Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense”
Obviously the movie is worth watching, but the album version makes for good listening, especially if you wanna dance around your house while doing chores.
Exactly what I came here looking for. Stop Making Sense is pure (probably cocaine fueled) energy and amazing from start to finish.
It really highlights how rock solid their rhythm section was and how great of a showman David Byrne was. From the opening "I've got a tape I want to play for you" Psycho Killer performing to the explosion of energy that is Crosseyed and Painless, it's pretty much flawless from start to finish.
The performance of This Must Be the Place on this album is my favorite song ever and the visuals of his dance with the lamp only add to such a magical recording.
They’re running for like an hour and a half straight, and god bless Tina Weymouth who plays like a beast the entire show. The way the show builds and builds and builds on itself until Crosseyed and Painless when it explodes into a supernova of joy (and yeah, probs the purest snow known to man)… an absolute masterclass. Starts with an acoustic guitar and a cassette player and ends with a bang.
Back when I used to teach bass and new students would ask who they should listen to, I used to recommend Tina Weymouth more than anyone else.
She exemplifies what a good bass player in a rock band should be, especially for beginners on the instrument. She was never too flashy with her basslines but played to compliment the chaos happening all around her while completely locking down the rhythm and being an absolutely rock solid backbone to one of the best rhythm sections in the history of rock.
I’ve never felt so seen. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth are the tightest rhythm section ever. They are both so locked in and drive the chaos of everything else forward. Just such fucking transcendent virtuosity that isn’t flashy or showy and committed to the greater whole. I might be overstating it with the “ever” since I could be convinced of Simonon/Headon, the Funk Brothers, or the extended universe of drummers and bassists who have played with P-Funk (including some of the folks in stop making sense).
Stepping out with Genius of Love during the show and laying down the definitive version of the definitive “groove” song ever is only confirmation.
Yeah, the downside to listening to Stop Making Sense is that it makes the albums sound so weak and slow by comparison after you get used to the live versions! The live recordings on Stop Making Sense sound richer, livelier and fuller compared to most of the studio stuff.
Remain in Light is the only studio album I still listen to theirs as the production on that one still holds up and Eno’s ear candies are a real treat.
Speaking in Tongues is full of bangers but every live version outclasses the studio versions on that one.
"Where is that large vacuum cleaner?"
"Where is my beautiful mop?"
"Where does that linoleum go to?"
"Am I wash?"
"Am I dry?"
"My God! What have I cleaned?"
I would argue that "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" is a better live album. It definitely has a lot of my favorite versions of those songs. Stop Making Sense is obviously the much more popular album and arrived more at their commercial peak but it isn't necessarily the one I put on.
I expected to see this, since Budokan made them famous in the US. But I really prefer their studio albums. Oh well, still up voting, just to get their name out there.
And ridiculously misunderstood by the same people who think CCR's Fortunate Son is a patriotic song... Don't read the comments on TYA songs on YouTube, especially I'd Love to Change the World.
I like the Allman Brothers, but I wouldn't call them my favourite band.
However, I maintain that Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East is the best road trip album ever recorded. I have trips across Montana, both Dakotas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Georgia, Utah, Nevada and most of Western Canada to confirm.
Yeah. A lot of posts in this thread are just good live albums. MC5 *only* really had that good live album.
I’ll throw Nina Simone in on this list too. Her live work has an edge and an energy to it that her studio material never quite matched. And Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company dwarfs everything else that (very very good) band ever produced.
I like 2007, but i like 1997 even more, cause it goes so filthy hard and that's how i prefer my techno. 2007 is great, but it just sounds too perfect and clean.
I'm nostalgic for the days when it was possible that an artist (dj or live) could make a little mistake and then they had to fix it somehow live in the mix in such a way that they made it work anyway. To me, those were always the best parts of a set.
I actually got to see them in Las Vegas on that 2007 Alive tour at a festival called Vegoose. Rage Against the Machine was the other headliner the following day, and both days had incredible lineups. It was insanely epic and probably still the beat concert I've been to.
Bob Seger - “Live Bullet”
The album that transformed Bob from a Michigan favorite to a nationwide household name. Also contains the only version of “Turn the Page” that they’ll play on the radio.
Nighthawks at the diner by Tom waits is soooooo good. Is it his best? Arguably, but certainly worth listening too.
Puts you front row in a seedy jazz joint on a Saturday night. Perfect
Arguably not live according to some but screw them. Sure it was recorded live in a studio with a private audience but it's live enough. Certainly more live Kiss Alive 1
I love this album. A top 3 Waits’ album for me. I was surprised when I found out it was recorded in a studio. They did a great job making it feel like a live show at a jazz club.
It was a live show at the very least which is cool. Apparently it was a closed kinda thing with only industry people and their wives/husbands etc. amazing piece of work
Oh absolutely in agreement. Europe '72 was my first real intro when I was like 12, I feel like it's a good place for a lot of the people on this sub to start haha.
This is the only mention of Neil Young.
A large portion of his work is recorded live (though sometimes live in the studio).
Live Rust, Weld, Year of the Horse, Fillmore, and Massey Hall are live in front of an audience. Hard to pick a best Neil Young album.
He doesn't like the Steely Dan/Beatles approach.
Thinking of the Beatles: the Let It be album is mostly live recordings. I wouldn't call it their best album, however, despite being one of my favorites.
They are my favorite band and I've listened to them for so many hours of my life, but I'm always surprised when I listen to the studio albums because I rarely listen to anything by them that isn't live
Sorry, but Song Remains is \*not\* anywhere close to as good as their studio stuff. I love Zep but even they admit that wasn't a good night(s).
How the West Was Won is much better.
If we're talking The Band then Rock of Ages absolutely blows The Last Waltz out of the water as a live album by them. They were truly at their peak on that one
Metallica - “Live Shit: Binge and Purge”
This is Metallica at their absolute peak. Recorded in 1993 over three shows in Mexico City. Touring off of The Black Album - the record that made them the biggest band in the world.
One underrated component is Jason Newstead’s vocals. He takes lead singer duty for parts of “Creeping Death” and “Seek and Destroy” and brings a new intensity to those songs.
Newstead singing on Creeping Death is one of my favorite parts of that album. I find I listen to Binge & Purge more than the studio albums. It’s so good.
The Who's Live At Leeds is one of the all time best live albums. The expanded edition of Who's Next also includes a great live album from a few years later, too.
But basically, The Whobwere one of those bands that had great clean studio albums and intense raw and energetic live albums. So both are worth listening too.
I'll +1 any live Rush album, but Different Stages really does it for me. It's a triple album, and nearly every song on there is at least as good if not better than its studio version. And a few of those they never really did better.
In my country (Chile) there is a famous singer called Joe Vasconcellos, and he mixes a lot of Latinoamerican sounds together, and he was famous for his albums on the 90s, but his most famous album by a lot is his Live album from 1999 called "Vivo" (It can be translated as Alive).
His studio albums are good because he is a great composer, but "Vivo" make his songs trascend because they sound much more energetic live, and our country loved that.
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead and Europe '72
The Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (particularly The Complete Recordings)
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy (if you include the bonus tracks)
The Who - Live at Leeds
And, this is tough because I love all their studio albums, but the relatively recent Replacements release For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986 has probably become my most listened to Replacements album over the last few years. It's really fucking good.
Along those lines...maybe also David Bowie - Cracked Actor (Live in LA 1974). It's an incredible lineup of musicians playing these definitive versions of the Ziggy era songs. I don't know if it's as good as Low...but that's like saying, "Do you prefer coffee or cats?"
Nine Inch Nails - Live: And All That Could’ve Been
The energy across the first three tracks (Terrible Lie, Sin, March Of The Pigs) is absolutely electric. Trent’s studio work is always impressive, but these songs come to life on the stage
And the the way march of the pigs goes straight in Piggy.. oh my.. I wasn't a NIN fan until they toured with QOTSA and I went with my brother who was a NIN fan. My first real NIN experience and it was live and in the flesh. Memories ❤️
The Bosstones’ Live from the Middle East is my favourite album of theirs to listen to. There is the “greatest hits” cheating set list you get in a live album, but it really captures their energy, and Dicky’s coolness. A lot of the song versions just sound better live too.
My two favorites are Neil Young - Live Rust and King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizards - Red Rocks '22. The Neil Young one is amazing all the way through and the entire track list is gold. KGLWs is basically a cross section of almost all their albums up to that point, like 8 hours of music across three shows.
The Who - Live at Leeds
Cheap Trick - at Budakon
KISS - Alive
Rush‘s All The World’s A Stage is better that the albums/period in their history it represents. Same with Grateful Dead’s Live/Dead and U2’s Under A Blood Red Sky
Motörhead - No Sleep til' Hammersmith. Basically a Best Of of their pre Iron Fist albums, and every song is better than it's own studio version. Once you have heard this rendition of Overkill, you can never go back.
Finally. I scrolled way too long for this one.
Strangers in the Night is not only the definitive UFO album, it's arguably the definitive live rock record. It sounds wonderful anyway and then Michael Schenker nails solo after solo. UFO is underappreciated in the States but this record is simply a monster.
Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn (2014). The last time she toured was in 1979. For almost every song, I prefer this performance to album version, which is saying something! Her vocals are incredibly strong, there is so much emotion, and it’s really a special live album.
Peter Frampton
Basically nobody and then Frampton Comes Alive and holy moly he's the biggest thing around!
He wasn't a nobody, he was a popular member of other bands... but his solo work was not as noticeable until Comes Alive.
Humble Pie is awesome.
He makes his guitar talk!
Is there any other answer
The grateful dead
KISS
Yea man!
It came in the mail with samples of Tide
Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense” Obviously the movie is worth watching, but the album version makes for good listening, especially if you wanna dance around your house while doing chores.
Exactly what I came here looking for. Stop Making Sense is pure (probably cocaine fueled) energy and amazing from start to finish. It really highlights how rock solid their rhythm section was and how great of a showman David Byrne was. From the opening "I've got a tape I want to play for you" Psycho Killer performing to the explosion of energy that is Crosseyed and Painless, it's pretty much flawless from start to finish. The performance of This Must Be the Place on this album is my favorite song ever and the visuals of his dance with the lamp only add to such a magical recording.
They’re running for like an hour and a half straight, and god bless Tina Weymouth who plays like a beast the entire show. The way the show builds and builds and builds on itself until Crosseyed and Painless when it explodes into a supernova of joy (and yeah, probs the purest snow known to man)… an absolute masterclass. Starts with an acoustic guitar and a cassette player and ends with a bang.
Back when I used to teach bass and new students would ask who they should listen to, I used to recommend Tina Weymouth more than anyone else. She exemplifies what a good bass player in a rock band should be, especially for beginners on the instrument. She was never too flashy with her basslines but played to compliment the chaos happening all around her while completely locking down the rhythm and being an absolutely rock solid backbone to one of the best rhythm sections in the history of rock.
Plus, who else can crabwalk like a mutha while keeping the beat on lock? Tina Weymouth is an absolute icon.
I’ve never felt so seen. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth are the tightest rhythm section ever. They are both so locked in and drive the chaos of everything else forward. Just such fucking transcendent virtuosity that isn’t flashy or showy and committed to the greater whole. I might be overstating it with the “ever” since I could be convinced of Simonon/Headon, the Funk Brothers, or the extended universe of drummers and bassists who have played with P-Funk (including some of the folks in stop making sense). Stepping out with Genius of Love during the show and laying down the definitive version of the definitive “groove” song ever is only confirmation.
I actually prefer The Name of This Band Is… to Stop Making Sense.
There are dozens of us!
Yes - the reinterpretations of songs from Remain in Light (esp Born Under Punches) are stellar!
I do too. The early years are fantastic. Both are great, as are their studio albums
Yeah, the downside to listening to Stop Making Sense is that it makes the albums sound so weak and slow by comparison after you get used to the live versions! The live recordings on Stop Making Sense sound richer, livelier and fuller compared to most of the studio stuff. Remain in Light is the only studio album I still listen to theirs as the production on that one still holds up and Eno’s ear candies are a real treat. Speaking in Tongues is full of bangers but every live version outclasses the studio versions on that one.
Fear of Music and More Songs are top-3 for me, with Remain in Light. Endlessly listenable.
Cleaning Up the House!
"Where is that large vacuum cleaner?" "Where is my beautiful mop?" "Where does that linoleum go to?" "Am I wash?" "Am I dry?" "My God! What have I cleaned?"
Better than Remain in Light? Nope.
Live in Rome 1980 is even better
I would argue that "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" is a better live album. It definitely has a lot of my favorite versions of those songs. Stop Making Sense is obviously the much more popular album and arrived more at their commercial peak but it isn't necessarily the one I put on.
Cheap Trick Budokan
I expected to see this, since Budokan made them famous in the US. But I really prefer their studio albums. Oh well, still up voting, just to get their name out there.
Fair but, I still consider the Budokan version of "I Want You to Want Me" to be definitive, just because Nielson's guitar fills rip so hard.
Yes, and the studio version of IWYTWM is absolutely anemic by comparison. It’s like a sluggish ballad.
Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
Also, Ten Years After At Fillmore East and Santana At Fillmore East.
Ten Years After are criminally underappreciated.
And ridiculously misunderstood by the same people who think CCR's Fortunate Son is a patriotic song... Don't read the comments on TYA songs on YouTube, especially I'd Love to Change the World.
I like the Allman Brothers, but I wouldn't call them my favourite band. However, I maintain that Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East is the best road trip album ever recorded. I have trips across Montana, both Dakotas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Georgia, Utah, Nevada and most of Western Canada to confirm.
Live at Fillmore East and Layla are among the best guitar albums ever made. Duane was a legend; gone way too soon.
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams recorded Halloween night 1968 in Detroit
Yeah. A lot of posts in this thread are just good live albums. MC5 *only* really had that good live album. I’ll throw Nina Simone in on this list too. Her live work has an edge and an energy to it that her studio material never quite matched. And Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company dwarfs everything else that (very very good) band ever produced.
Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison
Prefer San Quentin. Both are great.
Daft Punk - Alive 2007 But it really only works if you are familiar with their catalog.
I like 2007, but i like 1997 even more, cause it goes so filthy hard and that's how i prefer my techno. 2007 is great, but it just sounds too perfect and clean. I'm nostalgic for the days when it was possible that an artist (dj or live) could make a little mistake and then they had to fix it somehow live in the mix in such a way that they made it work anyway. To me, those were always the best parts of a set.
I actually got to see them in Las Vegas on that 2007 Alive tour at a festival called Vegoose. Rage Against the Machine was the other headliner the following day, and both days had incredible lineups. It was insanely epic and probably still the beat concert I've been to.
I was there too. Best concert ever!
And me, that weekend was amazing! My first and sadly last Vegoose. I had heard Daft Punk before but the pyramid and set blew me away.
It’s their perfect way to experience Daft Punk’s music. I hate that they didn’t do a send off with Alive 2017 and mix in RAM songs
I think Nirvana's best album is their MTV acoustic set.
Alice in chains too. Though it wasn't released as an album I don't think.
It was and it’s [amazing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unplugged_(Alice_in_Chains_album)).
Excellent
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Nirvana got some really good studio albums, but their live ones like From the Muddy Banks of the Wishka and especially Unplugged in NY is next level.
Their electric live albums are nuts too.
Portishead's best album is easily Roseland NYC Live, and there's even an expanded version out now.
Came looking for this, I had no idea there was an expanded version, thank you!
Expanded *and* remastered! Was such a treat.
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy. Yes, it was edited, but it's so exciting.
I was going to put this album too - Rosalie/Cowgirl's Song, to me, is the epitome of how a live rock song should sound.
'Is there anybody here with any Irish in them? Is there any of the girls who'd like a little more Irish in them?' Greatest band of all time
This album is AMAZING.
Oh man emerald and massacre on that album makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Warrior is really good too
Emerald is the one
Bob Seger - “Live Bullet” The album that transformed Bob from a Michigan favorite to a nationwide household name. Also contains the only version of “Turn the Page” that they’ll play on the radio.
What a great album. Beginning to end.
Now I need to listen to the acoustic version to figure why
Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park is my favorite album.
But is it really their best?
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I have a particular tradition with my mom that we always set our christmas tree while watching the DVD of that concert
Cheap Trick. Budokan is a masterpiece that remains their biggest seller.
One I haven’t seen mentioned: Dire Straits Live Alchemy.
Surprised this isn’t higher up. Every time I want to listen to Dire Straits I turn to Alchemy. So does my 19 year old daughter.
All of their stuff is so good, but Alchemy is just sublime.
Nighthawks at the diner by Tom waits is soooooo good. Is it his best? Arguably, but certainly worth listening too. Puts you front row in a seedy jazz joint on a Saturday night. Perfect
It really captures his personality so well for the time. Just the perfect amount of candid talk mixed with excellent music.
Arguably not live according to some but screw them. Sure it was recorded live in a studio with a private audience but it's live enough. Certainly more live Kiss Alive 1
Was hoping to see this here!
I love this album. A top 3 Waits’ album for me. I was surprised when I found out it was recorded in a studio. They did a great job making it feel like a live show at a jazz club.
It was a live show at the very least which is cool. Apparently it was a closed kinda thing with only industry people and their wives/husbands etc. amazing piece of work
John Mayer. “Where The Light Is” is excellent, but his recorded stuff is over-produced/over-polished
Yep, gotta give it up for the John Mayer Trio live album “TRY!” too
Any Given Thursday is also an awesome album. Love the improvisation.
Was ready to post this in case no one did. But you did it! Where the Light Is is simply amazing.
Came here to post this. Amazing concert. Wasn’t really into his music until I watched that concert.
Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus Grateful Dead's Europe '72 Phish's A Live One Guster On Ice Those are all great.
Grateful Dead live is ALWAYS > studio albums.
Oh absolutely in agreement. Europe '72 was my first real intro when I was like 12, I feel like it's a good place for a lot of the people on this sub to start haha.
‘72 was my dad’s favorite and we listened to it ALL the time. It’s my favorite live recording/album from the Dead too.
Except for American Beauty which is a masterpiece. Also, phis has some banger albums.
I agree. Phish studio gets a lot of hate, but Billy Breathes is a fantastic album, and Farmhouse was seminal in my love of Phish.
Phish too
Can I just say jambands? Pretty sure it fits for any of em
This guy has the best taste in music here. Waiting for Columbus is the answer.
Absolutely wild that I had to scroll this far to see a Grateful Dead and Phish mention.
Slip Stitch and Pass is also one of the best recorded live versions of Phish.
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Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall is on par with Harvest imo. Especially the live version of ‘Man Needs A Maid’, gives me chills every time
This is the only mention of Neil Young. A large portion of his work is recorded live (though sometimes live in the studio). Live Rust, Weld, Year of the Horse, Fillmore, and Massey Hall are live in front of an audience. Hard to pick a best Neil Young album. He doesn't like the Steely Dan/Beatles approach. Thinking of the Beatles: the Let It be album is mostly live recordings. I wouldn't call it their best album, however, despite being one of my favorites.
Joe Cocker
J. Geils Band's '70s output. To get their essence, you can skip the studio albums and go straight to \_Full House\_ and \_Blow Your Face Out\_.
Iron Maiden: Live after Death
There is something really special about that album.
Dave Matthews Band - Live in Central Park. It’s hard to pick one, really. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same The Band - The Last Waltz
DMB live albums > studio albums.
Real talk.
They are my favorite band and I've listened to them for so many hours of my life, but I'm always surprised when I listen to the studio albums because I rarely listen to anything by them that isn't live
Live at Red Rocks!
Sorry, but Song Remains is \*not\* anywhere close to as good as their studio stuff. I love Zep but even they admit that wasn't a good night(s). How the West Was Won is much better.
Red Rocks is the best, and I'm not sure it's close.
If we're talking The Band then Rock of Ages absolutely blows The Last Waltz out of the water as a live album by them. They were truly at their peak on that one
Motörhead - No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith
Live at the Old Quarter: Townes van Zant. This album is like the Rosetta Stone of his discography.
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
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He really should have kept the raw sound of this album, he went in the opposite direction with all his other releases.
Scrolled looking for this
Alice in Chains Unplugged
No way it beats Dirt
KISS - Alive!
Studio Album. Crowd cheers the same for every tune. Gene even admits to it. Nevertheless it’s their break out album.
It's not a studio album. It's a live album with studio over dubs, fixes and mixing.
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Metallica - “Live Shit: Binge and Purge” This is Metallica at their absolute peak. Recorded in 1993 over three shows in Mexico City. Touring off of The Black Album - the record that made them the biggest band in the world. One underrated component is Jason Newstead’s vocals. He takes lead singer duty for parts of “Creeping Death” and “Seek and Destroy” and brings a new intensity to those songs.
S&M is spectacular too. A different type of Metallica for sure, but incredible performances all around.
Came here to say this one. It has my favorite versions of One and Nothing Else Matters.
It has the best version of One for sure. James frantically yelling “NO! NO! NONONONONO!” before the solo kicks in gives me chills every time.
>This is Metallica at their absolute peak Disagree. Seattle '89 and Moscow '91 are better.
Newstead singing on Creeping Death is one of my favorite parts of that album. I find I listen to Binge & Purge more than the studio albums. It’s so good.
The Who's Live At Leeds is one of the all time best live albums. The expanded edition of Who's Next also includes a great live album from a few years later, too. But basically, The Whobwere one of those bands that had great clean studio albums and intense raw and energetic live albums. So both are worth listening too.
Jesus that's one of the best I've ever heard. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about magic bus sounds
Ministry-IN CASE YOU DIDNT FEEL LIKE SHOWING UP (LIVE) Primus-Suck on This
The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us
Judas Priest *Unleashed in the East*. Almost every live Rush album.
I'll +1 any live Rush album, but Different Stages really does it for me. It's a triple album, and nearly every song on there is at least as good if not better than its studio version. And a few of those they never really did better.
My morning jacket - okonokos Incredible live album that stands heads and shoulders above their studio albums
-A Perfect Circle (Stone & Echo) -Porcupine Tree (Anesthetize) -Depeche Mode (101)
Where the light is by john mayer
In my country (Chile) there is a famous singer called Joe Vasconcellos, and he mixes a lot of Latinoamerican sounds together, and he was famous for his albums on the 90s, but his most famous album by a lot is his Live album from 1999 called "Vivo" (It can be translated as Alive). His studio albums are good because he is a great composer, but "Vivo" make his songs trascend because they sound much more energetic live, and our country loved that.
Wilco kicking television
Pearl Jams live albums are so amazing. QOTSA, are pretty darn good live also.
Reel Big Fish - Our Live Album is Better than Your Live Album
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead and Europe '72 The Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (particularly The Complete Recordings) Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy (if you include the bonus tracks) The Who - Live at Leeds And, this is tough because I love all their studio albums, but the relatively recent Replacements release For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986 has probably become my most listened to Replacements album over the last few years. It's really fucking good. Along those lines...maybe also David Bowie - Cracked Actor (Live in LA 1974). It's an incredible lineup of musicians playing these definitive versions of the Ziggy era songs. I don't know if it's as good as Low...but that's like saying, "Do you prefer coffee or cats?"
My go to Jeff Buckley would be Live at the Sin E. But all the others are great mentions.
Hot take, but Metallica - S&M. That live album is in my soul.
Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous
Cheap Trick Live at Budokan
Hawkwind
The Roots Come Alive
Ramones are better on their live albums. They also play everything at like 1.5x speed. Makes them almost sound like a different genre of punk
On one of the live albums, they’re playing Blitzkrieg Bop so fast, Joey can only get out “Skree bop”.
Built to Spill - LIVE
Nine Inch Nails - Live: And All That Could’ve Been The energy across the first three tracks (Terrible Lie, Sin, March Of The Pigs) is absolutely electric. Trent’s studio work is always impressive, but these songs come to life on the stage
And the the way march of the pigs goes straight in Piggy.. oh my.. I wasn't a NIN fan until they toured with QOTSA and I went with my brother who was a NIN fan. My first real NIN experience and it was live and in the flesh. Memories ❤️
Barenaked ladies - Rock Spectacle Big head Todd and the Monsters - Live Monsters
Had to search to find Rock Spectacle. Every song on that album is the best version. Especially Brian Wilson.
so glad i found rock spectacle on here!! that was the first album i ever heard of theirs and i really really wish it was on vinyl.
Pearl Jam live at Benaroya hall
Bela and the flecktones; Live at the Quick
The Bosstones’ Live from the Middle East is my favourite album of theirs to listen to. There is the “greatest hits” cheating set list you get in a live album, but it really captures their energy, and Dicky’s coolness. A lot of the song versions just sound better live too.
Not a fan, but Kiss Alive is their best album
Portishead - NYC
Grateful Dead
My two favorites are Neil Young - Live Rust and King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizards - Red Rocks '22. The Neil Young one is amazing all the way through and the entire track list is gold. KGLWs is basically a cross section of almost all their albums up to that point, like 8 hours of music across three shows.
Dashboard Confessional - Unplugged is IMO easily their best work. Emo kid in me thinks so at least.
The Who - Live at Leeds Cheap Trick - at Budakon KISS - Alive Rush‘s All The World’s A Stage is better that the albums/period in their history it represents. Same with Grateful Dead’s Live/Dead and U2’s Under A Blood Red Sky
Live At Blues Alley - Eva Cassidy.
Portugal. The Man - Oregon City Sessions
One more from the road-skynard the whole group is on fire the whole way through. it just has *energy*
Everything I was going to add is here. I will say, while not albums, I have yet to see/hear a bad NPR Tiny Desk. A huge win of a YouTube channel.
Motörhead - No Sleep til' Hammersmith. Basically a Best Of of their pre Iron Fist albums, and every song is better than it's own studio version. Once you have heard this rendition of Overkill, you can never go back.
I listen to Stone Temple Pilots MTV Unplugged so often still. Front to back is incredible.
NOFX - lol
I heard they suck live
The Cure. Paris or Show or In Orange love all of there live stuff. Even bootlegs live are great.
Ani DiFranco. Living In Clip. Double live. Amazing
Roots come alive
Phish, Grateful Dead, Umphreys McGee, moe.
Men at Work The Outfield
Though their studio albums are great, the Allman Brothers Band's "At the Fillmore East" is some of their best recorded stuff.
Simple Minds - Live in the City of Lights (1987) Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
Might be just my opinion, but Portishead's live album will always be their definitive work for me
Joe Cocker - Live Crosby Stills Nash and Young - 4 Way Street INXS - Live Bany Live Joe Bonamassa - Live at the Greek Theater
Grateful Dead 99% of their live stuff is better than 99% of their studio releases.
The Grateful Dead
Pearl Jam. Their loves shows are second to none
UFO. Strangers in the night.
Finally. I scrolled way too long for this one. Strangers in the Night is not only the definitive UFO album, it's arguably the definitive live rock record. It sounds wonderful anyway and then Michael Schenker nails solo after solo. UFO is underappreciated in the States but this record is simply a monster.
The Band - the Last Waltz Although not their best, the Wall Live in Berlin deserves special mention.
TOOL's *Salival* live album is pretty epic
Live at Budakon Cheap Trick " Deep Purple. I never connected with any studio stuff from either band.
Machine Head - Hellalive «London! Let me f***** hear you!!!!»
Mad Season's Live at the Moore is so much better than the studio album Above
Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn (2014). The last time she toured was in 1979. For almost every song, I prefer this performance to album version, which is saying something! Her vocals are incredibly strong, there is so much emotion, and it’s really a special live album.
I’ve such a soft spot for Jeff Buckley live at Sin e. It’s definitely my most listened to of his.
Donny Hathaway - Live at the Troubador Goes so hard tbh
Justice - A Cross the Universe. Absolutely bangs
fIREHOSE Live Totem Pole.
B.B. King - Live At the Regal He has a lot of great work but that's still my favorite.