Live albums you actually listen to

[Cal Alamein]

I take it that you and Cal Alamein have seen the film about the tour by Martin Scorcese on Netflix? Well worth it if you haven't

Yes - it was a good one.

Adding to Scorsese and rock films, I re-watched Last Waltz a couple years ago and it was a bit flat whereas I was very moved the first time I saw it.

[Bored Of Education]

How many great/popular artists are there who (have) never released a live album to die for (at least if you're a fan)? Perhaps The Beatles are the prime example. How about The Kinks?

Van Halen.
Abba (although pop has never really been the genre for live albums)
Adam and the Ants
Sex Pistols
The Damned

[Cal Alamein]

Van Halen.
Abba (although pop has never really been the genre for live albums)
Adam and the Ants
Sex Pistols
The Damned

The Damned - none of these were on their regular labels (Stiff, Chiswick, Bronze or MCA) but I bought them when they came out, in Tulsa and Albuquerque no less! We are not talking Live at Leeds, No Sleep til Hammersmith, but they are quite good.

[caja-dglh]

So, Pearl Jam finally released Unplugged today (not sure if it was a surprise - it was to me). It is probably the only form in which I would choose to listen to PJ nowadays - it is short and comes with a huge amount of memories. My wife heard it and noted that she can't listen to any of that scene anymore, which I get - Nirvana kind of got a lucky out through death while Pearl Jam are continuing to do something that some people apparently buy.

[RobW]

Was looking at a feature on The Quietus pages on 'There's No Place Like America Today', and got drawn into a rabbit hole, reading about Tjinder Singh praising 'Curtis Live', and this list of Quietus' writers favourite live albums https://thequietus.com/articles/11293-best-live-albums

[WOM]

Holy shit...a Quietus 'best of' with some names I actually recognize. And only a few Tibetan Oil-Drum Death Metal selections.

[Jon]

A great list.

[Bored Of Education]

Was looking at a feature on The Quietus pages on 'There's No Place Like America Today', and got drawn into a rabbit hole, reading about Tjinder Singh praising 'Curtis Live', and this list of Quietus' writers favourite live albums https://thequietus.com/articles/11293-best-live-albums

I think we had a thread about that at the time and, as is the way with these lists, they have left out a lot of good stuff that we have mentioned on here. Having said that, there are some interesting ones that I have been reminded that I must check out.

[Jobi1]

I do love live stuff, but feel I've rather got out of the habit of listening to live albums in recent times. Probably my most played ones of recent years are the Chemical Brothers' "Don't Think" and Kate Bush's "Before the Dawn" (from the 2014 run of shows at Hammersmith Apollo, which I was lucky enough to get to see). More recently, I really enjoyed Johnny Marr's "Comet Tripper".

I also quite like the fact that all of the above haven't been put on the big streaming service, so if you want to listen to them you have to actually buy them.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Crowded House - Farewell to the World
Neil Finn - Seven Worlds Collide
Rush - Exit Stage Left, A Show of Hands, In Rio
Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-e, Mystery White Boy
Anthrax - Caught in a Mosh (live at the BBC)