6. Life Wasted vs. In Hiding

Post by **stip** » Wed February 13, 2019 12:29 am

Life Wasted (St Paul 2006-06-26) vs. In Hiding (Los Angeles 1998-07-13)

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Post by **stip** » Wed February 13, 2019 12:33 am

This is sort of tough. Life Wasted is one of my favorite PJ songs (certainly top 20 - probably top 10) but few live versions capture the frazzled energy of the studio version, and the hugeness of the outro. This one comes really really close

In Hiding is a song I don't really care for on the album but generally comes alive (no pun intended) in a live setting, in part due to the audience participation. This is a really good sounding live version (listen to Eddie hit that 'hiding' - he sounds better than he does in the studio) but the audience isn't captured here, and the rest of this is a faithful (no pun intended) presentation of a song I don't care that much about.

Life Wasted gets my vote.

wease · Post by **wease** » Wed February 13, 2019 1:37 am

In Hiding

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 1:45 am

I was there for the Life Wasted performance.

wease · Post by **wease** » Wed February 13, 2019 1:45 am

PHATJ wrote:I was there for the Life Wasted performance.

Nice

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 1:53 am

wease wrote:
PHATJ wrote:I was there for the Life Wasted performance.
Nice

After listening to both this is a pretty easy vote for Life Wasted. The definitive live version of In Hiding is on SVT. I’m not even a big fan of LW, but that’s a killer performance.

Post by **evenslow** » Wed February 13, 2019 4:22 am

PHATJ wrote:
wease wrote:
PHATJ wrote:I was there for the Life Wasted performance.
Nice
After listening to both this is a pretty easy vote for Life Wasted. The definitive live version of In Hiding is on SVT. I’m not even a big fan of LW, but that’s a killer performance.

yep yep

Post by **evenslow** » Wed February 13, 2019 4:22 am

this band in 2006, man.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 5:37 am

evenslow wrote:this band in 2006, man.

I agree that was a good period.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 5:49 am

wease wrote:
PHATJ wrote:I was there for the Life Wasted performance.
Nice

macphisto was there with me.

Post by **macphisto** » Wed February 13, 2019 6:24 am

Voted for In Hiding. Didn’t think it would even be close.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 6:25 am

macphisto wrote:Voted for In Hiding. Didn’t think it would even be close.

Post by **macphisto** » Wed February 13, 2019 6:31 am

As a semi-casual fan, Life Wasted just doesn’t do a lot for me.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 6:33 am

I’m not a big fan of the song either, I definitely like In Hiding better, but that performance of LW shreds. And we were there!

Post by **evenslow** » Wed February 13, 2019 2:18 pm

Yeah I'm in the camp that thinks LW is merely "good" but that performance elevates it. You can see how laser focused and excited they are - it's dare I say, inspiring?

digster · Post by **digster** » Wed February 13, 2019 2:23 pm

These are two great performances of these songs (Life Wasted was surely never better live than in '06), so I think it's going to come down to the better song, which is In Hiding (I feel like this kind of thing may end up happening a lot in the tournament, if the live performances are going to be the cream of the crop).

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Wed February 13, 2019 3:09 pm

Oh that LW performance is so fucking good. That boot is amazing.

Monkey_Driven · Post by **Monkey_Driven** » Wed February 13, 2019 4:06 pm

I really like Life Wasted, but this performance of In Hiding really elevates the song for me. After the '98 tour they never seemed to get it right.

My vote goes to In Hiding.

doone · Post by **doone** » Wed February 13, 2019 4:12 pm

surprising myself with a vote for LW

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 13, 2019 6:15 pm

doone wrote:surprising myself with a vote for LW

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