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⌈ Secret Post #5159 ⌋

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What are your favorite live albums or tracks? What are your favorite live covers? Please share. Also any Youtube videos of live shows you wish you were at (or actually were at) are extremely welcome. Or anything else you feel like I guess.

I always loved the Metallica S&M album because I love the combination of their music with an orchestra.

No Leaf Clover and One are probably my favorite of their songs on it. Also, Ecstasy of Gold.Ecstasy of Gold.

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This concert by Stromae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOZLDQm9c2E

I remember loving the movie of Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads concert. I think it's available to stream, maybe even for free in a few places. It had great energy and I already loved the music.

I think Stop Making Sense is one of the two best concert films ever (the other one is The Last Waltz, the Martin Scorcese movie of The Band's last show)

live Rolling Stones or RHCPs albums!

That version of Sympathy for the Devil on Get Yer Ya Yas Out... hell yeah

Any Bruce Springsteen recorded show from the 70s is basically guaranteed to be great, here's two of my favorite tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79tVdT2jUs
Lost in the Flood - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 75 (every part of this video is perfect)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mieZp0mA_ks
Thunder Road - Live in New York 8-13-1975 (this is a bootleg recorded shortly before Born To Run came out, Bruce plays Thunder Road as, like, a piano ballad and it's fucking amazing. The crowd breaks out into spontaneous applause after "you ain't a beauty but hey, you're alright." I love it so much)

I really like the sincerity of this live version. But I love the immense build of the recorded version--how it's just this long crescendo of urgency.

For those who like live recordings: what do you like about them?

I can't listen to them myself, the audience noises annoy me during the song. I can see the appeal when you were actually at the recording, but for me that would be more about the memories than the song itself.

I'm curious what else appeals to people listening to live recordings.

I think that live music can have different kinds of energy, or different kinds of intensity, or different kinds of vibes.

Sometimes, for example, you'll have a band absolutely tear into songs in a way that they don't on their studio stuff, because that's just what they were feeling that night. Sometimes you'll have bands where improvisational elements and jamming are part of the live act and that can make a big difference. And sometimes the fans in the room create a specific energy that the performers will pick upon, and respond to, and that can totally alter the vibe of a song.

I mentioned the Rolling Stones live version of Sympathy for the Devil from Get Yer Ya Yas Out (terrible album title but w/e) above and I think it really demonstrates it - the performance really builds and takes on this incredible intensity and groove that the studio version of Sympathy doesn't have (as incredible as it is).

Also, sometimes artists will cover songs in concert that they don't normally play. So that can also be appealing.

Sometimes the live recordings sound better than the studio recordings. Studio recordings sound cleaner, but a live recording can have this rawness and energy that isn't always present in the studio version. This isn't always the case, but when it is, man does it hit that dopamine center of my brain.

the live recordings I've made a point to buy are ones that capture how an artist or band performs, especially if it's markedly different from how a perfect, polished, radio-ready CD makes them sound. if you have a favorite band that you've never seen live and might never, it's a way to experience the sound even if you can't get the visuals of watching them go wild on stage. if you have, and you know they're much better live (as fans of 90s bands were so fond of saying), having a record works great.

one of my favorite live albums is from someone I've seen plenty of times live, but I knew he always brought something extra to the live performance, some flashy touches to vocals or changing the lyrics for fun, so being able to picture him doing his goofy stunts while listening to it is a great memory. another band does amazing live performances with extra guitar solos and lengthened songs, so as long as the CD is unedited, hey look, that 10 minute long version with the extended solo that I can listen to any time I want. that said you're right - the better live albums have most of the incidental crowd noise mixed out during the song itself, and only has it at the beginning/end of the songs or when the artist is talking.

99% of the time I prefer the recorded version. But occasionally there'll be a live version that just cuts more to the bone than the recorded version. Like the singer really throws themself into it and they just serendipitously nail it, the emotion comes out rawer and clearer and more nuanced, or maybe the song just sounds better stripped down, or maybe an instrumental bit is actually added to the live performance, like in my rec down-thread for Big Jet Plane, where they add a whole, exquisitely melancholy harmonica melody to the live performance that isn't in the recording.

I tend to like the lack of "production" -- stripped albun Ms especially. They tend to be a different take on sings, especially those that are somewhat overproduced. It's a more raw and unfiltered sound, and I like that. It's almost making the song accessible? Like if it's on guitar, i can break down the chords it find them online, which may be more difficult for me to do regularly.

The sounds of people generally out me off, but sometimes it's nice to hear the artist with the people enjoying their art!

The Indigo Girls live version of Bob Dylan's Tangled Up In Blue is the definitive version of that song

David Bowie singing Sister Midnight from his Reality Tour.

I went to a Rise Against acoustic show about three years ago and it was absolutely amazing. I love their music, but there's something extra beautiful about those aggressive-sounding songs softened by an acoustic arrangement. This video isn't from the concert, but it is one of the songs they played: https://youtu.be/Xbue6CK8MOM

They didn't play this one, but it's one of my favorite songs and I'd love to hear an acoustic version live one day: https://youtu.be/eoHDNuEh2LU

I haven't seen Wagakki Band live, but I desperately want to one day. Their performances look great. This is one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/U3VIrEqMb0g

Big Jet Plane by Angus & Julia Stone - The mournful harmonica in the opening just kills me every single time, I love it so much. And there’s so much more building, poignant melancholy in this live version than in the recording. It’s still really dreamy like the recorded version, but it has a lot more tension and intensity in it, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_BJ3V_IXQ

Rylan by The National - This was the first time they played the song live, and it took another three years for the recorded version to be released. I distinctly prefer this version. The sense of sorrow and delicacy is much stronger in this version. The recorded version has a lot of textural embellishments I don’t care for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qquB3KoZpF4

Raining In Baltimore by The Counting Crows - The recorded version is good, but something about this one just hits harder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90S08O6JPUA

There are so many!!!

The most recent ones that come to mind are:

Zoé's MTV unplugged/Musica del Fondo? Album performance (the ones with labios rotos & the other sing i love)

Lianne La Havas' most recently released album, which was live
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I forget where...

Sara Vaughn's Mercury Lounge performance of "Maria" from the westside story (she sounds so beautiful).

Most of what So Far Sounds and NPR tiny desk concerts bring (Jasmine Sullivan's other side [her pick up your feelings acoustic is SICK, to answer the anon above. The riffs she does live =/= a production studio], Mitski's first appearance on the show, the greatness of the band playing with Jorja Smith)

And that one cover Miguel attempted of Rihanna's kiss it better, live at a concert in California?

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