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Sunday, July 15, 2018

GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT!

Well this could start a row             (there's nobody there - ED)

Top Ten (+) Live Albums of All Time


  • Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (1984) 
  • Love: The Forever Changes Concert - Royal Festival Hal(2003) 

  • Bob Dylan & The Band - Before The Flood (1974) 

  • Ry Cooder - Showtime (1977)

  • Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now (1974)

  • The Who – Live at Leeds (1970)
  • Lou Reed - Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal (1975)

  • Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack (1970)
  • 1969: Velvet Underground Live Double (1974)

  • The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live at The Royal Albert Hall 1966 (1998)




bubbling under :

  • George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar et al  'The Concert for Bangladesh' (1971)
  • The Band - ‘The Last Waltz' (1978)
  • Professor Longhair - Live on the Queen Mary

  • Dr John - Such a Night!: Live in London (1984) 
  • The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! (1970)
  • Joni Mitchell, 'Miles of Aisles' (1974)
  • Roddy Frame - Live at The Blue Note, Osaka (2007)
  • John Cale - Sabotage/Live (IRS) December 1979
  • Eric Clapton, 'Just One Night' (1980)
  • John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season (Hannibal)1992; remastered 16 December 2016
  • The Beatles, 'Live at the BBC 1962-1965’ (1994)
  • 'June 1, 1974' -  Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico live
  • 801 Live - Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, with Lloyd Watson Francis Monkman, Bill MacCormick & Simon Phillips 
  • Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno et al - Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics (1974)



  • Several of the ‘MTV Unplugged’ series especially Bob Dylan (1994), 
  •     Eric Clapton (1992), 
  •    10,000 Maniacs (1993)



Oh here's a handy printable version so you can carry it with you and work up a lather and a froth in incandescent rage that your favourite has been left off . . . . Rust Never Sleeps?
(there's STILL nobody listening - ED)


Top Ten (20) Live Albums of All Time

  • Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (1984) *
  • Love: The Forever Changes Concert (2003*
  • Bob Dylan & The Band - Before The Flood (1974) *
  • Ry Cooder - Showtime (1977)*
  • Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now (1974)*
  • The Who – Live at Leeds (1970)
  • Lou Reed - Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal (1975)
  • Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack (1970)
  • 1969: Velvet Underground Live Double (1974)
  • The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live at The Royal Albert Hall 1966 (1998)*

  • bubbling under 
  • George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar et al  'The Concert for Bangladesh' (1971)
  • The Band - ‘The Last Waltz' (1978)*
  • Professor Longhair - Live on the Queen Mary
  • Dr John - Such a Night!: Live in London (1984) 
  • Joni Mitchell, 'Miles of Aisles' (1974)
  • The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! (1970)
  • Roddy Frame - Live at The Blue Note, Osaka (2007)
  • John Cale - Sabotage/Live (IRS) December 1979
  • Eric Clapton, 'Just One Night' (1980)
  • John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season (Hannibal)1992; remastered 16 December 2016
  • The Beatles, 'Live at the BBC 1962-1965’ (1994)
  • June 1, 1974 -  Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico
  • 801 Live - Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, with Lloyd Watson Francis Monkman, Bill MacCormick & Simon Phillips 
  • Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno et al - The Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics (1974)

  • Several of the ‘MTV Unplugged’ series especially Bob Dylan (1994)*, Eric Clapton (1992), 10,000 Maniacs (1993)


*indispensable 

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