Thin Lizzy top live album poll
Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous LP has been voted the best live rock album by readers of a music magazine.
The 1978 album topped the Classic Rock magazine poll, with Strangers In The Night, released a year later by rock band UFO, in second place.
Deep Purple’s Made in Japan came third in the Ten Greatest Live Albums poll.
If You Want Blood, You’ve Got it, by Australian rockers AC/DC, was fourth, followed by Led Zeppelin’s album How The West Was Won.
‘ Energy and fervour’
Classic Rock magazine editor Sian Llewellyn said of the winner: “Thin Lizzy’s album encapsulates the energy and fervour of Lizzy at their prime.
“The album was one of the first to show that a live album can really capture the excitement of the music as well as a studio album.”
He added: “With a good live album you can crank it up and feel the energy as if you were there.”
Thin Lizzy broke up in 1983 and their charismatic lead singer, Phil Lynott, 34, died of heart failure in a Wiltshire clinic in January 1986 after years of battling drug addiction.
Around 7,000 readers of the magazine voted in the poll.
The Who’s Live at Leeds, recorded in 1970, was sixth, followed by Judas Priest’s 1979 album Unleashed in the East.
Eighth place went to Hawkwind’s Space Ritual (1973), Exit Stage Left by Rush, from 1981, was ninth, and Rory Gallagher’s 1974 release, Irish Tour, rounded off the Top 10.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/3526300.stm
Published: 2004/08/01 17:30:11 GMT
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Which, of course, raises the question of what is your favourite live album – and why?
Flood.™
By: Grey Area - 5th August 2004 at 17:34
Favourite live album? “Bursting Out” by Jethro Tull.
By: Dan Buster - 5th August 2004 at 16:21
Ok favourite live album…. CHAS AND DAVE Live at the old red lion wandsworth
By: Grey Area - 4th August 2004 at 17:55
Joe’s to much of a widdler for me,
Ignore his personal problems and concentrate on his guitar-playing!!! 😀
By: Ren Frew - 4th August 2004 at 11:46
Phil Lynott:
” Is there anyone in the crowd with a little Irish in them ?”
“Would any of the girls in the crowd like a little more Irish in them?”
You just can’t beat banter like that.
By: Flood - 4th August 2004 at 11:37
Oh Dear There was music made after 1979 you know!!!!!
I take it you didn’t read that the poll was in Classic Rock magazine… Kind of narrows the field somewhat.
So why have you not given us the benefit of your favourite live album? Do you have one or do you believe that live recordings are just bland replicates of studio tracks?
For myself I have got The Who – Live at Leeds somewhere (its alright), and, totally by coincidence, I currently have on my CD player Roger Waters In The Flesh.
Spill the beans, people.
Flood.™
By: Ren Frew - 4th August 2004 at 10:18
What, Ren? Never heard of Joe Satriani? 😮
I though you said good music? Joe’s to much of a widdler for me, give me Jeff Healey if yer talking axe murderers.
By: Grey Area - 3rd August 2004 at 17:34
Example 😀 ?
What, Ren? Never heard of Joe Satriani? 😮
By: Ren Frew - 3rd August 2004 at 17:30
Oh Dear There was music made after 1979 you know!!!!!
Decent guitar music I mean!!!
Example ? 😀
By: Dan Buster - 3rd August 2004 at 16:03
Oh Dear There was music made after 1979 you know!!!!!
Decent guitar music I mean!!!
By: Flood - 2nd August 2004 at 20:45
I just posted all the info from the BBCs website. You could have a look at Classic Rock magazine when it comes out (doubt its on their website – they do want you to buy the thing, after all!).
Flood.™
By: Ren Frew - 2nd August 2004 at 20:33
I’d probably go with ‘Live and Dangerous’ as “the” classic live rock album, nice to see Rush’s ‘Exit Stage Left’ come ninth, my cousin sings on it “thanks to the Glaswiegian chorus” sleevenote.
Any idea where Iron Maiden’s ‘Live After Death’ record came in that survey ?
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August 2, 2004 at 8:01 pm