Totally subjective but…..
– the who live at leeds
– stupidity by dr feelgood
– rory gallagher live in europe
– bb king live at montreux
– woodstock….any or al of it

Lots of (light – that is, popular) classical music would make the cut….
– Bachs toccata and fugue
– verdi’s requiem
– carmina burana
– something wagnerian
– planets suite

^ Live at Leeds was the first LP that came to mind for a ‘must have’ gift when junior bought his first record player. Safe choice by all accounts. It really is a blistering classic. Hairs stand up on your neck stuff.

For me:

Fela Kuti Live!

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For me:

Magma – Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie – Live At The Trianon

^ It’s unbelievable. A journey into a diverse and sometimes scary musical cosmos. I discovered it 15 years back and it broke a lot of musical boundaries for me. Possibly broke my head a little. The highest art – universal, spiritual, intense, comical … the whole gamut.

Honorable mentions

Fela Kuti Live! <——- !!!!
Duke Ellington – Live At Newport <——- slow build to takeoff
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams. <——- Almost violent. Forward travelling mo-pukuhz well before their time. I prefer this than The Who. From whom they also stole and improved. Honest to badness big rock in your face.

Ramones It’s Alive

I normally don’t get on with live albums but this one is just a non-stop blast of energy and a total classic.

Edit: Ha, beaten! ^^^

Macc Lads, live at Leeds. I’ve still got it on blue vinyl somewhere

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Desert Island disc for me, number 1. A guaranteed good time

Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense. Didn’t realise that the film of the concert was directed by Jonathan Demme who also directed The Silece of the Lambs

Slightly OT, but great excite!

[video]https://youtu.be/A10BboLb6GQ[/video]

Townes Van Zandt Live at the old quarter

In no order, just the first three that came to mind.

^^^ Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison for me too

Okonokos by My Morning Jacket

he has the most amazing voice, and live they really do lift you

only live DVD I’ve ever bought. Shame it’s now available free….

[video]https://youtu.be/LrAfkTiI1Dg[/video]

The start with the camel is a bit odd though 🙂

The Orb. Some of their live stuff is lush.

Live After Death, Iron Maiden
Rock in Rio, Iron Maiden
Live in Stockholm, Gary Moore
Alchemy Live, Dire Straits
It’s Great to be Alive, Drive by Truckers
Decade of Aggression, Slayer

Live and dangerous- Thin lizzy
Live at river plate- AC/DC
Live era 87 to 93- guns n roses

The Orb. Some of their live stuff is lush.

shitmedaddy, you’re right! I vote Orb Live 93/39 eviL brO

Walkman-based companion to my best MTB years/Summers of 93-94. ‘Valley’ was especially sublime. I read somewhere the ambient field-recordings were made outdoors in a valley in Dorset. Certainly is lush, bees and everything. Seemed to make time stand still in a perfect summer daze.

Closing out the Nineties, I have to vote for Underworld ‘Everything Everything’. Best live techno LP of all time evaarrr?
[video]https://youtu.be/W83RUgyZ99I[/video]

Magma – Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie – Live At The Trianon

I’d never heard of it but have quite diverse musical tastes, so checked it out on youtube.

WTF is that about?!?

Now I’m not about to praise or criticise, other than to say I don’t think it’s my particular cup of tea, but I’m just happy that stuff like that even exists. Hours and hours of rock opera sung in a made up language from another (made up) planet. Were any drugs involved?

Alchemy Live – Dire Straits
Five Man Acoustical Jam – Tesla
Without the Aid of a Safety Net – Big Country
Live at Birdland – Charlie Parker
All the World’s a Stage – Rush
Live at Brixton – Faith No More

Alive 2007 is good.

I keep playing this, not an album as such but would make a good one. Nothing to do with the pink cat suit honest.

[video]https://youtu.be/bhPGukKb6lk[/video]

@bikebuoy – even as a Led Zep fan I wouldn’t say that The Song Remains The Same is a great live album. How the West was Won is better.

wtf is that about?

Lazy link

Were any drugs involved

Me? Only voltarol and sleep-deprivation! Explored a lot of music when I was long-term sick. Until then I was sticking in my teen/early twenties mode regarding music. So much out there it seemed a waste. Magma?/is the Theusz Hamtaahk trilogy drug-inspired? Don’t know but I doubt it, Vander seems literally obsessed with music (esp that of Otis Redding, John Coltraine and Carl Orff), so much so that he invented a whole language (Kobaian) that would add to the musicality/integrity of the compositions. It’s definitely not cup of tea music, but enormously rewarding if you give it the time to let customary ear-muffs dissolve. Mrs MR first heard it and wanted to kill it. Still does if I let it escape from any speakers hereabouts. Headphones are a Godsend. I feel the same about her Indigo Girls LPs 8)

but I’m just happy that stuff like that even exists.

🙂

Dammit! Reminded above:

Ozzy – Tribute to Randy Rhoads
Alice in Chains – Unplugged
Bruce Springsteen – Hammy O.

no question as above Ramones It’s Alive

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It’s Too Late To Stop Now – Van Morrison. Original release wins, but honourable mentions to vols 2,3&4.
Live at Leeds obviously.
Feelgoods Stupidity is also a favourite of mine.
Springsteens Hammersmith Odeon set is excellent, especially on vinyl, but there are better shows of his available thru Nugs imho. I’d have to go with Agora 78 but it’s a tough call. More recently The River show in Rome is also very special, along with the MetLife sets. If you want to talk about boots it gets a lot more difficult to narrow down………..

ramones for me too.

The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East

Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense. Didn’t realise that the film of the concert was directed by Jonathan Demme who also directed The Silece of the Lambs

Very much this, many of the live versions are better than the studio originals and definitely one of the best gig films available.

Also King Curtis & Aretha Franklin ‘live at Fillmore West’ has got to be up there

I wore out my copy of Woodstock in 1969.

Nina Simone in Concert

It feels alive in the room even now. Especially now. Breaks your heart and lifts your chin, should be played LOUD

Classic rock, AC/DC If You Want Blood.

Some crackers above – haven’t heard the UFO album for nearly 30 years!
Only live LPs i’m listening to these days are BeBop Deluxe, Live in the Air Age – brilliant – and Coaxed out of Oxford by Here and Now.

Hawkwind – Space Ritual

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhWArBhPWu0[/video]

Hawkwind – Space Ritual

Or Live Chronicles…..

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNlYyPEE6x8[/video]