Author Topic: Best Song You Have Seen Live? (Read 5647 times)

chrisbDTM · « **on:** March 07, 2011, 09:11:59 PM »

thread title. what song is most memorable to you etc etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9ZhUnNXxw

mine would have to be pearl of the stars by coheed.

i saw them in the middle of central park nyc in the summer. just an incredible experience and this song was mesmerizing live.

dongringo · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:17:39 PM »

Can't pin point just one song as THE best, but Comforting Sounds by Mew is certainly up there. I completely lost myself in it.

Gorille85 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:24:15 PM »

In Velvet Coffins We Slept, by Unexpect. They change the song a bit live and the vocal section with Leïlindel and then Syriak is just incredible. Really fun song to handbang to, too.

Quadrochosis · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:25:56 PM »

"Lazarus" by Porcupine Tree. No contest. Singing along with an entire venue during the chorus was the most heart wrenching concert experience I've ever had.

73109 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:29:43 PM »

Ouch...let me think.

edit: After looking at my concert list, I have come up with a few.

Aerosmith-Dream On (on top of the Green Monster at Fenway Park in Boston:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOUemTh3uc&feature=related

Elton John and Billy Joel-Piano Man (the day before I saw DT:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0caud7hO0N0

Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne: Iron Man/Paranoid (at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gig in NYC:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn05JMG2oNc&feature=related

Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello-The Ghost of Tom Joad (also at the RARHOF gig in NYC:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mq0uJ7rlM

Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel-Born to Run (also same gig:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78qF8haa3mo

Those songs changed my life and now you can watch them. Those are all the songs from the actual gigs.

Quadrochosis · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:32:00 PM »

Quote from: dongringo on March 07, 2011, 09:17:39 PM

Can't pin point just one song as THE best, but Comforting Sounds by Mew is certainly up there. I completely lost myself in it.

Oh man, I've only been a fan of Mew for a few weeks, but "Comforting Sounds" would be at the top of my list for songs I'd like to see live.

antigoon · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2011, 10:03:10 PM »

Trains.

Fuzzboy · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2011, 10:53:31 PM »

Quote from: antigoon on March 07, 2011, 10:03:10 PM

Trains.

Quote from: Quadrochosis on March 07, 2011, 09:25:56 PM

"Lazarus" by Porcupine Tree. No contest. Singing along with an entire venue during the chorus was the most heart wrenching concert experience I've ever had.

Came in here to post these

Accelerando · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2011, 11:01:48 PM »

Styx - Come Sail Away. The best song i've seen perform live. It was quite a spectacle

Ħ · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2011, 11:07:48 PM »

For a Symphony X concert, they played at a venue with tables...so, there was no moshing directly in front of the stage but only off to the sides. Well, our table was dead center, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STAGE. It was so amazing. When the band came in and the lights came on for Set the World on Fire, the first thing I saw was Russell's menacing grizzly bear face staring down at me. I thought I was a goner. But anyway, like I said there was no moshing or crowding directly in front of the stage due to the tables, so I had plenty of room to headbang.

Afterward, we hung around for two hours and caught the tour buses and got pictures with everybody.

Portrucci · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2011, 12:58:13 AM »

probably Opeth - Deliverance as their final song of the night.

Zydar · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2011, 01:08:42 AM »

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland

YtseBitsySpider · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2011, 05:18:21 AM »

Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife (he pulls a highschool friend up on stage and lets him play rythm guitar for the song - said friend then pretty much takes over the crowd, much to Bryan's amusement)

In The Air Tonight - Phill Collins. Despite being massively undermiced and a mostly disappointing show, having him sneak WAY up into the crowd and begin the song sitting beside some stranger who had no idea he was there...was fantastic.

Simply The Best - Tina Turner................she's Tina...if you haven't seen her......never mind.

Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark............it wasn't RIO...but holy shit...what a song.

Pantera........all songs.......twice......fuck my head.

honorable mention.

I Am A Wild Party - Kim Mitchell rah rah ole!

Jirpo · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2011, 05:51:53 AM »

As of last night, Fear of the Dark!

SlickSy · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2011, 05:53:53 AM »

Dream Theater - Take the Time ... My favourite DT track on Images and Words. It was amazing.

Porcupine Tree - Lazarus / Trains

Transatlantic - Stranger in Your Soul (Shepherd's Bush Empire gig 2010)

Opeth - The Funeral Portrait

kári · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2011, 06:13:53 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQsPv4FMyLg

nikatapi · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2011, 06:16:10 AM »

DT- Overture 1928
Opeth - Ghost Of Perdition
Fates Warning - The Eleventh Hour

Fnejk · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2011, 07:30:37 AM »

Dream Theater - The Mirror/Lie
Dream Theater - Sacrificed Sons
Or
Opeth - Lotus eater
Or
Toto - Rosanna

Edit: The local Pink Floyd cover band's version of Have a Cigar was pretty damn awesome to

wkiml · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2011, 07:37:38 AM »

Genesis...the Cage Medley

jonny108 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2011, 07:57:06 AM »

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind was mindblowing live

jfwund · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:11:11 AM »

One month and a day from 9/11. A 5 minute walk from my apartment (I was in grad school at the time). Emotional, particularly as I grew up in NY and knew people killed in the WTC. I don't know that it's the best song, but it certainly was the high point of the best concert I've been to (and I've been to lots of concerts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwd1xoYRfDw

Volk9 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:14:20 AM »

White Walls by BTBAM

Marvellous G · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2011, 10:55:12 AM »

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Metallica - Sad But True (unexpectedly my absolute favourite song of the night)
Pearl Jam - Alive
John Mayer - Gravity
The Blanks - Hey Ya

That's 5 of my favourites I can remember now.

bodiesinflight · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2011, 11:09:54 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHUehjC9z0Q
BIFFY CLYRO - Bodies In Flight (I was at this very gig)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77s1cJms7c
OPETH - The Moor (I was at this one too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1Ts8LHnKU
OCEANSIZE - Ornament / The Last Wrongs (sadly my parents didn't let me go up to manchester on my own to this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvG_Hd8pHmM
REUBEN - Stuck In My Throat (gets me every time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjbA1rGb2k
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Radio Protector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71nLFXAVglU
KARNIVOOL - Themata (I love this song live, just signals that it's time to go nuts)

aparadoxindeed · « **Reply #24 on:** March 08, 2011, 12:17:42 PM »

Quote from: Zydar on March 08, 2011, 01:08:42 AM

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland

I bet that was awesome! Love that song.

Mine is probably "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains. I just saw them last year in Providence RI with William Duvall on lead vocals. Would've have loved to seem them with Layne, but just wasn't old enough back then. William rocks it though!

Runner-up is probably "Chokehold (Cocked 'n' Loaded)" by Children of Bodom in 2005. The final gang vocal part in this song was intense with the whole audience joining in... CHOKEHOLD 'TIL THE END!!!

Zydar · « **Reply #25 on:** March 08, 2011, 12:34:40 PM »

Quote from: aparadoxindeed on March 08, 2011, 12:17:42 PM

Quote from: Zydar on March 08, 2011, 01:08:42 AM
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland

I bet that was awesome! Love that song.

It was mindblowing. I didn't think he would play it since he hadn't played it the two previous nights here.

juice · « **Reply #26 on:** March 08, 2011, 12:43:00 PM »

I haven't been to many concerts so i have a short list.

Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany
Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember
Dream Theater - Beyond This Life jam with Steve Vai and Dweezil Zappa
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Big Country

HarlequinForest · « **Reply #27 on:** March 08, 2011, 01:10:28 PM »

I've only been to 3 or 4 concerts, so I don't have much to drawn from. Seeing Mushroomhead perform Before I Die was pretty awesome because it was a small club and the light show sync'd with the double bass in the song.

Accelerando · « **Reply #28 on:** March 08, 2011, 01:24:41 PM »

Quote from: jfwund on March 08, 2011, 09:11:11 AM

One month and a day from 9/11. A 5 minute walk from my apartment (I was in grad school at the time). Emotional, particularly as I grew up in NY and knew people killed in the WTC. I don't know that it's the best song, but it certainly was the high point of the best concert I've been to (and I've been to lots of concerts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwd1xoYRfDw

This is a great song, and certainly emotional

FretMuppet · « **Reply #29 on:** March 08, 2011, 03:02:48 PM »

Avenged Sevenfold - Buried Alive

madness!!

lonestar · « **Reply #30 on:** March 08, 2011, 03:24:24 PM »

Awaken by Yes backed by a 50 piece symphony/orchestra

Amazing Journey/Sparks by The Who

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by DT

Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks

I Know You Rider/Chinacat Sunflower by The Grateful Dead

Bonham · « **Reply #31 on:** March 08, 2011, 03:34:55 PM »

How has In Keeping Secrets not been posted yet?

In Keeping Secrets.

Chino · « **Reply #32 on:** March 08, 2011, 03:37:52 PM »

Carol of the Bells by TSO

Volk9 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:45:23 PM »

Quote from: HarlequinForest on March 08, 2011, 01:10:28 PM

I've only been to 3 or 4 concerts, so I don't have much to drawn from. Seeing Mushroomhead perform Before I Die was pretty awesome because it was a small club and the light show sync'd with the double bass in the song.

That was a great song live

wjc · « **Reply #34 on:** March 09, 2011, 12:11:18 AM »

Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember

First proper DT/metal concert ever, it did not disappoint

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