Nothing better than a killer live album (preferably not the "sounding like an actual studio album"-kind with tons of post-production overdubs and overboard "studio"-sound (reamp, remix)) with a killer yet live sound capturing a killer performance by a band at the top of his game spanning through a wide and diverse array of songs of an amazing discography (phew... talk about a neverending sentence) :
(I'm talking about heavy music (from grindcore to punk rock basically) here mostly btw, but it means no "alice in chains/nirvana awesome unplugged albums so fuck it and let's not limit this to heavy music)
(some of the albums cited below are not a real/entire live set but a compilation of songs off various live sets, but they're awesome nonetheless)
My favs. on the top of my mind :
OFFICIAL :
Pantera - live 101 proof
In Flames - the tokyo showdown
Death - Vivus! (Live In L.A. – 1998 / Live In Eindhoven – 1998)
Exodus - another lesson in violence
Pearl Jam - (all of the live albums they've put out are awesome, and there is a LOT)
Alice In Chains - MTV unplugged
Nirvana - MTV unplugged
earth crisis - the oath that keeps me free
pennywise - live at the key club
morbid angel - entangled in chaos
sick of it all - live in a dive
biohazard - no holds barred
cannibal corpse - live cannibalism
stuck mojo - hvy1
Joe Satriani - live in San Francisco
Slipknot - disasterpieces
Alice in chains - Live
Cryptopsy - live in quebec
Suffocation - live in quebec
Gojira - the link alive
Deviate - one by one (live in Japan)
NON OFFICIAL :
sepultura - live in minneapolis (93' ? 94' ? or 95' ?) -> this is my fav., i wish they released a proper official version (tracks are spread throughout various EPs...)
COOL LIVE ALBUM BUT LACKING THE LAST 1% OF AWESOMENESS :
GOD FORBID - Beneath the Scars Of Glory and Progression
Machine head - hellalive
sepultura - under a pale grey sky (this one is great but not awesome, especially compared to the "live in minneapolis" i talked about in the OP. There are a lot of sloppy parts and/or not in tune guitars/bass, etc... Max sounds great but not a the top of his game. I LOVE the Cro Mags cover featuring the Strife singer at the end of the set tho'.)
Immolation - bringing down the world (live in eindhoven)
vision of disorder - live in new york (hardly any songs off the "imprint" album which sucks !!!)
killswitch engage - (set this) world ablaze (great performance/sound, but too repetitive IMO))
TOO BAD THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKED UP IN THIS LIVE ALBUM, BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME :
Down - diary of a mad band (some really sloppy vocals (offkey) in a lot of parts)
Slipknot - 9.0 voluminal (sloppy drums and vocals performances, and a clicky/samply kick drum sound, whereas the songs off "volume 3 : the subliminal verses" are sick)
chimaira - coming alive (the sloppy drums on some fast double bass drums parts (huge slowdowns))
Pissing Razors (something kinda bugged me but i forgot what
)
I WISH IT EXISTED (A PROPER OFFICIAL LIVE ALBUM) / IT EXISTS ALREADY BUT I DIDN'T KNOW OF IT OR HAVE YET TO LISTEN TO IT :
Merauder
Madball
Downset
E Town Concrete
Dying Fetus
Misery Index
Decapitated
Suffocation (recent show)
Textures
Soilwork
Hatesphere
Length Of Time
Deftones
Body Count
Glassjaw
Obscenity
Severe Torture
Carcass
Nile
Wisdom In Chains
Terror
Suicidal Tendencies
Earth Crisis (a recent show)
Animosity
Fear Factory (but Burton C. Bell needs to take clean singing vocals lessons first)
Crowbar
36 crazyfists (i think they did an official dvd but it sounded sloppy AFAIR)
Will Haven
Millencolin (recent performance, but they have to get their shit together and do a killer perfomance, unlike their live shows these days)
New Found Glory
Set Your Goals
Pride and glory
Anthrax (recent performance with John Bush please)
Slipknot (recent performance with a tight performance please)
Death Before Dishonor
H20
Skarhead
Leeway
Biohazard
Eyeless
Gojira (recent performance)
Kickback
Angel Crew
Backfire
Alice In Chains (recent show with Will Duvall)
Comes With The Fall
Now shoot yours !
EDIT : updating the shit out of my list now and then as always
(I'm talking about heavy music (from grindcore to punk rock basically) here mostly btw, but it means no "alice in chains/nirvana awesome unplugged albums so fuck it and let's not limit this to heavy music)
(some of the albums cited below are not a real/entire live set but a compilation of songs off various live sets, but they're awesome nonetheless)
My favs. on the top of my mind :
OFFICIAL :
Pantera - live 101 proof
In Flames - the tokyo showdown
Death - Vivus! (Live In L.A. – 1998 / Live In Eindhoven – 1998)
Exodus - another lesson in violence
Pearl Jam - (all of the live albums they've put out are awesome, and there is a LOT)
Alice In Chains - MTV unplugged
Nirvana - MTV unplugged
earth crisis - the oath that keeps me free
pennywise - live at the key club
morbid angel - entangled in chaos
sick of it all - live in a dive
biohazard - no holds barred
cannibal corpse - live cannibalism
stuck mojo - hvy1
Joe Satriani - live in San Francisco
Slipknot - disasterpieces
Alice in chains - Live
Cryptopsy - live in quebec
Suffocation - live in quebec
Gojira - the link alive
Deviate - one by one (live in Japan)
NON OFFICIAL :
sepultura - live in minneapolis (93' ? 94' ? or 95' ?) -> this is my fav., i wish they released a proper official version (tracks are spread throughout various EPs...)
COOL LIVE ALBUM BUT LACKING THE LAST 1% OF AWESOMENESS :
GOD FORBID - Beneath the Scars Of Glory and Progression
Machine head - hellalive
sepultura - under a pale grey sky (this one is great but not awesome, especially compared to the "live in minneapolis" i talked about in the OP. There are a lot of sloppy parts and/or not in tune guitars/bass, etc... Max sounds great but not a the top of his game. I LOVE the Cro Mags cover featuring the Strife singer at the end of the set tho'.)
Immolation - bringing down the world (live in eindhoven)
vision of disorder - live in new york (hardly any songs off the "imprint" album which sucks !!!)
killswitch engage - (set this) world ablaze (great performance/sound, but too repetitive IMO))
TOO BAD THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKED UP IN THIS LIVE ALBUM, BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AWESOME :
Down - diary of a mad band (some really sloppy vocals (offkey) in a lot of parts)
Slipknot - 9.0 voluminal (sloppy drums and vocals performances, and a clicky/samply kick drum sound, whereas the songs off "volume 3 : the subliminal verses" are sick)
chimaira - coming alive (the sloppy drums on some fast double bass drums parts (huge slowdowns))
Pissing Razors (something kinda bugged me but i forgot what
)I WISH IT EXISTED (A PROPER OFFICIAL LIVE ALBUM) / IT EXISTS ALREADY BUT I DIDN'T KNOW OF IT OR HAVE YET TO LISTEN TO IT :
Merauder
Madball
Downset
E Town Concrete
Dying Fetus
Misery Index
Decapitated
Suffocation (recent show)
Textures
Soilwork
Hatesphere
Length Of Time
Deftones
Body Count
Glassjaw
Obscenity
Severe Torture
Carcass
Nile
Wisdom In Chains
Terror
Suicidal Tendencies
Earth Crisis (a recent show)
Animosity
Fear Factory (but Burton C. Bell needs to take clean singing vocals lessons first)
Crowbar
36 crazyfists (i think they did an official dvd but it sounded sloppy AFAIR)
Will Haven
Millencolin (recent performance, but they have to get their shit together and do a killer perfomance, unlike their live shows these days)
New Found Glory
Set Your Goals
Pride and glory
Anthrax (recent performance with John Bush please)
Slipknot (recent performance with a tight performance please)
Death Before Dishonor
H20
Skarhead
Leeway
Biohazard
Eyeless
Gojira (recent performance)
Kickback
Angel Crew
Backfire
Alice In Chains (recent show with Will Duvall)
Comes With The Fall
Now shoot yours !
EDIT : updating the shit out of my list now and then as always
