Live Album Survivor: Results Thread - Rock in Rio wins!

[Black Wizard]

Live After Death

'Rock in Rio' is, IMO, the greatest live album ever.

 

[Forostar]

good camera-work equals it out.

Hey I thought we were purely taking audio in consideration here. Not the stage show and camera work etc. Or else, take another look at LAD's stage set and effects during e.g. Rime.

Isn't it true that LAD's guitars were re-recorded in studio? Read it somewhere but could very well be a false statement.

False statement. Never heard of it at least.

 

[Saapanael]

Hey I thought we were purely taking audio in consideration here. Not the stage show and camera work etc. Or else, take another look at LAD's stage set and effects during e.g. Rime.

Correct, my mistake, but that wouldn't make me change my vote anyway.

 

[Forostar]

No prob.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

I agree with everything you've said, Foro, but Bruce's voice is painful at times on Live After Death. He sounds incredible on RiR. I think the band was equally on fire for both recordings, and thus, I think RiR represents the entire band better.

 

[Saapanael]

Yeah, Bruce was at his peak at the time of RiR 2o01 imo.

 

[Mosh]

Top Ten:
1: Rock in Rio
2: Live After Death
3: Unleashed in the East
4: Beast Over Hammersmith
5: Alive in Athens
6: Maiden England
7: Scream For Me Brazil
8: Exit...Stage Left
9: Live At Donington
10: Alive II

Results by decade:
70’s

1. Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East (25)
   
   
2. Kiss - Alive II (18)
   
   
3. Deep Purple - Made In Japan (16)
   
   
4. UFO - Strangers In The Night (10)
   
   
5. Rainbow - On Stage (10)
   
   
6. Queen - Live Killers (10)
   
   
7. Kiss - Alive! (6)
   
   
8. Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith (3)
   
   
9. Genesis - Genesis Live (3)
   
   
10. The Who - Live At Leeds (2)
    
    
11. AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You’ve Got It (2)
    
    
12. Yes - Yessongs (2)
    
    
13. Golden Earring - Live (2)
    
    
14. Genesis - Seconds Out (1)
    
    
15. Cheap Trick - At Budokan (1)
    
    
16. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg (1)
    
    
17. Magnum - Marauder (0)
    
    
18. Ramones - It’s Alive (0)
    
    
19. Zappa - Roxy/Elsewhere (0)
    

80’s

1. Iron Maiden - Live After Death (27)
   
   
2. Iron Maiden - Beast Over Hammersmith (25)
   
   
3. Iron Maiden - Maiden England (23)
   
   
4. Rush - Exit...Stage Left (20)
   
   
5. Judas Priest - Priest...Live! (16)
   
   
6. Scorpions - World Wide Live (16)
   
   
7. Black Sabbath - Live Evil (4)
   
   
8. Samson - Live At Reading (4)
   
   
9. Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder (4)
   
   
10. Rush - A Show Of Hands (2)
    
    
11. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes (1)
    
    
12. U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky (0)
    
    
13. Motorhead - The Birthday Party (0)
    
    
14. Midnight Oil - Scream In Blue Live (0)
    
    
15. Pat Benatar - Live From Earth (0)
    

90’s

1. Iced Earth - Alive in Athens (19)
   
   
2. Bruce Dickinson - Scream For Me Brazil (17)
   
   
3. Iron Maiden - Live At Donington (16)
   
   
4. Rush - Different Stages (14)
   
   
5. Halford - Live Insurrection (11)
   
   
6. Iron Maiden - A Real Live Dead One (2)
   
   
7. Dio - Inferno: Last In Live (2)
   
   
8. Bruce Dickinson - Alive In Studio A (2)
   
   
9. Judas Priest - ‘98 Live Meltdown (2)
   
   
10. Alice Cooper - A Fistful Of Alice (1)
    
    
11. Black Sabbath - Reunion (1)
    
    
12. Metallica - Live Shit: Binge And Purge (1)
    
    
13. Slayer - Decade Of Aggression (1)
    
    
14. Bad Religion - Tested (1)
    
    
15. Faith No More - Live At The Brixton Academy (0)
    
    
16. Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tales (0)
    
    
17. Marillion - Anorak In The U.K. (0)
    
    
18. Gamma Ray - Alive ‘95 (0)
    
    
19. Gore - The Eindhoven Insanity (0)
    

00’s

1. Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio (15)
   
   
2. The Big 4 - Live In Sofia Bulgaria (4)
   
   
3. Heaven And Hell - Radio City Music Hall (3)
   
   
4. Opeth - Lamentations (3)
   
   
5. Dream Theater - Score (3)
   
   
6. Rush - Snakes And Arrows (3)
   
   
7. Symphony X - Live On The Edge Of Forever (2)
   
   
8. Iron Maiden - Death On The Road (2)
   
   
9. Heaven & Hell - Neon Nights (2)
   
   
10. Blaze - As Live As It Gets (2)
    
    
11. Joe Satriani - Live in San Francisco (2)
    
    
12. Judas Priest - Live In London (1)
    
    
13. Megadeth - That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (1)
    
    
14. Megadeth - Rude Awakening (1)
    
    
15. Dio - Holy Diver Live (1)
    
    
16. Anthrax - Music of Mass Destruction (1)
    
    
17. Kreator - Live Kreation (1)
    
    
18. Motley Crue - Carnival Of Sins (0)
    
    
19. Blind Guardian - Live!!! (0)
    
    
20. Dark Tranquillity - Where Death Is Most Alive (0)
    
    
21. Amorphis - Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes (0)
    
    
22. Gamma Ray - Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome (0)

Was an interesting game, I had fun running it. Too Maiden heavy in the top ten but that was expected. Thanks for playing!

 

[Collin]

I knew it.

 

[Forostar]

Very satisfied.

Apart from Rock in Rio, Live at Donington did beat all other live albums by the current line-up. It says two things to me:
1. All the bullshit about Bruce's singing in the early nineties I used to hear a while ago doesn't affect general appreciation for this album (anymore).
2. Maidenfans don't find new live albums super special anymore.

 

[Mosh]

Apart from Rock in Rio, Live at Donington did beat all other live albums by the current line-up. It says two things to me:

No, it beat one album by the current line up: Death on the Road. The others weren't included.

1. All the bullshit about Bruce's singing in the early nineties I used to hear a while ago doesn't affect general appreciation for this album (anymore).

His singing was better live than in studio around this time IMO. It felt forced on the studio albums, especially FOTD. I think one thing that Donington proves is that even though the band started to decline in the 90's, they were still a force to be reckoned with live.

2. Maidenfans don't find new live albums super special anymore.

Well the only albums that went up against it were Rio and Death on the Road. DOTR has never been hugely popular around here and Rock in Rio won the entire game. So I definitely don't think this is the case.

 

[Black Wizard]

I'm very happy with 'Rock In Rio' as out winner since I consider it to be the greatest live album ever.

Just a note on 'Death on the Road': I like it, although it's not as good as 'Rock in Rio' it does have a bunch of different songs on it and it reminds me of the good old days before every Maiden live recording was done in Latin America.