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Give me your favorite live version of a ...
Give me your favorite live version of a song you love that you wish had an official version/on streaming services/etc.
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Lady Gaga - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (Live)
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got you by the THROAT type YouTube video, technical excellence
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Soleil
16w
Music!
Lana Del Rey - Million Dollar Man live @ Amoeba Records
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this is fun if you’ve ever been a lana fan
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chio
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Anisha
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jmd
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Tracy Chapman, Fast Car, Wembley Stadium (1988)
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This doesn't entirely fit what you were asking for, but the story of 24-year-old Tracy Chapman dropping "Fast Car" on everyone as an emergency time-filler is something. And hey, any excuse to listen to "Fast Car" is a good one!
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jmd
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Ben Lee, Burn to Shine, Bottom of the Hill (1997)
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A bunch of college radio friends and I went to see Ben Lee at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco in 1997, when he was touring for Something to Remember Me By, just him and his acoustic guitar, and I still remember his performance of this song in particular—which wasn’t on the album—as being just incredible. Bottom of the Hill was not a very big venue, and after the show, while I was waiting for my friends to be ready to leave, I spotted him across the room walking around near the stage; I’m by no means someone who normally goes up to people like this, but I felt compelled to walk over, shake his hand, and tell him how great the show was and how amazing that song in particular was. I only ever heard it that one time. I was looking for it to come out an album, and was stoked to see it on the track list for Breathing Tornadoes a year later...which version was so different from what I’d heard at the live show that it’s not simply a studio version of the song, it’s literally a completely different song (and a pretty limp and unimpressive one at that). It doesn’t even have the same time signature. This YouTube version, which somebody recorded in Cambridge, MA, on the same tour and apparently put on a cassette, at least gives an idea of what the original song was like, but it doesn’t at all capture how raw and powerful it was at that particular San Francisco show, watching it at age 19, maybe 10 feet from the stage in a tiny club, just him and the guitar. That one performance is, for me, the great lost song of all time.
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April
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Miley Cyrus Covers “Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?”
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Miley doing Arctic Monkeys. I love her covers, this one is my favorite.The belt in the last minute is a drug to me.
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Kari
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Robyn singing Hyperballad (Björk Cover)
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Guns N' Roses - Wild Horses (Live Tokyo Dome 1992)
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This is such a beautiful rendition of The Rolling Stones "Wild Horses". Hard to find on vinyl. I'm grateful that there's at least a YouTube video of this phenomenal performance 😊
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seán patrick john paul george ringo doran
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Genius Youtube Archives
Selena’s Last Concert (Live From Astrodome 1995)
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AMB
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Media
Kathryn Kelly
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Live in Buffalo, NY, 7/4/2004)
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I love this video! I think it is wild how many people continue watch it (just scrolling through the comment section, so many people have commented about watching it in 2026). I also 10/10 recommend watching this video with someone who has never seen it before to share the experience.
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Tori
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Bon Iver - "Heavenly Father" (Acapella) | Live at Sydney Opera House
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I’ve been waiting to answer a question like this since I first heard this live version of Bon Iver’s “Heavenly Father.” The streaming version doesn’t come close!!
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