# Under Pressure/ Feel Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-pressure-feel-like/743870 "2016-01-22T07:59:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-pressure-feel-like/743870/1 "2016-01-22T07:59:10Z")
You should know that David Bowie and Freddie Mercury recorded an incredible song called “Under Pressure”. You should also know that this song was based on a Freddie Mercury song called “Feel Like”, which you can hear on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk). Both guys deserve credit, but respect where it came from. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-pressure-feel-like/743870/2 "2016-01-22T08:39:41Z")
I messed up the link. Here it is - [Feel Like by Queen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kdxcxF5CmY&list=RD2kdxcxF5CmY) ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-pressure-feel-like/743870/3 "2016-01-22T08:53:37Z")
A couple of years ago, the internet was apparently blown away by the voice only version of Under Pressure. Review with you tube vid: > **[David Bowie’s isolated vocals of "Under Pressure" show how talented he was](https://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/10749618/david-bowie-vocals-under-pressure)** > > In under four minutes. I like the song because it effortlessly segues between different perspectives, in the end joining or at least bridging them. The humanism of Bowie fits well with the egoism of Mercury. As I see it at least. Not to diss Mercury. Remix: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk) Bowie and Lennox: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0VLS-P9m0BM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-AoACoAKKAgwIABABGGUgUShDMA8=&rs=AOn4CLB_dQ6E5pAicO2TsouG7vz9iuUn7Q "Under Pressure - Bowie and Lennox") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLS-P9m0BM) Rock at its best, a fair approximation to genius. > **[How David Bowie and Queen wrote the legendary track Under Pressure](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/brian-tells-how-david-bowie-7161073)** > > Brian May, writing exclusively for the Daily Mirror, describes when Queen and David Bowie wrote Under Pressure [INDENT][INDENT]_We should just press on instinctively. Something will happen._ [/INDENT][/INDENT] More gushing: [David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” is the greatest song he never put on an album.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/01/11/david_bowie_and_queen_s_under_pressure_is_the_greatest_song_he_never_put.html) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-pressure-feel-like/743870/4 "2016-01-22T13:42:38Z")
Thread relocated to Cafe Society from IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-pressure-feel-like/743870/5 "2016-01-22T13:44:08Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > A couple of years ago, the internet was apparently blown away by the voice only version of Under Pressure. > > Review with you tube vid: > [David Bowie’s isolated vocals of “Under Pressure” show how talented he was | Vox](http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/10749618/david-bowie-vocals-under-pressure) The vocals without backing music was interesting. How was that done? Did that come from the original studio tapes, or is there software out there that’s somehow capable of distinguishing vocals from music in a single audio stream?