release with the band playing the "Damnation" album in its entirety then followed by heavier cuts. 👍
Also Metallica "Live Shit Binge & Purge" is peak live Metallica.
Lastly "Les Enfants Savauges" by Gojira, high energy live performance.
The who- live at leeds
Great list!
I would add Porcupine Tree Live in Tilburg 2008 which became Anesthetize album in 2010 and Nightwish live at Wacken 2013 which became Showtime, Storytime album in 2013 as well. Those are 2 of the best live performances ever and 2 shows if I had a time machine, would use it to be there at that time.
I second the live in Tilburg. For me the greatest live album I’ve listened to (seen)
Before viewing I’m going to list a few of my top ones and see how many match Jim’s
In no particular order :
Dire Straits - Alchemy
AC/DC - if you want blood
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Marillion - Real to Reel
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Roxy Music - Viva
Suck on This by Primus!
Yessongs???