Live albums recorded in 1980 include:
Atomic Rooster Live at the Marquee
Barclay James Harvest – Berlin A Concert for the People
Blondie – Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980
Blondie Picture This Live
The Blues Band Live At Rockpalast
Buzzcocks Lest We Forget
Captain Beefheart Merseytrout Live In Liverpool
Cold Chisel Swingshift
Joe Cocker Live In New York
Elvis Costello – Heatwave Festival (live recording from Wolfgang’s Vault)
Charlie Daniels Band Live At Rockpalast
Al DiMeola John McLaughlin Paco DeLucia Friday Night in San Francisco
Dr Feelgood Live At Rockpalast
The Eagles – The Eagles Live
Earth Wind & Fire Live In Rio
Joe Ely – Live Shots
John Fahey Live in Tasmania
The Fall Live In London
Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson Live & More
Grateful Dead Go To Nassau
Grateful Dead Dead Set
Grateful Dead Reckoning
Merle Haggard Rainbow Stew Live at Anaheim Stadium
Heart Strange Night
Horslips The Belfast Gigs
Joe Jackson Live 1980 to 1986
Joe Jackson Live At The BBC
Joe Jackson Live At Rockpalast
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live
Bert Jansch BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
Billy Joel Songs In The Attic
Journey – Captured
Joy Division – Still
Joy Division Preston 28 February 1980
The Kinks – One For The Road
Ronnie Lane Rocket 69
Ronnie Lane Live At Rockpalast
Madness Live At The Hammersmith Odeon
Magazine Play
Bob Marley Live in Dortmund Germany
Bob Marley Live Forever, Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh
The Marshall Tucker Band – Live On Long Island
Maze – Live In New Orleans
Gary Moore Live At The Marquee
Nazareth Malice In Wonderland
Nine Below Zero Live At The Marquee
Ted Nugent – Intensities In 10 Cities
The Only Ones Darkness And Light The Complete BBC Recordings
Robert Palmer Maybe It’s Live
Graham Parker Live At Rockpalast
Pere Ubu One Man Drives While The Other Man Screams
Pink Floyd – Is There Anybody Out There?
Public Image Limited Paris In The Spring
John Renbourn BBC Live in Concert
Rockpile Live At Montreux
Rockpile Live At Rockpalast
Rush – Exit Stage Left
Sad Cafe Live In Concert
Bob Seger – Nine Tonight
Southside Johnny – Reach Up And Touch The Sky
The Specials Blue Plate Specials Live
Bruce Springsteen Nassau Coliseum Uniondale New York
Bruce Springsteen Arizona State University Tempe
Steppenwolf Live in London
Stiff Little Fingers – Hanx
Talking Heads – The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Third World Prisoner In The Street
Toots and the Maytals – Toots & The Maytalls Live
UFO BBC In Concert 4th February 1980
UFO On Air At The BBC
Stevie Ray Vaughan In The Beginning
Stevie Ray Vaughan The King’s Head Inn
Whitesnake – Live In The Heart Of The City
Wishbone Ash – Live Dates 2
XTC – XTC Live In Concert
Frank Zappa Buffalo
Warren Zevon Stand In The Fire
ZZ Top – Live In Germany 1980
ZZ Top Lucky Thirteen
ZZ Top Lowdown Live At The Capitol Theatre New Jersey June 15 1980
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Still is a compilation of studio tracks by Joy Division and two concert recordings from at Birmingham and High Wycombe.
Confusingly, Amazon report the High Wycombe concert was on 13 July 1979 while Wikipedia go with 20 February 1980.
The Birmingham gig was the last before singer Ian Curtis killed himself.
The Heatwave Festival is a live recording of Elvis Costello and the Attractions from August 23rd, 1980 from the Heatwave Festival in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada available through Wolfgang’s Vault.
There are a number of live concert recordings from the This Year’s Model tour in 1978 but this one catches Elvis Costello promoting the Get Happy album.
Live Dates 2 is a live compilation album by Wishbone Ash pulling together recordings from 1976 to 1980.
In the original Live Dates, Ted Turner was the second guitarist duelling with Andy Powell but in Live Dates 2, he’s replaced by Laurie Wisefield.
The CD has been unavailable for many years except as an expensive import, but checking on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk shows that you can now get it for a normal price.
Intensities in 10 Cities is a second live album by Ted Nugent after the big success of Double Live Gonzo.
What’s unusual about this album is that the songs featured don’t appear on any earlier Ted Nugent or Amboy Dukes albums.
The story is that Nugent was testing new songs out live and played about 20 on the 1980 tour and picked out the 10 that were best received. I’m sure that his shows had plenty of the fan’s favourites included as well.
Continue reading Ted Nugent Intensities In 10 Cities 1980Nine Tonight is the second live album by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. It was recorded in 1980 in Detroit when Seger had become an international superstar.
Before his first live album, Live Bullet, Bob Seger was a hard working rock’n’roll singer who had gained a great reputation in his home territory of Detroit, Michigan but he wasn’t well known or very popular elsewhere in the USA or internationally.
Live Bullet is a fiery, energetic set which demanded attention and Seger had the nous to capitalise on it with his following commercial studio albums, Night Moves and Stranger In Town.
Releasing Nine Tonight was an obvious move to give the fans a chance to hear the new Seger show with the hits.
This album was remastered in 2011 and an extra song – Brave Strangers – has been added.
Exit Stage Left is the second live album by Rush after the success of their first, All The World’s A Stage.
It was recorded at two concerts – June 10-11, 1980 at The Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland on the Permanent Waves tour and March 27, 1981 at The Forum, Montreal on the Moving Pictures tour.
This represents the peak time for the group as they changed their sound from the progressive heavy metal of All The World’s A Stage to a more classic rock style. They even started having hit singles with songs like Spirit Of the Radio and Tom Sawyer.
Is There Anybody Out There? is the Pink Floyd live recording of The Wall concerts from 1980 and 1981 at Earls Court London.
I wasn’t lucky enough to be at these gigs but I had a flatmate who raved about how good The Wall concerts were.
This album was first issued in 2000 and is really the first prime time Pink Floyd live album when the group had conquered the world. (Ummagumma was too early and Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Pulse were a controversial version of the Floyd without the main songwriter, Roger Waters.)
Whether this album has a role to play in your album collection depends on two things:
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Reach Up And Touch The Sky is a live album by Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes which was recorded in 1980.
It’s hard not to immediately think about Bruce Springsteen when you think about Southside Johnny and that’s a shame because he’s produced some great albums on his own.
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The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads is a live compilation album from Talking Heads spanning the years from 1977 to 1981.
This represents the time when Talking Heads were at their most innovative, coming out of the punk movement at the CBGBs club but sounding nothing like punk. In my classification system I’m treating talking Heads as both a new wave band and an art rock band.
This album represents Talking Heads at their brilliant, quirky best and in my opinion is even more exciting than Stop Making Sense.
If you’re wondering about the title, the group were often incorrectly called The Talking Heads. David Byrne would often introduce songs with the phrase “The name of this song …”
My Rating – 29 out of 30 – an outstanding live album
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