In Your Opinion, What Are The Best Live Singing Performances Ever?

Watching that guitar player with the long brown hair gets me hard every time. I LOVE this video,and I loved Alanis back then.

Liza at the Statue Of Liberty ceremony doing "New York, New York". I get chills every time I see it.

R2 yes! Oh my God, I forgot all about that performance. That should have been the thread song.

R2 LIZA

Miss Aretha Franklin totally out of her style and rocks the house.

This

Thread. Closed.

This is definitely up there.

Probably this

Dang it I missed up

*messed up. I'm not drunk.

R5

Thanks I'm CRYING dude

R12 hugs I shed a tear, too. Amazing.

This was great. I’m not a huge fan of Sheryl Crow, but I thought she was flawless on her performance.

Aretha yes- Liza- well if you like choreographed hot mama moves adopted from other performers and a wobbly vibrato that goes a full half note flat on every note she holds- it’s great. But kind of ugly. To me she’s always playing the red hot singer as opposed to her Mom who was the red hot singer and never went flat (in her prime) when belting. Aretha is a musical and vocal genius and mimicking no one while completely owning a Puccini aria for a tenor!

Disturbed's Sound of Silence" on Conan's show. David Draiman's amazing; their official video on youtube's an experience.

Metallica, Enter Sandman before a massive, massive crowd of Russians

Another vote for a Sheryl Crow performance. I hadn't thought she was a great singer until I heard this version. She slays it. Her timing and phrasing is impeccable.

And, damn, Alanis killed that version in OP's threat. You Oughtta Know can't be an easy song to put across live, she is fantastic. I saw her at a small hall in Nashville on he first tour (328, for those who are from here) and I wish ended up sitting at the bar with a friend and barely paid attention to the show . I wish I had watched more of it. Who knew she was going to become Alanis?

R18 damn that was amazing. Thank you.

Don’t Cry For Me. All the threads closed

Mig

The two late greats - Pavarotti and Brown. It's a man's world.

Linda Ronstadt at The Troubador

R24 yes, thread closed.

Whitney. Grammys. One Moment In Time.

(The Grammys prolly block anyone uploading the performance so this is split in 4 screens.)

Judy.

A Star Is Born

The Man That Got Away

Susan Boyle's audition. The crowd erupted after just the first line from an unknown voice. And they kept cheering. Rarely does a performance give chills, this one does.

Mariah performed Vision of Love on Arsenio as her first TV performance. A few days later, she sang "America The Beautiful" before an NBA game and won over the crowd of straight men. Her dress may have had something to do with it, but her voice was incredible.

Bumpty humpty

Alanis is great live. Saw her just as jagged little pill was starting to break in a small club in Providence. She was amazing.

GM - I saw him in concert. What an amazing voice.

GM - I cant make you love me.

Shirley Bassey singing Without You from 1973.

She has probably sang more iconic songs but I just love the arrangement and how she walks off at the end.

What a voice.

Good one R34, his live Different Corner on Parkinson is sublime as well. This one always make me smile, Bruce Springsteen and Melissa Etheridge, Thunder Road.

That never fails to move me R29. Tears every time.

Bruce and his biceps 😍

R27 You beat me to it. So powerful she gave me chills.

r17 I would have gone with Harvester of sorrow from the same concert.

The most amazing live performance was Freddie Mercury at live aid. Chills, to this day.

Freddy Mercury at Live Aid. And, going into the archives, Janis Joplin "Piece of My Heart". Wow.....

I love this sexy man.

Tommy Shaw - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) (Live) I've always liked Tommy Shaw and here he is performing with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. He can still belt out a tune and this a great orchestral and choral arrangement. Shaw and CYO also covered other Shaw songs including Girls With Guns.

R44 great video.

Judy. Carnegie Hall.

You're fucking boring and stupid OP.

I can't believe someone polluted this thread with Beyonce.

This is the gold standard for Strauss.

Opps. That wasn't live. This is a young Pavarotte.

Oh, dear.

Pavarotti

Waiting for Columbus, all of it, Little Feat with Lowell George, rest his soul.

This is not her most iconic song, but what a voice. She's mesmerizing. Her voice is like thunder and lightning, wind in the night. She summons the dead. Gladys Knight.

How dare you, r43?!

The performance that instantly took him from "Ex-Menudo and General Hospital star" to international music superstar.

She was perfection. Actual perfection.

Sonically and emotionally epic.

Among the very greatest vocalists I've ever personally seen, I have to include kd lang. I also think Sinead O'Connor was a great singer. Too bad she's insane.

Grace. beauty, sorrow. loss. Sharon Robinson.

Connie Francis' iconic take on Goldfinger, showing that overrated Welsh hack how it's really done.

She really can sing....beautifully.

Magic Moment

I will get a virtual flogging for this, but I really enjoyed her performance:

Whitney Houston sings Rodgers and Hammerstein. She should've done an album of show tunes.

Adding the link because it's so unusual. DL guitar players please comment.

Judy at Carnegie Hall

D16, Agree with your choice.

R38 Y E S Sleeveless SoloFlex Bruce was the best Bruce.

Whitney Houston's low-key tribute to Aretha Franklin.

Ann Reinking singing the theme song for "Against all Odds" at the Oscars.

We took a look at her then!

Unbelievable vocals. Stunning singing by Ms. Dion.

Sydney Lucas as small Alison was a revelation in the musical Fun Home. There was nothing childish in her performance, just an actress and singer in peak control of her craft, breaking your heart with her performance and then putting it all back together. This has to be one of the most epic Tony broadcast moments of all time.

Anyone else a fan?

R54 hands down the best!

*****

She was fabulous. That great big voice - what a range, what a singer.

Whitney's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at the 1991 Super Bowl.

Pretty much any singer pre 1950 blows today's performers out of the water.

Check out Jo Stafford or Kate Smith for example.

r76, that wasn't live. It was a scandal at the time when it came out that she was lip-synching

R78-Aw, man! I didn't know. Thanks! I rescind my addition to the list!

Another star-making Grammy performance -- Patti LuPone ca.1980(?). They invited her back 38 years later to sing the same song.

R79 no worries, she did have to actually sing the song for them to do the play back for lip syncing.

R80 damn, she’s goose bumps incredible. Is that even a sentence?

Alright then, Whitney denier R78. See what you can say about this. She didn't need to lip synch. She seldom EVER did, even as her voice failed her later in her career. Whitney always stood tall and did her best. But all versions of the Star Spangled Banner were pre recorded back then. It was during the Gulf War and there could be no mistakes. Whitney's version was so extraordinary that it became a Billboard top ten hit recording. Twice. (again after Sept. 11) She and Rickey Minor arranged it themselves. The Super Bowl broadcasters wanted them to change it - it was too gospel and the tempo had been slowed down to 4/4 time. Some said it was "sacreligious." Houston refused. The rest is history. The single went platinum, btw. Her pre recorded vocal was not intended to ever be released. The public demanded it. All proceeds were donated to The Red Cross.

Even if you don't love the song, the young Whitney was ASTOUNDING.

And then she got better. A miracle of a voice.

Magnificent!

Freddie Mercury singing Love Of My Life at Wembely. There is probably not another artist as unsung in their own lifetime as Freddie.

He had to die to get the respect he deserved due to the homophobia that clouded the culture at the time.

Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time (L1ve)

First album by Sinéad--'Troy' is a lot of people's absolute favorite of her songs. She stopped singing it a long time ago.

This one is a cappella and amazing live, I've seen her perform it a few times and it makes me weepy. I played this at my Nana's funeral.

There's not much to this, but a spectacular vocal performance.

R91 Damn, I found myself captivated by her voice. Beautiful voice and woman.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones.

eat me whores!

One more for you R92. Heather Headley is not unknown. She's unique and a spectacular singer. A classically trained voice. You might not like this - depending on how attached you are to the original....

R93, one of my favorites. Not only her voice but the hula-hooping is mesmerizing .

Vocally probably not her best rendition of this song but a performance with a capital P.

This gave me chills, and made me actually donate.

Pretty much any time she opens her mouth, but this...

R66 cheesiest cover I’ve seen in awhile.

R98 Damn! That performance gave me chills.

I don't care what others think, but Elvis could sing like no one else.

R102 I grew up with a father who was obsessed with Elvis Presley, so much so my aunt would call his collection a shrine. I do like Elvis’s music. He also sang a lot of Christian music, which every Sunday, we would be forced to hear his Christian songs. I could sing all his music in my sleep.

This.

Bettye Lavette singing The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me" at the Kennedy Center.

Look for cutaways to Daltrey and Townsend in the audience.

She makes it a completely different song and it's torchy enough that many of you should actually like it even though it's rock.

We all know who Bettye Lavette is. She's soulful, but there's not much range or variety to her voice.

No Barbra and Neil at the Grammys?

Given R105 has been pushing Whitney Houston and Celine Dion....

And if you all are going to push Bruce Springsteen, this is his ultimate live performance, a slowed-down acoustic version of "Born To Run"

I do prefer singers who actually know how to sing. That's my training. Apologies to the world's oldest millennial. You dumb bitch.

[quote] HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lindsey Buckingham (ex Fleetwood Mac) - Go Insane (Sound Stage Live)

Ryan Adams can be amazing live. This is one of my favorite songs of his, quality boot of a 2002 concert in Sweden.

While the YT is of the whole concert, I have it teed up for you all for "The Bar Is A Beautiful Place"

[quote] We all know who Bettye Lavette is. She's soulful, but there's not much range or variety to her voice.

This was a soul-stirring, star-making performance. Other singers looked at her in awe over what she did to this song.

...otherwise, Whitney owns this thread.

Sorry Miss1/R113 but our friend at R105 will NOT be upstaged!

They have stated their boundaries and we are crossing them!!

Perhaps because of his lyrics but I have always loved Bryan Adams.

[quote]They have stated their boundaries and we are crossing them!!

Only you fake millennial @ R115. You're neither that or my friend. I find you obnoxious, quite stupid and very insecure. Best of luck to you.

I had never heard that before R103 or even knew it existed.

That is awesome! Thanks for that.

BeyChicks

I can watch this on repeat for hours.

From the comments: She was portraying death and the disease that took Freddy and the battle he fought.....Her silver top represents armor he needed to fight physically and mentally what he endured from the disease and media and the black was death and the AIDS virus.....they are both singing one man's song. Bowie represents Freddys life and Annie is death and disease and at the end they become one just as the disease took over Freddy singing "this is our last dance and this is ourselves, under pressure." an emotional way of portraying Freddy's last days when living with media rumors of his sexuality and health and finally admitting defeat to the disease that took his life. A beautiful expression of a wonderful entertainer that we will all miss....bravo

Prince. Halftime show.

I wasn’t a Tori Amos fan, was barely aware of her, but my brother ended up with a few extra tickets to her show circa 2005 or so.

Unbelievable performance. She’s this tiny little woman who just electrifies the stage and sings brilliantly, I adore her to this day.

R122 I've converted many a friend to Tori by taking them to see her live. A lot of people aren't drawn in by her albums, but when she takes the stage, her music is taken to a whole different level.

I could fill a thread with Tori covers only (but won't).

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (Secret World Live)

While not the best vocals (although Matt has a great voice), Muse puts on an incredible show. The visuals for each tour are always spectacular. One of the best rock bands in the game at the moment.

R120 Damn, you beat me to it! I adore that performance, second only to Queen at Live Aid.

Breathtaking in its understated presentation. Just a girl and her piano.

Stepping in last minute and killing it.

Brandi Carlile

DL icon presents her cousin, Whitney. Classy, elegant, spectacular.

There could be an entire thread filled with Montreux performances.

Mariah gets a lot of hate on DL, but her and Trey were spectacular here.

It's a crime she hasn't shared more music with the world.

Shawn from 2 years ago and before he became too popular.

Two legendary singers together. This is my all time favorite.

While she's never going to win any best vocal awards, Mary J. Blige has turned in some captivating performances on the grammy stage.

I wish there was performance footage of this. Always brings a tear to my eye for some reason.

Whitney at the rainforest benefit concert. Best live version I've ever heard of this.

I'll raise this thread a Shoshana.

This thread needs more KCS

Whitney was unbelievably beautiful - with a voice as big as the sea. Heartbreaking.

R136, that duet wasn't really live. It was pre-recorded.

Siouxsie - Caroline Says

Siouxsie, Budgie & John Cale: Murdering Mouth

Yes yes damn.

R146 love it.

Was very lucky to see Ellen Green recreate her Audrey to Jake Gyllenhall's Seymour in concert. After many many years of NY theater and seeing every diva along the way, this was electric and we all knew we may never see her this way again. Not just the amazing notes but she acts the hell out of it too.

kd lang singing Cohen’s Hallelujah at the opening ceremony at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

[quote]Liza- well if you like choreographed hot mama moves adopted from other performers and a wobbly vibrato that goes a full half note flat on every note she holds- it’s great.

Bless your little, retarded, heart. To borrow a quote, "Miss Minnelli has more talent in her smallest fart than you do in your entire body."

I prefer kd lang's Hallelujah at the Juno Awards. Some of her recorded material tends to sound monotonous after a while, but I love her voice and no-nonsense approach to performing.

I prefer kd lang's Hallelujah at the Juno Awards. Some of her recorded material tends to sound monotonous after a while, but I love her voice and no-nonsense approach to performing.

r47, yousa dumb ass bitch if you can't believe it. And you must be deaf and blind, useless thot.

R151, Here's the link to your preference.

I will never forgive Janet's titty for robbing this performance of its proper due. Purely magical.

Beyonce is no doubt the greatest live performer in the world today. She worked double duty for every accolade. See her in person. She wanted to be as great a performer as Michael Jackson, Prince and Tina Turner - she got there. With 50 + great songs all her own. Amazing talent. Fire.

R156, this thread is about live SINGING not booty-shaking. Bey is great for what she does well but it ain't singing.

I enjoy all kinds of performers. But ancient fags who dismiss Beyonce as a booty shaker know nothing about singing or vocal production R157. Beyonce IS one of the greatest LIVE performers in the world today. She has been at the pinnacle for some time. Save your correction for that 60 year old "millennial" who loves Springsteen and Bryan Adams. Any gay who uses words like "bootyshaker" is already on the back porch. Take a seat grampa.

Beyonce is represented all over this thread because she consistently delivers great vocal performances. LIVE. Keep your gay racism to yourself Miss Millenial of 1955.

I have watched this too many times to count

Don't waste your energies on the racist eldergays, R158. They love to diminish every notable performer of color except for the handful they deem worthy of their patronizing approval. They are so busy jerking off to Judy Garland albums and swallowing pills as a tribute to their idol that they can't (or won't) see what is staring them in their faces.

Because she can. Kelly Clarkson. She gives a best performance every night.

Hall of Fame performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynn, Steve Winwood. At 3:30, Prince gives the greatest guitar solo on live tv ever seen. Granted, not vocal singing but his fingers are singing on that guitar. Miss you, Prince.

The Suffers from Houston, Texas.

R146 Ungf. YES.

I spotted Taylor Hawkins in OP's video. I didn't know he was Alanis' drummer before Foo Fighters.

I was worried for a minute, but this era gave us some SINGERS. Bey, Jennifer, Kelly C, Tori Kelly - these girls can shake the rafters and smooth out nuances.

Meg Myers' "Running Up That Hill." Here's a live performance from August. I'm obsessed.

And I just love how she looks like she's riding a cock while singing. So fucking hot.

None. The recording is always better.

Whitney’s first performance ever on the Grammy Awards. I believe she sang Saving All My Love for You and won an Emmy for it

Tame Impala at Glastonbury last year. Still upset I didn’t get to see them. x

These were some great videos guys. Thanks for sharing. However, I didn't like Ann Reinking;s rendition of Against All Odds. That was just ......... not my cup of tea.

R140 That is an AMAZINGLY soulful version of Defying Gravity. Funny how that's known as Idina Menzel's song since she originated the Elphaba role, but Shoshana arguably sings the song better.

But of course Shoshana also played Elphaba R172. But R140 is a mashup of two songs. Are you being purposefully obtuse or just confused? Shoshana often oversings...but when she keeps it bluesy, girl can SANG. She's a great performer. Menzel ain't all that.

The best blues (and rock) singer in the world is a California chick who gets no love at home. Beth Hart is the real deal. A star all around the world. She has an incredible voice and a deep and dangerous understanding. The band ain't bad either.

Yes R173, I know Shoshana played Elphaba too - that's why I specified that Idina originated the role. And no, I am not being obtuse, I'm just stating that Shoshana makes the song her own. Sheesh.

What a damn voice.... Beth Hart is so fucking talented.

Except Shoshana was singing this John Mayer song....right. Here is one of his best performances. Enjoy R175. Sheesh yourself dude. Spark one up and clean out your ears.

Tracy Chapman was electrifying at Wembley

AMY, gone too soon

Singing like his voice would not have to last long...

Remember the night Yolanda Adams....

Alabama Shakes on SNL

Jeremy Jordan's version of 'Its All Coming Back To Me Now'

This cover by the great GM always leaves me teary-eyed.

The Master. With a little help from Wendy and Lisa, Sheila. Some gorgeous girls of course. A primer. Prince.

Clarkson gave new meaning and heartache to No Doubts "Don't Speak." Gorgeous singing. She sang her ass off - even if her voice gets ragged. It's intimate and heartfelt, beautiful and ballsy beyond belief. She's shouty and raspy AND a shimmering soprano all in one. Kelly's in love with music. She's doesn't sing perfectly, but she's the best singer in the game.

Yeah, I've come across some really good Kelly Clarkson covers. Girl knows how to make a song her own.

Anytime Adele sings Rolling in the Deep live

THIS.

Sara has sung this song many times now - most always accompanying herself on the piano. Lots of other girl singers have sung it too - from the musical. But this is unusually beautiful singing. In the zone. Sarah has rise and fall and a lovely sense of lyric and melody with beautiful dynamics & real emotion. Those l o n g notes and straight on singing. A best and beautiful performance.

Jimi Hendrix on The Dick Cavett Show - 1969

Shawn's gf performing Havana at The Grammys. But it wasn't just her singing, it was a combination of everyone: from the dancers, Ricky Martin, the rappers and the whole musical productions itself. Looked like West Side Story,, Latin style.

Linda Ronstadt singing our National Anthem at Dodger's Stadium 1978. Sinatra stood and cheered.

Joan Sutherland. Marilyn Horne. "Mira, O Norma."

They are brilliant from start to finish, but after the five minute mark, it all becomes insanely good. Two great artists at the very top of their form.

Lillias White singing "Don't Rain On My Parade" at an Actor's Fund performance of FUNNY GIRL.

Luther Vandross singing Superstar

Fantastic R197. I loved that. Better. Thanks.

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it involves Joan Sutherland, Maria Callas, or Pavarotti.

R198 I legit watch that video like once a month. Love it and Luther!

Leontyne Price "O Patria Mia!" from AIDA, in her signature role.

This was her last performance at the Metropolitan Opera (and in any staged opera). Gorgeously phrased, emotional for anyone who knew her trail-blazing career.

This aria and the 4-minute ovation afterwards (and 4 minutes is a long time) are constantly voted the best moment ever on PBS.

^ the consummate professional, she tries to keep her composure during the applause. The audience had heard this would be her last performance and she was singing the aria she was most known for (difficult as hell, few sopranos can do it justice).

At 9:02, you can see it getting to her emotionally. She bows her head in acknowledgement. Then she starts to tear up.

I was about to write RIP Leontyne Price and then I realized I was confusing her with Jessye Norman who died last week.

Whitney Houston at the American Music Awards in 1994, when she sang a medley of "I Loves You, Porgy", "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" and "I Have Nothing". She was at the peak of her remarkable vocal powers around that time and delivered her performance as though she were singing a 10-minute aria. She was spectacular.

R205, one of my favorite moments too!

I love that too, R205. Whitney was astonishing there. I watch that performance all the time. She was on top of the world.

R86 Magnificent, Connie!

Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price

Unreal!

R209, those high notes are unreal in their beauty. Velvet!

Quality singers with superior voices don't have a chance right now. Even Michael Buble, who is as ordinary as they come said that he has to add autotune pro tools effect to sell his records. And he can actually sing. WTF?

Of course you don't need a great voice to give a best live singing performance but the best singers don't make it anywhere near the top of the charts and we never get to hear them. Jessie J competed on a Chinese singing competition! Week after week. She won by the way. She's not even my girl - It's thin and not beautiful her voice- but still she is one of the best and she's a real performer in a 90s kind of way. Long intro,, sorry. If this is an unassisted vocal - she's spectacular. What would the chinese do?

My favorite Whitney

It's a medley, R177. She's singing both songs.

The Whitney performance at r214 is my favorite. Hard to top that one.

R214, I had never see that before! incredible!

R213, Why is Jessie J, someone with a some hit songs, competing in a song contest? is the money good?

FYI, the Judy clip of Man That Got Away is not live- and Whitney singing the Stars Spangle Banner is lip synced (although still spectacular). Whitney had a hard time sustaining through a concert, even when healthy. Judy on the other hand blew the audience away, even when not healthy!

Whitney was the best, with the most gorgeous and powerful voice - she is still the pinnacle of popular singing and stunning performances. Whitney had it all. She is still referenced everyday as the unreachable star. Her healthy voice was flawless and her abilities were technically astounding. Leontyne Price was a big fan of Whitney, as was most of the classical world.

Thanks for posting that R214. I hadn't seen that one before. I liked most of it, but I felt her voice wasn't really the right type for "Lover Man", which I always associate with a jazzier sound like Anita Baker's. Houston nailed the other two songs, though. She elevates the otherwise awful song, "All the Man That I Need" to something meaningful with her vocals. That song, performed by any other singer, would sound like the banal pop-soul dreck that it is.

And almost as if on cue, here comes the tedious bore Charlie to take a dig at Whitney Houston and praise his beloved Judy Gargoyle yet again. I'm surprised he didn't throw in a gratuitous reference to the greatness of Streisand as well.

R218. I'm not sure why Jessie J did it. I think she loves to sing and she just wanted a moment like this. Jessie loves Whitney. Just because you can hit the notes doesn't mean you should sing the song though. I like Jessie J, a real chick with a real voice. I hope the Chinese paid her well. She wanted to sing these competition show song in glamorous presentation? I think so.

Whitney AND I Have Nothing. Someday they'll come out with a clean copy of this performance and it will sell a million times. Some performers always look like they're in a movie. So much beauty and light.

Kelly, half voice. Good singing. Eyes closed.

Time for a boy. Singing Kate Bush.

When she was good, she was very special.

Kelly and Reba kicked Fancy's ass. Our girl is looking kinda rough.

R218 The Chinese show Jessie J competed in is not a talent show like The X Factor. It's a show for established singers, but more classy than The Masked Singer (yes, there was a Chinese one too). Among the singers competing with Jessie J that season was Wang Feng, Zhang Ziyi's husband. In other seasons, competitors included Coco Lee (who sang for Mulan and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Liu Huan (the Beijing Olympics theme song), Kit Chan (Singapore's National Day Parade theme song), and some winners of Eurovision, Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, Taiwan's One Million Star and South Korea's I Am a Singer (which the Chinese show was originally based on). Rumor has it that Adam Lambert was slated to be in the show too, but he dropped out in the last minute.

The show is a surefire way to get famous in China. I think Jessie J just wanted to tap into a new market, a move proved to be very successful. She has always been bitter about the treatment she got back home in UK, though I'm not very sure why the British hate her so much.

Anyway, here's one of my favorite performances from the show, a La campanella-inspired Cantopop number by Hong Kong singer Hacken Lee ft. Lang Lang.

Another superb performance from the show: "S.O.S. d'un terrien en détresse" by Dimash Kudaibergen.

I love all the love Whitney is getting in this thread. She's so often the butt of jokes because of the way she lived and the way she died, but at the height of her career, her voice was superb and mesmerizing.

[quote] I love all the love Whitney is getting in this thread. She's so often the butt of jokes because of the way she lived and the way she died, but at the height of her career, her voice was superb and mesmerizing.

Whitney was not appropriately celebrated even when she was in her vocal prime and long before her personal troubles began to take a public toll. In the 80s, when every performance was flawless, her music, her "pop" vocals and her fashion were criticized. I think we really didn't know how special and unique she was until we realized there would never be another.

Here's mine.

Brit-Brit live at the 2007 VMAs.

Yes R234, that certainly was memorable.

r231 Only the butt of jokes from cold cunts. I will never see the humor in drug addiction or death.

Me neither R236. I find jokes about Whitney's struggles mean-spirited and distasteful.

r237, Its only because she was beautiful and suspected of being closeted. Whitney Houston was absolutely naturally beautiful and I am Queen Bey stan. But the torment she got from black media and the pop culture at large is down right criminal . Funny, how blacks who love a fkin failure came around once she became a full out junkie.

[Quote]find jokes about Whitney's struggles mean-spirited and distasteful

At least on DL most of the criticism and jokes about Whitney are from the insecure Judy/Barbra white elderqueen fan club who hate black women and feel threatened about women like Whitney, with their undeniable talent, overshadowing their favorites.

r237, Datalounge is a synonym for distasteful.

Datalounge thinks cruelty is witty. And sometimes it is. But not about Whitney.

Keep an open mind. A beautiful and raw performance by Rihanna. She's not the best singer by any imagination. But she's a very good performer. She wanted to sing better, even if her popularity said she didn't have to. She got better anyway.

The same cannot be said of Britney.

The unsung Donna Murphy. Up close and fantastic. Musical theatre is about acting a song as much as delivering the vocal - Murphy is one of the greats.

R241 I should put this in the unpopular music opinion thread, but Rihanna's voice is really not bad. In fact, it's quite nice and underrated. She's no Aretha, Patti, Gladys or Anita, but her voice really works for the music she sings: reggae-infused pop.

Christina fulfilled all her potential as a vocalist and performer here. If she never opened her mouth again she did enough to go down in history as one of the greats.

Yup, totally agree R244. Never been a fan of hers, but she outdid herself that night.

Xtina had so much promise. Occasionally she has delivered really good live vocal performances.

Ariana Grande and The Weekend singing Love me Harder.

SNL has the best acoustics for live singing.

Christina was given one of the great voices - but she overplayed it. She's very stubborn and like Mariah, she often makes no lyrical sense when she sings. She wanted to be something different than what she's best at. But. When Xtina was in the zone - she lived up to all the hype.

Brandi Carlisle and an unknown 14 year old singing The Joke and he outshines her. His name is Benicio Bryant and he was one of the finalists on AGT. This little boy is going to be a future star. His vocals remind me of Whitney's.

Blue Man Group & Venus Hum = I Feel Free

Pat's best live performance starts at 1:15 =

I wish she'd release this as a full single.

It always needed a woman's touch =

I thought she would be a chart beast with such live performances like this one...

His best song "Soaked" live =

This he is so sexy.

live at folton prison

This man could rock my world any day. He is perfect, the complete package, literally.

Two of the greatest ever. Girlfriends. Whitney with that insane voice - beautiful trills and soulful dark tones in full glory and Natalie with her trademark vocal soars, propulsive rhythm and piercing gospel exclamations. It's a bit messy but they freestyle the hell out of it. RIP ladies.

John Denver - Annie's Song live

John Denver - "Sunshine On My Shoulders" live

Adam Lambert is a cover artist. He's never sounded better than on this George Michael song. Gorgeous singing and a soulful performance. One More Try.

Mama Cass Elliot - New World Coming live

Mama Cass Elliot - Make Your Own Kind Of Music live

The Houstons showing off their love of god and gospel harmonies. Even Cher blinks.

Mama Cass & Julie Andrews singing an awesome medley

R259, that was wonderful. How sad those two female powerhouses brought down by their drug abuse.

The sweetest gift, the most beautiful girl. the greatest voice....not all the way there yet. Young Whitney was as bright as any star in the sky. Charisma, talent, sweet sex appeal. A vocal gift beyond measure. Resonance, clarity, confidence. The Way She Held That Last Note While Smiling. With perfect vibrato. *

Can't sing a pop song live much better than this. Her vocal palette has every texture and tonality. Kelly Clarkson delivers.

Benny Mardones such a flawless performance, IMHO. Too bad drugs got the best of him. He’s singing life on Merv Griffin Show.

I rag on Streisand a lot because she's turned into a controlling, neurotic, narcissistic bore, but back in the day Barbra Joan could sing and sing beautifully. This is one of my favorite Streisand performances, from her Central Park concert in 1967. As far as I know she didn't sing this song very often and this may be the only released version.

R4 how did she do that? Wow. very high gusto and broadly delivered glamour

'Stupid Girl' by Garbage featuring Shirley Manson - Album De La Semaine - Canal+ (French TV) 2012

Ummmm sorry R252, Belinda's vocals are not great in that video. She's singing off key and struggling to hold the notes.

R259 & R260 What a dreamy voice. I want the ghost of John Denver to sing me to sleep at night.

76 years old; sublime

R273 Plenty of acts on this thread are struggling to hold their notes.

What's your point?

Struggling to hold high notes? Amateurs.

Leontyne Price, 74 years of age, singing "God Bless America" at Carnegie Hall in 2001 in a special concert to honor those lost on 9/11.

No struggle here with the high notes.

R277, I saw Leontyne in concert at the Met about 1980 (I had seen her a number of times in specific operas- Aida comes to mind). On several Puccini arias about half the house was crying. For my money she had (now past her prime surely still alive in 90s) the best voice of her generation and for me all of the great sopranos. She also has a wonderful personality and sense of humor. Google her interview for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Metropolitan Opera (Lincoln Center). She's a hoot.

Who is the pretty old Korean lady with blonde hair at R275?

The Belinda Carlisle Stan will never be silenced

Outstanding!!!! R277

R280 There are several of us on the DL but we hold our own.

R279 The real Kim Fung-Toi Rose.

Over 66 minutes of live Central Park greatness =

Someone is making a mockery of this thread. Too bad, because there are some truly great posts here.

Belinda Carlisle can't sing. She never could sing. She once was pretty. She's always been dumb.

The only dummy on this thread is you Trumpster R285.

Belinda Carlisle was nominated with her group the Go Go's for a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1981 (beside such acts as James Ingram, Sheena Easton, Luther Vandross and Adam & The Ants).

Later as a solo artist, her "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" single was nominated for Top Female Performance in 1988 (beside Suzanne Vega, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand & Whitney Houston).

Belinda's vocals were acknowledged by the music industry both as a group leader & a solo artist. She is in a small group with the likes of Annie Lennox & Cher that have been able to be nominated first as part of a group & later as a solo performer. Chew on that Negative Nancy.

Kate & Cindy from The B-52's =

I'm a black Canadian socialist musician R286. And you're nuts. Belinda can't sing. She's terrible in fact.

Nobody cares what Canadians think.

Very few of your nation's acts go anywhere.

Belinda hates Trump with the heat of a million suns so you must be channeling him to call her dumb.

She called him out long before it became fashionable.

Many of us find your dedicated Belinda Carlisle stanning both grim and annoying.

Celine Dion's version of God Bless America is wonderful and a lot more nuanced and subdued than how she normally sings. I remember watching the Tribute to Heroes telethon and tearing up.

Celine is a superb singer, en Français. In her own language she is more nuanced and versatile. Here she keeps her voice a little guttural and placed forward in the facial mask, trapping the resonance to make a thicker and slightly more crude sound. Her vibrato is beautiful as ever, but more pronounced on purpose. She is singing not in the quebecois conversational french style that is her home but very much more like a Parisian chanteuse. A la Piaf. Emotional and generous. She can be bombastic, but she also has a gorgeous delicacy, precisely because it isn't all belted and her beautiful overtones chime like bells when she sings from the heart. Her status is no fluke. Celine is one of the greats.

One more. This is one of Celine's most popular French songs. To understand Celine and to fully appreciate her voice - you must listen to her French recordings. Celine has the two best selling French language albums of all time AND three of her English albums are among the top 50 best selling albums in history.

My favorite Whitney.

Never looked into it before, but I always figured she came out of Eurovision.

r257, Adam Lambert has one of the best live singing voices ever. He is a bonafide rockstar and his L on AI to whose name I can't even think of is one of the biggest displays of casual homophobia, but its a popularity contest after all, in recent pop culture history.

Bitches please. I own this this thread.

R296 definitely thread closed.

Patti !

Sondheim Celebration @ Carnegie Hall - 1992

Pure butter.

You've never heard it done like this. Amazing Gladys Knight.

with peen

You people with your pop divas are so fucking lowbrow.

Pop Divas are often the best performers in the game. And with Whitney, Aretha, Barbra, Celine or Gladys - they also had the most glorious voices. Most of us like all kinds of music, but I'm not about to post some orchestral piece on this thread.

Leontyne Price, as great as she was, sang the turbaned operatic out of touch parody version of God Bless America R301. There are no sillier snobs than gay opera buffs. They can be found lisping at the remaining leather bars.

R301 than post your best live musical performances and prove us wrong.

I remember watching this on TV and being blown away. Mary J. goes ballistic at around 2:15.

I was 2 years old when this concert happened? A possessed performance. Everything about Springsteen folklore must be true. A fucking amazing band - WTF that guitar man? Bruce had a limited voice of limitless emotion. This performance is seismographic sex. Epic.

R304 wowza! A-fucking-mazing. I needed to hear that song.

I love Mary J Blige.

Billy Idol - Live in London 1990

R277, I was at that performance!!!

They were offering free tickets to this 9/11 classical tribute concert (Yo Yo Ma played too). I arranged with some friends how we would rotate waiting in line. We got great seats.

Price came out of retirement to perform,

Those high B-flats still rock my world so many years later

Mary J. Blige is a great contemporary example of an emotive, affecting singer with limited vocal range. She is like a modern-day Billie Holiday.

Except that MJB doesn't recognize her vocal limitations and, instead of singing music that is within her very narrow range, insists on occasionally covering songs originally sung by vocal powerhouses such as Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. I am biased because I've never liked MJB's chipmunk voice and flat singing, but I'd have to object to comparisons with Billie Holiday, who was a master of interpretation and had an instinctive understanding of what suited her (limited) voice.

MJB should be whipped for what she did to "Sweet Thing" and "Natural Woman".

Mine, you bitches.

Celine, Whitney and Patti: now that’s what I call taking a song and mangling with a lot of overwrought dynamics and harsh timbre-

R214 - love that song. Eva Cassidy has such a beautiful voice - and that song is one of my favorites. Never saw it live - thanks.

Very dry choice, R312, for a thread about live perfomance.

[quote] Except that MJB doesn't recognize her vocal limitations and, instead of singing music that is within her very narrow range, insists on occasionally covering songs originally sung by vocal powerhouses such as Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. I am biased because I've never liked MJB's chipmunk voice and flat singing, but I'd have to object to comparisons with Billie Holiday, who was a master of interpretation and had an instinctive understanding of what suited her (limited) voice.

Those awful remakes are just a few songs in her relatively vast catalog. Her most memorable songs are well within her (limited) vocal range. She is a gifted interpreter. Like Billie, she is an acquired taste. I will admit that she is hit or miss in delivering her vocals live.

[quote] Except that MJB doesn't recognize her vocal limitations and, instead of singing music that is within her very narrow range, insists on occasionally covering songs originally sung by vocal powerhouses such as Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. I am biased because I've never liked MJB's chipmunk voice and flat singing, but I'd have to object to comparisons with Billie Holiday, who was a master of interpretation and had an instinctive understanding of what suited her (limited) voice.

Those awful remakes are just a few songs in her relatively vast catalog. Her most memorable songs are well within her (limited) vocal range. She is a gifted interpreter. Like Billie, she is an acquired taste. I will admit that she is hit or miss in delivering her vocals live.

teddy pendergrass

great in every way....

That old bag charlie is out here putting down Celine, Patti and Whitney again @ R313. Hang it up old man. Barbra had a few great live performances, back in the 1960s. Before my time.

Don't you dare put down Gladys Knight old man. She still can sing. With voice, reason, joy and passion.

Someone was saying there isn't enough male vocal powerhouses.

Here is Steve Perry from Journey

Freddie Mercury - greatest live performance by a rock band

George Michael

Luther Vandross - Aint No Stopping Us Now

Glad I got to watch that R319. Thanks.

Donna Summer had amazing pipes. She never seemed to work too hard on stage, but she didn't have to. There was that voice.

I remember being so surprised when attending a Donna Summer concert that her voice really was as incredible as the records show

Connie Francis "Lipstick On Your Collar"

Belinda Carlisle doing "Lipstick On Your Collar" from one of her favorite idols growing up.

KC and John Legend cheese it up a bit but Clarkson's shimmery soprano with those clear bright notes and her amazing belting rasp still make this classic sound pretty and soulful. Legend steals from the best, but Kelly is the best singer in the game.

DL faves Sugababes.

This is pretty special

Pocketful Of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield

Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

Avec le temps =

Je suis malade - Thierry Amiel

Bette Midler singing "Superstar" on a 1970s tv special...

Celine Dion and her Quebecois elders. On the Plains of Abraham. The 400th anniversary of Quebec. Ginette Reno is a legend in French Canada and Celine's heart was bursting for all to see, to sing with her again. Celine gave this spectacular free concert for 250,000 people. She sang so many songs, her voice was worn by this finale. It doesn't matter. C’était un cadeau sincère au Canada français, sous le ciel nocturne.

At 320 - Steve Perry. Is it just he and the bandmates harmonizing, making that great ringing sound? Or were their back up vocalists we can't see? Or tracking or something. Sounds amazing.

R335 Dieu merci Arielle Dombasle kept her mouth shut.

Great performance by Bette at r336. She is one of my favorite live performers.

Special.

A gorgeous voice, thrilling.

Take Me To Heart - Trish King

Hungry Heart - Trish King

Gypsy - Trish King

I Want To Come Over - Trish King

Wildflower - Sheryl Crow

Angel Baby - Rosie & The Originals

Song Of Joy - Nana Mouskouri

In Too Deep - Belinda Carlisle

Lawdy the Belinda Stan is dedicated!

Trish King (from R343, R344, R345 & R346) did a livestream yesterday while testing out new equipment.

She performs songs from Dido, Billy Idol, Adele, Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Tom Petty, Pat Benatar, Bon Jovi & several Cyndi Lauper songs (among others).

Check her out -

I couldn't post "Because The Night" by 10,000 Maniacs from my country so I chose this instead =

I Am What I Am - John Barrowman

Mariah over sang every song that came out of her mouth...meh!

This is a great gospel song..one of my favorites. I would go to this church just to see Yolanda Adams perform

Tina Turner - Live At Wembley

Patti Patti

Taylor Dayne Live =

Here you go, you shallow, diva-worshipping queens.

Judith Durham should have been named by now. Her voice is one of those spectacular folk style of voices. Clear, pure, ringing. She's terrific.

And as her actual last name at birth is "Cock," she should be a Data Lounge favorite. The Cock Family. My kind of people.

But it's not a best voice category thread or we'd be sickened by charlie and his pathological Streisand worship. It's a best live singing performance thread. That includes many good and singular voices hopefully. It's a bit more intangible than that. A good performer(s) at the top of their game. A bit of alchemy and performance ability that makes the vocal shine bright. There are lots of fine examples on this thread.

Whitney's aptly named One Moment in Time performance at the Grammys. I was only a kid that night, but I remember my father saying there are bells going off all over this damn house. She had been a big recording star for a few years by that point, but this performance took her to the stratospheric height of best singer in the world. Her voice did ring like church bells - she mixed her head voice and chest belts as well as Streisand, then outsang and performed her on every level. That was the night that the legend of Whitney Houston was born. The song is formalic and she knew it - it's a very hard song to sing. Whitney seized the moment of live performance and shattered the sound barrier in front of a 60 piece orchestra. Her voice RANG out. She shaded and built the rather awkward anthem with a tiny bit of soul and all the showmanship in her heart. Such resonance and power. It's not my favorite performance of hers, but even my grandma realized that Whitney was now the most thrilling singer in the world. She was beautiful AND the best.

It's a soulless white song more suited to Barbra or Celine in its structure. But as good as they are, neither could ever sing it with such clarity, resonance and thrilling power. That quality of Houston's top belting notes are unmatched in popular singing. (Barbra had a few good moments at a similar age) Whitney was only 24 years old and Clive had her dressed like a middle aged woman. She wasn't allowed to be herself. But she was still on the rise. She would become greater than this - but this was the moment that the world accepted Whitney as the best. Thirty years later she remains the best of all time.

I truly adore Whitney and I have at times thought that Streisand was overrated (but never "soulless")

And then I'll wander over to YouTube and find some mind-blowing shit like this -- turns out Babs is 100% that bitch. She was just 23 years old here and she is more charismatic than 25 year old Whitney. Whitney may have had a superior vocal instrument but it was only slightly superior, and Streisand could soar to the height of her vocal range as effortlessly (and thrillingly) as Whitney.

I hate comparing them. Babs had way more freedom to do and explore than Whitney. Whitney was constrained by the times, her race, her boss and her misplaced sense of obligation.

r362 People go to far in describing Whitney as Clive’s retarded lapdog at times. The man did not dress her.

Wow. What about my praise offended your love of Barbra so much? They are so very different. But yes, Whitney was told how to dress R364 and who to love and who could supply her drugs. Who doesn't know this? Whitney looked good in everything, but she didn't begin to dress like herself until after 1994. Streisand's lifelong bad taste is all her own.

I love that performance R363. There's nothing bad to say about it. Babra at the start was spectacular. Her heart and voice and confidence were superlative. Technically she is the best popular singer of all time. Her voice was very pretty and her top notes spin into outer space - she has the most superlative vibrato of all time. But that performance is lip synched. It's a good song. So much better than her usual dreck. But it's lip synched, as was the whole last "live" portion of that TV special. Whitney lip synched once and charlene will never let us forget it.

Let's not compare.

Indeed, r365. Just like with Whitney, Babs recorded the vocal track in one take. They aren't like those other basic b*tches who spend a year in the studio to produce an off-key track for lip-synching.

R365 She had personal stylist just like any other celebrity but if you want to believe she was the most retarded person in the music world and completely subservient to massa Clive go right ahead. It seems more than a bit racist to me.

Enjoy this while you can. It keeps getting pulled off YT. Shirley Bassey is the most electrifying female singer ever!

Enjoy this while you can. It keeps getting pulled off YT. Shirley Bassey is the most electrifying female singer ever!

It's hilarious that you think Streisand sang dreck and Whitney "Greatest Love of All" Houston didn't.

I watched the 2019 version of the Lion King to see how it compares, and at the end credits I liked the male African version of He Lives in You.

I happened upon another version of the Broadway play ( this one is the Westend cast) . The woman's emotiveness was epic to me. I wish she sung the whole thing. The Simba is unremarkable but decent.

Lindiwe Mkhize 's He Lives in You

R98 Datalounge loves to hate on Queen Bey. I love the slow version of Sweet Dreams.

I love Beyonce. Who better defines a great performer than she? And she's an incredible singer too.

I had never heard of YEBBA until I saw this video. There is such raw emotion here that it is almost uncomfortable to watch.

R373 lol, honey there are tons of threads with people ribbing on her voice and lack of ability. Maybe it's just trolls. Before I head off to work, I will post one more performance. A lot of people upthread got the opera performances I would have posted but one.

I know she's a difficult woman, but here Kathleen Battle sung the hell out of this ( Ah tardai troppo - O luce di quest'anima) . There are minor flaws with it, but I like how this fits her soubrette voice. I think she won an Emmy for this . You can see Aprile Mallo loving this in the background , and June Anderson nit-picking the performance in her head ( dare I say the undoubtedly more talented coloratura was a bit jealous) .

Battle is alright, if you like Mozart and you like perfection. In singing, anyway. But she still manages to leave me cold.

I prefer something with more shmaltz and more oomph and a lot more pizzazz. For that, here's Shirley Verrett with capable back up from Jon Vickers. Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix.

Or, perhaps, you will find it here.

Ms. Beverly Sills, for your pleasure.

Spotted hyena females have a pseudopenis, or penile-clitoris. This can only explain gay men's distraction by the shrieking banshees mentioned above.

Trish King just did a 4 hour plus live session taking requests for covers & NO breaks.

Some of the artists she covers = Sheena Easton, Maroon 5, Blondie (Call Me & Heart Of Glass), The Police, Tina Turner, John Denver, Jewel, Don Henley, Adele, Tears For Fears, Dolly Parton, Lana Del Rey (several), Whitney Houston, Shania Twain, Aimee Mann, Nastasha Bedingfield, Joan Osbourne, Pat Benatar, & several Natalie Merchant songs (Like The Weather, etc.).

R380 nice.

I love this Italian kid's voice.

Heart @ Kennedy Center

K.D. Lang's Juno Awards in Winnipeg in 2005 Performance on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

Beth Hart at the Kennedy Center tribute to Buddy Guy. With Jeff Beck.

The Corrs & Ron Wood performing Ruby Tuesday.

I LOVE THE CORRS.

You can't deny this is sublime.

Better live. Pink.

C'est moi, bitches.

This is my favorite take on the band's signature song.

Belinda is a hot redhead here & her two male guitarists are pretty hot themselves =

R390 damn! Fantastic

Best live yodeling performance that I've ever seen...

Say Something - Cheyenne Jackson & Jackie Evancho

Almost 400 posts to get the correct answer?

Yma Sumac could not have been an easy act to book, even at her prime. By 1984, she was most definitely in the category of 'Whatever happened to her?'

Then somehow, the Gods seemed to smile and she got this booking at The Ballroom. For some reason, it caught everyone's attention and she got some buzz going. Right place. Right time. She was incredibly lucky.

Then she gave an interview to the Village Voice which became notorious. The interviewer asked her to what she credited her longevity and she replied, "High Colonics." And then she went on and on about the importance of colon cleansing and her devotion to high colonics and on and on and on. It wasn't a good fit for a supper club.

That killed the buzz quickly. Most of the entertainment press would not risk a chat with her. I don't suppose the Ballroom management wanted to risk it, either. (I have no idea if Letterman preceded the Village Voice.) And so... pffft. When that booking ended, she was gone. At least from New York.

Sade Live (2019)

Great song, great performance, great woman.

The Sisters. I would follow these Swedish Druids anywhere. First Aid Kit. Fantastic.

A truly unforgettable performance. This woman's voice is out of this world. Jump to 1:30.

R398 I never get tired of Annie.

When Liza took the stage at the end of Freddie Mercury tribute concert. She was the most unlikely singer I expected to see there but apparently Freddie idolized her and she was his favorite singer.

R395 - I am officially in love with Yma Sumac. She is the stuff that DL legends are made of.

R402 damn, Liza, never ceases to amaze me. I had chills. What a great way to honor, Freddie.

Oh honey R403, have you just heard of Yma? She was treasured by many gays from the 50s through the 80s. One really had to own a few Yma vinyls.

What R405 said. I suspect I've still got packed away my copies of Voice of the Xtabay and Legend of the Sun Virgin.

Oh my my. It's too beautiful in every way. The voice and the woman. My mom loves this song.

Where did all of Laura's DL fans go? I don't see a single song of hers posted here.

This is one of her last live performances available on YT =

Trish King did a 5 hour live concert tonight. It'll only stay posted 24 hours or 48 hours due to all the copyright claims that could be filed against this video.

Enjoy them while they last = "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover", "Because The Night", "When Doves Cry", "Bette Davis Eyes", "Thank You (India), "Tin Man", "Voices Carry", "Black Velvet", "Under The Milky Way", "I'll Stand By You", "Missing (Deserts Meet The Rain)", & even a Tom Petty/Cyndi Lauper mashup!

I like Trish's "So Far Away" & "Anticipation" covers the best. The Brandi Carlisle song was touching.

I Knew You When by Oleta Adams

Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick

This performance belongs in this thread. Like her or not, this Streisand performance was broadcast to hundreds of millions of viewers in several hundred countries. That's a lot of pressure that most singers never face. She's in her vocal prime and she just about perfectly spins out this annoying song. Her performance here compares entirely favorably with the recording used in the movie which could be picked and fussed over endlessly. Here, she just does it in one take.

Forever Young (live in Chile) - Laura Branigan (starts at 2:36)

[Quote]Like her or not, this Streisand performance was broadcast to hundreds of millions of viewers in several hundred countries. That's a lot of pressure that most singers never face.

I have to laugh at the exaggeration here. Hundreds of millions of viewers for a show broadcast in1977, when most countries in Asia, Africa and South America probably didn't even watch the Academy Awards? And several hundred countries? The show isn't even broadcast in every country in the world now, let alone 40 years ago.

K D Lang singing Roy Orbison's "crying"

Streisand has never given a live vocal performance to match Whitney Houston's at the Grammys or the AMA's or the Rainforest Benefit Concert or at the Arista Anniversary Concert or the Mandela Concert or her young LIVE Wembley concert or her Radio City Music Hall, Montreal or Brazil Concerts from the Bodyguard tour. Or ANY moment from Moment of Truth, all around the world. Or the time she sang LIVE on Letterman or Joan Rivers or Welcome Home Heroes on HBO. Or why does it hurt so bad or I learned from the best on Leno or singing Cece's song from Japan. In return. Or this performance from the World Music Awards. Where her tone and delivery are both so perfect and soulful and understated. Her voice was so beautiful, her feeling for the music was divine. Whitney was so much more than beautiful and powerful. Diva was her sidework. She's was a wonderful singer with the most exceptional voice.

Barbar Streudel should have been nervous to sing that SHIT song EverGreen, but she could be even more embarrassed winning an Oscar for it. Streisand can't read or write music and the lyrics to that song are sophomoric. She attempted and executes the worst runs in the world. Whatever her contribution to GreenAgain - the song is vapid. It's hard to be a control freak superstar with a bad perm who hates to sing for people. Sing for that Oscar you unworthy bitch. The reason Striezand didn't like to sing live had little to do with stage fright and a lot to do with not being able to reproduce her recorded sound. And she never did. Not without lip synching. She displays always a cheapness of spirit, a noblesse spit to perform. Streisand didn't like singing and had NO generosity or warmth as a performer. A grand diva can be fun - but Streisand was outdone there too by many others.

Whitney SANG even better LIVE. With her sweetness, beauty, heart and DIVA on full display.

She's live on YT with her set list =

High as fuck and sweating her ass off - Whitney was still amazing. Her voice rings out over continents and decades. She shortens her phrases a bit and shouts a bit more than during her young vocal perfection, but her voice had gained in depth and power and agility. No loss of clarity or resonance. Just darker and more velvet tones and those gorgeous downtown runs and beautiful soulful trills and phrase ending. She's high but she's singing TO those people, not AT them. She gets stronger and stronger as she goes. Their are a lot of great singers in this world and a few who are also good performers. None better than Whitney. Some dude on here F&Fs anything to do with Whitney Houston AND keeps posting shit from Belinda Carlite and Trish sings from Home? His obsessed posts all have 7 or 8 or 9 W&W's??? Hilarious. Vote for yourself dude but don't hate on Whitney. Her fans are legion. Tens of millions of people still think her the best singer in the world. If you're not one, step off. Stop F&F people who praise her - you psycho freak.

Solid proof there is NO god exists - because Belinda Carlisle never fell and hit her head and drowned after a big hit of crack. There were thousands of opportunities for her to die that way. But she remains. Still unable to sing. Whitney Houston is gone. The greatest one of all.

Why Does it Hurt So Bad? She's sitting down and delivering this vocal?!? That ain't easy. The pain and trouble in her life shows - but the performance is everything she had to give.

This is legendary in the world of opera. A tenor nailing two or three high-C's in a night would be impressive. Pavarotti delivered nine -- in a single aria.

Folks are still telling "and I was there!" stories.

Karma Chameleon (live in '83) - Culture Club

I've never voted down Whitney (who I love). I also can't help it if Trish can go live but Whitney can't.

How are there 5 W&Ws to your post 3 minutes after it was posted R422? What a strange guy. Trish can go live all day and night for the rest of her life. She can sing - but she will remain in her basement. It's not fair that Belinda Carlisle has a few mansions, multiple millions and on call liver donors available while old fat Trish has to sing herself to death from the youtube basement. Life ain't fair to Trish. Belinda C would be imprisoned for life if being dumb, slutty, unprincipled, addicted and untalented while getting rich were a crime.

Who the fuck is Trish. Nobody things Belinda Carlisle is a great artist but some sad stan on DL, who eats out Gap Playlist Troll's eldergay ass.

You are all annoying stanning cunts, girls!

Sorry R423. I didn't know someone can vote a artist up multiple times (my Pat B. song "Shooting Star" has at least 8 votes but only one by me.

Others can come on here & vote so they're not all by me.

Just because Whitney is gone, you don't have to speak ill of all the other artists who are still alive. She did have the $ to get the best help on the planet with whatever plagued her. That's not Belinda's, Trish's, Sade's or anyone else fault.

You sound bitter against all of the acts on here who don't have A W for a first name or a H for a last name. That's just sad. The OP also didn't request this thread to be a WH appreciation thread.

R423 Why did you slam Belinda Carlisle for being "addicted" but give a free pass to Whitney Houston?

Trish isn't fat & old. She is only 52 (about 6 years younger that Whitney).

Hypocritical much?

I've posted many artists other than Whitney Houston on this thread. You are being disingenuous R425. You do vote for your own strange posts from multiple devices the moment you post them. And you F&F the Whitney and Celine posts and I guess anything else that is too representative of the thread category. Your's is an obvious and amusing pattern. Trish is nobody and who can listen to all that? Very nice Trish, but table number 7 needs clearing. I'm sure some coffee house enjoys her gifts for free. The thread title is best LIVE singing PERFORMANCES. Neither Trish or Belinda rate. Not to mention your weird John Denver posts and who the fuck is Laura Branihan? Whitney FULFILLS the category. There are great singers who aren't great performers and good performers who aren't among the great singers. Whitney was the greatest of both. But she's not the only one dude.

Belinda Carlisle was at most ...."pretty" Couldn't ever sing at all and performed like the whitest dumb chick from a film parody of the 1980s. I was a child. Yes, even when Whitney started. Regardless dude - you keep up with your faux naive shit. Continue voting up your own bizarre posts, as I said @ R423. You W&W your posts from multiple devices within moments of posting them and add more later when the system allows. You also F&F posts about the great singers and undeniable best performers of all time, as often as you can. You do this on other topics and threads as well but I am hesitant to say your name. Most people know who you are.

That Pat Benatar performance is great btw. She is a classically trained singer and she sounds beautiful singing "Shooting Star." It's a pity you can't tell the difference between who can sing and who has no ability to sing or perform. You're entitled to an opinion, but you're the one taking up space with stupid entries. Da thread is busy because of you. You start these threads all the time. For Tori Amos and Blinda Cartwright. I've posted a bit too. Stop up voting yourself or be prepared for a system reset. You sick fuck. Trish IS fat and old. Nobody was posting Whitney now. Your life stops when you die. She's not 48. She's dead. There's nothing wrong with fat and old, but Trish is an at home player. Nice voice.

I refuse to discuss Belinda Carlisle in the same sentence as the great Whitney Houston. People here know that you're nuts R426. Enjoy your crazy. Jussie Smollett let you down. He never went to prison you crazy ass racist fuck. And you had endless threads on him. I ain't hypocritical about age. I posted Gladys Knight @ R319 when she was 71 years old! A great singer who could still sing and perform her ass off with feeling and meaning. I also posted Springsteen, Beth Hart, Kathleen Battle, The Waterboys, Yolanda Adams, Kelly Clarkson, Adam Lambert, Natalie Cole, Al Green, Annie Lennox and I don't remember who else. I tried to stick to the thread title and category. I upvoted lots of performances that were vocally beautiful and LIVE. Who doesn't like Leontyne Price? Leontyne loves Whitney's voice btw...

Whitney Houston is not my favorite singer, though I do love her. BUT she DID give a number of the BEST LIVE SINGING PERFORMANCES EVER !!! Of course she has the overall greatest voice in pop music history too. Good luck with your crazy. You're entitled to it. So far.

Take your meds R417

^ Ancient Brabra Strizehand fan.

Pavarotti sang nine high C's in a row in La Fille du Regiment because that's what Donizett wrote. Every tenor who sings the role sings the nine high C's.

The reason the crowd went crazy for Pavarotti is that he had a once in a lifetime gift and he was a young tenor at his vocal prime when he sang this performance. Here is the great Alfredo Kraus doing it at 59 years of age.

Sorry R427. I only have a desktop for internet access. No tablet or laptop for me. For the record, I don't care about W/W on threads to do what you are accusing me of.

I'm not a fan of Tori Amos but I am of Celine. That's someone else who did the Tori & Jussie Smollett threads ( I also haven't W/W Tori or Celine on this thread either).

If you block me (& I'm hoping that you will) then you can see I started posting songs rather late on this thread at R250 with the Blue Man Group song, K. McPhee, A. Lambert, Mama Cass, Julie Andrews, Natasha B., Thierry Amiel, Bette (Superstar), Song Of Joy, Say Something, the yodeler girl, Wildflower, Angel Baby & Forever Young (among others),

I also posted the live concerts of Tina Turner, Billy Idol, Taylor Dayne, The B-52's's & Sade.

The words you use to describe Belinda could apply more to Whitney = Dumb (WH died a drug related death but not BC who I guess "outsmarted" her), slutty (WH slept with lots of men & women-even for drugs), unprincipled & addicted = both words were used more for WH's public performances than BC's & WH even retired from the biz for awhile there due to her habits but BC never did). Bottom line people in glass houses should watch where they throw their stones.

You also forgot to post Whitney's greatest Australia performance down below (which Belinda Carlisle never happened to her in ALL of her 30+ drug years) =

Y'all are insane AND a liar R431. Your posts are as I said. You blitz your posts immediately with W&W's within moments of them posting them. From multiple devices. There are sometimes 5 W&Ws within 3 minutes of your post. Trust me nobody else is even listening to old fat drunk waitress Trish. Your response to criticism hallmarks you more clearly. You are the same old odd white dude here as on other threads. I don't care what you do. But I know what you do. And your posts did not start late nor will they ever end on this thread. You posted the lame Mama Cass and John Denver, all the Belinda nonsense. Laura Branihan and the poor fat waitress who always wanted to sing. What's her name with her guitar streaming live now from youtube. Old Dude, you ARE for sure the guy behind the Smollett threads and you won't convince me otherwise because I have further information.

I am a Whitney fan. We mourned her loss a decade before she died, as far as her voice was concerned. And we prayed for her to find a way to recover a healthy life and find some peace within. I will do the same for you. Whitney's magnificent voice was never coming back. But she never lost the ability to sing. When you have been the very greatest - she knew what she had lost and what she threw away. A tragedy. But we are not all meant to live forever. Whitney gains more fans each day and the sound of her voice and the beauty of her performances thrill new people each day. That's not true of the antiquated Streisand or even corny Celine. Whitney is a thrill to listen to and a mesmerizing person to watch sing. Celine is the greatest of that kind of singer still standing and a lovely strange woman who works hard to maintain her voice. A beautiful soul, but not an interesting one. But she - like Kelly C, Beyonce, Xtina, Britney, Gladys and even Mariah will be the first to tell you that Whitney is above them all. And always will be.

Blinda Carlight had no talent to lose. So we can be glad that she's still alive to do what she does. Off key singing and cocaine.

A whole thread can be made of Letterman and Tonight Show musical appearances. Live always. No backtracks allowed. Lots of classic singers but sometimes unique and up close performances too. Stellar.

Letterman? Of course. The Great Darlene Love.

Give us a break R434. Darlene Love prostitutes her sorry ass for the anti-gay 700 Club so many times that I lost count. If you've given her any $ then she has handed it over to Pat Robertson & his ACLJ that is currently representing Trumpy & his circus of bigots. Fuck her in the ass with a leg of a talented singer.

One of Cher's best live performances =

Sweatney Houston, dripping wet, singing “Why Does It Hurt So Bad” on some benefit of awards show. She was dressed simple and she sat on a stool and sang the FUCK out of that song.

Celine had several burgers and she's AMAZING. One of the great voices is back in top shape. A legend.

Trish King (from Maine) is live again tonight until 9:00 eastern time.

Songs in this set include several Fleetwood Mac (Little Lies, Landslide, You Make Loving' Fun), several Christine McVie, Bruce Springsteen (I'm On Fire), Aimee Mann, Ben E. King (Stand By Me)...

I love the way Trish waits tables. She should update her karaoke songs.

R439 I guess you will be sitting at a bitter table of one until they haul your nasty ass out. Sad.

Ella Fitzgerald - Twelve nights in Hollywood - Live at the Crescendo. Even though I love her Gershwin as much as George and Ira did, here she knocks Duke Ellington (Billy Strayhorn) out of the park.

Picture it: Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. Gorgeous day, all the swells are slumming with hot dogs and fountain drinks, horn-rimmed sunglasses as far as the eye can see. Onto the stage sashays Anita O'Day in a stunning Dior ensemble....and the bourgeoisie just chew their cud. She, along with Ella, turned me into a scat queen.

Birgit Nilsson singing Salome at the 1972 Met Gala for Rudolf Bing.

Suck on this, Whitney.

[quote]Suck on this, Whitney.

How sad you are R443.

Miss Houston's voice was as beautiful and anointed as any singer in the world.

Tori Amos. On Letterman. His first night back on air, after 9/11. I'm not a great fan of hers, but Amos modified a Tom Waits song and sang it so beautifully. Time.

LeAnn singing Amazing Grace

Whitney are R445. That's a recital piece and her voice was glorious. Wow.

A Patty Griffin cover =

Why not dust around your performance space a little Trish? You won't choke so hard. And your son should tune his guitar.

I prefer Let Him Fly when a professional singer sings it. Alisan Porter, The Dixie Chicks or Patty herself can show you how it's done. That song takes real range, power and lyrical delicacy. Like here. Two of the best.

The Best =

Sorry R450. I'll stick with Trish's fine version.

Brooks & Dunn are repubs who have nice things to say about Trump & have supported GWB.

Their "talent" is as fucked up as their politics.

Also when they sing "Let Him Fly", you know they aren't talking gay & trans military pilots.

Fat redneck Trish can't sing. Her son can't play. She's needs to dust her living room and y'all need to fuck off with your shit submissions R452. We see you. Belinda Carlisle and Trish sings from home. You have terrible taste and worse rationale.

Whitney rules this thread. She won it hundreds of posts ago. As everyone knows.

This Day.

The Whole World Lost Its Head - The Go-Go's (from '94)

Trish did another livestream tonight.

She talks about her cold, early Thanksgiving & testing out new equipment tonight to get the bugs out.

The last 60 minutes of this 3 hour performance is my favorite =

NUTJOB @ R456!!! Keep W&W yourself.

Probably the band's best live performance =

When she's good, she's great. JHud.

Once in a Lifetime. Mary climb on in....so sexy by Bruce & Etheridge.

Grace. Dignity. Beauty.

Finesse and glory. One of the greatest singers of all time.

SHOWBIZ. A gifted and beautiful singer. Never mind that 26 second held note. But listen! Streisand could not do that. Mathis is before my time, but I know him from Datalounge. Then I explored. He's sexy in his confidence. This is far from his most impressive vocal performance but still undeniably great. There used to be a lot more excellence in singing. Everyday. On the tv? A great performance was a bit more rare because they were all so slick.

now there's sad old trish with her 37 views on youtube - providing singsong covers of old folk songs from her trailer. giving such a weak performance for 3 fucking hours takes stamina. when will she be on the tonight show?

In the Park. Great Performances. Yes.

What Whitney lost in vocal purity she made up for with artistry and soulfulness....for the longest time.

Keep an open mind and you'll love this. It's a messy great moment.

Canary - Joy Williams

No Place Like You - Joy Williams

All I Need - Joy Williams

The Trouble With Wanting - Joy Williams

Front Porch - Joy Williams

Usher did that. Sexy ass gorgeous man singing beautifully. We love you Whitney.

Luther Vandross. He never sang it better - but he always sang it best. This is too much vocal excellence. On Oprah. Her struggle is real.

Beautiful. Has it been done better?

Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar

Promises In The Dark - Pat Benatar

Mercy - Duffy

Pink, Glitter in the Air, 2010 (?) Grammys.

Pearl Jam's =

Pearl Jam's =

Pearl Jam's =

Trish is feeling better & live again for a couple of hours tonight =

These pathetic cover artists are posted by that pathetic Belinda Carlisle creep. No fag in a vest should be singing Pearl Jam. Our mentally ill poster is not your regular stan. Posting on DL is his full time occupation. There ARE some great performances on this thread, but sane posters all gave up a long ago from adding anything new.

The nutjob F&F's all black artists and anyone else who presents an actual WOW performance. So strange. Enjoy yourself weirdo. WE know who you are. Trish sings for 4 1/2 hours to 36 followers? LIVE. And you keep posting that worn out stay at home grandma's sad music? NUTS.

One of John's best =

Joan's best =

Jesaz H. Christ the answer is NEVER your braying DIVAS, you tasteless ignorant stans.

George doing Bonnie =

ABC's Martin Fry can sing =

Leonard Cohen with Perla Botella (with the brown hair) and Julie Christensen. The song is about being led to the gas chamber. Cohen was always romantically & spiritually perverse. Surrounded by beautiful women. Amazing song and beautiful performance. He sang it all over the world - but this is from Jools Holland? Perfect in every way.

The world is full of beauty. Musical tastes differ, but great performances are a bit easier to agree upon. Someone is always trying to feel important on this indulgent website. See R493. Bitch dude has posted hundreds of nonsense musical claims on this thread. He's a stupid person who can't defend his choices. An everyday troll. Everyday on Datalounge. On most any subject. Over and over. Talking to itself.

Patty Griffin. Top of The World.

When Does A Heart Move On? - Joy Williams

Carly Simon - live at Grand Central Station (1995)

Gives me chills

I just love how eccentric and yet technically difficult and emotionally moving this is.

Stand By Me - Reina del Cid

Trish is doing a live practice session with her sometimes partner Kevin for a couple hours tonight.

They've done "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, "Timber I'm Falling In Love" & an Alanis song so far.

I don't like to engage in declarations of things as "best," because that's so subjective and conditional. That being said, this performance of "This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific by Brian Stokes Mitchell is pretty fabulous:

R325 I saw Donna Summer in a small theater; she was great

Not one of the best live performances, but I moved by Dolly Parton's "Stairway To Heaven". I have it on VHS. Couldn't find a link, sorry.

Here Comes The Sun...

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown =

Gorgeous Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo, Your Song. From Moulin Rouge. It's his moment but their vocal blend is sonic bliss.

r505 Eek, that's a bit too shouty for me.

Thanks R505. Bernie Taupin wrote great songs. Great to hear others perform them.

Reba had a stellar turn in Annie Get Your Gun. She performed the hell out of this song. All of the Berlin tunes actually. She was perfect for the role.

Bernadette Peters can be a cloying singer, but this unexpected song choice is beautifully rendered. Her voice is lovely here.

I'm too young to have seen this on Broadway, but I love Betty Buckley's voice. A gorgeous vocal performance. A terrible pianist.

Trish King is live tonight from 6 PM until 9 PM (Eastern time).

She is mainly doing country songs tonight.

Anne Murray's "Snowbird" was just performed.

Dixie Chicks (Live in 2018) =

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Live Performances

Dolly from 1983 !!!

The greatest. Of all time.

r135 that song also made me take notice to his vocal ability, but after the belt around the 3:55 mark of this performance. He did a great job throughout, He doesn't belong among the greats in this thread as the best live performance ever, but he was good for a male pop singer.

I think we need to give Steve fucking Perry some love. So many song to s=choose from, but wow he could go and go at concerts sounding just like the album.

r515 I see why Don't Ask Don't Tell came about a few years after this performance. The Queens were having a gay old time that night. What a wonderful performance.

I will listen to her Battle Hymn of the Republic. Gives me shivers.

Why? R517 From what I've heard he isn't to fond of us.

Sia - Breathe me

One And Only - Joy Williams

Sinatra was long before my time, but his great resonant voice full of emotion was something unique. When baritones ruled. There were better singers but he had a pulse for singing. Frank Sinatra was no joke.

Bruno Mars killed this tribute to Amy Winehouse. There's no clean copy anywhere. Valerie. Enjoy it anyway. Boy is slick.

Best version of the song that I've ever heard...

Trish King Music is live until 9 PM Eastern tonight on both YT & Facebook (for the first time).

She's done several Fleetwood Mac songs tonight. Also "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" =

I stumbled upon this one New Year's Eve.

Johnny Mathis 50th anniversary live =

Beyonce at Glastonbury. 1+1. A beautiful performance. Simple, soulful, stunning.

BAM! She fucking broke the band.

A fab collaboration. Imogen Heap and Jeff Beck.

R529, thanks, I prefer seeing Patti sing that rather than Ethel Zimmerman. The latter was a GOP wench who was loud and sounded terrible singing. Yes, I was a trained singer and piano player. No, I was never in the industry. I know when my ears are painful. Ethel's lousy ex-husband, Bob Six who ran Continental Airlines (thank gawd it's gone), dumped her for Audrey Meadows, a prettier, newer model.

Bjork fans: "Human Behavior" at the Royal Opera House.

Should I start a second thread? I absolutely love these performances. Let me know.

Trish King Music did a 3 hour liver performance on Friday evening. Lots of good performances =

R533 This thread will last another month (based on the next 66 posts taking about 4 weeks like the last 66 posts did so you should wait until it finishes).

Kelly's shimmering soprano and beautiful harmonizing were on full display in this duet. She still has prettiest head voice in the game, in addition to all her other vocal wows. The girl likes to belt and growl and jump octaves and show off everything she can do, but make no mistake - she's a first class vocalist. The contestant ain't bad either - a piercing country tenor.

I'm not her biggest fan, but this is divine. Those harmonic choices are out of this world. Go Patti.

All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue - Trish King

Now the thread can close....for real... Marvin. MBA All Star game....

Marvin Gaye beat every woman he ever knew. He made a seismic album or two, but it's fair to say he was overrated as a performer and a man. And Whitney, JHUD, The Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson all surpassed his rendition of the SSB.

Trish King is live again tonight for a couple of hours.

She performs songs by Tom Petty, Buddy Holly, Heart, Shawn Colvin & more =

Some actual Shawn Colvin songs...

Tom Petty's final live performance =

Life In A Northern Town - Trish King

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover) - Trish King

Nothing better than early Led Zep Plant

We’re gonna groove...

Plant has aged like fine wine - that banshee wail

So many flawless Dusty performances to choose from, this is as good as any

Dusty - To Love and Be Loved

Shirley Bassey Ave Maria

Joni Mitchell 'Blue'

Roberta Flack First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Jesus fucking christ, how old are you Tuatara Boo? You and your insane obsession with Trish sings badly from her bedroom King, have ruined this thread.

If we must watch someone sing from a home, what about the great quirky artist, poet, singer, freak....Jane Siberry? Her voice is not perfect anymore. But she'll come to your home and sing. Strange wonderful music.

Speaking of Jane Siberry. kd Lang sings this song of hers with such gorgeous passion and voice.

R555 wow! Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. It's quite beautiful.

Johnny Mathis singing "Pieces of Dreams" on The Tonight Show (1978).

Sorry - forgot to attach.

Wow, just wow!

Amy Winehouse, a lovely, slow, spare version of 'Love Is a Losing Game', 2006, Dingle, Ireland, before a tiny audience, around the time of her first hit with 'Back to Black'.

Back in the High Life Again - Nell Carter

STUNNING

shame that so many videos is causing my computer browser to crash every time

Enigma - Return To Innocence (Live 2019)

Is it me or does that chant just get stuck in your brain? Keep watching, it really is live.