Watching random videos in YT, I found this.
A girl called Desy from the indonesian X Factor TV show singing live a version Queen's b side Soul Brother.
It's a very rare choice of a highly unknown Queen song, don't you think?. Maybe the song was popular in Indonesia, but I don't think so. link
The performance starts around 1:30 in the video. I think it's pretty good.
The singer is pretty good, although a bit pitchy at times.
But neat to hear this song sung in public. It's one of the lost gems of the Queen catalogue.
Bo Alex wrote:
Watching random videos in YT, I found this.
A girl called Desy from the indonesian X Factor TV show singing live a version Queen's b side Soul Brother.
It's a very rare choice of a highly unknown Queen song, don't you think?. Maybe the song was popular in Indonesia, but I don't think so.
link
The performance starts around 1:30 in the video. I think it's pretty good.
Good performance. Never cared much about the song, to be honest, but it's always good to hear any deep cuts getting any airtime.
Makes me think of a parallel universe where Queen really went for different musical styles and production for a given album, rather than "Queen goes _____" where we get Queenefied versions of a given style. If they wanted to do soul or funk or whatever they could have gone the Bowie route like when he did "Young Americans" and also get a Freddie + Aretha duet in there, even if just a cover of Somebody to love.
On the flipside, Bowie was also criticized for trying musical styles for size and "not really meaning it"... but even something like Let's Dance with Nile Rodgers or I'm afraid of Americans with Trent Reznor (or anything else off Earthling or 1. Outside) would have been nice. I know we got a couple of remixes from those two guys but I mean a broader collaboration.
But hey, we will always have Queen + Five + Pink + Beyoncé + Britney Spears + Vanguard + Wyclef Jean with Remixes by Junior Vasquez, the less famous Lord-Alge guy, ruined by Rick Rubin and featuring Kerry Ellis.