"Yeah" (inadvertently played once in Brussels at the conclusion of AOBTD)
Hammer To Fall
Let Me Entertain You
White Queen
See What a Fool I've Been
lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
I'm in love with my car
good old fashioned lover boy
save me (doesn't match but similar enough)
Son and Daughter
I want to break free
.... put out the fire?
^^^ White Queen? Different instrumentation, lack of backing vocals means that in places it is quite different.
Tear It Up and Tie Your Mother Down . . . . . Maybe.
Some versions of Now Im Here are close but without the piano. Under Pressure comes close too.
You're My Best Friend, except for the electric piano being a regular piano....and I guess WWRY, as long as Brian didn't add extra guitar at the start ;)
The King Of Rhye wrote: You're My Best Friend, except for the electric piano being a regular piano....and I guess WWRY, as long as Brian didn't add extra guitar at the start ;)
Liar (even better) up to 1982
Seven Seas Of Rhye 70's
In the Lap Of The Gods Revisited 1974
The Prophet's song 1976
Death on two legs
Crazy Little thing called love (1979)
Many of Hot Space songs
Radio Ga Ga
One Vision (very close)
Anthony Venus wrote:
What about:
Ogre Battle (Early versions)
Fairy Feller's (Only at the Rainbow)
March Of The Black Queen (Segment of the song)
Ogre Battle is true, largely thanks to having the screams on playback - differences are that the studio version has the backwards sections, and the parts where there's two guitars at once.
Fairy Feller - sort of similar, but lots of pretty substantial differences. Piano rather than piano and harpsicord, a slightly altered guitar solo, vocals instead of multitracked guitars for the intro, no vocals over the solos, Freddie cutting lines short because they overlap on the album, the subdued part for the last 'Fairy dandy tickling the fancy...'
I think Save Me is probably one of the very closest. There's live versions where the vocal's nigh identical to the album. The only real differences are the additional guitar solo in place of the synth and acoustic guitar section, no vocal and guitar layering, and the rearrangement of the outro.
Is this the world we created, except for the 'so it seems in the end' and the corresponding part in the second verse.
I don't think they ever wanted the live version of their songs to sound similar to the studio version. In some cases I think the live versions surpass the studio versions - some of the versions of the songs on Rock Montreal sound better than the studio versions because of the energy. Some of them don't. I dunno.
^I feel the same way about a few. .. But it's only a few
For some reason IWTBF sounds incredible live with the drop down thunderous drum lead in. The solo works well live.
Don't stop me now was great too.
I still believe White Queen is up there too. .yeah it's lacking the multi track but it's still incredible live. The piano taking over the mukti tracked guitar makes it freaking fantastic
Indeed Matt, White Queen live is a different beast, there are so many examples of live versions which are superb in comparison with the studio versions, Staying Power....just saying....
Tom