LIVE performances that killed it or just simply died

[Kirito]

LIVE performances of songs that you, at first, didn't like, but somehow fell in love with the LIVE version and subsequently, possibly fell in love with the song BECAUSE of the live version.

Most FJY songs are this. The studio versions are really meh, but the live versions are glorious with Yuriko and Hikaru on chorus.

Mizu no Akashi's live version is simply amazing. Wakana's live rendition in vol. 4 is leaps and bounds more emotional than the studio version.

Progressive studio version is meh, but the live performances are superb. Guitar intro is awesome and the energy from the FBM really make the song very enjoyable.

 

[garnetjester]

I agree, Mizu no Akashi live is amazing but I find the studio version with Wakana vocals to be boring. I like the original's vocalist soothing voice though and Wakana is amazing live at conveying emotion, I don't know why the studio version ended up so flat.

I think that songs with filtered vocals like Intermezzo and Heavenly blue sound quite different live vs. studio, but I don't know which one I prefer more, maybe live because it has more emotion.

 

[othellia]

All oblivious lives after YK LIVE vol. 3. Wakana should use her head voice for the ahhs and not falsetto. The vol. 3 version had a lot more power and the mixing was far better too. This also applies to Kimi ga Hikari lives too, since Keiko doesn't use her deep voice for her verses anymore.

Do you mean chest voice? Because I thought that head voice and falsetto were pretty much the same thing... at least for female singers, that is.

 

[Spirica Rose]

^ I'm not a music expert, so someone could probably answer better this than me, but I remember learning in choir that head voice and falsetto are not the same thing. I'll try to list the differences I learned to the best of my memory.

Falsetto:
airy sounding
lack of power (though I think the proper term is dynamic?)
poor tone (sound) quality

Head voice:
resonant sound
sounds fuller/clearer
does have that dynamic and tonal quality

Wakana's voice in oblivious from YK Live vol. 3 sounds fuller and much less airy/breathy than it does in some of the later lives afaik.
Did any of that make sense?

 

[Kirito]

Do you mean chest voice? Because I thought that head voice and falsetto were pretty much the same thing... at least for female singers, that is.

Falsetto is your "false voice". Meaning going to the high notes which extend above the "normal" range when you use your voice. It's more breathy and airy and light. Head voice is also light, but not as light and has some weight to it. Wakana when she sang oblivious in vol. 3 used a combination of chest and head voice - now her voice is exclusively head voice. Chest voice has the most weight. Keiko always uses her chest voice when singing.

This one explains is quite well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU-OlPet7lk