ITT: instances where an act's best record is a live record
ITT: instances where an act's best record is a live record
Asher Ross
Other urls found in this thread:
Owen Cooper
MC5
Christopher White
Asher Long
stop making sense
Joshua Davis
Obviously. All of JB's best music is live
Mason Cook
youtu.be
unreal performance
Joshua Perry
Matthew Perez
Colton Thompson
Jackson Sullivan
To be honest, virtually never. I mean a live album can be good, but it almost never clearly surpasses the studio record. Even bands like Cheap Trick where even the normals agree that Budokan is definitive, I find that maybe one song is better but on the whole the song selection either sucks or the other songs are markedly worse than in-studio.
A good example is KISS Alive. The songs from Dressed to Kill are way better because that album came out so wimpy-sounding, but you can’t beat the vocal performances on the studio versions of songs like Strutter or the overwheming sound of the entire Hotter Than Hell album.
Nirvana Unplugged is true but that is more about the low quality/bad production/arrangements of their meager few studio albums than it is Unplugged being any kind of revelation.
With that said, Live Seeds by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds is close to being a definitive early-period collection.
Jayden Bailey
shut up nerd
Jose Peterson
Check out Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light also, has Pat Methany and Jaco Pastorius playing on it.
Colton Thompson
will do. I'm on a big joni kick. her vocal delivery is so great
Adrian Bailey
Fishmans, obv
Andrew Anderson
Live in Leipzig is the best mayhem album
Charles Long
Obligatory
Caleb Williams
Maybe the best rock album of all time.
Jordan Barnes
hot take comin' thru
Landon Russell
Based
I’d say Bootleg Series 4 is his best but that one is really great too. It’s got the only version of Knockin on Heaven’s Door anyone ever needs.
Luke Johnson
the '75 Isis versions smoke
Aiden Flores
All the most famous live albums practically are studio albums, they overdub parts of it in the studio to make it sound better. It happens on pretty much every major live album but no one knows about it.
Evan Brooks
It depends on the album, some only have minor fixes and some are almost entirely rerecorded. The only overdubs on are to fix some backing vocals iirc.
Luke Jones
On The Band's The Last Waltz there was a big controversy about the overdubs. Levon Helm claimed his mic was turned off and Scorsese was putting all the focus on Robbie Robbertson. Most the concert went through heavy overdubs before releasing it on album.
There's an original version of the concert undubbed floating around on youtube and sounds very different.
Still an incredible movie/album despite that, it's mostly just minor things they fix but Levon seemed to take it very personally.
Justin Parker
>he's never heard of jam bands
It's time to get in touch with your inner boomer, user. Jazz is also full of ridiculous live performances. Compare Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" to the studio version, for instance.
Xavier Powell
opened the thread to post this
Bentley Wilson
Jayden Morgan
Yeah Jazz is almost always better live. It's a performance art, man.