# Favorite live albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427 "2007-05-02T06:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/21 "2007-05-02T15:39:17Z")
**Labdad** , not only do you make good chili, but your musical tastes are impeccable. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/22 "2007-05-02T15:43:35Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Labdad** , not only do you make good chili, but your musical tastes are impeccable. [/QUOTE] High praise indeed, my friend! Thanks! If you’re ever in Atlanta, let me know - we’ll have a bowl of red and listen to some tunes! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/23 "2007-05-02T15:50:06Z")
Only two live albums that I really like - Nazareth: Snaz (includes a shout-out to Rick Danko) Bob Seger: Live Bullet ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/24 "2007-05-02T16:02:47Z")
Peter Gabriel _Plays Live_… “I Go Swimming” is a gem… ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/25 "2007-05-02T16:04:45Z")
Gott im himmel! How could I have forgotten Under a Blood Red Sky? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/26 "2007-05-02T17:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] Doesn’t “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads” have “I Zimbra” on it. Plus, it’s a live album, too, IIRC. [/QUOTE] Yes, it does have I Zimbra on it. However, it is really the live part of Big Business (a song from a solo Byrne album) that I want - I just can’t help but get happy feet when I listen to it. At least that is included on the DVD, even if it is in a different aspect ratio and just an add on. It was ‘in’ the VHS version, but not the theatrical release. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/27 "2007-05-02T17:28:20Z")
_Frampton Comes Alive_ ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/28 "2007-05-02T18:34:15Z")
_Sleepy Buildings_ The Gathering _Living in Clip_ Ani Difranco _A Radical Recital_ Rasputina ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/29 "2007-05-02T18:49:08Z")
I have to second **Kohuept**. I want to add **Meat loaf - Live around the World** \*\* Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now\*\* and **Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Live 1975-1985** , even though it is not from one concert, but is taken from different performances over a 10 year span. It gives a good chronological representation of what a live E Street performance sounds like. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/30 "2007-05-02T18:58:54Z")
**Warren Zevon ~~ Stand in the Fire** ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/31 "2007-05-02T19:05:27Z")
AC/DC - Live at Castle Donnington, double album. Judas Priest - Priest…Live! ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/32 "2007-05-02T19:08:31Z")
[QUOTE=Lizard] Rez Band - _Live Bootleg_ [/QUOTE] Oh my gosh, someone here knows “Bootleg”. I didn’t know for years how much of that intro to “White Noise” was borrowed from E. Van Halen, stylistically. I do like that album. I’ll have to go find it somewhere. I’d gone and gotten I think the first 5 Resurrection Band albums on CD. That would pretty much complete the collection for me. I don’t know their later stuff. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/33 "2007-05-02T19:10:34Z")
**Small Town Romance** - Richard Thompson **Deliverin’** - Poco **Everybody’s in Showbiz** - The Kinks (half of it’s live) **Live at Leeds** - The Who Not an entirely live album, but the title cut of Jackson Browne’s **Running on Empty** kicks ass. ---
**Author:** ![Nurobath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/34 "2007-05-02T19:41:32Z")
**UFO** - Strangers in the Night **Ted Nugent** - Double Live Gonzo **Frank Zappa** - Tinseltown Rebellion **Saga** - In Transit **Rush** - Exit…Stage Left ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/35 "2007-05-02T21:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=phungi] Peter Gabriel _Plays Live_… “I Go Swimming” is a gem… [/QUOTE] This one, particularly “Biko”, and Dire Straits **Alchemy**. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/36 "2007-05-02T21:21:34Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] I want to add **Meat loaf - Live around the World** \*\* and **Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Live 1975-1985** , even though it is not from one concert, but is taken from different performances over a 10 year span. It gives a good chronological representation of what a live E Street performance sounds like. [/QUOTE] I didn’t know Meat Loaf has a live album. Must buy it NOW!! As far as the Springsteen live collection, I love all the songs but it bugs me that it is for the most part in chronological order. So albums are all grouped together and if I wanted to hear them I would listen to the studio album. But I guess that’s what CD shuffle is for now that I replaced my cassette tapes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/37 "2007-05-02T21:22:43Z")
Deep Purple, “Made In Japan”. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/38 "2007-05-02T21:55:23Z")
**Bless It’s Pointed Little Head** - Jefferson Airplane The box set **Jefferson Airplane Loves You** also contains an terrific live set. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/39 "2007-05-03T00:18:05Z")
“Babylon by Bus” by Bob Marley and also Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds acoustic live CD set. Just recently I bought Matt Nathanson’s “At the Point” and it was worth the money, mostly since it doesn’t sound like a regular live cd, but more like a regular cd with little bits of talk inbetween songs. Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427/40 "2007-05-03T00:25:46Z")
If we are going for concerts instead of groups, how about _The Monterey International Pop Festival_. featuring the likes of **Lou Rawls, The Animals, Canned Heat, Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Butterfield Blues Band, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas & The Papas** , and many more. The ultimate live set - puts _Woodstock_ to shame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/402427.md?page=3)