I never thought it would end up like this!!

[Robson]

First thought: Hill Farmer's Blues

The studio version ends strange and fast.
The live version is great.

I agree.
The Studio version ist great but the live version makes it even greater. One of my favourite live songs.

Mine too:)

[Darling Pretty]

solid rock is the only song for me where the live version could never match the original raw energy from the record.

+1 here

And BIA from the record never reached live the same level. Despite the Mandela version is near

[rmarques821]

Love Over Gold for me. Beautiful studio version, but way too short live.

[Love Expresso]

Once Upon A Time In The West and Portobello Belle from Alchemy. The epic and beautiful 1996 Sultans was the peak.. Apart from Marbleown, he has turned away from live "versions" and has trouble enough to reproduce it from the record good enough. Because of laziness and not wanting to rehearse stuff long enough. So it comes that a few bars more at the end like in KoG or YTC or DOTDS make fans already go crazy.


If you take this topic in a mean and bad way and not in the good one as it was intended, I would have never thought that Sultans and Your Latest Trick could have become as cringy as in 2015.

LE

[herlock]

Once Upon A Time In The West and Portobello Belle from Alchemy. The epic and beautiful 1996 Sultans was the peak.. Apart from Marbleown, he has turned away from live "versions" and has trouble enough to reproduce it from the record good enough. Because of laziness and not wanting to rehearse stuff long enough. So it comes that a few bars more at the end like in KoG or YTC or DOTDS make fans already go crazy.


If you take this topic in a mean and bad way and not in the good one as it was intended, I would have never thought that Sultans and Your Latest Trick could have become as cringy as in 2015.

LE

Sultans from Sion 2015 is quite good. Quite similar to LA 2001...

[superval99]

I actually enjoy the 4-piece version of Sultans more than the long version, but it is still a pleasure to hear.   Regarding Sultans 2015, Manchester was pretty good as were many of the 2010 versions.

[quizzaciously]

Kingdom Of Gold is probably the main suspect here for me. How it transformed into an epic, Telegraph-Road-esque major-minor solo at the end.

[NicoMK]

I know it's not amongst Mark's favorites here but I absolutely love "True love will never fade" live as played during the 2008 tour.

Re. more recent stuff, My bacon roll is a nice song on the album but, for me the outro live is a total mess and ruined the song.

[superval99]

I know it's not amongst Mark's favorites here but I absolutely love "True love will never fade" live as played during the 2008 tour.

Re. more recent stuff, My bacon roll is a nice song on the album but, for me the outro live is a total mess and ruined the song.

The outro live on My Bacon Roll is what makes the song extra-special for me!   

[NicoMK]

I know it's not amongst Mark's favorites here but I absolutely love "True love will never fade" live as played during the 2008 tour.

Re. more recent stuff, My bacon roll is a nice song on the album but, for me the outro live is a total mess and ruined the song.

The outro live on My Bacon Roll is what makes the song extra-special for me!   

Which prouves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder 

[superval99]

I know it's not amongst Mark's favorites here but I absolutely love "True love will never fade" live as played during the 2008 tour.

Re. more recent stuff, My bacon roll is a nice song on the album but, for me the outro live is a total mess and ruined the song.

The outro live on My Bacon Roll is what makes the song extra-special for me!   

Which prouves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder 

Exactly!    Imagine how boring it would be if we all felt the same way!   

[superval99]

The biggest transformation of songs from album to live performance was at Amsterdam, HMH in 2008 when we all heard Hillfarmer's Blues and Marbletown for the first time.  It was amazing!

[Love Expresso]

The biggest transformation of songs from album to live performance was at Amsterdam, HMH in 2008 when we all heard Hillfarmer's Blues and Marbletown for the first time.  It was amazing!

Yes. I was not there but I agree. It indeed was one of THE moments of his solo career.

LE

[Love Expresso]

I know it's not amongst Mark's favorites here but I absolutely love "True love will never fade" live as played during the 2008 tour.

Re. more recent stuff, My bacon roll is a nice song on the album but, for me the outro live is a total mess and ruined the song.

The outro live on My Bacon Roll is what makes the song extra-special for me!   

Agree on this one, too.

LE

[qjamesfloyd]

I have always preferred the live versions of Portobello Belle to the album version, the live version is more free, the album version sounds restrained by comparison.
The outro of Romeo & Juliet is always beautiful, the album version is still great, but live it is taken to another level.
Private Investigations is better live too, Mark's guitar outro again is wonderful.
The Calypso version of So Far Away is amazing
Although the album version of You and Your Friend is really good, it's the live version where it really shines, Mark's playing is a lesson in the blues, and in touch and feeling on the guitar, Paul Franklin really adds to it too.
Are We In Trouble now is wonderful live, as is Rudiger.
Hill Farmer's Blues is a clear example of how Mark can make a great song on record, and then make it 10 times better live.
I have always loved, True Love Will Never Fade, Mark's playing live is sublime, and a rare example of Mark playing a solo with a plectrum, Richards lovely acoustic intro is great too.
An example of a song that sound great on studio, live and acoustic versions is, The Long Highway