I have yet to hear a decent preformance of Original of the Species live. The song is great on the CD and probably my favorite song off of HTDAAB. I dont know if it didnt translate live or Bono just cant sing it live or he cant sing and play the guitar at the same time but every preformance was crap. The only decent version of it I saw was when they were on Conan Obrien that was good.