Live albums I play the most include Live at Fillmore and Stop Making Sense, already mentioned by others, plus Van Morrison's "It's Too Late to Stop Now", King Crison's "Absent Lovers" and "VROOOM VROOOM" and "Peter Gabriel Plays Live".
Pete.
Posts: 637 | Location: Scotland, UK | Registered: Mon 31 July 2000
The 25th Anniversary release of "Frampton Comes Alive" is a superb live album. This is the ultimate version of the best selling live album ever.
The remastering for this release has put the sound quality light years ahead of the regular CD version. It's not cheap at around £30 but you do get a few additional tracks. Raw and bursting with energy and life, it's a total blast to listen to.
"Frampton Comes Alive 2" is also worth a listen. the tunes are not up the standard of the original but there's some good old fashioned rock music on this very underrated album (check out "Can't take that away").
Led Zepellin's "How the West Was Won" has to be mentioned simply for the awesome version of "Black Dog". The rest of the album is great too despite the overly long drum solo.
Posts: 64 | Location: West Yorkshire | Registered: Mon 04 February 2002
Another vote for Van the Man's Too late to stop now. Also try Steve Earle's Just an American Boy and Live at the Greek by Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes
Posts: 48 | Location: UK | Registered: Mon 04 October 2004
My personal favorite live record is jazz: Gene Harris' Cat Alley. All the excitement of live performance, plus a sound so good you'd swear it's a studio album.
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather have a live album out that rips. The do a pretty awesome cover of Miles' "All Blues". For any fan of jazz, rock and fusion I would consider this CD a must have.
-Mike
Posts: 271 | Location: Philadelphia suburbs, USA | Registered: Wed 24 December 2003
I really can't understand the enthusiasm for the Van Morrison live album. I went to one of the concerts that it was compiled from as a big fan who owned all of his stuff to that date.
I left as someone who never bought a single thing by him again. He treated the audience like something he'd trodden in and seemed to perform everything in as emotionless and perfunctory way as humanly possible.
Baffled...
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Posts: 3826 | Location: Kent, UK | Registered: Sat 16 June 2001
quote: I left as someone who never bought a single thing by him again. He treated the audience like something he'd trodden in and seemed to perform everything in as emotionless and perfunctory way as humanly possible.
On another post, I once referred to VM as self-indulgent, and several questioned what was meant by that comment. Well, what Nick said - precisely. The man is brillant at times, but even some of his studio stuff has the "cold" disinterested feel to it.It's more what you feel at times, than what you hear.
Back on topic, I love Dave Matthews Band recent live discs (2-audio,1-dvd) "The Gorge". Nothing terribly profound, but the band can rock and the drummer, Carter Beauford, is phenomenal in my opinion.
And Sara McLachlan's (pop) live "Mirroball" is ssoooo tasty and some superlative examples of a band complimenting a featured performer with terrific playing but never intruding/overshadowing the star performer.
Jeff A
Posts: 2369 | Location: "sometimes you get sick and you don't get better" | Registered: Sat 28 December 2002
Who - Live at Leeds (deluxe edition) Zepp - How the west was won Ani Di Franco - Living in Clip (utterly essential) Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Colin Lorenson
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Posts: 434 | Location: Jakarta, Indonesia (and far from convinced) | Registered: Wed 09 August 2000
One of my personal favourites is Dire Straits On The Night...Brilliant cd and the two most emotional tracks your ever likely to hear are to my mind anyway..You And Your Friend..And Brothers In Arms,try this album its brilliant!!
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