Favourite live albums: one per decade per list

Your favourite live albums, one per decade covering as many or as few decades as you like. And you can make multiple lists.

I just quickly threw together a list of some of my favourite live album per decade. The years in parentheses in my list shows the release year, but I think they are pretty close to the year they were recorded. Magma's Rétrospectives were recorded from concerts in 1980.

This is my list. I did back to the 1960s.

1960s: Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails (1969)
1970s: Magma - Live (1975)
1980s: Magma - Rétrospective Vol. 1 & 2 (1981)
1990s: Portishead - Roseland NYC Live (1998)
2000s: Björk - Homogenic Live (2004)
2010s: Swans - Deliquescence (2017)
2020s: Anna von Hausswolff - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2022)

A fave of mine not listed is Swans' Omniscience from 1990, and I was tempted to have a third Magma from the 2000s, Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie. Portishead is one that has done several, I think, great live concerts but did not put them to album (I think they should have released various 2008 plus concerts as Third has great material).

You can cover as many or few decades as you like. What is your list?

These links might help to refresh your memory:

Progarchives top Live albums chart (CLICK)
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2020s/only:live/

With the PA chart I set it to the 2020s years, but of course you can filter the years. The easiest way to change the decade with the rateyourmusic chart is manually with the url. Say change the 2020s part to 1970s etc.

1970s: Solar Musik Live - Grobschnitt or Playing the Fool - Gentle Giant

Edited by BrufordFreak - August 16 2023 at 19:41

1960's - The Nice - Five Bridges Suite ( a bit of a cheat as it was released in 1970 but the perfomance was recorded at Fairfield Hall in 1969. I've got nothing else to offer from this decade)

The Anders wrote: I don't have many favourites when it comes to live albums. However, I really enjoy these: Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1st disc) Allman Brothers Band - At the Filmore Deep Purple - Made in Japan

I don't think I have a very large collection of live releases, so I'm kind of winging it here. Even so, it's kind of hard just picking one per decade as there are many great ones, especially from the 1970s.

Thanks all.    

^^ I also have Brass Album listed, and while All that Glitters is my favourite Cardiacs live album, I'm listing another because I really like Swans' Omniscience, and I wanted Portishead in before for the 90s. I considered that Kraan too.

I prepared most of this yesterday. I could not decide on one for the 2000s ({I'm not a huge live album listener) and I found the Laura album and liked it.

1970s: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (1975)
1980s: Cardiacs - Cardiacs Live (1988)
1990s: Swans - Omniscience (1992)
2000s: Laura - (Re)capitulate (2007)
2010s: Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble: Live from the Barbican (2019)
2020s: Ciśnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album (2020)

^ Yeah, Cisnienie was a great discovery for me. I do prefer Cardiacs live when they had William D. Drake (what a treasure he is!) and Sarah Smith. With Swans, I have heard three live albums, Omniscience (1992), it's best known Swans Are Dead (1998) and Deliquescence (2017). I think Deliquescence is worth hearing even for its version of "The Knot" alone, imo. Well it it is almost 46 minutes long.

Edited by suitkees - August 21 2023 at 11:14