^What the title says. It can be a concert you were at, or maybe just a performance you've seen on Youtube. I'll kick it off with this:



The rain made the whole thing really epic and he went for the high notes in the chorus, which he usually doesn't do live.

Queens Live Aid concert/show is probably my favorite live performance Ive seen.

slie165 wrote:

My favorite of all time, the improvised and added strings around the end of the song, her voice, the backing vocals, the added fade out to crescendo, the raw emotion. Just beautiful:


This live performance is my favorite version of this song:


Also, this just for the pure whatthefuckisgoingon factor:

The Queen one was pretty awesome. They were a little bit before my time, but I've heard most of those songs. That guy can really sing. A lot of the music I've grown up with is either rap (90% trash IMO) or auto-tuned crap, so I guess I really appreciate someone who can really sing.

Here's another one I like:

I was at this first concert. Not many good quality videos, but so epic



And this one is just funny. Stopping in the middle of song to break up a fight

bburg83O wrote:
It's funny because you've probably only heard about 20 rap (which isn't a genre by the way) songs which were most likely picked by a corporation to get the most listeners on the top 40 station that you probably heard them on.


lol, you want to see someone with a good voice? Go watch American Idol, you'll get to see the people who you'll be complaining about using autotune a little bit earlier.

I always love it when someone who's idea of new music is what's on the top 40 radio complains about how all modern music sucks.

AGuyIsWatchingYou wrote:

I fully admit to not having much musical perspective. For me personally, rap just isn't my thing. It doesn't really matter what it's about, clean or dirty, etc. I just don't enjoy listening to it. Like I said, my music perspective isn't big enough to say that I've listened to every different type of rap, but the concept for it as a whole isn't really something that appeals to me. I don't really see the talent behind it. I guess saying rap is 90% trash was a bit ignorant. So I'll just leave it at "I don't like rap".

As for American Idol, I've watched it plenty of times. To me, it's frustrating because some of the people who do well on the show can really sing. But then I listen to their debut CDs and it just isn't the same. I was not impressed with David Cook, Kris Allen, or Lee DeWyze's first CDs at all. When I said "auto-tuned crap" I was more going after the people who can't sing live at all. Like I said, my musically perspective isn't very broad, but I would guess that the majority of the artists I listen to use auto-tune. But that doesn't mean they can't sing.

That's kinda where this whole thread came from. I've hear my friends listening to all the "popular" music and it's not my thing. So I wanted to hear performances of people giving an honest, live vocal. Not Madonna's halftime show.

When Converge destroyed the entire Vanderbilt and then Glassjaw somehow topped it 20 minutes later.

As well as the Live Aid performance by Queen, I think that the performance by Led Zeppelin at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969 is one of the greatest I've ever heard.

So amazing seeing The Boss play with these guys.




Watching this literally gives me goosebumps the every single time. Whether or not you like this style of music or not Austin Carlile's face at 3:30 is heart wrenching.

Most of the concerts that I've been to don't have any good live footage, but these are some of the bands that I think always put up an awesome show:
Between The Buried And Me
Converge
Deafheaven
Every Time I Die
The Ghost Inside
God Is An Astronaut
Heaven Shall Burn
Lamb Of God
Maybshewill
Parkway Drive
Slipknot
Terror

And Have Heart too.

Their best gig in my opinion.





One of my first gigs ever and they played all my favourites

the best live performance that i have seen is the black eyed peas there show had a lot of lights and fireworks plus other artist came to the show to perform

This is one where I feel the live version completely outdoes the studio version. Particularly in the vocals, which seems to be exceedingly rare in rock/metal music.