Category: Best Live Album Polls

In many ways the Best Live Albums Polls are the heart of the Best Live Albums Blog.

It is your chance to help other readers (and me) find the best live albums by voting for your favourites from a list.

Best live albums polls exist in two categories at the moment – by music genre (e.g. heavy metal or singer songwriter) or by group (e.g. Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin).

The roles of these polls is slightly different. The genre polls gives you a chance to broaden your musical tastes within a broad category,. There are definitely grey areas here and I hadn’t realised how difficult it would be to try to explain some of my genre decisions.

The polls by group let you dig deeper into a group you already like but may mean that you cross genre. For example Genesis moved from progressive rock to classic rock to pop rock as Peter Gabriel left and Phil Collins became a solo superstar.

You can vote for as many as you want up to a maximum allowed by the poll.

I’m also keen to hear about great live albums that I’ve missed from the nominees in the polls.

The category presents the polls in the order of their publication date. You may find it easier to look at the polls that best match the type of music you like by using the Best Live Albums Polls list.

These nice things about lists is that while they are helpful to find the best live recorded music, they will inevitably cause controversy. I encourage you to join in the debate by first voting and then leaving a comment to explain your views.