Favorite Hot Space song?

I'm sober, so no excuse for what I'm about to put, haha. How about Brian putting the stems up for these tracks and letting others have a go at 'rocking' them up? I know... I've never really been good with reality.
Good put well pointed out, Sebastian, BTW.

I love Hot Space to bits. My favorite Queen song (ever) has to be Under Pressure. I love Staying Power and even Body Language for what they are - fun tracks with a great groove. I enjoy the studio versions as much as I do the live versions.
I can't understand how people don't like "Dancer". Is it the lyrics? I think it's got a great mix of Rock and Funk, and it's an excellent example of how all of Hot Space should have sounded.

Wiley, when have lyrics ever mattered in a Queen song? Actually, that could be the reason why other people don't see Queen for the truly terrific band they were. Well up until 1980, at least.

And of course they didn't think twice about revisiting a 1983 solo album for a 1995 release, remixed Under Pressure and now going back to the FM + MJ stuff. I still have a feeling something like revisiting old stuff will happen. Hot Space to me always seems the obvious choice.

Staying Power.

I love the 2011 remaster. It's great with my Shure headphones.

Dowens I love the 2011 remaster. It's great with my Shure headphones.

Oh yeah, Shure, that company who are famous for making microphones. If that was a boast, then it failed. You should have bought Sennheiser hedphones, like I did. Sennheiser, the company famous for making erm, headphones. Staying Power, FFS?

Cool Cat and Life Is Real (:

Las Palabras de Amour (The Words of Love), Under Pressure, Put Out the Fire - and I'm not very enamoured of these. Not much on it that I like.

horse feathers wrote:
Dowens I love the 2011 remaster. It's great with my Shure headphones.
Oh yeah, Shure, that company who are famous for making microphones. If that was a boast, then it failed. You should have bought Sennheiser hedphones, like I did. Sennheiser, the company famous for making erm, headphones. Staying Power, FFS?

Wow. So Queen is mainly famous for making anthems, does that mean anthems are all they're good at making? Not at all actually. And Staying Power isn't a bad song at all. You're allowed to dislike it, but it's a dickheaded thing to do to criticize others enjoyment of it. What a ridiculously narrow minded post...

My favourite Hot Space tracks are Las Palabras and Back Chat. I love all of the live versions, but I'm going strictly by how they're presented on the album. That's obviously not including Under Pressure, which isn't really a 'Hot Space track' as such, it was thrown in there at the last minute and didn't follow it's theme at all.

Action and at the moment Life is real ( because FREDDIE is a GENIUS!!...from live in Moskow 3.7.12)

Dancer!!!

under pressure. first i disliked it very much but by now it's one of my favorite queen songs. i love the "give-love" section because whilst fading out it still remains in your head and gives the following part a lot more depth.
oh. and "dancer". i don't know why. but every now and then i like to play this track because it's some kind of... different and sums up the whole "hot space"-character in a funny way, i think. i like the sample in the outro :-)
overall there are many good attempts on hot space song wise, but i really cannot stand that early 80s production-sound at all. "put out the fire" is more of a demo to me. "life is real" is quite nice but not groundbreaking. the rest of the album... exists.

princetom wrote:
under pressure. first i disliked it very much but by now it's one of my favorite queen songs. i love the "give-love" section because whilst fading out it still remains in your head and gives the following part a lot more depth.
oh. and "dancer". i don't know why. but every now and then i like to play this track because it's some kind of... different and sums up the whole "hot space"-character in a funny way, i think. i like the sample in the outro :-)
overall there are many good attempts on hot space song wise, but i really cannot stand that early 80s production-sound at all. "put out the fire" is more of a demo to me. "life is real" is quite nice but not groundbreaking. the rest of the album... exists.

I seem to have a bit of a mental block about Under Pressure as it never automatically occurs to me that its part of Hot Space. If ever Queen made a stand-alone single, that was it (closely followed by CLTCL). UP is, of course, a fantastic song and it really makes me wish Queen & Bowie had collaborated a lot more (as long as they produced songs like UP and not Cool Cat!)

It's my favourite Queen album, and I am listening to the SACD right now. My favourite Queen song is actually "Back Chat" from the album.

I live in hope that eventually they will do a proper expanded edition of this album with the remixes and demos on it. The "Back Chat" demo I feel is better than the album version.

Action This Day,Dancer,Pressure are all high points for me.I love Action live at the bowl,aswell.