Comments on: why I love live albums http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/why-i-love-live-albums/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 06:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/why-i-love-live-albums/#comment-259521 Pete Baran Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:40:25 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/04/why-i-love-live-albums/#comment-259521 I think my appreciation of live albums runs parallel to my appreciation of live music. Since I made the realisation that most of the music I liked never existed in a live context in the first place, the search for authenticity via the live arena has also seemed deeply suspicious to me. I think soul revues are very different affairs, but I;ve never really been to any of those (a James Brown shamble at Glastonbury notwithstanding). The live tracks I cherish are ones I don't own in other forms (Levitation live version of Bedlam off of Coterie springs to mind). And a Louden Wainwright III live gig from about eighteen years ago wot I taped off the radio which still stands as a great best of for him. (Except for new items). I think my appreciation of live albums runs parallel to my appreciation of live music. Since I made the realisation that most of the music I liked never existed in a live context in the first place, the search for authenticity via the live arena has also seemed deeply suspicious to me. I think soul revues are very different affairs, but I;ve never really been to any of those (a James Brown shamble at Glastonbury notwithstanding).

The live tracks I cherish are ones I don’t own in other forms (Levitation live version of Bedlam off of Coterie springs to mind). And a Louden Wainwright III live gig from about eighteen years ago wot I taped off the radio which still stands as a great best of for him. (Except for new items).

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