# Best live album
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 25, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346 "2010-08-25T00:12:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/1 "2010-08-25T00:12:10Z")
Title says it all, really. In your opinion, what’s the best live album that you’ve heard?
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/2 "2010-08-25T00:17:12Z")
Jethro Tull’s “Bursting Out”.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/3 "2010-08-25T00:31:58Z")
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Allman Bros - Live at Fillmore East and James Brown Live at the Apollo are the correct answers but I love the UFO album…
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/4 "2010-08-25T00:34:58Z")
Eric Clapton - Just One Night.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/5 "2010-08-25T00:48:05Z")
Live @ Leeds, of course!
A couple of others that I’ve been listening to lately:
Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour
10CC: Live And Let Live
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/6 "2010-08-25T01:16:51Z")
**Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out** , by the Rolling Stones (someone already mentioned my first choice, which was the James Brown album)?
I’ve always kind of been partial to **In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up** , by Ministry.
But if I had to pick my absolute _favorite_ live album, it’d be the 4 CD box set of The Band’s **The Last Waltz**.
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### Author:  [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/7 "2010-08-25T01:39:52Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> Allman Bros - Live at Fillmore East
This one’s got it.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/8 "2010-08-25T01:57:29Z")
\*\*WordMan \*\*beat me to the UFO one
**Thin Lizzy** _Live and Dangerous_
**Cheap Trick** _At Budokan_ (Budokan II is even better, IMHO)
**Humble Pie** _Rockin’ The Fillmore_
**Derringer** \* Live\*
**Judas Priest** \* Unleashed in the East\*
**Foghat** \* Live\* (don’t laugh, they kicked ass on that one)
**Pat Travers** _Live! Go For What You Know_
**Mahogany Rush** _Live_ (the one from 1978, not the double live one so much)
**Robin Trower** _Live_ (had the puke green 8-track of that)
…to name a few…the mid-late 70s was the Great Live Album Era.
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### Author:  [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/9 "2010-08-25T02:05:08Z")
Aside from the already mentioned very worthy entries for Jethro Tull and Robin Trower:
**Blue Oyster Cult** _On Your Feet Or On Your Knees_
**Nirvana** _Unplugged in New York_
**Cream** _Wheels of Fire_
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### Author:  [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/10 "2010-08-25T02:10:54Z")
My musical tastes calcified in 1978 but these are my favorites
**Frampton Comes Alive**
**You Had To Be There** by Jimmy Buffett
**Hot August Nigh** t by Neil Diamond
**Wings Over America**
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/11 "2010-08-25T02:32:56Z")
Little Feat “Waiting For Columbus”
Van Morrison “It’s Too Late To Stop Now”
The Band “Last Waltz”
Grateful Dead “Live Dead”
Derek and the Dominos “Live At The Fillmore”
Paul Simon “Concert In The Park”
Neville Brothers “Live From Planet Earth”
Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense”
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### Author:  [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/12 "2010-08-25T02:48:18Z")
**Portishead** - _Roseland NYC_
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/13 "2010-08-25T03:10:52Z")
Butthole Surfers Double Live
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/14 "2010-08-25T03:12:42Z")
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/15 "2010-08-25T03:17:19Z")
Jefferson Airplane, _Bless Its Pointed Little Head_
Grateful Dead, _Ladies and Gentlemen… the Grateful Dead_
The Band, _Rock of Ages_
Saunders/Garcia/Kahn/Vitt, _Live at Keystone_
Peter Tosh, _Captured Live_
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, _Arc/Weld_
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/16 "2010-08-25T04:01:15Z")
Wilco - “Kicking Television”
Nirvana - “Unplugged in NYC”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/17 "2010-08-25T04:11:19Z")
_Live In New York City_ - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
_Live At Carnegie Hall_ - Renaissance
The aforementioned albums by the Allman Bros., Neil Diamond and Jefferson Airplane.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/18 "2010-08-25T04:24:44Z")
> [@spark240](#):
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> Neil Young & Crazy Horse, _Arc/Weld_
Neil’ Young’s “Live Rust” is also exceptional, and I should have included it in my original post…
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### Author:  [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/19 "2010-08-25T04:54:23Z")
Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan.
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### Author:  [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/20 "2010-08-25T04:55:55Z")
There is only one: Deep Purple - Made in Japan
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