# where the live version replaces the studio album... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590 "2009-02-12T20:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/21 "2009-02-13T21:09:55Z")
“She’s Got A Way” by Billy Joel. This is hardly surprising because the original recording on _Cold Spring Harbor_ sucks the ass off a herd of big-assed ass monsters. What you get instead is the version from _Songs In the Attic_, performed live at Madison Square Gardens. For a while, you’d get the same effect from Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind.” They’d always play the version _Live From Sydney’s Got Its Own Opera House With Some Australians Playing Quaint European Instruments_. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/22 "2009-02-14T13:04:31Z")
> [@Wash](#): > > I pretty sure I’ve only ever heard a live version of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me”. I’m fairly sure there must be a studio version out there somewhere, but it certainly hasn’t ever turned up on any of the radio stations I’ve listened to, and some of them play that song way too often. There is a studio version, and man, is it feeble. Even the band members hate the production of _In Color_. [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAXO6o8FKnw) A few more: Rock And Roll All Nite by KISS. Why the radio plays a heavily edited _Alive!_ version rather than the already shorter studio one is beyond me. The Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix. The one you usually hear is from Woodstock, but there was a beautiful studio version on the out-of-print _Rainbow Bridge_ soundtrack, and it’s included in that purple boxed set. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/23 "2009-02-14T13:13:29Z")
I think I prefer every track on Wilco’s [Kicking Television: Live in Chicago](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicking_Television:_Live_in_Chicago) to the original album versions. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/24 "2009-03-04T18:17:35Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I think I prefer every track on Wilco’s [Kicking Television: Live in Chicago](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicking_Television:_Live_in_Chicago) to the original album versions. Just came back to this thread to inform that I bought the album because of this comment, and it was spot on. Many songs are really noticably better. It seems it is because they got a new guitarist. The two songs where I have noticed the biggest improvement: The Late Greats Handshake Drugs ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/25 "2009-03-05T00:09:27Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > “She’s Got A Way” by Billy Joel. This is hardly surprising because the original recording on _Cold Spring Harbor_ sucks the ass off a herd of big-assed ass monsters. Likewise, I’ve only ever heard the studio version of “Miami 2017” twice, on satellite radio. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/26 "2009-03-05T02:57:01Z")
> [@Wash](#): > > I pretty sure I’ve only ever heard a live version of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me”. I’m fairly sure there must be a studio version out there somewhere, but it certainly hasn’t ever turned up on any of the radio stations I’ve listened to, and some of them play that song way too often. There certainly is a studio version, and it’s awful. Incredibly saccharine take on the song, and no guts whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/27 "2009-03-05T04:59:08Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > There certainly is a studio version, and it’s awful. Incredibly saccharine take on the song, and no guts whatsoever. Man, first I get beat naming IWYTWM (which I think is _the_ answer to this thread). Then I scroll to the bottom to find out that I get beat panning the studio version too. Just to add some signal to my noise, I’ll throw in Genesis’ ‘Turn It On Again’. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590/28 "2009-03-05T06:23:44Z")
I think y’all are getting away from the OP. It’s not about live versions that are better than the studio version, but instead have almost completely replaced it. To the point where you almost never hear the studio version anymore. I’ll chime in with **J. Geils Band - Must of Got Lost**. I’m not even sure if there is a studio version. I’ve never heard it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-live-version-replaces-the-studio-album/485590.md?page=1)