classic albums with (oddly enough) one live track on them.

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sign o the times - prince 'it's gonna be a beautiful night'
goodbye yellow brick road - elton john 'bennie and the jets'

we havn't asked this before have we?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

umm... Girl Girls Girls - "Jailhouse Rock (live)"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

Neil Young - "Tonight's the Night"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

Altman Brothers - Eat A Peach (two live tracks on it)

― Michael B, Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

or Allman Brotheres even

― Michael B, Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

If it has two live tracks on it then what's it doing on a thread called "classic albums with (oddly enough) one live track on them"?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

Big Black - Atomizer.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Neil Yong - Harvest

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence (though the applause sounds so fake, as with Harvest

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Bennie and the Jets" isn't really live either - the crowd sounds were dubbed in.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Prodigy - Experience

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Ruts - The Crack

Waddya mean "not a classic"? Of course it's a fuckin' classic!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah but 'bennie and the jets' is as 'live' as many 'live' albums or tracks are (see oasis i am the walrus 'live at glasgow cathouse' which was recorded in a studio).

ooh i've just thought of another simon + gaefunkel's 'bridge over troubled water' has a live 'bye bye love'.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Double Nickels on the Dime - "Don't Look Now"

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Massive Attack 'Protection'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

prince - sign o the times.
funkadelic - one nation under a groove (well a bonus live 7" if you have the LP)

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh, well if we're counting bonus 7"s then there's The Stranglers' immortal "Tits" that came with some copies of Black and White

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

Massive Attack 'Protection'

disqualified on account of the live track being so FUCKING AWFUL.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm sick to death of telling everyone this, but the last track is probably my favorite track on that album.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think the Protection one was not only absolutely dire, but sounds a lot like a fake live track as well!

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Some liner notes claim "Coming Up" on McCartney II is a live version, but I remain unconvinced.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Well you do get "live in the studio" sorta recordings, which "Coming Up" might be - except that I thought Macca played all the instruments on that album and he might be clever but he's not that clever

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Prince - Purple Rain - for the last three tracks

But after how many overdubs do you it's not a live track anymore - cause if it's only one than Beautiful Night doesn't count either.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

Misfits - Walk Among Us has a live version of "Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?" on it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Anyone mentioned Diamond Dogs yet?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Which track on Diamond Dogs is live, Alex?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

Well, it's not really live at all, but the beginning of the title track (with the "This ain't Rock'n'Roll, this is GENOCIDE!..." bit) attempts to suggest as much.

Like wise "In the Flesh" on Pink Floyd's The Walll (not really live at all, tho').

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

There is a track on Leonard Cohen's Love & Hate that features an audience as well. But I wonder if the track is really recorded live.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Live Medley on "Grievous Angel" is an acknowledged fake

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

Brinsley Schwarz: "Home In My Hand" (live at the Hope & Anchor), from Please Don't Ever Change.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

@ Alex: the beginning of the title track was directly lifted from The Faces' Coast to Coast live album, released earlier that year! Apparently, you can even hear Rod Stewart. (more here)

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

[fuck, you can actually hear rod! just after the guitar comes in there's his "hey!".]

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

ATV "The Image is Cracked"

― cameron, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

oops. it's actually got a couple.

― cameron, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

... which I was listening to yesterday and almost mentioned here, there might even be three live trax on it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

Re: "Coming Up" -- I thought the album track was a studio recording but they went with a live version for radio & the single?

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah. is "nasty little lonely" and/or "still life" live? (besides "alternatives" and "splitting in two")

― cameron, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's a live version of "Bad Seeds" at the end of Beat Happening's first album.

― mike a, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Nasty Little Lonely" isn't live. I thought "Still Life" was. Could be wrong. xpost

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Regarding McCartney's "Coming Up": I bought the 45 when it was released. The a-side was the studio version & the b-side consisted of TWO songs: the live "Coming Up" (clearly identified as such) and "Lunch Box/Odd Sox." It's the only 3-song 45 I've ever personally encountered.

"Where Are We Going" from Sir Lord Baltimore's second (self-titled) LP was a live recording. (Or a very convincing fake.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

@ Alex: the beginning of the title track was directly lifted from The Faces' Coast to Coast live album, released earlier that year! Apparently, you can even hear Rod Stewart

Wow. Didn't know that. Cheers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

Black Dice - Creature Comforts (that looped track)

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Alex: the beginning of the title track was directly lifted from The Faces' Coast to Coast live album

Now THERE'S a zany idea: Usurping some other performer's audience for your own purpose! According to David Thomas, the crowd noise in Pere Ubu's "Chinese Radiation" was a recording of a Grand Funk audience at some arena in Cleveland, waiting for their heroes' show to begin.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sort've like the theory (unfounded, as it turned out) that the back cover photo of Alive by Kiss (of the two hirsute goons holding a rather poorly rendered homemade Kiss banner) was taken at a Nazareth show (or some band who wasn't Kiss).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

geto boys - we can't be stopped

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not necessarily a classic album, but Quasi's Field Studies has one live track, "It Don't Mean Nothing".

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

From The Rolling Stones' classic Out Of Our Heads: the live "I'm All Right." There it is.

― Bradley, Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

the cd version of moose's 'xyz...' has a live version of 'this river never will run dry' which makes it more classic than the vinyl version.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Recoys - "Rekoys" (CD issue only) (and debatable classic status to many, I'm sure)

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sort've like the theory (unfounded, as it turned out) that the back cover photo of Alive by Kiss (of the two hirsute goons holding a rather poorly rendered homemade Kiss banner) was taken at a Nazareth show (or some band who wasn't Kiss)

Never heard THAT one, but I have encountered rumours (equally false, no doubt) that those goons became The Necros.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 13 August 2004 03:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

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tears for fears - songs from the big chair has broken (live)

― ｐｒｉｎｔｆ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 05:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

Neil Young, "Natural Beauty" off of Harvest Moon.

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 05:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Rolling Stones again, "Route 66" on December's Children (And Everybody's)

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 06:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

John Prine "Dear Abby" off Sweet Revenge.

― banjoboy, Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Fall, "Tempo House" off Perverted by Language (I know, I know)

― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

Weather Report, Heavy Weather ("Rumba Mama" is live, the rest isn't.)

― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

Don't know if it qualifies as "classic", but 'Wildlife': Mott the Hoople.

― Bloody Snail, Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

I guess Nick Lowe's Jesus of Cool counts for including a live take of "Heart of the City". but Pure Pop for Perfect is a superior version of that album, even though it includes an inferior studio version of HotC". this is all very confusing.

― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Pretties For You by Alice Cooper. "Levity Ball."

― the morals of a tomcat and the manners of a wolf (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

one of the songs on James Taylor's Sweet Baby James is live

― some dude, Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

totally nerdy but tonight's the night actually has two live tracks on it. "borrowed tune" and "lookout joe"

― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

Can't forget "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown."

― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh yeah! three live tracks!

― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 01:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

Maybe not a "classic," but Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Broken Arrow has a (somewhat aimless) cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me To Do" at the end.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

brothers and sisters! it takes five seconds. five seconds for you to decide........

― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

Now THERE'S a zany idea: Usurping some other performer's audience for your own purpose!....
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:01 (6 years ago)

"Iron Feather," the first song on Bikeride's Here Comes the Summer, opens with crowd noise from the Simon & Garfunkel Concert in Central Park album, including the announcer saying "Ladies and gentlemen... Simon & Garfunkel," which they overdub with a slightly louder voice saying "Bikeride... Iron Feather."

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Todd Rundgren - Todd, album closer "Sons Of 1984": studio/live hybrid, incorporating audience backing vocals from 2 concerts split separately to left and right channels?

― Paul, Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

Similarly, Radiohead's "Just" off The Bends was recorded live, with the vocals overdubbed.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Oops, that's "My Iron Lung."

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Aerosmith- Get Your Wings but only half live--the back part of "Train Kept A Rollin".

― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 May 2011 04:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

Nearly every Zappa record

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 May 2011 05:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

But Apostrophe would be the most obviously 'classic'

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 May 2011 05:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

Fishbone - The Reality Of My Surroundings
Yes - The Yes Album

― total ass retain (MaresNest), Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing

― thats my meme dont were it out (Pillbox), Thursday, 19 May 2011 10:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

But Apostrophe would be the most obviously 'classic'

Which track would that be?

― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

I was going to say, Apostrophe is 100% studio!

― WmC, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You, 'Holly Wants to Go To California'

Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven, 'John E. Smoke'

― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

Huh, I always thought the audience sounds on "John E. Smoke" were added in the studio a la "Bennie and the Jets."

― WmC, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah but 'bennie and the jets' is as 'live' as many 'live' albums or tracks are

― piscesboy, Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:37 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

hawkwind hall of the mountain grill - "you'd better believe it." don't know if there's a studio version of it at all

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

funkadelic - one nation under a groove (well a bonus live 7" if you have the LP)

Is this the live version of "Maggot Brain" that's on the CD?

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

thought of another one -- robyn hitchcock and the egyptians' element of light. i think "the president" is a live recording?

― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Indeed it is; you can just barely hear a cheering crowd at the end.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

totally nerdy but tonight's the night actually has two live tracks on it. "borrowed tune" and "lookout joe"
― tylerw, Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:42 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark

... "Let's Go Downtown", surely?

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh whoops someone beat me to it
(had no idea about the other 2 tho!)

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

King Crimson- Red, "Providence"

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Dead Boys - Young Loud & Snotty

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex

― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

(had no idea about the other 2 tho!)
yeah both borrowed tune and lookout joe are outtakes from time fades away. don't think there's any crowd noise to give it away, though.

― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

just realised there's that awful bit at the start of Bright Eyes' 'at the bottom of everything'. i love that album but god i hate that intro!

― piscesx, Sunday, 18 September 2011 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Live in the studio should not count here. Esp if the vocals are overdubbed!

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 September 2012 06:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

War - All Day Music
Temptations - All Directions (actually not sure about this one, "Funky Music Sho' Nuff Turns Me On" might just be live in studio with audience overdubs)

― bish basch bosch (seandalai), Monday, 24 September 2012 10:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

totally nerdy but tonight's the night actually has two live tracks on it. "borrowed tune" and "lookout joe"
― tylerw, Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:42 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark
... "Let's Go Downtown", surely?
― bernard snowy, Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:54 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know, I had always presumed that the title track and "Tired Eyes" were live as well. Even when I heard them on Decade before I had the album.

― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

Soft Boys - A Can of Bees

Every release of this has had a different tracklist, but my LP c. 1985 had a live 'Ugly Nora' and ended with a live 'Cold Turkey'.

(I've never heard that specific mix of 'Leppo and the Jooves' on any CD either-- at the beginning of each verse Robyn's first two syllables were answered by a wailing soprano sax or possibly snake-charmer reed).

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

Abba's "Super Trouper" album ends with a live song - "The way old friends do", a then new song recorded on their previous tour. Not sure if a studio version exists.

― Rob M Revisited, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:04 (8 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Waylon Jennings: Dreaming My Dreams ends with a live take of "Bob Wills Is Still The King", which he'd had out as a studio single at the time

― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

"Monkey Man" on the Specials album

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2013 06:45 (1 month ago) Permalink

Odder is the opposite, like john cale's live album john cale comes alive has a couple of studio tracks thrown in.

― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, 9 May 2013 07:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:06 (1 month ago) Permalink

lol

― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:07 (1 month ago) Permalink

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