What is the best song that was never played live by its original performer? (Iron Maiden excluded)

[Kalata]

Def Leppard- Comin' Under Fire

Amazing song (like the whole album). Wonderful chorus.

 

[karljant]

Black Sabbath: St. Vitus Dance
Deep Purple: Flight Of The Rat
Judas Priest: Jugulator (plus Hard As Iron, Cathedral Spires, Demonizer)
Bruce Dickinson: Omega (plus Machine Men, Welcome To The Pit)
Devin Townsend: The Fluke (Ants)
Pantera: The Great Southern Trendkill (album version)
Slayer: Fictional Reality
Megadeth: Vortex
Anthrax: H8Red (plus One Man Stands, Invisible, Burst)
Paradise Lost: Colossal Rains (plus Christendom, I Despair, Channel For The Pain)
My Dying Bride: L'Amour Detruit
Carcass: Polarized
Death: Nothing Is Everything
SYL: Shitstorm

 

[karljant]

Black Sabbath- St. Vitus Dance

bull's eye

 

[Sth2112]

Anything by the Beatles after they stopped playing live.

GNR - don’t damn me

Also don’t think that Gamma ray never played Armageddon live?

oh, and also anything by Burzum, Darkthrone and Bathory

 

[The Dissident]

Scorpions - Sails of Charon; Evening Wind; Crying Days; Living And Dying.... Scorps had so many good songs from the 70s
Queen - Show Must Go On; Innuendo; if we include songs not played in full "The March Of The Black Queen"
Alter Bridge - All Ends Well; Clear Horizon; Walking On The Sky;
Led Zeppelin - The Rover; Houses Of The Holy
AC/DC - Overdose

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

Led Zeppelin - The Rover; Houses Of The Holy

Seriously?!!?

 

[The Dissident]

Seriously?!!?

I assume you're talking about The Rover, never played live in full. I believe the riff was played in some Whole Lotta Love jam sessions on stage

 

[DJ James]

Still can't believe Ozzy never played Waiting For Darkness live

 

[Spambot]

"A Day In The Life," by The Beatles
[drops mic and struts away in triumph...]

*Spambot stands up, starts clapping slowly but loudly.
And yes, this:

Anything by the Beatles after they stopped playing live.

I don't think people realize how much of a material there is in between their tour in '66 and rooftop performance in '70. You could make a killer setlist just out of those 4 LP-s: Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album and Abbey Road (and Yellow Submarine if you want to include it).

 

[Cosmiceddie]

AC/DC - Gimme A Bullet
Bruce Dickinson - Freak
Halford - She
Judas Priest - Before The Dawn
Megadeth - I Thought I Knew It All

 

[Black Abyss Babe]

I assume you're talking about The Rover, never played live in full. I believe the riff was played in some Whole Lotta Love jam sessions on stage

I meant both of them. Two of the strongest songs on the album, and easily the two most accessible. I'd call that a missed opportunity.

 

[The Dissident]

I meant both of them. Two of the strongest songs on the album, and easily the two most accessible. I'd call that a missed opportunity.

Makes sense, Houses is such a catchy track. Love it, and yes a huge missed opportunity.