Subj : Re: Studio Vs Live
To   : Nightfox
From : McDoob
Date : Wed Feb 16 2022 17:17:02

 Ni>  Mc> Oh, studio by far! The audio quality is almost always better, and I'm
 Ni>  Mc> particularly interested in listening to a crowd when I'm trying to li
 Ni>  Mc> to a song.
 Ni> 
 Ni> There are some live albums that I think sound pretty good.  One live
 Ni> album in particular, "Stop Making Sense" by The Talking Heads was a live
 Ni> album, but for the album release, they somehow eliminated the crowd
 Ni> noise except mostly for the beginning & ends of the songs.  In the
 Ni> middle of the songs there's no crowd noise.
 Ni> 
 Ni> There's also a concert video release of Stop Making Sense, and they left
 Ni> the crowd noise in there throughout everything.  The video release also
 Ni> has the full performance of "Take Me To The River" where David Byrne
 Ni> introduced the band by name (they cut that part out of the album
 Ni> version).

I agree! There are definitely some live albums that are just as good, if not
better, than studio. An example from my own collection is Portishead's Live
at Roseland album.

However, on average, taking the entirety of recorded music, studio > live.
Unless you're in the audience, of course...

McDoob
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