Best Live Album

[Skiblets]

Listening to Dire Straits ‘Alchemy’ tonight. Tough to beat. What’s your favorite?

 

[Husky Alien]

Seconds Out by Genesis

 

[NowInStorrs]

Above and Beyond - Acoustic

Honorable mentions to Hooverphonic - With Orchestra and Metallica - S&M

 

[Chin Diesel]

Alchemy is great.

Some Boomer will say Frampton Comes Alive.

Mark Knopfler is phenomenal. Great way to leadoff a thread.

 

[UofCT]

Obviously not the best but one of the first CDs I bought was Dave live @ Central Park

 

[huskyinfl]

Nirvana unplugged is a classic

 

[Captbluefin]

Live Dead

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Queen Live Killers.

 

[bazzdog]

Listening to Dire Straits ‘Alchemy’ tonight. Tough to beat. What’s your favorite?

Live at Fillmore East
Allman Brothers

 

[ToolzieFan]

At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band is up there for me.

 

[ToolzieFan]

Live at Fillmore East
Allman Brothers

Beat me to it by seconds. Good call.

 

[Pgh2Storrs]

Live After Death - Iron Maiden

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London ‘75 - Bruce Springsteen

 

[dvegas]

Listening to Dire Straits ‘Alchemy’ tonight. Tough to beat. What’s your favorite?

I opened this thread with that as my first thought. It's neck and neck as my favorite with Babylon by Bus, but there's way more Wailers live bootlegs out there than Dire Straits

 

[Skiblets]

I opened this thread with that as my first thought. It's neck and neck as my favorite with Babylon by Bus, but there's way more Wailers live bootlegs out there than Dire Straits

Stop that train I’m leaving …..

 

[dvegas]

Stop that train I’m leaving …..

That's actually a Peter Tosh song. Him & Bunny left the band way before Babylon by Bus. But the record is the Mighty Bob at his finest

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Throwing Copper?

In all seriousness, Europe 72'?

 

[Skiblets]

That's actually a Peter Tosh song. Him & Bunny left the band way before Babylon by Bus. But the record is the Mighty Bob at his finest

Fair enough.

 

[JMick]

Metallica - S&M

yes

 

[nomar]

I have always been obsessed by Before the Flood (Dylan and The Band). Kind of cheating since it’s two of my favorites.

I think it was released a year or two before I was born.

 

[TRest]

Get Yer Ya Yas Out.

Wore out 2 copies of the 8 track to One More From The Road.

 

[Chin Diesel]

As much as I love Alchemy, I prefer Real Live Roadrunning with Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris.

First until last, it's perfect.

 

[TheRealKBuks]

Not a live "album" but Red Hot Chili Peppers Live at Slane Castle

 

[alexd]

Little Feat - "Waiting for Columbus".... the Tower of Power horn section puts this band into another gear.

 

[8893]

Lots of great choices already. Love Alchemy.

I honestly think that the Layla Revisited album from the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Trey Anastasio (don’t @ me @nomar ) is one of the best sets of recorded live music I’ve ever heard. If you haven’t listened, do. It’s stunning.

Other greats not mentioned yet:

J. Geils Band, Full House

The Kinks, One for the Road

Grateful Dead, Reckoning

Joni Mitchell, Miles of Aisles

 

[gampelcrazies]

Live After Death - Iron Maiden

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London ‘75 - Bruce Springsteen

+1 on Hammersmith but it could be topped this month with the release of No Nukes 79