Live concert recording are bad

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Title sums it up. You hear an album and it’s great! The artist goes on an album tour and releases the same album as a “live concert version.” These tend to sound pretty bad.

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  2. kekurmomgaytidepodsl Avatar

    A lot of live albums actually sound better than the studio versions

  3. Fr05t_B1t Avatar

    I wouldn’t say bad, but pointless

  4. orneryasshole Avatar

    That’s mainly because they were recorded live at a concert with a bunch of screaming people instead of a recording studio that is set up for optimal sound quality. 

  5. Annual_Ad6999 Avatar

    K’Naan did it some years back with The Dusty Foot Philosopher. Recently, The Philharmonik has released a lot of live recording.

  6. Maleficent_Sir_7562 Avatar

    Disagree because the first time I saw live concert recordings on Spotify of a song I liked, I was blown away by how much better they sound.

  7. Snowblind78 Avatar

    Partially because a lot of artists have forgotten that you can do things with live versions. The Grateful Dead mastered live recordings more so than studio ones

  8. ChrisWithanF Avatar

    The band can record the audio directly from the soundboards and it can sound amazing.

  9. returnofthelivingdad Avatar

    Frampton Comes Alive would like a word

  10. HoytHerringbones Avatar

    No clue what kind of music you like, but I love dirty old live recordings (boots and official stuff). I was listening to Black Sabbath Lausanne 1970 at work today and couldn’t have been happier.

  11. Agitated_Ad_361 Avatar

    This is a silly opinion. There are some absolutely incredible live albums.

  12. maybeinoregon Avatar

    Some sound not that great, but others sound fantastic.

    I miss Borders and their selection of DVD concerts.

  13. Tahito Avatar

    I love when they play the songs faster because they’re live, because I like em fast

  14. Planet-Nice Avatar

    FKJ has some really good ones.

    It depends on the artist. And sometimes it’s nice because they do different variations of songs

  15. Imaginary-Share-5132 Avatar

    Most of them are, but every now and again you get a professional live recording that just hits everything right. whenever I hear a song I like, I try to find a really good live recording of it

  16. CBDcloud Avatar

    OP, we’ve given you quite a playlist here. Are you going to update us after you listen to the recordings?

  17. paranoid_70 Avatar

    UFO – Strangers in the Night.

    All the songs sound si much better on that live album

  18. Larrythepuppet66 Avatar

    Rock in Rio – Iron Maiden would like a word