Assemble a "Best of" Live Album
 

So I was making a playlist of my favorite live Mac material and it was pretty challenging! It got me curious as to what picks other people might have.

So here's the game: Pick 20-25 of the best live Mac songs and say where the recording came from. You can pull from any of the four Deluxe Reissues, The Dance, LIVE, the Tango show, and Live in Boston. You can explain why as well if you feel you need to provide a reason.

I'm still assembling mine but will post it soon.

(Also, one thing I realized while doing this is that we never did get a proper recording of Brown Eyes live :distress:)

Its a good challenge but I will make it easy on myself. I LOVE the 1980 LIVE album so I will keep most of it. The album has some of the best live cuts of I'm So Afraid, Rhiannon, Over My Head, Oh Well, Say You Love Me, Over and Over, and Sara (even though Sara is studio touched).
So I will keep those songs as my base.
I hate the Dreams and Don't Stop sound checks so would drop those. I would also drop the new songs One More Lonely Night and Fireflies. I would add a Mirage version of The Chain and a Mirage version of Sisters of the Moon. I would include also Why from 1976. I would ideally take Why from 1974 but trying to keep the album with all the same band members.
I would not include anything post 1982. I like arena rock. The addition of background singers and The Dance being a more studio sounding live band.

Gold Dust Woman- The Dance
Sisters of the Moon- Mirage
Sara- Cleveland 1980 (not officially released, but the best version EVER of the song so I had to include it)
Eyes of the World- Live in Boston
Rhiannon- Tuscan 1980 (Tusk deluxe)
Landslide- Live 1980
Over My Head- Live 1980
The Chain- Mirage
Silver Springs- The Dance
Everywhere- The Dance
Gypsy- The Dance
Go Insane- The Dance
Never Going Back Again- Live 1980
Station Man- Fleetwood Mac Reissue
Why- Fleetwood Mac Reissue
Over and Over- Live 1980
Angel- St. Louis 1979 (Tusk Reissue)
Go Your Own Way- Mirage
I’m So Afraid- The Dance

The Chain - Mirage
Dreams - the Dance
Eyes of the World - Live at Boston
Angel - Tusk
Sara - Tusk
Sisters of the Moon - Mirage
Go Your Own Way - Mirage
Gypsy - Mirage
Over and Over - Tusk
Silver Springs - the Dance
Rhiannon - Tusk (is that what you want from me!)
Landslide - Live 1980 Tusk
Tusk - the Dance
Gold Dust Woman - Live in Chicago
Over My Head - Live 1975
Why - Live 1975



Have to do more research to finish!

Interesting challenge! Will stick with your rules of only official releases.

The Chain (Mirage Live)
Eyes Of The World (Live In Boston)
Say That You Love Me (Live 1980)
Dreams (Tusk Live)
Everywhere (The Dance)
Oh Well (Live 1980)
Rhiannon (Tusk Live)
Oh Daddy (Rumours Live)
Not That Funny (Live 1980)
Sara (Tusk Live)
Landslide (Live 1980)
Why (White Album Live)
Gypsy (Mirage Live)
You Make Loving Fun (Tusk Live)
What Makes You Think you're The One (Tusk Live)
Gold Dust Woman (Rumours Live)
I'm So Afraid (Live 1980)
World Turning (Rumours Live)
Go Your Own Way (Live 1980)

Sisters Of The Moon (Tusk Live)
Over My Head (White Album Live)
Tusk (Tusk Live)
Songbird (The Dance)

I love Mirage tour Sara. It sounds different from Tusk tour Sara. Lindsey’s guitar on Mirage Sara is really cool.

The Sara from Tuscon is amazing.

I'm disappointed no one wants the live version of The Green Manalishi from the White Album reissue. Stevie's wailing is glorious.