Live

As definitive a concert document of the band as we're likely to get, and it's close to being essential listening even for fans that aren't keen on live albums. "Live"'s defining performance is a 20-minute cover of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer," on which Doug Martsch's vocal and guitar work bear an amazingly accurate similarity to Young, almost to the point of flat-out imitation. Yet somehow, the performance doesn't feel derivative -- it seems more like Martsch is staking out long-coveted territory and one-upping his way into something very much his own, making the expanded length of the already epic song absolutely necessary.