TonyR
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Post by TonyR on Sept 21, 2017 16:52:13 GMT
Sometimes a live performance can really truly take your breath away, or even drive you to tears. Here's a few of my favourites. The George Michael 'Somebody To Love' makes me shed a tear every time.
And yes, in this case the Madonna one is lip-synced, but in this case as in MJ's Motown 25 it's forgivable as the routine is so perfectly delicious.
I'd also implore you to watch the George Michael Praying For Time, my favourite live vocal performance ever.
I haven't included any MJ as it's a non MJ sub-forum!
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Post by MattyJam on Sept 21, 2017 17:25:55 GMT
I have hundreds.
But these are a few performances that have given me goosebumps:
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Post by Liberian Girl on Sept 21, 2017 18:43:02 GMT
Good thread!
I have several favourite live performances - I think I may have already mentioned them before on here but I love them so much they are worth mentioning twice 
1) Lady Gaga. Her live performance of Paparazzi from the VMAs. One powerful, amazing and awesome performance. It's pure theatre in my opinion. Her vocals are amazing - and the way she plays piano and puts in such passion... Anyway, the ending is pretty stunning, from about 2 minutes 40 seconds onwards: the way she ends up drenched in blood and hanging from the rope. I think any celebrity who has felt hunted and haunted by the media would see this as a very artistic interpretation of the media hounding.
2) Madonna. I think this Live to Tell performance from the Confessions tour is probably one of her best live performances - and very powerfully done, too:
3) Morrissey, pretty much any live performance of him singing Ganglord (his song about police brutality) I love this song, and I love the video montage he uses in the background too... PLEASE WATCH THIS SONG. PLEASE. Lol. The lyrics, the video, his voice... ugh. SO powerful to me. LOVE IT.
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Post by dancingmjsdream on Sept 21, 2017 19:55:00 GMT
James being a fucking beast on stage... Mariah, Adele and George for their vocal performance  |
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Post by TonyR on Sept 22, 2017 6:45:28 GMT
I have hundreds. But these are a few performances that have given me goosebumps: You put in the GnR one to test me didn't you! |
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Post by TonyR on Sept 22, 2017 6:56:36 GMT
Glad to see a couple of GM's Unplugged here
SoCav that Star People is just stunning, I must have played that a million times over the last 20 years. And dancingmjsdream that Father Figure one is stunning also, and that Mariah clip of her in her prime. Along with George, her Unplugged set was also an amazing live show.
Liberian Girl - had you seen that Vogue one I posted? I also need to dig up the performances Madonna did of Like A Prayer around 2003. It ws the best version of that song ever. |
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Post by MattyJam on Sept 22, 2017 7:09:14 GMT
You put in the GnR one to test me didn't you! I know that performance is a far cry from GNR's heyday, but it means something to me personally. It reminds me of when I first discovered the band. I got into them around 2009/2010, discovered the entire back catalogue, bought Chinese Democracy and saw them live and they really helped distract me from the horrid two years of MJ's passing and aftermath. I guess sometimes a performance resonates with you more for where you're at personally in your own life, as opposed to it being a highpoint in the performers career. |
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Post by TonyR on Sept 22, 2017 7:18:49 GMT
I know that performance is a far cry from GNR's heyday, but it means something to me personally. It reminds me of when I first discovered the band. I got into them around 2009/2010, discovered the entire back catalogue, bought Chinese Democracy and saw them live and they really helped distract me from the horrid two years of MJ's passing and aftermath. I guess sometimes a performance resonates with you more for where you're at personally in your own life, as opposed to it being a highpoint in the performers career. Ah right! I thought it was the one you made me watch on MJJC that was the awful performance by bands you like thread. Yeah you're right, sometimes, if not most times it what resonates with you personally. I think this is partially why Dangerous & GM's Unplugged means so much to me. |
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Post by MattyJam on Sept 22, 2017 7:29:37 GMT
^^^ Haha, no, it's not THAT performance. That was two years later when Axl had completely lost his voice and blamed everyone else for him being woefully under-rehearsed and forgetting the words to his own song.
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Post by respect77 on Oct 20, 2017 7:09:50 GMT
George Michael's performance of Somebody to Love at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert is definitely a very memorable performance. I remember we watched the show while we went over to another family we befriended and that's the performance of the show everyone was in awe of. Everyone was praising him how he did justice to Freddie and how he was head and shoulders above everyone else at that show. I think it helps that his voice character is similar to Freddie's. But yes, it was definitely one of those very memorable moments. No wonder they released an EP around that performance later on.
Another one, even though I was a but disappointed later when I learnt it is actually lip-synched to pre-recorded vocals (due to technical reasons). Still, there is something about this redention. It is another very memorable performance and until this day whenever some big name star sings the national anthem Whitney's is always brought up as the measure.
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Post by SoCav on Oct 20, 2017 8:07:25 GMT
George Michael's performance of Somebody to Love at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert is definitely a very memorable performance. I remember we watched the show while we went over to another family we befriended and that's the performance of the show everyone was in awe of. Everyone was praising him how he did justice to Freddie and how he was head and shoulders above everyone else at that show. I think it helps that his voice character is similar to Freddie's. But yes, it was definitely one of those very memorable moments. No wonder they released an EP around that performance later on. Another one, even though I was a but disappointed later when I learnt it is actually lip-synched to pre-recorded vocals (due to technical reasons). Still, there is something about this redention. It is another very memorable performance and until this day whenever some big name star sings the national anthem Whitney's is always brought up as the measure. Even for a studio take Whitney's vocal is fantastic. When she hits that high note at the end: incredible. The crowd feels it too. A special moment for sure. |
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