@@jons3808 absolutely! Man i still don’t go a week without cranking this one. And being the UFO geek I got the box Strangers set too. UFO with Moog always had more than other heavy bands. Better lyrics superior vocals - original band in so many ways.
Deep Purple - Made In Japan AC/DC - If You Want Blood Iron Maiden - Live After Death U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Simon & Garfunkel - Concert In Central Park Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith KISS - Alive! Ozzy Osbourne - Speak Of The Devil Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
The gaping black hole at the heart of all your chats (which entertain me no end BTW) is Rory Gallagher. How can you talk about live albums without mentioning Live In Europe or the Irish Tour 74? Ten Years After did an absolute killer of a double live album as well (name of it temporarily forgotten). Keep up the good but gapped good work!
Thank you. Rory was one of the greatest blues players ever, and certainly the most versatile. Live in Europe is a one volume encyclopedia of blues history and technique.
@@fmellish71 Fillmore is better than undead, Undead was early and was recorded in a pub I think. I also think 2 years of seasoning, the band became much better. Alot of bands really brought their A game when performing at the fillmore.
WOW! OMG! Finally someone appreciated Slade Alive. I've always considered this to be the best live album. Nobody believed me. When I started watching this clip, I thought: Mr. Andy should at least put it in the second five, after all, he's friends with Don Powell and he can't not know such a gem. And here we have the top! Slade Alive has everything that should exist between the stage and the audience - energy, fun together, rock power and a sense of humor. For me, the B-side of the album is an absolute masterpiece of a rock performance. It should go to music schools and get a special hour. Thanks Mr. Andy. (I used google translator)
I often forget ELP Pictures At An Exhibition was a live concert. It always was a live performance for them. They didn’t attempt a studio recording of this until two decades later. They did this piece in their very first live introductions to the world at Isle Of Wight and elsewhere. So it probably deserves a spot somewhere.
@@willyupshawBoomers don’t need to “rant” about this album. It stands on its own merits. People who demean or dismiss Live at Leeds are ignorant, dumb, or both.
I've been listening to Queen - Live at the Rainbow a lot lately. Two full concerts from 1974. One early in the year at the end of the Queen II tour and one later in the year at the beginning of the Sheer Heart Attack tour. This is before most of their classic songs were written/recorded. So, unless you're a diehard Queen fan, you might not be overly familiar with a lot of the songs. However, everything else about the band is fully established at that point. The band is absolutely fantastic and you can easily hear what made them one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
They were certainly in fine form, but I think I do appreciate some of their later concerts... more eclectic mix of songs, and some of the modifications they made to songs (tempo being one) I prefer live. Not to mention Freddie's vocal yelps, HEY!s, and other accoutrements mostly absent in 1974.
Others worthy of a listen :- MC5 - Kick Out The Jams Hawkwind - The Space Ritual Dr Feelgood - Stupidity Rory Gallagher - Well, anything of his recorded live is utter fire...
Kick out the jams is my favorite, also Live Rust by Neil Young and Crazy Horse! The Rory Gallagher live albums are great, not a bad one, he always gave his all, and it comes through any live performance.
Uriah Heep LIVE was my introduction to this band in 1973. I remember vividly how taken aback I was listening to this album when my friend's older sister bought it. Heep's music lends more to studio production, but the live album changed my life.... expanded my view of rock music altogether. I would have been happy with an honorable mention, Andy.
Uriah Heep weren't really my cup of tea but that all changed when I saw them live in '73. They were awesome. A really great live rock band. I will have to check this album out.
@@DAVIDCGRIMESthank you, I get tired of being the only person to write to obligatory Gary Thain comment. There is a great documentary a fellow Kiwi put out about him, it’s posted but doesn’t have a ton of views. Be sure to like and comment. I’m not associated with the producer or the documentary in any way, just a huge Thain fan.
That's a fine list, Andy! Here's mine: 1. Deep Purple: Made in Japan 2. The Guess Who: Live at the Paramount 3. Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers: Bongo Fury 4. Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive 5. Al Stewart: Live / Indian Summer 6. Steppenwolf: Live 7. Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense 8. Bill Withers: Live at Carnegie Hall 9. Jethro Tull: Live Bursting Out 10. Genesis: Seconds Out Honorable mentions: - Yes: Yessongs - The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Fillmore East - Elton John: 17-11-70 - Bob Marley and The Wailers: Live! - Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light By the way, I agree that Made in Japan is absolutely Deep Purple's greatest album, and that's because Purple was, first and foremost, a LIVE band. Live performance and improvisation was their greatest strength.
Nice list. Bongo Fury is great, and I listened the crap out of it, but isn't it all original material? Because if so, like Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, maybe it belongs in a different category of live album than what Andy's listing, which is primarily bands playing songs that also appear on studio albums.
@@SPY1964-LL LOVE that album!!! That's one of the first records that got me into hard rock way back in the early 70s, so it holds a special place. Apparently a couple of the songs were recorded in studio with audience noise overdubbed because there were issues with the versions recorded live, but to me that doesn't detract from the overall concert greatness of the band at its peak. John Kay was a MONSTER (excuse the pun), the quality of the songwriting is sublime, and the band's performance is astounding!
@@willyupshaw Well, Andy included Roxy & Elsewhere on his list, and I don't know how many of those songs were on studio albums. Regardless, the title of the video is "The Ten Greatest Live Rock Albums", and I certainly wasn't going to leave Bongo Fury off my list for any reason.
@@frankpentangeli7945 I don't want to argue over this. It's a great live album. I'm just pointing out a distinction because I noticed it wasn't included, and I also noticed Rust Never Sleeps, considered one of Neil Young's best albums, has been overlooked not only by Andy but in the comments. So has Ten Years After Undead, and excellent late 60s British blues live album but also a live album of mostly new material or covers previously unreleased by the band. I agree with your choice. I'm just pointing out why it might not be showing up on Andy's or other people's lists.
In 1973, I had Slade Alive, Made in Japan, and Yessongs. These were the first albums that I bought by each of these bands. Even though I would go on to buy more albums by each of these bands, these live albums were the most played records by these bands. These were among my favorite records when I was fourteen years old. What a great summer that was!
No live rock album had more impact and is overlooked today as Rush - All The World's A Stage. Though 2112 gets the credit, it was actually this live album that broke Rush into the spotlight.
Without a doubt. That said Live and Dangerous is great as is Slade Alive! (think that was second album I ever bought), Space Ritual as mentioned elsewhere, Rockin' the Filmore, Rory Gallagher - Live Tour 74. Any live tracks/albums by Mountain (loved Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi) For sheer adrenalin Kiss - Alive II (despite the shoddy way they recorded it) would be an honorary mention. I would have to include Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening as I was in the audience at Newcastle City Hall that night.
@@gordonschiff3621I think DP Live in Japan is hands down the tightest played live rock album out there. Uriah Heep Live is also very good. In those times, it was very important for bands to be able to play live as good as they could, and they always adhered to the studio version, although they always inserted some improvisations in the middle of some songs. It's not that I don't like other live albums or Peter Frampton (I agree with you that album was very, very good), but I always judge live albums by how tight they were played. And that's where the Live In Japan really stands out. It's very crisp, and DP was recorded there in their top form.
My Faves - Deep Purple -Made In Japan (undoubtedly the best live album ever!), otherwise in no particular order: King Crimson - Earthbound (well, I love it and someone has to ) The Who - Live at Leeds, Stones - Get Yer Ya Yas Out, Led Zeppelin - How The West was Won, Lou Reed Rock and Roll Animal, Hawkwind - Space Ritual, ELP _ Welcome Back My Friends , Bowie - ZIggy Stardust , Mott the Hoople Live
What about Joni Mitchell 'Shadows and Light" with one of the best band ever ? But for me the one missing the most is the fantastic "Joe Cocker with Mad dogs and Englishmen" a real piece of art ( cover include) !
In March 1970, I saw Mad Dogs, etc. in Columbus, Ohio after walking downtown in a blizzard. The theater was 1/3 filled because of the snow but I got great seats looking down on the stage from the first row of the balcony and it rocked! ( I tuned a piano for one of Leon Russell's shows in San Antonio 1981. I talked to him for a brief moment when he tested the piano but, at least, I can say I met him ...sorta.)
The other gig that Daltrey references in talking about Live at Leeds was Hull. They didn't use it because Entwistle's bass was missing from the first few tracks. However, it's now available as Live at Hull, with the missing bass filled in from Leeds. In truth, _pace_ Daltrey, there's nothing much between it and Leeds: both are superb.
Another great video. These are favorites from my youth - 1. Genesis - Seconds Out 2. Yes - Yes Songs 3. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same 4. Pink Floyd - Live in Pompeii (does this count?) 5. Jane’s Addiction - Jane’s Addiction 6. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg 7. The Who - Live at Leeds 8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More for the Road 9. Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East 10. Deep Purple - Made in Japan 11. Alice In Chains - Unplugged 12. Iron Maiden - Live After Death 13. Cheap Trick- Live in Budokan 14. Mahogany Rush - Live 15. Peters Frampton - Comes Alive
Good List! I would add Rush "All the World's a Stage" - Early Rush on their 2112 tour. They got better but this early sound was just raw, technical yet clean. Your top 3 are spot on!
Definitely Yessongs Live After Death Unleashed in the East Live At Leeds Pompeii is them playing without editing the playing Im sure its been cleaned up quite a bit.
Others probably mentioned it, but Humble Pie “Rockin’ The Fillmore” is a definitive double record for them and is one of the best raw live albums. Also, when you mentioned The Allman Bros., you said you couldn’t think of any other American bands from the early ‘70’s. What about Grand Funk Railroad? They sold out Shea Stadium in 1971 shattering attendance records at the time and beating the Beatles’ milestone. Humble Pie was opening for them. Grand Funk’s highly influential 1970 “Live Album” is also raw. Other big American bands of this era were The Grateful Dead, Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Chicago, Doobie Bros., The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Sly & The Family Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic. Lastly, being 9 years old in America in 1975, the most influential live album to us pre-pubescent youngsters was Kiss “Alive.” It may have not been truly live, but Eddie Kramer’s magic made us all feel like we too were superheroes on stage in front of the roaring masses.
Really enjoyed this video Andy. My top 10 would be: 1. Jeff Beck - Live At Ronnie Scott's 2. AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You've Got It) 3. Gary Numan - When The Sky Came Down 4. Eric Clapton - Just One Night 5. Dire Straits - Alchemy 6. Peter Gabriel - Plays Live 7. Status Quo - Live 2 8. Rainbow - On Stage 9. Supertramp - Paris 10. Rose Tattoo - 25 To Life
I would add UK - Night after Night and Peter Green Splinter Group at Ronnie Scotts. From the Rab C Nesbitt look during his romp through the woods to an outfit today that can only be described as a Jack Hargreaves look (Out of Town). He only needs the pipe!
I was at the Led Zeppelin concert at Madison Square Garden, which I believe was in July, 1973 (a month after graduation) that is the “The Song Remains the Same” album. Still remember the energy….great memory!
@@BarbarraBay I think it is, but some footage was done in studio to mime along with lost footage. I may be wrong. I know KISS ALIVE! was redone in the studio except for the drums. I like both a lot.
@@SPY1964-LL the album has recordings from at least two concerts in merely single songs and obviously the songs were touched up in the studio because some of the songs, such as No Quarter and Dazed & Confused are different on the original vinyl, in the movie & on the remaster. I know because i have listened to the album over 1000 times and have watched the movie at least 10 times. The remaster is awful
@@BarbarraBay You are right. There is a great channel on Zep by a very interesting man who goes deep. He does on Song too. His channel is JCM- Led Zeppelin Stories. You will love it. It is a blast.
Kudos on recognizing the early Allmans from across the pond. There was a mastery of diverse influences across the entire band, before the loss of Duane and Berry Oakley on bass, that made them the one “jam band” with really meaty and satisfying improvisations, all the way thru their longest epics.
I know you hate The Ramones but It's Alive captures the peak Ramones live experience and is probably the best punk live album, but no reason it couldnt be included in a rock list either.
Andy….great selections! “Live at Leeds” is my favorite…and of course, "Frampton Comes Alive”, and I would include “Yessongs”….just love that live album(s). On a different note - if Andy or another knowledgeable person could answer: Andy played in the band “Cyan", right? Is this Rob Reed’s “Cyan", and is this the same as Rob Reed’s “Magenta”? And if Andy played in any of Rob’s “colorful” bands, what albums was he on? I can’t seem to find this info online. Thanks! LOVE your videos! Randy from Clearwater, Florida, USA
I live in Statesboro GA, the setting of the first song on Allman Brothers Filmore album, 2 hours from their adopted home of Macon GA, and just down the road from Gregg's home of Richmond Hill GA. So there are a lot of Allman fans where I live. I'm glad to see Filmore on the list. I think it deserves to be there.
@@edwardyazinski3858GA born and raised boy here...and a musician (🎷) who has had the priviledge and honor to record a song in the legenday Capricorn Studios/Walden Sound...and met Phil Walden many years ago. It is the most cool recording experience of my life. Needless to say im a huge Allmans fan.
WOW! Nice call on the "Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett" I wasn't expecting that although I absolutely agree with you my friend. It's not too often I come across other music fans who even know who & how great Keith Jarrett is. Kudos! +Peace Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend+ 🤘😜🤘
The greatest party band ever put out a fantastic live rock and roll album. The J. Geils Band. Everybody forgets about them. I remember when they were a local band playing bars and college parties in Worcester MA. The live album deserves a listen. All their albums deserve a listen.
You're absolutely right on both counts...that was a great, powerhouse album, which I loved at the time - big energy, big fun. And haven't thought about in a long, long time.
Slade Alive! fully deserves it's position at number one, but is often sadly missed off lists like this. Ditto Noddy Holder is not usually counted as one of the greatest rock vocalists, which of course he was. I would add two honorable mentions: Robin Trower Live! (1976), and P.F.M. Cook. Both of them cracking live albums where the performances easily surpass the studio recordings.
I totally agree wtih you about Slade Alive! First heard it as a wee seven year old rascal back in 74 or thereabout. Loved it ever since. Apart from it being a bombshell of an album, I love the fact that NONE of their biggest hits feature. Anyway my list (valid today, as it changes frequently) and in no particular order: Blue Öyster Cult - On your Feet or on your Knees - energywise, Slade Alive's bushytailed monster sister Slade - Alive - whatever you said :-) Golden Earring - Live - fantastic proggy hardrocking album, what a tight band. what a guitarist George Kooymans was, and what a drummer they had in Cesar Zuiderwijk! The Tubes - What do you want from Live - loved them since their early days. Total circus live - so funny, so good and sooooo expensive. Fee Waybill was an underrated vocalist if ever there was one. Wishbone Ash - Live Dates 2 - I actually prefer their second live album to their more acclaimed first one. production is tip top and nobody did twin guitar quite like them! Queen - Live at the Rainbow - love early fiery heavy Queen. the March 22nd recording is absolute perfection. the November recording makes an interesting comparison. the Mercury persona more to the fore, but perhaps some of the fire was gone?? Genesis - Seconds Out - great musicianship. can't get enough of Hackett's ghost sounding guitar! Steve was a greater loss than Gabriel in my view. Gentle Giant - Live Playing the Fool - ridiculous , absolutely ridiculous for all the reasons you mentioned. I mean, On Reflection alone... Rory Gallagher - Stage Struck - energywise, Slade alive's SECOND bushytailed monster sister.... Rory gave me the single greatest...and loudest live experience I've ever had (back in May 1984),,, and I've seen most of 'em. what a six string wizard. what a guy! Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out - saw the madison sq garden concert on TV in 1978/79 My mom rolling on the floor with laughter...me gasping for air watching musical brilliance taken to a whole new level. bought bursting out as soon as I had the opportunity (which could be months back in those days...) plus loads and loads of honorable mentions...
Spot on. Slade is a great call. A proper live LP from a brilliant live band. Superb. Shame not to have On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - but hey, you'll get there.
Recently discovered you-all praise to the All-knowing Algorithm. Have been binge-watching like mad. You are now my favorite "music critic". Your words are balm to my old, sound-blasted ears. I resonate with almost everything you say. Finally someone who shamelessly expresses what demands being said but rarely, if ever, is (although the nature of this piece is not of that ilk, different to what I've seen so far which has mostly been take-downs). I actually thought that I was one of the only ones who had these sentiments. Impressive the improvised, scathing, sardonic articulateness infused with understated humor and, importantly, broad musical/cultural context and knowledge. Kudos for including two of Jimi!
Saw Slade open for Humble Pie in 1973 at Winterland in San Francisco. Steely Dan opened. Humble Pie Rockin the Fillmore is a criminally underrated live album
So glad you mentioned Slade. I, too, only recently discovered this album. I was a 10 years old when it was released, and was not really into live recordings. Slade, as you said, were known for their string of hits as singles. They were massive in Australia, where I live. You made my day!
Live Bullet by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. If you’re including American rock music which you seldom do you’ve got to appreciate Bob toiling away for a decade then releasing this great live album and the studio album Night Moves and suddenly he was all over rock radio. Turn the Page is maybe the best life on the road song ever made.
Fantastic album! My prejudice is showing, but seeing Seger and J.Geils and Heart and BTO and Nazareth when they would come around to Cobo and Pine Knob were the best of times!!
Thanks Andy, great list. I’ve got homework. My all time favourite: I stretch a little to jazz-rock with emphasize on rock. No particular order, just the records I’m still listening to a lot. Miles Davis: We want Miles Gil Evans Orchestra: Live at Sweet Basil John Scofield: Pick Hits Live Jan Akkerman: 10.000 clowns on a rainy day Rolling Stones: Get yer ya-ya’s out! Deep Purple: Made in Europe Golden Earring: Live David Bowie: A Reality Tour Lou Reed: Live Deep Purple: Made in Japan Rainbow: On Stage Herman Brood’s Wild Romance: Cha Cha
Warren Zevon - “Stand in the Fire.” The CD version contains such bonus cuts as “Play It All Night Long,” the ultimate brutal satire of Southern rock. J. Geils Band - “Full House.” Gleefully savage blues rock that stands up to any other example of the genre.
A relief to see someone mention Full House. To be honest, I prefer Blow Your Face Out, but both albums are so brilliant and have so little overlap that I think that if I were to make my own Top 10 live albums I would have to put both of them on it and fie on the convention of one album per artist.
when you tie in the two sides of "Mountain Jam" on Eat A Peach (continuation of Whipping Post on the live album), the allmann filmore concert is maybe the best of them all: a picture of the (almost) endless concert of a band just jamming, a representation of a long-gone era. Your choices are fine even if maybe I would switch out a couple.
A nice idea for a video essay. Just starting watching now. I assume that you’ll probably have The Allman Brothers AT FILMORE EAST on this list. That is one of my favorites. Looking forward to hearing all of your choices. Edit: just finished. There’s a few here, I either have to revisit or listen to for the first time. Another great video, Andy. Thanks.
Along with Live At Leeds, the most energetic Live album I've ever heard. ELP was not a massive album band (still sold 50 million albums) but they were arguably the biggest live act of the 70s. They were first and foremost a live band.
@@robertglisson6319 this is very true. Pictures drips with excitement, and I have often said that ELP had a good call for being the biggest live band in the world in the 70's.
I saw Slade in 1972 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, at the tender age of 11. They were the opening act , then J Geils, then the headliner - Humble Pie. Bought Slade Alive back then because of that concert. Two live albums I would add - Humble Pie Performance Rocking The Fillmore and Little Feat Waiting For Columbus.
Pat Travers 'Go For What You Know' should be up there somewhere. Astonishing playing, possibly the best rock and roll band of the time, playing wise. Incredibly underrated with some real virtuosos (including my favourite bass player, Mars Cowling), which to be fair Slade never were (or anywhere near to be honest, but still a truly great live band though)!
Nice to see somebody recognize Pat. An old girlfriend and I hung out with Pat in his bus after a show he did at the Cocoa Beach Pier. I met him before that at a bar called Marker 34 in Titusville. Still have the ticket stub I somewhere.
10. 2:00 AC/DC If you want blood 9. 8:29 Frank Zappa / Mothers : Roxy & Elswere 8. 14:01 Jethro Tull : Bursting out 7. 16:21 Led Zeppelin: How the West was won 6. 21:50 Jimmy Hendrix: Band of Gypsys & Live at Monterey 5. 27:17 Allman Brothers Band: At the Filmore East 4. 31:46 James Brown: Live at the Apollo, 1962 3. 35:24 The Who: Live at Leeds 2. 42:07 Deep Purple: Made in Japan 1. 47:51 Salde: Slade alive! 51:15 : Honorable Mentions: * Frampton come alive! * Aretha Live at Fillmore * Bob Marley & the Wailers Live * Cheap Trick At Budokan * Free Live! * Thin Lizzy: Live and dangerous, Killers live * Motorhead: No sleep 'til Hammersmith (of course!) * Talking Heads: Stop making sense (of course!) * B.B.King Live at the Regal * Donny Hathaway Live * Playing the fool: Gentle Giant
"Live at Leeds" has been hyped, hyped, and hyped some more over the last 50 yrs..... And it lives up to the hype. It's not overrated. The later expanded reissues are just that much better than the already-amazing original release. Thanks, Andy.
1. Scream for me Brasil - Bruce Dickenson. 2. Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy. 3. Live Killers - Queen 4. Unleashed in East Judas Priest. 5. All The World is a Stage - Rush. Live Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden. 6. On your fett or On your knees. - Blue Öyster Cult. 7. Right here Right now - Van Halen. Many of these are doctored in studios or are a mix of many shows but still they are great....
Andy! Great call on the Slade Alive album. Can't argue with that one at all! In 74 or 75 I was 19 or 20 years old and heard that album at several parties and I never forgot it! And I grew up in Canada! Nice list all the way around!
I've only recently delved deeper into Slade, and I think its possible to claim they are the most underrated band ever. And every live performence I've come across makes me wish I could have seen them at there peak.
There's now a 7-CD box set of Frank Zappa & The Mother's Of Invention's five-show run at the Roxy in 1973: The Roxy Performances. Definitely worth getting!
@@James-hd4ms I was not cynical and jaded back in 1973, I saved my sneering condescension for my Iggy Pop Elvis Costello phase 5 years later when I needed meaning to play it ridiculously loud, now I just play it loud because after 200 concerts my hearing is not great anymore
Yes I agree. I was at the 3rd night gig. It was a Friday night in October 1976 at the legendary Glasgow Apollo. I was 16 years old. It was utterly fantastic.
Absolutely agree.first album I bought was slayed loved em then and sill do. Noddy holder one of the best voices in rock n roll Jim lea and don powel outstanding musicians imo.
I have most of these albums but the live rock album I listen to most now, 50 years later, is Humble Pie, Rockin' the Fillmore. I liked Humble Pie but when I saw them live I was gobsmacked. It was a totally different band so I bought the live album. In fact, it's not really a band, it's really a tour de force performance by Steve Marriott with a fantastic backing band. I knew that he was a real larger-than-life character but who knew that he could play guitar like that. You would have thought that he would be totally outclassed on the fretboard by Peter Frampton but he was not. Play the side long epic "Gilded Splinters" through big speakers with the lights down low and tell me that you don't get goosebumps! What a showman. The whole album is a tribute to a great British performer. RIP Steve.
Excellent list. A very under appreciated group The Who, Live they always seemed on the edge of exploding. Live at Hull is the first gig that Roger Daltrey was referring to. A great album.
Another great video. I enjoy your opinions and analysis of bands and albums. One minor point: I have heard from an old interview with Mick J that he first appropriated his James Brown moves when they both were appearing at the 1964 TAMI Show.
I respect your opinions and I like the reasons you chose the way you did. In my humble opinion, The Greatest Rock Live albums are all in the 70s of course and are as follows but not in any particular order. UFO Strangers in the Night, KISS Alive, Led Zeppelin Song Remains the Same, Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Rush All the Worlds a Stage, Deep Purple Made in Japan, Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous, Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, Peter Frampton Comes Alive and LS One More From the Road.
Absolutely brilliant top 10, all of which I have and love ❤️. The other album I love for it's absolute visceral energy is MC5 Kick Out The Jams - an absolute must for anyone to hear!
Decent list, but-Live at Leeds-Who, Full House-J.Geils, Bob Seger-Live Bullet, Made in Japan-Deep Purple, Get yer Ya Yas out-Stones, Allman Brothers-Fillmore East, Kiss-Alive, The Clash-Live at Shea, Bauhaus-Gotham, and so may others.
Allman Brothers had their two greatest Hits: Ramblin Man and Jessica on Brothers and Sisters that was recorded after Duane‘s Dead. Dickie Betts was more than a Wing Man, he was a great Guitarist.
The first guy I saw to lie on the floor with a guitar and walk around in a circle was Fred Astaire in the movie Funny Face. I'm surprised you didn't have Rock Of Ages by the Band as the gig was unusual with the added line up of horns.
Excellent list. As an American/Canadian I will check out Slade. Best live album of all time is an elevated position indeed. The only push back I would provide is that it’s a tad ignorant to suggest Americana, however one defines the category, doesn’t exist or was of no consequence in the progression of rock/pop music (31). Having grown up in the American West in the 50’s and 60’s I listened to the influence of country, bluegrass and folk on the music of the day. Americana influenced the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Elvis Costello and other British artists as they spent time in the US. There were some excellent bands and artists associated with Americana. Gram Parsons is often credited as the first artist to blend country music with rock but really it was happening all over. There was a huge bluegrass revival in the mid late 60’s that featured some virtuosic players on guitar, mandolin and 5 string banjo. Players like Doc Watson, Clarence White, Norman Blake, Bela Fleck, JD Crowe, David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs and on and on. Rock bands heavily influenced by the form include the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Grateful Dead, Los Lobos, Poco and of course The Band. It’s fine to say Americana isn’t your cup of tea so to speak but to imply it was totally unimportant in the evolution of rock music is a bit silly. I think a good list would be 10 Americana influenced albums Andy must listen to. I’ll have to give that list some thought.
@@Chiller11 Andy, although he is opposed to Identity Shenanigans is british, can‘t help himself not to be an Exceptionalist. Just recently saw Marty Stuart in Gstaad and this 4 Guys played their Mix of Country Rock and Rockabilly in a Way that Rockpile only matched when Carlene Carter sang with them.
You have expressed exactly what I often feel after some of these blind spot observations of American music. I hope Andy takes your suggestion for a vid topic.
Andy's wardrobe today supplied by the Chairman Mao collection.
With a kerchief just to say herro Joe whatcha know?
He is wearing his gear for his other channel ‘Painting with Andy Edwards’.
Honourable mention. The Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoads tribute.
I thought he'd perhaps joined his local scout troop.
Great choice@@MatthewSearComposer
UFO’s Strangers in the Night captures visceral energy as good as any I’ve heard.
probably some of the greatest guitar playing i ever heard
@@manitheman0806 Couldn’t agree more
UFO I heard in the 80s, only band ever I had to go out to the foyer and it was still too loud.
@@jons3808 absolutely! Man i still don’t go a week without cranking this one. And being the UFO geek I got the box Strangers set too.
UFO with Moog always had more than other heavy bands. Better lyrics superior vocals - original band in so many ways.
Any list of top rock live albums that doesn't include UFO's Strangers In The Night loses all credibility.
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Simon & Garfunkel - Concert In Central Park
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
KISS - Alive!
Ozzy Osbourne - Speak Of The Devil
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
In my current collection of 987 vinyl albums and 3-400 CD’s, when the house is burning down I’d grab Humble Pie - Rockin’ the Fillmore
How could I forget that one! Good call!
The correct choice
humble pie was my choice alsoi think my top album is johnny winter and live.
Absolutely!!!
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Deep Purple Made In Japan, greatest live album ever! Recorded August 15th, 16, and 17th in 1972!!
The gaping black hole at the heart of all your chats (which entertain me no end BTW) is Rory Gallagher. How can you talk about live albums without mentioning Live In Europe or the Irish Tour 74?
Ten Years After did an absolute killer of a double live album as well (name of it temporarily forgotten).
Keep up the good but gapped good work!
Thank you. Rory was one of the greatest blues players ever, and certainly the most versatile. Live in Europe is a one volume encyclopedia of blues history and technique.
The Fillmore 1970 release by Ten Years After that came out in I think 2001 is also amazing...better even than Recorded Live
Recorded Live is one of my favorites, haven't heard the Fillmore 70 release, but I will check it out.
@@fmellish71 Fillmore is better than undead, Undead was early and was recorded in a pub I think. I also think 2 years of seasoning, the band became much better. Alot of bands really brought their A game when performing at the fillmore.
@@fmellish71 I agree. Fillmore album awesome. Alvin was a gift from god. RIP.🍉☮
No Rush in RIO? literally a 3 hour show where the crowd even sung along to instrumentals
Lou Reed - Rock 'n Roll Animal.
totally in agreement the most egregious mistake in the list IMHO
I concur, fantastic live album.
For some reason, tnis one never floated my boat...love the band on this, though.
Maybe I need to revisit.
Yes. I love that intro to sweet jane
@@MrMaynardWR pretty damn close to perfection
WOW! OMG! Finally someone appreciated Slade Alive. I've always considered this to be the best live album. Nobody believed me. When I started watching this clip, I thought: Mr. Andy should at least put it in the second five, after all, he's friends with Don Powell and he can't not know such a gem. And here we have the top! Slade Alive has everything that should exist between the stage and the audience - energy, fun together, rock power and a sense of humor. For me, the B-side of the album is an absolute masterpiece of a rock performance. It should go to music schools and get a special hour. Thanks Mr. Andy. (I used google translator)
Good for you. I haven't heard it, but it must be a great feeling.
My first album purchase, and a regular play for over 50 years. Stompingly good. Quite emotional to see it appear at number one.
My first album purchase and I bought this with my brother. A great album.
My first purchase back when it came out,I was huge Slade fan when I was 11/12 years old.Next was Made in Japan and maybe Band of Gypsies.I was hooked.
Slade Live was number 1 in Australia for weeks. You have to hear it to believe how good an album it is.
I often forget ELP Pictures At An Exhibition was a live concert. It always was a live performance for them.
They didn’t attempt a studio recording of this until two decades later.
They did this piece in their very first live introductions to the world at Isle Of Wight and elsewhere.
So it probably deserves a spot somewhere.
Great early 70s American band - Grand Funk Railroad. Great live album as well!
For some reason they weren't rated back in the day but I saw them live at Hyde Park and I remember the set as really good hard rock.
GFR were an amazing live powerhouse.Also Homers favourite band !
Black Crowes & Jimmy Page live at the Greek is an absolute gem .
mm so what about Reed's R&R Animal / Live?
TNUC!
+ Welcome Back My Friends to The Show That Never Ends (ELP)
No Rory's Irish Tour '74 ?
Good call. My fave Rory live album was Stagestruck but '74 is a classic.
Li ve in Europe
@@frankoneill1655 tottaly in agreement!!!
@@KanakarisGeorge Rory Gallagher... he opened for Rush in ~1980-1981, or there abouts. Anyway, I was blown away. Rory was amazing.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live
Yessir!!
The Man in the Jar!
Yes
OMG, how come I had never heard of them? My jaw is dropped!
Thank you soo much for the recommendation! 🙏
That would be joint top with Stupidity Dr Feelgood for me.
Rush- All the world's a stage. Epic early work !
Absolutely!!
Live at Leeds, The Who.
The Who's best along with Who's Next.
Isn't that the one where the boomers rant about not getting enough respect for having done nothing?
It does hit the spot.
Just balls out rocking. The guitar sound is astounding. Prob Hiwatt turned up to 11
@@willyupshawBoomers don’t need to “rant” about this album. It stands on its own merits. People who demean or dismiss Live at Leeds are ignorant, dumb, or both.
I've been listening to Queen - Live at the Rainbow a lot lately.
Two full concerts from 1974. One early in the year at the end of the Queen II tour and one later in the year at the beginning of the Sheer Heart Attack tour. This is before most of their classic songs were written/recorded. So, unless you're a diehard Queen fan, you might not be overly familiar with a lot of the songs. However, everything else about the band is fully established at that point. The band is absolutely fantastic and you can easily hear what made them one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
They were certainly in fine form, but I think I do appreciate some of their later concerts... more eclectic mix of songs, and some of the modifications they made to songs (tempo being one) I prefer live. Not to mention Freddie's vocal yelps, HEY!s, and other accoutrements mostly absent in 1974.
Good call, that and their “Hammersmith ‘75” Xmas show is stunning.
I second the nomination of Lou Reed's "Rock 'n' Animal", released in 1974.
Yes I would rate that
@@Bluepilled-c5t absolutely agree!!!
@@96cmbhunter and Wagner's introduction to sweet jane.great great guitar
Frampton Comes Alive- ubiquitous in the mid-70s, we were ISSUED this album....
Zappa/Mothers: "Roxy & Elsewhere" (1974) - It's a wonderful album. At that time, no one in the world could play at such a level.
I'm just happy you didn't figure out a way to put Kraftwerk on this list.
Kraftwerk rocks! 🙂
Sorry a big Kraftwerk fan but also missed Yessongs on the list. But the Barriemore Barlow comment was spot on.....
WHAT? No fun on the autobahn?
When Noddy shouts out “ well alright everybody “. 😱
at the start of “Get down get with it”. Is INCREDIBLE 🇬🇧🎸🎸🎸
Others worthy of a listen :-
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Hawkwind - The Space Ritual
Dr Feelgood - Stupidity
Rory Gallagher - Well, anything of his recorded live is utter fire...
Another vote for Space Ritual.
Kick out the jams is my favorite, also Live Rust by Neil Young and Crazy Horse! The Rory Gallagher live albums are great, not a bad one, he always gave his all, and it comes through any live performance.
Kick out the Jam is essential
Great choices!
The Tubes WHAT DO WANT FROM Live.
Uriah Heep LIVE was my introduction to this band in 1973. I remember vividly how taken aback I was listening to this album when my friend's older sister bought it. Heep's music lends more to studio production, but the live album changed my life.... expanded my view of rock music altogether. I would have been happy with an honorable mention, Andy.
Uriah Heep weren't really my cup of tea but that all changed when I saw them live in '73. They were awesome. A really great live rock band. I will have to check this album out.
My #1 choice. The best lineup at the right time. Gary Thaine was a fantastic standout bassist that left us too soon. I grieved until Geddy came along.
@@DAVIDCGRIMESthank you, I get tired of being the only person to write to obligatory Gary Thain comment. There is a great documentary a fellow Kiwi put out about him, it’s posted but doesn’t have a ton of views. Be sure to like and comment. I’m not associated with the producer or the documentary in any way, just a huge Thain fan.
The Who and Thin Lizzy.
Saw them in the 70's .
Never heard better live rock music.
💪👍😁
That's a fine list, Andy! Here's mine:
1. Deep Purple: Made in Japan
2. The Guess Who: Live at the Paramount
3. Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers: Bongo Fury
4. Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive
5. Al Stewart: Live / Indian Summer
6. Steppenwolf: Live
7. Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
8. Bill Withers: Live at Carnegie Hall
9. Jethro Tull: Live Bursting Out
10. Genesis: Seconds Out
Honorable mentions:
- Yes: Yessongs
- The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Fillmore East
- Elton John: 17-11-70
- Bob Marley and The Wailers: Live!
- Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light
By the way, I agree that Made in Japan is absolutely Deep Purple's greatest album, and that's because Purple was, first and foremost, a LIVE band. Live performance and improvisation was their greatest strength.
I love your mention of Steppenwolf Live, their best...Sookie Sookie Sookie Sookie Sookie Sookie SUE! Hey Lawdy Mama! Great Choice, Bravo!
Nice list. Bongo Fury is great, and I listened the crap out of it, but isn't it all original material? Because if so, like Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, maybe it belongs in a different category of live album than what Andy's listing, which is primarily bands playing songs that also appear on studio albums.
@@SPY1964-LL LOVE that album!!! That's one of the first records that got me into hard rock way back in the early 70s, so it holds a special place. Apparently a couple of the songs were recorded in studio with audience noise overdubbed because there were issues with the versions recorded live, but to me that doesn't detract from the overall concert greatness of the band at its peak. John Kay was a MONSTER (excuse the pun), the quality of the songwriting is sublime, and the band's performance is astounding!
@@willyupshaw Well, Andy included Roxy & Elsewhere on his list, and I don't know how many of those songs were on studio albums. Regardless, the title of the video is "The Ten Greatest Live Rock Albums", and I certainly wasn't going to leave Bongo Fury off my list for any reason.
@@frankpentangeli7945 I don't want to argue over this. It's a great live album. I'm just pointing out a distinction because I noticed it wasn't included, and I also noticed Rust Never Sleeps, considered one of Neil Young's best albums, has been overlooked not only by Andy but in the comments. So has Ten Years After Undead, and excellent late 60s British blues live album but also a live album of mostly new material or covers previously unreleased by the band. I agree with your choice. I'm just pointing out why it might not be showing up on Andy's or other people's lists.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live is probably my favourite live album. They were brilliant live.
I was there!👍🏻
@@MrMrh1958 I saw them in Liverpool on the same tour. It was fantastic.
@@Pwecko Pure entertainment!
Yes! Andy needs to dedicate some time to TSAHB! Love the live recording. Saw them in Detroit not long after that.
Brilliant. Got the picture disc
In 1973, I had Slade Alive, Made in Japan, and Yessongs. These were the first albums that I bought by each of these bands. Even though I would go on to buy more albums by each of these bands, these live albums were the most played records by these bands. These were among my favorite records when I was fourteen years old. What a great summer that was!
No live rock album had more impact and is overlooked today as Rush - All The World's A Stage. Though 2112 gets the credit, it was actually this live album that broke Rush into the spotlight.
As an American, I remeber Slade pretty well, but Made in Japan was simply amazing. I'm going to have to give Slade Alive a listen.
Love it SLADE ! I became a slade fan when I was12 I'm 62 now and I live in Seattle .
Made in Japan- Deep Purple. Greatest live album
Without a doubt. That said Live and Dangerous is great as is Slade Alive! (think that was second album I ever bought), Space Ritual as mentioned elsewhere, Rockin' the Filmore, Rory Gallagher - Live Tour 74. Any live tracks/albums by Mountain (loved Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi) For sheer adrenalin Kiss - Alive II (despite the shoddy way they recorded it) would be an honorary mention. I would have to include Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening as I was in the audience at Newcastle City Hall that night.
Well... of course it is ... has to be .. so much energy after all these years.
It isn’t that great. They don’t sound that good live. Frampton is way better. It outsold purple 8x.
@@gordonschiff3621I think DP Live in Japan is hands down the tightest played live rock album out there. Uriah Heep Live is also very good. In those times, it was very important for bands to be able to play live as good as they could, and they always adhered to the studio version, although they always inserted some improvisations in the middle of some songs.
It's not that I don't like other live albums or Peter Frampton (I agree with you that album was very, very good), but I always judge live albums by how tight they were played. And that's where the Live In Japan really stands out. It's very crisp, and DP was recorded there in their top form.
And what a great sounding album. And they still play those Machine Head song on tour in 2024
Slade never played those songs again. Strange.
My Faves - Deep Purple -Made In Japan (undoubtedly the best live album ever!), otherwise in no particular order: King Crimson - Earthbound (well, I love it and someone has to ) The Who - Live at Leeds, Stones - Get Yer Ya Yas Out, Led Zeppelin - How The West was Won, Lou Reed Rock and Roll Animal, Hawkwind - Space Ritual, ELP _ Welcome Back My Friends , Bowie - ZIggy Stardust , Mott the Hoople Live
Undoubtedly.
Get Yer ya ya's out!! how could he forget Mick Taylor there
I love seeing Earthbound on your list. You have maybe listened to Earthbound Extended too.
Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin` the Fillmore
Colosseum - Live
War - War Live!
Grand Funk - Live Album
Kevin Coyne - In Living Black And White
What about Joni Mitchell 'Shadows and Light" with one of the best band ever ? But for me the one missing the most is the fantastic "Joe Cocker with Mad dogs and Englishmen" a real piece of art ( cover include) !
Joni's band was stellar, Pat, Jaco, Aierto, Don Alias - yikes! I love this period of Joni - Hissing/Heijera etc
In March 1970, I saw Mad Dogs, etc. in Columbus, Ohio after walking downtown in a blizzard. The theater was 1/3 filled because of the snow but I got great seats looking down on the stage from the first row of the balcony and it rocked! ( I tuned a piano for one of Leon Russell's shows in San Antonio 1981. I talked to him for a brief moment when he tested the piano but, at least, I can say I met him ...sorta.)
Miles of aisles is amazing too
The other gig that Daltrey references in talking about Live at Leeds was Hull. They didn't use it because Entwistle's bass was missing from the first few tracks. However, it's now available as Live at Hull, with the missing bass filled in from Leeds. In truth, _pace_ Daltrey, there's nothing much between it and Leeds: both are superb.
SLADE rocked Chicago auditorium like no one else in, I think 73. Fantastic.
Slade were without doubt the epitome of rock n’ roll .
Another great video. These are favorites from my youth -
1. Genesis - Seconds Out
2. Yes - Yes Songs
3. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
4. Pink Floyd - Live in Pompeii (does this count?)
5. Jane’s Addiction - Jane’s Addiction
6. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
7. The Who - Live at Leeds
8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More for the Road
9. Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
10. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
11. Alice In Chains - Unplugged
12. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
13. Cheap Trick- Live in Budokan
14. Mahogany Rush - Live
15. Peters Frampton - Comes Alive
your taste is in your ass !
Good List! I would add Rush "All the World's a Stage" - Early Rush on their 2112 tour. They got better but this early sound was just raw, technical yet clean. Your top 3 are spot on!
Definitely
Yessongs
Live After Death
Unleashed in the East
Live At Leeds
Pompeii is them playing without editing the playing Im sure its been cleaned up quite a bit.
How the hell are you not mentioning Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus?
Seconds Out is fine, but it's not 1 and it's got some issues, it does have Los Endos though
Great Shout Slade, wonderful band and amazing live.
Others probably mentioned it, but Humble Pie “Rockin’ The Fillmore” is a definitive double record for them and is one of the best raw live albums. Also, when you mentioned The Allman Bros., you said you couldn’t think of any other American bands from the early ‘70’s. What about Grand Funk Railroad? They sold out Shea Stadium in 1971 shattering attendance records at the time and beating the Beatles’ milestone. Humble Pie was opening for them. Grand Funk’s highly influential 1970 “Live Album” is also raw. Other big American bands of this era were The Grateful Dead, Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Chicago, Doobie Bros., The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Sly & The Family Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic. Lastly, being 9 years old in America in 1975, the most influential live album to us pre-pubescent youngsters was Kiss “Alive.” It may have not been truly live, but Eddie Kramer’s magic made us all feel like we too were superheroes on stage in front of the roaring masses.
Really enjoyed this video Andy. My top 10 would be:
1. Jeff Beck - Live At Ronnie Scott's
2. AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
3. Gary Numan - When The Sky Came Down
4. Eric Clapton - Just One Night
5. Dire Straits - Alchemy
6. Peter Gabriel - Plays Live
7. Status Quo - Live 2
8. Rainbow - On Stage
9. Supertramp - Paris
10. Rose Tattoo - 25 To Life
Live at Ronnie Scott's is a good one. I've binged watched the videos of that performance a couple of times here on YT.
Rose Tatto! Hell yes!
Yes ! Jeff Beck live ! He is Zeus
I would add UK - Night after Night and Peter Green Splinter Group at Ronnie Scotts. From the Rab C Nesbitt look during his romp through the woods to an outfit today that can only be described as a Jack Hargreaves look (Out of Town). He only needs the pipe!
Just as I was wishing some mention of the excellent live album from Peter Gabriel, you rescued me! Thanks!
Great video Andy. I listen to something I haven’t previously listened to after every video and I always happy I did!
1. "It's Too Late to Stop Now" - Van Morrison
2. "The Last Waltz" - The Band
3. "Stop Making Sense" - Talking Heads
TLTSN. You got that right. 👍
The Name of the Band Is Talking Heads is better than Stop Making Sense. It's also a double album.
Man, me and my army brothers spun the Laser Disc Last Waltz endlessly.
Live and Dangerous
Strangers in the night !!!
Preach
Great class to start our weekend re-listening some of the albums mentioned.
Thanks!
I was at the Led Zeppelin concert at Madison Square Garden, which I believe was in July, 1973 (a month after graduation) that is the “The Song Remains the Same” album. Still remember the energy….great memory!
the album is not wholly live
@@BarbarraBay I think it is, but some footage was done in studio to mime along with lost footage. I may be wrong. I know KISS ALIVE! was redone in the studio except for the drums. I like both a lot.
@@SPY1964-LL the album has recordings from at least two concerts in merely single songs and obviously the songs were touched up in the studio because some of the songs, such as No Quarter and Dazed & Confused are different on the original vinyl, in the movie & on the remaster. I know because i have listened to the album over 1000 times and have watched the movie at least 10 times. The remaster is awful
@@BarbarraBay You are right. There is a great channel on Zep by a very interesting man who goes deep. He does on Song too. His channel is JCM- Led Zeppelin Stories. You will love it. It is a blast.
Kudos on recognizing the early Allmans from across the pond. There was a mastery of diverse influences across the entire band, before the loss of Duane and Berry Oakley on bass, that made them the one “jam band” with really meaty and satisfying improvisations, all the way thru their longest epics.
Slade Alive..Yeah!! Fabulous album from my late teens.
I know you hate The Ramones but It's Alive captures the peak Ramones live experience and is probably the best punk live album, but no reason it couldnt be included in a rock list either.
It’s alive is a damn masterpiece!
That is the only Ramones album I enjoyed listen to. Always loved it.
Superb album, filmed and published on youtube.....
I thought their final gig live was even better Adios Amigos
Andy….great selections! “Live at Leeds” is my favorite…and of course, "Frampton Comes Alive”, and I would include “Yessongs”….just love that live album(s). On a different note - if Andy or another knowledgeable person could answer: Andy played in the band “Cyan", right? Is this Rob Reed’s “Cyan", and is this the same as Rob Reed’s “Magenta”? And if Andy played in any of Rob’s “colorful” bands, what albums was he on? I can’t seem to find this info online. Thanks! LOVE your videos! Randy from Clearwater, Florida, USA
I also first saw Slade in 1977, and it was simply amazing, still in my top five gigs ever. Spot on Andy.
I live in Statesboro GA, the setting of the first song on Allman Brothers Filmore album, 2 hours from their adopted home of Macon GA, and just down the road from Gregg's home of Richmond Hill GA. So there are a lot of Allman fans where I live. I'm glad to see Filmore on the list. I think it deserves to be there.
@@nazznate Allman Brothers were monster players live... hard to find better.
Macon here! Drive past the Big House daily. And - Capricorn Records is back in full swing too btw. Markus King just did his newest album there.
@@edwardyazinski3858 and Gabbafest less than a month ago
@@edwardyazinski3858GA born and raised boy here...and a musician (🎷) who has had the priviledge and honor to record a song in the legenday Capricorn Studios/Walden Sound...and met Phil Walden many years ago. It is the most cool recording experience of my life. Needless to say im a huge Allmans fan.
Statesboro Blues
3 stellar live albums
Lou Reed : Rock and Roll Animal
Keith Jarrett : Koln Concert
John Martyn : Live at Leeds
WOW! Nice call on the "Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett" I wasn't expecting that although I absolutely agree with you my friend. It's not too often I come across other music fans who even know who & how great Keith Jarrett is. Kudos! +Peace Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend+ 🤘😜🤘
@@216Numbskull totally agree with Lou Reed!!! How could he forget that one!
Does the woodstock soundtrack count
No one mentioned Pink Floyd P.U.L.S.E even once.
For good reason
The greatest party band ever put out a fantastic live rock and roll album. The J. Geils Band. Everybody forgets about them. I remember when they were a local band playing bars and college parties in Worcester MA. The live album deserves a listen. All their albums deserve a listen.
Live At Leeds and Full House and Live Bullet are great master blasters.
You're absolutely right on both counts...that was a great, powerhouse album, which I loved at the time - big energy, big fun. And haven't thought about in a long, long time.
Slade Alive! fully deserves it's position at number one, but is often sadly missed off lists like this. Ditto Noddy Holder is not usually counted as one of the greatest rock vocalists, which of course he was. I would add two honorable mentions: Robin Trower Live! (1976), and P.F.M. Cook. Both of them cracking live albums where the performances easily surpass the studio recordings.
You've put your finger it, John! I love Slade Alive! I bought it off a mate called Tony Cole in about 1976....and have loved it ever since!
I don’t know how someone could put together a list like this and leave Frampton off it. Bizarre!
I totally agree wtih you about Slade Alive! First heard it as a wee seven year old rascal back in 74 or thereabout. Loved it ever since. Apart from it being a bombshell of an album, I love the fact that NONE of their biggest hits feature. Anyway my list (valid today, as it changes frequently) and in no particular order:
Blue Öyster Cult - On your Feet or on your Knees - energywise, Slade Alive's bushytailed monster sister
Slade - Alive - whatever you said :-)
Golden Earring - Live - fantastic proggy hardrocking album, what a tight band. what a guitarist George Kooymans was, and what a drummer they had in Cesar Zuiderwijk!
The Tubes - What do you want from Live - loved them since their early days. Total circus live - so funny, so good and sooooo expensive. Fee Waybill was an underrated vocalist if ever there was one.
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates 2 - I actually prefer their second live album to their more acclaimed first one. production is tip top and nobody did twin guitar quite like them!
Queen - Live at the Rainbow - love early fiery heavy Queen. the March 22nd recording is absolute perfection. the November recording makes an interesting comparison. the Mercury persona more to the fore, but perhaps some of the fire was gone??
Genesis - Seconds Out - great musicianship. can't get enough of Hackett's ghost sounding guitar! Steve was a greater loss than Gabriel in my view.
Gentle Giant - Live Playing the Fool - ridiculous , absolutely ridiculous for all the reasons you mentioned. I mean, On Reflection alone...
Rory Gallagher - Stage Struck - energywise, Slade alive's SECOND bushytailed monster sister.... Rory gave me the single greatest...and loudest live experience I've ever had (back in May 1984),,, and I've seen most of 'em. what a six string wizard. what a guy!
Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out - saw the madison sq garden concert on TV in 1978/79 My mom rolling on the floor with laughter...me gasping for air watching musical brilliance taken to a whole new level. bought bursting out as soon as I had the opportunity (which could be months back in those days...)
plus loads and loads of honorable mentions...
Spot on. Slade is a great call. A proper live LP from a brilliant live band. Superb. Shame not to have On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - but hey, you'll get there.
Recently discovered you-all praise to the All-knowing Algorithm. Have been binge-watching like mad. You are now my favorite "music critic". Your words are balm to my old, sound-blasted ears. I resonate with almost everything you say. Finally someone who shamelessly expresses what demands being said but rarely, if ever, is (although the nature of this piece is not of that ilk, different to what I've seen so far which has mostly been take-downs). I actually thought that I was one of the only ones who had these sentiments. Impressive the improvised, scathing, sardonic articulateness infused with understated humor and, importantly, broad musical/cultural context and knowledge. Kudos for including two of Jimi!
How do you miss double live Gonzo? Please explain. 😮
Couple others to try when you're bored.
1. Black Flag - Live '84
2. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
3. Grateful Dead - Live Dead
"Live Dead" could never be considered fairly from a certain "critical" perspective. The English bias isn't the cause.
Saw Slade open for Humble Pie in 1973 at Winterland in San Francisco. Steely Dan opened. Humble Pie Rockin the Fillmore is a criminally underrated live album
So glad you mentioned Slade. I, too, only recently discovered this album. I was a 10 years old when it was released, and was not really into live recordings. Slade, as you said, were known for their string of hits as singles. They were massive in Australia, where I live.
You made my day!
Enjoyable to listen to. I am surprised Cream’s live recordings didn’t make the list.
Live Bullet by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. If you’re including American rock music which you seldom do you’ve got to appreciate Bob toiling away for a decade then releasing this great live album and the studio album Night Moves and suddenly he was all over rock radio. Turn the Page is maybe the best life on the road song ever made.
Agreed....Bob Seger is way underrated. Live Bullet is a fantastic album.
Dude I couldn t agree with you more. They always overlook Bob….I mentioned it too. Above
Fantastic album! My prejudice is showing, but seeing Seger and J.Geils and Heart and BTO and Nazareth when they would come around to Cobo and Pine Knob were the best of times!!
It’s in my top 3 for sure.
Classic album
Thanks Andy, great list. I’ve got homework.
My all time favourite:
I stretch a little to jazz-rock with emphasize on rock.
No particular order, just the records I’m still listening to a lot.
Miles Davis: We want Miles
Gil Evans Orchestra: Live at Sweet Basil
John Scofield: Pick Hits Live
Jan Akkerman: 10.000 clowns on a rainy day
Rolling Stones: Get yer ya-ya’s out!
Deep Purple: Made in Europe
Golden Earring: Live
David Bowie: A Reality Tour
Lou Reed: Live
Deep Purple: Made in Japan
Rainbow: On Stage
Herman Brood’s Wild Romance: Cha Cha
Warren Zevon - “Stand in the Fire.” The CD version contains such bonus cuts as “Play It All Night Long,” the ultimate brutal satire of Southern rock.
J. Geils Band - “Full House.” Gleefully savage blues rock that stands up to any other example of the genre.
Full House - definitely. Similar to Slade Alive on many levels.
I would expect the J. Geils Band to appear on these lists.
Zevon was like a man on the ledge with Stand in the Fire. Definitely belongs on the list.
Love FULL HOUSE!
A relief to see someone mention Full House. To be honest, I prefer Blow Your Face Out, but both albums are so brilliant and have so little overlap that I think that if I were to make my own Top 10 live albums I would have to put both of them on it and fie on the convention of one album per artist.
when you tie in the two sides of "Mountain Jam" on Eat A Peach (continuation of Whipping Post on the live album), the allmann filmore concert is maybe the best of them all: a picture of the (almost) endless concert of a band just jamming, a representation of a long-gone era. Your choices are fine even if maybe I would switch out a couple.
It's a shame it didn't include Not my cross to bear, Duane Allman, man.
A nice idea for a video essay. Just starting watching now. I assume that you’ll probably have The Allman Brothers AT FILMORE EAST on this list. That is one of my favorites. Looking forward to hearing all of your choices.
Edit: just finished. There’s a few here, I either have to revisit or listen to for the first time. Another great video, Andy. Thanks.
Pictures at an Exhibition, ELP: Prog-Punk!
Along with Live At Leeds, the most energetic Live album I've ever heard. ELP was not a massive album band (still sold 50 million albums) but they were arguably the biggest live act of the 70s. They were first and foremost a live band.
@@robertglisson6319 this is very true. Pictures drips with excitement, and I have often said that ELP had a good call for being the biggest live band in the world in the 70's.
I saw Slade in 1972 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, at the tender age of 11. They were the opening act , then J Geils, then the headliner - Humble Pie. Bought Slade Alive back then because of that concert.
Two live albums I would add - Humble Pie Performance Rocking The Fillmore and Little Feat Waiting For Columbus.
Pat Travers 'Go For What You Know' should be up there somewhere. Astonishing playing, possibly the best rock and roll band of the time, playing wise. Incredibly underrated with some real virtuosos (including my favourite bass player, Mars Cowling), which to be fair Slade never were (or anywhere near to be honest, but still a truly great live band though)!
Pat Thrall's work on that album is phenomenal. I love his solo on "Out Go the Lights".
Nice to see somebody recognize Pat. An old girlfriend and I hung out with Pat in his bus after a show he did at the Cocoa Beach Pier. I met him before that at a bar called Marker 34 in Titusville. Still have the ticket stub I somewhere.
@@marso1384 Did you guys do blow and hook up on a 3 way?
@@mindspringers2447 LOL, no. He was a very nice. There were a few people on the bus. This was the 90s so not so crazy anymore.
Tokyo Tapes, Scorpions late 70's live album that Uli Roth's original and phenomenal guitar playing made it worth more than price of admission.
Totally agree, great live feel to it and all the songs much better than on their respective albums
Ah great album think i saw them before uli left..
yes, and i wore out World Wide Live when i was a young teenager.
10. 2:00 AC/DC If you want blood
9. 8:29 Frank Zappa / Mothers : Roxy & Elswere
8. 14:01 Jethro Tull : Bursting out
7. 16:21 Led Zeppelin: How the West was won
6. 21:50 Jimmy Hendrix: Band of Gypsys & Live at Monterey
5. 27:17 Allman Brothers Band: At the Filmore East
4. 31:46 James Brown: Live at the Apollo, 1962
3. 35:24 The Who: Live at Leeds
2. 42:07 Deep Purple: Made in Japan
1. 47:51 Salde: Slade alive!
51:15 : Honorable Mentions:
* Frampton come alive!
* Aretha Live at Fillmore
* Bob Marley & the Wailers Live
* Cheap Trick At Budokan
* Free Live!
* Thin Lizzy: Live and dangerous, Killers live
* Motorhead: No sleep 'til Hammersmith (of course!)
* Talking Heads: Stop making sense (of course!)
* B.B.King Live at the Regal
* Donny Hathaway Live
* Playing the fool: Gentle Giant
@@gabrielk2295 Thanks!
Thanks. I fell asleep during the Allman Brothers Band and James Brown and again during the honorable mentions.
You had your own bursting out there during the Jethro Tull section 😅
Yep and again during hendrix phwerrrp, even does the seat adjustment preparing for it phwerrrp😂😂
Says he's a music teacher 😂😂 obviously bum notes 😂😂 phwerrrp
@@geoarthur6593 haha, can’t blame it on the dog.
Another ripper during live at Leeds phwerrrp
It happened twice. I think it is a farting chair!
"Live at Leeds" has been hyped, hyped, and hyped some more over the last 50 yrs.....
And it lives up to the hype. It's not overrated. The later expanded reissues are just that much better than the already-amazing original release.
Thanks, Andy.
Magic Bus..you can't have it.
Top man with Slade Alive at No 1...had to replace my first copy...as i'd played it to death! You could say I "Slayed it!"🤘
1. Scream for me Brasil - Bruce Dickenson. 2. Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy. 3. Live Killers - Queen 4. Unleashed in East Judas Priest. 5. All The World is a Stage - Rush. Live Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden. 6. On your fett or On your knees. - Blue Öyster Cult. 7. Right here Right now - Van Halen. Many of these are doctored in studios or are a mix of many shows but still they are great....
Andy! Great call on the Slade Alive album. Can't argue with that one at all! In 74 or 75 I was 19 or 20 years old and heard that album at several parties and I never forgot it! And I grew up in Canada! Nice list all the way around!
I've only recently delved deeper into Slade, and I think its possible to claim they are the most underrated band ever. And every live performence I've come across makes me wish I could have seen them at there peak.
There's now a 7-CD box set of Frank Zappa & The Mother's Of Invention's five-show run at the Roxy in 1973: The Roxy Performances. Definitely worth getting!
As a twelve year old Slade Alive crushed my brain, here in Canada, play loud then play it louder
Slide was all about 12 year olds.
@@James-hd4ms I was not cynical and jaded back in 1973, I saved my sneering condescension for my Iggy Pop Elvis Costello phase 5 years later when I needed meaning to play it ridiculously loud, now I just play it loud because after 200 concerts my hearing is not great anymore
Does Andy pass wind at 15:53 in the video? Keeping it real.
I think it's the chair. Shame.
Status Quo Live! Every song destroys the studio version. 4500 Times, mmmm yum
Much better than slade for me
You can’t be a 1970s rocker if you don’t have that album in your top 3.
Yes I agree. I was at the 3rd night gig. It was a Friday night in October 1976 at the legendary Glasgow Apollo. I was 16 years old. It was utterly fantastic.
Absolutely great album, they were definitely at their peak at that point
Andy, I immediately thought about 'Slade Alive' but I wasn't expecting to see it included !
Slade defiantly needs more love, I have no idea why they never took hold in the U.S. outside of the two covers Quiet Riot did.
Absolutely agree.first album I bought was slayed loved em then and sill do. Noddy holder one of the best voices in rock n roll Jim lea and don powel outstanding musicians imo.
It's because the suck!
@@richardcrook2112 no they don’t, maybe you have cauliflowers for ears?
Silly costumes.
@@James-hd4ms errrr have you heard of KISS?
I love the lively discussion in the comments, this is a great help finding back some of the best music made.
Thank you all for this!
Why are you dressed like a Scoutmaster?
He’s posh you see.
I have most of these albums but the live rock album I listen to most now, 50 years later, is Humble Pie, Rockin' the Fillmore. I liked Humble Pie but when I saw them live I was gobsmacked. It was a totally different band so I bought the live album.
In fact, it's not really a band, it's really a tour de force performance by Steve Marriott with a fantastic backing band. I knew that he was a real larger-than-life character but who knew that he could play guitar like that. You would have thought that he would be totally outclassed on the fretboard by Peter Frampton but he was not.
Play the side long epic "Gilded Splinters" through big speakers with the lights down low and tell me that you don't get goosebumps! What a showman.
The whole album is a tribute to a great British performer. RIP Steve.
Live at Leeds. The Who. That's been my #1, since I first heard it. And now I see it's on your list. Nicely done.
I remember somebody saying
Live at leeds like they live there
Still laugh
Greatest live album.
Excellent list. A very under appreciated group The Who, Live they always seemed on the edge of exploding. Live at Hull is the first gig that Roger Daltrey was referring to. A great album.
Another great video. I enjoy your opinions and analysis of bands and albums. One minor point: I have heard from an old interview with Mick J that he first appropriated his James Brown moves when they both were appearing at the 1964 TAMI Show.
I respect your opinions and I like the reasons you chose the way you did. In my humble opinion, The Greatest Rock Live albums are all in the 70s of course and are as follows but not in any particular order. UFO Strangers in the Night, KISS Alive, Led Zeppelin Song Remains the Same, Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Rush All the Worlds a Stage, Deep Purple Made in Japan, Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous, Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, Peter Frampton Comes Alive and LS One More From the Road.
Absolutely brilliant top 10, all of which I have and love ❤️. The other album I love for it's absolute visceral energy is MC5 Kick Out The Jams - an absolute must for anyone to hear!
Decent list, but-Live at Leeds-Who, Full House-J.Geils, Bob Seger-Live Bullet, Made in Japan-Deep Purple, Get yer Ya Yas out-Stones, Allman Brothers-Fillmore East, Kiss-Alive, The Clash-Live at Shea, Bauhaus-Gotham, and so may others.
Great choice of live albums. Totally concur.
Allman Brothers had their two greatest Hits: Ramblin Man and Jessica on Brothers and Sisters that was recorded after Duane‘s Dead. Dickie Betts was more than a Wing Man, he was a great Guitarist.
The first guy I saw to lie on the floor with a guitar and walk around in a circle was Fred Astaire in the movie Funny Face. I'm surprised you didn't have Rock Of Ages by the Band as the gig was unusual with the added line up of horns.
Excellent list. As an American/Canadian I will check out Slade. Best live album of all time is an elevated position indeed. The only push back I would provide is that it’s a tad ignorant to suggest Americana, however one defines the category, doesn’t exist or was of no consequence in the progression of rock/pop music (31). Having grown up in the American West in the 50’s and 60’s I listened to the influence of country, bluegrass and folk on the music of the day. Americana influenced the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Elvis Costello and other British artists as they spent time in the US. There were some excellent bands and artists associated with Americana. Gram Parsons is often credited as the first artist to blend country music with rock but really it was happening all over. There was a huge bluegrass revival in the mid late 60’s that featured some virtuosic players on guitar, mandolin and 5 string banjo. Players like Doc Watson, Clarence White, Norman Blake, Bela Fleck, JD Crowe, David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs and on and on. Rock bands heavily influenced by the form include the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Grateful Dead, Los Lobos, Poco and of course The Band. It’s fine to say Americana isn’t your cup of tea so to speak but to imply it was totally unimportant in the evolution of rock music is a bit silly. I think a good list would be 10 Americana influenced albums Andy must listen to. I’ll have to give that list some thought.
@@Chiller11 Andy, although he is opposed to Identity Shenanigans is british, can‘t help himself not to be an Exceptionalist.
Just recently saw Marty Stuart in Gstaad and this 4 Guys played their Mix of Country Rock and Rockabilly in a Way that Rockpile only matched when Carlene Carter sang with them.
You have expressed exactly what I often feel after some of these blind spot observations of American music. I hope Andy takes your suggestion for a vid topic.