Didn't actually know it existed since it's under Manzanera, but I will check it out.

That 801 album is the ****.

Still remember reccing it to Trollheart in the lovr or hate thread.
He turned it down because of his dumbass rule against live album.
Well, joke's on him.

A threefer from Floyd...

^ Thanks for this rec, MicShazam. It's a great album with lots of solid driving rock, though I especially like it when they slow down a bit for the extended If there is something and In every dream home. In my head at least, it makes a good companion-piece to the 801 album - and it's inspired me to check out other live Roxy material. So far, though Manifesto* seems a little slick and gutless compared to your rec. * Sorry - not Manifesto at all; I was misled by a YouTube label, and was actually listening to a live performance in London, 1979.

Anyway, thanks again :thumb:

Glad you liked it! :yeah:

And I like when the album slows down too. The only way the album could have been better for me personally, was if they had performed Sea Breezes. I love that song and the slow, atmospheric parts of it would have sounded amazing in this live setting. Still, Viva! is one of the best entries in the Roxy Music discography for me.

The only other live release I've heard of theirs (yet) is an album called "Live", from 2003. It's pretty good considering how far away we are from the prime of both the band and of Ferry's solo career. It doesn't hold a candle to Viva!, though. I still need to check out 801 of course.

^ Inspired by your selection of Viva, I've been trawling for live Roxy material. That 2003 double album you mention, (live from The Apollo) seems pretty good, partly because the set list is a Greatest Hits list too, and partly because the performances are just impeccable. Perhaps too much so; as a reviewer at Prog Archives points out, there aren't many surprises as RM recreate familiar material from their past. I ended up cherry-picking the few tracks he recommends as having something extra or new, like While my Heart Is Beating, and My Only Love . For the rest, I took Psy-Fi's advice and downloaded a session they did for John Peel in their heyday, plus for good measure, their performance on a German live-in-the-tv-studio program called Musikladen.


^ This one caught my eye, Psy-Fi, as Atom Heart Mother is my favourite Floyd album. If only you'd posted this link 30 years ago, I would've been so excited to hear it! It is (so far) excellent and includes a track I don't recognise, about butterflies, spines and rhymes. However, it does rather focus on their laid-back material and ultimately reminds me that I'm beyond the point of being excited by anything from PF any more.

One thing I like about live albums is that they provide a chance for performers to pull together disparate material from various albums and turn them into a cohesive artistic statement. If you don't mind waiting 2 mins while the band gets going, Beefheart did this well at Sargent's Gym, tying together Blunderland, Big Joan and Abba Zabba among others. Not an album afaik, it at times slides into a chaotic, Les-Rallizes-Denudes-style noisefest; whether that is the band's intention or the poor recording quality, I can't say.

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I don't listen to many live albums, but I own this on vinyl and in many respects, it's better than most everything they did after Z.

Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous has already been mentioned. I saw these cats at the Monsters of Rock Festival in 1983 in Germany. They were, I think, the 3rd of 4th act of the day.

Other acts included Twisted Sister, Meatloaf, Motorhead, BOC, and maybe Whitesnake. I can't remember all of them.

But anyway, Lizzy blew everyone off the stage. No other act was anywhere near as good. Lynott had the crowd in the palm of his hand from the first power chord of Jailbreak.

A couple other favorites are:

Aerosmith Live Bootleg
Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo
Kiss Alive!
Pat Travers Live! Go For What You Know
Maiden Live After Death

Someone else mention Rust Never Sleeps. Wow, what a great album.

"When I get big, I'm gonna get an electric guitar....when I get real big." Classic.

Not usually a huge fan of live releases, but I love the one HEAT put out.

Jeff Buckley's Live At Sin-é is probably the most intimate live album I've ever listened to. I feel like I'm there every time I listen to it. He was just about to blow up, playing to a packed coffee house. The coffee grinder in the background, the banter, the moving of the chairs, etc. I think this album, more than any other he released, shows what a chameleon he was.