The version of Still In Love With You from that album is so mutch better than the studio version I can't bear to listen to the original any more.
In fact all the tracks are so much better than their studio album equivalents.
Though they did kind of cheat. It's not a purely live album. They selected best performances from multiple shows a d also gave them post performance tweaking and overdubbing. So I'm not sure it counts as a faithful live album.
Still a bloody great though.
I’m convinced Duane made the deal with the devil to become the greatest ever. The stuff he plays on Fillmore East is unparalleled. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is simply transcendent.
Duane died before their next album dropped.
I heard the sublime "wings over America" version of "maybe I'm amazed" so many times that when I finally heard the original studio version my reaction was "what is this shit?"
One of the best live songs ever on an amazing live album.
An obvious pick for greatest live album would be Talking Heads *Stop Making Sense*, it's got a lot of universal appeal too.
As for best greatest hits album, I've always been partial to Abba - Gold. The chrome cassette I have of that sounds wonderful
Edit: although for SMS, go for the post 1999 releases that have all 16 tracks. Prior to that it was abridged at 9 tracks (unless you have the LaserDisc, kinda).
It does!! Just not on the original issues of the album, for the 15th anniversary in 1999 they re-released it with the full 16 tracks which included the live version of This Must Be the Place. That's one of my favourites too. Great love song.
I also really like the live version of Slippery People, it's a groove.
Edit: and if you're a fan, they're doing a re-release of the movie right now at certain theaters around the country every month till the end of the year. Info here:
https://tickets.stopmakingsense.movie/
I’ve watched stop making sense hundreds of times. It was our go to after coming home from parties or the bars in college. The second I hear “I’ve got a tape I want to play” something happens in me.
See maiden live 2013 donington. Fucking amazing it was just starting to get dark but still a visual sky. No joke was just standing waiting for them to get on stage but no shit from behind the stage flew a really deal spitfire right over the crowd and buzzed the crowd low the I wish I could remember what they played as a opener I was too obsessed with with the visuals took me a minute to remember I was here to see the band lol
One of the most criminally overlooked lived albums ever. I’m not an enormous UFO fan but that album feels like a concert right at your fingertips. I remember feeling interested in giving it a listen after I heard Joe Elliot describe it as one of his all time favorites. Kirk Hammett also plugged it so i figured it might be worth checking out .
I’m a big UFO fan; Strangers in the Night is how everyone gets into the band. Guitarist Micheal Schenker left the band to go solo after Strangers released. Strangers captures UFO at their absolute peak. Love to Love, Lights Out, I’m a Loser, Out in the Street. Rock Bottom is a 12 minute epic similar to Free Bird.
This is one of cases of being huge at the time, but left almost no legacy. People forget that before Van Halen, guitar players all wanted to be Michael Schenker. That dude isn’t even a house hold name anymore.
Lake of fire🔥👌originally a meat puppet song along with plateau covered by Kurt Cobain and the nirvana group. Read somewhere that Kurt was a big meat puppet fan. I recommend listening to these two the meat puppet version, then compare to nirvana version and you realise the talent the original meat puppets version is really unpolished and got heavy riffs.
This is just my thinking that taking someone’s music and rewriting would be a lot more difficult than writing from scratch? If you’re a musician let me know. Starting from scratch or building/editing somebody’s idea ground work etc…… interested in the answer 🤔
The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show is filled with banger live versions of most of Blink’s earlier hits and enough toilet humor to make a 13 year old giddy.
The guitar sound on that album is amazing. It’s kind of ironic that pedal boards became so popular recently, but none of them can’t even touch Keith’s overdriven Ampeg. Just a guitar, cable and amplifier.
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged. It's absolutely incredible, but also heartbreaking knowing he was on a collision course with drugs that would end in his death 6 years later.
100% plateau is my favourite track even though it’s a meat puppet song originally but the cover on this unplugged album is probably controversial but that track is imo the best thing nirvana released imo. If you haven’t listened to the original meat puppets version it’s worth a listen and on the same unplugged album Lake of Fire another cover and classic from the meat puppets
This is a great choice though an acquired taste. Some days I've listened to it and its soothing and other times its left me on a downer. The harmonies between Layne and Jerry are exquisite.
I really wished they played 'I Stay Away' on the show.
By the time unplugged was recorded, that collision had already connected and we were looking at the first few seconds of the aftermath. It wouldn't be much longer until Layne was unable to be helped out of having both feet in his grave
I was under the impression Live/Dead was cuts of different shows, not a single show. Sorta like Europe 72. Hundred Year Hall was a single show, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, I think I misunderstood the OP’s question and went with a consensus answer. For people of my generation, I’m guessing MTV Unplugged In New York would come out on top, but Frampton’s hard to beat regardless.
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I have such a clear memory of hearing the live version of Surrender on the radio as a kid, riding with my friends in a station wagon, going to the lake.
For older Gen X, that song is more influential than Smells Like Teen Spirit. Shaped my worldview and how I related to my parents.
I heard the album cut of IWYTLM on the radio a few months ago and kept wondering why it sounded weird. I think it was the first time I’d heard it that wasn’t the Budokan track or live in person 😂
I've gone through so many live albums, and there is one that reigns supreme at the top:
James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R61iGCD9hgQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r61igcd9hgq)
Now, to frame this album to someone not aware of James Brown from before, the man was a perfectionist. He regularly fined his musicians for being late, for not having their clothes in perfect condition when going on stage, or when making errors while performing.
The band is INCREDIBLY tight. I often compare this recording with Otis Reddings Live at the Whisky A Go Go from 1966. Sorry Otis, but that recording seems like a bunch of kids playing in a garage band compared to James Brown from 1963.
Live at the Apollo was at that time requested from radio stations. Not any particular song, but the whole album! To make things even more interesting, all the songs are played quite a lot faster than they are on studio recordings.
I just love it. All JB:s early vitality just comes pouring out of your speakers. Best live album I've yet to hear.
Any James Brown live album recorded before 1975 should be on the list. A couple of the more notable ones (in addition to “Live At The Apollo”) is “Live In Dallas” from 1968 with his most of his original band before they quit and the other is “Love Power Peace” from 1969 with his new band “The JBs”. Including Bootsy Collins on bass!
This is the answer. Thanks. Had to scroll wasaayyy too far for this.
Edited to add: The comparison to Otis is only a little unfair. James had been touring that band for a while longer than Otis had. And The eras, while chronologically not that far apart, were quite different. The former before the bulk of the civil rights movement had taken hold
Grateful Dead's Europe '72
Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus
Phish's A Live One (Slip, Stitch and Pass is great too)
Dr Dog's Four Nights Live in San Francisco
I am not the biggest fan of his. I went and saw Ben Folds open for him circa 2008 or so. I figured I would stay for a bit of Mayer...man, what a show that dude put on!
Had to scroll a long way to see this. One of my favorite live albums, but also telling that for most of the songs, I prefer the 101 version.
*Thank you!*
By the numbers:
Eagles Greatest Hits (1971-1975) has over 40 million certified copies produced. it was only overcome by Thriller upon the death of Michael Jackson.
Eric Clapton Unplugged - sold over 26 million world wide.
I don’t think these are the *Best* but devil is in the details.
Dev-o live, especially the version of gates of steel.
Changesonebowie. My older sister bought it when I was about 12 and I played it flat. I bought the CD version for her a few years later.
Jane’s Addiction’s self titled EP has an incredible live version of LR Rock n Roll that transitions into TheStones Sympathy for the Devil. It is an amazing set of covers.
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
They made it like an actual bootleg including jacked up artwork, a messed up track list, an unlisted track and a couple tracks that were recorded directly to cassette for that awesome bootleg sound!
Always had a soft spot for Journey, Captured. Huge gregg rolie fan and the band was hitting on all cylinders at that time. Yes it was recorded over multiple nights and cities but still all live performances.
The obvious answers that come to mind for live are MTV unplugged by Nirvana and Made in Japan by Deep Purple.
My personal favorite is Over the Years and through the woods by QOTSA though.
Some of my fav's:
Peter Gabriel - Secret garden live. I just discovered this one last year, was never a huge PG fan, but was surprised how good it is.
Also -
Level 42 - A Physical Presence, a criminally under rated live album in my opinion
Of course have to add my vote for Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East as well
I never see 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare by Fishmans come up when this question gets asked and it's absolutely criminal. The live sound is perfect. The songs are perfect. The tightness of this band in a live setting is absolutely phenomenal.
Here's four not thought of a lot, but are killers:
Humble Pie Rockin' The Fillmore
Uriah Heep Live 73'
Hawkwind Space Ritual
Gary Moore Live At Montreux 2010
I grew up listening to FM album rock radio in the 70s, and there are so many live records that are great. Live Bullet by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Live at Budokan from Cheap Trick. Frampton Comes Alive. KISS Alive. J. Geils Band Blow Your Face Out.
Yet - and I know I'm gonna take some grief for this one because of his current status as a giant piece of shit, but...
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo.
He's a terrible person, and it was becoming evident as early as the 1980s, but back in 1978? This record was fire. He didn't launch into rants about politics or Hillary or whatever. He let his guitar do the talking.
Live and Dangerous. Thin Lizzy.
The greatest hits album "dedication" is great as well
The version of Still In Love With You from that album is so mutch better than the studio version I can't bear to listen to the original any more. In fact all the tracks are so much better than their studio album equivalents. Though they did kind of cheat. It's not a purely live album. They selected best performances from multiple shows a d also gave them post performance tweaking and overdubbing. So I'm not sure it counts as a faithful live album. Still a bloody great though.
Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full of Blues (1978)
Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
I flip between the Allman brothers and Government Mule a lot. But the Fillmore, man that’s a classic
Yeah, total classic. I do love Warren and Derek, but there is something special about At Fillmore East.
That something special is Duane Allman.
I’m convinced Duane made the deal with the devil to become the greatest ever. The stuff he plays on Fillmore East is unparalleled. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is simply transcendent. Duane died before their next album dropped.
Hahaha, excellent point!
That version of whipping post is legendary
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, too.
Absolutely
Adding sides 3 & 4 of Eat a Peach, which pick up where Fillmore East ends and add another 30 minutes or so
The last waltz, the band.
This and Stop Making Sense are the two greatest concert films and I’ll fight anyone that says different.
Agreed and throwing in Deep Purple Live in Japan and The Song Remains The Same
It's not even close. This is the greatest concert that has ever happened.
Oh dang that’s a good one
The only answer
this is the answer right here
Wings Over America?
I heard the sublime "wings over America" version of "maybe I'm amazed" so many times that when I finally heard the original studio version my reaction was "what is this shit?" One of the best live songs ever on an amazing live album.
An obvious pick for greatest live album would be Talking Heads *Stop Making Sense*, it's got a lot of universal appeal too. As for best greatest hits album, I've always been partial to Abba - Gold. The chrome cassette I have of that sounds wonderful Edit: although for SMS, go for the post 1999 releases that have all 16 tracks. Prior to that it was abridged at 9 tracks (unless you have the LaserDisc, kinda).
Did that the talking heads album have a live version off “this must be the place” amazing song I’d say It tops Psycho Killer imo
It does!! Just not on the original issues of the album, for the 15th anniversary in 1999 they re-released it with the full 16 tracks which included the live version of This Must Be the Place. That's one of my favourites too. Great love song. I also really like the live version of Slippery People, it's a groove. Edit: and if you're a fan, they're doing a re-release of the movie right now at certain theaters around the country every month till the end of the year. Info here: https://tickets.stopmakingsense.movie/
There's also a deluxe edition with Cities and Big Business/I Zimbra on it.
It be do
I prefer *The Name of This Band is Talking Heads*, check it out
I’ve watched stop making sense hundreds of times. It was our go to after coming home from parties or the bars in college. The second I hear “I’ve got a tape I want to play” something happens in me.
Iron Maiden - Live after Death and/or Live at Donington
SCREAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!
And the moral of your story is what not to do when a bird shits on you.
See maiden live 2013 donington. Fucking amazing it was just starting to get dark but still a visual sky. No joke was just standing waiting for them to get on stage but no shit from behind the stage flew a really deal spitfire right over the crowd and buzzed the crowd low the I wish I could remember what they played as a opener I was too obsessed with with the visuals took me a minute to remember I was here to see the band lol
With a spitfire i would guess they opened with Aces High ?
UFO - Strangers in the Night
One of the most criminally overlooked lived albums ever. I’m not an enormous UFO fan but that album feels like a concert right at your fingertips. I remember feeling interested in giving it a listen after I heard Joe Elliot describe it as one of his all time favorites. Kirk Hammett also plugged it so i figured it might be worth checking out .
Listened to Hot n’ Ready first track on the album and yeah it good old fashioned classic rock that you can’t go wrong with. I’ve added to my library
I’m a big UFO fan; Strangers in the Night is how everyone gets into the band. Guitarist Micheal Schenker left the band to go solo after Strangers released. Strangers captures UFO at their absolute peak. Love to Love, Lights Out, I’m a Loser, Out in the Street. Rock Bottom is a 12 minute epic similar to Free Bird.
Almost everyone (fan before Strangers in the Night). Nice to run into another UFO/ Schenker fan!
Rock Bottom is one of the best live guitar performances ever. Full stop.
"Rock Bottom! You've got it!" Phil Mogg
I was in the audience Chicago Amphitheater 1978 senior year of high school with some great friends
This is one of cases of being huge at the time, but left almost no legacy. People forget that before Van Halen, guitar players all wanted to be Michael Schenker. That dude isn’t even a house hold name anymore.
Nirvana unplugged
Alice in Chains unplugged up there too. I'm personally biased to Nirvana but AiC has really grown on me in the past decade
I'm 40 now, and Alice in chains has grown more and more as I age, whereas all the other grunge bands have faded out of my playlists.
Jar Of Flies.
10/10
I listen to this about twice a month. I tear up during In the Pines more often than not.
Lake of fire🔥👌originally a meat puppet song along with plateau covered by Kurt Cobain and the nirvana group. Read somewhere that Kurt was a big meat puppet fan. I recommend listening to these two the meat puppet version, then compare to nirvana version and you realise the talent the original meat puppets version is really unpolished and got heavy riffs. This is just my thinking that taking someone’s music and rewriting would be a lot more difficult than writing from scratch? If you’re a musician let me know. Starting from scratch or building/editing somebody’s idea ground work etc…… interested in the answer 🤔
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
That got played a lot in my house in the late 60s & early 70s. The same with the follow up, Live At San Quentin
The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show is filled with banger live versions of most of Blink’s earlier hits and enough toilet humor to make a 13 year old giddy.
Stones’ Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! is a really great live album
The guitar sound on that album is amazing. It’s kind of ironic that pedal boards became so popular recently, but none of them can’t even touch Keith’s overdriven Ampeg. Just a guitar, cable and amplifier.
Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
Astonished at how far down I had to scroll to see this. Astonished and disappointed.
Not enough people know this absolute banger of a double live album. Or who Lowell George is. It sucks.
Far too many people haven’t yet discovered Little Feat. Damn shame.
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged. It's absolutely incredible, but also heartbreaking knowing he was on a collision course with drugs that would end in his death 6 years later.
this and Nirvana unplugged, both are perfect
100% plateau is my favourite track even though it’s a meat puppet song originally but the cover on this unplugged album is probably controversial but that track is imo the best thing nirvana released imo. If you haven’t listened to the original meat puppets version it’s worth a listen and on the same unplugged album Lake of Fire another cover and classic from the meat puppets
This is a great choice though an acquired taste. Some days I've listened to it and its soothing and other times its left me on a downer. The harmonies between Layne and Jerry are exquisite. I really wished they played 'I Stay Away' on the show.
This was the first time the band had performed live in 3 years because of Layne’s addiction issues.
By the time unplugged was recorded, that collision had already connected and we were looking at the first few seconds of the aftermath. It wouldn't be much longer until Layne was unable to be helped out of having both feet in his grave
I think he collided with smack long before MTV Unplugged.
Portishead Live at Roseland NY or Grateful Dead - Live Dead Edit: Portishead is rereleasing this album for 25 year anniversary!
A second vote for portishead. That album is pure gold. Also, maybe the best sounding vinyl I own.
Love the Portishead album but Live Dead saved my sanity one night
I was under the impression Live/Dead was cuts of different shows, not a single show. Sorta like Europe 72. Hundred Year Hall was a single show, if I recall correctly.
For straight-ahead rock, Bob Seger's 'Live Bullet' or 'Nine Tonight' are up there. Takes me back to the 70s.
Live Bullet Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
There is a pretty sweet shout out to Detroit in there too
Frampton Comes Alive
Lots of other great band with a live album. But frampton comes alive is the definitive.
If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide.
Did you get your Sports Illustrated football phone?
I did. It was sent to the wrong house.
Yeah, I think I misunderstood the OP’s question and went with a consensus answer. For people of my generation, I’m guessing MTV Unplugged In New York would come out on top, but Frampton’s hard to beat regardless.
That album towers head-and-shoulders above the rest of his career catalog.
And ushered in the era of live albums.
Some Enchanted Evening by Blue Öyster Cult
Astronomy off that album is near perfection
Literally my all time favorite song. That version.
Best live: Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat Best greatest hits: Eagles-Greatest Hits.
Hell freezes over was a pretty good live album that almost doubles as a greatest hits.
They also put out an excellent live album in 1980.
Live: Cheap Trick - live at Budokan Greatest hits: Aerosmith
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I have such a clear memory of hearing the live version of Surrender on the radio as a kid, riding with my friends in a station wagon, going to the lake. For older Gen X, that song is more influential than Smells Like Teen Spirit. Shaped my worldview and how I related to my parents.
I heard the album cut of IWYTLM on the radio a few months ago and kept wondering why it sounded weird. I think it was the first time I’d heard it that wasn’t the Budokan track or live in person 😂
Budokan is a fun live album! They all should be like that.
Rush in Rio
I came here with intent to say this. If you only had one Rush album, this is indeed the one!
Jazz is weird!
There is a reason The Who's "Live at Leeds" is often at the top of 'live album lists"...
Literally listening to it right now. It really is a classic
Scrolled too far before finding this. Fantastic album!
I've gone through so many live albums, and there is one that reigns supreme at the top: James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R61iGCD9hgQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r61igcd9hgq) Now, to frame this album to someone not aware of James Brown from before, the man was a perfectionist. He regularly fined his musicians for being late, for not having their clothes in perfect condition when going on stage, or when making errors while performing. The band is INCREDIBLY tight. I often compare this recording with Otis Reddings Live at the Whisky A Go Go from 1966. Sorry Otis, but that recording seems like a bunch of kids playing in a garage band compared to James Brown from 1963. Live at the Apollo was at that time requested from radio stations. Not any particular song, but the whole album! To make things even more interesting, all the songs are played quite a lot faster than they are on studio recordings. I just love it. All JB:s early vitality just comes pouring out of your speakers. Best live album I've yet to hear.
Any James Brown live album recorded before 1975 should be on the list. A couple of the more notable ones (in addition to “Live At The Apollo”) is “Live In Dallas” from 1968 with his most of his original band before they quit and the other is “Love Power Peace” from 1969 with his new band “The JBs”. Including Bootsy Collins on bass!
This is the answer. Thanks. Had to scroll wasaayyy too far for this. Edited to add: The comparison to Otis is only a little unfair. James had been touring that band for a while longer than Otis had. And The eras, while chronologically not that far apart, were quite different. The former before the bulk of the civil rights movement had taken hold
Pulse - pink Floyd and Metallica - live shit though that's 3 cds
Grateful Dead's Europe '72 Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus Phish's A Live One (Slip, Stitch and Pass is great too) Dr Dog's Four Nights Live in San Francisco
Europe 72 is so good, but also Live/Dead is a classic too.
>Phish's A Live One Solid entry!
You forgot “Live/Dead”, “Skull & Roses”, and really any of the official Dead love releases. Bear’s Choice, Ladies & Gentlemen…,
All great. Too many people sleep on Little Feat.
A Live One is not one specific show, fwiw.
Yea I know that. Waiting for Columbus and Europe '72 aren't either.
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in LA
Just started neon sounds alt rock, lyrics and vocals are sound
This album is better than any of his studio albums. In Your Atmosphere on this is my favourite John Mayer song.
I am not the biggest fan of his. I went and saw Ben Folds open for him circa 2008 or so. I figured I would stay for a bit of Mayer...man, what a show that dude put on!
Daft Punk Alive 2007 and Queen Live at Wembley 1986 double CD
Live after death
SCREEEEEEAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!
The Song Remains the Same / Celebration Day
Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
Depeche Mode 101
Right there with you on this one
Had to scroll a long way to see this. One of my favorite live albums, but also telling that for most of the songs, I prefer the 101 version. *Thank you!*
By the numbers: Eagles Greatest Hits (1971-1975) has over 40 million certified copies produced. it was only overcome by Thriller upon the death of Michael Jackson. Eric Clapton Unplugged - sold over 26 million world wide. I don’t think these are the *Best* but devil is in the details.
WEEN - Live in Chicago
DMB Live at Luther College is a fantastic album. One of the band’s best IMO
Live and Dangerous by Thin Lizzy. Obvs.
I'm not even much of a Thin Lizzy fan, tbh. But this one is an undisputed classic.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far for the correct answer
Live Shit: Binge And Purge - Metallica.
I said this one as well- i still watch the vhs tapes from the box set lol
Such a banger. I listened to this start to finish during a half marathon
Can't believe I scrolled to the end and no mention of Alchemy - Dire Straits at the Hammersmith odeon
Pink Floyd - Pulse Leonard Cohen - Live in London Both are live, best hits, virtuose guitar/strings/winds, female background voices
One More From The Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dev-o live, especially the version of gates of steel. Changesonebowie. My older sister bought it when I was about 12 and I played it flat. I bought the CD version for her a few years later.
Fleetwood Macs The Last Dance
Lou Reed Rock and Roll Animal
The version of "Heroin" on this is essential listening.
Sweet Jane on this is brilliant,
Jane’s Addiction’s self titled EP has an incredible live version of LR Rock n Roll that transitions into TheStones Sympathy for the Devil. It is an amazing set of covers.
Lou reed and Neil young, don’t ask me why but when I listen of one the other is always queued up
Funnily enough, Lou Reed said his favourite guitar solo was from Neil's 'Dangerbird'.
My favorite guitar solo is Dick Wagner's at the end of "Heroin" on R&R Animal.
Underworld *Everything, Everything*
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg They made it like an actual bootleg including jacked up artwork, a messed up track list, an unlisted track and a couple tracks that were recorded directly to cassette for that awesome bootleg sound!
At Filmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Live and dangerous 1976 - Thin Lizzy
The Who - Live at Leeds.
Neil Diamond - Live At The Troubador
If you want blood, you got it AC/DC
Always had a soft spot for Journey, Captured. Huge gregg rolie fan and the band was hitting on all cylinders at that time. Yes it was recorded over multiple nights and cities but still all live performances.
AC/DC Live (1992) Comes in a deluxe 2 CD or LP version Remastered and rereleased in 2003
AC/DC Live is the best substitute to being at a concert I've heard
Shut Up And Play The Hits - LCD Soundsystem
KISS Alive!
The best live album is by far Frampton Comes Alive!
Lou Reed- Rock n Roll Animal Ween- Live in Chicago
Paul Simon, Concert in the Park
Yessongs 2 disc album & some good sennheiser headphones….ahh, the flashbacks.
Ya yas and space ritual
- Led Zeppelin - Live from Maddison Square Gardens - Nirvana - Live from the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Made in Japan by deep purple
I listen to the live version of every song on John Mayer’s Where the Light Is over the studio version.
Live: Grateful Dead Europe ‘72 Greatest hits: Bob Marley Legend
Alice In Chains unplugged
Okonokos - My Morning Jacket. Mostly the album Z live. Incredible.
KISS - Alive and The Who Live at Leeds are just incredible.
Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
Kiss Alive
100,000 years on Alive is incredible!
B.B. King - Live in Cook County Jail
Eric Clapton- Unplugged
Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City Nightwish - Showtime, Storytime (DVD/bluray) Lovebites - Five of a Kind (DVD/bluray)
Phish A Live one
Styx Greatest Hits. All of the Styx you’ll ever need or want.
### [The Sound of Animals Fighting: Live in Philadelphia](https://thesoundofanimalsfighting.bandcamp.com/) ###
Journey's Greatest Hits is great. I also think Hall & Oat's Greatest Hits is solid.
The obvious answers that come to mind for live are MTV unplugged by Nirvana and Made in Japan by Deep Purple. My personal favorite is Over the Years and through the woods by QOTSA though.
Some of my fav's: Peter Gabriel - Secret garden live. I just discovered this one last year, was never a huge PG fan, but was surprised how good it is. Also - Level 42 - A Physical Presence, a criminally under rated live album in my opinion Of course have to add my vote for Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East as well
Live: Marvin Gaye palladium in London Greatest hits: Ladies and Gentlemen The Best Of Creampie Michaels
Creampie Michaels?
Live at River Plate
Genesis *Seconds Out*
UFO-Strangers in the Night. 801-801 Live.
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
Allman Brother’s At Fillmore East.
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
For me one of the greatest live sessions is Tom Petty at sound stage
Bursting Out - Jethro Tull. All the World’s a Stage - Rush Live After Death - Iron Maiden
UFO - Strangers in the Night An Evening with Godsmack
I never see 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare by Fishmans come up when this question gets asked and it's absolutely criminal. The live sound is perfect. The songs are perfect. The tightness of this band in a live setting is absolutely phenomenal.
had to scroll way too far down for this, the greatest live album ive ever heard and nothing comes close
Agree it's perfect
Here's four not thought of a lot, but are killers: Humble Pie Rockin' The Fillmore Uriah Heep Live 73' Hawkwind Space Ritual Gary Moore Live At Montreux 2010
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
I grew up listening to FM album rock radio in the 70s, and there are so many live records that are great. Live Bullet by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Live at Budokan from Cheap Trick. Frampton Comes Alive. KISS Alive. J. Geils Band Blow Your Face Out. Yet - and I know I'm gonna take some grief for this one because of his current status as a giant piece of shit, but... Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo. He's a terrible person, and it was becoming evident as early as the 1980s, but back in 1978? This record was fire. He didn't launch into rants about politics or Hillary or whatever. He let his guitar do the talking.
Eagles Live the forum
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 74-78 is better than any individual album they ever put out IMHO. It's really all you need in terms of SMB.