Songs that you fully appreciated only after seeing at a show

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  • lateralus963
    lateralus963 Posts: 381
    Hum... I would actually say Alive. I hated that song until I saw it live. Even now, I never listen to the studio version, actually I never chose to listen to it at all.(I mean if for some strange reason I am listening to the radio and they play Alive, yeah I'll listen to it.) However, it is always one of my favorite moments at the show. And the magic for me doesn't really start till the end, when every one is chanting( just like the end of Black).

    So has hippie and idealistic as it might sound, it is a perfect example of why Music is my religion and Concerts are my church. Because no matter who I am and who everyone else is. No matter what are differences. For that one moment we are one, and we can separate people for their ideas.

    The song takes on a new life in concert;it is a mean that only belongs to us--the concert goers.
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    2013: Brooklyn I & II
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  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    This is an awesome thread...

    for me there are definitely a few...

    most of the songs off of Binaural took a while for me to get into, but especially Nothing as it seems and Sleight of Hand... those two are just great live and Binaural ranks up there as far as albums go because of that.

    Riot act... a lot of those songs come out great live, especially 1/2 Full, I don't think there's anything stellar about the studio version, but it's the one song off Riot Act that I would not mind seeing live at every show I attend... it's awesome... I think Can't Keep falls into the 'can't appreciate it till you see it live category' even though I loved it right off the bat... it's just powerful as hell live.

    And then of course Arc... some people hear it for the first time and go wtf is this... but when I saw it live... damn... it was moving.
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    Low Light - Boston '06
  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    Hard to Imagine.
    I, of course, knew the song when I went at the Copenhagen shows last year, but I was blown away when they played it..
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    spin the black circle and lukin

    angry hard rockers, not something I would normally listen to

    but after experiencing them live, I love em
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Arc
    Habit
    1/2 Full
    Nothing As It Seems
    Wishlist (I hated the studio version - sounded too cheesy for me)
    Dissident (Got overplayed on Philly radio back in the day and I disliked this song until I heard it live)
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • pjsteelerfan
    pjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,905
    Green Disease I liked much better after hearing it live. Army Reserve too. And Present Tense.
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
  • itsmyblood248
    itsmyblood248 Posts: 47
    Release as the opener in D.C. in '06. I mean I have always loved it but damn, it just shook my core that night. I listen to that version over and over and still get the same feeling.
    "There's alot to be said for nowhere"
  • hoopinman
    hoopinman Posts: 294
    lateralus963 wrote:

    So has hippie and idealistic as it might sound, it is a perfect example of why Music is my religion and Concerts are my church. Because no matter who I am and who everyone else is. No matter what are differences. For that one moment we are one, and we can separate people for their ideas.


    AMEN!!!!!

    for me it had to be Rearview Mirror

    never liekd it....then went through a rough breakup and saw PJ...and the song meant something after that..

    " clearer....Clearer....ONCE YOU WERE IN MYYYYYYYYYYYYYY REEEEEEEEARVIEW MIRRRRRRRRRRRRRROR!!!!!!"
  • P34RL J4MM3R
    P34RL J4MM3R Posts: 1,342
    Great Thread. I would have to say "Sad" is one that really caught my attention live and started me liking it. Also as has been stated, Long Road is really more emotionally raw live and always gives me the gooseflesh. Same with Hard to Imagine as has been mentioned. When I am hearing it live and thinking about my life and my son, it is just an amazing feeling.
    There's no need to say goodbye
  • mjb
    mjb Posts: 1,315
    Hard Sun...everything about the live performance was killer - from the clouds in the background, to the labcoat to the dancing - it just works - hope if makes its way into the PJ set.
  • CornishMan
    CornishMan Cornwall, UK Posts: 455
    Of The Girl for me.
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  • vedderman
    vedderman Posts: 801
    army reserve! i never liked studio version because it's lame
    2000 Ljubljana
    2006 Vienna, Zagreb
    2007 Munich
    2009 Berlin
    2010 Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Venice
    2011 Montreal, Toronto 1&2
    2012 Manchester 1&2, Amsterdam 1&2, Prague, Berlin 1&2, EV Manchester
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    2017 EV Firenze, Taormina 1&2
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  • Mickey1794
    Mickey1794 Posts: 104
    present tense
    leash
    i got shit
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    given to fly
  • arhoops
    arhoops Posts: 110
    1- Breakerfall- good in studio, but amazing live.

    2- You Are- Love it live, still skip it on disc

    3- Of The Girl- Cool on disc, but when I heard it live, blew my mind.

    And finally

    4- Betterman- love the fills, energy, crowd sing along, etc live.
    i only own my mind- i am mine.

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  • rftucker
    rftucker Posts: 25
    Sometimes in 2000 philly/camden
  • R-Dub81
    R-Dub81 Posts: 374
    Betterman - mansfield 3 - hearing the audience singing the whole first verse was awsome.

    In My Tree - MSG 2003 - only from the video/boots. i hope to catch it at one of the shows this year. I loved the intro riff Ed did for the song.

    Ledbetter - anytime I have seen this live it has been good. listening to the boots, it reminds me of who was there and what happened that night. a good closer to a good show.
    "Some people think it makes a difference...I think it's the difference that makes it" 

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    04 - Asheville
    06 - Hartford
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  • upina2001
    upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    Red Mosquito-Alpine 98-Night 1

    Freakin AWESOME!!!!!

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  • handreads7-30
    handreads7-30 Posts: 329
    For me, it was Leash at Camden 1 in 2006. I always liked the song, but to finally hear it live (second time played since forever) and the response from the crowd..... Man, it was like listening to Vs for the first time again. Spec-tac-u-lar!
    ...just got a fresh bottle.

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