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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.

Our three live albums actually showcase some of the different kinds of live record we spoke about on the last episode:

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

So, completely by accident, we all picked wildly different artists and completely different interpretations of what a live album is.

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.