10 Essential Live Albums
Submitted by JohnnyW on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:25
Tags:
- 1.Elvis Presley/The Legend Begins
- 2.Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins/The Million Dollar Quartet
- 3.Sam Cooke/Live at the Harlem Square Club
- 4.James Brown/Live at the Apollo
- 5.Bob Dylan/Live at Royal Albert Hall
- 6.Otis Redding/Live in Europe
- 7.Johnny Cash/Live at Folsom Prison
- 8.Suicide/23 Minutes over Belgium
- 9.Cheap Trick/Live at Budokan
- 10.Nirvana/MTV Unplugged
- On the Bubble: The Who/Live at Leeds, Aretha Franklin/Amazing Grace, Elvis Presley/Comeback Special, Michael W. Smith/The Live Set, 13th Floor Elevators/Live at the Avalon 1966
Author Comments:
These are ranked in chronological order, not by quality. Any of these albums are, in my opinion, equal to anything else these artists did. As time goes on, I hope to expand this list.
Great list, including that great Elvis CD you stole right from under my nose! I'll sue!
Great CDs, all of which I love except for the Suicide - I've never heard it, but considering that I am not a fan, I'm in no hurry to submit myself to whatever 'pleasures' it may hold.
One question: Where is Chicago's classic Live at Carnegie Hall, Vols. 1-4?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs (the world's greatest Chicago fan...and the tenth Dhali Lama)
23 Minutes over Belgium is a personal favourite if only because this disaster of a gig took place in Ancienne Belgique (AB, in short) a concert hall in Brussels that is still going strong today... I was much too young to have been able to be there at the time but I always think about it and can visualize the audience booing, screaming and pelting Alan and Martin with plastic cups of belgian beer anytime I attend a concert there...
Oh man, I can only imagine what it would have been like to be there. I wonder if being pelted with Belgian beer has a different effect than being pelted with, oh, German or British?
And one of my favorite parts of 23 Minutes is the cover of "96 Tears" which is completely unrecognizable from the original. Why even bother giving credit to the writers?
Johnny Waco
I guess there wouldn't be much difference with german beer but probably more with british brew.