Better Live than on record.

Crazy Little Thing Call Love - the extended instrumental at the end.

White Queen, Save Me (1979 to 1981 versions), Dragon Attack, Spread Your Wings, Play The Game.

I've rarely preferred the live versions to the studio versions. Aside from Staying Power (Milton Keynes), Spread Your Wings (Live Killers) and Keep Yourself Alive (any one) - the live versions may be fun to hear, but they don't beat the studio versions, in my opinion.

In the case of Staying Power, had they used more than a clean sounding rhythm guitar and sped up the tempo on the album - album would win given the horn section is refreshing to hear in a Queen song.

Spread Your Wings studio is great, but the looser feel when played live is the way they should have done it on the album. (you know, you know, you know, you know you should do better...)

Keep Yourself Alive took on a whole new life over the years that when you go back and hear the studio version, it sounds dated.

Dreamers Ball definitely!
You Take My Breath Away, especially the Hyde Park performance because it’s sung with such passion.
A Kind Of Magic (specifically Budapest).
...and for good measure... In The Lap Of The Gods (because it doesn’t have the pitched down vocals and Roger’s high falsetto towards the end of the song is really predominate as opposed to on the record) at the Rainbow, along with Sheer Heart Attack Tour bootlegs.

Who Wants To Live Forever-Wembley first night

Hi for me I’ve always enjoyed the songs from the first two albums as they chose to have more freedom to improvise and the concert sound of bass and drums far outstrips that of the recorded version. As stated by others Liar Great King Rat Son and Daughter Father to Son but vocally the end of Modern times rock n roll is a great interchange between Fred and Roger that was only replicated on I Go Crazy. More recently though on the previous tours Brian had time to pull out all the stops on Tie your mother down and Fat bottom Girls

Yeah as much as I love Modern Times, some live versions pip it.

dysan wrote:

stevelondon20 wrote:

Dreamers Ball from Live Killers. That's my Live fave and I feel it's better than the original.

I agree. To be honest the whole acoustic part of LK beats the studio versions IMO

It was a fantastic gig.

I wonder why Fred didn't sing the opening lines of Don't Stop me Now live? It was easily within his capability, especially in the Live Killers era.

See What A Fool I've Been, It's A Hard Life, A Kind Of Magic and Radio Ga Ga for sure, in my opinion.

@Holly - You are right. Even in crazy tour where his vocals were insanely good, in the famed newcastle'79 shows, he let the audience sing the intro. The closest he came to singing the intro was in Hammersmith 1979 and even there, he let the audience take over after singing the starting verse.

I would like to think that he liked the sound of audience singing his song and it made him happy to see that the audience appreciated the song more, given the fact that the song was not considered a great song even within the band at that time and it reached only 9 in UK and did not do well in US.

Queen Fan MS wrote:

@Holly - You are right. Even in crazy tour where his vocals were insanely good, in the famed newcastle'79 shows, he let the audience sing the intro. The closest he came to singing the intro was in Hammersmith 1979 and even there, he let the audience take over after singing the starting verse.

I would like to think that he liked the sound of audience singing his song and it made him happy to see that the audience appreciated the song more, given the fact that the song was not considered a great song even within the band at that time and it reached only 9 in UK and did not do well in US.

It's almost the same as why are you a nob?

Save me at the bowl
Somebody To love lot of times
Who Wants To Live Forever
Sheer Heart Attack

Pretty much all of "Hot Space"

@dysan -

Sorry. Did I say something wrong?

I was just agreeing to what Holly was saying regarding Freddie not singing the intro to 'Don't stop me now' live and imo, what I thought could have been the reason.

I am listening to and enjoying all the live versions on youtube, thanks to all the people who are sharing the stuff, Gregsynth, Ryan Newton, ChinWonder, SImon Christiansen, Chief Mouse, and so many others. So the live versions are still in my head, I was excited to share the same.

If I came out sounding like a nob, it was unintentional and due to English not being my native language.

hope we are ok.