Songs that took on a new life when played live

The live versions of Back Chat piss on the studio version.

Definitely the Hot Space tracks that were toured.

Here's a scenario: How would Hot Space do if Queen recorded the ENTIRE first side (the funk/dance stuff), like how they played it live? I'm guessing the album would've been better received.

[listu] [li]Put out the fire [li]Dragon Attack [li]'39 [li]Dreamers ball [li]Back chat [li]Staying power [li]Is this this the world we created.......? [/listu] [listu] [li]Crazy little thing called love (not in a good way, I think). [/listu]

I love White Queen live!

I do not understand why Love Of My Life is so popular in live concerts. It's a beautiful, delicate ballad on ANATO with great vocals and piano turned into a horrible singalong stripped of all its original merits imo - I always skip that. It's even worse when Brian sings it with his fake "this is for Freddie" intro when everybody knows it's for himself and the audience celebrating the "special band-crowd bond"  - just awful.

My favourite is Now I'm Here from the Live Killer period. Great guitar, raw drums and  driving , pounding John Deacon bass, just a great piece of live rock music, much much better than the later version with Spike on keyboards imo. I also like AOBTD from the Magic Tour just preferring the rockier version over the earlier "dance floor - disco" version.

I always loved Love Of My Life live.
Specifically on those tours Q+PR. It's very moving how the audience sings it. Beautiful. I was lucky to be on one of the concerts in 2008. I was amazed how all the people sang it (including myself). Few thousands sing like one. Brian did a good thing performing it.

Ogre Battle,39,Staying Power,Calling All Girls,Life is Real,Body Language

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I do not understand why Love Of My Life is so popular in live concerts. It's a beautiful, delicate ballad on ANATO with great vocals and piano turned into a horrible singalong stripped of all its original merits imo - I always skip that.
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I think it's one of those "you had to be there" things. I also skip it always on the record, but when I was actually "there" (in 2005) and sang it with thousands of fellow fans around me, it felt very special. Very emotional experience.

BTT, The Works songs always sound somehow sterile on the record, but workwed very well live. I really like I Want To break Free and Radio GaGa live. Same for One Vision.

White Queen, White Queen and White Queen !

the instrumental section with Freddie on piano is simply superb.

I don´t like the sound of the guitars in the album version ... the live rendition is close to perfection. Very moving.

re Love Of My Life; I get Barb´s point. The live version has somehow become a "myth" but, to me, it lacks of the magic from the studio version. The closest I´ve heard, although it was a mix of both versions, was Extreme´s performance at the FM tribute. Nuno Bettencourt did a terrific job adapting the original piano to his guitar performance. Something Brian could never achieve.

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White Queen, White Queen and White Queen !

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Agree, agree and agree! ;)

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I do not understand why Love Of My Life is so popular in live concerts. It's a beautiful, delicate ballad on ANATO with great vocals and piano turned into a horrible singalong stripped of all its original merits imo
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Exactly.  That's why I prefer the earlier versions, before the audience started singing along.  The Houston 77 version is pretty gorgeous.

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I do not understand why Love Of My Life is so popular in live concerts. It's a beautiful, delicate ballad on ANATO with great vocals and piano turned into a horrible singalong stripped of all its original merits imo

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Exactly.  That's why I prefer the earlier versions, before the audience started singing along.  The Houston 77 version is pretty gorgeous.
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The Montreal 1981 version is the best.

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I do not understand why Love Of My Life is so popular in live concerts. It's a beautiful, delicate ballad on ANATO with great vocals and piano turned into a horrible singalong stripped of all its original merits imo[/QUOTE]
The original essence of the song is completely lost in the live sing-along, but I do enjoy listeneing the live version too. Especially on the South American tour of the early 80s. Is it in Venezuuela or Argentina, where Freddie is in a Superman t-shirt and the crowd sings the verses alomost all by themseleves, with Freddie just conducting them? The crowd is so huge that you can hear the voices creating a ripple or an echo effect. The atmosphere is positively electric!
I haven't watched Q+PR conecerts so didn't know that Brian dedicates it to our Freddie. That doesn;t make sense, and i agree it is artificial. He should dedicate it to the audience, becos this is their time to take the center stage.

If Brian wants to dedicate a song to our Freddie, it should be We Are The Champions.

And other songs that took on a life of their own when played live...the Hotspace tracks for sure, and Now I'm here as well. They have used this song in so many different ways.

And Under Pressure sounded so refreshing on the David Bowie Reality tour DVD.