Your TEN/10 favourite Concert DVD's/Blurays

Stop Making Sense-Talking Heads
Across A Crowded Room-Richard Thompson (only on laserdisc sadly)
Roxy Music-Live at the Apollo
Paul McCartney and Wings-Wings Over America (or whatever it was called back in the day)
Peter Gabriel-Live in Athens
The Pretenders-Isle of View
Xtc-Live at Rockpalast (sadly not on DVD or Blu-ray but online) Feb. 1982
Roy Orbison-Black and White Night
Elvis Costello and the Imposters-The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook
King Crimson-Neal, Jack and Me (well it's really two concerts in one set)

 

Some others i highly recommend, obviously only if you like the artists.

Jeff beck rock n roll party
Really good rock n roll rockabilly tribute to les paul

Nick cave one more time with feeling
Very much documentary, but excellent. It also has live in studio performaces of all the skeleton tree tracks.. now i just need them to release distant sky!

Cold chisel lives vol 1 dvd
Recorded in 2012 when they got back together for a while and a bit of fun.

Clapton winwood msg
Two legends showing us why

Steve hackett
- total experience bluray
- genesis revisited royal albert and hammersmith
All of these are really good.

Iron maiden
- early days - great doco with great live video in batches from particular tours
- live after death - legendary
- maiden england - good document, but not their best performance
- death on the road - worth it just for Paschendale
- flight 666 - amazing performances. Watch as a doco or a concert
- en vivo- not my fave set list, but still great.
Get that book of souls on the racks guys!

Albert lee tearing it up
This guy is awesome

Albert lee 70th anniversary
This is like a history of music, lots of great guests and music

Midnight oil armistice day
A great return to performing, and they still have it

Bruce springsteen and the sessions band live in dublin
This is magic... new orleans jazz meets some kind of country rockabilly. Awesome

Springsteen london calling
Rocking hard and just pushing the pedal down

Transatlantic whirlwind
Amazing piece of work

Transatlantic live in europe
Not premium quality av, but brilliant

Muse live at rome
Quite sensational if you like the band

Muse hullabaloo
Early on. A raw and great rock band , more than just cutting their teeth

Flying colors second flight
What a band. Some great performances and songs on here. Top quality bluray

Led zeppelin dvd
This is important for any zep fan

Joni mitchell shadows and light
An excellent document of this band and lady

Boz scaggs greatest hits live
The title is offputting and only slightly true. The is a fantastic blues type band working it over. The hits are there and great, but the jams ate fantastic.

Cure trilogy
If you like these albums, this is essential

Sorry i know i broke my ten by a long way, but it seems some folks wanted a bit more info about some of the great dvd/bluray options out there

In docos
Bob dylan no direction home deluxe is essential

 

I used to have all three sets (wish I still did), and the Australia footage from vol 2 was my favorite.

 

I had to have that. It was my first ever concert ... it started a love affair with music that has always been true

 

AC/DC Plug Me In
The Song Remains The Same
Zeppelin DVD
Iron Maiden Live After Death
iron Maiden Maiden England
Slayer-Live Intrusion
Metallica-Japan 1986
Grateful Dead Movie
Judas Priest Live Vengeance
U2 Under a blood red sky

 

I like a lot of them, but I rarely reach for them. But one that I play the most has to be Urgh A Music War (DVD), that I find very good when the mood hits.

 

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
The Cure in Orange (not on either DVD or Blu-ray!!!)
Calexico "World Drifts In" - Absolute demo worthy 2.0 channel mix - incredible
Foals "Live at the Albert Hall" - Again, great punchy 2.0 channel mix
Frank Zappa "Roxy the movie"
Roger Waters "The Wall"
REM "Tourfilm"
Beastie Boys "Awesome I ****ing shot that"
Prince "Sign O the times"
Queen "Live At The Rainbow"

 

The fairly recent Stones offering from Cuba "Havana Moon" is really enjoyable.

 

Huh. I haven't compared them since the new one came out. The new edit was a bit disconcerting initially, because I've watched the original so many times. But the original always seemed a bit "frantic" -- too many quick cuts, audience shots, etc. And (without getting into SQ) I found the new mix to be intriguing -- but, again, it could be just a matter of it being different from what I was used to.

It's all good, though. I won't be getting rid of the original, certainly.

 

I actually own that small box reissue and totally forgot the 2nd Disc was a DVD, as the others Sets were 2-CDs. thanks for the reminder as I will need to finally watch it. I will try to do my Top 10 list in the next few days, but hard to do as I own a lot of Concerts on Blu-Ray or DVD.

 

Put fifty if you like. Just give a small blurb about what you like about it.
Like a resource for thise scared to waste miney on a dud... ya know?

Glad you found the disc... if you like the early stuff, i reckon you'll love it

 

Don't restrict yourselves to ten folks.
Just give us a bit of a blurb about what you like about whatever you post

 

Actually, if I could only keep one( no pun intended) U2 CD, it would be be Red Rocks as it has my favorite Songs. I own several other U2 Concert Videos though. I love the Zoo TV Video.

 

I reckon they're all good, but blood red sky is the band in their prime as a straight up rock band with my favourite era of songs. The setting is great and the band and crowd are just rocking in a rainstorm. It's brilliant

 

Only two people mentioned the best concert film in the history of the universe.....THE CURE......`TRILOGY`.
Robert Smith`s guitar work is just jaw dropping!
"I never wanted this,
I never wanted this,
I wish you were dead.....
Get your `F..........g voice out of my head!"

 

What is especiall nice is getting the audio from a second concert in surround sound

 

And it's Jimi... for some reason i thought it was just the audio when i saw it

 

The Rolling Stones- Ladies and Gentlemen
The Band (and others) - The Last Waltz
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
Led Zeppelin- DVD (jopefully they will upgrade and expand this on blu-ray eventually)
Various- The TAMI Show (the blu-ray that also includes The TNT Show)
Prince- Sign o the Times (this needs a domestic blu-ray release)
Various- Motown 25 (also, the various DVDs devoted to specific Motown artists)
Various- Stax tour in Sweden (with Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs, Eddie Floyd, Arthur Conley, and Sam and Dave)
Various- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary (I was at the first night with Wonder, Simon, and Springsteen. Whatta show ! Also, the other Rock Hall of Fame DVDs, even though some great performers are missind- especially Led Zep)

 

Interestingly, that 2nd concert was released on the CD the same day the DVD originally came out in the early 2000s. So essentially, you got the entire contents of a seperate CD, on the DVD (and now blu-ray) as an extra, but now in 5.1

 

Lou Reed Berlin Live
Pink Floyd Pulse
Toto Live in Amsterdam
Joe Bonamasa Royal Albert Hall
Dave Matthews Band live in Central Park

 

In order
AC/DC Live At Donington
Metallica Live S*** Seattle
Iron Maiden Live After Death
Black Sabbath The End
Pink Floyd Pulse
Megadeth Warchest London 1992 DVD
Judas Priest Live Vengeance
Dream Theater Live at Budokan
Dire Straits on the Night
Led Zeppelin Live DVD

 

Thank you for reminding me that I MUST get these on DVD ASAP! I have Wings Over America and Still Life on CD, but somehow never picked these up. Two of my faves!

 

Bruce Springsteen - Tempe 1980
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - Live At Donington (original VHS version)
Monterey Pop (esp. love the Jimi and Otis full shows)
Bob Dylan - The Other Side Of The Mirror
The T.A.M.I. Show
Cheap Trick - Budokan
Bruce Springsteen - Houston 1978
Stiff Little Fingers - Best Served Loud- Live at Barrowland

(Unreleased but incredible: The Dictators - Live at the Ritz, 1986) [pro-shot]

Edit: AC/DC Live at Circus Krone is awesome too! Their best official DVD with Brian to date!

 

My go-to live concert films have already been mentioned here but these two are still missing in action:

Neil Young - Weld (still using my homemade VHS-DVD transfer. This great show is long overdue for an official release).
AC/DC - Landover, Maryland, 1981. Fantastic show from their Back in Black tour. A few clips turned up on the Plug Me In anthology.

 

For starters:

Roy Orbison - BW Night
Rolling Stones - Ladies and Gents
Queen at Rainbow
The Who - Isle of Wight
Nick Cave - Paradiso
Dresden Dolls - Roundhouse
Siouxsie - Nocturne
Elvis That's the Way
Monterey Pop