>live version of a song is better than the studio version

I like the "touch me" by the doors live version more. Maybe because I heard it first but I think it sounds better without all the horns.

>>69126335
cheap trick - i want you to want me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ3Tzr_lJv4

Life During Wartime. Hands down.

common - the food

Most songs by cheap trick

Pretty much every song from Elton John's 17/11/70

literally anything by Dave Mathews Band unironically

>>69126397
This

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EELS - Fucker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5VKCqw1d9A

>>69126335
>What's her name /mu/?
Babymetal

All of Painting With by Animal Collective

>>69126335
Bennie and the Jets, specifically the version from soul train where Elton is dressed like a Leprechaun. I prefer it because it actually sounds more like a studio version.

Blood Promise

>>69126582
Soul Train was a mimed show
It literally is a studio version

>>69126335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYi4FttcpQ

The live version of Earth's first evening Jimi hendrixless and pissed is one of the best songs I've ever heard
I can't stand the album version

>>69126335
Drunkship of Lanterns

Long Season

>>69126427
word

like spinning plates
i love the original, but the i might be wrong version is pure audio

everything on ummagumma, astronomy is debatle though but its still really good

The entirety of Fear of a Blank Planet, showcased on PT's Anesthetize live album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xVh16gogrg

ye

Whatever I Want is the best live opener out of any show ive ever been to

>>69126626
Not so in that specific instance. I guess Elton has a serious taboo against lipsyncing so he insisted that it be 'done live'. Notice all the weird improvisational stuff he does at the end. The piano pari of it, I must concede, is almost certainly pre-recorded though. It just sounds more like a studio recording because there's no fake audience noise. https://youtu.be/y-lOIKP5l3w

>>69126335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlgU-8dMYg
This damn thing right here damnit

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>>69126335
Regatta de blanc

https://youtu.be/wmNeZLVnJGc

Watch that video if you want to see how incredible The Police were live

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All of the stinkers are left behind from Audio Video Disco, and the songs with potential are cranked to 11 on Access All Arenas.

>>69126335
my girlz 930 club

Phish

Swans - Just a Little Boy (for Chester Burnett) [Live from Baslillica Soundscape 2014]

The most intense, hypnotic thing I've ever seen

Black Skinhead

>>69127581
Basically all of Swans' recent live material sound better than the studio versions. I hope they keep releasing as many live albums as they do.

>>69127432
T H I S
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>>69126335
Anything by Rufus & Chaka Khan or Level 42

joy division - interzone

what i would give to be in that fucking crowd

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

MOONAGE DAYDREAM

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swans-a little god in my hands not even a meme

Judas Priest had an absolutely killer live version of Genocide from the 79 tour. It's on Youtube if you look for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1HorjKTIow

Fishmans - Long Season

The album version is good. The version from their last concert is a masterpiece.

Space Truckin' - Deep Purple [Made In Japan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4m11zVGYEo&ab_channel=PlaySomePurple

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>>69126567
this. the album really sucked but the shows are next level

Any grateful dead song. Europe '72 might be the greatest live album of all time

Jeff Buckley's early work via the Live At Sin-E recordings. I'm talking about the Special Edition with Night Flight and all

That album trumps his studio debut Grace with the exception of the track Grace, maybe

If this counts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1tvVywMSQ

>>69126567
THIS, HOLY SHIT LIVE ITS AMAZING

Andromeda, progressive metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73zzSgXuRI

studio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZM3-7EraWI

>>69126335
Grim reaper - lust for freedom
and whole Blind Guardian

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>>69126335

>>69126335
Judas priest - Unleashed in the East

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2MAQGHLdg

>>69126335

Most songs are better live unless they're by incompetent musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL49Aahl18Q

FUCKING GOD-TIER

THROBBING GRISTLE - DISCIPLINE

>>69126335
any talking heads song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-MwFX36-o

I GUESS THEY KNOW

>>69130550
Beat me.

This one especially
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JccW-mLdNe0

>>69126335
The entirety of Emotional Mugger by Ty Segall.

>>69126335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbr4VcGXpX4

The Peel Sessions version of Love Will Tear Us Apart

Every Porcupine Tree song

>>69132202
I used to think that was the original

>>69126391
came here to post this

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>>69126335
Anything by the Dead

>>69132221
100% agree, that music is made to be played live.

>>69126335
Motörhead - Motorhead

Coward

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Identikit

The MSP version was such a disappointment in comparison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sRWQ5BhYcE

>mfw no sick synth on the album version
>mfw no enchanting Ed vox

Whiplash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGV0P6YuFcE

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anything from this album

>>69128326
They combined all of their styles into one perfect live album it wasn't their peak it's a shame that one jap died

Fuerzas Naturales by Quilapayun
One of my favorite songs ever

>>69126335
Probably one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-r9tuPrZK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HMW7h5jGY

The King of Limbs From the Basement. They fucking kill it.

Everything by Jimi Hendrix. There's a performance of Purple Haze in San Diego around 1969 that makes the studio version irrelevant.

Sonic Youth - Shaking Hell
The live version on the Kill Yr Idols EP has Kim basically screaming and it's amazing.

James Blake - CMYK

Beautiful Child - Swans

>>69126335
Closer - NIN

All Muse songs but especially this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wV9_je85DE

Station to Station

>>69126804
good opinion, way out of here live is ridiculous

>>69126335
Zappa's cover of Whippin' Post.
https://youtu.be/-TItmXT8DkM

>>69128285
Swans- blood promise

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XEpgmWCpmgs

Locust star

>>69126335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6yT1eJieDQ


hell the entire film is better than anything in their recorded discography

>>69133384
The live version of Ful Stop they've been playing on this tour has kinda ruined the studio version for me, it feels empty without Thom going "2,3,4,1,2,5,1" right before the part when it goes nuts and just generally feels too quiet

>>69126335
Rhiannon.

love how they extend the "dreams unwind, love's a state of mind" bit.

>>69126381
Definitely. Cutting out the synth bullshit really improved all the songs on that album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vUKBOJ5sU
this better than the live version imo

>>69138825
Ful Stop is probably one of the sexiest songs ever recorded. A lot of people won't agree but it does everything so well.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkwQV6t3t8w&list=PL52185A9807E203D0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg5hHBo_Tus&index=8&list=PL52185A9807E203D0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl25ikVEPB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPXWKO-EBgc

>>69126335
The recorded version is pretty boring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahW9D03XtLA&ab_channel=JamInTheVan

https://youtu.be/jX-fDKWGbRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoBn03xEDls

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Since this thread is still going...

Genesis - Dance on a Volcano/Drum Duet/Los Endos

https://youtu.be/HiU79oS88cs

>>69126335
One Big Holiday

>>69134779
Nigga knows

Meat is Murder and How Soon is Now

>>69126335
Got Me Wrong by Alice in Chains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9vlhXefR4

>>69126804
This is true of all Wilson's work. Hits way harder live.

>>69126523
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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The entire album, and none of you can prove me wrong

>>69126335
Almost everything Kiss ever made.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW9dGTu3xbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=103yCyM1Jy8

The transition period in Mayhem. live in liepzig specifically

anything by les rallizes denudes

>>69133968
This

>>69128513
The Dead's studio work is complete shit compared to their live albums. My brother was super into them, and I tried listening to a bunch of studio albums and couldn't get into it. But then I did acid with him and listened to Europe '72 and I had a sort of transcendental moment during Morning Dew (including the prelude) and was hooked. I'd say Dick's Picks vols. 7 and 36 are better than Europe '72 though, imo.

>>69126391
Most songs on the name of this band is talking heads are better than the studio versions. Once in a lifetime I prefer the studio version though

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Cables

The Pompeii version of Echoes.

Pearl Jam - Black unplugged, AIC - Nutshell unplugged. Pretty basic I know but nobody else mentioned them.

Like A Rolling Stone's studio recording does nothing for me but the "Royal Albert Hall" performance is one of the best recordings in rock history.

Just a man and a piano....but what more did he need. Phenomenal performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuCk6_yEPw

>>69126567
Bagels in Kiev, Summing the Wretch, and Natural Selection especially. All low points studio and high points live

Slippery People.

>>69144548
>AIC - Nutshell unplugged
Disagree.
Layne sounds like he just woke up and the solo isn't as good.

King Crimson - Sleepless
https://youtu.be/zJEUCe0oM8s
>>69126391
This too
https://youtu.be/wA_9kJUSfQw

>>69136951

His live version of Rollo from Royce Hall, 1975 is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOvMXGn3xbA

A ton of early devo songs desu

>>69141594

Comfortably Numb off of P.U.L.S.E., too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Wl2ZdfITU

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>>69126777
Fucking true. The album version is one of their worst songs while the live if one of their best.

>>69133384
hell no

He Also Serves by The Residents. At the Talking Lights Paris show in particular. Best rendition by far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u9MirbMgDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HSRpAM7yro

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTs73I42wA

Don't know if it's really better per se, but there's more singing on it. Which is nice, because his vocal performances are wonderful.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWFSIvg4Dkc

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

theres also that one time Jack White did a solo during a Last Shadow puppets song. He just walks on half way and picks up a guitar cause he's Jack White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT7fV4wT55w Live recording version of Erotic City kinda shits all over the original. The original was good, but it was just like...too electronic. Live version was obviously more rock, meaning more emphasis on instruments and solid playing.

If I do wanna listen to the more electronic version of Erotic City I'll listen to the George Clinton's cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT7fV4wT55w

>>69146547
Oop fucked that up

George Clinton's cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgYi-3ekUM

like everything pink floyd pre dark side

>>69126335
"True Love Waits"

God, I wanted to cry when I heard the butchered version in AMSP. Fuck Yorke and his crooked Brit teeth for that crime.

("Echoes" in live at Gdanks also comes to mind.)

NIN - Hurt
I'll probably catch shit I know it but anyway the studio versions are disappointments in comparison to how great some of the live takes are.

>>69146304
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I think the studio version of Like Spinning Plates is amazing and underrated, while the live version totally fails to capture the atmosphere and brilliance of the studio.

>>69144087
Ha! It's funny because they never officially released any studio albums.

Reel Big Fish - Where Have You Been?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh3kPPMSjpk

Dream Theater - Beyond this life
From the Budokon album. They extend the instrumental a crapload and add an incredibly good buildup and climax. The first time a buddy of mine heard it he dubbed it the orgasm song.

>>69132221
The only thing I can disagree with is Up the downstair. I just love the remastered version so fucking much.
I would kill to hear them play all of Voyage 34. I got to see Steve Wilson play his newest album a few months ago, was cash.