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Astonishing live performances on YouTube

Started by Blinder Data, December 19, 2014, 09:14:22 PM

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Milverton

Quote from: Armin Meiwes on April 17, 2015, 06:08:47 PM
Any Bonnie Prince Billy fans in the house? Really love this vid of him playing in coney island.

http://youtu.be/B_FafCJbyWE

Lots I would imagine. This is great...

http://youtu.be/St7uDJG0vSc


Milverton

Quote from: Bobby Treetops on June 13, 2015, 12:39:05 PM
I pondered putting this in the Richard Dawson thread as it's reminiscent of his some of his work, especially 'Poor Old House'.

Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXINuf5nbI

A rather beautiful and chilling tale of his dead Great Aunt, rotting away with her herd of sheep. I'm also fascinated with the dialogue of used by shepherds to count their sheep, a language that I suspect has now dead.

Here's another great Thackray moment. The Remembrance.

http://youtu.be/361JhdTGznI

lazarou

Probably won't go over well here because K-Pop but fuck it, post.

Then-rookie group Mamamoo enters "Immortal Song 2" as an unknown quantity and blows the assembled crowd of old biddies away with an arrangement that pulls about three songs worth of material out of a cover of a cheesy old Korean folk song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TFq8t-q1A

Seeing my pet underdog group just completely killing it like that always has me beaming. Yeah it's some cornball TV show but I love it. The moment where it kicks in feels like the sound of four girls with everything to prove just fucking going for it.

Dannyhood91

I'm not prepared to let this thread die because it's been a source of joy for me. Good going guys and gals.

Some of you may have seen this already. Homeless Mustard singing Radioheads Creep and I reckon he out do's the original if I'm perfectly honest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM

Here's one from a band I'm not entirely arsed about, Arcade Fire. I have no dislike for them but they've never really resonated with me. This little number really wows me though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBTTd0gfkn0

This is Frank Zappa. That speaks for itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcYTShN4Fk

Post your own folks. Keep this going.


Dirty Boy

Robert Wyatt doing Sea Song gives me Serious Chills. Actually that whole BBC documentary is wonderful.

Dannyhood91

"Your madness fits in nicely with my own." Sterling stuff.

Dannyhood91


bigfatheart

Oxbow - Sunday

Hypnotic, intense stuff from 'the fun Swans' as a friend once referred to them. Well, it's hypnotic up to the point where the uploaders inexplicably bleep the word 'fucking', for all the small children who've made it eight and a half minutes into an Oxbow video.

Anyway, OXBOW.

buzby

#158
I'm not sure if this should go in here or the 'terrible live performances' thread, but it's certainly 'astonishing'.

New Order's set from the Radio 1/BBC2 simulcast 'Rock Around The Clock' event on August Bank Holiday, 1984:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC211A0160F79EC4C

Something  is clearly wrong with Bernard from the start (and it's not just the shorts). He's already snarling the lyrics for 'Sooner Than You Think', and then gets progressively more pissed off during the rest of the set - he starts the guitar part of 'Age Of Consent' in totally the wrong key, shouts the vocals, rips the pop shield off the mic and then starts hammering away at his guitar.

Then we get to 'Blue Monday' where his vocals are all over the place and we get some improvised lyrics (and a tea-time BBC2 F-bomb) about not being able to hear or stay in tune with the rest of the band. Next, is 'In  A Lonely Place', where he keeps sarcastically telling Steve to speed it up, before finishing with 'Temptation' where he's having an argument with the sound man, presumably about the mix in his headphones as he eventually rips them off and starts pounding at his guitar again.

Apparently the story was that they were in Cornwall the night before and got stuck in Bank Holiday traffic getting to London and so didn't get a chance to set up properly or do a soundcheck. The problem with the mix in Bernard's headphones was presumably there throughout the set (hence the new words in 'Blue Monday'), but he seems to have got out of bed the wrong side that afternoon to start with. He suffers from stage fright and needed to get pissed to go on stage, so maybe the added pressure of the cameras for a national live broadcast pushed him over the edge. Whatever the reason, the aggression certainly adds an extra spark to the performance

studpuppet

Quote from: buzby on July 05, 2015, 12:44:16 AM
New Order's set from the Radio 1/BBC2 simulcast 'Rock Around The Clock' event on August Bank Holiday, 1984
To be honest, pretty much any NO performance form '81 to '89 sounds ropey (basically any part of the sound that Hooky and Steve weren't in control of). Looking for balance, this is the only live performance I could remember being any good (and not even sure how live some of the sound is):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnr4UIbG3aY

DrGreggles

Thought I'd already posted this on here, but I obviously got confused and forgot.

Anyway, it's Eels doing a version of 'Mr E's Beautiful Blues' as a Beatles/'Twist & Shout' homage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4aXBVKWzhU

Paaaaul

Quote from: DrGreggles on July 07, 2015, 08:22:07 AM
Thought I'd already posted this on here, but I obviously got confused and forgot.

Anyway, it's Eels doing a version of 'Mr E's Beautiful Blues' as a Beatles/'Twist & Shout' homage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4aXBVKWzhU

I saw Eels play that year. They had a bunch of horn players and played everything as though they were The Blues Brothers. I'm all for bands experimenting live, but I found that set really boring. I guess E was pretty fed up with his songs at this point.

Puce Moment

If you are a Birthday Party/early Bad Seeds fan, you will have seen the excellent 1984 Nick Cave and the Cavemen footage from the Camden Ballroom that surfaced a couple of years ago. Anyway, the highlight for me is this ramshackle, barely held together, slightly falling apart version of Mutiny in Heaven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsm3CWmr22o

They all appear to be fucked. In particular Bargeld barely plays, and seems happy to have a right chuckle lol for most of the song.

"Um, the band made a mistake just there."

Dannyhood91


Dannyhood91

Quote from: Puce Moment on July 07, 2015, 01:06:16 PM
If you are a Birthday Party/early Bad Seeds fan, you will have seen the excellent 1984 Nick Cave and the Cavemen footage from the Camden Ballroom that surfaced a couple of years ago. Anyway, the highlight for me is this ramshackle, barely held together, slightly falling apart version of Mutiny in Heaven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsm3CWmr22o

They all appear to be fucked. In particular Bargeld barely plays, and seems happy to have a right chuckle lol for most of the song.

"Um, the band made a mistake just there."

Right before they start, old Nicky sounds like Mark E Smith.

biniput

This is amazing. It WAS filmed live and I think in 1 take:

https://vimeo.com/24750006

phes

#166
Quote from: Dannyhood91 on July 03, 2015, 07:50:47 PM
Fatboy Slim being miles better than when I saw him, the bastard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wx6tLwueTA

But still being a bit ropey tbh. The man of the moment for an astonishing party, but probably not for an astonishing technical performance. Smashed out of his face I guess, and it probably would never have happened were he not.

Some bloke playing Beat It on a guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRUy-D0JU2I&feature=youtu.be

well I liked it you cunts

MuteBanana

Meat Loaf

This is opera. This is theatre. This is rock. This is drama. This is fairytale. This is art. This is poetry.

Danger Man

Quote from: phes on July 25, 2015, 09:18:18 PM
But still being a bit ropey tbh. The man of the moment for an astonishing party, but probably not for an astonishing technical performance.

Doesn't Mr Slim just pretend to DJ? Somebody on here posted something on this very theme.

Still love his stuff, though.

MuteBanana

Has he ever been big outside of the UK?


Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Danger Man on July 25, 2015, 10:59:44 PM
Doesn't Mr Slim just pretend to DJ? Somebody on here posted something on this very theme.

Still love his stuff, though.

I love his noise too but watching his spectacular DJ turn at 2014 Creamfields that linked from that link  --- something occurred to me.

It's dance music, yet nobody dances.



the psyche intangible


phes

Quote from: Danger Man on July 25, 2015, 10:59:44 PM
Doesn't Mr Slim just pretend to DJ? Somebody on here posted something on this very theme.

Still love his stuff, though.

No, absolutely not. I've seen him a bunch of times and he's a skilled DJ. I'd like to think he hasn't somehow pulled the wool over my eyes, because I mixed for 10 years + and it wouldn't say a lot for my powers of observation

I was a fan when I watched that on telly and I'm still left really cold by it. What is that last tune? It's one of the most naff dance hits ever.

phes

It's Let me show you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxNUhb75p8c. I didn't go but I bought the DVD of the BBBII and wasn't all that taken by it.

Beat up the NME was Norman Cook's finest moment as a dj, and it can be found on youtube...

So i guess it qualifies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pemVmt360bw

hermitical

Quote from: the psyche intangible on July 26, 2015, 12:03:10 AM
Yowsers!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cT5UlUFQ98

First saw them in '91, when I hear them I think it sounds like music that could punch holes in metal

This is from about 3 weeks after I saw them...all the tracks are worth watching

The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather - live 4-29-1991 DC

the psyche intangible

#178
Quote from: hermitical on July 26, 2015, 12:46:48 AM
First saw them in '91, when I hear them I think it sounds like music that could punch holes in metal

This is from about 3 weeks after I saw them...all the tracks are worth watching

The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather - live 4-29-1991 DC

Unfortunately I never witnessed them live. I did wander around with a Wheelchair Epidemic t-shirt, embossed pink.

What should be pointed out is Yow's remarkable lyrics, quite disturbing and sweet. He said he got fucked when touring but remained a steady guy off tour. Didn't drink a drop.


David Yow


Well, they called me a little so and so and so, yeah
Now hummin' a different tune
Oh, this is a job for a stupid man
Smoke it down to the filter and put it out on your hand
Them cops was lined up about a week long all down the road
True crime homosexual gangster men were, were piled up on my living room floor
Well I'm gonna get my own rifle down, and point it on in your eye
And huff a big long breath, and shoot it
Shoot it and, and shoot it and shoot it and, and shoot it and shoot it and shoot it and shoot it
I'll call the cops on my own self, figure out a way to please those men
I'll play detective, I'll play bloodhound, sniffin' up clues with my nose in the mud
Down here in my shantytown, leave you alone, for the rest of my life
By the time I got my ass up off the grass and on the sidewalk
Made my way toward the house, well
I realized they made their way home
I know this shit will continue

Sparers

Love this thread. Can't remember if this has been posted before.
Ween https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzPPYd_LJK8 Your Party