I'm sure that the answers are going to run the gamut, but I just wondered if anyone will agree with me that Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat is the best live album ever.

Frampton Comes Alive!

Made in Japan

REO Speedwagon - You Get What You Play For

Woodstock-the original

"Woodstock" trumps "Lullabies, Legends and Lies" (Bobby Bare doing Shel Silverstein covers) just barely.
Although, "The Essential Lenny Bruce" is near the top. (primitive comedian/social punditcommetator)

Live At Leeds.

I don't even like country or bluegrass much at all, but Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live....Oh man. I have it on SACD, and it is complete sonic bliss. I've never heard anything quite like it.

Also, I have Pink Floyd: Pulse on DVD-Audio. Live concert, and it's also fantastic.

To me it is a toss up between Skinny Puppy's Ain't it dead yet? and Ministry's In case you didn't feel like showing up. :)

Nirvana Unplugged
Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison

Eagles Live-1980

The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East

Made in Japan

REO Speedwagon - You Get What You Play For


Woodstock-the original


Live At Leeds.


The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East


all these and Bob Seger plus have to also add Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii while sitting in the bean bag and the headphones on.

I'm surprised no on has mentioned Cheap Trick Live at Budokan

Nirvana Unplugged

Ooh, good call. I should have listed that as my fave.

INXS 'Live Baby Live'

Secret Samadhi....


Oh, not that kind of Live. I have several, The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East is one that I probably listen to the most.

tough one...

song remains the same
made in japan
wings over america
ac/dc live
new york rock n soul review

unofficial: pink floyd in oakland, may 9, 1977

Rush - Exit...Stage Left
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Pink Floyd - Pulse and Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah/Unplugged

A big + for saying album and not CD. I have lots of music in MP3 format but still use my turntable and have a couple hundred albums and get albums instead of CD's when I can..... Plus my latest turntable can record my albums in MP3 format.

Allman Bros at Fillmore East on the list fo' sure. Runner up for me would be Climax Blues Band FM Live. Also in the archives (on vinyl), ELP Pictures at an Exhibition.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OoWgM10TYA

I can't say I have a favorite live album, or that there is a best. Cream Live at Royal Alber Hall is just one I like. But one I've been drawn to lately is Smokin Joe Kubek & Bnois King " My Heart's In Texas"

I actually forgot this one too, which is another one of my favorites.. Eric Clapton " One More Car, One More Rider" Live 2004. Another one of my favorites.

Frampton Comes Alive!

One of my favorite musicians and one of my favorite albums. I can listen to the complete album on loop for hours and never get tired of it.

Bob Dylan -- The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue

Skin and Bones - Foo Fighters

My Morning Jacket - Okonokos

Went outside my office tonight and can hear Santana playing right now. Not an album but he can still play the guitar!

Allison Krause and Union Station (live album)
(much earlier than Jimmie Buffet and Crew)
(in various venues)
Edged out Others.
(and then there was Zappa at the Fillmore East . . . -) (as if . . .)

(sorry, im still a bit bummed out of the recent demise of the comedy genius of the last second centuries . . . ......)

Went outside my office tonight and can hear Santana playing right now. Not an album but he can still play the guitar!

Me too . .. It was, like, an homage, to Woodstock and the most recently revivalist thereof.
(or sort of like that)
(isnt' it?)

sorry if that sounded/read "harsh" .. . . .
I'm still simmering from current events regarding deceased commedians.

My Morning Jacket - Okonokos

Oh man, great call.

Grover Washington Jr. Live at the Bijou

I shows my age, but I have two I still listen to. Primus's Suck on This and Jane's Addictions' first live debut album

To me it is a toss up between Skinny Puppy's Ain't it dead yet? and Ministry's In case you didn't feel like showing up. :)

That Ministry album is impressive too.

I guess not technically an album, because I recorded it off the radio using the recording equipment I had at the time for my band, but The Black Crowes simulcast a live concert they played here on KATT after the Murrah bombing with proceeds going to the victims..... It's an album to me I guess

Crosby Stills & Nash "Four way Street"

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you can drive from tinker afb to shawnee while listening to "do you feel like I do".....yeah, just that one song...its like 20 minutes long.

Song Remains the Same and KISS Alive are a couple of the first albums (live or otherwise) I bought, so they hold a special place.
VU Live 1970 (although their unofficial live albums/recordings are better, especially the Guitar Amp Tape)
Lou Reed's Live in Italy (some nasty guitar on that one)
D'Angelo's unofficial Voodoo tour recording from the Netherlands (we saw him in Chicago on that tour)
Santana's Lotus (vinyl version with the humongous 2-piece poster)
Any of Miles Davis' live albums from 1969-1975
Unofficial recording of The Cure's Disintegration tour stop in Dallas (best non-rock'n'roll show I had seen up to that point, still one of my top shows)
The Pixies show at the Brady a couple of years ago
Chris Whitley's Live At Martyrs is great, but too short
Ministry's mentioned above is great, was lucky enough to see them at Cain's on that tour
Neil Young's Arc/Weld (saw him at the Myriad on that tour, so other Neil/CH live albums are good, but that one is kinda special)

Too many to just choose one (and yeah, Waiting on Columbus is fantastic), sorry...

Kansas: Two for the Show
Kansas: Live at the Whiskey
Kansas: Device Voice Drum
Kansas: There's Know Place Like Home-I can be seen in the audience on the third row on this DVD.

Kansas is going to be at the State Fair on September 12th. It will be the first concert for new lead singer Ronnie Platt and keyboard player David Manion who have replaced singer/keyboard player Steve Walsh who retired on August 16th, 2014.

Think I like Kansas?

Bigray in OK

Think I like Kansas?

Bigray in OK

I'm confident that you like Kansas. I used to like Kansas a lot, too.
Especially their cool album cover art.

I just wish the band had a different name.
(Their name reminds me of one of my LEAST favorite states.)
This causes a touch of cognitive dissonance. Or angst. Or whatever. =)

Live Evil - Black Sabbath
Live After Death - Iron Maiden, so many great live albums, I was tempted to pick Flight 666 but Live After Death was recorded in 1985 and it has so many iconic songs on it already by that time.
S&M - Metallica
Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest

Live Baby Live - INXS

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It's not an album but it's one of the most amazing live recordings I've ever heard.
Please listen to this. The most amazing part, after you've heard the entire
recording, is at :40 seconds when the engineer says, "Bach Chaconne, take one."

This is a naked as a person can be. Yes, one take and not a single missed or
out of tune note. Amazing!

Yes, he's playing on 1 of his 2 Strads that he honestly owned. I don't know which
one nor to I know the maker of his bow. Kittle?

Oh, it's from memory but he had at least 300 years to practice. Not too much
different than Tenor saxophonists have had 50+ years to learn the "Giant Steps"
solo that Coltrane did in one take.

Imagine what the first violinist thought when it was put in front of him for the
first time.

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Nirvana Unplugged was the first that came to mind for me too