Whoever said this about James Brown's performance on The TAMI Show might be right, I just saw it and might have to agree. Thoughts?
― iago g., Sunday, 7 March 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Might? OK, I will!
― iago g., Sunday, 7 March 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
This one gives me chills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdC11JaO9A
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The Faces BBC "Sounds of Saturday" from 1972 - this pops up on vh1 classic every now and again. it just looks like the most fun any group of dudes has ever had on stage.
― hobbes, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h7Lm7C9Nk
― Are Slimes the Jews of monsterdom? (cankles), Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
breakdown at 1:55 is lifechanging
― rahni, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
shit, every time i forget to put "no sarcastic responses" in my thread question, i get john tesh
― iago g., Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
0 to joke in 10 posts or less or your money back
― noted schloar (dyao), Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
stevie wonder on sesame street
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p79JKclG-oc
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 7 March 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Funny haircuts, massive bass, guitar experiments, gospel rip-offs, all making Germans dance. Everything I want in music, condensed to 2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iI0__9S1c
― bendy, Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkMWdI2IKiw
― StanM, Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ah man I came on here to post "stevie wonder on sesame street", but mookieproof beat me to it.
― tomofthenest, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
also monks : a++
― tomofthenest, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjyZ6B7mC-w
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
came to post this also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
― sofatruck, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw that stevie on sesame street for the first time last week. it's wonderful
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
That Monks clip is great.
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 7 March 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Bowie doing 'Young Americans' on Dick Cavett in 1974 for me please. (can't see the embeds, apologies if already posted)
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
> Everything I want in music, condensed to 2 minutes
+ sexy uschi nerke
― meisenfek, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the answer is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfr2QMk3Fc
― m the g, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
serious answer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vyySL_zUQ
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ considered posting the 'judas' one but thought it was too obvious
― noted schloar (dyao), Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
― might seem normal but is actually (snoball), Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta have this in any serious conversation....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdSHr1i2Yo
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(xpost) this is at the end of the film "The Kids Are Alright", and whenever I watched the video I'd turn the sound all the way up on the TV for the last couple of minutes.
― might seem normal but is actually (snoball), Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Definitely second The Monks and Dylan. And Elvis Unchained Melody slays me every time -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Dpm5ZoCbE
― 'virgin' should be 'wizard' (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 7 March 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Some classics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz0V6bIwXpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25E0ACkA6uo
― seandalai, Sunday, 7 March 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Planxty on "The late late show", dunno when its from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3A5Tgy47M
The Boswell sisters from 1932:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Afn3Z-BWI
Nick Lucas performs "tiptoe thru the tulips" with a bunch of chorines dressed as giant flowers, from 1929:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMHJX4b9bU
― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Sunday, 7 March 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twh45yX2Kj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76CeJBbJs8
― werewolf congress (schlump), Sunday, 7 March 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_TDoOPnIA
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 7 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93v6eoTjpig
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 7 March 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
can't say it's "the greatest musical performance ever on tv," but this is one keep replaying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5VFWA2YKdo
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
(sorry, this is one i keep replaying. . .)
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
not gonna front, I'm gonna take the Who here, but this performance deserves consideration (plus in context it was kinda life-changing for me):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7oZyWt7pGg
― Most important performer of our generation: (Euler), Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xp werewolf: Wow @ Can.
― seandalai, Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The R+R Circus Who Quick One While He's Away is my favorite but these two are my current faves...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHvwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzIdZpln6k
― dan selzer, Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
That John Fahey clip is excellent, WF, thanks.
― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6C_WSp3Lks
― iatee, Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewgAy7hghg
― noted schloar (dyao), Sunday, 7 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
;-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 7 March 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
>+ sexy uschi nerke
Thanks, I've also long wondered who that babe is.
― bendy, Sunday, 7 March 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Unfortunately it's no longer on YouTube but I found it here..
http://en.sevenload.com/videos/USMENud-Neil-Young-Rockin-In-The-Free-World-Live-SNL-1989
― bad fog, Sunday, 7 March 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH6D4LvYZwA
― There's Always Been A Prance Element To (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 7 March 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc7ZntLEZw
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know about "the greatest ever" etc but this completely wrecked me way back when and still seems incredibly powerful to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRxYty2ie0&feature=PlayList&p=E9E8B4DEAC36258E
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
dude that arsenio thing is sick
man, I forgot hop hop used to be like that
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Are the monks playing for real in that video upthread? There are parts where it seems like it was playback. If it's real then I'd have to agree it was a mindblowing performance.
― Moka, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, iago g. and zvookster.
― Stephen Deusner, Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbwxLGohUM0
― Barnaby, Hardly, Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5M3chPv4v0
This is pretty epic.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 14 March 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FWftvvaVok
― peepee, Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1PxKo&feature=related
― peepee, Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGTtu3mLacE
― peepee, Sunday, 14 March 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFklR731N7k
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm so proud of my little thread!
― iago g., Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I've watched that transmission clip hundreds and hundreds of times. I get chills when Ian grabs the mic off the stand. Also the Digital clip from Here are the Young Man, though maybe I posted that above.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
is no one else going to rep for Stop Making Sense?
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbwdAOogBw
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Hendrix @ Monterrey. None more transcendent.
― ImprovSpirit, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I think maybe Heads people prefer the Rome 1980 stuff cited above? If I had to pick from SMS, would have to be the lampshade dance in This Must Be the Place or the song at the end where he runs circles around the stage (Born Under Punches?)
― iago g., Wednesday, 21 April 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3_nv3TYX-k
― New Hors d'œuvre (DavidM), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the song at the end where he runs circles around the stage (Born Under Punches?)
"Life During Wartime" and Byrne is ON FIRE on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXgMhnI3QOI
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
He's byrning!
― StanM, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtoCUHRFVoI
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p74mvDSUzQg
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7birRBmNM
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i know it's not a "classic" performance but damn i can't stop watching this performance of "it's you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yP1TOzwPA
― Future_Perfect (LOLK), Thursday, 3 June 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah. Finally recognize that synth bit at 1:56 - 02:06 = Such A Shame, innit?
― StanM, Thursday, 3 June 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I've avoided posting this video here so far cuz I thought it might be kinda tacky or premature w/e, but seriously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WxTP3ger8
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Thursday, 3 June 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
that's almost as beautiful as BU$H playing glycerine in the rain spring break 96
― Future_Perfect (LOLK), Thursday, 3 June 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesome little Brazilian dudes and dudettes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6PwP5glyvg&feature=related
More Brazilian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qK8RQcBYE&feature=related
― i'm a desperate bicycle (leavethecapital), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
watched my Cliff 'Em All tape last night. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wGFfrJv4Y
― shugazi (herb albert), Monday, 7 June 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The Temtations - (i know) i'm losing youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CbzHIVtRj0
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
*p*
My current favorite for the 2000's...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Q2wS6sGQI
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't necessarily think this is the greatest musical performance captured on film, but I do think this is the greatest film of a musical performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v_Y3Pbiims
― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
makes me want to drink whisky
+1
― meisenfek, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure it's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60H9X0mYH70
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
or maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeplSvy9MvQ
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been on a HUGE Bill Carlisle kick the last couple of years, and I so wish there were older youtube vids of him in his prime in the 1950s. That one is awesome, but y'know...
― Hodge Podge Bodge, Peo-PLE! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
there's one other clip of him on youtube where looks to be about 85. it's funny to see him flapping his gums and doing a little hop for old time's sake, but yeah, I wish there was more footage of him from any era. I have a feeling that his studio records, as punchy as they are, don't capture all the excitement of his live sets.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
oh cool, this one's from 1953:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsnf3WCDQLQ
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
1953: 1965
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
quite fond of this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvQOACorAY
― Paul, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcq93txBdtM
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 13 May 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZEpP_zzaw&feature=BFa&list=PL73A3CC7F297BA0D5&lf=BFa
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Liza with a Z
― Josefa, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4aGXTHo7w
― thick-necked and hateful (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqwe3O2Mjf0
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 17 August 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtgUbJN8oPE
^billie listening to lester's solo fuckin eh
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 17 August 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, i love that clip of billie listening to prez solo
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
All 4 clips are amazing. This one has probably my favorite heights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0I60Zb9Qk&feature=share
― Fetchboy, Friday, 9 August 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
45 years ago today.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Irish fans, gdansk, 2012
― tracked like on pirate bay (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
did you join in or just stand with your arms folded, darragh?
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
i love this thread (pats himself on the back)
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
otm iago
michael, im a crank and im no patriot but at the same time if theres a wee shuteyed one goin i'll be not least nor last to pipe up
― #YOLTMB (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link