# Best live album **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/61 "2010-08-26T08:36:39Z")
Dionne Warwick in Paris This album featured the song “Message to Michael” and showcased Dionne at the height of her voice. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/62 "2010-08-29T05:18:00Z")
Mine have been taken - want to see what others think. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/63 "2010-08-29T07:45:08Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Well this is just cheating. I’m not too much of a Cash fan (although he does have one of the sexiest voices ever), and will declare that I am not a country music fan at all, but this album would be served a terrible injustice if restricted to the category of “country music” alone. Which is not to say it isn’t country music, that is, but that it is so much more. Advice: Don’t listen to this album at work, especially if you hate your job. Now then… 1. Sinatra and Basie Live at the Sands. This is actually my favorite album ever, and is the one I would have with me on the oft-mentioned deserted island hypothetical in which you are only allowed to bring one album. 2. Bobby Darin Live From Las Vegas. 3. Bobby Darin at The Copa. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/64 "2010-08-29T10:28:30Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > …I am not a country music fan at all, but this album would be served a terrible injustice if restricted to the category of “country music” alone. Which is not to say it isn’t country music, that is, but that it is so much more. Or, country music is much more than you think it is. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/65 "2010-08-29T11:04:47Z")
There are lots of great live albums by people whose work I already have. However. The only Bruce Springsteen work I have ever bought is [Live in Dublin](http://www.amazon.com/Live-Dublin-Bruce-Springsteen-Sessions/dp/B000P1KTVY) which is a little bit of Springsteen material but just an over all joy. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/66 "2010-08-29T11:49:37Z")
… And another vote for **Humble Pie Rockin’ The Fillmore**. This still rocks HARD and sounds great. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/67 "2010-08-29T12:30:23Z")
Live In Leipzig by Mayhem. One of the defining black metal albums, and unusually for extreme metal live albums, far more powerful than the studio versions. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/68 "2010-08-29T13:35:51Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Live In Leipzig by Mayhem. One of the defining black metal albums, and unusually for extreme metal live albums, far more powerful than the studio versions. What about Mediolanum Capta Est? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/69 "2010-08-29T15:53:03Z")
> [@campp](#): > > … And another vote for **Humble Pie Rockin’ The Fillmore**. This still rocks HARD and sounds great. I agree! The only knock on this album is that it’s censored! I forget which song.._.Rollin’ Stone_, maybe? There’s a definite bleep covering up Steve Marriott’s cussing in there. A rock concert with no swearing allowed? That’s just bad form – gotta take a point or two off for that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/70 "2010-08-29T16:02:14Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > > > …I am not a country music fan at all, but this album would be served a terrible injustice if restricted to the category of “country music” alone. Which is not to say it isn’t country music, that is, but that it is so much more. > > Or, country music is much more than you think it is. Ehh, I’ve had die-hard country fans try to show me “real country music,” and while it is good, and undoubtedly better than Rascal Flats, it doesn’t melt my butter. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/71 "2010-08-29T16:05:08Z")
Joe Cockers’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/72 "2010-08-29T16:13:01Z")
Burning Spear - Live in Paris Zenith '88 If we consider compilations of live recordings from multiple venues: John Hiatt - Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan? ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/73 "2010-08-29T16:45:20Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > > [@Steophan](#): > > > > Live In Leipzig by Mayhem. One of the defining black metal albums, and unusually for extreme metal live albums, far more powerful than the studio versions. > > What about Mediolanum Capta Est? I prefer Dead to Maniac. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/74 "2010-08-29T16:54:38Z")
“[Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Carnegie_Hall)”, recorded in 1963. It’s one of the all-time best live jazz albums, and not just in my opinion. Joe Morello’s drum solo on “Castillian Drums” stands as the pinnacle of jazz drumming. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/75 "2010-08-29T17:50:42Z")
Nobody ever remembers **Santana**. [_Lotus_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_%28Santana_album%29) Triple live album from 1974, but not released in the U.S. until the 90’s [_Moonflower_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonflower_%28album%29) Multi-platinum release from 1977 [_Sacred Fire_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Fire:_Live_in_South_America) Released in 1993 along with a DVD by the same name [Live at the Fillmore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_Live_at_the_Fillmore) 1997 release of the band performing in 1968 and even [Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles - Live](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana_%26_Buddy_Miles!_Live!) All essential, as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/76 "2010-08-29T21:58:44Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > [_The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert_](http://www.bobdylan.com/#/music/live-1966) - Bob Dylan While that is a great one, with the best climax of any live album in history, I actually prefer [Bootleg Series vol. 6, live at Philharmonic Hall](http://www.bobdylan.com/#/music/live-1964) which has Dylan at the height of his acoustic phase, dueting with Joan Baez, and introducing some of the new music which would appear on **Bringing it all Back Home** - plus, joking with the crowd, something sorely absent in 1966. I suppose it was also more of a revelation to me, since I had many of the cuts from the “Royal Albert Hall” Concert since the early 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/77 "2010-08-29T23:34:09Z")
> [@AndyPolley](#): > > > [@sisu](#): > > > > Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan. > > I’d take **Live After Death** instead. > > Let me the guy who mentions **Rush’s Exit Stage Left**. Add in Dream Theater’s **Live Scenes From New York** and you’ve got my 3 favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/78 "2010-08-30T01:25:51Z")
Some great ones have already been mentioned, so I’ll mention one of my personal favorites that I doubt anyone here has ever heard, but anyone who likes rock music, especially with some surf influence, should check it out: **The Ziggens Live: Tickets Still Available** ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/79 "2010-08-30T02:32:25Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan. I much prefer Maiden Japan to Live after Death. Golden Earring has three ‘unplugged’ albums, Naked, Naked II, Naked III. All of which I enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346/80 "2010-08-30T04:10:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “[Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Carnegie_Hall)”, recorded in 1963. It’s one of the all-time best live jazz albums, and not just in my opinion. Joe Morello’s drum solo on “Castillian Drums” stands as the pinnacle of jazz drumming. I’ll have to look for that. And if I may cast another vote, the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert is damn good. Not quite the sound quality you’d expect today, but remixed very well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-live-album/551346.md?page=5)