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/

The boot I have of Atlanta 2015 is my fave at the moment. Awesome Gimme Shelter!

This one's pretty doggone good....

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.

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.)

Brussels '73

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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.

I dig Live Licks at the moment. Great shows. Great memories.

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".

Sticky Fingers Live from this year is pretty effin good if you ask moi......

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.

andrews27 wrote on Sep 18^th, 2015 at 7:03am:


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

Love You Live is my favorite of the 'official' live albums. I like the dirty sound of the band on that one. And it has that rare spark: it sounds like you are listening to a gig, not a gig that went through the hands of a production team. It has been of course, but this team did an outstanding job. You can almost smell the stale beer and cigarette smoke that was in the room at the time.

So as much as I love Ya-Ya's, Love You Live is the one for me.

Gazza wrote on Sep 21^st, 2015 at 6:17pm:


I have that one in a cassette tape, that one and the one from the New Barbarians in Toronto were tapes I used to listen a lot some years ago...

It's called many things, as you'd imagine with boots, but 'Keep Your Motor Running' (otherwise known as 'The Lost Live Album'); Philly and Houston 1972 is very good. Ya Yas, Love You Live, Brussels 73, and Sonic BBQ, Euro' 73. And I do like LA Forum. And what the hell? I'll chuck in Paris(Abbotoirs) '76.

Jack Daniels On Tour (VGP-111), 07-04-72.  Because of the rioting outside, you never heard the final four songs played so fast nor so well - a skill they learned under fire in Holland, Germany and Scandinavia, 1964-1967.

Gazza wrote on Oct 8^th, 2015 at 7:22pm:

Good info Gazza, cheers.
Back then I had a vinyl boot called 'In Again Out Again'. It was just a white cardboard sleeve with a glued on pic of Woody and Mick; it was an annoyingly clear board-mix and had a drastic audio drop on the last song ("Street Fighting Man"?). I remember "Lies" was on it and was very ragged, with Charlie trying to pull the tempo back a bit and the pristine board mix doing it no favours. I'm sure I bought it in '78 or early '79...

Does this ring any bells with you as to which show it was?

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Would you even go so far as to say: Love You Live lingers longer?
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Or '...lingers longest and most lovelily'

Paranoid Android wrote on Oct 10^th, 2015 at 9:07pm:

Nice!
I almost made the St. Paul show (that woulda been MY first) but ended up baby-sitting for my bro's buddy as they were going. So I watched the 10 oclock news and the coverage of the show was nuts: National Guard helicopters flying over the Civic Center, heavy police presence as there were apparently a few hundred gate-crashers. Then Wyman fell off the stage and busted his hand (you can see his fingers taped up in the Some Girls Live '78 film).

I made up for missing the tour in November by seeing Springsteen for my first big show. But I digress...

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2015 at 9:56pm:

[b]Back in 2003, Marko did an amazing set of boots(live) which he simply split into the Jones era 2 discs, the Taylor era, 2 discs, and the Wood era 6 discs. As is his wont, he did not give source data. Some of you may also have it. It is very good.[b]

Mr. Yeats wrote on Oct 9^th, 2015 at 3:34am:



Sorry, been away for a few days.

This was one of the first Stones boot recordings I owned too.

I think the reason for the audio drop in 'Street Fighting Man' is because the roadie who was tapping into the soundboard feed almost got caught and literally had to rip his cassette out of the deck mid-song.  I think most of the early releases had the song cut at that point (maybe there was a lesser quality recording of the rest of the song added to make it complete. Audience perhaps? Cant remember).

I'm pretty sure that Gottorollme (RIP) was at this gig too. It may have even been her first Stones show.

I've never seen or heard of any video footage of this gig. You're right about the b&w footage of the shows by Bruce and The Clash from around the same era (the 3 Bruce shows were 19-21 Sep '78)