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IKF. I can count on my fingers the number of times a live recording has been on par with a studio album. And yeah, there's nothing like a live recording to give you that nagging feeling of "Oh wow, that must have been super fun with all those people cheering, and it probably sounded a lot better in person, and all I get are scraps and sloppy seconds", the ultimate FOMO. Shit sucks.

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Don't forget the terrible audio balancing from the auditorium.

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Mostly I agree, but I've seen the Scorpions live a few times and they are on the money.

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Concert you attend: good chance it’s awesome.

Concert some audio tech craps into a reel to reel: no thanks.

There are exceptions. Prince was able to rock it live and his live show recordings are pretty awesome, but he was also a perfectionist.

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This is on the money. Emptying the vibes, stage pressence, showmanship etc of an in person concert is way different then listening to an inferior quality recording from a show you weren't at.

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Even classical performers hundreds of years ago complained that audiences only wanted the same old pieces played the exact same way. Even today there are musicians that specialize in replicating jazz solos note-for-note. There must be some innate human need, like hearing the same thing makes the brain fire in the same way, releasing the same chemicals slightly less every time.

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If a song is good enough to produce a human emotion in the listener (or if the person is dumb enough to like some garbage music) then that version is what caused the connections, and people only want the same good feeling again. Hearing on old man sing a song with his old man voice will only have the listener think "he sounded good when he was young". The same thing happens with live versions. The musicians might not play something complex that required several takes in the booth to get it right, and the vocalist night not hit a note as high as they recorded it, or hold it as long. Hearing humans hit great notes is part of the production of those good feelings, so knowing what was the best version, and then hearing something fall short of that expectation, leaves one disappointed.

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I somewhat disagree. It can be interesting to hear the slight variations in the performance and sometimes I think the crowd noise adds to it in a good way. Portishead Roads live (youtube.com) version is a good example of this.

If the audio is total crap like some shitty bootleg than sure, I'd prefer the studio version every time.

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Just another way to sell records. And you're right, studio recording to sell records, and live performance to sell tickets.

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I disagree completely. I strongly prefer listening to live music. Always have.

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Why on earth do they even record concerts and then market that as its own album? You already have the good version why put out a shitty version. No, the answer is not "jews".

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Metallica S&M was awesome, that's the only one I can think of.

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I don't think there was a studio version of most of those (in that arrangement)