The Greatest Live Album Of All Time :
http://www.planetrock.com/music/backstage/the-rock-lists/the-greatest-live-album-of-all-time/Thousands of you voted and now we know once and for all that Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is the Greatest Live Album of All Time.
The 1978 album has been repeatedly accused of containing more overdubs than live material, but that doesn't hide the fact that this is a definitive "live " record - it captured the band's stunning live energy and sound absolutely perfectly across a tracklist that probably couldn't have been bettered, and that, after all, is everything we could ask for.
Deep Purple were so close to stealing this one at the last minute with their classic Made In Japan, and UFO's Strangers In The Night wasn't too far behind either.
Rush deserve a notable mention for being the one band who's fans successfully sabotaged their chances for the Top Ten by splitting the vote rather spectacularly across three albums in the Top 40.
Here's the Top 40:
1. Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
2. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
3. UFO - Strangers In The Night
4. The Who - Live At Leeds
5. AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You Got It
6. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
7. Pink Floyd - PULSE
8. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
9. KISS - Alive
10. Genesis - Seconds Out
11. Status Quo - Live!
12. Yes - Yessongs
13. Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
14. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
15. Cheap Trick - At Budokan
16. Wishbone Ash - Live Dates (1973)
17. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
18. Queen - Live Killers
19. Rush - All The World's A Stage
20. Rush - Exit Stage Left
21. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road
22. Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
23. Humble Pie - Rockin' The Filmore
24. Uriah Heep - Live 1973
25. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
26. Queen - Live at Wembley '86
27. Asia - Fantasia
28. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
29. Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City
30. Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
31. Slade - Slade Alive
32. Metallica - S & M
33. Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
34. Free - Live
35. Rush - Rush In Rio
36. Thunder - 20 Years And Out: Hammersmith Apollo July 2009
37. Rainbow - On Stage
38. Woodstock Soundtrack
39. David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
40. Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East