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Did Beyoncé just surprise-drop the best live album of all time?

If you were there - or if you just watched it on YouTube - then you know that Beyonce's performance at the 2018 Coachella festival may have been the greatest concert of our time.

A loving and deeply thought-through re-creation of a halftime show at a historically black college, Beychella (as it quickly became known) blew minds with the scale and audacity of its vision, and with the mastery of its execution.

Now, between the two weekends of this year's festival, the singer has revisited her epic accomplishment in a Netflix documentary and an accompanying live album, both titled "Homecoming."

If Beychella was the best concert of the last decade or two, does it follow that "Homecoming" is one of

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