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Classic Rock => The 80s => Topic started by: Perplexio on April 18, 2011, 09:51:56 pm



Title: Heat of the Moment
Post by: Perplexio on April 18, 2011, 09:51:56 pm
Which version of Heat of the Moment do you prefer?


Title: Re: Heat of the Moment
Post by: CelticGal on April 18, 2011, 10:51:29 pm
Which version of Heat of the Moment do you prefer?

You know me, I usually like original versions best!


Title: Re: Heat of the Moment
Post by: Charlie on April 19, 2011, 07:46:21 pm
Which version of Heat of the Moment do you prefer?

You know me, I usually like original versions best!

I agree on this song.


Title: Re: Heat of the Moment
Post by: drewzepmeister on April 20, 2011, 04:58:09 pm
Easily the original...Though I do have the version with Greg Lake on a bootleg, it's not bad either


Title: Re: Heat of the Moment
Post by: Poem58 on April 27, 2011, 09:38:05 am
Original, although if the Greg Lake one would have been a studio version he might have sounded better, was the second option studio as well? it sounded that way to me.
I must say though that the last option acoustic was different, not better than the original but different, and that can be good too. Sometimes I have a hard time with comparing Studio to live to acoustic. Studio usually beats live for me, but the acoustic can beat studio if done right. In this case of these 4 options, my vote went to original studio version.
Acoustic get's second place vote (So I guess it's safe to say that vocalist is preferred  ;D )


Title: Re: Heat of the Moment
Post by: Perplexio on April 27, 2011, 10:14:58 am
Original, although if the Greg Lake one would have been a studio version he might have sounded better, was the second option studio as well? it sounded that way to me.
I must say though that the last option acoustic was different, not better than the original but different, and that can be good too. Sometimes I have a hard time with comparing Studio to live to acoustic. Studio usually beats live for me, but the acoustic can beat studio if done right. In this case of these 4 options, my vote went to original studio version.
Acoustic get's second place vote (So I guess it's safe to say that vocalist is preferred  ;D )

The 90s version was a studio version.  Sometime around 96 or 97 Geoff Downes decided to re-record some of the band's earlier hits with his 90s line-up of the band (of which he was the only remaining original member).  So there was a different drummer, guitarist, and vocalist (John Payne).  The material with Payne was more progressive and less pop oriented.  Payne has a good voice and I really like some of the original material Asia recorded when Payne was their lead singer but I'm not a fan of Payne singing the old John Wetton material. 

Asia's best album was their debut.  imho their best album with John Payne was 2001's Aura.