Friday, September 13, 2013

The best 10 live albums of all time

There's some terrible lists of live albums out there. This isn't one of them.


  • Hawkwind - Space Ritual
  • Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
  • Throbbing Gristle - Live At Rafters
  • Neil Young - Weld
  • Various - Live At The Roxy
  • Misty In Roots - Live At The Counter Eurovision
  • Motorhead - No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith
  • Robert Rental and The Normal - Live At West Runton Pavillion
  • The Fall - Totale's Turns
  • The Fall - Live At The 666 Club
  • AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
  • Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man
  • The Pop Group - We Are Time
  • T Rex - Born To Boogie Soundtrack
  • New Race - The First and the Last
OK OK so there isn't 10 albums in the list but Totale's Turns and We Are Time are mixtures of live and studio tracks. Live At West Runton Pavillion is only one-sided. The Born To Boogie Soundtrack isn't an album at all and Heathen Earth and Mirror Man aren't billed as live albums. I'm not sure whether Live At 666 Club was ever released, maybe it's just me who has a tape!

New Race are a  'supergroup' and are half Radio Birdman and half (Ron Asheton's) The New Order

I ummed and ahhed about including Iggy and the Stooges - Metallic KO and Heavy Liquid (box set).