Music Sung with Passion

I see passion within music from two perspectives
1) the performance
2) the music itself, instruments and/or vocals

Bruce Springsteen to me is very passionate in his performances. He seems to pour all his emotions and energy into his concerts

I recorded a concert on DVR - 2005 Neil Young - Prairie in the Wind. I've watched it several times. Neil Young is not frantic and energetic like Bruce but I recall a song Neil speaks about and performs which mentions loosing his father to dementia. To me there's so much passion baked into the lyrics of the song paying respect.

Funny, I agree with a lot of what everyone's saying. I find Klaus Meine and also Neil Young to sing most of the music that they perform very passionately. When Neil sings Unknown Legend, I feel his passion. (I absolutely love that song). Practically every song that Klaus sings with the Scorpions is sung passionately. A tune that comes to mind is Arizona.

I'm not a huge Krall fan. However there's something about her rendition of A Simple Twist of Fate that really did it for me.

The question seems strange. Is there any occupation where all that are involved in it do it with passion? I think that it is a most human quality that some bring passion to their work and some do not.

So not to put too fine a point on it, there are many musicians that do not bring passion to their work.

What is great about music however, and pretty much validates all artists, is that I might hear one thing, and you might hear another.

I hear tremendous passion in Dylan's version of "Simple Twist Of Fate" and Krall leaves me cold. I may be channeling seeing Dylan do it live, when it was still fresh and new, during the Rolling Thunder Review concert at the Garden, but so much of these things are our gut reaction to the song. Most of us aren't in the dressing room to hear that the audience are idiots or that they make the whole thing possible so we are projecting this perception of passion, rather than having some first hand knowledge of it.

I just received the MOFI 45rpm "Freewheelin'". "Simple Twist of Fate" to me, was the stand out track. My point being, get this copy and you'll find that Dylan himself sung it with the most passion!

Trick question? Do you regularly listen to music without passion? You've brought up the key component that identifies what constitutes that 'noise' we listen to that sends our dogs and cats scrambling for cover.