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Thee Oh Sees playing 'The Dream' at Endless Daze 2017. OK so it's music entirely unsuited to the studio, as if the best live moments of MC5, Angus Young, Mark E Smith and Motörhead spawned a love-child and so The Gods provided him with not one but two drummers. Blistering:
Agree on all counts Saxon Rider.
This is going to be controversial so I'll likely ignore all the replies...
I find Ed Sheeran's albums quite bland, but his Glastonbury set some years ago was great. Just him, guitar, and loop pedals, all live, full of energy and emotion that the albums just don't have.
See. Thread killer.
I missed this thread first time round.
Joe Jackson's Got The Time for me. The original is good
possibly better than the Anthrax cover that I heard first (was over 20 years before I found out it was a cover!)
but the live version from the BBC's "Rock goes to college" is the better version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaAG2XmKUo
Not all live albums work, because it’s like trying to capture lightning in a bottle - it’s not just the quality of any given performance, it’s the energy, the audience reaction, and the power of a big PA. And also the interaction of the band with the audience, which can’t be understated. Kenickie are a great indie pop band, but live, they were also very funny, Lauren Laverne, even as a teenager, just had a totally natural and easy rapport with the audience, they were enormous fun!
Lizzy’s Live And Dangerous is possible one of the best live rock albums, although I understand it had a bit of post-production help, Talking Heads Stop Making Sense and The Band’s Last Waltz are possibly the best live albums. I saw Lizzy six or seven times, and Lynott with Grand Slam on their last tour, and it’s difficult to overstate just how good they were, and I’m not sure that Live And Dangerous entirely manages to capture that, but it’s close.