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Nirvana: Live At Reading and other live albums

James Medd, The Word, December 2009

They keep saying this is the golden age of live music. So why don't live albums sound as good as they used to?

Nirvana: Live At Reading/Manu Chao: Baionarena/Martha Wainwright: Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris/Tom Waits: Glitter And Doom Live/R.E.M.: Live At The Olympia: 39 Songs/Slade: Live At The BBC

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