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The Top 50 Live Albums of all time

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November 3, 2006 | 12 Comments

As you know, we here at ENS have a big guilty pleasure thing for lists, and the good folks over at Stylus seem to share this as well. Stylus drops the top 50 Live Albums of All Time on us today. Here they are listed below.

#50: John Cale – Sabotage
#49: J. Geils Band – Live: Blow Your Face Out
#48: Laurie Anderson – United States Live
#47: Curtis Mayfield – Curtis / Live!
#46: David Bowie – Stage
#45: Grateful Dead – Europe ‘72
#44: Erykah Badu – Live
#43: Bruce Springsteen – Live 1975 – 1985
#42: Spacemen 3 – Performance
#41: Velvet Underground – Live: 1969
#40: The Band – Rock of Ages
#39: Bill Withers – Live at Carnegie Hall
#38: The Allman Brothers – Live at Fillmore East
#37: Tom Waits – Big Time
#36: Jeff Buckley – Live at Sin-E
#35: Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace
#34: Charles Mingus – Mingus at Antibes
#33: Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
#32: Jeff Mills – Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo
#31: Spiritualized – Fucked Up Inside
#30: The Fall – A Part of American Therein, 1981
#29: Sam Cooke – Live at the Harlem Square Club
#28: The Jam – Dig the New Breed
#27: Japan – Oil on Canvas
#26: Van Morrison – It’s Too Late to Stop Now
#25: Underworld – Everything, Everything
#24: James Brown – Sex Machine
#23: John Coltrane & Thelonius Monk – Live at Carnegie Hall
#22: Otis Redding – Live in Europe
#21: Jay-Z – Unplugged

#20: Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys
#19: Can – Can Box Live
#18: Neil Young – Live Rust
#17: Johnny Cash – At San Quentin
#16: Bob Dylan – Live 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue
#15: Joy Division – Les Bains Douches 1979
#14: MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
#13: Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
#12: Portishead – PNYC: Roseland Live
#11: Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
#10: Miles Davis – Live – Evil
#9: The Clash – Live: From Here to Eternity
#8: Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won
#7: Kraftwerk – Minimum-Maximum
#6: The Who – Live at Leeds
#5: Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
#4: James Brown – Live at the Apollo
#3: Talking Heads – The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
#2: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
#1: Bob Dylan – Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966, “Royal Albert Hall” Concert

Be sure to check out Stylus for the list, some explanations, and a good deal of conversation.

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Comments

12 Comments so far

  1. blawk359 on November 3, 2006 5:01 pm

    Pearl Jam releases, what, 6,000 live albums and not one makes it onto the list? How about those odds?

  2. RockNRollWerewolf on November 4, 2006 5:24 pm

    Yeah, I think Kick Out The Jams should have ranked higher (dare I say in the top 5). The Deluxe Edition of Live at Leeds (the whole concert) is the best live album ever. No questions. I would have also liked to have seen: either Paintin’ The Town Brown or Live in Chicago by Ween, Live at The Castle by The Wailers, Live by Built to Spill, Live at The Wheel Chair Races by Guided By Voices, You Can’t Do That on Stage by Frank Zappa and Live on Two Legs by Pearl Jam. Still, all in all, good representation of some classic live discs.

  3. bigboy22 on November 5, 2006 8:24 pm

    Grank Funk Railroad LIVE

  4. Music Blog on November 11, 2006 4:29 pm

    Top 50 Live Albums

    Number one on the list of the Top 50 Live Albums is not Eminem. It’s Jay-Z….

  5. Hans on November 19, 2006 5:50 pm

    This list is upside down ;) . John Cale should be at #01.

  6. Matt on December 6, 2006 1:09 am

    Live at Leeds is No. 1!!!! Blasphemy

  7. jako on January 2, 2007 8:24 pm

    Two missing – insert anywhere.
    Bob Segar – Live Bullet
    Ian Hunter – Welcome to the Club

  8. justin on March 6, 2007 9:54 pm

    1
    Alice In Chains Unplugged is easily the best MTV unplugged performance.
    2
    Where is Pink Floyd? Pulse deserves to be up there
    3
    AC/DC live deserves a mention… but that just be me as an AC/DC fan

  9. Casey on March 9, 2007 12:07 am

    These lists are so predictable. It’s all the “sexy picks” that “people with vast musical knowledge would know about.” Most are good, however, where is DMB? THey are considered by many to be a top 5 live band of all time. Where is Red Rocks or Central Park? Also, The Roots Come Alive is the greatest live hop hop album ever.

  10. Chuck on April 5, 2007 3:00 pm

    Where the hell is ‘Live’ Bullet?

  11. bruce johnson on September 4, 2007 2:35 pm

    Live at Leeds is by far the best live album ever… the Loudest rock band’s best preformance does even make the top #5??? Crazy.

  12. dave on September 19, 2007 12:05 am

    im goin 2 need ya 2 add seger’s live bullet and nine tonight to the list. thanks so much

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