While watching Live Earth earlier this year with all the great music, it crossed my mind to come up with the greatest live performances of the past twelve month. And with the Grammy’s, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the thousands of other pat themselves on the back events that the music business throws for themselves, it wasn’t hard to populate a list. I did throw out the talk show performances because 99% of them are just boring rehashes of their album versions. But here are the best of the best of 2007 with links to YouTube where available (and if you have the mp3 of any of them shout me a holla because there are a couple I would like that I haven’t hunted down yet):
1. Gimme Shelter - Keith Urban and Alicia Keys (Live Earth)
2. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (49th Annual Grammy Awards)
3. Check the Rhyme/Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest (2007 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors)
4. Like a Star/Coming Home/Gravity - Corrine Bailey Rae, John Legend and John Mayer (49th Annual Grammy Awards)
5. Darling Nikki - Cee-Lo and Foo Fighters (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)
6. Big Bottom - Spinal Tap and an Army of Bassists (Live Earth)
7. Bonita Applebum/Electric Relaxation/Scenario - Common, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco and Busta Rhymes (2007 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors)
8. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. and Eddie Vedder (2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony)
9. No One/Freedom ’90 - Alicia Keys (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)
10. Not Ready to Make Nice - The Dixie Chicks (49th Annual Grammy Awards)
11. Roxanne - The Police (49th Annual Grammy Awards)
12. Sabotage - Beastie Boys (Live Earth)
13. Go Your Own Way - Carrie Underwood and Lindsay Buckingham (Fashion Rocks)
14. That’s the Thing about Love - Alicia Keys (Live Earth)
15. Message in a Bottle - The Police, John Mayer and Kanye West (Live Earth)
16. Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna and Fall Out Boy (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)
17. Mercy Mercy Me - Corrine Bailey Rae and John Legend (Live Earth)
18. White Lines/Good Times/The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony)
19. Drummers - SOS All Stars (Live Earth)
20. For the Love of Money/Living for the City/Mercy Mercy Me - Alicia Keys (Live Earth)
21. Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer (Live Earth)
22. Bleed it Out - Linkin Park (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)
23. Rehab - Amy Winehouse (2007 MTV Movie Awards)
24. Babylon - David Gray and Damien Rice (Live Earth)
25. Heart of Glass - Blondie and Lily Allen (The Today Show)
I'm sure the Keith Urban and Alicia Keys performance was great! I'm a fan of Keith Urban myself so I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteOf course you can judge for yourself if you take a look at the video there of it.
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