Here are some of my favorite live albums, you may find them noteworthy:
Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol 4
Eric Clapton, Just One Night
The Allman Brothers, Live At the Fillmore East
Tom Lehrer, That Was The Year That Was
Ah, but does anyone have a great live album from a band you didn’t like, in a genre you didn’t care for, but the live performance had something that just blew you away?
**Poco, deLIVErin’ ** (cute title, huh?)
I was a disciple of “Nothin’-But-Rock-n-Roll, Man”. Had barely heard of Poco, knew they were some leftovers from Buffalo Springfield, but didn’t really care.
Then, one night, heard this concert album in a friend’s car (on… ready for this?.. 8-track)!
I had never heard an energy level – or an optimism level – this high. Richie Furay and Jim Messina pickin’ double-time and singin’ their guts out. And I had never heard a pedal steel so haunting, or used like an edgy Hammond organ for some tasty … (it pains me to say it) … Country-Rock.
And Roll.
Dig The New Breed or Live Jam
The Jam kicked ass live.
Madonna - I’m Going To Tell You A Secret
Runners up are Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum, Kylie Minogue - Intimate And Live and Kanye West - VH1 Storytellers
In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up-Ministry
ALIVE 1 & 2-KISS
Hot August Night has been mentioned, so there’s really no need for me to contribute. So don’t think of this post as a contribution; it’s more a seal of approval.
The Ramones’ “It’s Alive”.
28 songs, 17 of which are under 2 minutes.
I was at The Rainbow the night before it was recorded as I didn’t want (as a fairly wimpy 19 year-old) to be schlepping home from Finsbury Park to Kilburn on New Year’s Eve.
“Under a Blood Red Sky” U2.
P-Funk All-Stars Live at the Beverly Theatre - unlike a lot of live albums, not just the album versions with crowd noise, this is the full P-Funk live experience on record. They improvise, they mash songs together, they jam out. The almost 13 minute version of “Give Up the Funk” is one of the greatest tunes I’ve ever heard.
All of these surely influenced by the fact that I experienced concerts with each band around the time the live album came out.
Midnight Oil Scream in Blue is a good one, too.
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert - Bob Dylan
Runners up:
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out - Rolling Stones
Live at the Boston Tea Party - Fleetwood Mac
Live at the Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
Stop Making Sense doesn’t count. Byrne did so many overdubs on that album that it’s more studio than live. 
I’ve heard that a lot of live albums are like that. I’ve certainly heard some stuff that made me go :dubious: .
Joe Satriani’s Dreaming #11 EP…
Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacular
I was going to post this one as well. It’s actually “Rock Spectacle” pronounced the French way, “Spec-tawk.”
Love this album… Does a great job of capturing the bands live-show energy. Too bad Steve is gone though, he was the best thing about BNL.
It is, but I actually prefer “Oils on the Water”.
Here’s a clip from the DVD of same.
A couple of my fav’s haven’t been mentioned:
Frank Zappa’s Roxy and Elsewhere
Todd Rundgren and Utopia’s Another Live