Best/Favorite Live Albums?

Metal master Age : 19 Joined : 31 Jan 2007 Posts : 693

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

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I actually don't like live albums at all. Never have been a fan.
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Heart of Metal Age : 35 Joined : 10 Feb 2007 Posts : 1543

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

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My 2 favs are:

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

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Subject: Re: Best/Favorite Live Albums? Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:24 am

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

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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
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Heart of Metal Age : 39 Joined : 23 Jan 2007 Posts : 1507

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

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Rammstein-Live Aus Berlin

Subject: Re: Best/Favorite Live Albums? Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:44 am

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

Subject: Re: Best/Favorite Live Albums? Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:16 am

i'm not big on live albums either... but to pick one: Slayer - Decade Of Aggression
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Heart of Metal Age : 50 Joined : 06 Feb 2007 Posts : 1766

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).

Metal master Age : 23 Joined : 13 Feb 2007 Posts : 656

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)
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Heart of Metal Age : 27 Joined : 24 Jan 2007 Posts : 1060

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 Laughing

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Subject: Re: Best/Favorite Live Albums? Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:41 pm

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

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Mortification - Live Planetarium

Heart of Metal Age : 50 Joined : 06 Feb 2007 Posts : 1766

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.

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Metal master Age : 41 Joined : 20 Jan 2007 Posts : 695

Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same

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

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Heart of Metal Age : 50 Joined : 06 Feb 2007 Posts : 1766

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).

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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

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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
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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.

Subject: Re: Best/Favorite Live Albums? Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:07 pm

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