Best Live Albums

[Asimo]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle

[goldplatypus]

Winner:
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens (3cd version)


Honorable Mention:
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tales

[adamantium]

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

[drone]

if you like pearl jam, nothing beats the orgasmic number of really great sounding bootlegs they distribute themselves.

[Mukey]

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

[Repair Man]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle

I'm not a huge RHCP fan by any means, but Live at Slane Castle is pretty fucking badass. The DVD is also quite amazing.

[Pritz]

Hayden - Live at Convocation Hall, 2002

[-Dirby-]

Jason Mraz - Live at Java Joe's
Ben Folds - Limited Live Edition

[TheMOB]

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
The Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore East
James Brown - Live at the Apollo, 1962
The Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
The Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is the Talking Heads
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 "The Royal Albert Hall" Concert

[Aic]

Band of Gypsies anyone?

Good call on AB at the Fillmore too MOB.

For shits and stains, Pink Floyd - Ummagumma.

[schwaBAM]

MC5.. wow.

My dad used to play them for me growing up. Haven't heard that name in quite a long time! Makes me want to listen to "Kick out the jams"

[Griffith-]

Dispatch - All Points Bulletin
Dispatch - Gut the Van
O.A.R. - 34th & 8th
O.A.R. - Any Time Now

[RaisinBran]

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert
Yes - Yessongs
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Pink Floyd - P*U*L*S*E
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81
The Doors - Absolutely Live
The Doors - Backstage & Dangerous
Jimi Hendrix - Everything of his.


Honorable Mention: George Carlin (Simply because he consistently produces hilarious albums.)

[kno[x]]

Winner:
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens (3cd version)


Seconded. Only dislike is the way the tracks are edited together and the songs don't really transition all too smooth.

[_loche]

The Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

great choice

[Milosenpotion]

Good call on live at the apollo
PULSE is a million times better than Ummagumma

[Hellz-Angel01]

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick
Dave Matthews Band - Live in Chicago 12.19.98
and previously mentioned Slane castle is the shit.

[Frag]

Reel Big Fish - Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album

[Aic]

Good call on live at the apollo
PULSE is a million times better than Ummagumma

I don't know how I could forget PULSE but yes, it's great.

[Zogo]

AC/DC Live

they even put in live thunderstorms from some concert into "thunderstruck."

[ALieN]

Winner:
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens (3cd version)
yup. best live recording ever.

[phate]

pink floyd - pulse
talking heads - stop making sense (listen to this must be the place, and you'll understand)

[zion]

Janes Addiction - kettle whistle

[ricky]

i dont know about the best but i enjoy okonokos by my morning jacket alot more than their normal cds

[Phazex3375]

throwing copper

[Bp-2X]

Pantera - Live 101 Proof
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Lamb of God - Killadelphia

[GARGANTUAN]

Blink 182 - The Mark Tom and Travis show or w/e
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