It’s not quite the same but I like Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 as a mash up of their two albums. Nightwish’s Ghost Love Score and Green Day’s Jesus of Suburbia.
Tame impala did a live video of the innerspeaker album that sounds better the studio album. Plus the video starts at dusk and slowly transitions to darkness as the album progresses so it looks tight.
There´s a Talking Heads live album called “The Name of this band is Talking Heads” which is incredible and surpasses their studio versions IMO.
The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure - Live
The build in this tune is epic. Best live version I’ve found so far.
(Uploader says that the equalizer has been messed with, I’d love to find the original video)
There’s an album for Simon and Garfunkel live at Madison square garden. I think I only really love it more than most of their other stuff because it’s the album I grew up on and it’s got all the classics. Unfortunately I couldn’t find it on Spotify, but it’s probably out there.
It’s not an album necessarily, but there is a Portugal The Man live sort of half documentary half album that’s done acoustically. It’s awesome, I think it really highlights how eclectic they are as a group.
Similarly, not an album, but there’s a few accoustic songs done by Manchester Orchestra in one sitting that’s on YouTube and it’s just absolutely gorgeous. It’s my favorite songs of theirs and it’s just beautiful.
There’s an album for Simon and Garfunkel live at Madison square garden.
They did a benefit concert of some kind in Central Park, and it was all the TV picked up a few years later as my mom held me when I was sick as hell and we stayed up on the couch, in the dark, no picture but the sound on. It was hours, and I hated their music then as it wasn’t Tony Basil and had neither Huey nor any News. But It’s grown on me since I associate the two. I love the Disturbed cover of TSoS.
Counting Crows Across a wire concert album was great! I loved everything about it even though I already loved the original songs and rhe original albums. Yes I am a hardcore fan, but that album was perfection!
Alive 2007 is the best daft punk album and it’s not even close
Johnny Winter had a great live version of Mean Town Blues I forget which version though. He also had a good live cover of jumping jack flash.
Smashing Pumpkins - Thru The Eyes Of Ruby, Bristol Academy 1996 is the ‘proper’ version of the song in my head now, the album version sounds weird lol
Test Dept when they played live in an old car factory. The drumming and vocals (later in the track) are much better in the live version
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Amy Winhouse’s “Valerie” Live at bbc 1
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Gary Clark Jr’s live albums over studio albums
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Allman Brothers “Statesboro Blues”
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Frampton Comes Alive obviously
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Alice in Chains MTV acoustic album
Oooohhh Layne had such a beautiful haunting voice. I still remember the first time I listened to Jar of flies, I just stood still taking in this new sound and the lyrics were so depressing and obscure and… man! I feel 16 again just typing this up. I brcame an instant fan and would have loved to see them live.
A lot of the Unplugged concerts are so much better, IMO
Ohhh, excellent example. That album is fantastic.
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Josh Ritter’s Kathleen performance from Live at the Iveagh Gardens has far and away subsumed the studio version for me. The original track is fine, I guess, but there’s some kind of alchemy in that live performance that takes it from a kinda sleepy singer/songwriter ballad to a roots rock revival jam. Or something like that. Idk, I’m certainly no music critic, but I know which version I prefer.
Lots of stuff from I Might Be Wrong by Radiohead. Like Spinning Plates, especially.
