10 Unessential Live Albums

Submitted by JohnnyW on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:25
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  • 1.MC5/Kick Out the Jams
  • 2.Elvis Presley/Live at Madison Square Garden
  • 3.Elvis Presley/Aloha from Hawaii
  • 4.Aerosmith/Live Bootleg
  • 5.Marvin Gaye/Live at the London Palladium
  • 6.Sarah MacLachlan/Mirror Ball
  • 7.Eric Clapton/MTV Unplugged
  • 8.Neil Young/MTV Unplugged
  • 9.Bob Dylan/MTV Unplugged
  • 10.The Eagles/Hell Freezes Over
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Chicago IV, Frampton Comes Alive, Any Grateful Dead live album: these targets are too easy. Also, its not a coincidence so many Unplugged albums by Baby Boomer artists are on this list; they are almost uniformly lackluster.

lbangs07/20/2000

For the most part, I feel your disdain for Unplugged albums; however, I must speak up and say that I believe Neil Young's Unplugged is great. Perhaps it isn't quite the revelation Nirvana's was, but a fine solid collection that stands as Young's greatest live acoustic album and maybe the second best Unplugged album ever. Hardly inessential or lacklaster, my friend.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

jblack03/23/2001

I really liked Live Bootleg from Aerosmith. What did you find wrong with it my brother?