Gazza
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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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