It’s not quite the same but I like Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 as a mash up of their two albums. Nightwish’s Ghost Love Score and Green Day’s Jesus of Suburbia.
Portishead (Roseland NYC) and Wax Tailor (Phonovisions)
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
I’d heard many times from people who were old enough to see them live that it was a completely unique experience, describing how the band fed off the energy of the crowd.
Didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of that truth until I heard that live album. I’ve heard other live albums from other artists where it was performed roughly the same as the studio version with the further addition of a cheering crowd. This was a completely different animal.
How The West Was Won really showcased how malleable a work is in the hands of truly talented artists.
Tame impala did a live video of the innerspeaker album that sounds better the studio album. Plus the video starts at dusk and slowly transitions to darkness as the album progresses so it looks tight.
Clavicle (Live acoustic in London) 05/11/2005 - Alkaline Trio
I first heard this version around 2008 and it would pop up in my head over the years. My high school best friend and I moved into our first apartment together and we both love this band. Early youtube days meant that we found a lot of live shows to listen to until we got cable. I couldn’t find it for so long and thought it was lost media, only to exist in our heads, for years. I finally found the whole show 2 months ago and sent him the links. We’ve been listening to it on repeat ever since.
Test Dept when they played live in an old car factory. The drumming and vocals (later in the track) are much better in the live version
The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure - Live
The build in this tune is epic. Best live version I’ve found so far.
(Uploader says that the equalizer has been messed with, I’d love to find the original video)
I think Rage Against the Machine should’ve just avoided the studio altogether. They were so good live. Killing in the Name is great.
Haven’t seems Muse since Black Holes, but they were also very good live.
Counting Crows Across a wire concert album was great! I loved everything about it even though I already loved the original songs and rhe original albums. Yes I am a hardcore fan, but that album was perfection!
The War Is Over by Phil Ochs
All of Linkin Park’s “Live In Texas”, basically.
John Farnham was incredible live, but a special shout out for his version of Help, the one with the orchestra backing (Sydney Philharmonic?).
For me he’s up there with the best male vocalists ever, Help was the last song after 3 hours or so on stage and you can tell he’s loving every moment as much as the crowd are. The album version is excellent but the live one…
Ministry - Stigmata from In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up.
Especially the ending. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Rush-dreamline: studio version is so weak. Live has epic energy
Cheap trick-want you to want me : there is a reason you never hear the studio version. Its terrible.
Alice in Chains MTV acoustic album
Oooohhh Layne had such a beautiful haunting voice. I still remember the first time I listened to Jar of flies, I just stood still taking in this new sound and the lyrics were so depressing and obscure and… man! I feel 16 again just typing this up. I brcame an instant fan and would have loved to see them live.
Ohhh, excellent example. That album is fantastic.
A lot of the Unplugged concerts are so much better, IMO
There’s an album for Simon and Garfunkel live at Madison square garden. I think I only really love it more than most of their other stuff because it’s the album I grew up on and it’s got all the classics. Unfortunately I couldn’t find it on Spotify, but it’s probably out there.
It’s not an album necessarily, but there is a Portugal The Man live sort of half documentary half album that’s done acoustically. It’s awesome, I think it really highlights how eclectic they are as a group.
Similarly, not an album, but there’s a few accoustic songs done by Manchester Orchestra in one sitting that’s on YouTube and it’s just absolutely gorgeous. It’s my favorite songs of theirs and it’s just beautiful.
There’s an album for Simon and Garfunkel live at Madison square garden.
They did a benefit concert of some kind in Central Park, and it was all the TV picked up a few years later as my mom held me when I was sick as hell and we stayed up on the couch, in the dark, no picture but the sound on. It was hours, and I hated their music then as it wasn’t Tony Basil and had neither Huey nor any News. But It’s grown on me since I associate the two. I love the Disturbed cover of TSoS.
