Best Live Album Survivor - Post Nominations Here!

Mosh

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So here's how this is going to work. Since there aren't as many classic live albums as there are studio albums, I'm going to include every album that gets nominated. Please list your nominations by decade, so I can easily organize the list. I'll list my nominations later.

Also, should we automatically include all of Maiden's live albums, or let people nominate them?
 
70's
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East

80's
Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
Black Sabbath - Live Evil
Ozzy Osbourne - Speak Of The Devil
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Rush - A Show Of Hands

90's
Motörhead - The Birthday Party
Black Sabbath - Reunion
Bruce Dickinson - Scream For Me Brazil

2000
Halford - Live Insurrection
Marillion - Anorak In The U.K.
Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio
Iron Maiden - Beast Over Hammersmith
Judas Priest - Live In London
Blaze - Live As It Gets
Iron Maiden - Death On The Road
Heaven And Hell - Live Radio City Music Hall
 
Might I ask how you will organize this? Anything different from mckindog's method? You only want a few groups based on decade.

By the way, the decades we're mentioning are the decades of release right? Not per se of recording?

If you want more info (year of release), give a shout!

1970s
Kiss - Alive II
Rainbow - On Stage
Golden Earring - Live

1980s
Magnum - Marauder
Samson - Live at Reading '81
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Judas Priest - Priest...Live!
Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
Midnight Oil - Scream in Blue Live

1990s
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Iron Maiden - A Real Live One
Gorefest - The Eindhoven Insanity
Bruce Dickinson - Alive in Studio A
Gamma Ray - Alive '95
Bad Religion - Tested
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Rush - Different Stages
Judas Priest - '98 Live Meltdown
 
90's
Faith No More - Live At The Brixton Academy
Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge

00's/10's
Amorphis - Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes
Dark Tranquillity - Where Death Is Most Alive
Gamma Ray - Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome
Heaven & Hell - Neon Nights
Kreator - Live Kreation
Opeth - Lamentations: Live At Shepherd's Bush Empire
Slayer/Megadeth/Metallica/Anthrax - The Big 4: Live From Sofia
 
I'm still trying to think of more and a lot of good ones were already mentioned but this one wasn't mentioned yet and it came to mind immediately:

1970's
Deep Puple - Made in Japan
 
70s
AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You Got It.

80s
Helloween - Live in the UK

90s
Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tales

00s
Blind Guardian - Live!!!

I'll post more in this post when I think of them.
 
70's
UFO - Strangers in the Night

80's
Scorpions - World Wide Live

90's
Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice
Dio - Inferno: Last in Live
Queensryche - Operation LIVECrime (Possibly cheating :P)

00's
Dio - Holy Diver Live
Megadeth - That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires
Motley Crue - Carnival of Sins (As much as I'm sure this shall be laughed at, it's probably the best thing Crue have done)
 
Forostar said:
Might I ask how you will organize this? Anything different from mckindog's method? You only want a few groups based on decade.

By the way, the decades we're mentioning are the decades of release right? Not per se of recording?
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Decades of release. Because you get things like Different Stages that cover different decades. Though I'll make some exceptions, like Maiden England would go with the 80's.

I'll probably have a few years worth of material join at a time. I'm still working out specifics. It really depends on how many nominations I get.
 
Crimson Idol said:
Queensryche - Operation LIVECrime (Possibly cheating :p)
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After giving this some thought I've decided that it'd probably be best to not include this. But I think live albums that have albums played in their entirely along with other material should be okay. Obviously you guys can give your input on this.

In other words, Rush's Time Machine Tour Live is OK, Queensryche's Livecrime is not.
 
I'd say automatically include the Maiden live albums, even though we all know they'll reach the top 10. I don't own too many live albums, but I like these ones:

2000's
Anthrax - Music of Mass Destruction
Joe Satriani - Live in San Francisco
Symphony X - Live on the Edge of Forever
 
I think Dream Theater's best live album is easily Budokan, but that's because I love Train of Thought so much. Symphony X needs a new live album stat, although I'd be surprised if it included any of the classic progressive older songs.

And Alive in Athens is amazing.
 
I prefer Score, if only for Octavarium. I also like all the rarities. There's a lot of stuff on Budokan that I don't care much for, though it's still great. Instrumedley is epic.
 
From what I can remember, LaBrie sounded much better on Score than on previous live albums. I actually thought Octavarium was the band's weakest album by far and thus didn't care too much for Score's set list. The orchestra bits were nice, but for the most part I would have picked other songs. I really liked the inclusion of Raise the Knife, though.

I'm excited to hear Live at Luna Park, since it has such a massive track list. I'm not sure they needed to play all of Dramatic Turn of Events, but oh well.
 
2000s

Megadeth - Rude Awakening
Judas Priest - Epitaph
Cradle of Filth - Heavy Left-Handed and Candid (
)

How the hell do I just insert the link without the youtube box appearing?
 
OK I guess I should point this out now. This is a survivor for live albums, videos don't count. Stuff like the Cradle of Filth thing and The Big 4 concert. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
 
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