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Sep 3rd, 2015 at 9:56pm
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At least according to this website. Of course all lists are shit. But at least this one includes the archive releases. Although they didn't give them much love. But then, when comes to Stones live albums. There is Ya Ya's............and then there is everything else.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-live-albums-ranked/
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Reply #1 - Sep 3rd, 2015 at 11:28pm
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ya ya's of course but damn i have been enjoying the hell otta the LA forum release lately!!
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The boot I have of Atlanta 2015 is my fave at the moment. Awesome Gimme Shelter!
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I honestly dont feel ANY album really captures the Stones LIVE. They are so much more worthy...It is the reason we all crap on the setlists...its the reason we all would give our left arm to hear (fill in the blank)...When I saw SOME GIRLS LIVE in the thearter...I knew why this band is so fucking amazing...Even as I write this i struggle to get the right words to describe it...I felt it in 1978...I felt it in 2015...and I hope to feel it again at least one more time.

So...Ya-Yas...hits really close to the mark...Flashpoint "gets it"...Got Live If You Want it...is nostalgic...Charlie Is My Darling is amusing, yet forthright...and Still Life I feel was recorded in my rectum...I wish I had all the boot they have released to make a comment on, but I don't.
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I have always enjoyed Love You Live. I know it sounds terribly messy, apart from The Mocambo set  but, I feel it has this energy; the original 4th side sounds like a fucking runaway train, glorious. Fingerprint File is the unlikely stand out.
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Reply #6 - Sep 16th, 2015 at 7:04pm
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YaYas is easily the best of the 'physical' releases.  My second favourite is actually the 'Got live if you want it' EP from 1965.  Beneath that muddy sound of kids screaming, the performances are electrifying.

Of the rest - Stripped was an interesting concept with very good performances, No Security is pretty good and thankfully warhorse-free, Got live if You Want it is fucking unlistenable, Love You Live (El Mocambo aside) has a poor choice of performances as it leans too heavily on the '76 shows (and Jagger managed to do the impossible by making his singing WORSE after overdubbing many of his vocals), Still Life is a sentimental favourite from my first Stones tour, Flashpoint is patchy but with some magical performances (the live B-sides are very good), Live Licks is a pointless contractual obligation product (coming one year after the far superior Four Flicks) with no quality control as  judging by the abominable edit on 'Rocks off' its apparent that no one from the band  listened to it before sanctioning its release.  Shine A Light works better as a visual release than as a CD whereas the opposite can be said of the Live In Hyde Park CD as the film of the event is unwatchable as it appears to have been directed by a six year old with ADHD.

The new Sticky Fingers live release is better than I think most of us dared hope. Pretty impressive performances.

The most representative releases are the archive ones, though. Most of them are excellent.  Brussels 73 is the obvious one, but I'd honestly put the recent Leeds/ London Roundhouse 1971 release that came with the Sticky Fingers package up there with Ya Yas and Brussels as the greatest live Stones release ever. The Roundhouse performances especially are mind blowing.
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Ger Yer Ya Ya's Out is the best.
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I have no idea what kind of live record concept they were after when they assembled No Security.  It would have worked better if, in addition to using songs not released live before, they had worked up a proper beginning and end to the record, without which the tracks just lie there pointlessly.  Better versions of some songs would have helped.  "Crazy Mama" and "The Last Time" would have helped more.  And I understand that Taj Mahal deserves all kinds of Blues Papa/'60s survivor props, but Taj by that time was a "Free Concert in the Park" act, and "Corinna" is as thrilling as a fat dead mackerel. 

At least there's some "We're back" excitement to Flashpoint, which would have been a great album if they'd worked in some of the bonus tracks.  (It improved when I did that myself on cassette for the car stereo.)
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Officially speaking...LOVE YOU LIVE! 

Its sloppy, messy, raw and very very sexy.
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Dont think I've ever heard the 'Got live' EP from 1965, but the live disc from the Charlie is My Darling box set absolutely smokes, including a killer Route 66.
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Yeah, those four songs are from the Camden Theatre in London in March 1964. Great stuff.

Those songs were broadcast in an early stereo experiment (BBC Radio didnt have an FM outlet until the late 80's). Cant remember the details exactly, but they used the BBC TV transmitter and broadcast the audio feed that way at around 8 in the morning or something strange like that, in a way which allowed the listener to get a reception in stereo.

The GLIYWI live 1965 EP - which was only a UK release - has been reissued a few times on CD singles and boxed sets down the years.

"I'm Alright" from this EP was released on the US version of "Out of Our Heads" and both "Route 66" and "I'm Moving On" got US releases on 'December's Children' a few months later. 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love/Pain in My Heart' is also on the CD that came with the 'Charlie is My Darling' box set.

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I dig Live Licks at the moment. Great shows. Great memories.
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Haha...No, but the first time the Camden Theatre tracks became available was in November 1985 when there was a 'Stones at the Beeb' radio special which was a real revelation at the time, unearthing an hour of mostly long lost radio sessions from 1963-65 and featuring interviews with a few BBC engineers who worked on the sessions.

THAT's where I got that story from!
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Ya ya's is the best of the official ones. Brussels is the best now I reckon. But, production stupidity and completely ill-timed, I still like "Love you live".
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In its day, Love You Live got a lot of play at people's houses and at bars and parties in the US, so it made people happy despite its mashed-up presentation.  I loved it at the time, during the season when I discovered bootlegs.  I still play it all the way through sometimes, which is better than some records get.
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Sticky Fingers Live from this year is pretty effin good if you ask moi......
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Sticky Fingers Live from this year is pretty effin good if you ask moi......

Agree, I love it.I don't know why they didn't play more of it. Or attempt to play all of it on tour. I think this show came off very well.
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I think, these days, that 'Some Girls: Live In Texas '78' is probably their strongest and most exciting official live album.
And no overdubs or edits and all from the same show in actual running order.
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Officially speaking...LOVE YOU LIVE! 

Its sloppy, messy, raw and very very sexy.


I got that last night.  Oh and I have the record too.
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In its day, Love You Live got a lot of play at people's houses and at bars and parties in the US, so it made people happy despite its mashed-up presentation. 


Yep, that and Steve Miller's Greatest, Frampton Comes Alive, and The Kinks' One For The Road were in everyone's regular party rotation.
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