Segunda-feira 18 Fev 2013, 11h:24

Starting a journal to document my live album listening I've decided to devote to Mondays.

Week 1 February 4
1. Dave Matthews - Live In chicago 12.19.98
2. Rush - Show Of Hands
3. Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now
4. Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
5. Iron Maiden - A Real Live One

Comments: Dave Matthews is not one I listen to a whole lot but this live collection is very good.

Week 2 February 11
1. Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo
2. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
3. Lucinda Williams - Live @ the Fillmore
4. Kathleen Edwards - Live Sessions EP
5. The Civil Wars - iTunes Live: SXSW
6. Heart - The Road Home

Comments: This was Americana day, meant to throw on the Dixie Chicks but ran out of time. Heart is technically not Americana but it's an all acoustic album and what the heck, it's my playlist!

Week 3 February 18, 2013
1. The Decemberists - Live at Bullmoose
2. Journey - Captured
3. The Pretenders - Live In London
4. Pat Benatar - Live From Earth
5. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
6. The Cure - Show
7. Björk - Voltaic
8. AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It

comments: The Decemberists Live At Bullmoose is a Record Store Day release with only six songs on it mostly comprising of material from the King is Dead, my favorite album from them. Björk's Voltaic is called a live recording but wasn't recorded in front of an audience. It did however feature the musicians that she took on tour with her. Live Björk is always interesting as her live versions usually differ from what's offered on the studio recordings.

Week 4 February 25, 2013
1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace Live
2. Judas Priest - A Touch of Evil: Live
3. Quiet Riot - Live At The Us Festival, 1983
4. Yngwie Malmsteen - Live in Leningrad
5. Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
6. Björk - Post Live
7. Kathleen Edwards - 2013-01-31-NYC

comments: Started out with a bunch of metal and hard rock and moved into different territory with Portishead and Bjork. Both albums I had on vhs way back when. Still enjoy both shows. Kathleen Edwards is a bootleg from earlier this year.

Week 5 March 4, 2013
1. Tift Merritt - Home is Loud
2. Iron Butterfly - Live
3. Cheap Trick - At Budokan
4. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
5. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Pack Up the Plantation-Live!
7. Sade - Lovers Live
8. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
9. Genesis - Live

comments: 9 albums! that's a record! Cheap Trick and Thin Lizzy are usually top of best of live albums and there's a good reason for that. Both are amazing! Scorpions should be included with those as a great document to the power of the early Scorps. Sade sticks out a bit on this list but I've always really dug her sound and this is a great live album too.

Week 6 March 11, 2013
1. Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
2. Bruce Springsteen - Live/1975-85
3. Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
4. Slayer - Live: Decade Of Aggression
5. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talkin'
6. Pat Benatar - Live From Earth

comments: Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock blew me away, pretty good one to start the day with. Decided to go with the Bruce one in honor of almost finishing the Bruce biography this last weekend, many of the stories he relates on the album can be found in the bio as well. Peter Gabriel's Secret World, I've had the album in my posession since I was stationed in Okinawa, really great album, definitely need to spin it more.

Week 7 March 18, 2013
1. Echo & the Bunnymen - Glasgow Barrowlands 1985
2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne
3. Nightwish - End of An Era
4. Overkill - Wrecking Your Neck Live
5. Heart - Rock The House Live!
6. Bob Dylan - In Concert: Live at Brandeis University

Comments: Finally got around updating the list a week later. Echo & The Bunnymen was a bootleg, very good quality I might add. No real surprises I suppose, I've heard these albums quite a few times.

Week 8 March 25, 2013
1. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels and a Gravel Road Deluxe
2. Kiss - The Hottest Show On Earth - Live in Cincinatti - 07-30-2010
3. Rush - State Of Grace
4. Dokken - Beast From the East
5. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
6. Heart - Aquarius Tavern, Shoreline WA 06.01.1976
7. The Cure - Concert: The Cure Live
8. Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin - Friday Night in San Francisco

Comments: Lucinda's set is from the deluxe version of her classic album Car Wheels, this is probably the best live set I have from her. (WXPN Live At The World Cafe). Kiss live in Cincinnati, pretty rocking, I think I can hear Satch in this crowd…. Rush is always good, cool to hear some of the songs from Presto, really sound beefier than on the studio album. Neil Young, need to go back and listen again later, some great tracks for sure, but why must work interrupt my listening? Heart is excellent as always, not the best quality recording but pretty good considering how early this is in their career. The Cure is amazing as always. Al Di Meola's San Francisco album has some amazing acoustic guitar playing.

Week 9 April 1, 2013
1. Robin Trower - Live!
2. Bob Dylan - In Concert: Live at Brandeis University
3. The Band - Rock Of Ages
4. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago
5. Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81
6. 10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged
7. Primus - Suck On This
8. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mojo Tour 2010

Comments: One repeat with Bob Dylan, released at the same time as his Mono recordings Box Set, picked it up on vinyl on Record Store day.
The Band, this one was my first listen, great album from start to finish and even has Dylan concluding out the set, thumbs up on this one.
Wilco's Kicking Television sounds amazing, truly great live band that I hope to see in person one day. Pink Floyd's Is There Anybody Out There, bought
this the day it came out. This is a nice live album and expands on what was offered on the original studio album. Includes a couple of songs
that were only on the movie soundtrack. Tom Petty's Mojo Tour is one that was offered after buying tickets to the concert that year. Not only did I
get that but also the album Mojo was offered as part of the deal as well. Thanks Tom!

Week 10 April 8, 2013
1. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls - Live In Texas '78
2. Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
3. Annie Haslam - Live Under Brazilian Skies
4. Michael Jackson - Bad 25th Anniversary (Deluxe)
Disc 3, Live At Wembley July 16, 1988
5. Grateful Dead - Europe '72
6. Phish - A Live One

Comments: Just picked up this live Rolling Stones offering, Some Girls is a rad album and the live album from the tour is a great document to that time in the Stones career. I highly recommend seeking this set out with the dvd. Led Zeppelin's Celebration makes me wish I was old enough to have seen them in their prime, this is also a great live album. I've had this Annie Haslam album for a while, she's the singer for a prog band called Renaissance which I haven't heard yet but I find this album to be kinda boring. Probably won't go back to this one anytime soon. Michael Jackson is the king of pop and this is him in his prime, highly recommended. Grateful Dead and Phish to finish seemed like a logical connection given both of their jam band credentials. Still have quite a bit to explore when it comes to both bands given the enormity of their live output but both of these albums are very good.

Week 11 April 15, 2013
1. Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
2. Genesis - Archive 1967-1975
3. Genesis - Archive #2: 1976-1992
4. King's X - Live All Over the Place
5. Tori Amos - To Venus and Back
6. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Live at Sun Studios (Vinyl)
7. Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan (Vinyl)
8. Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

Comments: Updating this a little bit after the fact and not putting in links, I'm sure anybody reading this can find the albums. Enjoyed Tori, put me in the mood to hear the rest of her music, she's awesome!

Week 12 April 22, 2013
1. Joe Bonamassa - An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House
2. Joan Osborne - Early Recordings
3. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East (Vinyl)
4. Oingo Boingo - Boingo Alive (Vinyl)

Comments: Joe B must be one of the hardest working musicians out there right now but everything he does is amazing. Great live acoustic performances of songs stretching across his solo records. Joan Osborne is always a treat. Allman Brothers Band is a classic, probably one of the best live albums ever. Boingo Alive is technically not a proper live album but it was recorded live in the studio without an audience. Great versions of some awesome songs, love the Boingo!

Week 13 April 30, 2013
1. David Gilmour - Live In Gdańsk

Comments: Not a whole lot of listening this week, sometimes life gets in the way. David Gilmour is awesome and it has Rick Wright playing on it. Features an incredible rendition of Echoes, one of my all time favorite Floyd songs. Definitely seek this one out if you can.

Week 14 May 6, 2013
1. Dixie Chicks - Top of the World Tour Live
2. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - An Evening Of Yes Music Plus
3. Björk - Unplugged
4. Heart - Dreamboat Annie Live
5. Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Seven Year Itch
6. Adele - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Comments: In honor of Natalie Maines releasing her solo album this week I pulled out Top of the World Live. Love the Chicks, don't mess with them! Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is sonically really good but I wish I had an actual Yes live album with Squire on bass. It's a little lacking but still sounds amazing when they pull out Close to the Edge and Starship Trooper, two of the highlights. It's also my only gold cd in my collection, not sure what this means but it does look pretty. Heart rocks as usual, Dreamboat Annie is their first release and it gets the live treatment in it's entirety with some added bonuses like a take on Floyd's Goodbye Blue Sky. Siouxsie and the Banshees I love but just not this live album. It's got some really deep album cuts that I'm sure die hards would go nuts over. I actually prefer Nocturne over this particular one. Ministry, good lord, that's some crazy stuff. Nothing like a good sonic pummeling from them. Almost forgot about Adele, note to self update as you go…

Week 15 May 13, 2013
1. Tori Amos - To Venus and Back
2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology
3. Yes - Yessongs
3. Björk - Vespertine Live

Comments: Not sure if Tori has made a proper appearance on live monday but I have been giving this one quite a few spins lately. It's a double album but disc two is the live tracks which I listen to quite a bit more frequently than the studio album. Great versions of her songs with a full backing band. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, this is a four disc set. I hear there is another version of it with 5 discs but I have quite a bit of live material from him already and this set was such a bargain. Yes's Yessongs, I actually have this on dvd but the video looks so bad I never watch it. Got the cd's on loaner from a coworker. Starting Björk's Vespertine Live, saw her on this tour, this show is a little bit more subdued due to the venue. Every Björk show is a little different which is one reason why I have a number of her live albums.

Week 16 June 3, 2013
1. Rush - Exit...Stage Left
2. Roxy Music - Concerto
3. The Police - Certifiable
4. Keller Williams - Stage
5. Grateful Dead - Skull & Roses
6. The Pretenders - The Isle of View
6. Kathleen Edwards - Live Sessions EP

Comments: Keller Williams is an interesting guitarist, the live album doesn't really do him justice as he makes all the music himself but if you can't see him doing it, it's hard to appreciate.

Week 17 June 10, 2013
1. Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire
2. Prince - Nagoya '89 (Bootleg)
3. Dream Theater - Live At The Marquee
4. Phish - Hampton/Windown-Salem '97 Disc 1
5. Anthrax - Live: The Island Years
6. Judas Priest - Metal Gods (Bootleg)
7. Kiss - Alive II
8. The Who - Live At Leeds (Vinyl)

Comments: A couple of really good bootlegs, Prince and Judas Priest, both really great shows. Prince covered a lot of ground but offered a bunch of snippets of classic songs, would have liked to hear full versions but overall great sounding show. Judas Priest was taken from the Screaming For Vengeance tour really sweet sounding show as well. Started Phish, only have six discs to go on that one. The Anthrax album was taken from a show that I happened to have been in attendance. Pretty neat to have a recording from my own past concert experiences.

Week 18 June 17, 2013
1. Dokken - From Conception: Live 1981
2. Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon
3. Alice Cooper - Theatre Of Death
4. Motörhead - No Sleep At All
5. Oingo Boingo - Farewell: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre-Halloween 1995
6. Fleetwood Mac - Who's The New Girl (bootleg)
7. Peter Gabriel - Plays Live (vinyl)

Comments: All of it good music, that is all….

Week 19 June 24, 2013
1. Rush - Different Stages
2. Immortal - Live At Wacken 2007 (The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh)
3. Dio - Finding The Sacred Heart - Live In Philly 1986
4. Def Leppard - Pyromania (Disc 2 of Pyromania Deluxe LA Forum 1983)
5. Joe Walsh - Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles (bootleg from 1992)
6. Pink Floyd - Pulse

Comments: Immortal rules!

Week 20 July 1, 2013
1. Bruce Springsteen - 2009-11-08 NYC (IEM-AUD) (bootleg)
2. UFO - The Chrysalis Years (1973-1979) Strangers In the Night
3. Genesis - Three Sides Live
4. Kiss - Alive III
5. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

Comments: Bruce Springsteen bootleg from 2009, complete performance of the River also has a couple of songs from Wrecking Ball.
UFO Strangers In the Night is the first time listening to this particular one. Very good album, will definitely need to go back and
relisten to it.

Week 21 July 8, 2013
1. Genesis - Live: The Way We Walk, Vol. 1 - The Shorts
2. Genesis - Live: The Way We Walk, Vol. 2 - The Longs
3. Therion - Live Gothic
4. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying (25th Anniversary) Live at the Phantasy Theatre Cleveland '87
5. Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions

Comments: Although two separate live albums from Genesis, these are pretty much inseparable. One's got the pop hits and the other the proggier pieces. I prefer the second one but the first has it's moments as well. The first Genesis I bought when I was discovering them, I don't play them that often compared to the other live albums from them. Therion on first listen to Live Gothic is awesome. I'm just getting into them but everything I've heard so far has been amazing. Great live album and has a great overall sound. Megadeth's is an interesting album as this is right around the time that Peace Sells came out and has selections from the first two albums. Killer tunes, wish the it had a better sound quality. If you are a fan you should definitely hear this one though. Led Zeppelin is awesome, I tend to listen to the second disc a lot more since a bunch of songs repeat on the first but overall I really love this album.

More To come….