My Top 5 Essential Live Rolling Stones Albums! 

Get yer ya yas is one album that certainly changed the way I listened to music after hearing it ,

I was in line for 2 hours to get tickets to the LA Forum concert in 1972. When I got to the counter the Forum had just sold out. BUT they still had tickets for the Santa Monica Civic concert. Being 16 and needing parents to drive me and my friends, I PASSED on buying tickets. WTF I’m an IDIOT!!! But I did NOT know where Santa Monica was and if we could get a ride there. I had NO idea it was just a few miles away from the Forum. I saw Queen in Santa Monica in 1975. The place is so small that there are NO bad seats, as all the seats are much closer to the stage than at the huge Forum. But I WAS at the LA Forum that night in 1975 ~ BEST concert I ever saw ~ even though they made us wait like 40 minutes before they came on stage. I had NO idea that they filmed that night’s concert and was completely SHOCKED when they released it. From where I was sitting, the Stones were about a half-inch tall. I got to see them much closer in ’78 and ’81. That 75 concert only ranks 5th for me recording wise, because they play 4 songs I do not care for: Beg, Move and the 2 Billy tunes. My favs: 5 LA Forum 75 4 Some Girls Texas 78 3 Ladies And Gentlemen 72 2 Get Your Ya Ya’s Out 69 1 Brussels Affair 73

Even if the sound is not top notch, "Ladies and Gentlemen" from the 1972 Tour is probably my favorite live Stones album. Or the bootleg "Welcome To New York City" from the same Tour.

I absolutely love Live At The El Mocambo 1977. It’s a great collection of songs and it’s produced well. Each band member is kicking ass. Do you know much about the overdubs that were added to some of these performances???

Awesome list! I’ve always been a fan of Ya-Ya’s, a great version of Midnight Rambler is on there!

My jaw hit the floor when I got the Some Girls Texas dvd....I would pay a lot to see that show!!!

Love You Live is one i still play a lot .i purchased it when it came out. Love how raw it sounds.

Great choices. El Mocambo is my favorite.

Get Your Ya Yas Out. For Me. 👍 Stray Cat Blues. I used to own that album.

The bootleg I want released most is Wembly Stadium 1973. We have some tracks in soundboard quality on available bootlegs, but Mick Taylor's performance on You Can't Always Get What You Want on the audience recording of that show needs to be released in soundboard! His extended solo, and interaction with Jagger is awesome!

Oh. Satisfaction on. Ya Ya's disc 2!

What's nice about 81, recordings is that you have ian,and ian,Maclagan. On piano and mac,on organ. Faces, style

I think another Stones live album worth mentioning is Totally Stripped (Live At The Paradiso Amsterdam 1995)

The version of YCAGWYW from the Brussels bootleg I first got has this wonderful moment when MT played a section of the Winter solo and Jagger picked up on it (well, well, well..). Pity it didn't make the official/GHS reissue release. I kind of love No Security too. Band sounded so good that tour. I love that white Tele. Really enjoying this channel. Thank you :)

All these recordings are fantastic. Brussels Affair ' s version of brown sugar has a honking bariton sax in its outro. Omg it rocks. The texas show is pun; mick barely blinks and is high as a kite. At one point he grabs ronnie's balls. Beast of burden is superb and the fine art of weaving is there. " charlie's good tonite innee?" - get out yer ...Again iconic and suberb. I love Still Life too. Love you Live has the fantastic extended show starter HTW. Have air guitared to that riff many a late night. Great videos - re-instilling my love and affection for these unique bucaneers. Well done

Great ! I just add Paris 1967 and 1976 (7th of June). Philly special part II also... whaoo now i just can't stop :)

I had to edit my comment: I just listened to the recommendations AND to Ladies and Gentlemen. Ladies and Gentlemen is my FAVORITE! Their best line up and they are on FIRE! ROCK ON JUSTIN! Thanks for the video! Always wondered what their better live albums were besides Ya-Yas. I'm Loving Live at The El Mocambo! Ronnie is definitely a highlight. And the whole band has a ton of energy! Rock on!

Awesome video regarding Live stuff..... I typically now listen to most of my music on Pandora - yes I used to buy CD's but I just cannot anymore... I did ask for Hackney Diamonds for Christmas :) One of my favorites LIVE is Out of Control - I just watched a live video from 1997 tour which was the first concert tour for me so it has special meaning... Song is just full of everything - dark slow, then building to louder, has horns, has harmonica, has crowd singing... I am going Solder Field Chicago 06/27/2024 - taking my 18 YO daughter! I hope it is played but doubtful....

Totally agree that the legacy releases were totally flawed. I honestly never got Ya Ya's. I hear so much about how it is one of the best live albums of all time but I never felt it. BRUSSELS AFFAIR!! YES!! I have all their vaults on vinyl including this which was a part of the Goats Head Soup reissue. El Mocambo is a good choice. I need to listen to it more. I've only listened maybe 3 times since I got it on vinyl. Some Girls live In Texas!! Omg. When I saw you were doing this podcast episode I was like "no way he picks Some Girls Live in Texas." Wow. I'm blown away you picked that. Definitely one of my top 5 and of course I own it on vinyl. Stripped is another great choice. Great to hear them do all those songs acoustic and they killed it I would probably put Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones at the Checkerboard Lounge in there. Absolutely amazing to hear them together in a club like that. And if you've seen the dvd. To see the interaction and how it all transpired is amazing. Sticky Fingers live at the Fonda is another great live album.

great selection! I just count my Stones live releases on CD, Vinyl and DVD/Bluray. I stopped at approx. 30 releases. Ok, I have sufficient Live Stones material. haha.

And Flashpoint? Jumping Jack Flash is out of this world... paint it black, satisfaction... etc...

Thanks again. Always interesting.

So agree! Also love Marquee from the vault.

Get Your Ya Ya’s Out is just soooo great! The versions of some of the included songs surpass the album versions.

well, but i do LOVE the Fantastic GOT LIVE if you want it, incredible energy, in the first version the MC announcement was the best ever introduction of a band, and the photo of the Stones on the back WOW !!!!!

Ya-yas is the best and first album I ever bought (1970)

Ya ya's out, Stripped and No Security are for me their best live ones. Haven't heard the Brussels and the Mocambo ones. 🥴🆗👍🏻

Great video and thanks for the shout-out to El Macambo--I only discovered this record this year and cannot stop playing it all the way through. Would have found a spot for Ladies and Gentlemen (love Nicky Hopkins and Bobby Keys performances) otherwise your list is spot-on and yes, need to get Stripped in there the band was smoking and its markedly different from all the other live releases.

I love the jamming on L.A.Forum (1975)!

Hi Justin totally agree with all your picks except I would replace the Hamptons with Wembley 82 . I know this was the European leg of the same tour so they played the same set list, but I was at the Wembley gig and it was the first time I ever saw the Stones. You know what they say that you never forget your first time.😊 I’ve seen the Stones many times since but this has always been my favorite. The set list and performance was excellent.

Love all of them but brussels affairs stands out for me, also saw them 50 years after those recordings...in Brussels. Love your channel cause I'm a big stones fan, it's amazing

I liked Flashpoint, and you also have High Wire

Thanks! Interesting! Keep it up.

100% agree

Roundhouse and Leeds from Sticky Fingers Daze! 😊

Hb live at university of Leeds 71’!!

My favourite live show is Tokyo Dome 89 or 90

“The World’s Most Dangerous Rock And Roll Band”….When it comes to live shows, The Rolling Stones are reigning kings!…Excellent synopsis by you here, well done…I really liked the shows from Cuba, outstanding stuff there…I need to listen to “Bridges To Babylon”(1997)-curious if you like that album?….Take Care Dude!

I don’t know man, but your views on every topic is EXACTLY like mine, our taste and choices are exactly the same

If you want to hear ya, yas, unaltered in 69,w/,No and editing, Oakland, cal.,is the original soundboard that was the springboard to bootleg recordings, and the reason the stones and Kline. Aka,shinder,his nephew, sam,Cutler, realised how much pepole wanted these raw soundboard, and other devil's disciple recordings.

Bedspring Symphony is best during 73 tour

There are two excellent Lives also in the Brian period which captures that period Olimpya Paris 1967 and Honolulu 1966.

ther all esental when u grown up wt band ❤

Think you've nailed it with those five. As for Stripped, I prefer the Amsterdam show on the Totally Stripped set. I hope that one day the entire '69 show at the Garden sees the light of day but I'm not sure if the Stones and ABKCO can get it together as there still seems to be some animosity there.

The bootleg from LA. Who went to church this Sunday???

just a catch up here.....great one! Can't disagree! I am sure, there are some out there I am sure I still need to be turned on to. But notice the time periods here of course. The original Hampton boot I had was not as good, sloppy compared to the FROM THE VAULT . There is another one that comes to my mind, that is rare and hard to get (costly for me) that I wished I owned: The Rolling Stones - Light The Fuse- Live Toronto 2005. Ronnie slide, on Rough Justice alone gives me goose bumps (a la Faces). Nice STRIPPED mention, another one that is hard to get for many. should be reissued! I do own the vinyl luckily!

Justin, what do you think of the box set of Live in Atlantic City, NJ 1989? It's got Undercover of the Night. I think the production is excellent on this recording. The rhythm guitar on the right side sounds James Brown (ish - who was his rhythm player?) the way Keith economically slashes. Steel Wheels is a sleeper recording with a few video hits (?) if I remember correctly. But the recording of this show brings 5 of these songs to life. It comes with a 3rd CD with Almost Hear You Sigh (Wembley), which is one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs. It's so friggin' soulful. Am I off base? Can you analyze that song sometime?

Love You Live is my #1 as this was the first Stones live, I indulged. I like that it showcased the '70s Stones albums that I first got into such as GHS, Made in the Shade, B&B and IORR, in that order, as well as vintage stuff. It blew me away. Stones became my hardcore #1 band, as I then bought up the entire back catalogue. By the time SG came out I was right up to date. #2 Some Girls Live Texas #3 El Mocambo '77. #4 L.A. 75 #5. Ya Ya's. Honorable mention, the recently GRRR Live. The show I would really like to see officially released is "Blind Date" Oshawa Civic Arena 1979, which was a pair of back-to-back stripped-down Some Girls shows with Ron & Keith's New Barbarians opening, in cozy 5,000 seat Jr hockey rink. And yes I saw both shows. The band was ferocious!! Live the podcast!!

Hey there, I was at one of those club shows in 95 (unforgettable, front row, crazy) and the Stripped album on vinyl has become a bit of a grail for me...does it even exist, anyone know?

What about live bootlegs Justin (Not counting Brussels Affair)?. The most well known of those being Live'r than you'll ever be.✌️❤️🤘

Get yer ya yas out deluxe, 1978 Texas, El Mocambo, 1981 Hampton, Brussels. End.

This is the essential live album of Brian era: ru-vid.com/group/OLAK5uy_l3LUQUk6K4txR0WjwWAWveH3SjHDHqj6k&si=_nwL7pIImy1O-3a6 It's a pity it isn't available as a stand-alone album on LP and CD.

Too bad there was no video from El mocambo,my favorite released live album

Ladies and Gentlemen?

Believe it or not, i find Still Llfe to be an interesting alblum. What do you think about that one?

I was surprised at how good Leeds '82 is. Forget Jagger's outfit. No overdubs here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WsKkg6GhaFE.html

Well, in My point of view, This is a matter of favourites and non-favourites It is a loss of time to discuss! Who has the true? I think, Every one and no one!

I thought Shine A Light was a great live album. What did you think of it?

Excellent list, but you forgot "Love You Live" and...."Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones". The latter is some of their most raucous, gritty, nasty version of themselves....and they are dynamite.

El Mocambo and Love You Live don’t do it for me. Jagger’s vocals were so sloppy it was like he didn’t care. Listen to Get Off My Cloud and JJF and tell me different. Brussels snd Ya Yas both amazing

I like your talks very much but your story telling needs more videos and pictures and musical excerpts, esp for newbees to the stones your face alone is boring. PS the absolute hard rocking best is SIDE 4 OF LOVE YOU LIVE!