Man that was a great list!!! I wouldn’t mind checking out some of these albums. Here’s my top 8 Live album list (forgive the “folk” format): #1. Alchemy - Dire Straits #2. Sunday Concert - Gordon Lightfoot #3. Unplugged - Eric Clapton #4. Nirvana from the Muddy Banks of Wishkah #5. Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert - various artists #6. Simon and Garfunkel - Concert In Central Park #7. A Tribute to Woody Guthrie - various artists- Highlights from Concerts at Carnegie Hall 1968 and Hollywood Bowl 1970 #8. The Final Tour - Jim Croce
I realize Im alone here, but I absolutely love Whos Last from their '82 tour. I really appreciate your channel and Long Live Pete, Roger, Mick,Keith and all the rest!!! Also, youre wearing the hat I got at Denvers Mile High Stadium Voodoo Lounge tour 1994!
You’re never totally alone. I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as critics say. It’s still got great Entwistle which is sorely lacking ever since. It’s just that Kenney Jones doesn’t get that much respect including from Daltrey. I thought he did a good job but he was a timekeeper and opposite Moons style. Also The Who we’re amazing on their 1979 tour with Jones. Just not as good in 1982. I have the laserdisc Who Rocks America. They were fine. Much better by the way than the 1989 big band show. So hold your ground. I’m with you. There’s a lot worse out there. By the way right now I’m listening to live Dylan from 1978 and critics hate it. The Budokan tour era. It’s fucking great. Lol. Thanks so much
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow maybe it was that time in my life too. Wore it out on my Walkman! Really good knowing there's people like you with the same appreciation in good music. The Who and the Stones will forever facinate and exhilarate me. Btw, went to Dylan's museum in Deluth Minnesota several years ago, endless and timeless! I've pampered my VHS copy of The Who Rocks America since I bought it new in 84 or 85!
1. Allman brothers. At Fillmore 2 Deep purple. Made in Japan 3 Stones. El Mocambo 4 Led Zep How the west was won 5 Neil Young. Live Rust 6 Bob Seger. Nine tonight 7 Frampton. Comes alive 8 Chicago. Carnegie hall 9 grand funk. Live album 10. Foghat. Live
Thanks so much for your support and amazing commenting. I really appreciate it so much. I’ll certainly continue to try to come up with some interesting videos. Thanks so much again.
The Stones two gigs in Brussels on October 17, 1973 just kills thanks to Mick Taylor. An official release is in the Super deluxe box of GHS. The Who but out view from a Back Stage Pass a great double live CD set. I agree with your choices they’re all great . I enjoy TCFB on DVD. Love this channel. Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks so much - really. Stones Brussels is amazing. I love the official release (I have it in the GHS super deluxe), plus when they downloaded it officially years before, I burned a copy and then bought a "pirate" version of that. But I had the bootleg years before and the bootleg version is different - they're both amazing. Prime Stones. GHS is a special album to me - the first Stones album I bought with my own money the day it came out - I was ten. It was my third Stones album after Sticky Fingers and Hot Rocks. Any live GHS is special to me, and for me no beating Mick Taylor. Thanks again as always for all your support. So happy you enjoy my little channel. Truly brings a smile to my face. Happy Thanksgiving. Very best, Alan
Finally encountered this video. I don't listen to a lot of live albums anymore, but I still love Live at Leeds (the single CD version is THE ONE I agree), Frampton, and my all-time favorite Supertramp Paris. At this point I like to listen to Genesis Live rather than Seconds Out, just for the rawness of it. But Seconds Out is indeed an all-timer. One worth mentioning is It Bites - Thank You and Goodnight. They have a big 80s sound that might not appeal, but they're very tuneful and witty, which helps. They're also highly accomplished. And just about every track is not an attempt at recreating the studio version. On the contrary, they cut and add new complex bits that make it a must-have for a fan. I'm now going to listen to Renaissance at Carnegie for the first time! Thanks.
Thanks so much. I hope you enjoy Renaissance live at Carnegie Hall. I still listen to it regularly. And a perfect mix of rock with a symphony orchestra. I once bought an It bites studio album. Had a great cover. Don’t remember which one. I thought was just ok and didn’t keep it. But I know they’re pretty well respected for modern day neo-prog.
Loved that Alan, have most of them so no argument. Had my Live Dates 8 track stolen from my Dad’s Buick Special in high school. I was bummed. Rock N Roll Animal by Lou Reed and Europe 72 never get old for me. A sleeper is Lambchop Live at Merge. Check the video on that one. Thanks Bud!
Excellent review Alan. Can I add Velvet Underground Live 69...a ripping album. Also album of the year 1972 in Australia was Slade Alive. A mighty effort given the gamechangers of '72. Give them a try they ROCK. From left field, give Dr Feelgood's As it Happens a listen, great English pub rock, you can taste the sweat.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I really like the Velvets live album. And I prefer the one you mentioned over the Max’s Kansas City live album. I also love Dr Feelgood’s Malpractice. But not familiar with the one you mentioned. Have to check that out. I never got any Slade though I know that album is considered a classic in many parts. Will have to check them out for sure. Thanks again
Can't wait for "Best Live Albums Vol.2." I have all but four of these. Bangladesh was one of my first Albums in '74. Love The Who Live at Leeds especially the expanded version #2. I saw the Wings Over America tour in '76 at the Kingdome where they filmed part of the movie. Also saw Peter Frampton in '76 and '77 in support of Frampton Comes Alive. Also at The Ritz in NYC in the late '90s. He played the album from start to finish from what I remember. Bob Mayo on keyboards. I'm a big Paul Simon fan and I happen to meet him about 20 years ago at an airport terminal I was working at. Extremely nice guy, he answered all my questions and he even signed a copy of his boarding pass for me. The only thing that was odd was he never made eye contact with me. He is a bit short so I always wondered if that was it. I guess I'll never know. Still love Get Your Ya Ya's Out but I played it to Death since it was the only non- bootleg recoding I had till the record splat bootlegs of the '75 tour. First time I saw them. Changed my life. Keep Rollin' Man, Rust Never Sleeps!
Some great albums. #1 Frampton Comes Alive ! And one of my favorites is Cheap Trick at Budokan. I don’t know if you like Jazz, but check out Eric Dolphy Live at the Five Spot Vol 1. Fire Waltz !
Thanks for watching and commenting. Classic Cheap Trick album for sure. I don’t know the Eric Dolphy album but I’ll be on the lookout for it. I buy albums constantly. Thanks for the tip.
Have to say, the deluxe version of Get Ya-Ya's Out is a money grab. They should have not only combine 1st and 2nd CD into one, but play the songs in the correct order as played at the concert. The Stones concerts in 1969 were about 75 minutes long. Therefore the complete concert, with the songs in the correct order, could fit on one CD. One thing I read is when Mick says "Charlie is good tonight", the comment is made before they play Satisfaction, not Honky Tonk Women. But I really like when the woman in the audience yells "paint it black, paint it black you devil' and the Stones start playing Sympathy for the Devil. That is great moment on the album.
I hear you. The price though wasn’t terrible. Packaging and booklet is nice. The opening acts cd is good. They could have combined their set as you said but they wanted to keep the original album as was because such a classiic. But I agree with you. Could have the deluxe with different order and also the classic original as well. In general The Stones deluxe stuff is lacking compared to the other biggies like Beatles and Who.
Like you Alan, I love live albums too. When I'm exploring a new band, their highest rated live album is often where I start unless there is a really obvious studio album to try. They also frustrate me for what isn't there, either on albums released or live recordings that need to be released officially. When I get to my (long) list, you'll see that I rate Seconds Out by Genesis extremely highly, but it could have been so much better. As it brings together songs from mainly 1977 plus something from 1976, I want the deluxe version with the other songs recorded at those concerts. It seems crazy to me to release an album from the Wind and Wuthering tour and not feature Eleventh Earl of Marr and One For The Vine in particular. Sadly, they never performed Blood On The Rooftops live. Then there is the issue that Steve Hackett seems to low down in the mix. Talking of Genesis, where's the deluxe version of Genesis Live with Supper's Ready restored to the set list? I can understand leaving it off when they wanted a 40 odd minute vinyl album, but there's plenty of room on the CD and with Peter Gabriel's stories added back. I'm frustrated that we don't have an official album from The Who for any concerts between 1973 (post Quadrophenia) though to 1976. We've seen the odd track released on compilations, so we know the recordings exist. I love Roxy Music in their art rock phase, but Viva, their first live album is compiled from recordings from three years and it's too dominated by one of the early Roxy songs that I'm not keen on, The Bogus Man. Only in the last few years have we seen Bruce Springsteen get his act together and release a few recordings from his prime period, from Born To Run to The River. We've already talked about our difference of opinion on occasion based live albums, like Woodstock, The Last Waltz etc. You can add in Live Aid too, I'd have loved to have been at each of these, but I prefer focusing on one artist, rather than jumping between them. You'll see that some of your favourites feature very highly in my listing based on plays. Lucky you're to have been at the Live Rust concert.
I was going to give you a list of all the live albums that lie in my top 500 most played albums, but there were about 90 albums tied for the number of plays that went from about 480 to 570, so I thought I'd share my top 50 (ish) and then pick out the albums by bands who haven't already featured. It didn't lose as many albums as I expected, so the list is still long. I've also refined my sorting sequence so that when albums are tied on total plays, I give preference to those from 2023 first and then 2022.
1 Live At The BBC - Jess Roden 2 It's Too Late To Stop Now - Van Morrison 3 Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy 4 Blowin' - Jess Roden 5 1978/09/19 Passaic, New Jersey - Bruce Springsteen 6 Wings Over America - Wings 7 Live At Leeds - The Who 8 Seconds Out - Genesis 9 Live Nassau Coliseum 1976 - David Bowie 10 Brussels Affair - The Rolling Stones 11 Live Rust - Neil Young 12 Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 - Bruce Springsteen 13 Stupidity - Dr Feelgood 14 Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith - Steve Hackett 15 Live! In The Air Age - Be Bop Deluxe 16 Live Rails - Steve Hackett 17 Live In Paris - Supertramp 18 Two Letter Words: Live 1994 - Richard Thompson 19 Strange Behaviour - Karnataka 20 Rearview Mirror - Jim Hunter 21 Cate Brothers Live - Cate Brothers 22 Genesis Live - Genesis 23 Strangers In The Night - UFO 24 Live In Chicago - Luther Allison 25 At Budokan - Bob Dylan 26 Everybody's Talkin' - Tedeschi Trucks Band 27 Mad Dogs & Englishmen - Joe Cocker 28 World Tour 1976 - Climax Blues Band 29 Golden Earring Live - Golden Earring 30 Live Dates - Wishbone Ash 31 Flying Free Tour Live - When Rivers Meet 32 Live In New Orleans - Maze 33 Muddy “Mississippi “ Waters Live - Muddy Waters 34 Where Have You Been? Live In Montreux 1976-1994 - Luther Allison 35 The Blues To The Bush - The Who 36 The Live Anthology - Tom Petty 37 Live Dates 2 - Wishbone Ash 38 Live Sadlers Wells 2000 - Pete Townshend 39 Irish Tour - Rory Gallagher 40 Live Bullet - Bob Seger 41 Live In Concert at Metropolis Studios - Bill Nelson 42 The Last Great Traffic Jam - Traffic 43 Live In Dublin - Bruce Springsteen 44 Live At The Harlem Square - Sam Cooke 45 New Live Dates: The Complete Set - Martin Turner 46 Live In London - Randy Newman - Randy Newman 47 Roxy Music Live - Roxy Music 48 Live In London - Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen 49 The Bootleg Series Vol 5 Live 1975 - Bob Dylan 50 Welcome To The Club - Ian Hunter 51 Live Tapes - Barclay James Harvest 52 Yessongs - Yes 54 Live From The Moody Theater - Warren Haynes 55 Live At The Glasgow Barrowlands - Deacon Blue 56 In The Flesh - Roger Waters
Here are the others that lie around about my top 500 albums: 57 Live At Monteray - Jimi Hendrix 58 Waiting For Columbus - Little Feat 59 Live At The Hollywood Bowl - Jeff Beck 60 A Night At Red Rocks Complete - The Moody Blues 61 Live At The Blue Note - Duke Ellington 62 Meet The Flower Kings - Flower Kings 63 To Terrapin, Hartford Ct 1977 - The Grateful Dead 64 Stand In The Fire - Warren Zevon 65 Boston (Peter Green) - Fleetwood Mac 67 Soul of a Man - Al Kooper 68 Live From Loreley - Marillion 69 For Peace Comes Dropping Slow - Jackie Leven 70 Rock of Ages - The Band 72 The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads - Talking Heads 75 Live And Burning - Son Seals 76 Night After Night - Nils Lofgren 77 Live At The Regal - BB King 78 Live 1976-1998 - Rod Stewart 79 Tour de Force - Gil Scott-Heron 80 Mingus At Antibes - Charles Mingus 83 Live Chicago 1987 - Joe Ely 84 Alchemy - Dire Straits 85 All Your Love I Miss Loving - Live At The Wise Fools Pub - Otis Rush 86 Wembley or Bust - Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra 87 The Gettysburg Address - Moon Safari 90 The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys - The Waterboys 91 Quo Live! - Status Quo 92 That Night In Leamington - Mostly Autumn 93 On Your Feet or On Your Knees - Blue Oyster Cult 94 Beware of the Dog - Hound Dog Taylor 95 Blow Your Face Out - J Geils Band 96 Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Joan Armatrading) - Joan Armatrading 97 Screens: Live in London - Panic Room 98 Live In America - John Renbourn Group 99 Live in San Diego - Eric Clapton 100 A Live Record - Camel 101 Alive In America - Steely Dan 102 Essential Montreux - Gary Moore 104 70th Birthday Concert - John Mayall 106 Live From Austin Tx (Susan Tedeschi) - Susan Tedeschi 107 Live In Athens 1987 (So 25th Anniversary) - Peter Gabriel 109 Made In Europe - Deep Purple 110 Live 1986 - Home Service 111 Live On The Sunset Strip - Otis Redding 113 Roadsongs - Derek Trucks Band 115 Live at the Point - Magenta 117 Live In Concert - Sad Cafe 118 Tokyo... Live - Al Green 119 Blues at Sunrise - Albert King 121 Live at Power Station - Vanessa Collier
I agree the Genesis live albums, are great, but could be better. The Genesis Live remaster in the live box, was strange - they added live Lamb material, when they already gave us a Lamb live concert in the Archive 1 Box. And the Archive 2 Box has some great live material, but its a mishmash. Still great stuff though.
Your lists are amazing and really comprehensive. Like you I own literally hundreds of live albums. My two videos only show my top 44. So interesting and cool that of my top six (Frampton, Stones Ya Yas, Simon & Garfunkel Central Park, Bowie's David Live) only the Who's Live at Leeds and Yessongs are the only appearances on your list. Nice to see Dylan's Budokan - perhaps we are the only two fans of that album. Great to see Karnataka's Strange Behavour - I love that album! Stupidy is also amazing of course. I have to get that Golden Earring live album - time to dig into them. Big fan of the Waterboys live one - someone once told me it was unauthorized, but I really like it (The Pan Within/Because The Night is beyond incredible on it). Nice to see Magenta and of course Mostly Autumn who are a personal favorite - their live collection "The Story of Us"...was my gateway into their music and one of my all time faves. Thanks as always for sharing your incredible colllection and rankings.
As a lifelong Allman Brothers fan (who owns and knows every one of their albums, and listens to them), I definitely hear you. It's no surprise it makes most lists of the greatest live albums ever...after all it was their first commercial hit album and their popularity deservedly jumped way up. I love the album. But here's why it didn't make this particular list (as well as the 2 CD The Fillmore Concerts). My list comprises what I actually listen to the most IN IT"S ENTIRETY. For the majority of people, including big Allman's fans...you typically have to be in the mood to hear 23 minutes of Whipping Post and 20 minutes of You Don't Love Me. Alright, I can listen to 13 minutes of Elizabeth Reed at any time. And when I talk to "big" fans and I ask that question after they tell me I'm wrong and this album should be #1 etc...and I ask when was the last time you listened to the whole album and how often do you listen to the whole album....well then they get my point and how I rank. So there's my explanation. Maybe you listen to the whole album all the time...then no argument. But boy do I have to be in the mood to hear 35 minutes of Mountain Jam.. I don't have that issue with any of the other albums in my ranking. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
I so have to check Golden Earring out. I know Twilight Zone and Radar Love, which I like but not a huge fan of. But I know they have a massive discography, and apparently I'm missing out on some great music. Thanks for the recommendation and thanks for watching.
I've always wondered why all these stale FM classic rock stations don't substitute live versions for overplayed studio tracks - at least once in awhile.
Absolutely. My cars are old and all have CD players, thankfully, so I virtually never hear radio now, except for short distances. I don't have satellite radio and I have approx. 5000 CD's, so I'll never pay for radio to pretty much hear the same boring playlists. Terrestrial radio has been so sad for decades now. Love when the DJ's are excited about a new album, let's say Springsteen or the Stones or Dylan...whoever and they briefly talk about it and then they'll say - so lets play some Springsteen (or whoever) and they play "Born To Run". excruciating to me. I don't know how a DJ can do it, assuming they like music....
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Not up to the DJs the great majority of the time, as I'm sure you know. They have their orders not to play newer music by their core artists, unfortunately. SiriusXM has a channel called Deep Tracks, and they've turned me on to quite a few worthy tracks that had slipped thru the cracks over the years. BTW, I'm a late-blooming Wishbone Ash fan, too. They were inexplicably absent from radio bitd - even from the free-form stations.
@@AnthonyStJames Once a year Sirius gives me a free week on my car to listen. There are many cool stations - especially the individual artist stations. Amazing to me they didn't have a Rolling Stones station. I did listen for that week a bit to Deep Tracks and I think there was Classic Vinyl, but I still heard Hotel California and Stairway...I couldn't believe it. Yes, on terrestrial radio, clearly the DJ's can't pick the songs. What I meant was, it must be hard for the DJ's, again assuming they love the music, since they must since they had the passion to do the job. It must be so hard to be in the studio and have to listen to the same tracks over and over again. I'd go crazy. I can't imagine if for example I loved the new "Springsteen" album and I'm talking about it and then have to announce lets' play some Springsteen and it's Born To Run....uhhhh, I'd go nuts....But I remember FM radio in the 70's and they would play the new releases, in fact certain stations would debut the new albums and play the whole thing once. Different times. Some how I still think there must be a market for a radio station that would play new releases by classic artists, but I guess that's on Sirius. Oh well - thanks again and sorry for my rambling on.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow That's okay...it's what we do. LOL ...I was a Tull fan (having bought Aqualung already) when Thick...Brick came out, but my introduction to it was Bob Lewis on WNEW-FM playing side one in its entirety! Needless to say, I was floored.
I love it and it's a classic for sure. I literally have and love 100's of live albums - for me not at the very top, but it's a great one for sure. My first Skynyrd album actually.
I have seen The Stones live and Frampton live twice and once with Humble Pie. Frampton is great but doesn’t come close to the Stones. Live versions of Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil alone make it #1 not too mention the other the great definitive versions of classics.
Ya Ya's is my #2 of all time. I actually did a video on why Frampton Comes Alive is the greatest live album of all time. But hey #1 - #2 - out of thousands of live albums - still pretty impressive. Stones are my all time favorite band by far.
I disagree, there are many forgotten rock memorabilia from the 70s-80s: Jethro Tull Bursting Out - Deep Purple Made In Japan Whitesnake- Led Zeppelin - Marillion The Thieving Magpie - Real To Reel etc etc.
Hi Pierre. Thanks for watching and commenting. I’m not sure I understand your comment. I totally agree there are tons of great live albums. I love and own literally hundreds of them. Including both of your Marillions, purple, white snake and many more. For my top top can’t include everything. Thanks for watching.
What you mention here about Live at Leeds and how it is so radically different from the Tommy album etc and how you prefer the version of Live at Leeds without the Tommy material on it etc is nonsensical because Live at Leeds WAS the tour in support of the Tommy album, the Tommy tour basically. To hear the ENTIRE performance from Leeds University with the full performance of the Tommy material is essential to fully appreciate where The Who were as a creative ensemble at that point in time. I couldn’t disagree with you more in what you say about preferring Live at Leeds without the second disc. The problem with Live at Leeds is that it should have been at least a double or even triple album to begin with and should have included the Tommy material as well from its initial release to give Who fans a more complete picture of the actual Who live concert at that time.
You're 100% correct. I think you minunderstood what I was saying...for me. By the time they re-re-rereleased Live At Leeds again, this time with the complete Tommy on Disc 2, I've already gotten so many Live Tommy concerts. Including the 1970 Isle Of Wight Tommy performance. For me, I have enough. Is the Live At Leeds performance fantastic, yes, classic performance, yes, at that time in history, yes (but so is Isle Of Wight), do I ever listen to that 2nd Live at Leeds Tommy disc....no. That's what I was saying. Thanks for watching and commenting. I'm Tommy'd out.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Fair enough. That makes sense actually because even when I've AB'd Leeds and Hull, or Leeds/Hull/Wight you're correct, too much Tommy. I guess what I was getting at is the fact that casual Who fans know Live at Leeds, they don't necessarily know Hull or even the Isle of Wight performance nearly as well. This is why Leeds should have included the Tommy material from day one.
@@vbassone Yes, you're right. I've should have explained better. If a newbie to The Who never heard live Tommy, then the deluxe Live At Leeds is amazing and the go to. For me, with Hull and Isle of Wight and so many other later day performances, it's nice to have, but I never listen to it. Thanks so much again for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow BTW, you must have bought all those Tull box sets you have immediately, or not long after they were released because they are expensive and hard to come by now. Yes?
@@vbassone yes. Their great box sets. I love them. Apparently some go for a fortune now. I kick myself for not getting the thick as a brick box. It’s the only one I’m missing and not gonna pay crazy money for it. Thanks again.
What a great list! Really appreciate your knowledge, insights, anecdotes and enthusiasm.
Man that was a great list!!! I wouldn’t mind checking out some of these albums. Here’s my top 8 Live album list (forgive the “folk” format):
#1. Alchemy - Dire Straits
#2. Sunday Concert - Gordon Lightfoot
#3. Unplugged - Eric Clapton
#4. Nirvana from the Muddy Banks of Wishkah
#5. Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert - various artists
#6. Simon and Garfunkel - Concert In Central Park
#7. A Tribute to Woody Guthrie - various artists- Highlights from Concerts at Carnegie Hall 1968 and Hollywood Bowl 1970
#8. The Final Tour - Jim Croce
Thanks so much. I’ve never heard the Lightfoot or Croce albums and I’m a fan of theirs. Will have to check them out. Thanks again.
Seconds out and Renaissance means instant subscribe. Great job!
thanks so much! - Really appreciate it.
I realize Im alone here, but I absolutely love Whos Last from their '82 tour. I really appreciate your channel and Long Live Pete, Roger, Mick,Keith and all the rest!!! Also, youre wearing the hat I got at Denvers Mile High Stadium Voodoo Lounge tour 1994!
You’re never totally alone. I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as critics say. It’s still got great Entwistle which is sorely lacking ever since. It’s just that Kenney Jones doesn’t get that much respect including from Daltrey. I thought he did a good job but he was a timekeeper and opposite Moons style. Also The Who we’re amazing on their 1979 tour with Jones. Just not as good in 1982. I have the laserdisc Who Rocks America. They were fine. Much better by the way than the 1989 big band show. So hold your ground. I’m with you. There’s a lot worse out there. By the way right now I’m listening to live Dylan from 1978 and critics hate it. The Budokan tour era. It’s fucking great. Lol. Thanks so much
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow maybe it was that time in my life too. Wore it out on my Walkman! Really good knowing there's people like you with the same appreciation in good music. The Who and the Stones will forever facinate and exhilarate me. Btw, went to Dylan's museum in Deluth Minnesota several years ago, endless and timeless! I've pampered my VHS copy of The Who Rocks America since I bought it new in 84 or 85!
Nice have the original VHS - goes together with Who's Last. Thanks for your comments.
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1. Allman brothers. At Fillmore
2 Deep purple. Made in Japan
3 Stones. El Mocambo
4 Led Zep How the west was won
5 Neil Young. Live Rust
6 Bob Seger. Nine tonight
7 Frampton. Comes alive
8 Chicago. Carnegie hall
9 grand funk. Live album
10. Foghat. Live
All great choices. I own and really like all of your picks. Thanks for watching and commenting. El Mocambo #3. Even better than Ya Yas. Wow.
you are a great channel Alan , I have subbed to you now , hopefully more bangers like this coming up ;)
Thanks so much for your support and amazing commenting. I really appreciate it so much. I’ll certainly continue to try to come up with some interesting videos. Thanks so much again.
The Stones two gigs in Brussels on October 17, 1973 just kills thanks to Mick Taylor. An official release is in the Super deluxe box of GHS. The Who but out view from a Back Stage Pass a great double live CD set. I agree with your choices they’re all great . I enjoy TCFB on DVD. Love this channel. Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks so much - really. Stones Brussels is amazing. I love the official release (I have it in the GHS super deluxe), plus when they downloaded it officially years before, I burned a copy and then bought a "pirate" version of that. But I had the bootleg years before and the bootleg version is different - they're both amazing. Prime Stones. GHS is a special album to me - the first Stones album I bought with my own money the day it came out - I was ten. It was my third Stones album after Sticky Fingers and Hot Rocks. Any live GHS is special to me, and for me no beating Mick Taylor. Thanks again as always for all your support. So happy you enjoy my little channel. Truly brings a smile to my face. Happy Thanksgiving. Very best, Alan
Finally encountered this video. I don't listen to a lot of live albums anymore, but I still love Live at Leeds (the single CD version is THE ONE I agree), Frampton, and my all-time favorite Supertramp Paris. At this point I like to listen to Genesis Live rather than Seconds Out, just for the rawness of it. But Seconds Out is indeed an all-timer.
One worth mentioning is It Bites - Thank You and Goodnight. They have a big 80s sound that might not appeal, but they're very tuneful and witty, which helps. They're also highly accomplished. And just about every track is not an attempt at recreating the studio version. On the contrary, they cut and add new complex bits that make it a must-have for a fan.
I'm now going to listen to Renaissance at Carnegie for the first time! Thanks.
Thanks so much. I hope you enjoy Renaissance live at Carnegie Hall. I still listen to it regularly. And a perfect mix of rock with a symphony orchestra. I once bought an It bites studio album. Had a great cover. Don’t remember which one. I thought was just ok and didn’t keep it. But I know they’re pretty well respected for modern day neo-prog.
Loved that Alan, have most of them so no argument. Had my Live Dates 8 track stolen from my Dad’s Buick Special in high school. I was bummed. Rock N Roll Animal by Lou Reed and Europe 72 never get old for me. A sleeper is Lambchop Live at Merge. Check the video on that one. Thanks Bud!
Forgot to mention Allmans at Fillmore as one of your commenters rightly mentioned.
@@casablanca2745 an all time classic and favorite. In my favorite live albums part 2. Thanks again
Excellent review Alan. Can I add Velvet Underground Live 69...a ripping album. Also album of the year 1972 in Australia was Slade Alive. A mighty effort given the gamechangers of '72. Give them a try they ROCK. From left field, give Dr Feelgood's As it Happens a listen, great English pub rock, you can taste the sweat.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I really like the Velvets live album. And I prefer the one you mentioned over the Max’s Kansas City live album. I also love Dr Feelgood’s Malpractice. But not familiar with the one you mentioned. Have to check that out. I never got any Slade though I know that album is considered a classic in many parts. Will have to check them out for sure. Thanks again
Can't wait for "Best Live Albums Vol.2." I have all but four of these. Bangladesh was one of my first Albums in '74. Love The Who Live at Leeds especially the expanded version #2. I saw the Wings Over America tour in '76 at the Kingdome where they filmed part of the movie. Also saw Peter Frampton in '76 and '77 in support of Frampton Comes Alive. Also at The Ritz in NYC in the late '90s. He played the album from start to finish from what I remember. Bob Mayo on keyboards. I'm a big Paul Simon fan and I happen to meet him about 20 years ago at an airport terminal I was working at. Extremely nice guy, he answered all my questions and he even signed a copy of his boarding pass for me. The only thing that was odd was he never made eye contact with me. He is a bit short so I always wondered if that was it. I guess I'll never know. Still love Get Your Ya Ya's Out but I played it to Death since it was the only non- bootleg recoding I had till the record splat bootlegs of the '75 tour. First time I saw them. Changed my life. Keep Rollin' Man, Rust Never Sleeps!
As always. Thanks so much for your comments and support. Love that Paul Simon story. Lol. Enjoy the holiday weekend.
Some great albums. #1 Frampton Comes Alive ! And one of my favorites is Cheap Trick at Budokan. I don’t know if you like Jazz, but check out Eric Dolphy Live at the Five Spot Vol 1. Fire Waltz !
Thanks for watching and commenting. Classic Cheap Trick album for sure. I don’t know the Eric Dolphy album but I’ll be on the lookout for it. I buy albums constantly. Thanks for the tip.
Have to say, the deluxe version of Get Ya-Ya's Out is a money grab. They should have not only combine 1st and 2nd CD into one, but play the songs in the correct order as played at the concert. The Stones concerts in 1969 were about 75 minutes long. Therefore the complete concert, with the songs in the correct order, could fit on one CD. One thing I read is when Mick says "Charlie is good tonight", the comment is made before they play Satisfaction, not Honky Tonk Women. But I really like when the woman in the audience yells "paint it black, paint it black you devil' and the Stones start playing Sympathy for the Devil. That is great moment on the album.
I hear you. The price though wasn’t terrible. Packaging and booklet is nice. The opening acts cd is good. They could have combined their set as you said but they wanted to keep the original album as was because such a classiic. But I agree with you. Could have the deluxe with different order and also the classic original as well. In general The Stones deluxe stuff is lacking compared to the other biggies like Beatles and Who.
Like you Alan, I love live albums too. When I'm exploring a new band, their highest rated live album is often where I start unless there is a really obvious studio album to try.
They also frustrate me for what isn't there, either on albums released or live recordings that need to be released officially.
When I get to my (long) list, you'll see that I rate Seconds Out by Genesis extremely highly, but it could have been so much better. As it brings together songs from mainly 1977 plus something from 1976, I want the deluxe version with the other songs recorded at those concerts. It seems crazy to me to release an album from the Wind and Wuthering tour and not feature Eleventh Earl of Marr and One For The Vine in particular. Sadly, they never performed Blood On The Rooftops live. Then there is the issue that Steve Hackett seems to low down in the mix.
Talking of Genesis, where's the deluxe version of Genesis Live with Supper's Ready restored to the set list? I can understand leaving it off when they wanted a 40 odd minute vinyl album, but there's plenty of room on the CD and with Peter Gabriel's stories added back.
I'm frustrated that we don't have an official album from The Who for any concerts between 1973 (post Quadrophenia) though to 1976. We've seen the odd track released on compilations, so we know the recordings exist.
I love Roxy Music in their art rock phase, but Viva, their first live album is compiled from recordings from three years and it's too dominated by one of the early Roxy songs that I'm not keen on, The Bogus Man.
Only in the last few years have we seen Bruce Springsteen get his act together and release a few recordings from his prime period, from Born To Run to The River.
We've already talked about our difference of opinion on occasion based live albums, like Woodstock, The Last Waltz etc. You can add in Live Aid too, I'd have loved to have been at each of these, but I prefer focusing on one artist, rather than jumping between them.
You'll see that some of your favourites feature very highly in my listing based on plays. Lucky you're to have been at the Live Rust concert.
I was going to give you a list of all the live albums that lie in my top 500 most played albums, but there were about 90 albums tied for the number of plays that went from about 480 to 570, so I thought I'd share my top 50 (ish) and then pick out the albums by bands who haven't already featured. It didn't lose as many albums as I expected, so the list is still long.
I've also refined my sorting sequence so that when albums are tied on total plays, I give preference to those from 2023 first and then 2022.
1 Live At The BBC - Jess Roden
2 It's Too Late To Stop Now - Van Morrison
3 Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
4 Blowin' - Jess Roden
5 1978/09/19 Passaic, New Jersey - Bruce Springsteen
6 Wings Over America - Wings
7 Live At Leeds - The Who
8 Seconds Out - Genesis
9 Live Nassau Coliseum 1976 - David Bowie
10 Brussels Affair - The Rolling Stones
11 Live Rust - Neil Young
12 Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 - Bruce Springsteen
13 Stupidity - Dr Feelgood
14 Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith - Steve Hackett
15 Live! In The Air Age - Be Bop Deluxe
16 Live Rails - Steve Hackett
17 Live In Paris - Supertramp
18 Two Letter Words: Live 1994 - Richard Thompson
19 Strange Behaviour - Karnataka
20 Rearview Mirror - Jim Hunter
21 Cate Brothers Live - Cate Brothers
22 Genesis Live - Genesis
23 Strangers In The Night - UFO
24 Live In Chicago - Luther Allison
25 At Budokan - Bob Dylan
26 Everybody's Talkin' - Tedeschi Trucks Band
27 Mad Dogs & Englishmen - Joe Cocker
28 World Tour 1976 - Climax Blues Band
29 Golden Earring Live - Golden Earring
30 Live Dates - Wishbone Ash
31 Flying Free Tour Live - When Rivers Meet
32 Live In New Orleans - Maze
33 Muddy “Mississippi “ Waters Live - Muddy Waters
34 Where Have You Been? Live In Montreux 1976-1994 - Luther Allison
35 The Blues To The Bush - The Who
36 The Live Anthology - Tom Petty
37 Live Dates 2 - Wishbone Ash
38 Live Sadlers Wells 2000 - Pete Townshend
39 Irish Tour - Rory Gallagher
40 Live Bullet - Bob Seger
41 Live In Concert at Metropolis Studios - Bill Nelson
42 The Last Great Traffic Jam - Traffic
43 Live In Dublin - Bruce Springsteen
44 Live At The Harlem Square - Sam Cooke
45 New Live Dates: The Complete Set - Martin Turner
46 Live In London - Randy Newman - Randy Newman
47 Roxy Music Live - Roxy Music
48 Live In London - Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
49 The Bootleg Series Vol 5 Live 1975 - Bob Dylan
50 Welcome To The Club - Ian Hunter
51 Live Tapes - Barclay James Harvest
52 Yessongs - Yes
54 Live From The Moody Theater - Warren Haynes
55 Live At The Glasgow Barrowlands - Deacon Blue
56 In The Flesh - Roger Waters
Here are the others that lie around about my top 500 albums:
57 Live At Monteray - Jimi Hendrix
58 Waiting For Columbus - Little Feat
59 Live At The Hollywood Bowl - Jeff Beck
60 A Night At Red Rocks Complete - The Moody Blues
61 Live At The Blue Note - Duke Ellington
62 Meet The Flower Kings - Flower Kings
63 To Terrapin, Hartford Ct 1977 - The Grateful Dead
64 Stand In The Fire - Warren Zevon
65 Boston (Peter Green) - Fleetwood Mac
67 Soul of a Man - Al Kooper
68 Live From Loreley - Marillion
69 For Peace Comes Dropping Slow - Jackie Leven
70 Rock of Ages - The Band
72 The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads - Talking Heads
75 Live And Burning - Son Seals
76 Night After Night - Nils Lofgren
77 Live At The Regal - BB King
78 Live 1976-1998 - Rod Stewart
79 Tour de Force - Gil Scott-Heron
80 Mingus At Antibes - Charles Mingus
83 Live Chicago 1987 - Joe Ely
84 Alchemy - Dire Straits
85 All Your Love I Miss Loving - Live At The Wise Fools Pub - Otis Rush
86 Wembley or Bust - Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra
87 The Gettysburg Address - Moon Safari
90 The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys - The Waterboys
91 Quo Live! - Status Quo
92 That Night In Leamington - Mostly Autumn
93 On Your Feet or On Your Knees - Blue Oyster Cult
94 Beware of the Dog - Hound Dog Taylor
95 Blow Your Face Out - J Geils Band
96 Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Joan Armatrading) - Joan Armatrading
97 Screens: Live in London - Panic Room
98 Live In America - John Renbourn Group
99 Live in San Diego - Eric Clapton
100 A Live Record - Camel
101 Alive In America - Steely Dan
102 Essential Montreux - Gary Moore
104 70th Birthday Concert - John Mayall
106 Live From Austin Tx (Susan Tedeschi) - Susan Tedeschi
107 Live In Athens 1987 (So 25th Anniversary) - Peter Gabriel
109 Made In Europe - Deep Purple
110 Live 1986 - Home Service
111 Live On The Sunset Strip - Otis Redding
113 Roadsongs - Derek Trucks Band
115 Live at the Point - Magenta
117 Live In Concert - Sad Cafe
118 Tokyo... Live - Al Green
119 Blues at Sunrise - Albert King
121 Live at Power Station - Vanessa Collier
I agree the Genesis live albums, are great, but could be better. The Genesis Live remaster in the live box, was strange - they added live Lamb material, when they already gave us a Lamb live concert in the Archive 1 Box. And the Archive 2 Box has some great live material, but its a mishmash. Still great stuff though.
Your lists are amazing and really comprehensive. Like you I own literally hundreds of live albums. My two videos only show my top 44. So interesting and cool that of my top six (Frampton, Stones Ya Yas, Simon & Garfunkel Central Park, Bowie's David Live) only the Who's Live at Leeds and Yessongs are the only appearances on your list. Nice to see Dylan's Budokan - perhaps we are the only two fans of that album. Great to see Karnataka's Strange Behavour - I love that album! Stupidy is also amazing of course. I have to get that Golden Earring live album - time to dig into them. Big fan of the Waterboys live one - someone once told me it was unauthorized, but I really like it (The Pan Within/Because The Night is beyond incredible on it). Nice to see Magenta and of course Mostly Autumn who are a personal favorite - their live collection "The Story of Us"...was my gateway into their music and one of my all time faves. Thanks as always for sharing your incredible colllection and rankings.
i watched both of your favorite live albums ... what about Lou reed 'rock and roll animal '' // the Who 'live at leeds' ??
Live at Leeds is my #3. Big fan of Rock n roll animal and the sequel Lou Reed Live Not in my top top but I love tons of live albums hundreds of them.
Great video but Allman Brothers At Fillmore East should be on any top-16 list!! #1 all time, no contest.
As a lifelong Allman Brothers fan (who owns and knows every one of their albums, and listens to them), I definitely hear you. It's no surprise it makes most lists of the greatest live albums ever...after all it was their first commercial hit album and their popularity deservedly jumped way up. I love the album. But here's why it didn't make this particular list (as well as the 2 CD The Fillmore Concerts). My list comprises what I actually listen to the most IN IT"S ENTIRETY. For the majority of people, including big Allman's fans...you typically have to be in the mood to hear 23 minutes of Whipping Post and 20 minutes of You Don't Love Me. Alright, I can listen to 13 minutes of Elizabeth Reed at any time. And when I talk to "big" fans and I ask that question after they tell me I'm wrong and this album should be #1 etc...and I ask when was the last time you listened to the whole album and how often do you listen to the whole album....well then they get my point and how I rank. So there's my explanation. Maybe you listen to the whole album all the time...then no argument. But boy do I have to be in the mood to hear 35 minutes of Mountain Jam.. I don't have that issue with any of the other albums in my ranking. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
you forgot "Golden Earring Live" from 1977. Wonderful live album.
I so have to check Golden Earring out. I know Twilight Zone and Radar Love, which I like but not a huge fan of. But I know they have a massive discography, and apparently I'm missing out on some great music. Thanks for the recommendation and thanks for watching.
I've always wondered why all these stale FM classic rock stations don't substitute live versions for overplayed studio tracks - at least once in awhile.
Absolutely. My cars are old and all have CD players, thankfully, so I virtually never hear radio now, except for short distances. I don't have satellite radio and I have approx. 5000 CD's, so I'll never pay for radio to pretty much hear the same boring playlists. Terrestrial radio has been so sad for decades now. Love when the DJ's are excited about a new album, let's say Springsteen or the Stones or Dylan...whoever and they briefly talk about it and then they'll say - so lets play some Springsteen (or whoever) and they play "Born To Run". excruciating to me. I don't know how a DJ can do it, assuming they like music....
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Not up to the DJs the great majority of the time, as I'm sure you know. They have their orders not to play newer music by their core artists, unfortunately. SiriusXM has a channel called Deep Tracks, and they've turned me on to quite a few worthy tracks that had slipped thru the cracks over the years. BTW, I'm a late-blooming Wishbone Ash fan, too. They were inexplicably absent from radio bitd - even from the free-form stations.
@@AnthonyStJames Once a year Sirius gives me a free week on my car to listen. There are many cool stations - especially the individual artist stations. Amazing to me they didn't have a Rolling Stones station. I did listen for that week a bit to Deep Tracks and I think there was Classic Vinyl, but I still heard Hotel California and Stairway...I couldn't believe it. Yes, on terrestrial radio, clearly the DJ's can't pick the songs. What I meant was, it must be hard for the DJ's, again assuming they love the music, since they must since they had the passion to do the job. It must be so hard to be in the studio and have to listen to the same tracks over and over again. I'd go crazy. I can't imagine if for example I loved the new "Springsteen" album and I'm talking about it and then have to announce lets' play some Springsteen and it's Born To Run....uhhhh, I'd go nuts....But I remember FM radio in the 70's and they would play the new releases, in fact certain stations would debut the new albums and play the whole thing once. Different times. Some how I still think there must be a market for a radio station that would play new releases by classic artists, but I guess that's on Sirius. Oh well - thanks again and sorry for my rambling on.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow That's okay...it's what we do. LOL ...I was a Tull fan (having bought Aqualung already) when Thick...Brick came out, but my introduction to it was Bob Lewis on WNEW-FM playing side one in its entirety! Needless to say, I was floored.
You shouldn't miss THE BAND LAST WALTZ
One of my all time favorites. In my list.
What about Lynyrd Skynyrd's One For The Road?
I love it and it's a classic for sure. I literally have and love 100's of live albums - for me not at the very top, but it's a great one for sure. My first Skynyrd album actually.
Ya Ya’s by far …
Thanks for watching and commenting
I have seen The Stones live and Frampton live twice and once with Humble Pie. Frampton is great but doesn’t come close to the Stones. Live versions of Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil alone make it #1 not too mention the other the great definitive versions of classics.
Ya Ya's is my #2 of all time. I actually did a video on why Frampton Comes Alive is the greatest live album of all time. But hey #1 - #2 - out of thousands of live albums - still pretty impressive. Stones are my all time favorite band by far.
I disagree, there are many forgotten rock memorabilia from the 70s-80s: Jethro Tull Bursting Out - Deep Purple Made In Japan Whitesnake- Led Zeppelin - Marillion The Thieving Magpie - Real To Reel etc etc.
Hi Pierre. Thanks for watching and commenting. I’m not sure I understand your comment. I totally agree there are tons of great live albums. I love and own literally hundreds of them. Including both of your Marillions, purple, white snake and many more. For my top top can’t include everything. Thanks for watching.
What you mention here about Live at Leeds and how it is so radically different from the Tommy album etc and how you prefer the version of Live at Leeds without the Tommy material on it etc is nonsensical because Live at Leeds WAS the tour in support of the Tommy album, the Tommy tour basically. To hear the ENTIRE performance from Leeds University with the full performance of the Tommy material is essential to fully appreciate where The Who were as a creative ensemble at that point in time. I couldn’t disagree with you more in what you say about preferring Live at Leeds without the second disc. The problem with Live at Leeds is that it should have been at least a double or even triple album to begin with and should have included the Tommy material as well from its initial release to give Who fans a more complete picture of the actual Who live concert at that time.
You're 100% correct. I think you minunderstood what I was saying...for me. By the time they re-re-rereleased Live At Leeds again, this time with the complete Tommy on Disc 2, I've already gotten so many Live Tommy concerts. Including the 1970 Isle Of Wight Tommy performance. For me, I have enough. Is the Live At Leeds performance fantastic, yes, classic performance, yes, at that time in history, yes (but so is Isle Of Wight), do I ever listen to that 2nd Live at Leeds Tommy disc....no. That's what I was saying. Thanks for watching and commenting. I'm Tommy'd out.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow Fair enough. That makes sense actually because even when I've AB'd Leeds and Hull, or Leeds/Hull/Wight you're correct, too much Tommy. I guess what I was getting at is the fact that casual Who fans know Live at Leeds, they don't necessarily know Hull or even the Isle of Wight performance nearly as well. This is why Leeds should have included the Tommy material from day one.
@@vbassone Yes, you're right. I've should have explained better. If a newbie to The Who never heard live Tommy, then the deluxe Live At Leeds is amazing and the go to. For me, with Hull and Isle of Wight and so many other later day performances, it's nice to have, but I never listen to it. Thanks so much again for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow BTW, you must have bought all those Tull box sets you have immediately, or not long after they were released because they are expensive and hard to come by now. Yes?
@@vbassone yes. Their great box sets. I love them. Apparently some go for a fortune now. I kick myself for not getting the thick as a brick box. It’s the only one I’m missing and not gonna pay crazy money for it. Thanks again.
what? ya yas not #1??????? lol - I agree these versions are epic
Thanks so much. Really appreciate it