Bands where a live album is their best album

It maybe has the best versions of those songs, but it’s not their best album

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The Make-Up

It’s a close one, but I think I prefer Fear of Music and Remain in Light personally. If I was going to put a Talking Heads album on it would probably be one of them rather than Stop Making Sense (although Stop Making Sense is great, obviously).

J Geils Band- ‘Blow Your Face Out’

Don’t know his catalogue well enough tbh but live at San Quentin is my go to Johnny Cash.

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Wilco? Wilco.

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Hawkwind

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Astonishing live album, and contains the all time best version of The Mercy Seat… but I wouldn’t rank it as the best Bad Seeds album by any means.
Live Seeds immeasurably improves upon the studio versions of The Good Son and Henry’s Dream material for sure though.

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AC/DC

And quite possibly live after death by iron maiden too.

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Good shout there.

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I’m not sure I’d listen to it now, given that I can’t stand the man these days, but for my money Beethoven was Deaf is the best Morrissey release. Leans heavily on Your Arsenal but it rocks a bit harder. Some of those versions are the definitive versions in my opinion.

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Dunno about best but it is v good

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Better than Highway 61 Revisited or Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks or Bringing it All Back Home? Really?

:fire::fire:

Heh heh

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Not even his best live album.

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Before the Flood

Bob Dylan live at budokan is arguably one of the great atrocities of our times

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‘Hard Rain’ surely isn’t though