10 Perfect Rock Songs That Got Better Live

In rock and roll, it's normally ten times difficult to translate a ballad to a live setting. After all, this is the kind of song that works best when it's a lot more intimate, so how are you supposed to keep that going when you have thousands of people standing in front of you? As for Landslide though, Stevie Nicks put a lot more experience into this version as the years go by.

That's not to say that the original Landslide recording is bad by any stretch of the imagination. Coming off of Nicks' first record with the band, this is the kind of mature separation song that feels like it's being sung by an old wise sage, almost as if Stevie was trying to comfort herself from a love that had already gone sour.

When you bring that song into a live setting 20 years after the fact, things start to take on a different tone than what she probably planned back in the '70s. Considering this is a woman who went through all of the ups and downs of rock and roll at this point, a line like "time makes you bolder, and children get older" hits that much closer to home. Time can put a limit on some forms of rock and roll, but it doesn't dull that raw emotion. If you work that into a song, that's everlasting.