Top Five LIVE Soul Albums!
SoulOnIce
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Revolution of the MindGene Chandler Live on Stage in '65Etta James Rocks the House!Curtis Live!James Brown - Live at the Apollo 1962 
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Hathaway
Otis live @ Whiskey (If for no reason other than "Pain in My Heart")
JB @ Apollo
Band of Gypsies (YEAH I said it)
pretty pedestrian list, I'll say so myself
- Live![/b], the Magnificent Men
- Live![/b], Junior Walker & the All-Stars (the other live Jr. Walker elpee is good too - it's also called Live, but with no exclamation point)
- Apollo Saturday Night[/b] (various artists, including Rufus Thomas, Ben E. King, the Coasters, and a very young & nervous Otis Redding)
- that recent compilation of various Texas funk bands recorded live in 1970
This one is three of my top five alone. Rounding out though
Wattstax[/b] ain't I clean?
Wilson Pickett live in Philly (oooohhhaaahhh bumble bee!)
King Curtis live at Filmore West
Withers Live at Carnegie Hall
basically.
Wilson Pickett In Philadelphia ? That was a regular ole studio album that happened to be recorded in Philadelphia - not live at all - but still excellent!
Honorable Mention -
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cosign: curtis, marvin, bill withers, wattstax (1 and 2?)
Village Callers
Meters (At ROZY'S)
Donny Hathaway
Kool & The Gang
My bad, I guess if people are sticklers I'll take this one off and put Donny Hathaway back on. The Wattstax album isn't really 100% live as well, some of the songs were re-recorded in the studio after the concert due to poor recording at the event, but it stays on my list.
well, there's a large difference between an album with no lives songs whatsoever and a live double album with 2 (if memory serves me, La Di Da by the Staples and one other, Eddie Floyd maybe?) studio tracks... love that album, tho... got it when i was 15 before going to a madball show...
There are parts of this I love, and Bill straight kills it on a couple (Grandma's Hands I remember in particular), but I pretty much stopped listening because of the crowd. White people clapping off beat and nearly ruining the song is
Besides that, many of mine have been said. Live at Harlem Square is amazing, especially compared to the subdued performance on the Copa live album. Also feeling the Donny Hathway one. The live Marvin Gaye at the Paladium album is dope. Also, not exactly soul, but what about BB King, Live at The Regal?
please bro. let me live.
I would of said the exact five records except gene chandler and curtis live would of been the top two.
Yes, well I noticed nobody[/b] co-signing the Gene Chandler, to which I say:
"Sleep on, oh ye Sleepers - Sleep On"
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Also, forgot to give an honorable mention to:
I would have, but we only have five albums in these lists, and the same elpees in each and every post would be mighty boring...
"My heart is fumbling in the dark... Keeping me from your love!".
SO good.
Can't remember if its this one or live at the Sex Machine which has those bizarre loops of screams from the crowd dubbed on. You hear the same irritatingly distinctive scream from the same girl repeated over and over at regular intervals. Always made me wonder how 'live' the recording was. Still a great album though.