Talking Heads live at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on August 24, 1979. The original quartet of David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, and Chris Frantz.

Cheap Trick- At Budokan
Nirvana- MTV Unplugged In New York
Alice In Chains- Unplugged
X Japan- The Last Live
Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer- The Big Four: Live In Sofia, Bulgaria

David Bowie - Ziggy at The Beeb - The Best of The BBC Sessions; 1970 - 1972

Led Zeppelin- Celebration Day/The Song Remains the Same
Nirvana- MTV Unplugged/MTV Live and Loud 1993
Paul McCartney- Back in the World
AC/DC- Live at River Plate
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars/Live in Berlin 1976 tour
Bob Dylan- Bootleg Series Live 1966/B.S. Rolling Thunder Venue 1974
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Live at Woodstock
The Doors- Live at The Hollywood Bowl
Morrissey- Beethoven was Deaf
Soda Stereo (an Argentinean band from the 80s or 90s)- Gira Me Veras Volver 2007
Some jazz albums, mostly Miles Davis bootlegs

The Ophidian Trek - Meshuggah.

My most favorite live album is the one from Alison Krauss & Union Station. :) :) :)

God bless you and AKUS always!!!

Holly (a fan of them for 30 years now)

Live albums were a thing for a minute, it's how bands broke out. KISS, Foghat, Peter Frampton, Bob Seger, Cheap Trick all had their biggest (to that point) selling albums of their careers with live releases. I can't imagine live albums ever recapturing that clout again.

Three of my favorites from the 'way-back machine'.

Mott The Hoople - Live
I love the original '74 release and 1st edition release on CD. The running order is wrong and each side is from different concerts (London, New York). Later releases on CD are expanded to include two complete shows but I prefer the original. First love, best love.

Queen - A Night at the Odeon
The Christmas show from '75 broadcast live on BBC. This was a heavily bootlegged show and I personally had several different versions. A tape from a radio rebroadcast, a LP and 2 CD versions. Original tapes were found restored and tweaked for official release in 2015. It's the last time that Queen sounded like a powerful club band.

Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal
I remember seeing TV ads for this when it was released while watching Midnight Special, a slow foot to head close-up crawled up the length of his body. It was the gold standard for Lou Reed to my ears along with Transformer. I know a fan of Velvet Underground and he loathes it! He claims Lou took songs of drug addled suffering and gave them a dose of zippity-do-dah and turned them into "Green Grass And High Tide". Oddly, the rest of this show (Non VU Songs) was released on a separate live album (Lou Reed Live) at nearly the same time as this release.

Ozzy Osbournes 1983 double album is one of my favourites :)