Live In America is a live album featuring Blue Oyster Cult.
I think this is a recording made for a radio broadcast which was recorded in New York during their Fire Of Unknown Origin tour in 1981.
Tag: 1980s hard rock
Live Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums From The 1980s
Is there a difference between hard rock and heavy metal?
Yes but I suspect that each of us would draw the dividing line somewhere different.
Wikipedia defines hard rock as:
“Hard rock (or heavy rock) is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos and keyboards.”
Wikipedia defines heavy metal as:
“Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with masculinity, aggression, and machismo.”
As far as I’m concerned this category ranges from excellent to unbearable with plenty of ordinary rock and metal that’s acceptable but not special. It can be too heavy and too loud and the category includes bands that I think are disgusting. Mind you, I like blues rock and even singer songwriters so what do I know?
Heavy Metal And Hard Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 1980s
Accept Staying A Life 1985
Aerosmith Classics Live II 1984
Aerosmith Rehabilitated 1986
Aerosmith A Brand New Song and Dance 1986
Anthrax Caught in a Mosh BBC Live in Concert 1987
Atomic Rooster Live at the Marquee 1980
Black Sabbath Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1981 & 1982
Black Sabbath Live Evil 1982
Blue Oyster Cult Extraterrestrial Live 1981
Blue Oyster Cult Live in America 1981
Budgie The BBC Recordings 1972 to 1982
Cold Chisel Swingshift 1980
Def Leppard Live LA Forum with Pyromania Deluxe 1983
Destruction Live Without Sense 1988
Dio At Donnington 1983 & 1987
Europe The Final Countdown Tour 1986
Fields Of The Nephilim BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert 1988
Gillan Double Trouble 1981
Gillan Live Triple Trouble 1981 1982
Guns N Roses Live Era 87–93
Hanoi Rocks All Those Wasted Years 1983
Helloween Live in the UK 1988
Iggy Pop Roadkill Rising The Bootleg Collection 1977–2009
Iron Maiden Live After Death 1985
Iron Maiden Maiden England 1988
Judas Priest Priest Live 1986
King Diamond In Concert 1987 Abigail
Kiss Alive 3 1982
Michael Schenker Group One Night At Budokan 1981
Gary Moore Live At The Marquee 1980
Gary Moore Rockin Every Night – Live in Japan 1983
Gary Moore We Want Moore 1984
Motorhead No Sleep Til Hammersmith 1981
Motorhead BBC Live & In-Session 1978 to 1986
Napalm Death Peel Sessions 1987 1988
Nazareth Malice In Wonderland 1980
Nazareth Snaz 1981
Ted Nugent Intensities In 10 Cities 1980
Ozzy Osbourne Tribute 1981
Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Live 1981
Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil 1982
Quiet Riot Live & Rare Volume 1 1983 1984
Racer X Extreme Volume Live 1988
Rush Exit Stage Left 1980 & 1981
Saxon BBC Sessions / Live at Reading Festival 1986 1980 1982
Saxon The Eagle Has Landed Live 1981
Scorpions World Wide Live 1984
Slayer Live Undead 1984
Soundgarden Louder Than Live 1989
Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC 1971 to 1983
Thin Lizzy Life 1983
Thin Lizzy BBC Radio One Live in Concert 1983
Thin Lizzy Live At The BBC Super Deluxe Box Set 1971 to 1983
Twisted Sister Live at the Marquee Club 1983
Twisted Sister Live at Hammersmith 1984
UFO On Air At The BBC 1974 – 1985
UFO The Official Bootleg Box Set 1975 to 1985
UFO BBC In Concert 4th February 1980
UFO Regenerator Live 1982
UFO Live Throughout the Years 1976 1982 1998
W.A.S.P. Live In the Raw 1987
Frank Zappa Buffalo 1980
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The All Time Best Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Live Albums
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The Live Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Hanoi Rocks All Those Wasted Years 1983
All Those Wasted Years is a live album by Finnish glam rock band Hanoi Rocks.
It was recorded at the Marquee Club in London in December 1983 and was released the following year.
King Diamond In Concert 1987 Abigail
In Concert 1987 Abigail is a live album by heavy metal band King Diamond.
Destruction Live Without Sense 1988
Live Without Sense is a live album by German heavy metal group Destruction.
It was recorded at concerts in Vienna in 1988 and was released in January 1989.
Dio At Donnington 1983 & 1987
Dio At Donnington 1983 & 1987 is a live album by Dio, the American heavy metal group featuring Ronnie James Dio of Rainbow and Black Sabbath fame.
As the name indicates, it was recorded from two appearances at the Monsters of Rock festival in Donnington, England on August 20, 1983 and August 22, 1987.
These recordings were finally released in 2010 after the death of Ronnie James Dio.
Accept Staying A Life 1985
Staying A Life is a live album by heavy metal band Accept.
It was recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka in Japan on September 18, 1985 and was released in October 1990.
Nazareth Snaz 1981
Snaz is a live album by Nazareth.
It was recorded at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada in May 1981.
The title was supposed to be “It’s Naz” but the artwork made it look like Snaz because of the way the words were spread over the front and back covers.
Nazareth were slow to release a live album although there is a BBC In Concert recording that dates back to 1973.
Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil 1982
Speak of the Devil is a live album by Ozzy Osbourne.
It was recorded at 26–27 September 1982 at The Ritz in New York and released in November 1982.
Earlier in 1982, the band had lost its guitarist Randy Rhoads when he was killed in a plane crash.
Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil
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Whitesnake Live In The Heart Of The City 1978 & 1980
Live In The Heart Of The City is a live album by Whitesnake.
It was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on the 23 June 1980 (songs 1 to to 9) at the Hammersmith Odeon on 23 November 1978 (songs 10 to 15). The 1978 songs had previously been issued as Live In Hammersmith but only in Japan. The album was released in November 1980.
Whitesnake Live In The Heart Of The City
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Iron Maiden Maiden England 1988
Maiden England is a live album and DVD by heavy metal group Iron Maiden.
It was recorded at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England in November 1988 during the band’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son World Tour.
A video of the concerts was released in 1989 with a CD release in 1994. The DVD and CD have been re-released with extra songs in 2013
