LIVE versions that rock!!!
 

Ok, list your favorite live versions, not the entire shows but specific songs you loove to see or listen again and again. For example...

-Tina Turner - Proud Mary. She makes this song really rocks!!! The slow beginning and then.. the electrifying dance!

-Queen - Love of my life. A romantic song perse. And in its live version Freddy hypnotized the audiences when they sang with him.

-Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs. The eye contact between L&S is thrilling. We have seen it thousands of times so maybe we are tired of watching it but... it is beautiful anyway. And Stevie sings it so emotional

-Peter Frampton - Show me the way. I think I have heard the studio version no more than twice. Definitely the live version was meant to be a legend.

-Cheaptrick - I want you to want me. Idem. Was there even a studio version??

-Sting - Roxanne. I guess it was a solo performance by Sting in a concert (I think a benefit one, does anyone know?) during the 80s when he sings very nice and slow this song. I'm not a fan of him but I love his voice in this performance.

-Cher - If I could turn back time. Well, any of Cher songs from her latest tours are great, but in this song she gives a special touch. And audience goes mad!

-Fleetwood Mac- Rhiannon from "Fleetwood Mac Live"...love the classic total rock version of Rhiannon. It's just not the same now-a-days.

-Fleetwood Mac- Songbird from "The Dance"...Christine's (IMO) best performance of this song.

I used to love that version, well I still do, put it really PALES to some bootleg live Rhiannons. I believe Rhiannon is the greatest live song EVER, with Sisters of the Moon being a close 2nd. Here's my list, I'm not going to be specific and am only refering these songs at their best. Rhiannon may be a shodow of its former self now, but that shouldn't hurt it's older incarnations from being best live song ever. And the whole list is Fleetwood Mac songs.

1. Rhiannon
2. Sisters of the Moon
3. Green Manalishi
4. Come (Brand new but no denying it's greatness)
5. I'm So Afraid
6. The Chain
7. Edge of 17
8. Gold Dust Woman (best Current live Stevie song)
9. Silver Springs
10. Beautiful Child
11. Hold Me (love it so much live, dislike the studio version)

Hmmm..
 

"Hammer To Fall"-Queen

"Cold Sweat"-Thin Lizzy (Everything Lizzy did live sounded much better)

"Big City Night"-Scorpions

"Comfortably Numb"-Pink Floyd

"The Thing That Should Not Be"-Metallica

"Eyes Of The World"-Some band???!!!

"Time Stand Still"-Rush (w/Aimee Mann)

YES!
I think some studio versions, though good ones, are not the best expression of the song, but then the performer hit the target in a live version. So Afraid, in my opinion, is in this case

Not GYOW, both live and studio versions are superb.

Everything Talking Heads did sounded better live. Burning Down The House and the rest of the Speaking In Tounges album especially got a great makeover live. :nod:

Well, Insider Live, obviously.

"Going Down Slow" - Eric Clapton One More Car, One More Rider
"Wonderful Tonight" - Eric Clapton 24 Nights
"Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?" - Derek & The Dominos In Concert
"Badge" - Eric Clapton One More Car, One More Rider

"In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" - Allman Brothers Band Live At The Fillmore
"One Way Out" - Allman Bros Band Eat A Peach
"Whipping Post" - Allman Bros Band Live At The Fillmore

"Exodus" - Bob Marley & The Wailers Babylon By Bus
"No Woman, No Cry" - Bob Marley & The Wailers Live

"I Loved Another Woman" - Fleetwood Mac B-side of "Save Me" single
"Oh Well" - Fleetwood Mac B-side of "As Long As You Follow" single
"Rattlesnake Shake" - Fleetwood Mac Show Biz Blues (disc 2)
"Rhiannon" - Fleetwood Mac Live In 1975 bootleg

"Rollin' (the Ballad Of Big & Rich)" - Big & Rich live at the 2004 CMA awards

"Take Me To The River" - Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman, Kenney Jones, Charlie Watts ARMS Benefit concert

"I Don't Need No Doctor" - Humble Pie Rockin' The Fillmore

Maria - Blondie

I love the version from her live CD... Can't stop listening to it :thumbsup:

I like all the ones mentioned. I also LOVE the a capella EO17 that La Nicks and the girls did - STUNNING!!!!!

when was this?

I particularly love the final chorus on that one where she stretches the "Go insane and out of your miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind" out. :laugh:

Oh my gosh I know!!!!! OKay, now I have to listen to it... :]

Janes Song - Jane's Addiction, love those steel drums. This IS live, right?

LUV, LUV, LUV this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ :thumbsup: :nod: :blob1: :nod: :thumbsup:

I just popped it in to listen to X Offender. :thumbsup: I LOVE that version. And I can't help but get up and throw my body around my apartment like a crazy four year old and thrust my hips in a vulgar fashion when she sings "I think all the time of how I'm going to perpetrate love with you." :laugh:

These are my favorite live performance songs I have seen so far.
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Tina Turner-Nutbush City Limits/Proud Mary

Fleetwood Mac- Good Bye Baby, The Chain

Celine Dion- River Deep Mountain High

Cyndi Lauper- True Colors/Money changes everything

Donna Summer- Macauther Park

Trapt- Headstrong

Finger Eleven- Good Times

Offspring- Why Don't you Get a Job

Cher- Dark Lady

Barenaked Ladies- Brain Wilson/ One Week

Gavin DeGraw- Let's Get it On/ Chariot

New Found Glory- My friends over you

Third Eye Blind- Crystal Baller

Goo Goo Dolls- American Girl

Vanessa Carlton- Thousand Miles

Heart- Misty Mountain Tops/ Barracuda

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Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Superstition"

Much of Nirvana's Unplugged

Dylan and the Dead "Queen Jane Approximately"

Live
 

[QUOTE=Villavic]
-Cheaptrick - I want you to want me. Idem. Was there even a studio version??
Yes...there was...

My live favs...

Yes, "I Want You Too Want Me" :)

Elton John "Take Me To The Pilot"

It's not necessarily one of my favs, but "Freebird" live BLOWS AWAY the studio version...

Pete Townshend's Secret Policeman's Ball Album.

When I saw/heard the Page/Plant thing on MTV several years ago the WHOLE THING
blew me away...I was also amazed how darn good they were when I saw them on the
following tour...

I love Vanessa Carlton and when she sings this song live!

Oh my, how COULD I have forgotten that one!

I get into moods where I'll just keep that on "repeat" for like an hour:):):)
Steve was THE BEST!!!

And actually when I think about it the Dominoes record proper and Rumours
are probably my two favorite albums of all time...

Pink Floyd is my father's favorite band... He's always like, "Poor Syd. Whatever happened to
Syd..."
"Shine On" & "Wish You Were Here" have made me weep on occasion.

Also been a U2 fan since pre-Boy:)

However,while it's cool for you with Led Zep live, at the risk of starting an intercontinental battle,
until the Page/Plant thing several years ago, I was never fond of the live material... I'm so not into The Song Remains The Same:(

I think it's from the Bella Donna tour (or it was officialy named the White Winged Dove tour?. They released a vhs tape.

I think the best live version of a song has to be Paul McCartney - Fool on the Hill - during his Driving Rain tour...omg - I almost died...and was just bawling my eyes out...

Live:

Pink Floyd-The Wall as performed in Berlin in 1991:

Hey You

CSN Cathedral

Fleetwood Mac:

Silver Spring-The Dance

SOTM-Mirage Tour

Rhiannon-I think it's off that Rosebud recording? Anyway it's in the Disney "Coming Home" video. She rocks, man!

Come

Songbird from the Dance

Sara-from last summer's tour

YES! I saw her last August & these blew me away! :blob1:

Oh, yeah, Sir Paul.

"Get Back", "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The End Medley" & "I Saw Her Standing There" from his Flowers In The Dirt tour.

"Drive My Car", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Hope Of Deliverance" & "C'mon People" from his Off The Ground tour.

There are so many, just some:

Rhiannon, Races Are Run, Sorcerer - BuckinghamNicks - Tuscaloosa '74
Why-San Diego '77
Angel, Over And Over, Oh Daddy- Tusk Tour
The Chain, Sisters Of The Moon - LA '82
The Chain,Landslide, I'm so Afraid, Big Love, Silver Springs, Songbird, Oh Daddy - Dance Tour
Rhiannon, Beautiful Child, Gold Dust Woman, Say Goodbye, Stand Back, Goodbye Baby- SYW Tour
Gypsy - BuckinghamNicks :cool: from AHI 2000
Gold And Braid, Bella Donna, How Still My Love - Stevie Nicks - LA'81
HAEWAFY, Beauty And The Beast - SN - Red Rocks' 86
Edge Of Seventeen, Rhiannon, HAEWAFY - SN - Woodstock '98
Fall From Grace - SN - AHI' 01
Tonight, Let's Dance -David Bowie and Tina Turner
Under Pressure - David Bowie/Annie Lennox - Freddy Mercury Tribute
Life On Mars - Annie Lennox - Millenium Dome '00
I'd Rather Be Blind - Etta James, Dr. John - House of Blues
Message In A Bottle, Englishman In New York - Sting, Gil Evans, Brandford Marsalis - 1987
Satellite Of Love- U2 - Zoomerang '93
Angel - Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan
All apologies - Nirvana - Unplugged
Zombie, Linger - Cranberries - Unplugged
Summertime - Joni Mitchell - Woodstock'69
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Elvis Presley - Live In Las Vegas
Love City, Dance To The Music, Music Love, I Want To Take You Higher - Sly And The Family Stone -Woodstock'69
and so on and on... :thumbsup:

Romy

I must be the only one who loathed that performance. :laugh:

I love Under Pressure with Gail Ann Dorsey. They're just phenomenal together on that song.

:eek: Bad boy ;) .I love it. Musically and visually they were magnetic and the audience was so captivated that responded to every gesture from them, it was like a display of yin and yang combined. The rehearsals in the studio were great too. With David in a full dandy status (as always), with a light blue jacket, and a cigarette in his hand and Annie Lennox in black pants, white shirt, and leather vest. Before starting he was goofing around but as the band played the first notes he fixed his beautiful flirty eyes on her and Annie, who was a bit tense at first, immediately relaxed :cool: . It was already clear they were going to be magic onstage together.

Romy

The whole Live at Budokan album (extended version) should be mentioned here. It's one of the ten best live albums ever in my opinion.

I RARELY listen to the '70's "Progressive Rock" genre anymore, but I remember Emerson, Lake & Palmer had their 3-LP live set Welcome Back My Friends..., which was pretty hot. Especially, "Karn Evil #9" and "Tarkus".

Gentle Giant's live album Playing The Fool was really good, too.

The early Genesis Live when Peter Gabriel was still in the band (and Phil Collins had just joined) was a progressive rock masterpiece.

And, of course, the 3-LP Yessongs by Yes was awesome.

In the years hence, King Crimson has released some live material from the early days when Greg Lake was in the band...which I hear from a couple of friends, who are STILL into the '70's progressive sound, are "just amazing".

I listen...
 

to the modern progressive rock, Mainly Dream Theater (Who toured this past year as opening act for Yes and released the great 3 disc "Live At Budokan" set) & Nightwish (Great operatic female vocals in a genre dominated by male vocals)

I grew up on Yes, Kansas, King Crimson, Rush, U.K. (Allan Holdsworth guitar playing is sick!!!), ELP and the like...Just prefer the newer progressive artists due to better production values of the recordings.