What are you all-time favorite Idol performances?

[Carrieflattsfan]

With the 10th season of Idol starting, I've kind of been in a nogalistic mood lately, and wanted to see what everyone's favorite past Idol memories/performances are. I'll start:

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[Daydreamer81]

This one obviously

and

 

[conorlovescarrie:)]

^ I agree with both of yours

 

[pklongbeach]

Imagine -Archie
A Song for You-Elliot
Alone-Carrie
Angels Brought Me Here-Carrie
Independence Day-Carrie (I knew she was the best singer there)

 

[carrieismy1idol]

Didn't Start Watching Until Season 4 In No Particular Order:
1.Alone,Independence Day,When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues,Crying,Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,Solo Performance Of Bless The Broken Road & With Rascal Flatts-Carrie Underwood
2.If I Can Dream,Moody's Mood For Love & Trouble-Elliott Yamin
3.Somewhere Over The Rainbow,Someone To Watch Over Me & Think-Katharine McPhee
4.Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman,Hemorrhage(In My Hands) & Wanted Dead Or Alive-Chris Daughtry
5.Time Of The Season,You Give Love A Bad Name,She Will Be Loved,Beat-Boxing Performance With Doug E. Fresh & I Saw Her Standing There With Jordin Sparks-Blake Lewis
6.Tonight I Wanna Cry,Still Of The Night,Butterflies & Father Figure-Ace Young
7.Treat Her Like A Lady,Hallelujah,Simple Man,You're Still The One & Falling Slowly With Crystal Bowersox-Lee DeWyze
8.One & Hot-Blooded-Robbie Carrico He's From My Homestate So I Was Rooting/Voting For Him He's Also One Of My Heroes
9.What Hurts The Most,Renegade With Kris Allen,You Are So Beautiful & Stand By Me-Danny Gokey
10.So Small,Human Nature,You Found Me & Let's Get It On-Matt Giraud
11.Walkin' After Midnight-Kellie Pickler
12.Midnight Train To Georgia-Paris Bennett
13.Wave On Wave-Bucky Covington
14.Hello-David Cook
15.Smoking Mountain Memories-David Archuletta
16.Dream On-Micheal Johns
17.Come Together-Carly Smithson
18.Ain't No Sunshine-Kris Allen
19.Broken Wing-Jordin Sparks
20.What About Love-Melissa McGhee

 

[JB172]

In no particular order.

Carrie -"Angels Brought Me Here"
David Cook - "Always Be My Baby"
Katherine - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
Fantasia - "Summertime"
Kris - "Heartless"

 

[Suellen]

In no particular order.

Kelly Clarkson -- Stuff Like That There
Kelly Clarkson -- Natural Woman
Kelly Clarkson -- Respect
Carrie Underwood -- Alone
Carrie Underwood -- Angels Brought Me Here
Clay Aiken -- Bridge Over Trouble Water
(All of Carrie's performances)

 

[pklongbeach]

Forgot about K.Allen-Heartless.
That was a great one.
Doolittle-My Funny Valentine was a great one as well.

 

[allirishgirl]

Carrie - Angels Brought Me Here (semi final night)

 

[conorlovescarrie:)]

Other than Carrie I loved
Jennifer Hudson- Circle of Life
Clay Aiken- Bridge over Troubled Water
Diana Degarmo- Dont Cry Out Loud
Katherine McPhee- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 

[hjj]

Alone/ Carrie
Angels brought me here / Making love out of nothing Carrie
Heartless Kris Allen
Falling Slowly Kris Allen
Hallelujah Jason Castro
Hello David Cook

 

[AIgrl06]

OK, here are my top ten Idol performances. I have a cap of one per Idol. Drumroll, please?

10.Adam Lambert, Tracks of My Tears

9.Tamyra Gray, A Fool In Love

8.Katharine McPhee, Who Wants To Live Forever

7.Chris Daughtry, Hemorrhage

6.Jordin Sparks, I Who Have Nothing

5.Kris Allen, Ain't No Sunshine

4.Brooke White, Let It Be

3.Carrie Underwood, Making Love Out of Nothing At All

2.Kelly Clarkson, Stuff Like That There

1.Elliott Yamin, A Song For You

 

[Carrieflattsfan]

Wow, so many great choices! What a great walk down memory lane.

I don't remember the "Live Forever" performance from Katharine, but I have her new album and it's great. I've always liked her voice.

Although I didn't think Brooke particularly stood out during Idol, she had a really nice voice, and I did enjoy a lot of her performances. Her performance of "Let It Be" was one of my favorites of that season.
Matt's performance of "So Small" was great too. I would think it'd be more difficult for a male artist to pull off a song like that, because it's so soulful and difficult to sing.
Matt had one of the best voices of the past few seasons, IMO. Plus, he's from my state, so I was rooting for him.

Not an Adam fan, but this performance deserved the hype it got:

Again, I can't stand Fantasia's voice, but this performance is what Idol is about

 

[m.chill99]

This is amazing!

and I like this

But I prefer Carrie's version of Alone

 

[supercarriefan]

Great thread idea! I love seeing what everyone else's favorites are!

I'm a bit of an Idol junkie lol, so here's my long list of favorites (organized by season):

Kelly Clarkson - Respect, Stuff Like That There, Without You
Justin Guarini - Get Here
Clay Aiken - Unchained Melody, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Carrie Underwood - Alone, Bless The Broken Road, Making Love Out Of Nothing At All, Angels Brought Me Here
Bo Bice - In A Dream
Jennifer Hudson - And I'm Telling You
Katharine McPhee - Think, Who Wants To Live Forever, Someone To Watch Over Me, Over The Rainbow
Blake Lewis - You Give Love A Bad Name
David Cook – Innocent, Always Be My Baby, Music Of The Night, The World I Know
David Archuleta – Imagine
Jason Castro – Hallelujah, Over The Rainbow
Brooke White – Love Is A Battlefield, Let It Be
Carly Smithson – Here You Come Again
Michael Johns – Bohemian Rhapsody
Kris Allen – Falling Slowly, Heartless
Adam Lambert – Mad World
Lee DeWyze – The Boxer, Falling Slowly (with Crystal), Hallelujah
Crystal Bowersox - Long As I Can See The Light
Casey James – Jealous Guy
Siobhan Magnus – House Of The Rising Sun