Official releases only please!

James Brown's Sex Machine is what inspired this question.

johnny cash - at folsom and at san quentin

sylvester - living proof

bjork - vespertine live

bowie - stage and live at the beeb

talking heads - stop making sense and the name of this band is talking heads

laurie anderson - home of the brave

sting - bring on the night (i used to rock this album all the time in high school)

annie lennox - live in central park

(i know i'm leaving out something super important, but ah well...)

Anx said:

Was that one a concert film?

Anx said:

I love those and "David Live", but I find the one that I'm most often in the mood for is the soundtrack from the Ziggy movie.

sitruk7 said:

kind of....it was a documentary about the blue turtles tour, with lots of live footage.

off the top of my head, those are damn good

Supremes Live In Japan....Jean Terrell is amazing on this.

GangstaFam said:

maybe i'm more burnt out on the ziggy live album than i am the others...they're all good. my least favorite bowie live album is "liveandwell.com", and even that has some keepers on it.

Anx said:

OK, I thought that seemed familiar.

sitruk7 said:

i think the soundtrack is far more interesting than the movie, but it was interesting to see sting rehearsing with that band.

Anx said:

Yeah. That one would be better if it was just highlights of one show from the Outside or Earthling tours instead of a combo platter.

Anx said:

Sounds cool.

I quite like these grunge classics.

GangstaFam said:

awww, the nirvana unplugged is a sweet little album. i had a roommate who would play "lake of fire" over and over and over and over.

Anx said:

I think that as stuck in a rut Kurt felt near the end of his life, this album shows that he was most definitely NOT.
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These....

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Pretty much anything live by James Brown is gonna be stellar.

silverchild said:

Based on what I know, that's a solid list!

GangstaFam said:

Pretty much!

D'Angelo - Live at the Jazz Cafe


Neil Finn & Friends - 7 Worlds Collide (featuring Johnny Marr of the Smiths, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Phil Selway and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead, and Sebastien Steinberg of Soul Coughing).

* Johnny cash: folsom prison / san quentin
* Johnny Cash & Willie nelson: Vh1 storytellers
* Bob Dylan: the bootleg series vol6 concert at philharmonic hall / at the gaslight
* Jeff buckely: live at cin-é / live a l'olympia
* Nirvana: mtv unplugged
* David Bowie: bbc radio theatre london june 27 2000
* John mayer: TRY / any given thursday
* townes van zandt: live at the old quarter / a gentle evening with...
* Blaze foley: live at the Austin outhouse
* Bill monroe: bean blossom
* Bob Marley: live / babylon by bus
* Emmylou Harris: spyboy
* lucinda williams: live at the fillmore
* Garth brooks : double live ( )
* Live from Austtin TX series: Willie nelson / waylon Jennings / Dwight Yoakam
* Hillsong: United we stand / look to you / god he reigns
* lakewood live: cover the earth
* elvis presley: nbc comeback special

Ya-Ya's.

I'm glad both live Talking Heads albums were mentioned. They're both superb. In recent months, this one's become a favorite of mine, live or otherwise:

I remember at least 1 major dire straits fan on here, but Knofler is extremely overlooked as a guitar player. Fuck knows how he plays without a plectrum.
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No one ever mentions 'Under a Blood Red Sky' in these conversations, but it's probably my favorite live album other than 'Stop Making Sense'. One of my earliest musical memories is of my father playing '...Blood Red...' ad naseum. Never really appreciated it until I went away to college and got hardcore into U2. Now I absolutely adore it.

sosgemini said: