Live versions that own the studio version

[By-Tor]

Jeff Beck - Freeway Jam
Santana - Soul Sacrifice
Green Day - Holiday
RUSH - La Villa Strangiato
YES - The Gates Of Delirium

edit: Ooops, almost forgot...

UFO - Lights out in London (performed in Tokyo)


I win.

[Novles]

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Tool - Pushit (from the Salival CD) is the single best Tool song they have, and it's miles better than the original.

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This is soooo true. I'm gonna go break something.

[jjp]

Springsteen's Rosalita

[JohnE]

Eric Clapton - Cocaine

[GooseHinson]

Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (I believe one of Page's better solos)
Also, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is much better live.
Rush - Closer to the Heart (There is one live version that really stands out, I don't know from which venue)
Beatles - Here Comes the Sun (the tribute to John Lennon)
Bob Seger - Turn the Page (previously mentioned)
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (There's an awesome version that sounds much different then the recorded one)
Supertramp - School
Tom Petty - Breakdown (where he gets the entire audience singing along)

And seconding the entire Unplugged in New York album by Nirvana.

[thirddan]

"Cowboys from Hell" by Pantera...

[GBP04]

sorry to bump the topic but I just heard an awesome one:

"Bouncing Around the Room" - Phish

[Thanir]

Anything from...Toots and the Maytals

Definately much better live than studio. Toots is the Jamaican James Brown

[fullhousedraw]

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sorry to bump the topic but I just heard an awesome one:

"Bouncing Around the Room" - Phish

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I am in love with the version on "A Live One". Pretty much any Phish song is much better live.

[Borodog]

Cheap Trick, Live at Budokan, "I Want You to Want Me" and Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive, "Do You Feel Like I Do" seem like clear winners for highest live to studio ratio.

I don't really see how anything else could come close.

Personal favorite is probably Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" off of Waiting for Columbus.