Sh*t L*sts: Live Album Style

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I’ve been finding myself more and more drawn to live albums these days, it seems. I’ve always been more into the well-executed studio stuff, at least most of my life. I think it’s just harder to pull off the perfect live album: so many of them are just blah. But I’ve found myself going back more and more, to a number of liveboys, in a way that I’ve never done before. If my studio to live album listening ratio 5 years ago was 10:1, I would have to calculate that different in the Winter of 2008 to more like 6 or 7:1. If a live album fell in a forest, and no one was there to hear it…

Anyway, after the jump below, I’m gonna serve you with 5 of my current live faves, followed by 2 classic ones that I’ve loved for at least over 10 years. Why don’t you do the same?

Ummm, how classic is this cover, btw? (and one of my favorite live albums from middle school days!)…

All right, here are mine:

1. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

2. Love - Live In England (released last year as part of the ‘Blue Thumb Recordings’)

3. James Brown - Live at the Apollo, Vol.1

4. Colosseum - Live

5. Electric Prunes - Stockholm ‘67

And a couple lifelong favorites, not including Maiden (although it goes without saying):

1. Grateful Dead - Europe ‘72

2. Kiss - Alive

There are so many good ones…what are yours?

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