Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records.

Songs:

- "Train Kept A Rollin" by The Rock ’n’ Roll Trio (Johnny Burnette). The version by The Yardbirds (my introduction to the song) is pretty good, the version by Aerosmith terrible.

- " Like A Rolling Stone" by BD.

- "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys.

- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "Nowhere Man", The Beatles.

- "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" by Jimmy Ruffin (as well as the live version by Joan Osborne).

- "The Weight" by The Band.

- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", any live version by The Band.

- "I Hear You Knocking" by Dave Edmunds.

- "Shake Some Action" by The Flamin’ Groovies (production by Dave Edmunds).

- "I’m On Fire" by The Dwight Twilley Band.

" "Want You To Feel Good Too" by NRBQ.

- "No Time To Cry" by Iris Dement. If this doesn’t make you, check you’re pulse.

- "Liptick Sunset" by John Hiatt (time-stopping guitar solo by Ry Cooder).

- "Shake You Hips", live by Joan Osborne.

Thousands of others. I am first and foremost a song lover.

For album-length music, J.S. Bach. All of it.

Can't leave out:

- "Lies" by The Knickerbockers. Amazing! At least as good as early Beatles (maybe better).

- "Shakin' All Over" by The Guess Who (pre-Burton Cummings). The version by The Who (complete with hoary vocals by Roger Daltrey), um, sucks.

- "Waterloo Sunset" by The Kinks. Which reminds me that I should have included them in my live band list above, seen and heard at The Fillmore/Winterland (who remembers?) in 1970. So, so great. And SO loud (louder than The Who), the sound of Ray's telecaster unbearably bright and piercing. Like a metal-dome tweeter ;-) .

Live
Led Zeppelin Fort Worth Texas 1973
Texas Jam 1978 Cotton Bowl 
ZZ Top Fort Worth Texas 1976

Recording 
Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes 
Henry Gross - Plug Me Into Something
Led Zeppelin - I
Stones - Exile On Mail Street
All Beatles
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

@bdp24 
I lived in the Bay Area about the same time you did. My first concert was the Beach Boys at the Cow Palace "63, I think. I was at the Kinks concert, it was Winterland.
  

@ericsch: I’m gonna guess your name is Eric. Cool name ;-)

Hey, do you remember when towards the end of The Kinks' set, Ray said to the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you to give a warm round of applause for Mr. Van Dyke Parks", pointing to the back wall of Winterland. As audience members turned and looked back, Ray ambled over to Mick Avory’s drum riser, laughing to himself. Good one, Ray!