🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[orangecurious]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)

Young Fathers - I Saw
Been in the audience when the whole venue was up dancing to this - the venue was the Royal Albert Hall in London, so not small.
very likely the best live band at the moment, just so powerful

 

[positiveflirt]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)

I don't remember when or where it was - London somewhere I guess? - but PUSA closed with Kick Out The Jams.
Six times.
And it worked somehow. Shit, they might have opened the show with it too. On the final run through they unplugged guitars, threw them to each other, plugged in and carried on. What.

PUSA - kick out the jams

 

[JKL123]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)

This guy has great pipes. If you can see him live anything he does will leave you in awe. I saw him in a smaller venue in the Borgata Casino in AC. Great performer!

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)
Springtime in New England. Joint passed between friends. Twilight. Feet in the grass. Eyes closed. A gentle breeze blowing my hair. Everything in its right place.

Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place

(this is not the specific show I saw, but it’s a much better recording)

That sounds heavenly. Love, love, love.

 

[Broken_paladin]

day 8
I was fortunate enough to see him perform it live twice. May he rest in peace

 

[MisterChillax]

Day 8: A song that is really good live

Stones concerts are full of great moments. Gimme Shelter was always my highlight.

 

[Amanda330]

Day 6: A song that transports you to another place and time

 

[Amanda330]

Day 7: A song that would be the soundtrack to your training montage

 

[Amanda330]

Day 8: A song that is really good live

 

[PhiloDaddy]

Day 8: a song that I would love to hear her sing again...alive again...

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)

Spring of 1986. Senior year of high school, and my friends and I score tickets to see the Violent Femmes. At Carnegie Hall. We have an entire box on the first tier, roughly where the green circle is.

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The entire show was incredible. However…

Saw them at Tufts on that same tour.

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 8 that was really good live

Just an absolute banger, especially when the vocals kick in about halfway through.

Can't hear this w/o thinking of Clockwork Orange.

 

[Mr_bogey]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)

So I spent a chunk of my free time today on this prompt. I went through videos on a YouTube deep dive to decide which song to pick. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I couldn't find one song. In 1985, at the gym at the University of Vermont in front of about 4000 people, General Public performed for almost 3 hours despite having 1 album to their name. In the 2nd encode, with their library exhausted and having covered the Beatles, done a handful of English Beat songs, the eagles and a few more I'm sure I'm forgetting. The broke out Musical Youth's Pass the Duchie. And the dutchies were passed including onto the stage. It was awesome and a concert I'll never forget.* Unfortunately it appears there is no video evidence of General Public performing this song, so I'm going to go to a band that always brings it live and this band's confessed favorite song:

The Killers - All These Things That I've Done.

*apologies to MLAS for bending the rules but I couldn't not mention that show after my exhaustive search.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)
I was going to go with Queen, seen twice, including the last North American tour in 82 (main floor center, 9 rows back), but someone already chose them. (But they were so good.) So I am trying to figure my second choice. One of the advantage of being old, I have seen my fair number of great shows. I saw Prince a couple of times, which was beyond incredible, but I have spoken about that twice at least, so no go there. Talked about Anthrax and Public Enemy. Talked about the Angels/Angel City. Talked about Iron Maiden. Fleetwood Mac? Talked a lot about them and that show. So who else?

Metallica. May 28th, 1992, Seattle Center. We had third row seats, but it didn't matter because everyone picked up about the first 20 rows and carried them back to the back, creating a massive pit. Which meant at various times I was up against the stage as we all just sort of ebbed and flowed back and forth when not slamming. This was on their Wherever We May Roam tour for their eponymous album, but most of the set list was from the first four albums. You know, the good ones. Yeah. No opening band, and they played over three hours. It was...indescribable.

The recordings are just so-so, though. So this is from their grand experiment, S&M, with Metallica and the San Francisco Orchestra. It is everything a good live album should be, as well as incredibly, aggressively bombastic. I mean, a thrash band playing with one of the top symphonic orchestras in the world. And it works, it really works. They took it to 13...

"Master of Puppets," Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 8: A song that is really good live (based on your experience)
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

 

[vagrantx]

Day 9: A song that you can’t help but dance to

There's several metal and rock bars around Stockholm, but they all cater to different age groups. In my early 20s, Harry B James was the place to be! They had some different themed evenings, quizzes and karaoke and stuff like that, but Friday nights were always Crazy Night! Admission was cheap, drinks were expensive, music was loud and spirits high!

At midnight they would always always play the evenings namesake, and the entire bar would sing along, dance, scream, and just jump until our legs gave out. Many a night was spent linked arm-in-arm with complete strangers as we bounced in place like lunatics, screaming along with Paul Stanley...

Good times

KISS - Crazy, Crazy Nights

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 9: A song that you can’t help but dance to

Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 9: A song that you can’t help but dance to

3 minutes, 52 seconds of positivity.

"There will be days when you're falling down
There will be days when you're inside out
There will be days when you fall apart
Someone else will break you heart
They're never gonna hold you back
I'm always gonna have your back
So try to remember that

I hope you're happy
I hope you're good
I hope you get what you wish for
And you're well understood"

"I Hope You're Happy," Blue October.

 

[lingus60]

Day 9: A song that you can’t help but dance to

Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar

 

[XShadynzX]

Day 9: A song you can't help but dance to

Dancing in the Dark -Bruce Springsteen
This song always makes me think of the expression-"Dance like no one's watching"

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 9: A song you can't help but dance to
If this song is on I am dancing...I don't care where I am

 

[Bry1313]

Can't hear this w/o thinking of Clockwork Orange.

Just heard Malcolm McDowell interviewed by Maron on his podcast, it was great.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 9: A song you can't help but dance to

Dancing in the Dark -Bruce Springsteen
This song always makes me think of the expression-"Dance like no one's watching"

Carlton based his Fresh Prince dance on Courtney Cox's jig in that video

 

[gemarkiv]

Day 9: A song you can't help but dance to

 

[JKL123]

Day 9: A song you can't help but dance to