great video. to even come up with 50 live albums to list is impressive on its own (i couldn’t!) having something to say about each of them even more so
The Who in their prime could not be touched live. I agree, Live at Leeds is the best live album and the best Who album. Pure Rock and Roll at its finest.
@@top5records796 1st time I saw them was in 1968. Before Moon destroyed himself by being Keith Moon he was a force to be reckoned with. I walked out of that concert in a daze. The early Who could rearrange your DNA.
The Who were beasts live! No one could touch them and maybe no band ever will! Absolutely raw and always on the verge of it all going off the rails, but brilliant in their energy, musicality, and power!! No one is better than The Who live and Live at Leeds and the matching Live at Hull fully capture that!
Swans are dead live 95-97 shoulda been in here for sure, its my favourite live album of all time. Also, wanna thank you for your content, your raw passion for music is thrilling and just makes me want to check out these albums, which i do :)
Love your enthusiasm! And a good selection of great live albums. Hate the most boring thing on Gods Earth , Bruce Springsteen . He bores me to tears. Had more fun at funerals than listen to his miserable squeaks.
Besides "Born to Run" I was getting the same feeling when listening to his hits. And I would be fine if I never heard another Police, Steely Dan, Kinks or AC DC song again - (and I had albums by these bands at one time). Does music tastes change as one gets older?
Pictures at an exhibition, Yesshows, USA by King Crimson, Live Evil by Miles Davis, Friday night in San Francisco by Al di Meola John McLaughlin & Paci de Lucia, and Between Nothingness and Eternity by Mahavishnu Orchestra. These albums deserve a place
@@top5records796 oh, for older, hardcore fans this was a very famous bootleg. I found out about it just before it was released in the 2010s in a very expensive and limited set. The inclusion of the bootleg in the deluxe 2020 reissue of Goats Head Soup was the first time I actually owned a physical copy of it.
Great list! Billy Joel’s Songs In The Attic from 1981 is an amazing live album and you should check it out. I think the songs on it sound even better than they’re studio recordings.
Lists are always subjective. Here's my top 10 Rock Double Live Albums, without any order: • Led Zeppelin - The Song remains the same • Blue Öyster Cult - On your feet or on your knees • Deep Purple - Made in Japan • Jethro Tull - Bursting Out • Kansas - Two for the Show • Blue Öyster Cult - Extra Terrestrial Live • Golden Earring - Live • Iron Maiden - Live after Death • Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous • Wishbone Ash - Live Dates Feel free to comment
Great to see Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel on there! Those first two Cockney Rebel albums are so unique. You're right about Harley's self-assured delivery. I have no idea what the hell he is singing about most of the time, but I am convinced of it, haha. Might go throw the live album on right now for some late-night listening.
@@top5records796 I kept my word. Great listen after midnight. I also forgot to tell my lame joke about how Cockney Rebel sounds like the name of an 80s "Oi!/streetpunk" band, haha.
it's funny to see comments upset with your opinions, haha. people are funny. i actually thought this was a pretty wide-ranging selection. i can't say i have a far-reaching grasp of live albums. but, in addition to 10-15 of those you mentioned... James Brown Live at the Apollo is a startling record, presaging Redding whose "Live in Europe" is also quite something. A bit of a hidden gem is Gene Chandler's Live '65 . This is like Curtis Mayfield meets Sam Cooke. Sweet soul! Allman Brothers Fillmore East is quite something, as well, no secret there though. For other blues, there's Muddy Waters Live at Newport, and Robert Nighthawk Maxwell Street 1964, and Big Mama Thornton Jail, among others. These days, I'm also quite partial to any number of live albums by Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone, but that's perhaps another flavor, more late night "after hours" as they say. Those are just a few that jump to mind.
@@top5records796 yeah, it's actually called "live on stage" in the UK, which is the only European pressing that I can tell. It's two performances at the Regal. It can be found for cheap. The opening number Rainbow is one of the best openers I've heard. thanks again! i appreciate the time it takes to create such a list and pull all those records! Oh, and I forgot to mention Etta James Rocks the House and Ray Charles Live, a double album, which contains Ray Charles Live at Newport and Ray Charles in Person. I guess I"m a bit partial to Soul!
Great video and well crafted and selected list. I would include Barclay James Harvest live in Berlin and Dire Straits On the Night which are two outstanding albums. Unfortunately Dave Matthews Band Listener Supported was never pressed on vinyl, otherwise it would have been in my top 50.
Came to the comments section to back up Exit... Stage Left. Found you my dude. Although I often rank Live in Rio higher. I have never heard a live album where you felt the excitement of the audience like you feel in Rush in Rio.
I gotta be honest. When I saw yer Greatest Live Albums O' All Time post I immediately went to see what your #1 pick would be. Because I recently thought through what's the greatest live album ever 'n could only come up with one answer. Without a doubt The Who-Live At Leeds. Thank you for confirmin' what I knew already. Live At Leeds rules O.K.!
I respect it's your list so is correct for you. But for me, there's a lot of outright crap on there. A couple I'd have had on there instead of some you have: Johnny Winter And, Live Edgar Winter's White Trash, Roadwork John Mayall, Turning Point The Clash, From here to Eternity Woodstock, Various Artists Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsy's Cream, Live Cream, maybe slightly beating out Wheels of Fire The Band, Rock of Ages Derek & the Dominos, In Concert The Beatles, Live at the BBC Humble Pie, Performance Rockin' the Fillmore Delaney and Bonnie, On Tour with Eric Clapton Mothers of Invention, Fillmore East-June 1971 Of course there are many other that I have liked and loved over the year since I was a teen in the early 60s. Edited for the damn spell corrector.
"Waylon Live" is one of the best live albums of all time. It's the best Country live album by a landslide IMO, much better than Cash live albums (and I really like both). I really love TVZ At Old Quarter too though.
I've only heard perhaps half of your list but even so, I would have included Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, Ozzy Osborne's Tribute to Randy Rhodes, Herman Brood and his Hot Romance - Cha, Cha, Rush's Different Stages Live and in my opinion, the best live recording ever, Porcupine Tree's Live At Tilburg. It's nice to see Motorhead get some love for "No Sleep Till Hammersmith" Anther good live album was Riot's 14 track release from 1980. A couple of years ago I picked up an official? bootleg from a talented band from '78 called Toad, Yearnin, Learnin' Outstanding.
Great collection!. Nice to see a few legendary heavy rock / heavy metal live albums included... A few others which I played to death: Judas Priest, "Unleashed in the East"... Scorpions, "Tokyo Tapes"... Kiss, "Alive!"... Black Sabbath, "Live Evil" (with Ronnie James Dio... check out the remixed 40th anniversary edition). ... Ozzy Osbourne, "Speak of the Devil" (so underrated... GREAT versions of Sabbath songs with Brad Gillis on guitar, Rudy Sarzo on bass and Tommy Aldridge destroying on drums.)... I also LOVED "Band of Gypsys" by Jimi Hendrix - cracking performances and more funky than the J.H.Experience.
Very interesting list - one or two I'll have to check out. Have you ever heard Dr Feelgood's "Stupidity"? Possibly my favourite - and definitely the best band I've seen live (Though sadly Wilko had left by then),
@@top5records796 It's worth checking out on RU-vid "Dr Feelgood - Live at Southend Kursaal" it shows 15 minutes of the concert that formed part of the album - it's just brilliant to watch them perform. "Stupidity" became famous for being the first live album to reach no.1 in the UK album charts the week it was released - and for knocking "Abba's Greatest hits" off the top spot! All the more surprising because they were not a well-known band except in the pub circuit.
@@top5records796 best ive heard yes, moonage day dream, width of a circle particularly good, saxaphone great on lp too all his best songs on it all excellent.
Interesting list, but Metallic K.O. by Stooges and Germicide by Germs have to be in there! Maybe also Documents 1975 by Harmonia and Dark Magus by Miles Davis
I’ll give Dark Magus another listen! And Germicide is new to me. Metallic KO is for me rather problematic because of the sound quality, yet I recently bought a 1 st US so perhaps that will help the problem.
@@top5records796 Glad you agree. UH is in such top form on that double album. Excellent list you've put together. I might also add Lou Reed's Rock & Roll Animal for your consideration. The twin guitar attack of Hunter and Wagner is just incendiary. Cheers.
@@top5records796 Yes Exit... Stage Left, above "All the words' a stage". Live in Rio might be even better than both. The audience participation on that album is insane. Never heard another album like it.
Quo Live is the best Live album. It’s so live you can see the sweat drip off the turntable. It’s so live that Francis hated it. Paris Supertramp. Very polished album and the Crime and Crime tracks sound so much better than the studio version. Surprisingly though, it had very few overdubs, just some of Helliwells keyboards that got lost in the mix.
@@top5records796 heard an interview many years ago with Rick and Francis. Got talking about that album and Francis said it was too live. You could hear all the bum notes. But Rick loved it for the same reason. Francis wanted it overdubbed but Rick didn’t. Rick won
I saw the Police live with Oingo Boingo. The next year, I saw Blondie live. The next year, 1975, with the million dollar stage, I saw the Stones at the Forum in close up seats. The Police don't even qualify in that 3 year period of mine.
AC/DC LIve at Donnington is way better live album than If you want blood... The audio quality alone not to mention the setlist of the classics written after '78
I love Live At Donnington. I would rank that among the best concertfilms. But… different singer and a different AC/DC. If You Want Blood really has a nice ‘70s vibe. I think those two shows actually are different but they compliment eachother.
@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight hey man - gonna be blunt with you because i think you need to hear it. saying someone is “too young” to have an opinion is baseless and sad. especially if it’s over the exclusion of just one record. there’s no such thing as too young OR old to be thinking critically about and expressing appreciation of music
@@abigaildevoe Except him leaving that off the list... is baseless and sad... He isn't too young to have an opinion, he is too young for me to consider as an adult, based on his reply. That is me thinking critically about someone not even qualified to be a critic. Ooops! Gonna be blunt with you... his "opinions" are lame, regardless of how I described HIM or characterized his maturity level. No excuse for his lack of grasp, considering the entire gamut of live musical recordings of any genre does not go back very far. I'd bet that 3/4s of his choices used looping devices in their performance. So, "live" "replay"?
