songs whose live versions are better
 

one of my friends hates live performance cd's because he says they don't embody the vision of the band in the same way that albums do. I think he's full of [censored]. here are some songs whose live versions I think are infinitely better than the album versions.

Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying (on the dvd)
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child (ok basically everything he did live is untouchable)
The Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Phish - Reba

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Just about everything on Frampton Comes Alive

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Led Zeppelin - any of their songs

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have you heard achilles last stand? this is not always true.

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Stones - Midnight Rambler (Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out)

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I think most of the music from bands like the Dead, Phish, DMB, etc. don't come out nearly as powerful when recorded in a studio.

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Anything by Judas Priest... Halford is absolutely incredible.

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Led Zeppelin - any of their songs

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have you heard achilles last stand? this is not always true.

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is that the one with the ridculous like 3-hour drum solo? yeah, i guess i stand corrected.

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Complete Control, The Clash
Every Wilco song from A Ghost Is Born played live on Kicking Television

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Led Zeppelin - any of their songs

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have you heard achilles last stand? this is not always true.

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is that the one with the ridculous like 3-hour drum solo? yeah, i guess i stand corrected.

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nah, you're probably thinking of moby dick, which actually is better live. it's the one with six guitar tracks, I can't remember which album, but it's about ten minutes long. kind of a hard act to follow live. plus page makes a shame of the solo, because he's on herion or something.

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Your friend is way full of crap , any moron can produce there voice to sound epic , its the ones that can sing it live that really prove there artisits or wanna bes (IE almost any rapper)

I can't just list what's better live vs albulm because the stuff I listen to by default is better Live the on Albulm (Dead, Phish etc etc) But one I will throw in there that might not come up

Primus = Tommy the Cat

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Um, In My Time Of Dying is the LAST SONG I would pick. The version on that DVD is terrible IMO; the drumming is nothing close to that on the studio album version. Stairway on HTWWW is definitely better than it is on the album, although both are great, and Heartbreaker is infinitely better live than on LZII.

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Two off the top of my head:
Rush - YYZ
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

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AC/DC live is excellent. Highway to Hell and Back in Black were meant to be played at volume 11.

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Um, In My Time Of Dying is the LAST SONG I would pick. The version on that DVD is terrible IMO; the drumming is nothing close to that on the studio album version. Stairway on HTWWW is definitely better than it is on the album, although both are great, and Heartbreaker is infinitely better live than on LZII.

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really? I think page's live distorted slide work makes up for the drums, which I actually hadn't noticed in particular.

yes, heartbreaker is sweet live, at least on BBC sessions.

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Most Pearl Jam, especially Yellow Ledbetter

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The recording of Bob Dylan's 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert contains several nominations for the best version of that song ever recorded:

She Belongs To Me
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Desolation Row
Tell Me, Mama
Like A Rolling Stone

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most bruce springsteen songs

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Did you mean Talking Heads - Life During Wartime ?

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Dispatch-The General

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Did you mean Talking Heads - Life During Wartime ?

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I think stop making sense just has better versions of those songs (except heaven imo, and others), and I just picked one. yes, that song is most definately sweet.

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any pearl jam song

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pretty much all of rushs songs sound better live

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Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live at the fillmore)

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Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live at the fillmore)

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nice

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Bob Seger "Turn the Page"

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DMB - Two Step

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Definitely Ashlee Simpson. Pretty much her entire catalog, but particularly "Pieces of Me."

Swede

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Cheap Trick - I want You to Want Me
Kiss - Rock & Roll All Night

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Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live at the fillmore)

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One of the greatest rock albums of all time.

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Also, 'Magic Bus' by Teh Who, Live at Leeds

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I've never heard this? how is dispatch live in general?

I really feel like there could be a music forum here. I might spend all of my time there.

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Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

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Eagles - Hotel California

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged album is amazing.

Pearl Jam's Live at Benaroya Hall is amazing as well.

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It really is...the Allmans don't get mentioned all that often, but that album is pure gold, some of duane's best playing...you can listen from beginning to and literally love each song...

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DMB - Stay (Wasting Time), Watchtower, Two Step

Almost all their songs are better live, but those ones in particular are MUCH better live.

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Barenaked Ladies: If I Had a Million Dollars, Shopping

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Any song by O.A.R.

In particular, the song "Crazy Game of Poker"

BTW, O.A.R. is my favorite band. Does anyone else like them?

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I can't believe this thread is 20 replies long and I get to make the first "Most of GnR" post.

Also, anything Pearl Jam.

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Any song by O.A.R.

In particular, the song "Crazy Game of Poker"

BTW, O.A.R. is my favorite band. Does anyone else like them?

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I used to be a big O.A.R. fan and I went to a few concerts but it was in college and what I didn't realize was that every time I heard them I was intoxicated. They are fantastic in that environment but I tried to listen to a few songs sober one day and it was a fairly big letdown.

Plus, after "hey girl" came out they basically became a band for teenage girls.

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VNH. Also, "Straight to Hell" from the same album is light years better than the studio version.

NT