Urban75 Album of the Year - best Live album Ever
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ska invita
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miles davis live/evil
right up there with the best uk jazz albums of all time
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right up there with the best uk jazz albums of all time
Jazz Warriors - Out Of Many, One People
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I'm really not a fan of great performances. Iconography and cults of personality. Fuck that shit. So I hate great live albums. There's some rubbishy ones that I like though. Discovered this last year and it's just what a live album should be. Capturing a table banging, cider swilling party atmosphere. Our Friends The Yetties. Even the album cover shows you're in for a great time.
andysays
Love and solidarity
miles davis live/evil
That's a great album, but only about half of it is actually live.
There are loads of Miles Davis live albums, but one of my favourites is Dark Magus, recorded in 1974 and originally released in 1977 in Japan only.
ska invita
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iirc all the music is live, its just had takes chopped together - dont remember there being any studio recordings
might be wrong
andysays
Love and solidarity
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Not quite sure where you're coming from with that argument. Great performances and great live albums aren't quite the same thing. There's loads of performances that people who were there rave about, but don't come across on a live album - are there any absolutely essential Bowie live albums?
Live albums can work for all sorts of reasons.
Like The Cramps' Smell of Female - as you listen to it you can feel the sweat drip from the ceiling, Lux Interior's asides to the audience feel like they're directed to the person bopping next to you, it puts you in the Peppermint Lounge for a riotous gig.
Or Jerry Lee Lewis & The Nashville Teens Live at the Hamburg Star Club - Lewis powers through those songs with such furious abandon that it makes the iconic original studio recordings sound like nursery rhymes.
Or Fania All Stars Recorded Live at the Red Garter - a performance by a crowd of many of the best US Latin musicians, most of whom are a decade or two into their careers, bringing together the many styles of Latin music - pachanga, cha cha, guajira, son, montuno, guaguanco, danzon, boogaloo - and right there on the record creating a new scene, a new sound - salsa. You're listening to musical history.
Sure, they are all great performances, but a great live album needs more than just that. And like you say, a great live album doesn't even need a great performance at all.
Not really a fan of live albums but I used to listen to this a lot when I was into Depeche Mode
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Voley
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There are a few things that were originally bootlegs that I really like. This Stones one got them on a great night:
and this Joy Division one got a semi-official release once as part of a box set I think. I had a C90 of it that I'd paid a fiver for that I played to death. Much rawer sounding than Unknown Pleasures:
and this Joy Division one got a semi-official release once as part of a box set I think. I had a C90 of it that I'd paid a fiver for that I played to death. Much rawer sounding than Unknown Pleasures:
Voley
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Yeah they sound full-on at that one don't they? I can remember reading that Barney and Hook both thought Unknown Pleasures sounded a bit weedy when they first heard it and you can see why when you hear the live stuff.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
That’s probably in my top 5 live Hawkwind albums, largely cos most of its from the first tour I saw them on. Do you not listen to Space Ritual??!!Actually I haven't really listen to loads of live albums, but this is probably one of my most played.
No I think it's because the stone henge album was probably the one that was on most while tripping in my late teens....and Moonglum from live chronicles.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Think we've had most of the ones I'd suggest already, but this one's good:
Dunno where Through This is, but the album Hole recorded there is pretty good. (gets coat, etc.)
Also, ludicrous hipster opinion incoming, but iirc Greil Marcus said the live Sonic Youth UK 85 bootleg, The Walls Have Ears, is the best thing they ever did and I can sort of see his point - apart from anything else, most other Sonic Youth albums only have Death Valley '69 on a maximum of once, and many of them not even that, but this has it twice. And a spoken-word intro from Kickboy Face/Claude Bessy slagging off alternative culture. "There ees no fucking culture there", etc.
Dunno where Through This is, but the album Hole recorded there is pretty good. (gets coat, etc.)
Also, ludicrous hipster opinion incoming, but iirc Greil Marcus said the live Sonic Youth UK 85 bootleg, The Walls Have Ears, is the best thing they ever did and I can sort of see his point - apart from anything else, most other Sonic Youth albums only have Death Valley '69 on a maximum of once, and many of them not even that, but this has it twice. And a spoken-word intro from Kickboy Face/Claude Bessy slagging off alternative culture. "There ees no fucking culture there", etc.
souljacker
innit
Surprised this one hasn't had a mention yet:
My personal faves are Metallic KO from the Stooges or It's Alive by the Ramones.
My personal faves are Metallic KO from the Stooges or It's Alive by the Ramones.
ska invita
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my favourite album from when we did 1961
live at his own club, the Alhambra
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live at his own club, the Alhambra
Ahmad Jamal - Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I am shocked!
Having just listened to Space Ritual I'm feeling quite embarrassed at ingnoring it's brilliance for so long.
AverageJoe
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I'll put it out now that my number 1 will be Slayers "Live Undead".
It's only 23 minutes long but totally distills their sound. It's ferocious, and the musicianship is amazing.
Plus when Tom Ayara says "They say the pen is mightier than the sword. But I say...fuck the pen! Because you can Die. By. The. Swooooooorrrdddd" and the crowd join in.
It's mental.
It's only 23 minutes long but totally distills their sound. It's ferocious, and the musicianship is amazing.
Plus when Tom Ayara says "They say the pen is mightier than the sword. But I say...fuck the pen! Because you can Die. By. The. Swooooooorrrdddd" and the crowd join in.
It's mental.
deeyo
hurled unheard to this world.
this one is great.
...but Spandex (& souljacker ) has already mentioned 'it's alive'.
thread closed.
Infidel Castro
Producto Falso
I'm a sucker for this album. I normally hate live albums, but this album is better than the pair's studio work.
