Thursday, August 26, 2010

Songs best seen live

There are many different variables in whether a particular song is good in concert. A big one is whether the musician and the crowd can feed off each other's energy. I don't feel like listing any more, so let's get to the point. This is an attempt for to make a post about songs that when I hear them take me to a particular place in time, while trying to be less self-indulgent than that sounds and failing. Goats have eaten at least half these videos before.

Killing in the name of - Rage Against the Machine

An obvious choice.

National Anthem - Radiohead

What the fuck 3:49? No seriously I'd never even heard this before and then that opening riff (which is not at 3:49 because it is at the beginning, or was that obvious) goes and makes people crazy with euphoric joy.

Crystal Cat - Dan Deacon

That video is remarkably low budget. I think if I got a vote on what should be put in like a 1 terabyte thing that we could show civilization(?) in a millenia or two from now it might be that.

Korn - Blind

Oh man, remember Korn? Definitely superior to Deftones, yet so similar, like comparing Bakersfield to Sacramento. Anyway yeah you will probably will die if you heard this song in person 10 years ago.

Cypress Hill - Ain't goin out like that

I only picked this because "Insane in the Brain" is cliche. The best part is when they smoke the giant bong.

Wolfmother

This is what it would kind of be like to see Led Zeppelin or The Who or some other 70s shit in a smaller venue. It was a good show at the Electric Factory anyway.

The Kids Aren't All Right - The offspring

This may be an outlier/wrong. Time to publish and call it a night.

3 comments:

grant said...

deftones are better on so many levels!

thope said...

no one from deftones ever performed with snoop dogg. case closed.

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