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

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Prodigy - Experience

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive Attack 'Protection'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive Attack 'Protection'

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

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone mentioned Diamond Dogs yet?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Which track on Diamond Dogs is live, Alex?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

@ 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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ATV "The Image is Cracked"

― cameron, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oops. it's actually got a couple.

― cameron, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

... 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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― cameron, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

@ 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 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Dice - Creature Comforts (that looped track)

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

geto boys - we can't be stopped

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, yeah I remember that - I think it was mentioned in an old issue of Motorbooty!! No doubt apocryphal. Man, I hope Dan Selzer can get Mike Rubin to start posting.

also, Myonga I kiss you for that Sir Lord Baltimore mention. I totally forgot about that one. I think it really is live.

The album I listened to tonight, Neil Hagerty's Howling Hex, has two live cuts interspersed among its four sides.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the parachute men's "the innocents" has either one or two live tracks on an otherwise entirely studio record.

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(it's not a classic though)

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Slut" off Something/Anything?

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

have there been many more of these in the years since? almost NONE of them were genuine live tracks i think we pretty much established.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 05:26 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

oh yeah! three live tracks!

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

Oops, that's "My Iron Lung."

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

Nearly every Zappa record

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

But Apostrophe would be the most obviously 'classic'

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

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

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

Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

King Crimson- Red, "Providence"

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

Dead Boys - Young Loud & Snotty

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

Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex

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

(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 (fifteen years ago)

three 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 (fourteen years ago)

one 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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

seven 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 (thirteen years ago)

"Monkey Man" on the Specials album

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2013 06:45 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Neil_Young_-_Arc.jpg/220px-Neil_Young_-_Arc.jpg

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:06 (thirteen years ago)

lol

― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, 9 May 2013 08:07 (thirteen years ago)

ten years pass...

Roy Harper – "I Hate The White Man" off Flat Baroque and Berserk

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 26 June 2023 07:34 (two years ago)

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

Nope, but the version of "Steamroller" on his Greatest Hits is the only live song on that record.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:27 (two years ago)

going to correct myself from over a decade ago — "borrowed tune" on neil's tonight's the night is in fact a studio recording!

― tylerw, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:43 (two years ago)

going to correct myself from over a decade ago — "borrowed tune" on neil's tonight's the night is in fact a studio recording!

But Downtown is still live

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 26 June 2023 17:44 (two years ago)

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