These may not all be live, acoustic or clean recordings, but they're an amazing piece of music history that will live forever > and continue to be inspiration to aspiring artists everywhere!
We all know these singers can belt it unlike numberous artists today, or ever for that matter... So it's not really a question of quality and artistry, it may just be a question of taste. These are mostly rock, metal, blues recordings, and they certainly continue to rock my world.
AFTER FOREVER: Alone (cover)
EPICA: Cry For The Moon
QUEEN: Bohemian Rhapsody
JANIS JOPLIN: Little Girl Blue
ICED EARTH: Dracula
SKID ROW: I Remember You
PANTERA: Cemetery gates
Which vocal performances changed your life?
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Love that you threw in "I'll remember you" and "cemetery gates". Plenty of great live stuff but one I'll always remember watching is Eminem/Elton John singing "stan" at the 2001 grammys. Besides the shock value of Elton John appearing especially with Eminem after what he rapped about. It just showed Eminem wasn't a bad guy, he just rapped about some crazy offensive stuff.
Reach Down by Temple of the Dog is an amazing one too. Certainly one of the most brilliant songs to come out of the grunge scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCEW0HbxZ0&t=675s
Dio's performance here is another favorite of mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3yiJpArOBA
Adele "someone like you" at the Brits awards.
When I heard that I got goosebumps.