Best/Favorite Live Albums?

Some live albums make the music better and some don't.
What are your favorite live albums?

My favorite ones tied in first place would be

Unleashed In The East - Judas Priest
Alive - KISS
Alive In Athens - Iced Earth

I actually don't like live albums at all. Never have been a fan.

Grave digger - 25 to Live - one of the best live cds I have ever heard.

Rhapsody - Live in Canada - they are cheesy but it is a great recording

Maiden - A Real Live Dead One
Freedom Call - Live Invasion

Alex

My 2 favs are:

Iced Earth - Alive In Athens 3cd set
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes

Wargod48

I'm extremely picky about live albums... in most cases I don't even bother with them unless it's a band I've actually seen live. As a general rule I'd rather hear studio material. Of course, there are a few exceptions. Some of my favorite live CDs are:

Judas Priest - UNLEASHED IN THE EAST

Raven - LIVE AT THE INFERNO

Savatage - GHOST IN THE RUINS: A TRIBUTE TO CRISS OLIVA (I was at one of the shows that they used on this CD)

Halford - LIVE INSURRECTION

Overkill - WRECKIN' YOUR NECK

LOVE live albums!



1. FOUR WAY TIE FOR FIRST PLACE:

Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East

Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous

KISS - Alive



5. Yes - Yessongs

6. Aerosmith - Look Homeward Angel (bootleg)

7. Overkill - Wrecking Your Neck Live

8. UFO - Stangers in the Night

9. Iron Maiden - Live After Death

10. Genesis - Three Sides Live (European version)

11. Motorhead - No Sleep til Hammersmith

12. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes

13. Blackfoot - Highway Song Live

14. Thin Lizzy - BBC Radio One

15. Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg

16. Deep Purple - Made in Japan

17. Queen - Live Killers

18. Mortification - Live Planetarium

19. Angel - Live Without a Net

20. Raven - Live at the Inferno

21. Cinderella - Live at the Key Club

22. Grave Digger - 25 to Live

23. Gillan - Double Trouble

24. Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or On Your Knees

25. TIE: Deliverance - Live at Cornerstone 2001

Sacred Warrior - Live at Cornerstone 2001

27. Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - RealLIVE!

28. Genesis - Seconds Out

29. AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You've Got It

30. Ted Nugent - Full Bluntal Nugity



Some other recommended live albums:

Narnia - Short Notice...Live in Germany

Rainbow - On Stage

Ted Nugent - Full Bluntal Nugity

Foghat - Live

Narnia - Short Notice...Live in Germany

Annihilator - Double Live Annihilation

Hammerfall - One Crimson Night

Overkill - Wrecking Everything Live

Testament - Return to the Apocalyptic City (EP)

Testament - Live at the Fillmore

Exodus - A Lesson In Violence

Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock

King's X - Live All Over The Place

Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes - Survival of the Fittest: Live

Black Sabbath - Live Evil

Cheap Trick - At Budakon

Peter Frampton - Comes Alive

KISS - Alive!
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Scorpions - World Wide Live
Cheap Trick - At Budakon

Rammstein-Live Aus Berlin

Im with Sideshow on this one.Never liked live albums.

i'm not big on live albums either... but to pick one: Slayer - Decade Of Aggression

ultmetal wrote:

LOVE live albums!



1. FOUR WAY TIE FOR FIRST PLACE:

Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East

Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous

KISS - Alive



5. Yes - Yessongs

6. Aerosmith - Look Homeward Angel (bootleg)

7. Overkill - Wrecking Your Neck Live

8. UFO - Stangers in the Night

9. Iron Maiden - Live After Death

10. Genesis - Three Sides Live (European version)

11. Motorhead - No Sleep til Hammersmith

12. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes

13. Blackfoot - Highway Song Live

14. Thin Lizzy - BBC Radio One

15. Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg

16. Deep Purple - Made in Japan

17. Queen - Live Killers

18. Mortification - Live Planetarium

19. Angel - Live Without a Net

20. Raven - Live at the Inferno

21. Cinderella - Live at the Key Club

22. Grave Digger - 25 to Live

23. Gillan - Double Trouble

24. Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or On Your Knees

25. TIE: Deliverance - Live at Cornerstone 2001

Sacred Warrior - Live at Cornerstone 2001

27. Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - RealLIVE!

28. Genesis - Seconds Out

29. AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You've Got It

30. Ted Nugent - Full Bluntal Nugity



Some other recommended live albums:

Narnia - Short Notice...Live in Germany

Rainbow - On Stage

Ted Nugent - Full Bluntal Nugity

Foghat - Live

Narnia - Short Notice...Live in Germany

Annihilator - Double Live Annihilation

Hammerfall - One Crimson Night

Overkill - Wrecking Everything Live

Testament - Return to the Apocalyptic City (EP)

Testament - Live at the Fillmore

Exodus - A Lesson In Violence

Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock

King's X - Live All Over The Place

Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes - Survival of the Fittest: Live

Black Sabbath - Live Evil

Cheap Trick - At Budakon

Peter Frampton - Comes Alive

good grief dude!!! ... you forgot

Rush - All The Worlds a Stage....

I played the groves off it with its 3 fold sleeve !!

Live version of Riff Raff kicks serious butt !!!
AC/DC If You Want blood ....

I remember how much I loved Live after death but I gotta say

Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

Thin Lizzy --Live Life

I've just been collecting live albums this winter. The best thing about them is that the bands tend to play with increased speed and volume live; so it turns some of my favorite hard rock into virtual metal.

1. Alex Harvey Band Live (that's what my tag SAHB stands for).
2. Slade On Stage (sounds more like AC/DC than glam).
3. Sweet- Live at the Rainbow (Kills Queen's Killers, despite mono sound)
4. UFO- Strangers in the Night (as good as it gets Live).

Best live albums ever are:

1: Double Live Gonzo (ted nugent)
2: Live after Death (iron maiden)
3: Unleashed in the East / 98 Meltdown (judas priest)
4: Live and dangerous (thin lizzy)
5: Wrecking your Neck Live (overkill)

I'm not a big fan of live albums, I'd much rather own a live DVD and get the whole show.

But there are some killer albums out there that I've bought:

KISS - Alive, Alive III
Halford - Insurrection
AC/DC - AC/DC Live (the first live album I ever bought, I played it so much I got sick of it for a long time )

I'm also in the "don't like Live albums" crowd....but two stand out:

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Mortification - Live Planetarium

Here's a good one I don't hear much about...

Glenn Hughes: Burning Japan Live (great song selection)

But in general I prefer my live metal on DVD, as the intensity of the music doesn't usually need to be racheted up as it does with hard rock. I preferer the cleaner studio sound for metal. For example the crowd noise and soccer chants on Slade on Stage I find appropriate, they add to the experience; but on Iced Earth in Athens I just find the crowd distracting (especially when the band lets the crowd come in at the wrong place during my favorite song). The Live in Athens discs played a big part in putting me off both Iced Earth and Stratovarious. But that's just my personal taste.

SAHB Healer wrote:

Here's a good one I don't hear much about...

Glenn Hughes: Burning Japan Live (great song selection)
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Yes, yes! Great album.

Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same

and I must admit that Mortification - Live Planetarium is a pretty good live album.

ack

I don't have my copy of Gillan's Double Trouble with me right now. Am I correct in remembering that it is one studio album and one Live; with both albums being burned onto the same CD on the CD re-issue? (I hate it when they do that. TNT and Andy Scott's Sweet also mixed live with studio on CD).

KiSS - Alive, Alive II, Alive III. ( over 100x overplayed and still do again )

Ozzy Osbourne - Live & Loud

Black Sabbath - Reunion ( same overplayed )

Whitesnake - Live ... Still of the Night

Iron Maiden - Donnington '92

and of corz Bootleg Live Shows

Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Overkill - Wrecking Everything Live
King Diamond - Deadly Lullabyes Live
Destruction - Live Without Sense
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Anthrax - Alive 2
Ozzy - Live and Loud
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence
Kreator - Live Kreation
Scorpions - Acoustica

SideShowDisaSter wrote:

I actually don't like live albums at all. Never have been a fan.

100% agree. I really do not see the point in live albums.

I think live albums are very cool.. It gives me a chance to hear songs in a different format, maybe a part is played a different way.

I used to listen to "If You Want Blood" by AC/DC or "All The Worlds A Stage" by Rush with headphones. I'd hear all the audience noise. Individual's yelling out stuff like "go Geddy" in YYZ on 'Exit Stage Left" ...

I totally dug 'Live Life' by Thin Lizzy. It was much heavier than their studio stuff.

Before the net and mtv (when it was good) live discs were the closest I got to shows when I was 12-15... My parents would'nt take me. Most live stuff now, even if it's not totally overdubbed to death, is still processed so much it takes away from the rawness of live performance. I want to hear the cordbuzz and rim shots. Heck I'd tape concerts off the radio King Biscuit back then or Rock Special back early 80's..
I had Ozzy from "diary" tour BOC from 'Fire Of Unknown..." tour... Priest on kingbiscuit from 'Screaming"... just cool stuff.

Ozzy - Tribute!!