He he. Of course people here who DO like live-albums may participate. By tread it more like 'You don't like live-albums? Listen to THIS'.
For the main target of this thread: I regarly don't like live-albums for several reasons:
1. Often I prefer the better produced studio-versions
2. The audience is often annoying
3. The material is often played exactly as on the studio-recordings
4. The material is often played way too different as on the studio-recordings
5. I feel no sense of live-atmosphere.
BUT, here are my favorite live-albums:
Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
Supersister - Supersisterious (this album makes their first three albums useless)
Roxy Music - Live (2003) < stunning
Karnataka - Strange Behaviour
Barclay James Harvest - Live
Gazpacho - London (yet the other live-album Live at Lorely is lackluster)
Santana - Lotus
Stomu Yamash'ta - Go... live
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