# Great live albums from the nineties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473 "2019-04-13T01:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [April 13, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/1 "2019-04-13T01:04:30Z")
I know live albums are a controversial subject, but I like me some good live album, some of my favorite albums are live ones. I’m now listening to[Nirvana’s Live At Reading](https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-reading-mw0001783098), and it’s fantastic, so full of overblowing energy that it almost bursts from my speakers. Together with its acoustic companion piece, [Unplugged In New York](https://www.allmusic.com/album/mtv-unplugged-in-new-york-mw0000118886), it shows that Nirvana probably was the last rock band that really mattered. I totally concur with the allmusic reviews of them I linked to. The intensity of both these recordings is staggering. I like a lot of other bands and music of the decade, but draw a blank to name any other live recording from that time that comes close. I could name a bunch of other live albums from other decades that I like as well. So what did I miss? Please post you favorites from that decade. (yeah, and I know that Live At Reading wasn’t technically a nineties album, as it was first released in 2009, but recorded in 1992, and that’s what counts) ---
**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:** [April 13, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/2 "2019-04-13T01:14:14Z")
Ooh, I got one (or two) myself. Both “Weld” (1991) and “Year Of The Horse” (1997) were great slúdgy, slushy, ear-shattering showcases for Neil Young with Crazy Horse. So it doesn’t matter if it was a nineties act, only that it was recorded in the nineties. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/3 "2019-04-13T05:31:21Z")
Vanilla Ice —_Extremely Live_ (1991) As they say to each his own. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/4 "2019-04-13T06:04:40Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > …it shows that Nirvana probably was the last rock band that really mattered. They’re great albums to be sure, Unplugged in particular, but let’s try to get a grip here. I’d put Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World Live” (1994) right up there with “Unplugged in New York” in terms of greatness, intensity, passion. It just doesn’t have the poignancy of Unplugged with its proximity of Cobain’s death. Alice in Chains Unplugged (1996) - I still listen to this album all these years. And since we’re taking albums released in later decades, I’ll offer Tori Amos “Live at the Montreaux” which was released in 2008 but recorded in '92. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/5 "2019-04-13T06:25:32Z")
Slayer’s _Decade Of Aggression_ (1991) is a still-decent live album. Another nod to Neil Young’s _Weld_, eh. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/6 "2019-04-13T08:29:13Z")
How many “Unplugged” albums were there? I only remember Nirvana, Clapton and 10,000 Maniacs, but there were apparently a string of them and they were all swell! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/7 "2019-04-13T09:04:36Z")
\*Pearl Jam Unplugged \*was eventually released in 2009, and is, IMO, better than the Nirvana Meat Puppets tribute album. And seconding **10,000 Maniacs Unplugged** and\*\* Peter Gabriel’s Secret World\*\*. Also (glances through library) others in the timeframe I prefer to Nirvana: _ **The Stone Roses** Live: Blackpool Empress Ballroom_, _Raw Melody Men_ by **New Model Army** , _Earth Inferno_ by **Fields of the Nephilim** , \*Live Seeds \*by **Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds** _Towards the Within_ by **Dead Can Dance** _Show_ by **The Cure** ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/8 "2019-04-13T11:13:19Z")
Maybe not to everyone’s taste, but I used to love **Mark Eitze** l’s _Songs of Love: Live at the Borderline 17.01.91_ Actually, still do love it, just don’t play it so much now! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/9 "2019-04-13T15:15:03Z")
NOMEANSNO [Live+Cuddly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv74G1MDEKE) ETA: I’m just about 100% sure this is one of those rare live albums with no overdubs past the “1,2,3,4” of the first track, and sounds perfect. [Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtK_4gyf0M) a video clip of the first two songs. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/10 "2019-04-13T15:20:30Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > How many “Unplugged” albums were there? I only remember Nirvana, Clapton and 10,000 Maniacs, but there were apparently a string of them and they were all swell! As mentioned already, Alice in Chains unplugged is amazing. It’s not quite the final concert with Layne Staley. But…much in the same way as Nirvana Unplugged is not the final concert with Kurt Cobain, they both kind of serve that role. Barely saw Layne Staley after this, though he did appear some and even recorded a couple more studio songs before disappearing for years and then dying. Metallica did their live S&M album in 1999 and it is also really good. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/11 "2019-04-13T15:45:58Z")
Hot Tuna “And Furthurmore” recorded during (I believe) 2 Furthur Fests, 96 and 98. Live music don’t git no better than this! > **[Hot Tuna - And Furthurmore - Amazon.com Music](https://www.amazon.com/Furthurmore-Hot-Tuna/dp/B00001U05F)** > > Hot Tuna - And Furthurmore - Amazon.com Music ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/12 "2019-04-13T20:12:43Z")
Iced Earth “Alive in Athens” (1999) is a pretty big deal in metal circles, three hours spanning three CDs of the band in its prime. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/13 "2019-04-13T22:25:14Z")
Husker Du “The Living End”. Recorded in '87, released in '94. [Ice Cold Ice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoYXSdhjAQ). The mix on the album is much less tinny than the version on Youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/14 "2019-04-13T22:31:09Z")
**Tool** “Opiate”. It’s all-live except for maybe one track. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/15 "2019-04-13T22:34:53Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Husker Du “The Living End”. Recorded in '87, released in '94. > > [Ice Cold Ice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoYXSdhjAQ). The mix on the album is much less tinny than the version on Youtube. I know and like that album! And I like it for the fact that it has a much fatter sound than the usual tinny production of Hüsker Dü’s studio albums. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/16 "2019-04-14T23:49:07Z")
U2 Rattle&Hum ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/17 "2019-04-15T00:01:04Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > U2 Rattle&Hum I knew that didn’t sound right. From Wikipedia: “The album was produced by Jimmy Iovine and was released on 10 October 1988, while the film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was released on 27 October 1988.” ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/18 "2019-04-15T01:58:46Z")
Queensryche’s [Operation:Livecrime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_Livecrime), and accompanying VHS performance. ---
**Author:** ![CurrlyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CurrlyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurrlyD)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/19 "2019-04-15T02:22:02Z")
**Pulse** by Pink Floyd. I first saw the concert on PBS in the late '90s, and I recorded it back then on VHS. Years later I bought the CD, and later the DVD. They do all of Dark Side of the Moon, much of Wish You Were Here, some of Division Bell, and many others. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473/20 "2019-04-15T13:21:39Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I knew that didn’t sound right. From Wikipedia: “The album was produced by Jimmy Iovine and was released on 10 October 1988, while the film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was released on 27 October 1988.” I could’ve SWORN that came out in '91 :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-live-albums-from-the-nineties/832473.md?page=2)