# Best concert audience sing-alongs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673 "2015-04-27T20:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/1 "2015-04-27T20:59:13Z")
Inspired by another current thread that is discussing whether the campfire singalong is dead or not, it got me thinking about one of my most favorite things. I’m not sure what it is about how my mind is wired when it cones to music, but I really emotionally connect to large groups of people singing together. I mean I can easily become weepy eyed when it’s done right. And by right I don’t necessarily mean well sung, but just real emotion does it for me. I’m a middle aged guy who own three chainsaws, but a good audience participation brings me to tears.😛 So, I love me some audience sing-a-longs. I go to a LOT of live music performances, and I’ve heard/participated in quite a few good ones over the years, but what say you? Post up your pic for the best audience participation. Ideally a you-tube or link to the audio, with instructions on what part of the song to skip to for those that don’t want to hear the entire song. So, here are two get us started: [Don’t Look Back In Anger - Noel Gallagher](https://youtu.be/jBbyc3t-Ctc) No need to cut to any specific part, the audience does the whole damn song with him, but they take over at about 2:30. Love how Noel and the band are kinda dumbstruck at the audience and how good they are. I have no idea what she is singing, but [Lara Fabian](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V73RZ6x5Yxw) can barely get through this song because of the emotion from the audience. Again, no specific spot in the song, it’s pretty much the whole thing. So, others? So, what say you? ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/2 "2015-04-27T21:21:53Z")
Back in the early 2000’s Dashboard Confessional concerts were basically one big sing-a-long. My favorite has gotta be the “DIE” chant in Metallica’s Creeping Death. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/3 "2015-04-27T21:32:26Z")
At the live shows of “A Prairie Home Companion” there is always a huge sing-along at intermission and afterwards. The best I encountered was at [Wolf Trap’s Filene Centre](http://fashiontribes.typepad.com/main/images/wolftrap.jpg) where you get everything from foreign ambassadors in the Opera boxes to rural Virginia families in blue jeans having a picnic on the hill. All singing together to a live band. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/4 "2015-04-27T21:34:38Z")
Margarita-ville American Pie ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/5 "2015-04-27T21:44:11Z")
**[Harry Chapin’s tour de force performance AND Hamilton, ON’s tour de force participation of “30,000 Pounds of Bananas” at Chapin’s final ever concert.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODMye94wMfk)** ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/6 "2015-04-27T21:48:08Z")
I was at a Neil Young concert in Ottawa in about 1986 or 1987. He started singing “Heart of Gold” and the audience just took over. Neil said “Man, you guys are putting me out of a job.” It was fantastic. I think “Hey Jude” is probably a good example, especially “Na na na” stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/7 "2015-04-27T22:01:00Z")
Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, 1959 [Matilda](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qi1MQS3Mds) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/8 "2015-04-27T22:14:19Z")
When I saw [Danielle Ate the Sandwich](http://danielleatethesandwich.net) live, she had the audience do the chorus for “I Put My Faith in a Man.” She, and they, were fabulous. That was one ruly crowd that night, let me tell you. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/9 "2015-04-27T22:27:45Z")
I don’t think Eddie Veddar quite expected this: [Better Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BObpNQqNo). Usually I dislike when the audience take over a song, but this one makes me smile. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/10 "2015-04-27T22:41:41Z")
I don’t know which particular performance but the guy on stage would have to be Pete Seeger. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/11 "2015-04-27T22:56:34Z")
_Babylon_ from Don McLean’s 1976 live album. Heartbreakingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/12 "2015-04-27T23:26:03Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > I don’t think Eddie Veddar quite expected this: [Better Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BObpNQqNo). > > Usually I dislike when the audience take over a song, but this one makes me smile. Now, that is what I’m talking about. I was hoping for links to specific performances, not just songs that are good for singalongs ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/13 "2015-04-28T01:18:46Z")
“40” by U2 from the Live at Red Rocks concert in 1983. (near the end) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcTA2Y0pOPA) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/14 "2015-04-28T01:20:40Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > I don’t know which particular performance but the guy on stage would have to be Pete Seeger. I came in to say this. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/15 "2015-04-28T01:21:38Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I think “Hey Jude” is probably a good example, especially “Na na na” stuff. 60,000 voices strong when I saw Paul McCartney last year in Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/16 "2015-04-28T02:42:20Z")
[Queen: “Love of My Life”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGLJtu09uU) Heck, with Queen, [sometimes the band doesn’t even need to be there!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SHX21uZwTE) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/17 "2015-04-28T02:46:43Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [Queen: “Love of My Life”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGLJtu09uU) > > Heck, with Queen, [sometimes the band doesn’t even need to be there!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SHX21uZwTE) This is the song which I was going to post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/18 "2015-04-28T02:54:06Z")
Here’s about 20,000 people finishing a [familiar song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48) in Toronto when the PA system fails. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/19 "2015-04-28T03:33:42Z")
[Blind Guardian - The Bard’s Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoYjtAX7w1M) ---
**Author:** ![allyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@allyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allyn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673/20 "2015-04-28T04:06:20Z")
This is kind of a King’s X fan tradition: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIjspBjLIs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIjspBjLIs) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-concert-audience-sing-alongs/718673.md?page=2)