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Live album

A live album is a musical recording containing recorded concert performances. Live albums have existed since the early 1960s when the album began to be seen as an artistic entity unto itself and not simply a collection of songs.

Most successful recording artists release at least one live album at some point during their career. Most live albums are seen as expendable parts of an artists’ catalogue, often failing to sell as well as studio albums. However, a few artists are known for live albums that are considered better than their studio albums, including KISS, James Brown, Allman Brothers Band, and The Grateful Dead.

Some live albums include:

AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It (1978)
The Allman Brothers Band − At Fillmore East (1971)
Bad Religion − Tested (1997)
BB King − Live at the Regal (1964)
BB King - Live at the Cook County Jail (1971)
Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch 'N' Roll (1973)
Black Sabbath − Past Lives (2002)
Blue Öyster Cult - A Long Day's Night (2002)
Blue Öyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live (1982)
Blue Öyster Cult - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (1975)
Blue Öyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening (1978)
The Blues Project - Live At The Cafe Au Go Go
Bob Marley & the Wailers − Live! (1975)
James Brown − Live at the Apollo (1963)
James Brown − Sex Machine (1970)
Jackson Browne − Running on Empty (1978)
Canned Heat - Live In Europe (1971)
Johnny Cash − At Folsom Prison (1968)
Johnny Cash − At San Quentin (1969)
Cheap Trick − At Budokan (1978)
Chicago - IV (Live at Carnegie Hall) (1972)
The Chipmunks and The Nutty Squirrels - Shirley, Squirrely & Melvin (1981)
Climax Blues Band - FM/Live
Cream - Wheels of Fire (live at the Fillmore) (1968)
Deep Purple - Made in Japan (1972)
Depeche Mode - 101 (1989)
Derek and the Dominos - Derek and the Dominos Live
Diana Ross & the Supremes − Farewell (1970)
Dire Straits - Alchemy (1983)
The Doors - Absolutely Live
The Doors - Alive She Cried (1983)
Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
Bob Dylan − The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998)
Eric Clapton - Rainbow Concert (1971)
Eric Clapton - Live with Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett
Peter Frampton − Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)
Gorillaz - Demon Days Live (2006)
Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album (1970)
The Grateful Dead − Live/Dead (1969)
The Grateful Dead − Europe '72 (1972)
Green Day - Bullet In A Bible (2005)
Guns N' Roses - Live Era '87-'93 (1999)
Hall and Oates - Live At The Apollo (1985)
Humble Pie - Perfomance Rockin' The Fillmore (1971)
Iggy & The Stooges - Metallic K.O. (1976)
Jean-Luc Ponty - Jean-Luc Ponty: Live (1979)
Jefferson Airplane - Bless Its Pointed Little Head
Jimi Hendrix − Band of Gypsys (1970)
John Lennon and the Plastic Onon Band - Live Peace in Toronto (1970)
Johnny Winter And - Live
Kanye West - Late Orchestration (2006)
KISS − Alive! (1975)
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won (2003)
The Song Remains the Same
Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road (1976)
The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen... and You Still Suck!!! (1988)
Metallica - S&M—Live with Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Orchestra (2002)
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (1981)
Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been (2002)
Nirvana − Unplugged in New York (1994)
Nirvana − From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996)
Phish − A Live One (1995)
Phish - Slip Stitch and Pass (1997)
Phish - Hampton Comes Alive (1999)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1969)
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There?: The Wall Live 1980-1981 (1980)/(2000)
Pink Floyd - P*U*L*S*E (1995)
Queen - Live Killers (1979)
Ramones − It's Alive (1979)
REO Speedwagon - You Get What You Play For
The Rolling Stones − Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (1970)
Roy Buchanon - Live Stock (1975)
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74 (1974)
Roxy Music - Viva! (1976)
Social Distortion − Live at the Roxy (1998)
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf Live (1970)
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (1981)
Talking Heads − Stop Making Sense (1984)
The Temptations − Temptations Live! (1967)
Ten Years After - Recorded Live (1973?)
Theatre Of Hate - Retribution Over The Westworld (1996)
The Who − Live at Leeds (1970)
Wings - Wings Over America (1976)
UFO − Strangers in the Night (1979)

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