Episode 129 - The Live and/or Dangerous Mixtape (Side B)

<p class="" data-pm-slice="0 0 []">What do Pearl Jam, Marilyn Manson and Miles Davis have in common? Absolutely nothing at all, except that they’re nominated together for our first live album mixtape.</p> <p class="">Our three live albums actually showcase some of the different kinds of live record we spoke about on the last episode:</p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Neil Young’s ‘Mirrorball’ is not a concert album, but was recorded entirely live, and you can hear that in the recording as you will often hear them talking before and after takes.</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Marilyn Manson’s ‘The Last Tour on Earth’ is a live album that essentially serves as a tour retrospective because each song is taken from a different show on a two year long tour (or series of tours).</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Miles Davis’ ‘Agharta’ is a snapshot of one night, and if legend is to be believed, the best performance of a multi-night stint in Osaka, Japan.</p> </li> </ul> <p class="">So, completely by accident, we all picked wildly different artists and completely different interpretations of what a live album is.</p> <p class="">As ever, you get to decide which one makes it into our discography. Seems unlikely we’ll return to these artists in future but time will tell.</p>