[Closed] Best live albums

+1 for Nirvana 'Unplugged in New York'.

Honourable mention for The Smiths, 'Rank'.

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Some of my favourites
Queen - Live at the rainbow 74
Ac/dc - if you want blood
John Mayer - where the light is
Stevie Ray Vaughan - live at Carnegie Hall
Rory Gallagher - Irish tour
Hendrix - band of gypsies

I'm going to stop there - could go on all day...

Loads of good ones already, I'll throw in ...

Zappa - Live at the Roxy, Make a Jazz Noise Here + dozens more.
Rainbow - On Stage.
Rory Gallagher - Stagestruck.
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes.
Miles Davis - Live Evil.

Kick out the jams - mc5

Not much can follow that, but these are good:

Janes addiction - James addiction
Space ritual - hawkwind
No sleep til hamersmith - Motörhead

And even

Live at Wembley - queen

Easy winner for me, Neil Young - Weld

a bit of history pre nobel prize

[url] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bootleg_Series_Vol._4:_Bob_Dylan_Live_1966,_The_%22Royal_Albert_Hall%22_Concert [/url]

Like a Rolling Stone - electric live - just love the bit 25 seconds in when Dylan turns to the Band and says "play it f'ing loud"

(sadly not the album but this is the track)

Queen - Live at Wembly 1986
S+M - Metallica and San Francisco symphony orchestra

Black and white night Roy Orbison, Stripped by Rolling Stones or even One more from the Road by Lynrd Skynrd

Humble Pie, Rockin the Fillmore
The Band, Last Waltz
Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus

I've recently rediscovered this...

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When they were a fantastic blues rock band, before the diabolical 80's hair-rock abomination

The Who live at Leeds, as has been mentioned. The Style Council Home and Abroad.

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Oh yeah White Stripes at Empress Ballrooms is also fantastic

another vote for hawkwinds space ritual
Lemmy and brock absolutely at their best just going for it

Helloween live in the UK
Iron maiden live after death
Pwei weirds bar and grill
Muse haarp

Pearl Jam - live at Benaroya Hall
Geoff Achison and the Souldiggers - Souldiggin' in the U.K.

Zappa - Live at the Roxy, Make a Jazz Noise Here + dozens more.

Oh and Free Live.

Jean-Jacques Goldman, En Public.
Slade Alive.

Both originals on worn vinyl of course.

There are more and more TV sets and concert recordings appearing on YouTube that are every bit as good if not better than the official live albums. This one for example:

Edit, you have to click the link to view as it's blocked when integrated. Or right click the link and open it in another window so you can run it while posting.

UFO, ACDC and Thin Lizzy as above, as I've always liked rock, and recently, Alison Moyets Minutes and Seconds,

Wheres The Dead maaaaaannn.

How could I have forgotten this?
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More live compilations as opposed to straight albums, but I love Chris Cornell's Songbook and John Butler's Tin Shed Tales. Two amazing artists stripped to voice and guitar.

Hanx - SLF
Live at theGrand Opera House - Van Morrisson
Kick starting a back firing nation - The neurotics

Also...

IAM - Retour aux pyramides

Black Sabbath Live evil, probably my favorite album
Deep Purple, Made in Japan

Wheres The Dead maaaaaannn.

(Not sure if serious)

The thing is, where do you start? A gazillion live albumns, each one with moments of genius. Unfortunately nearly all with moments of tedious free form indulgence.

Live dead is undeniably good and I like some of the ones around 71

Wish I'd seen them back when I was into that kind of thing

Dylan at Budokan
The Last Waltz
The Song Remains The Same

Rory Gallagher - Prefer "Irish Tour" to "Live in Europe" but it's a close run thing!

MC5 - The intro to Kick Out The Jams (i.e. before the music even starts) is pure adrenaline, love it.

Edit: there's a sacrilegious version floating around out there where they've bowldlerised track two to make him say 'Kick out the jams - brothers and sisters!' Heresy.

Band of Gypsies - Hendrix goes funk, might have been an indication of the direction he was going in, shame we never got to hear more.

Ten Years After - Undead.

I think 'I'm Going Home' from their Woodstock set was one of my favourite moments from the movie, at least on a par with Santana's Soul Sacrifice and Sly and the Family's 'Wanna Take You Higher'.

'Undead' is a sort of studio cum live set, in as much as it's all played live to a small audience, in the studio. Still awesome, my biggest musical regret is missing Alvin Lee in Edinburgh, because I only knew the band's name and not their lead guitarist 🙁

Thin Lizzie Live and dangerous- I saw them live during the tour it was recorded on
The Tubes -What do you want from Live? Actually not necessarily the best but the memories of the Summer of 1978 it invokes.....

On a completely different scale to most of what's been posted, for those who appreciate music that's been recorded by three people sat in a Wisconsin living room with a DAT recorder and a single stereo mic and the ability to sing well together and harmonise live, then RedBird is as good an album as you'll find. It's Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault and Peter Mulvey with David Goodrich producing and adding slide and mandolin, with Kris on fiddle.
It was recorded over three days, with seventeen songs, and you can hear crickets in the background, along with a municipal refuse truck, dogs barking, and at one point the local minister arriving at the door, and asking 'hey, what's going on here?', and Kris trying to stifle giggles while singing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbird_(Redbird_album)
Got it playing right now, and it's a joy to listen to.

MC5 - The intro to Kick Out The Jams (i.e. before the music even starts) is pure adrenaline, love it.

Edit: there's a sacrilegious version floating around out there where they've bowldlerised track two to make him say 'Kick out the jams - brothers and sisters!' Heresy.

After listening to the live version of Hell ain't a bad place to be over 30 years ago, it's another vote for If you want blood......
Gutted I missed seeing them when Bon was still alive.

Fleetwood Mac, live in Boston. Superb.

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Good choice numb.

"... you're dead!"

Townes Van Zandt Live at The Old Quarter.

Daft Punk - Alive, Mogwai - Special Moves, Portishead - Roseland NYC and for old times sake Still Little Fingers - Hanx.

The Band 'The Last Waltz', it's also the best concert movie of all time.

Has anyone mentioned Kick Out The Jams yet? Ah yes, I see that many have. Not by coincidence, that.

'RANK' for me too, because I was there at the Kilburn National. T'was a really great night.

Rolling Stones - Get yer Ya Ya's out.

Weld.
Prob already been mentioned, but there is no other live album I'll listen to.
Remember thinking the Monday's "Baby Big Head" was good when I first bought it, but not played it since.

Bad Brains live album

Has anyone mentioned Kick Out The Jams yet? Ah yes, I see that many have. Not by coincidence, that.

That reminds me - Alan Smith still has my Dead Kennedys video.... he's had it for maybe 25 yrs now. Think that there's a small chance I'll not see it back...