Favorite Live Albums?

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

What are your favorite live albums? Feel free to list bootleg (unofficial) live albums too. Or just post audio/video of your favorite live performances.

Mine are

The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
David Bowie Live In Santa Monica '72
Dave Matthews + Tim Reynolds Live At Luther College
Genesis - Live at The Lyceum 1980 (bootleg)
U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (live disc)
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii
Thelonious Monk Live at the It Club
David Bowie - Stage
The Velvet Underground Live 1969
John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season
John Barry - Live at the Royal Albert Hall, April 1999 (bootleg)
The Velvet Underground Live At End Cole Avenue (bootleg)
Peter Gabriel Plays Live

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

 

[Peter Deadpan]

Nirvana Unplugged

 

[ChocolateMoose123]

Chris Cornell Songbook and John Mayer: Where The Light Is.

Even if you’re on the fence about Mayer, he is a top notch musician and he’s playing with other heavy hitters Dino and Steve Jordan. So good stuff.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

The Live at Luther College is worth a listen, even to people who think Dave Matthews is the epitome of lame. Two very good guitarists playing off one another, and there's something nice about hearing the songs laid bare, stripped of all the glossy 90s production values.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

R.E.M. Unplugged is a good one

 

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[Qlip]

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

I'm surprised no one has said Live Live yet XD


Live at the Paradiso – Amsterdam - Wikipedia

 

[Mind Maverick]

Hahaha I actually generally can't stand live versions
There has been one exception bc of the way the artist changed it up, but I don't remember who it was.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Are you my sister in disguise?

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Hahaha I actually generally can't stand live versions
There has been one exception bc of the way the artist changed it up, but I don't remember who it was.

Same here, the list I posted is the bulk of live stuff I will listen to. In most of them, they are improvements on the studio versions. For instance, compare these two:

I think the live version holds an edge on the studio recording. More energy, and the instrumentation is superior, particularly with the dueling drummers.

 

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Are you my sister in disguise?

If I am I’ve been deep undercover as a tall hairy deep voiced male for many years.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

If I am I’ve been deep undercover as a tall hairy deep voiced male for many years.

similar age range and you have very similar music tastes.

 

[Luigi]

I've only heard a few live songs, and I always told myself "the recorded version is way better"

 

[Luminous]

Nirvana Unplugged

I came here just to post this. And of course Peter beat me to it.
But I get to post the video.

 

[Radio Bob]

The Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Gabriel

 

[Magic Poriferan]

I was only going to say one. It's in the OP, too.

Stop Making Sense.

That's also one of my top 10 favorite albums of any kind.

 

[cascadeco]

For pretty old stuff, Neil Diamond's Hot August Night live album is good

Agree re Live at Luther College, Toward the Within, and Nirvana Unplugged. I'd also add Alice in Chains unplugged.

 

[citizen cane]

I mean, any number of Grateful Dead recordings could be on this list. I remember what I've listened to of Lou Reed's Rock N Roll Animal being really good, as well.