I never liked the studio versions of Bad Medicine and You give love a bad Name, I hardly listen to them, but I like various live versions, Medicine with Shout and Jon talking in the middle and so on... The live version of I believe ain't as powerful as the studio versions, most because of the vocals (sorry Jon). And These Days isn't the best song to be performed live. Living in Sin live is also a bit weak (it's simply too slow). But I love them of course.
I appreciate both, studio and live versions, there is a different mood within them and both have their time and place in my CD player. Studio albums are a piece of art with all the studio tricks and mixing and live you face the band as pure musicians and with the crowd cheering it's a great atmosphere.
I really like the live version of Dry County (it's different, not better than studio), Someday I'll be Saturday Night live is also great when they're doing it for 8 minutes, KTF is live great (Richie rules!!!, better ending) and the live version of Letting you go is very good, because it has the full band and not only Jon and Richie.
Only Lonely and Breakout are live MUCH better than studio, the same goes for Tokyo Road (Rio 1990, wow!). And I love I'll be there for you with the singalongs... ohohoh....
As I said, the band is great doing records and rocking the house (Look at Hey God live from London and you know what I mean!!!!).
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