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

Live
mercyful fate
voivod
dark angel
slayer
venom!
many more!


albums
venom welcome to hell
Mercyful fate. Nuns have no fun. Slayer.  Hell awaits
motorhead. Bomber. Tank. Filth hounds of hades. Raven. Wipe out. Bathory. Everything!
 Tons more

Rod Stewart and the Faces (Ron Wood on bass) at the Cow Palace in San Francisco (February 1975). What a raucous show! My runner-up would be Johnny Winter at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY (September 1991). A legend guitar slinger gone all too soon!

How about two LPs that I've returned to over the years: Procul Harum's Shine On Brightly, Weather Report's I Sing The Body Electric. The PH is a masterpiece of late 60's psychedelics; the WR a masterwork of mid 70's jazz!

I'll offer up four.

Springsteen at the L.A. forum  for the Darkness at the Edge of Town tour. Record company seats, thanks to the fact my sister worked at A&M Records at the time. 

Led Zeppelin at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, just after the second LP was released. Festival seating. Me and my girlfriend ooched our way to the front. 

Berlin Philharmonic with Von Karajan at Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium.  Once again, record company seats. Transcendently beautiful tone. 

Bizet's Carmen at the L.A. Music Center. I have no idea how I got them but Second Row toward the middle. Yeah, the performance was by the supposedly second-rate New York City Opera Company, but that didn't stop me from wallowing in the sheer beauty and excitement of it. The experience instantly transformed me into a complete opera fan.

@edcyn I was thinking about Springsteen - I saw him on the River Tour for the first time - mesmerizing - 4 hours of non-stop rock and roll - wow.  The only thing that came close after that was The Rising Tour for me.