LIVE ALBUMS

[GazzaBTFC]

Got the week off to sort through some stuff, get the house ship shape and well...re file my CD's...and that is when the problems start...You find those classics that were filed and piled and spend more time listening, re discovering and get nothing done.

 

There was a earlier link on this forum concerning live albums...my suggestion was The Who "Live At Leeds"...Still going with that one but have re discovered The Kinks "One For The Road" and boy does it rock. Top band, top tunes and a top performance.

 

Any thoughts on what is the definitive live album?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Don't know about "definitive", but certainly the best live album I own is Concert For Bangladesh.

 

And I'll get slated for mentioning Oasis no doubt, but Familiar To Millions is quality, if only for Liam's nonsensical rants between tracks!!

 

 

[Claire!]

Robbie Williams - Live at Knebworth!!!!!!!!!!!

 

However The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are meant to be agood one - Live at Hyde Park!!!!!!!!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

What I like about the above two albums (Bangladesh/Oasis), of course, is that they're 'as nature intended'

 

A healthy amount of crowd noise in the mix, rather than just recorded through the desk with crowd at a minimum, and a whole show, ie. not cut, copied and pasted from different shows, or enhanced.

 

This is where Wings Over America fails.

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Then, of course, you get a pile of rubbish like Robbie Wilson at Knebworth, which has been played about with after the event, re-mixed, instruments added, fully enhanced etc. and it's nothing like the concert itself.

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Well done, Claire.

 

You have 40-odd years worth of live rock'n'roll to choose from, and you pick two from the last 12 months.

 

Chili Peppers live?... four tanned millionaires going through the motions.

 

 

[Claire!]

I don't agree with you on that one, sorry. It is a fantastic live album!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Claire - that album was created in the studio. Fact.

 

 

[Claire!]

Edited in the studio. Recorded live.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Claire, do you have any concept of what actually makes a great live album?

 

The only reason you've suggested the Robbie one is a) because you fancy him, and because it's the only 'live' album you've ever heard.

 

 

[Claire!]

It's not the only live album i've ever heard!!!!!!!!

 

I suppose it mostly has something to do with personal taste.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Well, congratulations on once again bringing a decent thread down to the level of an 8-year old.

 

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[Claire!]

Zeal, i have done no such thing. For goodness sake, i am allowed to like any artist/band/group that i so like, whether you like them or not. I do not have to agree with you on every single thing, just because you have a wider knowledge of music than i do.

 

I am open to anyone's suggestion of good music. I do not mock it until i have listened to it, and if i do like it, i like it, if i don't i don't, but i always give it the benifit of the doubt.

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Claire, we're talking about classic live albums here.

 

I'm afraid Robbie Live At Knebworth doesn't come close, personal taste or no personal taste.

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Let me try and explain this in simple terms...

 

Say Gazza and I are having a chat about who's better out of Real Madrid and Inter Milan. Two of the very top sides in World Football.

 

Then you come along and say, "well I'm a St Albans City fan - they're great".

 

Well, both you and I know that St Albans City are in a totally different ballpark. It would be a joke to suggest they were on a par with Real or Inter.

 

However, St Albans are your personal taste, and of course you can like them whether we agree or not.

 

But don't insult Real or Inter by even mentioning them in the same breath.

 

Ditto Robbie Williams.

 

 

[CANV EFM]

hasnt he had a nervous breakdown yet n started doing freaky stuff?

[gertcha EFM]

Depeche Mode 101

[SteveP]

Radiohead - I might be wrong, great live effort.

 

[GHA EFM]

RATM - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium

The Boss - Live 1975 - 1985

Oasis - Familiar to Millions

[Laz]

Thin Lizzy - Can't remember what the album was called.