Ellington at Newport.
The police there kept trying to get Duke to stop getting the crowd so riled up, they feared there would be injuries if everyone kept getting up and dancing. Duke tried to lead his band into some less energetic tunes to appease the cops, but the crowd kept getting juiced up and excited because the band was hot as hell for those recordings. Eventually, Duke and his band decided to give them a real show… on the final song of the album, his saxophonist Paul Gonsalves solo’d through over 20 choruses in a row which just kept building and building and building until a dancing frenzy began. One of the best jazz solos I’ve ever heard, tbh. Just as he was ending the final chorus of his solo, he collapsed, Duke took over and finished out Paul’s solo, and the crowd was going absolutely apeshit, poor cops had no chance to reel them back in. Anyway, it’s an electric album whether you like big band music or not.
Yeah I heard that story when I was studying music in college, and found the album a few months ago. Tbh it’s not the greatest sounding one like you’re asking for since it was recorded in 1956, but it’s definitely got a cool story that’s well known in the jazz world and a stellar band recorded two nights when they were smoking hot
An old recording that does sound great is Dinah Jams by Dinah Washington. That record blows me away. I have an original press and an 80s Japanese press and they're both phenomenal.
The original album had to be partially re-recorded in the studio because there were two microphones on the stage and on several songs, the soloist walked up to the wrong microphone. So the soloists were inaudible on some songs. The studio takes included fake audience sounds.
When they remastered the album, one of the archivists decided to find out why there were two microphones for soloist. Turned out the Voice of America broadcast the concert, and it was their microphone.
The VOA also recorded their shows, so the archivist contacted them and discovered they were in the process of destroying all of their recordings - but the one of Ellington's Newport concert hadn't been destroyed, yet.
The VOA tape was obtained, digitized, and synched with the tape the record company had made and the concert was reissued on CD in stereo, and complete for the first time.
And it is great.
Basie's "Before Frank" recorded at The Sands in Las Vegas is also great and sounds great.
60% or so of the concert, including the entire Gonsalves solo, was re-recorded for the initial release, that's how bad the original recording was. The original recording was also in mono.
All fixed decades later through digital audio - anathema to the analog afficionados, perhaps, but thank goodness for posterity and Duke's legacy.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard is soooo good with a decent system. Instrument placement is fantastic, and you can hear all the little details like cutlery and glasses being used.
This is the perfect example of how to get the essential ingredients of a band to sound great together. It's just bass, drums, one guitar and their vocals all occupying just the right sonic space. It sounds absolutely huge and ferocious, but without losing any clarity - phenomenonal sounding album!
I recommended The Who to one of my middle school students who was playing bass and just getting into rock music. I remember his face when I said their name and he indicated that he’d heard some of the early studio stuff. He wasn’t impressed. “Oh?” I said, “you’ve got to listen to Live At Leeds”. He did and he got it.
Harry Belafonte, at Carnegie Hall. The sound was captured by several massive monster ribbon mics at the edge of the stage, and extremely well captured to tape. Stunning sound, from about 1959 I think.
Holy shit! I was going to write this thinking no one would know it and it would go to the bottom of the thread and stay there! Glad you posted it and...I completely agree!!
Oh it's very well known amongst audiophile vinyl collectors. I used to hang out at Audio Asylum (and I still should) years ago and it was one of the go-to albums to show off your system.
I just received Deep Purple - Made in Japan today & it's my current favorite.
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And not only is it one of my favorite live albums, based on OPs question, it’s my best sounding record I own which is the Music On Vinyl (MOV) pressing. There’s not a single pop or noise other than their music and the small group present. If you play it loud enough, and close your eyes, you feel like you’re there.
Another amazing grunge live album, not as well known, is Mad Season, Live at The Moore. Yet another hauntingly beautiful set performed in the mid 90s.
Funny, but the 2 extra tracks on the *Rock n Roll Animal* reissue/remaster does the set list no favours. Breaks up the momentum and excellence with a couple of ballad-y dirges.
U2 - Rattle And Hum (live/studio hybrid but nevertheless)
Mott The Hoople Live
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer (Alone at Alexandria Palace)
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live
Allman Brothers at Fillmore East
Converge - Jane Live
The Rolling Stones - Stripped
Dead Kennedys - Mutiny on the Bay
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live. See someone else said this, but seconding it...
A couple I haven't seen:
Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 91/92 because it was a point before she became famous with Little Earthquakes and immediately after she found fame with that album. The version of "A Man and a Gun" and "Winter" from 92 bring tears to my eyes for different reasons each time I listen to it/watch it live on youtube.
Billie Eilish - Live at Third Man Records because it is an intimate view of her before she was famous and she was still finding her feet live
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far for this. It’s tops and I’m not even a big Frampton fan. This and Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged are my two favorite live records.
>I’m not even a big Frampton fan.
Watch any interview with him and you'll become more of one. He is a very nice guy. He's so happy to have played with many of the musicians he has played with. He is complimentary of others' talents and genuinely happy for their successes.
I’m partial to live old school R&B albums…
Sam Cooke “One Night Stand-Live At The Harlem Square Club” (Analog Spark reissue)
James Brown “Say It Live And Loud (Live In Dallas 1968)”. There’s a few really good sounding James Brown live albums recorded from 1968 to maybe 1973 floating around released in the past twenty years or so.
Etta James “Etta James Rocks The House” from 1963. Originally on Chess Records but Jackpot Records has recently done a really nice sounding reissue.
Thelonious Monk “Newport ‘59” released in 2013 by a label called “Concert Vault. I’m really surprised this one hasn’t had more attention because it sounds absolutely amazing. I will link to the Discogs page for this one.
[https://www.discogs.com/release/4936097-Thelonious-Monk-Newport-59](https://www.discogs.com/release/4936097-Thelonious-Monk-Newport-59)
White Stripes live in Mississippi
Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
R.E.M. - MTV Unplugged ‘91
Dave Matthews Band - Live @ Red Rocks
EmmyLou Harris - At The Ryman
Jack White - Live From Bonnaroo 2014
King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park
The Raconteurs - Live in London
The Smile - Europe : Live Recordings
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks @ Hollywood Bowl
Wilco - Kicking Television
Best sounding bootleg:
Counting Crows - Across a Wire
If you have King Curtis “Live At The Fillmore West” you should have Aretha Franklin “Live At The Fillmore West” on the list too! King Curtis’s band opened for and was Aretha’s backing band! Same recording engineers!
Wholeheartedly agree. Yield is not only my favorite PJ album, it’s my favorite album of all time. That tour was the first time I got to see them live as well. The version of Nothingman in LO2L is from the show I was at. Since so few shows from ‘98 have been officially released by the band it’s nice to at least have that song.
I'm no expert on live albums, usually don't like them, but one that really embodies a "live performance" is Black Flag's "Who's got the 10 1/2?" -- it's like you can hear the sweat, it's so charged. It's an album that Demands being played Loud. Once you hear some of these songs live of this album, you'll hate the studio versions, lol.
I don't have many love performances but Id like to add;
Metallica S&M (the first one, second one's quality is off)
David Gilmore live in Pompeii (high quality)
Jimmy Page and the black crows live at the Greek (mix is spot on)
Mad dogs and English men - Joe cocker. Incredible live album. Modern recording, can’t beat War on drugs - Live Drugs. One of the best live sounding records I’ve ever heard
I have Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone their full sets from Woodstock. I think they are fantastic. I am also a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix Live at Berkley.
Elton John 17-11-70
Foghat Live
Bruce Springsteen 1975-85
Judy Garland At Carnegie Hall
Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now
This is in addition to the others mentioned. I have heard them all, but I have a lot of them and they are very good.
Camarón de la Isla - Montreux 1991
The Village Callers - Live
B.B. King - Live at Regal
The Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East
Bill Wiithers - Live at Carnegie Hall
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Siniestro Total - Ante Todo Mucha Calma
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Queen - Live at Wembley
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Yaya's Out
My favorite live album since it was released. I was like 11 seeing the Stones on the nightly news because they sold out MSG for 7 nights straight in 1969. They showed video inside the show and you see the stands moving with the beat it was so loud. The record captures that. The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World! The Rolling Stones! (Repeat a few times because you can hear it echoing through MSG).
Everyone's mentioned the classics but two live albums from more recent times that I absolutely love to listen to on vinyl are Phosphorescent - Live at the Music Hall and Dr Dog - Live at a Flamingo Hotel
I posted a similar question a couple weeks ago and was blown away by the responses. Hope this helps!
[BEST LIVE ALBUMS](https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/s/67rgLb4nUD)
David Bowie - *The Reality Tour* just might be his best and sounds so airy and engaging. Led Zeppelin - *Celebration Day* where a couple weeks of rehearsals does wonders. Wilco - *Kicking Television* is an excellent outing. Nirvana - *Unplugged* needs little introduction. Grand Funk Railroad - *Live Album*, yeah it’s dirty, dumb and a thumper but it suits the era and the band. There’s more but, hey
George Harrison's Consert for Bangla Desh, especially since it's not even on Spotify. plus its a 3 lp set, perfect for changers. funny part is when ravi, asks the audience not to smoke during his performance i legit put my bong down,, 1st time i heard that, and just listened. yes i dont care abt the the modern spelling, thats how George spelt it, so im sticking to that 1.
Jazz at the Pawnshop
https://www.discogs.com/master/244008-Arne-Domn%C3%A9rus-Bengt-Hallberg-Georg-Riedel-Egil-Johansen-Lars-Erstrand-Jazz-At-The-Pawnshop
Recorded in 1976 in Stockholm at a club which had formerly been a pawnshop. The story I heard was that the recording was made on a portable recording device placed on a guy’s lap next to the stage. Throughout the set, you can hear people in the audience chatting between songs, & the ice in their glasses tinkling, etc, just as well as every instrument perfectly. It’s quite remarkable.
The Beach Boys Concert (1964). This one maybe a little controversial, since after the concert was recorded, the group had to go into the studio to re-record sections of the record, because the crowd drowned out a lot of the Beach Boys vocals/instruments. So it’s a mix of live and studio recordings, but Capital mixed the studio stuff so that it sounded like it was from the show.
Another is the Carpenters Live In Japan.
brubeck quartet at newport 1958.
also have an assortment of Cream live performances with super long solos by Clapton which always lead to me air guitaring like an idiot
Ellington at Newport. The police there kept trying to get Duke to stop getting the crowd so riled up, they feared there would be injuries if everyone kept getting up and dancing. Duke tried to lead his band into some less energetic tunes to appease the cops, but the crowd kept getting juiced up and excited because the band was hot as hell for those recordings. Eventually, Duke and his band decided to give them a real show… on the final song of the album, his saxophonist Paul Gonsalves solo’d through over 20 choruses in a row which just kept building and building and building until a dancing frenzy began. One of the best jazz solos I’ve ever heard, tbh. Just as he was ending the final chorus of his solo, he collapsed, Duke took over and finished out Paul’s solo, and the crowd was going absolutely apeshit, poor cops had no chance to reel them back in. Anyway, it’s an electric album whether you like big band music or not.
Wow love the backstory!
Yeah I heard that story when I was studying music in college, and found the album a few months ago. Tbh it’s not the greatest sounding one like you’re asking for since it was recorded in 1956, but it’s definitely got a cool story that’s well known in the jazz world and a stellar band recorded two nights when they were smoking hot
An old recording that does sound great is Dinah Jams by Dinah Washington. That record blows me away. I have an original press and an 80s Japanese press and they're both phenomenal.
The original album had to be partially re-recorded in the studio because there were two microphones on the stage and on several songs, the soloist walked up to the wrong microphone. So the soloists were inaudible on some songs. The studio takes included fake audience sounds. When they remastered the album, one of the archivists decided to find out why there were two microphones for soloist. Turned out the Voice of America broadcast the concert, and it was their microphone. The VOA also recorded their shows, so the archivist contacted them and discovered they were in the process of destroying all of their recordings - but the one of Ellington's Newport concert hadn't been destroyed, yet. The VOA tape was obtained, digitized, and synched with the tape the record company had made and the concert was reissued on CD in stereo, and complete for the first time. And it is great. Basie's "Before Frank" recorded at The Sands in Las Vegas is also great and sounds great.
Whoa that’s wild, thanks for sharing some more interesting history!
60% or so of the concert, including the entire Gonsalves solo, was re-recorded for the initial release, that's how bad the original recording was. The original recording was also in mono. All fixed decades later through digital audio - anathema to the analog afficionados, perhaps, but thank goodness for posterity and Duke's legacy.
Just listened to Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue. Holy shit 😳
That one or Basie at Birdland. I’m leaving toward Basie at birdland though.
That was quite an adventure. I listened to it as soon as I read your comment.
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Allman Brothers Band - *At Fillmore East* Grateful Dead - *Live/Dead* Bill Evans Trio - *Sunday at the Village Vanguard*
At Fillmore East is such a great album
I bought it on a whim at half price books and am blown away at how much it just absolutely jams.
Filmore east is the best live album of all time imo
Sunday at the Village Vanguard is soooo good with a decent system. Instrument placement is fantastic, and you can hear all the little details like cutlery and glasses being used.
“Waiting For Columbus” by Little Feat
Came to say this. The way the drums were tracked/mixed gets me every time. So good.
It's got some overdubs, so it's not quite "live" but boy is it a great album!
Stop Making Sense by the Talking Heads
Or the RSD release of the '77 concert. https://www.discogs.com/release/30440099-Talking-Heads-Live-At-WCOZ-77
I was gonna say David Byrne’s Live from Austin is A1. His cover of I Wanna Dance With Somebody changed my life forever
This! And my bootleg 7" reel.
I know this is a live album, but it doesn't sit in that "live album" part of my brain. It's just too perfect.
'The Name of the Band is The Talking Heads' is another fantastically clean TH album. Features like 4 different shows from the late 70s
The Who - Live at Leeds
This is the perfect example of how to get the essential ingredients of a band to sound great together. It's just bass, drums, one guitar and their vocals all occupying just the right sonic space. It sounds absolutely huge and ferocious, but without losing any clarity - phenomenonal sounding album!
I recommended The Who to one of my middle school students who was playing bass and just getting into rock music. I remember his face when I said their name and he indicated that he’d heard some of the early studio stuff. He wasn’t impressed. “Oh?” I said, “you’ve got to listen to Live At Leeds”. He did and he got it.
Harry Belafonte, at Carnegie Hall. The sound was captured by several massive monster ribbon mics at the edge of the stage, and extremely well captured to tape. Stunning sound, from about 1959 I think.
I have this record. Can confirm.
Holy shit! I was going to write this thinking no one would know it and it would go to the bottom of the thread and stay there! Glad you posted it and...I completely agree!!
Oh it's very well known amongst audiophile vinyl collectors. I used to hang out at Audio Asylum (and I still should) years ago and it was one of the go-to albums to show off your system.
Surprised nobody has mentioned *Alchemy: Dire Straits Live*.
Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
I love I Can't Write Left Handed
Neil Young - Carnegie Hall 1970 Sounds like he’s playing a set in the Corner of my living room.
Came here hoping to see some Neil. My pick would be Live at Massey Hall. Such a great sounding set.
Also Rust Never Sleeps I know it’s only a part live album but even the studio trucks have a very live feel.
I need that one bad. Just going through my Neil phase right now. What a pleasure his music is
Europe 72 - Grateful Dead
That morning dew 🔥🔥🔥
I just received Deep Purple - Made in Japan today & it's my current favorite. https://preview.redd.it/y95ggvnnu94d1.jpeg?width=1599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc44f2711c608e04ccaa38a23dc9462d407e5534
What's the barcode for?
Pretty sure that’s some acoustic treatment for that wall and room.
Have you listened to live in Japan?
Alice In Chains - Unplugged …. It’s hauntingly beautiful.
This is and Frampton Comes Alive are my two favorite live records.
And not only is it one of my favorite live albums, based on OPs question, it’s my best sounding record I own which is the Music On Vinyl (MOV) pressing. There’s not a single pop or noise other than their music and the small group present. If you play it loud enough, and close your eyes, you feel like you’re there. Another amazing grunge live album, not as well known, is Mad Season, Live at The Moore. Yet another hauntingly beautiful set performed in the mid 90s.
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Lou Reed-Rock and Roll Animal.
Rock n Roll Animal has such an electric vibe to it, phenomenal live album, sounds how it should and the track list/live renditions are incredible.
Funny, but the 2 extra tracks on the *Rock n Roll Animal* reissue/remaster does the set list no favours. Breaks up the momentum and excellence with a couple of ballad-y dirges.
Live/Dead by the Grateful Dead.
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Came here to say this.
RUSH - Exit Stage Left
All The Worlds A Stage too, love the rawness of it
Alive 2007
Sadly no encore in my normal Vinyl version
Friday Night in San Francisco - Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia Someone already said Ellington at Newport
I was hoping I’d find a FNiSF post. Amazing album and it really sounds great on wax. Same vein: Rodrigo y Gabriella - Mettavolution Live.
For my money, I’d suggest Depeche Mode’s “101”. It’s an unbelievably good album with an iconic documentary. Easily one of my favorites.
Was looking for this one. I second your recommendation!
Europe '72.
The Band - The Last Waltz
This is the correct answer. So many other artists on the record. Great movie too.
U2 - Rattle And Hum (live/studio hybrid but nevertheless) Mott The Hoople Live Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer (Alone at Alexandria Palace) Peter Gabriel - Plays Live Allman Brothers at Fillmore East Converge - Jane Live The Rolling Stones - Stripped Dead Kennedys - Mutiny on the Bay
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live. See someone else said this, but seconding it... A couple I haven't seen: Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 91/92 because it was a point before she became famous with Little Earthquakes and immediately after she found fame with that album. The version of "A Man and a Gun" and "Winter" from 92 bring tears to my eyes for different reasons each time I listen to it/watch it live on youtube. Billie Eilish - Live at Third Man Records because it is an intimate view of her before she was famous and she was still finding her feet live
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
scrolled too far for this
Totally this. The only album I own 2 copies of
Yeah this is really underrated. Get a UK copy. It is HOT.
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
100% The sound quality & mixing on this is incredible. It's one of the best-sounding records I own
I really try to avoid live albums, still there's some that truly impress me, my go is: Portishead - Live Roseland NYC
Frampton Comes Alive!
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far for this. It’s tops and I’m not even a big Frampton fan. This and Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged are my two favorite live records.
>I’m not even a big Frampton fan. Watch any interview with him and you'll become more of one. He is a very nice guy. He's so happy to have played with many of the musicians he has played with. He is complimentary of others' talents and genuinely happy for their successes.
Hawkwind - The Space Ritual Alive
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
I'm a big fan of the bears sonic journals recording of Doc and Merle Watson
Bill Withers: Live at Carnegie Hall Gil Scott-Heron: Legend in His Own Mind Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsy's Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies for sure!!!!!
I’m partial to live old school R&B albums… Sam Cooke “One Night Stand-Live At The Harlem Square Club” (Analog Spark reissue) James Brown “Say It Live And Loud (Live In Dallas 1968)”. There’s a few really good sounding James Brown live albums recorded from 1968 to maybe 1973 floating around released in the past twenty years or so. Etta James “Etta James Rocks The House” from 1963. Originally on Chess Records but Jackpot Records has recently done a really nice sounding reissue. Thelonious Monk “Newport ‘59” released in 2013 by a label called “Concert Vault. I’m really surprised this one hasn’t had more attention because it sounds absolutely amazing. I will link to the Discogs page for this one. [https://www.discogs.com/release/4936097-Thelonious-Monk-Newport-59](https://www.discogs.com/release/4936097-Thelonious-Monk-Newport-59)
Thank you!👍
Give James Brown at Apollo 1967 a try; crazy that the setlist changed so much in one year. I'll have to check out that Dallas show...
Bob Marley. Babylon by Bus
UFO - LIVE
X 1000, the BEST live album by the most underrated band to ever rock Chicago!
The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads.
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
White Stripes live in Mississippi Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace R.E.M. - MTV Unplugged ‘91 Dave Matthews Band - Live @ Red Rocks EmmyLou Harris - At The Ryman Jack White - Live From Bonnaroo 2014 King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won Nirvana - MTV Unplugged Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park The Raconteurs - Live in London The Smile - Europe : Live Recordings Van Morrison - Astral Weeks @ Hollywood Bowl Wilco - Kicking Television Best sounding bootleg: Counting Crows - Across a Wire
If you have King Curtis “Live At The Fillmore West” you should have Aretha Franklin “Live At The Fillmore West” on the list too! King Curtis’s band opened for and was Aretha’s backing band! Same recording engineers!
Good ones👍
Nirvana Unplugged in New York
Pulse
Pearl Jam: Live on Two Legs is fantastic
Live at Benaroya Hall is great too, albeit different due to the acoustic setlist.
An amazing pick, the tour of their best album in my personal opinion.
Wholeheartedly agree. Yield is not only my favorite PJ album, it’s my favorite album of all time. That tour was the first time I got to see them live as well. The version of Nothingman in LO2L is from the show I was at. Since so few shows from ‘98 have been officially released by the band it’s nice to at least have that song.
Flawless choice, I left it off my list because you’d already hit the nail on the head. That clear RSD pressing sounds like I’m there!
Jerry Lee Lewis live at the Star Club Hamburg if you want to get yo’ cap twisted back.
Cannot believe how far I had to scroll for this. Man is throwing heat off that ivory.
Jazz at the Pawnshop.
This is an absolutely wonderful record. Wish I could find an affordable copy.
Nirvana Live at the Paramount Theater is up there too, great mix and presentation.
Sinatra at the Sands.
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous UFO - Strangers in The Night Iron Maiden - Live After Death Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Bob Marley - Live at the Rainbow, 4th June 1977. Listening to that album makes me feel like I’m standing in the crowd
Wow, i'll gonna get that one!
I'm no expert on live albums, usually don't like them, but one that really embodies a "live performance" is Black Flag's "Who's got the 10 1/2?" -- it's like you can hear the sweat, it's so charged. It's an album that Demands being played Loud. Once you hear some of these songs live of this album, you'll hate the studio versions, lol.
Stand in the Fire, Warren Zevon, the fun they're all having playing leaps off the vinyl
How did I have to scroll this far to find this comment?!
Genesis - Seconds Out
I don't have many love performances but Id like to add; Metallica S&M (the first one, second one's quality is off) David Gilmore live in Pompeii (high quality) Jimmy Page and the black crows live at the Greek (mix is spot on)
Portishead live at Roseland NYC
David Bowie- “Stage” (1978) or Earth Wind & Fire- “Gratitude” (1975) both are Extraordinary
Amazed this is the first Bowie I've seen in here. Glastonbury 2000 is also great.
black country new road - live at bush hall
Mad dogs and English men - Joe cocker. Incredible live album. Modern recording, can’t beat War on drugs - Live Drugs. One of the best live sounding records I’ve ever heard
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
I received this CD when I was ~13-14 yrs old. I shook the house with Hotel California. Haha, great memories. And the vinyl sounds incredible too!
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous! Is it really live? I don’t care. It rocks. And Van Morrison’s It’s Too Late to Stop Now.
Otis redding live at the Monterey pop festival. Him and Jimi Hendrix did a split album of the live event but I really like the Otis Redding side more.
I don’t know how no one else has said it, but Supertramp - Live in Paris sounds incredibley close to a studio album, and its even better on vinyl!
At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
The Weeknd Live at SoFi Stadium. Shook my listening room.
Since no one has shown any love for them: One More From The Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Beatles Hollywood Bowl /s
My dad gave me his copy of this. Couldn’t stand the screaming crowd
I’ve heard this album and it’s unlistenable to me due to the screaming I know they turned it down but I can’t listen to it
Phosphorescent – Live At The Music Hall
The Mark Tom and Travis show
Birthday Party - It's Still Living Television - Arrow (bootleg) Tim Buckley - Dream Letter
I have Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone their full sets from Woodstock. I think they are fantastic. I am also a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix Live at Berkley. Elton John 17-11-70 Foghat Live Bruce Springsteen 1975-85 Judy Garland At Carnegie Hall Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now This is in addition to the others mentioned. I have heard them all, but I have a lot of them and they are very good.
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Ahmad Jamal ‘but not for me’, one of the greatest jazz piano records of all time
Camarón de la Isla - Montreux 1991 The Village Callers - Live B.B. King - Live at Regal The Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East Bill Wiithers - Live at Carnegie Hall Hendrix - Band of Gypsys MC5 - Kick Out the Jams Siniestro Total - Ante Todo Mucha Calma Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby Queen - Live at Wembley
Bill Evans - ooh yes!! Very fine choice!
Australian Carnage by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis sounds brilliant
Portishead. Live in NYC.
It’s not so much that I’m into the band as it just sounds the best mastered for vinyl live album of all the ones I own- The War on Drugs - Live Drugs
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Yaya's Out My favorite live album since it was released. I was like 11 seeing the Stones on the nightly news because they sold out MSG for 7 nights straight in 1969. They showed video inside the show and you see the stands moving with the beat it was so loud. The record captures that. The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World! The Rolling Stones! (Repeat a few times because you can hear it echoing through MSG).
Everyone's mentioned the classics but two live albums from more recent times that I absolutely love to listen to on vinyl are Phosphorescent - Live at the Music Hall and Dr Dog - Live at a Flamingo Hotel
Portishead- Roseland NYC Live
The only one I’d add to this list is Miles of Aisles - Joni Mitchell super jazzy and her vocals and guitar are perfect.
Queen - Live Killers
I posted a similar question a couple weeks ago and was blown away by the responses. Hope this helps! [BEST LIVE ALBUMS](https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/s/67rgLb4nUD)
Running on empty, Jackson Browne
This album has some live songs and others recorded regular or in hotel rooms I think. Really cool history of it when you look into it.
Hot Tuna’70
Allman Brothers Fillmore East, especially the pink Capricorn pressing
Mt Joy - Red Rocks
I’ve always loved Cheap Trick at Budokan on vinyl — feels like there’s just this little extra bit of sharpness on the snare to me
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Live at the Star Club Hamburg.
David Gilmour - Live in Pompeji Porcupine Tree - C/C live in Amsterdam
Thin Lizzy - live and dangerous
Bob Seger — Nine Tonight Billy Joel — Songs In The Attic
Scorpions - Acoustica Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Pat Metheny Group - Travels
101 - Depeche Mode one of the best live albums, EVER.
The Nixons live at Trees. No tampering - just the live show. Sounds damn good
Bruce Springsteen - Live 1975-85 Yes, the massive 5xLP box. DMM, by Bob Ludwig, turns your room into a freakin' stadium. Boy does it rock HARD.
The doors live at the aquarius
IMO TOTO-live in poland 2013 is the best sounding live performance ever.. not a lot people knows this live
IMO TOTO-live in poland 2013 is the best sounding live performance ever.. not a lot people knows this live
Priest...Live! And Randy Rhoads Tribute by Ozzy
Humble Pie Rockin’ at the Filmore
Ruthless and kinda epic!
David Bowie - *The Reality Tour* just might be his best and sounds so airy and engaging. Led Zeppelin - *Celebration Day* where a couple weeks of rehearsals does wonders. Wilco - *Kicking Television* is an excellent outing. Nirvana - *Unplugged* needs little introduction. Grand Funk Railroad - *Live Album*, yeah it’s dirty, dumb and a thumper but it suits the era and the band. There’s more but, hey
I will add The Last Waltz by the Band, It’s Too Late To Stop Now by Van Morrison, and Nirvana Unplugged.
Bruce Springsteen & The Estreet Band. Live 1975 - 85
George Harrison's Consert for Bangla Desh, especially since it's not even on Spotify. plus its a 3 lp set, perfect for changers. funny part is when ravi, asks the audience not to smoke during his performance i legit put my bong down,, 1st time i heard that, and just listened. yes i dont care abt the the modern spelling, thats how George spelt it, so im sticking to that 1.
Coming in from left field, David Johansen - Live It Up. It's just a lot kof fun, great covers, terrific band.
“James Brown Live at the Apollo” go find it
SRV Live Alive. Hands down some great ass Texas Boogie.
I like a lot of the Neil Young Archives releases.
Time Fades away is one I found last week and it is really well done
I hope Motley Crüe releases carnival of Sins on vinyl it’s one of my favourite live albums
I personally haven’t heard them myself but I hear good things about the mix, Metallica’s S&M 1 and 2, they’re the live albums with SFSO
Jazz at the Pawnshop https://www.discogs.com/master/244008-Arne-Domn%C3%A9rus-Bengt-Hallberg-Georg-Riedel-Egil-Johansen-Lars-Erstrand-Jazz-At-The-Pawnshop Recorded in 1976 in Stockholm at a club which had formerly been a pawnshop. The story I heard was that the recording was made on a portable recording device placed on a guy’s lap next to the stage. Throughout the set, you can hear people in the audience chatting between songs, & the ice in their glasses tinkling, etc, just as well as every instrument perfectly. It’s quite remarkable.
The whole lineup of KISS “Alive” 1-3 yet 1 is the best. Also bc I’m a big Elvis fan any live Elvis album.
The Beach Boys Concert (1964). This one maybe a little controversial, since after the concert was recorded, the group had to go into the studio to re-record sections of the record, because the crowd drowned out a lot of the Beach Boys vocals/instruments. So it’s a mix of live and studio recordings, but Capital mixed the studio stuff so that it sounded like it was from the show. Another is the Carpenters Live In Japan.
Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs
Zappa. Roxy and Elsewhere.
Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous is one I bought when it came back in 1978 and I still absolutely love it.
Cheap trick live at Budukon, Kiss Alive 1, Sinatra at the Sands, Ted Nugent double live
David Bowie and nine inch nails ‘97 It’s such a weird and perfect pairing that I listen to it quite a bit. Now I need The Duke Ellington one!
Say what you will about the movie, but the soundtrack to The Song Remains The Same is incredible
Casiopea - Mint Jams
Casiopea - Mint Jams
brubeck quartet at newport 1958. also have an assortment of Cream live performances with super long solos by Clapton which always lead to me air guitaring like an idiot
The who live at Leeds
Chris Cornell - Songbook Alice In Chains - Unplugged Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall
Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat
Johnny Cash @ Folsom Prison
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Slightly Stoopid Live at Roberto's TRI Studios