Best official live album?

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Which is probably why I prefer the 1980 album. I don't want to hear a rock band sound "elegant", I want to hear them sound dirty, raw and real. The Dance has too much polish for it to sound like a real live experience, but there's plenty of real moments on the Live album that makes it feel like you are in the venue and hearing the songs, mistakes and all, in that moment. The inclusion of the string breaking at the end of Don't Stop, for instance, is just fantastic. I'll listen to the album versions if I want perfection.

Exactly!

I was sooo severely disappointed when I heard The Dance cd for the first time. I was so looking forward to it, and it just let me down, it was so over-produced and all the music sounded watered-down. These things bummed me out:

1. The Chain lost the continued guitar solo after the tag "chain.... keep us together"; Lindsey used to keep the solo going long after that.
2. Rhiannon was completely castrated.
3. Lanslide lost the "well I hope you make it" lyric-change.
4. You Make Loving Fun lost the "edgey" guitar and sounded like Lindsey was playing under water.
5. Don't Stop... with horns... um, I don't think so.

So I voted for Live 1980.

About the only thing I liked about it was was the rebirth of Silver Springs, but it was just too tame; now I prefer the version that is on the Superstar Concert Series show from that tour.