I want to get you involved in my mission to help people find and enjoy the best live recordings.
I have created a number of different polls for you to vote for your favourite live albums.
The more people who vote, the better and more reliable the information – please take part.
There are two different types of best live album poll – by music genre and by artist.
I struggle with the idea of having one best live album. It depends on my mood. Some days I want to listen to the blues or soul, other days I want something heavy. Most of the time I’m in the middle.
The Results to October 2014 (click on the links if you want to take a sneaky peak at the great taste the readers of the Best Live Albums Blog have)
This list of best live album polls will keep growing but this is what I have so far.
Best Live Albums By Music Genre
If there isn’t an active link, it means that I have created the poll but it hasn’t been published yet but it will be soon. The most popular polls have well over 100 people casting their votes.
- AOR Live Albums
- Art Rock Live Albums
- Blues Live Albums
- Blues Rock Live Albums
- Boogie Rock Live Albums
- Classic Rock Live Albums
- Country & Country Rock Live Albums
- Disco Live Albums
- Easy Listening Live Albums
- Folk & Folk Rock Live Albums
- Funk Live Albums
- Glam Rock Live Albums
- Heavy Metal & Hard Rock Live Albums
- Hip Hop & Rap Live Albums
- Indie & Alternative Live Albums
- Jazz Live Albums
- Lounge Live Albums (this has easy listening, Rat Pack style crooners and light jazz)
- Pop Live Albums
- Power Pop Live Albums
- Progressive Rock Live Albums
- Modern Prog Rock Live Albums
- Proto-Punk Live Albums (these influenced punk and new wave)
- Psychedelic Rock Live Albums
- Punk & New Wave Live Albums
- Reggae Live Albums
- Rock&Roll and Early R&B live albums
- Singer Songwriter Live Albums
- Ska & 2-Tone Live Albums
- Soul Live Albums
- Southern Rock Live Albums
- Synthpop Live Albums
Best Live Album Polls By Artists & Groups
Sometimes I expect the best live album by a group to be obvious because there is an absolute classic. Then I open the poll up to find out the second and third best live albums and I’ll do the same if the artist has been especially prolific. They are listed in alphabetical order (for individual artists, it’s the surname that is used so Jimi Hendrix is under H.)
Some of this artist/group polls have 100 or more people casting their votes but some are either new or not very popular and only have a handful or even no votes. If you know an artist well, please recommend the albums that you like best to help other readers.
- AC/DC Live Albums
- Aerosmith Live Albums
- Alice Cooper Live Albums
- Allman Brothers Band Live Albums
- Bad Company Live Albums
- Barclay James Harvest Live Albums
- Count Basie Live Albums
- Be Bop Deluxe Live Albums
- Beach Boys Live Albums
- Live Albums By The Beatles
- Black Sabbath Live Albums
- Blackmore’s Night Live Albums
- Blue Oyster Cult Live Albums Poll
- Tommy Bolin Live Albums
- Joe Bonamassa Live Albums
- David Bowie Live Albums
- James Brown Live Albums
- Jackson Browne Live Albums
- Jeff Buckley Live Albums
- Tim Buckley Live Albums
- Camel Live Albums
- Captain Beefheart Live Albums
- Eric Clapton Live Albums
- Climax Blues Band Live Albums
- Leonard Cohen Live Albums
- Elvis Costello Live Albums
- Cream Live Albums
- Crosby Stills & Nash Live Albums – there is a separate Neil Young poll.
- Dave Crosby Live Albums
- Dave Matthews Band Live Albums
- Miles Davis Live Albums
- Deep Purple Live Albums
- Derek Trucks Band Live Albums
- Ronnie James Dio Live Albums
- Dire Straits Live Albums
- Live Albums By The Doors
- Dream Theater Live Albums
- Duke Ellington Live Albums
- Bob Dylan Live Albums
- Emerson Lake & Palmer Live Albums
- Elton John Live Albums
- Peter Green Fleetwood Mac Live Albums
- Buckingham Nicks Fleetwood Mac Live Album
- Aretha Franklin Live Album
- Live Albums By Free
- Rory Gallagher Live Albums
- J Geils Band Live Albums
- Genesis Live Albums
- Ian Gillan Live Albums
- Dizzy Gillespie Live Albums
- Gov’t Mule Live Albums
- Grateful Dead Live Albums
- Hall & Oates Live Albums
- George Harrison Live Albums
- Jimi Hendrix Live Albums
- John Hiatt Live Albums
- Glenn Hughes Live Albums
- Ian Hunter Live Albums
- Iron Maiden Live Albums
- Live Albums By The Jam
- Jethro Tull Live Albums
- Janis Joplin Live Albums
- Journey Live Albums
- Judas Priest Live Albums
- BB King Live Albums
- King Crimson Live Albums
- Kiss Live Albums
- Led Zeppelin Live Albums
- John Lennon Live Albums
- Little Feat Live Albums
- Nils Lofgren Live Albums
- Jon Lord Live Albums
- Lynyrd Skynyrd live albums
- Marshall Tucker Band Live Album
- John Martyn Live Albums
- Dave Mason Live Albums
- John Mayall Live Albums
- Paul McCartney Live Albums
- Charles Mingus Live Albums
- Moody Blues Live Albums
- Gary Moore Live Albums
- Van Morrison Live Albums
- Mott the Hoople Live Album
- Ted Nugent Live Albums
- Laura Nyro Live Album
- Charlie Parker Live Albums
- Tom Petty Live Albums
- Pink Floyd Live Albums
- Poco Live Albums
- Police Live Albums
- Porcupine Tree Live Albums
- Elvis Presley Live Albums
- Procol Harum Live Albums
- Queen Live Albums
- Bonnie Raitt Live Albums
- Otis Redding live albums
- Lou Reed Live Albums
- REM Live Albums
- Paul Rodgers Live Albums
- Rolling Stones Live Albums
- Roxy Music Live Albums
- Rush Live Albums
- Santana Live Albums
- Bruce Springsteen Live Albums
- Ringo Starr Live Albums
- Rod Stewart Live Albums
- Stephen Stills Live Albums
- Sting Live Albums
- Style Council Live Albums
- Talking Heads Live Albums
- 10cc Live Albums
- Susan Tedeschi Live Albums
- Thin Lizzy Live Albums
- Richard Thompson Live Albums
- Traffic Live Albums
- Robin Trower Live Albums
- U2 Live Albums
- Van Der Graaf Generator Live Albums
- Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Albums
- Velvet Underground Live Albums
- Paul Weller Live Albums
- Johnny Winter Live Albums
- Steve Winwood Live Albums
- Whitesnake Live Albums
- Live Albums By The Who
- Wishbone Ash Live Albums
- Yes Live Albums
- Lester Young Live Albums
- Neil Young Live Albums
- Frank Zappa Live Albums