Could it be that most modern bands are a bunch of talentless hacks that can barely get through a studio performance, much less make a live album without lip syncing?

_{Get off my lawn}

I don't like listening to live recordings. Sure, going to the concert is fun, but the live albums sound crappy compared to the studio versions.

Whatever happened to the album?

BillCo: Could it be that most modern bands are a bunch of talentless hacks that can barely get through a studio performance, much less make a live album without lip syncing?

Get off my lawn

hard to auto-tune live....

and what's with the list's hating on Waiting for Columbus?
...great album all the way thriough

"Oh, sweet, [Band] released a new album!"
*Start reading*
"Oh, okay, there's no new music on it, just songs I've already heard, obscured by screaming. That sounds fun for me."

OH LOOK!!!
another list posting without voting!!

(can we just remove the voting option??)
/sigh

"Stand in the Fire"

Get me out of this oneeee Dad

The Tragically Hip -- Live Between Us
Pearl Jam -- Live on Two Legs
Nirvana -- From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Dozens of iTunes sessions (Best Coast, Great Lakes Swimmers).

Yep. No more live albums.

I Have the Touch from Peter Gabriel's Plays Live is one of my top 25 most played songs on the iPod.

/looked for live "Shock the Monkey", couldn't find it on Youtube

MUSE - H.A.A.R.P. is pretty damn good!

You can't put out a live album if all you're doing is lip-synching to the studio album.

75% of my collection is live stuff. There is a ton of it out there, especially all the re-masters. Most are good, some suck tail, but the bad ones are the poor efforts of bands that can't play. My tastes notwithstanding, there is nothing more exciting that live music.
It does seem that there aren't that many new things that are worthy ....

/thank you amazon
//love to hunt down rare and strange music

WHAR Exit Stage Left WHAR

GAT_00: WHAR Exit Stage Left WHAR

Damn right. (Although you probably won't see it.)

As for "Stop Making Sense," the beauty of that is not just the album, but the movie. Byrne and Demme crafted quite a film as the set and the music build from very pared down simple numbers to more and more elaborate productions song by song. The album is a fine companion piece, but the film really needs to be seen to get the whole experience.

Probably because every band I've seen live in the past ten years feels the need to say "Thankyouverymuch" between every song. Just gimme some medleys and keep your talking to interviews.

Also, change up the set list. After two weeks of seeing the house band at a bar, I don't even want to go anymore because I already know what they're going to play. When I saw a few Aerosmith and NIN(not at the same time) concerts back in the late 90's the shows were a few years apart but still had the same songs in the same order

I could listen to this every day.

Hobodeluxe: that list sucks.

How would you improve it? What would you add?

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I could listen to this every day.

Saw him at RR in '05. So good.

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Fails miserably without


/as hot as the performance

BillCo: Could it be that most modern bands are a bunch of talentless hacks that can barely get through a studio performance, much less make a live album without lip syncing?

Get off my lawn

Most "live" albums were MAJORLY doctored up in the studio.