Best: Jazz and Hot Space
Worst: Magic
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Posts in chronological order
Musically and soundwise
Worst: Works 84/85
Best: QPR
Freddies vocals:
Worst: ADATR Tour '77
Best: Hot Space '82
Worst: Works 84/85
Best: QPR
Freddies vocals:
Worst: ADATR Tour '77
Best: Hot Space '82
Favourite:
ADATR
Worst:
1984 - 1986
ADATR
Worst:
1984 - 1986
anything from 85-86 and the one in 73-74
best: Hot Space, worst: Works
Best: A Day At The Races - tour
Worst: The Works - tour, but I like the live version of "It's a Hard Life" a lot!!
Worst: The Works - tour, but I like the live version of "It's a Hard Life" a lot!!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Brimon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Best tour - Crazy Tour.
Worst tour - The Sun City thingy.[/QUOTE]
I'm still very interested to find out how many shows you've heard/seen from Sun City...
V.
Worst tour - The Sun City thingy.[/QUOTE]
I'm still very interested to find out how many shows you've heard/seen from Sun City...
V.
None, my reason for putting it as my worst tour is because I believe they should never have played there.
i like the works tour
the stage set is the best that they ever had
the stage set is the best that they ever had
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Brimon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]None, my reason for putting it as my worst tour is because I believe they should never have played there.[/QUOTE]
Oh, boy!
I am SO going to start a thread about this!
V.
Oh, boy!
I am SO going to start a thread about this!
V.
Although I've yet to find a truly great performance from the Works Tour (though Osaka '85 is damn good), I refuse to put it as my least favorite, due simply to the incredible setlists. Easily the best setlists Queen ever worked with, I think.
My favorite tour overall has to be the Crazy Tour. Freddie's voice is at its peak, the band had worked out the early kinks in their performances and generally put out an excellent show each night, and the setlists were great as well. The same songs were played, generally speaking, but there was some variance to the order. I believe the band used four different opening numbers during the course of the Crazy Tour (Tie Your Mother Down, Let Me Entertain You, We Will Rock You, Jailhouse Rock), but I may be off by one.
My least favorite tour was the Magic Tour. Ironically, Wembley is one of my favorite Queen shows, but there are other reasons for that. The setlists were decent, and some of the early shows had great vocals from Freddie, but by the halfway mark, his voice was clearly worn out. The whole tour had a contrived, "greatest hits" feel to it.
My favorite tour overall has to be the Crazy Tour. Freddie's voice is at its peak, the band had worked out the early kinks in their performances and generally put out an excellent show each night, and the setlists were great as well. The same songs were played, generally speaking, but there was some variance to the order. I believe the band used four different opening numbers during the course of the Crazy Tour (Tie Your Mother Down, Let Me Entertain You, We Will Rock You, Jailhouse Rock), but I may be off by one.
My least favorite tour was the Magic Tour. Ironically, Wembley is one of my favorite Queen shows, but there are other reasons for that. The setlists were decent, and some of the early shows had great vocals from Freddie, but by the halfway mark, his voice was clearly worn out. The whole tour had a contrived, "greatest hits" feel to it.
Hmm, they had so many great tours, hard to call which was the best, maybe just the Crazy tour in 79, on some nights his voice was utterly stunning.
Hot space was good with powerful and high vocals and I liked a day at the races tour a lot as well.
As for the worst, European works tour. I think its a good idea to seperate the two legs so to speak, because Freddie's voice did improve in the 85 leg, esp towards the last leg of the trip, say Sydney and also the Japan shows he really had improved vocally in that timeframe.
So I think that the worst tour was the works, but only the 84 part of the tour so to speak.
Followed by a tie-off between the 85 leg and the Magic tour, both were good BUT the other tours were great. The only critical thing i have to say is that by 78-early 79 Freddie's voice really seemed to quite often cut if he went for any high note, like it did in the 84 leg.
jaxjag03, have you listened to the Toyko shows, esp the 09-05-85 show?
The best show of the tour and maybe of the 84-86 period as well.
Agree about the set-list, really good, now only if he still had that amazing vocals from 82...
Hot space was good with powerful and high vocals and I liked a day at the races tour a lot as well.
As for the worst, European works tour. I think its a good idea to seperate the two legs so to speak, because Freddie's voice did improve in the 85 leg, esp towards the last leg of the trip, say Sydney and also the Japan shows he really had improved vocally in that timeframe.
So I think that the worst tour was the works, but only the 84 part of the tour so to speak.
Followed by a tie-off between the 85 leg and the Magic tour, both were good BUT the other tours were great. The only critical thing i have to say is that by 78-early 79 Freddie's voice really seemed to quite often cut if he went for any high note, like it did in the 84 leg.
jaxjag03, have you listened to the Toyko shows, esp the 09-05-85 show?
The best show of the tour and maybe of the 84-86 period as well.
Agree about the set-list, really good, now only if he still had that amazing vocals from 82...
ewww like lays potato chips you just cant choose one..this is hard!
saw them many many many times in the states
i cant honestly say what tour i thought was the best or worst--was just grateful to see them when i did
saw them many many many times in the states
i cant honestly say what tour i thought was the best or worst--was just grateful to see them when i did
I liked the Jazz tour, great setlist, manic energy and aggressive performances. The Works tour has to be worst; Fred's voice was awful, Roger's drums plastic-sounding and the keyboards took over too many of the songs. The Magic tour was a big improvement on '86 Fred's voice was in a much better shape; the barking sounded great especially on WWTL and TYMD. The performaces were strong, the sound was solid. The only gripe was the setlist. This would have been mine.
One Vision
Modern Times Rock N Roll
Tie Your Mother Down
Somebody To Love (whole)
Medley
In The Lap of The Gods
Death On Two Legs
It's A Hard Life
Tear it Up
A Kind of Magic
Under Pressure
Who Wants To Live Forever
Brigton Rock (song)
Now I'm Here
Love of My Life
Is This The World We Created
You Take My breath Away
Princes Of The Universe
Bohemian Rhapsody
Hammer To Fall
Crazy Little Thing...
Dragon Attack
Radio Ga Ga
We Wil Rock You
We Are The Champions
One Vision
Modern Times Rock N Roll
Tie Your Mother Down
Somebody To Love (whole)
Medley
In The Lap of The Gods
Death On Two Legs
It's A Hard Life
Tear it Up
A Kind of Magic
Under Pressure
Who Wants To Live Forever
Brigton Rock (song)
Now I'm Here
Love of My Life
Is This The World We Created
You Take My breath Away
Princes Of The Universe
Bohemian Rhapsody
Hammer To Fall
Crazy Little Thing...
Dragon Attack
Radio Ga Ga
We Wil Rock You
We Are The Champions
My favourite tours are the european ADATR, the NOTW tour, the South-american tours from 1981 and the jazzperiod.
I enjoy shows from every period though and I wouldn't call the Works or magic tours bad.I've been listening to some Works tour shows from 1984 and I really enjoyed them. Stuttgart, Birmingham 8/31 , Leiden:fantastic shows with very enthusiastic audiences!
My favourite show is the Budokan show from 1985:that show is for me one of the ultimate Freddie live moments:so powerful,creative and entertaining to hear!
But of course freddie had many weak shows aswell with a very small range and the drumsound during AOBTD was awful aswell as the synths trying to be human voices!
I enjoy shows from every period though and I wouldn't call the Works or magic tours bad.I've been listening to some Works tour shows from 1984 and I really enjoyed them. Stuttgart, Birmingham 8/31 , Leiden:fantastic shows with very enthusiastic audiences!
My favourite show is the Budokan show from 1985:that show is for me one of the ultimate Freddie live moments:so powerful,creative and entertaining to hear!
But of course freddie had many weak shows aswell with a very small range and the drumsound during AOBTD was awful aswell as the synths trying to be human voices!