Free As A Bird vs. Real Love

[raxo]

I vote for FAAB. I love the music and the lyrics seem as though Lennon wrote it about the Beatles when they were breaking apart... It's so emotional (for me anyway)

And the guitar parts fit sooo well too! ... and the final structure and arrangements are very close to some of their studio-years works ...

[sewi]

Free As a Bird

[maninthequeue]

Free as a Bird.

Real Love sounds like a slight solo John song.

[Flaming Pie in the Sky]

I like them both, but right now I like Real Love a little more.

[Andy Smith]

I liked Real Love more, i was never into that Free as a Bird with John
sounding like he was singing in a toliet.   Real Love sounded more
realistic & like they were all singing together.

Free As A Bird gets my vote , i don't like Real Love .

DaveRam

[Whoever]

Anyone heard these? They are from that bootleg, I believe...

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[The Fox Drummer]

Ermmmm....very difficult....but I think Free As A Bird was a bit better. Just a bit. I really like the Regina Spektor cover of Real Love, actually.

[fendertele]

real love its so chilling in the intro that piano part just sounds so sad and also georges guitar part all through the song that alone makes it better in my opinion

[Pasta Cheif]

Wow, Real Love is ahead in the poll. I also went with it, although most people I know always said FAAB was much better. I also like George's guitar playing on Real Love, it just sounds beautiful with that signature sound of George.

[Andy Smith]

I also like George's guitar playing on Real Love, it just sounds beautiful with that signature sound of George.

Totally agree! George's guitar playing on it was just so beautiful & so George!
You can't mistake his playing, that was his own style!

[DarkSweetLady]

This is hard...they are both songs I remember the most from when I was a young child.Free As A Bird is really good...I think they all did good collaborating on that song...you hear the beatles,then John,Paul,George and Ringo....but I think Real Love is just as good.... john lennon's version is really good ....but I like the guitar in the Beatle version....it's so sweet...but yet sad...i mean they both get me really sad...but i think my final vote has to go to Real Love...it just gets this emotion out of me that I can't really explain...

[The End]

Anyone heard these? They are from that bootleg, I believe...

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These are VERY interesting - never heard these versions before! They are mixes of the original demos overlayed with what I guess are *"OOPSed" versions of the studio-enhanced versions. VERY good - particularly FAAB.

*OOPS = Out Of Phase Stereo - often used in vocal eliminators such as karaoke machines to eliminate the audio in the centre of the stereo field. Usually this is where the vocals are usually (but not always) placed.

[Wayne L.]

I voted for Free As A Bird because it sounds like a White Album/Abbey Road outtake & it's much better thn the other one.  

[Beatlemaniac64]

I think I like the Real Love video better, and the song Free As A Bird better. Oh geez, I really love Real Love, though, it's hard to choose! But, when I first heard Free As A Bird on that Anthology CD, I actually thought it was the Beatles as they were back then! I was a new fan at the time, and didn't know much. But hey! They do them both so beautifully, it really does sound like the Beatles 'cause it, in a way, is the Beatles. I love that.