What would be your favorite top 5 albums be?

Mine:
1 - Band of Gypsys
2 - Get Your Ya Yas Out
3 - Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
4 - David - Live (1974)
5 - J.Geils Band - Full House

I think this topic has been posted here before. Regardless, here are my 5 as of right now, subject to change, no particular order:

Ya Ya's
Made In Japan - Deep Purple
Alive - KISS
If You Want Blood - AC/DC - an actual live album with no overdubs
At Budokan - Cheap Trick

Otis Redding Live at the Monterey Pop Festival
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends On Tour with Eric Clapton
NRBQ- God Bless Us All
Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence
Grateful Dead - 1977 Cornell
Slayer - Decade of Agression
Duran Duran - A Diamond in the Mind

1. Ya-Ya’s – daylight between 1 and 2……
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd – One more from the road
3. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
4. Who live at leeds
5. Thin lizzy – live & dangerous

pool's in but the patio ain't dry

1 - Get Your Ya Yas Out
2 - David Bowie - Live at Nassau Coliseum
3 - J.Geils Band - Full House
4 - Dylan - The Rolling Thunder Revue Boxset
5 - Who - Live at Leeds

Taj Mahal - The Real Thing
J Geils Band - Full House
Miles Davis - Fillmore East
The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Yas Out
Wes Montgomery - Full House Live

And...

The Kinks - One for the road.
Warren Zevon - Standing in the fire

The Kinks-album is excellent.

no particular order

Bob Dylan: Manchester 1966
The Who: Live at Leeds
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Winterland
Eric Clapton: Just One Night
Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped

Rolling Stones - Love You Live

Rolling Stones - Still life

James Brown - Love, Power, Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at The Club (ok, not exactly at the Club, but who cares)

Bob Marley and the Wailers - ‘Live!’

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Just made the top 5: Queen live Killers, Talking heads stop making sense, Jimi band of Jypsys, AC DC if you want blood, Police live, Who live at leeds,

C

Ya-Yas and
Love you Live by The Stones
Live at last by The Dingoes
Free Live by Free
Parkerilla by Graham Parker and the Rumour
Pack up the Plantation by Tom Petty

Rod

And David Johansen - Live it up!

I dunno.

As much as I like live albums I've not been one to get a lot other than by artists I like. In other words, I don't have FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE because of its historical status. Should I? I've heard whatever on the radio and that seems to be the big deal.

Of the live albums I have... I'm guessing by "live albums" it implies not "bootlegs" like what Pearl Jam and The Cult and various artists have done at times, so that would exclude HAMPTON and LA FRIDAY etc.

In no particular order:

AC/DC If You Want Blood You've Got It
Jimmy Buffett - You Had To Be There
The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Jason Isbell - Live From Alabama
Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

Bob Dylan Hard Rain
Rolling Stones GYYOY & Still Life
The Band -Before the Flood
J Geils - Full house and BloodShot
J &E Winter and Derringer RoadWork

Absolutely Live - The Doors
Kick out the Jams - MC5 (it’s live!)
No Sleep till Hammersmith - Motorhead
Live Era 87- 93 - Guns N Roses
Ya Yas - The Stones

Rolling Stones- Ya Ya's
J Geils - Blow Your Face Out
Bob Segar - Live Bullet
Deep Purple – Made In Japan
J Geils - Full House

Don't forget Simon & Garfunkel "The Concert in Central Park". But I guess I'm the only Paul Simon fan around here...

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Stoneage
Don't forget Simon & Garfunkel "The Concert in Central Park". But I guess I'm the only Paul Simon fan around here...

Please refrain.. they may close this thread....

Most of the records mentioned and Roxy Music - Viva

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One of the best live lps of all time...Johnny Winter &...LIVE!!

top 5 favorite official Rolling Stones live albums:

1. GYYYO
2. Got Live If You Want It UK EP
3. Charlie Is My Darling bonus CD
4. El Mocambo side of LYL
5. Some Girls Live In Texas 78
(would be Ladies and Gentlemen but the sound is not up to it)


top 5 favorite unofficial Rolling Stones live albums:

1. Live'r Than You Will Ever Be
2. Out On Bail
3. Handsome Girls
4. Welcome To New York
5. Bedspring Symphony


top 5 favorite non Rolling Stones live albums:

1. Black Uhuru: Tear It Up
2. Little Feat: Electrif Lycanthrope
3. Hot Tuna first album now on 2 cd expanded version
4. Miles Davis: Miles At the Fillmore 4 cd set
5. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live

jb

Lots of good ones already mentioned, so just a few additions:

Ten Years After - Recorded Live
Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album
Slade - Alive
James Brown - Live At Home With His Bad Self (2019 Mix)

LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye
Four Tet (4TLR) - Live at Funkhaus Berlin 2014
Fishmans - 98.18.28
Tame Impala - Live Versions
Rolling Stones - some Girls 78

Most of the Greatest ones mentioned.
There are some great live albums with never before releases material:
Roxy & Elsewhere - FZ
Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP
The Köln Concert - Keith Jarett
comes to my mind.

And don’t forget
4 Way Street - CSNY
A live Record - Camel

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Stoneage
Don't forget Simon & Garfunkel "The Concert in Central Park". But I guess I'm the only Paul Simon fan around here...

More a Simon & Garfunkel fan than a pols simon alone fan, and yes, Central Park is a wonderful concert!

C

Of course all of the Stones albums + Yes Songs.

On the 7th day God created The Rolling Stones

1) The Rolling Stones - BrusselS Affair
2) Johnny Cash - At Folsom
3) Ray Charles - Shrine Auditorium, 1964
4) Elvis Presley - 1969 at The International
5) Allmän Brothers - At Fillmore, 1971

Paul Simon - Concert in the Park has always been my favorite live album, followed very closely by Sir Paul's Tripping the Live Fantastic.

Two standouts from the selections mentioned, are Bob Marley's 'Live', and excellent album, and the Who's 'Live at Leeds'. Those two would go right below my first five. Duke Ellington at Newport is another great. I'm surprised no one else picked Band of Gypsys. It was Hendrix at his absolute zenith. If I was going to pick a number two Stones live album it would have to be Brussels. They are cookin'.