Cape!!!........Alvin Lee's performance at Woodstock giving a guitar clinic on "I'm Going Home". THAT version was the best hands down......Just a magnificent Guitarist! "Cricklewood Green" "A Space In Time"...Absolutely Brilliant!!!..What a week for B-Day's...Paul,Brian and Ray.....All 3 Added so much color to my life........Fly low..
The Grateful Dead album 'Europe 72' comes to mind, with virtually every live song on there eclipsing any studio version. China Cat Sunflower is one tune. Another superb live album.
Love in Vain and Midnight Rambler on Liver than Youll ever be/Get yer yayas Out are not so stiff like the Let it bleed versions. Joe Cocker - With a little Help of my Friends (Woodstock).
Couldn’t agree more with Roadhouse Blues from American Prayer. And what a bizarre album ! But one of my standout favorites is ‘ Mistral Wind ‘ from Heart’s greatest hits. A rather potent version that blows their studio effort out of the water.
Yes, totally agree on Lew Reed, Rock and Roll Animal!! With the song 'Sweet Jane'. Actually, the entire album kicks some serious ass. I listened to it constantly back in the day.
I agree. He’s my fave of all time. There is no songwriter that has had such an effect on me on a personal level like Ray. The Kinks have been a soundtrack to every stage in my life.
I agree with you about the live version of "Conquistador." I would also add Paul McCartney's (and Wings) live version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," from their 1976 American tour, as compared with his 1970 studio LP version. I bought the live version 45 when it was released in early 1977, and you can definitely feel the live concert presence in the recording.
the one that immediately comes to mind is Cream's live version of We're Going Wrong at the Royal Albert Hall. It completely obliterates the 3 minute version on Disraeli Gears. Love that you talked about Bob Marley. One of my specialties is Jamaican music and I was lucky enough to see him live twice here in NYC. He is one of my 3 all time favorite musicians.
You’re one of the lucky ones. Wish I had seen Marley especially his Roxy shows in Hollywood back in the day. We’re Going Wrong is an all time Cream fave. I need to check out that live version again from the Royal Albert Hall.
@@tomrobinson5776 there are two live versions of that song from RAH. Both used to be on UA-cam. One has an amazing solo by Clapton. You'll know which one is the standout
Had to pause the video and go stream the live version of Roadhouse Blues- always ready for a hot Robby Krieger guitar solo. That’s also the loosest I’ve ever heard Morrison what with his vocal improvisations midway… good stuff
great video! thanks, i’ll have to check these out. my pick is I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes by Ten Years After. on the live ‘68 Undead album, Alvin Lee introduces the song saying he hopes you don’t remember the studio version. then proceeds to blow our minds.
My Santana CD (bought in the 90s I think) has that live version of Soul Sacrifice as an added track, along with Fried Neckbones and Savor. The album was already great but adding the Woodstock tracks was a real bonus (lots of CD bonus tracks aren't very special, but this was, for sure). Also, the Who on Rolling Stones Circus is (used to be anyway) somewhere here on youtube, along with the rest of the show, for folks who haven't seen it. It was definitely a good version of A Quick One.
Hey Tom, couldn't agree more with A Quick One, Conquistador and Soul Sacrifice ... I'm gonna go listen to Celebration Day ... I'd mention the Doors Moonlight Drive from Alive She Cried.
laura nyro “money” on season of lights. “she acts like we never had met” dylan from the first london concert, included on biograph. “i want you to want me” cheap trick budokan. “coming up” mccartney “heroin” lou reed rock and roll animal
Visions of Johanna is perfect on Blonde on Blonde. The Live version is great, but on Blonde it is epic. Midnight Rambler on YaYa’s is incredible through a good set of Headphones. What a Recording by Glyn Johns…
Another great topic, and so well done as always! I feel that this one needed to be done in the domain of albums in order to work, because it would be too big if you included all of the live recordings available just on youtube, in addition to Live Music Archive and from so many artists these days who now offer recordings of every show they play. Which is a wonderful thing! In fact, the music business has really changed from selling albums to selling concert tickets. That’s a story in itself. There is one large demographic that wants to hear the music that they first heard in the 70’s, note for note, just like the record please and don’t change a thing. Heart recently played Indianapolis and tickets were going for $400ish. Another demographic wants to hear excellent musicians who never play the same show twice. More adventuresome souls, I would say. Also lucrative business. Dead & Co is getting somewhere around $1500 a ticket at their current Sphere residency shows in Vegas. Back to your topic though. Bob Marley was so great live. Thank God there are so many great recordings of him. One example that comes to my mind is a smoking version of Get Up Stand Up and I don’t know what show it was from. And Catch A Fire from the Boarding House in San Fran in ‘75. The background vocals are so cool. On the topic of The Song Remains The Same, in hindsight I realized that Zeppelin, and in particular Page, wrote whole new versions of their songs for live shows. I love your pick of Celebration Day. It’s so powerful. The album version is cute by comparison with the synth and all, but that live version is ferocious, and that’s what it should be, at least to my ears and soul. And the same really goes for every song on that album. I’m almost 65 now, and I recently listened to the version of Stairway from TSRTS, and it still affected me just as profoundly as it did when I was 17. But those live versions didn’t seem to change THAT much. I remember seeing Page in ‘88 on the Outrider tour, and Dazed And Confused was pretty much verbatim the same version as TSRTS. Not meant to be a put down at all, just an observation. By contrast, I just love the Grateful Dead’s Big River from 12/19/73 in Tampa on Dick’s Picks 1. The second solo on that has a lick in it that sounds just like Bubber Miley’s trumpet from Ellington’s band in the 20’s! It’s just amazing! But I never heard Garcia play that incredible lick again. And I’ve heard a lot of versions of Big River. Garcia was a true, on the spot improviser. Page was much more of a composer. I need to digress even a little further here. There is a pianist named Holly Bowling, who I’ve been obsessed with for many years now. She typically plays solo, but not always. And she plays the music of the Grateful Dead and Phish primarily. What makes her so special is that she takes this music to places it’s never dreamed of going before. And she gives it a whole new light that really brings out the way it was really intended to be played, even moreso that the live versions by the folks who wrote the music originally. That’s a pretty big statement, but it’s true! The thing that intrigues me about her is that she really makes me wonder how much of what she does is composed ahead of time, how much is arranged, and how much is truely improvised in the moment? If you haven’t heard her, check out some of her youtube channel. Particularly if you are very familiar with this music. I really love Sweet Jane, and it was great to hear you talk about Rock And Roll Animal. Such a great album, and I also feel that the guitars on that are fantastic! But another great song from Loaded is Rock And Roll. God bless Lou for writing a song about New York radio (NEW, FUV in their heyday). Not a bad way to get your song ON the radio! Lol. But Rock And Roll is a fantastic vehicle which Phish has used to play countless great versions of. All of which are better than the original. So again, once you get outside the domain of commercial albums, this exercise gets pretty unwieldy. But it does make me question if there’s an album version of any song that the Grateful Dead recorded on an album that doesn’t have a much better live version. I can’t think of one. Years ago I was on twitter and I read Keith Richards put down Jerry Garcia. I replied to him, look, maaaaaan, go listen to the Grateful Dead’s version of All Over Now from 4/1/80, and then maybe we’ll talk. Because Garcia plays YOUR song better than you ever dreamed of. So I hope you don’t mind another one of my typical essays, Tom. Your topics tend to get my wheels turning, and I have to get it out. Thanks as always! Chris Centlivre
@@tomrobinson5776 Thanks, Tom. I’m going to make it a point to listen to American Prayer this weekend. I don’t know how I overlooked this one. I always get turned on to at least a couple of great things with each on of your videos, and I’m eternally grateful for that. Have you seen that video of the Doors at the Roundhouse in London from ‘68? They were really on their game that night, and it’s an example of how great that band, and particularly Morrison, were. That show also made me realized how great John Densmore was back then. Pretty sure it’s on youtube. It’s a shame the toll that achoholism took on Jim Morrison. Lyrics like Soul Kitchen and Hello I Love You, in my opinion at least, are in a league with John Lennon. But he was such a drunken asshole so much of the time that it obscures his genius in many people’s eyes. And who else could scream like Jim Morrison? Maybe only Leslie West had the kind of balls in his voice that Morrison had. Take care, my friend, and thanks again!
I love all of your videos, you have superb taste and you are a genuine maven. But sir, in this excellent list how can you exclude WAITING FOR COLUMBUS!!?? Cheers Regards
I have a few Little Feat albums, Sailing Shoes, Dixie Chicken, but I do need to get Waiting For Columbus. Have heard nothing but raves. It’s on the list. 😉
Thanks for the tip on the live XTC BBC from 1980. I gotta pick that up. Somebody here in the comment section mentioned Wings Over America Maybe I'm Amazed - yeah top notch version
Tom, great video, you got extra excited about some of the tracks here! 😊 How about a ranked Best Producers or Best Engineers? In sure I'd learn something from it.
The ultimate best live track over the studio version has to be the 8 min live James and the cold gun by Kate bush you must see the excellent video of it on UA-cam
The Beatles took their C-average cover of 'Dizzy, Miss Lizzie' and turned up the volume knob to 11 with their performance of it on 'The Beatles at The Hollywood Bowl'!
That’s awesome. I wish I had seen them live. Almost went to the Hollywood Palladium show in ‘82 but then it was canceled as well as the rest of the tour.
Heard that Santana was peeking on mescaline. They didn’t think 🤔 they would be going on for a while. All of sudden they were told they were next! 😳 😂😂😂😂😂
I just skipped through to check "Whipping Post" is there... No Whipping Post?? 😮 edit: Soul Sacrifice Woodstock version is absolute F I R E edit 2: Blacmange "Blind Vision" on The Tube is fantastic (can't post the link but the title is "Blancmange (The Tube, Dec. 1982)")
Great video Taking your picks out makes this tough I like Sweet Jane Live 1969 version also but Rock and Roll intro is spectacular Weens version of Voodoo Lady on Live at Stubbs is an extended funky monster of a song Thin Lizzy : everything live is better than in studio but for this I will say Emerald : Live and Dangerous Jethro Tull Again everything on Busting out is beet than Album versions but they really don’t rework them just amazing live performances Station to Station : David Bowie Live Nassau Coliseum To take this one took some guys , to do it so well ; thats what makes Bowie , Bowie I always want to include Zappa So I’m picking Sofa #1 from One Size Fits All . The Version on Zappa in NY so much better
I think you could pick any number of tracks from Live Rust that are at least as good as the originals, Like a Hurricane, After the Gold Rush, My My Hey Hey, Cortez the Killer, When You Dance I Can Really Love, but I've never been a big fan of the studio version of The Loner...the live version, however, totally kicks. The riffage, the solos, and those harmonies, my God! As for One For the Road, I would go with Wish I Could Fly Like Superman. I do like the disco version, but I think the song works best as a rocker. Thanks.
I think the live tracks of all the tracks that The Doors redid studio-wise on their second album Strange Days were better than their later studio versions, as they had that earlier rawer Doors sound, whereas by the time they redid them professionally, they changed their sound a bit. Those earlier live versions are on their triple CD Live at The Matrix. The only problem is that the sound quality of those earlier live versions was not as good, as they were obviously not then intended for release.
That live version of Conquistador is great, especially considering it's with orchestration. Only version of No Woman better than the live Natty Dread was the one I saw them do at Santa Barbara Bowl on Babylon Bus tour. Little Feat's Dixie Chicken live with Tower of Power horns on Waiting for Columbus beats the studio version IMO.
I prefer the live version of “Here Comes Yet Another Day” by The Kinks on the compilation Celluloid Heroes to the original version on Everybody’s In Showbiz.
It's all over now baby blue - Live At Montreal Forum, Quebec - December 1975 (Bootleg Series Vol.5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue). It doesn't really eclipse the studio version but it's different and equally interesting.
XTC Go to agree not their best but at the time along with the album came a bonus disk if memory serves me correctly Go + which was a disk of dub reggae versions of album tracks The dub Battery Bridges version I remember liking.
Great list, an unusual theme, but still valid. Some bands were better, live, than they ever were, in the studio. I got into Poco because of DeLIVErin'. I'd seen the and at Newport '69, their first gig, but I wasn't particularly interested in Country, at the time. The band's second album, simply titled Poco, was an uneven mix, but You Better Think Twice stood out. DeLIVErin" delivered on the promise of that track, and the other songs I'd come to like by the group. It would be my favorite live album, until Live at Leeds arrived. For that matter, the live version of Summertime Blues completely destroys the Who's earlier studio version, available years later as an extra on The Who Sell Out multi-CD set. Probably the only track worth listening to on Got Live If You Want It, the Rolling Stones first live LP, was Fortune Teller, a better version than the throwaway track from the compilation album Saturday Club (the song would be unreleased in the US until More Hot Rocks, in 1972). I have a Johnny Winter bootleg, from 1971, that has a barnburner version of Rock 'n' Roll Hootchie-Koo! Leo Kottke's live album has some nice surprises, too. The version of Lover of the Bayou, on Untitled, is the Byrds strongest live performance, and Dire Straits made a classic out of Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero, on Alchemy.
The live version of In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed from the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East album is better than the studio version on their Idlewild South album!
Blue Oyster Cult's "Then Came the Last Days of May" is a lot beefier (and better, I think) on "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" than the original version on their debut. Also "RU Ready to Rock" is much better on "Some Enchanted Evening" than on "Spectres." This isn't going to be a popular take, and it's a little off topic, but I prefer BOC's live version of "Kick Out the Jams" to the original by the MC5. Hard to believe, but there it is. Too late to take it back now.
@@tomrobinson5776 You can't go wrong with their first three albums--BOC, Tyranny & Mutation, and Secret Treaties. That's my opinion anyway. HEY! I've been checking out the Kinks catalog lately (I only knew THEIR hits) and I'm definitely in the camp that loves Soap Opera, Schoolboys in Disgrace, and the Preservation albums. Just great, really impressive stuff and so meticulously assembled. Thanks for recommending them. In fact, I loved Soap Opera the first time I gave it a listen and was really surprised when I looked it up on AllMusic afterwards and saw it only had ONE star. Unbelievable. I know music is subjective and all, but ONE star?
@@pkmcburroughs Those concept albums of the Kinks from the mid 70’s are just outstanding. 1 star for Soap Opera is absurd. It’s a timeless masterpiece that never ages.
Agree with you on A quick one. Comes a time & Cinnamon Girl on Live Rust are better than the studio versions LR is a monumental album, have a listen to Pyjamarama by Roxy Music from Viva Roxy Music, arty glam metal at its best, way better than the original.
Tom, how about a video of artists who mistreated their fans by putting out an intentionally crappy album? Lou Reed and Metal Machine Music have to be included. :p
I know I’m gonna catch shit for this but the live version of The Locomotion by Grand Funk on Caught in the Act, is far superior over the studio version off All the Girls in the World….Beware! And I realize everyone can do without hearing Freebird ever again but the live track on One For the Road, is so superior to their studio track off the first album! Dan
Totally agree with you on “A Quick One While He Way.” 😊😊😊😊😊
👍😃Happy 80th, Ray Davies!
Cape!!!........Alvin Lee's performance at Woodstock giving a guitar clinic on "I'm Going Home".
THAT version was the best hands down......Just a magnificent Guitarist! "Cricklewood Green"
"A Space In Time"...Absolutely Brilliant!!!..What a week for B-Day's...Paul,Brian and Ray.....All 3
Added so much color to my life........Fly low..
Rock and Roll Animal and One For the Road!!👍👍👍
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful weekend also happy first weekend of summer ❤😊
The Grateful Dead album 'Europe 72' comes to mind, with virtually every live song on there eclipsing any studio version. China Cat Sunflower is one tune. Another superb live album.
Love in Vain and Midnight Rambler on Liver than Youll ever be/Get yer yayas Out are not so stiff like the Let it bleed versions.
Joe Cocker - With a little Help of my Friends (Woodstock).
Everything on Get Yer Ya-Yas Out sounds better, especially "Live With Me".
Agreed with Joe Cocker. I think that The Grease Band with JC was synergy.
I can’t even listen to studio version of Midnight Rambler because the live one is so superior
@@simonagree4070 I agree.
I listend to Santana at Woodstock today - Soul Sacrifice & Evil Ways
Couldn’t agree more with Roadhouse Blues from American Prayer. And what a bizarre album ! But one of my standout favorites is ‘ Mistral Wind ‘ from Heart’s greatest hits. A rather potent version that blows their studio effort out of the water.
About everything Ritchie Blackmore and Rory Gallagher played on stage.
Yes, totally agree on Lew Reed, Rock and Roll Animal!! With the song 'Sweet Jane'. Actually, the entire album kicks some serious ass. I listened to it constantly back in the day.
Happy Birthday to Ray Davies!!!
I've always agreed that the live version of "Celebration Day" is so much better than the original version.
I'm Not Like Everybody Else - The Kinks
Ray Davies is my pick for greatest songwriter of all time.
I agree. He’s my fave of all time. There is no songwriter that has had such an effect on me on a personal level like Ray. The Kinks have been a soundtrack to every stage in my life.
Have to agree with all of these.
Reo riding the Strom out, my love wings,kiss rock and roll all night, anything by Frampton
"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" Allman Bros. and "Dark Star" Grateful Dead as starting Points.
I agree with you about the live version of "Conquistador." I would also add Paul McCartney's (and Wings) live version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," from their 1976 American tour, as compared with his 1970 studio LP version. I bought the live version 45 when it was released in early 1977, and you can definitely feel the live concert presence in the recording.
the one that immediately comes to mind is Cream's live version of We're Going Wrong at the Royal Albert Hall. It completely obliterates the 3 minute version on Disraeli Gears.
Love that you talked about Bob Marley. One of my specialties is Jamaican music and I was lucky enough to see him live twice here in NYC. He is one of my 3 all time favorite musicians.
You’re one of the lucky ones. Wish I had seen Marley especially his Roxy shows in Hollywood back in the day. We’re Going Wrong is an all time Cream fave. I need to check out that live version again from the Royal Albert Hall.
@@tomrobinson5776 there are two live versions of that song from RAH. Both used to be on UA-cam. One has an amazing solo by Clapton. You'll know which one is the standout
Great picks!
Astronomy by Blue Oyster Cult from Some Enchanted Evening is far better than the studio version. Another fine list. Thanks.
Had to pause the video and go stream the live version of Roadhouse Blues- always ready for a hot Robby Krieger guitar solo. That’s also the loosest I’ve ever heard Morrison what with his vocal improvisations midway… good stuff
great video! thanks, i’ll have to check these out.
my pick is I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes by Ten Years After.
on the live ‘68 Undead album, Alvin Lee introduces the song saying he hopes you don’t remember the studio version.
then proceeds to blow our minds.
I need to check that out.
My Santana CD (bought in the 90s I think) has that live version of Soul Sacrifice as an added track, along with Fried Neckbones and Savor. The album was already great but adding the Woodstock tracks was a real bonus (lots of CD bonus tracks aren't very special, but this was, for sure). Also, the Who on Rolling Stones Circus is (used to be anyway) somewhere here on youtube, along with the rest of the show, for folks who haven't seen it. It was definitely a good version of A Quick One.
The live versions of Roxy Music’s early songs on 1976’s Viva! LP are muscular and intense.
Hey Tom, couldn't agree more with A Quick One, Conquistador and Soul Sacrifice ... I'm gonna go listen to Celebration Day ... I'd mention the Doors Moonlight Drive from Alive She Cried.
The versions of State of Independence with Donna Summer !
laura nyro “money” on season of lights. “she acts like we never had met” dylan from the first london concert, included on biograph. “i want you to want me” cheap trick budokan. “coming up” mccartney “heroin” lou reed rock and roll animal
Blue Oyster Cult Extraterrestrial Live - the version of Veteran of the Psychic Wars wipes the floor with the studio version
I really need to explore the BOC catalog. A lot of real fans raving about their brilliance. I only know the hits. Next purchase.😉
The version of ETI from that album is the best with extended solo ending
The live version of Walk Away from James Gang in Concert. It just rips! Murky recording but it's so loud and raw.
Visions of Johanna is perfect on Blonde on Blonde.
The Live version is great, but on Blonde it is epic.
Midnight Rambler on YaYa’s is incredible through a good set of Headphones. What a Recording by Glyn Johns…
Speaking of Ya Ya’s I’ve always loved that version of Street Fighting Man. Just rocks.
Another great topic, and so well done as always! I feel that this one needed to be done in the domain of albums in order to work, because it would be too big if you included all of the live recordings available just on youtube, in addition to Live Music Archive and from so many artists these days who now offer recordings of every show they play. Which is a wonderful thing! In fact, the music business has really changed from selling albums to selling concert tickets. That’s a story in itself. There is one large demographic that wants to hear the music that they first heard in the 70’s, note for note, just like the record please and don’t change a thing. Heart recently played Indianapolis and tickets were going for $400ish. Another demographic wants to hear excellent musicians who never play the same show twice. More adventuresome souls, I would say. Also lucrative business. Dead & Co is getting somewhere around $1500 a ticket at their current Sphere residency shows in Vegas. Back to your topic though. Bob Marley was so great live. Thank God there are so many great recordings of him. One example that comes to my mind is a smoking version of Get Up Stand Up and I don’t know what show it was from. And Catch A Fire from the Boarding House in San Fran in ‘75. The background vocals are so cool. On the topic of The Song Remains The Same, in hindsight I realized that Zeppelin, and in particular Page, wrote whole new versions of their songs for live shows. I love your pick of Celebration Day. It’s so powerful. The album version is cute by comparison with the synth and all, but that live version is ferocious, and that’s what it should be, at least to my ears and soul. And the same really goes for every song on that album. I’m almost 65 now, and I recently listened to the version of Stairway from TSRTS, and it still affected me just as profoundly as it did when I was 17. But those live versions didn’t seem to change THAT much. I remember seeing Page in ‘88 on the Outrider tour, and Dazed And Confused was pretty much verbatim the same version as TSRTS. Not meant to be a put down at all, just an observation. By contrast, I just love the Grateful Dead’s Big River from 12/19/73 in Tampa on Dick’s Picks 1. The second solo on that has a lick in it that sounds just like Bubber Miley’s trumpet from Ellington’s band in the 20’s! It’s just amazing! But I never heard Garcia play that incredible lick again. And I’ve heard a lot of versions of Big River. Garcia was a true, on the spot improviser. Page was much more of a composer. I need to digress even a little further here. There is a pianist named Holly Bowling, who I’ve been obsessed with for many years now. She typically plays solo, but not always. And she plays the music of the Grateful Dead and Phish primarily. What makes her so special is that she takes this music to places it’s never dreamed of going before. And she gives it a whole new light that really brings out the way it was really intended to be played, even moreso that the live versions by the folks who wrote the music originally. That’s a pretty big statement, but it’s true! The thing that intrigues me about her is that she really makes me wonder how much of what she does is composed ahead of time, how much is arranged, and how much is truely improvised in the moment? If you haven’t heard her, check out some of her youtube channel. Particularly if you are very familiar with this music. I really love Sweet Jane, and it was great to hear you talk about Rock And Roll Animal. Such a great album, and I also feel that the guitars on that are fantastic! But another great song from Loaded is Rock And Roll. God bless Lou for writing a song about New York radio (NEW, FUV in their heyday). Not a bad way to get your song ON the radio! Lol. But Rock And Roll is a fantastic vehicle which Phish has used to play countless great versions of. All of which are better than the original. So again, once you get outside the domain of commercial albums, this exercise gets pretty unwieldy. But it does make me question if there’s an album version of any song that the Grateful Dead recorded on an album that doesn’t have a much better live version. I can’t think of one. Years ago I was on twitter and I read Keith Richards put down Jerry Garcia. I replied to him, look, maaaaaan, go listen to the Grateful Dead’s version of All Over Now from 4/1/80, and then maybe we’ll talk. Because Garcia plays YOUR song better than you ever dreamed of. So I hope you don’t mind another one of my typical essays, Tom. Your topics tend to get my wheels turning, and I have to get it out. Thanks as always!
Chris Centlivre
No problem Chris. Love to hear your observations and passion for music. You know your stuff. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Thanks, Tom. I’m going to make it a point to listen to American Prayer this weekend. I don’t know how I overlooked this one. I always get turned on to at least a couple of great things with each on of your videos, and I’m eternally grateful for that. Have you seen that video of the Doors at the Roundhouse in London from ‘68? They were really on their game that night, and it’s an example of how great that band, and particularly Morrison, were. That show also made me realized how great John Densmore was back then. Pretty sure it’s on youtube. It’s a shame the toll that achoholism took on Jim Morrison. Lyrics like Soul Kitchen and Hello I Love You, in my opinion at least, are in a league with John Lennon. But he was such a drunken asshole so much of the time that it obscures his genius in many people’s eyes. And who else could scream like Jim Morrison? Maybe only Leslie West had the kind of balls in his voice that Morrison had. Take care, my friend, and thanks again!
I love all of your videos, you have superb taste and you are a genuine maven. But sir, in this excellent list how can you exclude WAITING FOR COLUMBUS!!?? Cheers Regards
I have a few Little Feat albums, Sailing Shoes, Dixie Chicken, but I do need to get Waiting For Columbus. Have heard nothing but raves. It’s on the list. 😉
Jesus Celebration Day! Been years just forgot how bad ass that version was.
Another from Dylan is Maggie's Farm from Hard Rain.
Cheap Trick: I want you to want me from Live at the Budokan, Genesis Dance on a volcano from Seconds Out or anything in Genesis Live for that matter.
For me the live version of Surrender on Budokan is the definitive version. Really packs a punch.
Thanks for the tip on the live XTC BBC from 1980. I gotta pick that up. Somebody here in the comment section mentioned Wings Over America Maybe I'm Amazed - yeah top notch version
Tom, great video, you got extra excited about some of the tracks here! 😊 How about a ranked Best Producers or Best Engineers? In sure I'd learn something from it.
That’s a good idea. Perhaps Best Producers. I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks 😉
The entire "Peter Frampton comes alive" eclipses all his songs previously recorded in studio !
I agree. 😉
The ultimate best live track over the studio version has to be the 8 min live James and the cold gun by Kate bush you must see the excellent video of it on UA-cam
I’ll check it out.
One song that I thought, for sure, would be on this list is Turn The Page from Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet.
Traveling man/Beautiful Loser!
Another one, Dylans appearance on the Letterman show, doing a ragged rock version of Joker Man, great band behind him.
That’s a great 80’s Dylan track.
The Beatles took their C-average cover of 'Dizzy, Miss Lizzie' and turned up the volume knob to 11 with their performance of it on 'The Beatles at The Hollywood Bowl'!
Indeed. Love that live version of You Can’t Do That on the Hollywood Bowl reissue.
I saw XTC on that tour, at the Lawrence, Kansas stop. They were totally ripping it. There was a weird black and white light show.
That’s awesome. I wish I had seen them live. Almost went to the Hollywood Palladium show in ‘82 but then it was canceled as well as the rest of the tour.
Magic Bus from Live at Leeds
Bad by U2 from Wide Awake in America EP
That version of Magic Bus is incredible.
Heard that Santana was peeking on mescaline. They didn’t think 🤔 they would be going on for a while. All of sudden they were told they were next! 😳 😂😂😂😂😂
I guess that he was "in the zone". Seriously, He said that he asked God to please get him through this song. Prayers answered I guess.
Wow, I don’t know how Carlos did it, but it’s amazing.
ComingUp comes to mind, i think its live in Japan...
I just skipped through to check "Whipping Post" is there... No Whipping Post?? 😮
edit: Soul Sacrifice Woodstock version is absolute F I R E
edit 2: Blacmange "Blind Vision" on The Tube is fantastic
(can't post the link but the title is "Blancmange (The Tube, Dec. 1982)")
I swear I almost put Whipping Post on the list. 😉
A little late to the party here, but my vote goes to 'Strange Kind of Woman', from Deep Purple 'Made in Japan'.
Wah Wah, Concert Bangla Desh.
Oh yeah!
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Great video
Taking your picks out makes this tough
I like Sweet Jane Live 1969 version also but Rock and Roll intro is spectacular
Weens version of Voodoo Lady on Live at Stubbs is an extended funky monster of a song
Thin Lizzy : everything live is better than in studio but for this I will say Emerald : Live and Dangerous
Jethro Tull
Again everything on Busting out is beet than Album versions but they really don’t rework them just amazing live performances
Station to Station : David Bowie
Live Nassau Coliseum
To take this one took some guys , to do it so well ; thats what makes Bowie , Bowie
I always want to include Zappa
So I’m picking Sofa #1 from One Size Fits All . The Version on Zappa in NY so much better
That live Bowie you mentioned from Nassau is stellar especially that version of Stay. Thin Lizzy were always magic live.
I think you could pick any number of tracks from Live Rust that are at least as good as the originals, Like a Hurricane, After the Gold Rush, My My Hey Hey, Cortez the Killer, When You Dance I Can Really Love, but I've never been a big fan of the studio version of The Loner...the live version, however, totally kicks. The riffage, the solos, and those harmonies, my God! As for One For the Road, I would go with Wish I Could Fly Like Superman. I do like the disco version, but I think the song works best as a rocker. Thanks.
Hey Chris, almost put a track from Live Rust on the list. That whole album rocks. When You Dance eclipses the version on Gold Rush.
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed. Not even a live album fan overall, but Live Rust is just classic Neil. The film is great also.
I think the live tracks of all the tracks that The Doors redid studio-wise on their second album Strange Days were better than their later studio versions, as they had that earlier rawer Doors sound, whereas by the time they redid them professionally, they changed their sound a bit. Those earlier live versions are on their triple CD Live at The Matrix. The only problem is that the sound quality of those earlier live versions was not as good, as they were obviously not then intended for release.
The Matrix show is fabulous.
That live version of Conquistador is great, especially considering it's with orchestration. Only version of No Woman better than the live Natty Dread was the one I saw them do at Santa Barbara Bowl on Babylon Bus tour. Little Feat's Dixie Chicken live with Tower of Power horns on Waiting for Columbus beats the studio version IMO.
I prefer the live version of “Here Comes Yet Another Day” by The Kinks on the compilation Celluloid Heroes to the original version on Everybody’s In Showbiz.
That live version does kick ass.
It's all over now baby blue - Live At Montreal Forum, Quebec - December 1975 (Bootleg Series Vol.5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue). It doesn't really eclipse the studio version but it's different and equally interesting.
I need to hear that version again.
XTC Go to agree not their best but at the time along with the album came a bonus disk if memory serves me correctly Go + which was a disk of dub reggae versions of album tracks The dub Battery Bridges version I remember liking.
I think I remember seeing that version at one point…
Great list, an unusual theme, but still valid. Some bands were better, live, than they ever were, in the studio. I got into Poco because of DeLIVErin'. I'd seen the and at Newport '69, their first gig, but I wasn't particularly interested in Country, at the time. The band's second album, simply titled Poco, was an uneven mix, but You Better Think Twice stood out. DeLIVErin" delivered on the promise of that track, and the other songs I'd come to like by the group. It would be my favorite live album, until Live at Leeds arrived. For that matter, the live version of Summertime Blues completely destroys the Who's earlier studio version, available years later as an extra on The Who Sell Out multi-CD set.
Probably the only track worth listening to on Got Live If You Want It, the Rolling Stones first live LP, was Fortune Teller, a better version than the throwaway track from the compilation album Saturday Club (the song would be unreleased in the US until More Hot Rocks, in 1972). I have a Johnny Winter bootleg, from 1971, that has a barnburner version of Rock 'n' Roll Hootchie-Koo! Leo Kottke's live album has some nice surprises, too. The version of Lover of the Bayou, on Untitled, is the Byrds strongest live performance, and Dire Straits made a classic out of Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero, on Alchemy.
Deliverin is a kick ass live album. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 It is that, still a favorite, probably my fave Poco LP.
The live version of In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed from the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East album is better than the studio version on their Idlewild South album!
I agree 😉
Blue Oyster Cult's "Then Came the Last Days of May" is a lot beefier (and better, I think) on "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" than the original version on their debut. Also "RU Ready to Rock" is much better on "Some Enchanted Evening" than on "Spectres."
This isn't going to be a popular take, and it's a little off topic, but I prefer BOC's live version of "Kick Out the Jams" to the original by the MC5. Hard to believe, but there it is. Too late to take it back now.
I need to explore the BOC catalog. A lot of raves. Only know the hits.
@@tomrobinson5776 You can't go wrong with their first three albums--BOC, Tyranny & Mutation, and Secret Treaties. That's my opinion anyway. HEY! I've been checking out the Kinks catalog lately (I only knew THEIR hits) and I'm definitely in the camp that loves Soap Opera, Schoolboys in Disgrace, and the Preservation albums. Just great, really impressive stuff and so meticulously assembled. Thanks for recommending them.
In fact, I loved Soap Opera the first time I gave it a listen and was really surprised when I looked it up on AllMusic afterwards and saw it only had ONE star. Unbelievable. I know music is subjective and all, but ONE star?
@@pkmcburroughs Those concept albums of the Kinks from the mid 70’s are just outstanding. 1 star for Soap Opera is absurd. It’s a timeless masterpiece that never ages.
Agree with you on A quick one. Comes a time & Cinnamon Girl on Live Rust are better than the studio versions LR is a monumental album, have a listen to Pyjamarama by Roxy Music from Viva Roxy Music, arty glam metal at its best, way better than the original.
Live Rust is one of the best ever live rock albums. Most of those tracks best the studio versions.
Tom, how about a video of artists who mistreated their fans by putting out an intentionally crappy album? Lou Reed and Metal Machine Music have to be included. :p
Great idea. I’ll keep it in mind. 😉
The Who live at Leeds
Ramones live recordings beats any studio work, same with Johnny Thunders.
I agree. It’s Alive is a killer album. Non stop action.
Wouldnt put it past Mick
The venue is pronounced lie-see-um not lissium. #pettybutfun
Too bad XTC never did an MTV Unplugged…the material from Nonsuch would have been great.
No doubt. They did do that unplugged radio tour in ‘89 in support of Oranges and Lemons. Check out some of those audio shows on You Tube. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 I’ll check it out I love that album. Very Beatles-esque, some melodies that would make Lennon and McCartney jealous!
I know I’m gonna catch shit for this but the live version of The Locomotion by Grand Funk on Caught in the Act, is far superior over the studio version off All the Girls in the World….Beware! And I realize everyone can do without hearing Freebird ever again but the live track on One For the Road, is so superior to their studio track off the first album! Dan