Time To Shine
But then again, they only did it once, and we all know how that turned out. Perhaps they could have done it better had they [b]rehearsed[/b] it more properly.
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Gregsynth
For me, I think the 80s songs (most of them) sounded better live, and some of the 70s songs sounded better in the studio because live, you just can't get all the vocal harmonies and overdubs. Plus they played a couple 70s songs WAY too fast live (like Killer Queen and You're My Best Friend), eliminating the "tenderness" of the songs (I think somebody already said that though).
Gregsynth
Now here's an interesting statement I'll make: I believe that Freddie has to be in GREAT voice for these songs to work well live: Another One Bites The Dust, Staying Power, Action This Day, Body Language, Hammer To Fall, A Kind Of Magic, Get Down Make Love, Under Pressure, and Need Your Loving Tonight. If Freddie was in Japan 1979 shape or similar, the songs don't work as well.
However, regardless of vocal shape he could sing these songs well, and find excellent alternative notes to sing: The early stuff (Queen I through to Sheer Heart Attack), Spread Your Wings, Bohemian Rhapsody, Love Of My Life, It's Late, Save Me, Play The Game, Is This The World We Created, It's A Hard Life, We Will Rock You, and We Are The Champions.
However, regardless of vocal shape he could sing these songs well, and find excellent alternative notes to sing: The early stuff (Queen I through to Sheer Heart Attack), Spread Your Wings, Bohemian Rhapsody, Love Of My Life, It's Late, Save Me, Play The Game, Is This The World We Created, It's A Hard Life, We Will Rock You, and We Are The Champions.
QUEEN+PAULRODGERS
for play live in a future tour
OGRE BATTLE
FATHER TO SON
STONE COLD CRAZY
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
ITS LATE
WHITE QUEEN
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER
I LOVE THAT SONGS!
OGRE BATTLE
FATHER TO SON
STONE COLD CRAZY
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
ITS LATE
WHITE QUEEN
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER
I LOVE THAT SONGS!
queenfanbg
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[b]Band Forever wrote: [/b]
1. Action This Day - Worst Song and performance on Live At The Bowl by a Country mile, this is an instant skip, although
Freddie wrestles manfully to rescue this one with the vocals.
2. Kind of Magic - Totally unrecognisable to the Studio version which had more ambience and magic.
3. Who Wants To Live Forever- I think Queen skimped on hiring a big Orchestra in the background.
4. Don't Stop Me Now -hence the reason it was omitted from the set apart from Brian's loathing.
5. It's Late - Where was it guys? This was one of your best Rock Songs!
6. Dead On Time- Would have been a great substitute to LMEY if they wishes to alternate the setlist.
7. White Man
8. Fair Fellers Masterstroke
9. Father To Son despite epic Guitar Solo by Dr May, a much copied riff by metal bands today.
10. Any Queen song attempted by Paul Rodgers. Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
10 pts for tenth from me....
[b]Band Forever wrote: [/b]
1. Action This Day - Worst Song and performance on Live At The Bowl by a Country mile, this is an instant skip, although
Freddie wrestles manfully to rescue this one with the vocals.
2. Kind of Magic - Totally unrecognisable to the Studio version which had more ambience and magic.
3. Who Wants To Live Forever- I think Queen skimped on hiring a big Orchestra in the background.
4. Don't Stop Me Now -hence the reason it was omitted from the set apart from Brian's loathing.
5. It's Late - Where was it guys? This was one of your best Rock Songs!
6. Dead On Time- Would have been a great substitute to LMEY if they wishes to alternate the setlist.
7. White Man
8. Fair Fellers Masterstroke
9. Father To Son despite epic Guitar Solo by Dr May, a much copied riff by metal bands today.
10. Any Queen song attempted by Paul Rodgers. Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
10 pts for tenth from me....
Major Tom
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[b]Soundfreak wrote: [/b]
"Flash" did not work live, "Who wants to live forever" sounded also very thin with the synthesizer,
"Rock it" also didn't really work.
I fully agree on Bicycle Race, I remember hearing it live in concert and I just recognized it when it was nearly over....
But basically they had a good hand in chosing the right songs for the stage.[/QUOTE] Maybe TM can do something about that!
[b]Soundfreak wrote: [/b]
"Flash" did not work live, "Who wants to live forever" sounded also very thin with the synthesizer,
"Rock it" also didn't really work.
I fully agree on Bicycle Race, I remember hearing it live in concert and I just recognized it when it was nearly over....
But basically they had a good hand in chosing the right songs for the stage.[/QUOTE] Maybe TM can do something about that!
jamster1111
Oh ya i totally forgot about Flash Gordon!!! That would definetly be on the list.
Gregsynth
What's wrong with "Flash?"
Bo Alex
I've always found Fat Bottomed Girls live versions a little weak. I think the vocal harmonies didn't work well, the studio version is far better powerfull. Just my opinion.
Jazz 78
Sweet Lady and Prophet's Song can be added to the list. Everytime I hear a bootleg with those two tracks I can't imagine what they were thinking when writing up the setlists. Those two songs NEVER worked live. White Man can be included but on some nights they would nail it. Houston 77 was a good rendition.though.
Sebastian
For some reason, I never liked [i]Tie Your Mother Down[/i] on stage. No version ever convinced me... I love the studio one with all those powerful multi-tracked harmonies and those big loud deep drums. Live it was never bad, but it was never even sort of close to the studio version IMO.
[i]Black Queen[/i] somehow lost its magic during the fragment they did. And then there's [i]Under Pressure[/i]... again, not bad, but the studio version's got such magic, that the live ones don't and can't cut the mustard IMO, especially in terms of vocals although Roger does a wonderful job.
[i]Black Queen[/i] somehow lost its magic during the fragment they did. And then there's [i]Under Pressure[/i]... again, not bad, but the studio version's got such magic, that the live ones don't and can't cut the mustard IMO, especially in terms of vocals although Roger does a wonderful job.
marvinp01
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[b]Band Forever wrote: [/b]
1. Action This Day - Worst Song and performance on Live At The Bowl by a Country mile, this is an instant skip, although
Freddie wrestles manfully to rescue this one with the vocals.
2. Kind of Magic - Totally unrecognisable to the Studio version which had more ambience and magic.
3. Who Wants To Live Forever- I think Queen skimped on hiring a big Orchestra in the background.
4. Don't Stop Me Now -hence the reason it was omitted from the set apart from Brian's loathing.
5. It's Late - Where was it guys? This was one of your best Rock Songs!
6. Dead On Time- Would have been a great substitute to LMEY if they wishes to alternate the setlist.
7. White Man
8. Fair Fellers Masterstroke
9. Father To Son despite epic Guitar Solo by Dr May, a much copied riff by metal bands today.
10. Any Queen song attempted by Paul Rodgers. Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
ACTION THIS DAY was epic in Live at the Bowl. I love the ending
[b]Band Forever wrote: [/b]
1. Action This Day - Worst Song and performance on Live At The Bowl by a Country mile, this is an instant skip, although
Freddie wrestles manfully to rescue this one with the vocals.
2. Kind of Magic - Totally unrecognisable to the Studio version which had more ambience and magic.
3. Who Wants To Live Forever- I think Queen skimped on hiring a big Orchestra in the background.
4. Don't Stop Me Now -hence the reason it was omitted from the set apart from Brian's loathing.
5. It's Late - Where was it guys? This was one of your best Rock Songs!
6. Dead On Time- Would have been a great substitute to LMEY if they wishes to alternate the setlist.
7. White Man
8. Fair Fellers Masterstroke
9. Father To Son despite epic Guitar Solo by Dr May, a much copied riff by metal bands today.
10. Any Queen song attempted by Paul Rodgers. Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
ACTION THIS DAY was epic in Live at the Bowl. I love the ending
vadenuez
Never liked The Prophet's Song played live, at least the versions I've heard. Freddie always had trouble with the higher notes and the vocal improvisation was always too long and disjointed. After some minutes it was like 'Oh, which song were they playing?'
Mr Mercury
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[b]Sebastian wrote: [/b]
For some reason, I never liked [i]Tie Your Mother Down[/i] on stage. No version ever convinced me... I love the studio one with all those powerful multi-tracked harmonies and those big loud deep drums. Live it was never bad, but it was never even sort of close to the studio version IMO.
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And that is pretty much how I felt about YMBF. The studio version as we all know had all those lush vocal harmonies added to Bri's guitar work. Some of this was missing from the live performance. And Freddie never liked playing a Fender Rhodes keyboard, allegedly. Had they adopted the use of a second guitarist / vocalist, similar to that of the Q+PR live line up, then that might have addressed some of those problems.
Also, slightly off topic but still about this song - on the Making of ANATO dvd, why did Brian have to add that bit about John not being willing to talk about his own song? To me that was unnecessary.....
Anyway... back to topic....
[b]Sebastian wrote: [/b]
For some reason, I never liked [i]Tie Your Mother Down[/i] on stage. No version ever convinced me... I love the studio one with all those powerful multi-tracked harmonies and those big loud deep drums. Live it was never bad, but it was never even sort of close to the studio version IMO.
[/QUOTE]
And that is pretty much how I felt about YMBF. The studio version as we all know had all those lush vocal harmonies added to Bri's guitar work. Some of this was missing from the live performance. And Freddie never liked playing a Fender Rhodes keyboard, allegedly. Had they adopted the use of a second guitarist / vocalist, similar to that of the Q+PR live line up, then that might have addressed some of those problems.
Also, slightly off topic but still about this song - on the Making of ANATO dvd, why did Brian have to add that bit about John not being willing to talk about his own song? To me that was unnecessary.....
Anyway... back to topic....
Michael
Gotta agree with Action This Day - or any song from Hot Space, for that matter.
IMHO, the worst Queen song performed live would be any song requiring the vocals to really shine - like Somebody to Love, The Prophet's Song, Play the Game, or You Take My Breath Away - but, for some reason, they managed to pull off Fat Bottomed Girls. Let's face it: Queen were an outstanding vocal act in the recording studio, but live, they were really lacking. I think it's partly Brian's problem, because he's just not that strong of a singer live. And Mercury would use his lower register when the song called for his higher register - what's that all about? As much as I love Queen and enjoyed their live shows, I always felt there was something major lacking in the live vocals. But that's just my opinion.
IMHO, the worst Queen song performed live would be any song requiring the vocals to really shine - like Somebody to Love, The Prophet's Song, Play the Game, or You Take My Breath Away - but, for some reason, they managed to pull off Fat Bottomed Girls. Let's face it: Queen were an outstanding vocal act in the recording studio, but live, they were really lacking. I think it's partly Brian's problem, because he's just not that strong of a singer live. And Mercury would use his lower register when the song called for his higher register - what's that all about? As much as I love Queen and enjoyed their live shows, I always felt there was something major lacking in the live vocals. But that's just my opinion.