# Favorite live albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929 "2020-05-16T16:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/1 "2020-05-16T16:13:09Z")
Some of my favorites, in no particular order… **Little Feat** - _Waiting for Columbus_ I have never been a huge Feat fan, don’t own any of their studio albums, but holy crap if this isn’t one of the best live albums capturing a band at their peak, then I don’t know what is. **Genesis** - _Seconds Out_ Recorded on the first couple of tours after Peter Gabriel left, and the last couple of tours before Steve Hackett left. Hackett’s guitar work on this album is absolutely phenomenal, especially the solo on “Firth of Fifth”, which still gives me chills every time I listen to it. **Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit** - _Live from Alabama_ I just started listening to Jason Isbell a few years ago after hearing lots of good things about him. Lots of great songs, both solo and from his Drive By Truckers days. The band sounds tight, and the cover of Neil Young’s “Like A Hurricane” to close it out just blows me away. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/2 "2020-05-16T16:21:07Z")
UFO Strangers in the Night ---
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_Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East_ ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/4 "2020-05-16T18:21:19Z")
_Get Yer Ya/Ya’s Out_ / The Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/5 "2020-05-16T18:22:19Z")
_Get Yer Ya/Ya’s Out_ / The Rolling Stones ---
**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 16, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/6 "2020-05-16T18:34:30Z")
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads ---
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> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads Tweet!! Flag on the play. There are so many studio over-dubs on that album I don’t think it qualifies any more. My choices: _Live at Carnegie Hall_ - Renaissance _Live at Madison Square Garden_ - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band _Live At Leeds_ - The Who ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/8 "2020-05-16T19:02:30Z")
LIVE ALIVE - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble I’m so glad I got to see him once. Majestic Theater in San Antonio (3rd row:D). I still have my album, in a climate-controlled storage unit along with a badass stereo system. Makes me wish I had it all here at the house, especially with the current lockdown ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/9 "2020-05-16T19:15:00Z")
I know that many people don’t like them, but I’m a fan of good live albums. Some of my favorites: **Van Morrison - It’s Too Late To Stop Now** My favorite live album of all time. Stellar band, stellar repertoire and perfect sound. **The Ramones - It’s Alive** A tour de force of 28 songs in 53 minutes. **AC/DC - If You Want Blood** Another tour de force, but with longer songs than the Ramones. All the sleaze, all the grit, and all the punch AC/DC with Bon Scott had to deliver. **Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Weld** Perfect noise. I could go on. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/10 "2020-05-16T20:11:14Z")
The Kinks – One for the Road Cheap Trick – Live at Budokan The Who – Live at Leeds The Allman Brothers – At Filmore East Deep Purple – Made in Japan ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/11 "2020-05-16T20:21:30Z")
**The Band - Rock of Ages** I love watching _The Last Waltz_, but if I really want to listen to The Band live, this is the album. **Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon London '75** Springsteen is great live, and both Live/1975-85 and Live in New York City are great albums, but this one just captures a busting out, still fresh and young Springsteen in an amazing way. **Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live** This is the only Peter Gabriel album anyone needs. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/12 "2020-05-16T20:38:50Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > _Get Yer Ya/Ya’s Out_ / The Rolling Stones I love this album. I’ve only got the cassette. Honky Tonk Women is my favorite song of all time (he couldn’t catch me to tell me to slow down:)). One of my musical phone-a-friends said there are five different versions of that song. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/13 "2020-05-16T21:00:54Z")
We got 13 posts in and nobody’s said: Dylan - Live At The Albert Hall? [Snippet.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xz7WfVYxok) j PS: I know, I know, Manchester Free Trade Hall. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/14 "2020-05-16T21:00:58Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > **The Band - Rock of Ages** > I love watching _The Last Waltz_, but if I really want to listen to The Band live, this is the album. > > **Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon London '75** > Springsteen is great live, and both Live/1975-85 and Live in New York City are great albums, but this one just captures a busting out, still fresh and young Springsteen in an amazing way. > > **Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live** > This is the only Peter Gabriel album anyone needs. I concur for all of these. I especially recommend the extended version of “Rock Of Ages” that includes the tracks they did with Dylan on these concerts. It was one of the very few concert appearances of Dylan between his 1966 world tour and the reunion tour with the Band in 1974, I think one of only five (the Woody Guthrie tribute with the Band in 1968, Isle of Wight with the Band in 1969, George Harrison’s Bangladesh concert in 1972 and the other one escapes me now) Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Hammersmith is a killer live album. You can hear how they instantly grab the audience, an audience that hadn’t been familiar with their music, and they take the Hammersmith by storm. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/15 "2020-05-16T21:02:36Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > We got 13 posts in and nobody’s said: Dylan - Live At The Albert Hall? > > [Snippet.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xz7WfVYxok) > > j > > PS: I know, I know, Manchester Free Trade Hall. Well, I don’t want to be ALWAYS the guy who plugs this album :D. ---
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Michael Hedges - \*Live on the Double Planet \* Be Bop Deluxe - _Live! In The Air Age_ ---
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Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 Hot Tuna Double Dose Hot Tuna And Furthermore Hawkwind Space Ritual (Lots of Dead, can’t pick just one.) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/18 "2020-05-16T22:04:35Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 Seconded. And after I have praised live albums by the Ramones and AC/DC, I don’t want to forget Motörhead’s “No Sleep Til Hammersmith”. A blast from start to finish. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-live-albums/853929/19 "2020-05-16T22:11:01Z")
No Sleep Til Hammersmith duly upvoted! ---
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