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This guy's video popped up in my YouTube feed, and he's got some pretty good picks...

 

Here is my top 10, along with some honorable mentions

Top 10 Live Albums:

1. Dokken - One Live Night / The guys had fun doing this, and it really comes out on this release
2. Warrant - 86-97 Live / Just a really good collection of live tracks from Jani and company that I've always loved
3. Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam / This one kicked off the acoustic craze
4. Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan / Excellent EP featuring Paul Dianno on vocals
5. Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute / Ozzy + Randy = Magic
6. Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City / Classic live album from Coverdale and crew
7. Danger Danger - Live and Nude / Amazing live album from the Paul Laine years!
8. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes / An all time classic
9. Queensryche - Operation: Livecrime / Operation: Mindcrime live with Geoff Tate firing on all cylinders
10. Van Halen - Live: Right Here, Right Now / Great collection of live VH tracks with Sammy on vox

Honorable Mentions (in no specific order):
Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
Brother Firetribe - Live at Apollo
Dokken - Beast From the East
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
Kiss - Alive!
Journey - Live in Houston
W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw
Krokus - Alive and Screamin’
Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice
Black Sabbath - Live Evil

 

What are your faves? :banger:

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First off I will say that I detest acoustic live albums 🤣🤣

So these would be my favs - for me live albums pretty much died after 1985 and all the real classics are from before that (with a few minor exceptions)

In no order (that would be impossible)

Journey - Captured

Journey - Live in Houston

Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous

Rainbow - On Stage

MSG - One Night at Budokan

Whitesnake - Live in the Heart

Iron Maiden - Live after Death

Motorhead - No Sleep til Hammersmith

Kiss - Alive 2

Queen - Live Killers

Marillion - Real to Reel

REO - Get What you Play For

AC / DC - If you Want Blood

HSAS - Through the Fire

Black Sabbath - Live Evil

 

(never rated Made in Japan, or Strangers in the Night 😒 )

 

After 85 :

D2 - Live n Nude

Threshold - Critical Live 

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Maiden - Live After Death
Scorps _ World Wide Live
Tesla - 5 Man
Kiss - Alive I, II & III
Kiss - MTV
Twisted Sister - Hammersmith
The Angels - Liveline
VH - Without A Net (not sure if this was a CD, only have the VHS)

all that comes to mind

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Some more great stuff mentioned; I probably should’ve included AC/DC - If You Want Blood…, and Kiss - MTV Unplugged in my honorable mentions, cuz I love both those as well. :banger: 

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Not particular order

ANGEL - Live Without a Net

Dokken -Beast in the East

Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City

H.E.A.T. - Live in London

 

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Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

Judas Priest - Priest...Live!

Kiss - Alive!

Kiss - Alive II!

Muse - Hullabaloo 

Ben Harper - Live from Mars

Faith No More - Live at Brixton Academy

The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

Alive In Chains - MTV Unplugged 

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Dokken - Beast from the East

Cheap Trick - At Budokan

Saga - In Transit

Tesla - Five Man Acoustic Jam

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Metallica - S&M

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15 hours ago, whiplash1972 said:

This guy's video popped up in my YouTube feed, and he's got some pretty good picks...

 

Here is my top 10, along with some honorable mentions

Top 10 Live Albums:

1. Dokken - One Live Night / The guys had fun doing this, and it really comes out on this release
2. Warrant - 86-97 Live / Just a really good collection of live tracks from Jani and company that I've always loved
3. Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam / This one kicked off the acoustic craze
4. Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan / Excellent EP featuring Paul Dianno on vocals
5. Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute / Ozzy + Randy = Magic
6. Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City / Classic live album from Coverdale and crew
7. Danger Danger - Live and Nude / Amazing live album from the Paul Laine years!
8. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes / An all time classic
9. Queensryche - Operation: Livecrime / Operation: Mindcrime live with Geoff Tate firing on all cylinders
10. Van Halen - Live: Right Here, Right Now / Great collection of live VH tracks with Sammy on vox

Honorable Mentions (in no specific order):
Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
Brother Firetribe - Live at Apollo
Dokken - Beast From the East
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
Kiss - Alive!
Journey - Live in Houston
W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw
Krokus - Alive and Screamin’
Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice
Black Sabbath - Live Evil

 

What are your faves? :banger:

Great topic

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I think my favourite would be, "W.AS.P. - Live...In the Raw"

"KISS - Alive III" is up there too.

I also love Dokken's "Beast from the East", "One Live Night" and "Live from the Sun".

"Alone Again" on all three of those albums is slightly different, but all three are Killer. I love all three.

Speaking of the W.A.S.P. album, does anyone know if there was ever a studio recording of "Harder Faster"?

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57 minutes ago, Darkstone said:

Speaking of the W.A.S.P. album, does anyone know if there was ever a studio recording of "Harder Faster"?

I don’t believe they ever did a studio version unfortunately; it’s on the 2 disc version of their Best of the Best compilation, and it’s still the live version from “In the Raw”. If they did, it’s remained well hidden out in the world. 

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23 hours ago, Doggy said:

Not particular order

ANGEL - Live Without a Net

Dokken -Beast in the East

Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City

H.E.A.T. - Live in London

 

I was at HEAT. 

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Cheap Trick - At Budokan

Saga - In Transit

MSG - One Night At Budokan

UFO - Strangers In The Night

Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed

Toto - 35th Anniversary: Live In Poland

Journey - Captured

Kim Mitchell - I Am a Wild Party

Max Webster - Live Magnetic Air

Rush - Exit Stage Left

Whitesnake - Live In The Heart Of The City

Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith

Kiss - Alive 1/2

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I think the only live albums I own are Tesla's Five Man Acoustical Jam and GTR's King Biscuit Flower Hour.

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I don't normally like live albums, but...

Rush - Grace Under Pressure Tour 1984

Amorphis - Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes

Dream Theater - Score

Helloween - Live in Sao Paulo

Metallica - Live in Seattle 1989 (not sure this counts or not)

Anathema - Universal

Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere

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Ooops, me bad.

Rush - All the World is A Stage

The Who - Live In Leeds

Savatage - Ghost In the Ruins

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  • 2 weeks later...

Tough one....in no particular order:

 

Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous

Queen, Live Killers

UFO, Strangers in the Night

KISS, Alive

Scorpions, Tokyo Tapes

Cheap Trick, At Budokan

Judas Priest, Unleashed in the East

Ted Nugent, Double Live Gonzo

Peter Frampton, Comes Alive

Grand Funk Railroad, Caught in the Act

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