As a big fan of live CD's. i would be curious to find out what everyones favorite was. Rock, blues, country... it don't matter.

Strangers In The Night - UFO
Made In Japan - Deep Purple
Around The World With - Three Dog Night
Open Fire - Y&T
Captured Live - Legs Diamond
Raw - MOXY
Go For What You Know - Pat Travers Band
You Get What You Play For - REO SPEEDWAGON

"Cheap Trick at Budokan"
"Here and There"-Elton John (not the original, but the expanded edition)
"Hell Freezes Over"-Eagles
"Wings Over America"
"Here at Last...Live"-Bee Gees
"Pack Up the Plantation"-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers


Jeff

In no particular order:

Strangers In The Night - UFO
Around The World With Three Dog Night - Three Dog Night
Unleashed In The East - Judas Priest
Raunch 'N' Roll Live - Black Oak Arkansas
Foghat Live - Foghat
Alive - Kiss
Live From Austin - Delbert McClinton
Live At Liberty Lunch - Joe Ely
Live Without A Net - Angel
From Here To Eternity: Live - The Clash

Who - Live at Leeds
Wings - Wings Over America
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live
Sting - Bring On the Night

The Kinks-"Live At Kelvin Hall"
"Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out"
LIve Cream Vol. 1
Wings Over America
Fleetwood Mac-"Boston Tea Party"-Vol.'s 1 and 2
Dylan and Band-"Before The Flood"
Fairport Convention-"House Full" and "A Moveable Feast"
Richard Thompson-"live"(more or less)

Live At Fillmore East-The Allman Brothers Band
Times Fades Away-Neil Young

Neil Young -- Massey Hall -- maybe my favorite live recording ever
Neil Young -- Live Rust
CSN&Y -- 4 Way Street
Jackson Browne -- Running On Empty
Crosby/Nash -- Another Stoney Evening
Joni Mitchell -- Miles of Aisles
Peter Mulvey -- Ten Thousand Mornings -- covers recorded live in the Boston subway system where he used to busk
Laura Nyro -- Season of Lights
Paul Weller -- Days of Speed
Bill Evans -- Live At the Village Vanguard
Miles Davis -- The Complete Concert 1964
Bob Dylan Live 1966
Fleetwood Mac Live -- featuring a smoking version of "Oh Well"

Zappa - Fillmore East June 1971
Zappa - Just Another Band from LA
Zappa - Wazoo
Zappa - Imaginary Dieases
Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Zappa - Bongo Fury
Zappa - In New York
Zappa - Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here
Zappa - Halloween
Zappa - FZOZ
Zappa - Buffalo

partial/mostly live
Zappa - Burnt Weeny Sandwhich
Zappa - Ahead Of Their Time
Zappa - Them Or Us

Wow I was just going to post this question

Iron Maiden- Live After Death
James Brown-Live at the Apollo
John Coltrane-Village Vanguard 1961
Christy Moore-Live at the Point

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out--Rolling Stones
Flashpoint--Rolling Stones
Stripped--Rolling Stones
Rock and Roll Animal--Lou Reed
Stop Making Sense--Talking Heads
Waiting for Columbus--Little Feat
Frampton Comes Alive--Peter Frampton
Live at Leeds--The Who
Welcome Back My Friends...--ELP
Live 75-85--Bruce Springsteen
Hot August Night--Neil Diamond

I love live albums. My listening must lean 70% to live albums. I have a lot that other people suggested but classics are classics. What are you gonna do?
Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Grateful Dead - Complete Fillmore West Recordings
Grateful Dead - Steppin' Out with the GD
Bob Dylan/The Band - Before the Flood
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 1975 Rolling Thunder
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Talking Heads - The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
Miles Davis - Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel
Miles Davis - Agharta
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out
John Coltrane - Complete Village Vanguard
John Coltrane - One Down, One Up
John Coltrane - Live in Stockholm (ok, grey area, sue me)
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
Neil Young - Live Rust
Bob Marley - Live
P-Funk All-stars - Live
Thelonious Monk - Live at the It Club
Thelonious Monk - Misterioso
Thelonious Monk - In Action
Duke Ellington - All-star Road Band
Charles Mingus - Cornell 1964
Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert
Carla Bley - Live
Johnny Cash - San Quentin
Van Morrison - It's Too Late to Stop Now
Lou Reed - Rock n' Roll Animal

Michael Nesmith-Live at the Palais
Jimmy Witherspoon-Live with Robben Ford
Rory Gallagher-Irish Tour

Sons Of Champlin - Live (late 1990's) --> incredible sound & performance

Jim

My Top 10 Live Albums

10cc - Live And Let Live
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan
ELP - Works Live
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Foghat - Live
Eric Clapton - Just Another Night
Elton John - Here & There
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
KISS - Alive II

One more Zappa - er 6 more
Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vols. 1 - 6

non-Zappa
Stones - Shine A Light
Leon Russell - Leon Live
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road
Allman Bros - Fillmore East
Daddy Cool - Daddy Cool Live
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live 1976
John Sebestian - Real Live
Dylan/Band - Before the Flood
Dylan - Live 1976 (Rolling Thunder Bootleg Series)
Loudon Wainwright - Career Moves
David Bromberg - How Late'll They Play Till?
Stones - Ya Ya's
Neil Young - Times Fade Away
Neil Young - Live Rust

one more Zappa - Does Humor Belong In Music?

Just sticking to one release per artist (else the Dead would go on and on and on...)
Zappa - YCDTOSA Vol 2
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Ten Years After - Recorded Live
Who - Live at Leeds
Dead - Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack (looking forward to the Winterland box - better be here today!)
King Crimson - B'Boom
Neil Young - Weld
BB King - Live at the Regal
Miles Davis - Friday and Sat night at the blackhawk complete
Dylan - Before the Flood (Box please!!)
Coltrane - complete 1961 Villge Vanuard
Nick Cave - Live Seeds
Allman Brothers - Fillmore
Eric Dolphy - LIve at the five spot
Horace Silver - donin that thing
Sonny rollins - A night at the Village Vanguard
.moe - warts and all Vol 5
Luther Allison - live in Chicago

can go on and on

The Phoenix Concerts -- John Stewart
Rockin' The Fillmore -- Humble Pie
In Concert -- Derek & The Dominoes
Got Live if You Want It -- Stones (j k)

Not a comprehensive list, but these are some favorites that come to mind:

Genesis: Live, Seconds Out
Yes: Yessongs
Renaissance: Live at Carnegie Hall
Van Der Graaf Generator: Maida Vale
Magma: Hhaï/Live
Premiata Forneria Marconi: Live in Japan
Transatlantic: Live in Europe, Live in America
Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won
Queen: Live at Wembley '86
Billy Joel: Songs in the Attic, 12 Gardens Live
Santana: Lotus
Miles Davis: In Person Friday and Saturday Night at the Blackhawk
McLaughlin/Di Meola/De Lucia: Friday Night in San Francisco

Stop Making Sense is far and away the best concert FILM ever made, but its soundtrack was lacking until they rereleased it with the complete tracklist.

Live at Leeds, Duh.

I just got The Cowsills In Concert in the mail yesterday, and while not Earth-shattering (it's 100% covers, none of their own songs, plus the "Hair" studio single), it's surprisingly good. Some interesting choices, like brother Paul singing a surprisingly credible version of Sunshine Of Your Love, or sister Susan doing Sopwith Camel's Hello Hello.

Gotta like Blue Rodeo's 2-disc Just Like A Vacation set.

Frampton Comes Alive is what he's remembered for. Excellent album.

And I mostly like Wings Over America for their version of Go Now. No offense to Ray Thomas, Clint Warwick and Mike Pinder, but if you could get Paul McCartney to do your backing vocals, why wouldn't you?

I have a ton of live albums in my collection! Some of the ones that many people consider to be classics are:

Get Your Ya-Ya's Out -- Rolling Stones
Live at Leeds -- The Who
Live at Fillmore East -- Allman Brothers Band
Live and Dangerous -- Thin Lizzy
Live Bullet -- Bob Seger
Waiting for Columbus -- Little Feat (probably the one I listen to the most!)
Frampton Comes Alive -- Peter Frampton
Yesssongs -- Yes
One More From the Road -- Lynyrd Skynyrd
One For The Road -- The Kinks
Live Rust -- Neil Young
Strangers in the Night -- UFO
Alive -- KISS
Quintette du Hot Club de France -- Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappeli

More essential listening (as well as some of my favorites):

Bring It Back Alive -- The Outlaws
Reach Up & Touch the Sky -- Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
Night After Night -- Nils Lofgren
Live Sky -- Crack the Sky
Live in the Air Age -- Be Bop Deluxe
Certified Live -- Dave Mason
Crawler Live (Radio Promo) -- Crawler
Ten Years Live -- The Nighthawks
Nobody Can Dance -- Big Star

and a few more recent ones that should be rquired listening:

"The Shit Hits the Fans" -- The Replacements
Showtunes -- Tommy Keene
Live at Raji's -- Dream Syndicate
In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In -- The Posies
Days of Speed -- Paul Weller
Coma Divine -- Porcupine Tree
Live Under the Sky -- V.S.O.P.

and a ton of others, plus favorite bootlegs (but that's another list!)

Four Jefferson Airplane Live cds.

Live at Monterey Festival 1967.

4 tracks from Surrealistic Pillow,2 from After Bathing at Baxter's and a couple of others thrown in.Not the best sound quality,blame Wally Heider's remote recording and the technology available at the time.What's good about this album is true of all live cuts,you get to hear improvised or re-worked tracks familiar from the studio versions.Grace Slick makes an attempt to play keyboards and sing a garbled intro on Marty Balin's "Today".Perhaps she was a little worse for wear after doing what Bill Clinton never did.

Bless Its Pointed Little Head. 1969.

Has to be one of the live recordings of that decade part recorded at Filmore East and West ,with Kaukonen and Cassidy on top form.This album has the best version of "Plastic Fantastic Lover",and the rest of the album is pretty scorching too.A strange intro to the set still mystifies me."Clergy"-sounds like a recording from a drive-in movie,a plane is heard to sweep low overhead,a old duffer mutters some soundtrack dialogue about"the planes"and the crowd are heard to cheer and later boo and hiss.Odd,but it somehow fits.

Live at The Family Dog Ballroom 1969.

Recorded in September 1969 at the above venue and intriguing to Airplane fans as this contains no less than 5 tracks that would barely two months later all appear on the "Volunteers" album.Apparantly the tapes were only recently discovered.Also contains great versions of "Crown Of Creation" and "Wooden Ships" and a jam with the leader of that other band,Jerry Garcia,on the closing track.Damn good sound.

Live at Winterland Arena 22nd September 1972.

The last ever concert by the band until 1989.Features predominantly tracks from the last two Airplane albums "Long John Silver" and "Bark".Far less psych-pop from the earlier years and a move to a more rock oriented approach.The sound recording isn't that great in places,-theres an odd edit during "Feel So Good"and it does not contain the full concert as the liner notes suggest(the encore with Marty Balin is missing)However those criticisms aside,this is a good concert recording for fans which captures the essence of this farewell gig.Good versions and 2 individual performances by Papa John Creach on electric violin.