Best Live Release?
 

What Official Live release do you think was the best thus far?

Me: MEAT LOAF LIVE 1987

My poll never showed up!!! AAAAgh

audio: LATW
video: MSO

I already wondered why I didn't see a poll. :))

1. My favorite is Live Around The World. It's a double album, the performances are great and it is a very good, interesting selection of songs.

2. Live (at Wembley) is also cool, due to the outstanding performance but suffers a little from being a 1980s release.

3. Bat Out Of Hell Live With The MSO: I like the idea of playing with an orchestra. I wish the CD would be as entertaining as the DVD. On the DVD you can see how fantastic the show was, unfortunately the CD doesn't manage to capture all those great moments properly.

4. The Casa De Carne CD is a nice reminder the good shows I saw during the last tour, though I wish they would have chosen a better version of Anything For Love. I also don't recall the audience noise being that intense. He played rather small venues but on the CD it sounds as if the shows took place in large arenas with tens of thousands of people screaming all the time. I liked the atmosphere at the 2008 shows and that noise spoils it a little for me.

5. Can't say anything about 3 Bats Live as I haven't bought it and have no intention to do so but since the recordings are apparently taken from the DVD, I suspect it would be my least favorite live album.

I have to say that mine is the '93 show from Cardiff. Absolutley brilliant in every concievable way. Apart from not being on sale to the general public >.<

Live Around The World. It has its faults, but on the whole it's better than anything else.
Meat Loaf Live could have been amazing but suffers from poor production. It's about time it was remastered.
I think the Storytellers CD is better than the DVD, but that's probably because many of the songs come from a different show.
The MSO DVD is great, the CD not as good for the reasons Sarge stated above.
I also haven't bought 3 Bats Live CD and also suspect it would be shite.
The Casa De Carne CD is very good. Anything For Love sounds a bit shaky, but the rest is all above average.

Not mentioned so far are the old Bat 1 live promo LPs. I think El Mocambo is really good, probably the best example of Meat live from that era. Live At My Father's Place on the other hand sounds poor and there's a constant smash, smash, smash of cymbals all the way through that gets very annoying.

i love live around the world... but i'd love to know what songs were going to be on the other 2 discs!!!

Thing thats stand out about MFP is meat's vocals. the fact that FCOL is cut off at the end of the album sucks.

Also all Revved up from that show got real screwed up.

Live 1987 has a special place in me liver coz it was the 1st live album I bought although it was edited to ~~~~~~y and that audience sound to me sounds like the sea!! Woooshh! Bought Live At My Father's Place at a second hand record shop in York not long after buying Live and I totally preffered the more authentic live sound which led me into a dubious world of live recordings....

In regard to Live I understand that the songs were edited in such a way as to fit onto a double LP album. It doesn't explain the random bursts of volume though.

It was supposed to be a double live album but Arista (wanted to swear there!) wouldn't do it or something that's why on vinyl it was an album and a 12". Total downer that 1 like coz even though the setlist from back then was about 2 and half hrs if cleverly edited we could've got the entire show (including Burning Down and Dead Ringer and Execution Day et al) rather than just 2 songs from the then current album. Then there's that bloody horrible 'live' sound from Wembley 'Stadium'. Arena more like.

And Masculine

I wondered about the 12" single. If there are two 12" records anyway, why couldn't they put more songs on the second record? By the way, does anybody know why the title on the labels of the vinyl isn't Live but Masculine?

Pretty much agree with that although Storytellers ranks a close second on both fronts.

Does anyone remember '93's Alive in Hell CD?

with the lightening on the cover??? (and non live surfs up tacked on the end)

yep basically Live at Wembley (Minus the medley) with a few of the 80's releases

Yes. It has all the tracks from Meat Loaf Live in a different order (minus the Rock 'N' Roll Medley) and a couple of Bad Attitude studio tracks.

One minute too slow!

Blah compilations like that those companies have access to the entire unedited soundboards from wembley and refuse to release them :(

BEST LIVE RELEASE
 

I PERSONALY THINK IT HAS TO BE LIVE AROUND THE WORLD CD I LOVE TO LISTEN TO PARADICE BY THE DASH BOARD LIGHT THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS LIVE APART FROM BAT OUT OF HELL

CAN YOU POST ANY LOUDER?????? :D

i could give Lisa a megaphone and ask her to come over to your house and deliver the message personally if you like?

there's worse things than typing a message out in CAPS...being a westlife fan for instance:D

What's worse: ALL CAPS or a bdly msipellt messs? Shall we have a poll? :twisted:

For me it's LATW and I like the fact that it plays like a concert with no fading out in-between songs.

Yup! That is something I totally agree with you about. Motorhead's 'No Sleep 'til Hammersmith' is a case in point. The original release was taken from 3 shows and edited down to fit on a single album. Then a few years back it was re-released with the full set included; unedited, un-mucked-about-with and raw as hell. As live albums should be (sez me!). That's what I like about the Meat Loaf radio promos compared to the official live releases. So what if you can hear the feedback screaming and the bum notes etc. If you were at the shows stuff like that couldn't be edited out so why disguise it for a release?!? It's a live album forgodsake!!!

Maybe we all could get together and campaign to whoever owns the recordings of various shows to release them as a download...?

I don't have a problem with feedback being edited out and the overall product being polished. Otherwise you end up with Bad For Good on 3 Bats Live which is a bit poo. What does irritate is the fact that there are many bootlegs that contain better material than the official releases.