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  • Thank you Keane. This kind of just made my life:)

  • Keane's keyboard player looks borderline mental when they play live. I missed Keane because Oasis were on at V Festival, I'd seen them before, so I thought it's only fair I give a legendary Britpop band a go. They were okay, but I'd rather watch Keane. The only real positive is that I can say I witnessed the final on stage destruction of peoples patience for that tosser Liam Gallagher, and the final performance they'd give.

    Fuck Liam. Nice cover Keane. R.I.P Freddy. Long live Bowie.

  • wonderful cover!

  • i had no idea keane's singer had this good a voice

  • Fantastic cover!!!!!!!!!!

  • Keane are a great band.

  • awesome cover

  • wow wat a cover, that was good.

  • It's well done. But it's not a good cover... within' a cover of a song you want a NEW version, something different and creative. This is almost exactly the same.

  • muy buena interpretación a pesar de ser jovenes . . .excelente mr. burns

  • I thought it was good. Except they used the Vanilla Ice beat instead of Queen's. .. They added that extra beat.

    It kills me.

  • ia ia

  • wow I did'nt know keane did a version!! I love this song!!

  • I like it! @:)

  • keane's cover of Under Pressure is awesome, most covers ive heard are usually terrible and just plain boring but this was something else. Tom's voive is incredible and i hope he stops smoking, its going to ruin his beautiful voice

  • :::::::::::DDDDDDDDDDDD

  • yeah i agree with most of the stuff below. this is a decent and sincere attempt to cover the queen/bowie classic.

    B+ pass. well done keane!

  • I groaned when I saw this video I thought 'Yet another queen cover, dear lord...' but I watched it anyway.

    And you know what? I was blown away. This si a very good cover. not as good as the original, but very very good indeed, well done Keane

  • great cover queens slightly better they are the original but these are the closest anyone will ever get.

  • excelent cover!! loooove it!!

  • Perfect cover, no one could do it better than Keane. Great song, great bands

  • go do your research dumb ass. the bass line is the original from Queen/Bowie. Vanilla Ice copied queen. JACKASS

  • What are you fucking stupid? Queen made there own. I know Ice stole his, that doesn't mean they're the EXACT same. Queen: dododododododo(X2) Ice's dododododododododododododododo­. I don't mean to say it that way, but how else am I going to explain your idiocy?

  • what in god's name are you talking about? i know queen has their own!!!!!

  • I seriously couldn't understand any point you were trying to make right there. Please elaborate.

  • I saw them play two weeks ago and they closed the show with this cover!

    the crowd loved it, me included!

  • nobody will beat queens version but this is as close as anybody will get.. well done

  • I love this version

  • IT WAS THEIR CLOSING SONG LAST WEEK HERE IN LEBANON...superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

    They quoted that it was one their best concerts ever!!!!

    Love yah Keane

  • i normally don't like any covers of queen's songs but i gotta admit this is pretty good. the best one i've heard. good job keane! though the original is always the best

  • This is the best cover I've ever heard. Keane has always been good for that tho, They also did a great U2 cover-

  • This is 16 in my Keane top 20 luv this version.

  • Queen/Bowie will always be best, you can't top the greats. But this is the best cover of this I've ever heard.

  • Doesn't beat the original queen and david bowie verison,but a VERY VERY good cover.

  • I agree

  • What an amazing cover of an amazing song!

  • I think that they did do a good job but I love Queen and I think the original is better. The My Chemical Romance and The Used version is also quite good.

  • I personally think you got the best of both worlds here. I'm a great Queen-fan, but I also love Keane, and I think they did an amazing job, because they knew people like you were going to judge them because they can't beat Freddie and David. But they're not trying to, they're actually big fans themselves, you should look at it as a tribute to them!

  • the best under pressure cover i've ever heard.

  • no offense but ive heard the queen version of this but i really dont think its there version

    It also says that its a cover

  • whos the people

  • What people ?

    if you mean people in the pictures thats keane

  • Better than I thought it would be.

  • i think keane made a great job with the cover! we're just use to the original(including my self) if you don't want to listen to this version you don't have to but i will!

  • i like it.. is good

    not as the original but is ok ..

  • not as bad as the my chemical romance, which was an absolute mockery. still, no one's better than freddie and bowie. i really wish people would quit covering my favorite song ever. so stay away!!!! you're not worthy!!

  • Its dipshits like you that are killing music with your arch-conservative fascist commitment to mummifying music the way that politicians mummify promises.

    Songs are NOT statues, or monuments- they are living things, organic, and travel across space and time with their kernels of knowledge and inspiration. Freddie is dead, and he left us something valuable, his songs. How dare you relegate a man's contribution to humanity to perpetual silence! Everyone should sing these great songs forever!!!

  • Quote:

    "How dare you relegate a man's contribution to humanity  to perpetual silence! Everyone should sing these great songs forever!!!"

    Amen.

  • it was definetely not bad, but it was somehow not good either!

  • Lols. How can you even compare vanilla ice to queen/david bowie's original version. I mean Im pretty sure they had it first.

  • yes they did =]

    thanks

  • well, maybe they're have Queen+David Bowie's Under Pressure for "Greatest Hits II" compilation, or maybe they're played with the exactly same arrangement, which removed the second times David Bowie sings, "This is our last dance"

  • Hey, cool, I didn't know this cover. Not better than the original but cool to hear Keane doing this song.

  • this is a lot better than I thought it was gonna be :)

    Tom does kinda sound a lot like Freddy

  • Lacks the feeling, the emotion of the Queen and Bowie versions. But it's definitely better than the MCR and Joss Stone versions. This song requires musicians extraordinaire.

  • I'm actually a fan of this verison.  Not bad at all. The first remake that doesn't suck big fat donkey dick. Unlike MCR, that isn't even music. Joss Stone, I want to hate fuck her for trying to remake this song.

  • The original, this, and the MCR version all ROCK! Absolute ownage.

  • Queen is so much better than Keane, but they made a great cover! Right on, Keane!

  • definetely a better cover than the MCR cover, (but i do like MCR), although, in my opinion, Queen are the greatest band in the whole entire world ever

  • (: yeah

  • What an amazing cover of an amazing song! This is amazing, thanks for uploading!

  • i always thought that tom chaplin sounded a bit like mercury. thought i'd see if they ever covered queen. a nice surprise :)

  • Don't much care either way, I just finding funny that one band gets crucified for trying a different approach to the song and another band gets praise lavished on them for trying to sound as much like the original as possible.

  • by far better than the crap that MCR came up with

  • Damn, verify few bands can pull off a cover but these guys nailed it. I don't know anything about Keane, but maybe its time to start checking them out

  • thanks for teh nice comment about Keane i hate it when people disapprove them

    but thats a good idea to check out keane im sur you will love them but if you can any quetions about keane then just ask me =]

  • @fourstake I'm a massive Bowie fan but I can't pull anything about Keane's cover apart! It's good. Although I think there cover of U2's With or Without You was even better!

  • holy shit they sound just like queen if i didnt know this wasnt queen i would think it was queen this is a great cover band

  • i know, they just never fail=P=)

  • wow if only Freddie Merecory was still around, if him and Chaplin did a duet..........

  • i love this song

  • awesome!!!!!!!

  • Great Keane! I wish I own even just the half of ur vocal power.

  • good song but they make it sound to happy compared to the lyrics, still good song though

  • HOLY SHIT! I thought that was Freddie singing then! I love this!

  • I'm a big fan of Keane, but I honestly don't think this song suits them. I must admit I like the MCR and The Used cover better.

  • this is okay, but i like the mcr/the used version better

  • i LOVE Keane but they can NEVER surpass Freddie Mercury & Queen. Never! Nothing can surpass those great times. Keane is wonderful but when artists try to do a remake of a certain song it gets me mad because they never serve justice to the originals. Artist stick with your own songs.

  • I totally agree with. Keane are awesome but Queen was even more awesome

  • They used the wrong bassline, its the one from Ice Ice baby. Whoops

  • Actually, Vanilla Ice was sued because the bassline of Ice Ice Baby was just a minorly altered form of the one from Queen's Under Pressure.

  • Yeah, I know, but the bassline sounds more like the altered ice ice baby version then under pressure.

  • i think this cover is equally good as queen's.

    whats wrong with it? Nothing tbh (: x

  • Very Very Good cover, But honestly just something about Freddy's voice just made everything he did one step up from anyone else.

  • Hey i did a David Bowie cover in video response there if anyone wants to look

    Im not sure how much it relates 2 dis video but theres no Bowie video that lets u do responses sorry

    The song i did is ' Sorrow' by David Bowie

    Feedback would be great!..hope u like it

    Daniel:)

  • Wow, What an underated vocalist..... this is by far the best vocal cover of this song I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.Eddie B X lead guitarist of a flock of seagulls 1988-1988. God bless

  • Some people with absolutely no skill or talent are often the biggest critics of those who do have it.

    If I could sing like this guy I'd pull all the chicks.

  • I think it came marvelous,,,,Tom has a great voice the band has something special that makes you listen to them over and over. This is one of my favorites,Freddy Mercury and David Bowie...Yes!! Keane 3 man band amazing!!!

  • Not sure if this is a live performance, but the phrase "turned away" at 2:05 is sung slightly off-pitch (flat), and the bass note for the chord progression from 2:38 deviates from the original in a BAD way. It goes from D to B to A, which is boring and too straightforward compared to the original D, G, A. You're always going to get compared to the original when doing a cover, like it or not, and if you can't do something different in a GOOD way, it's just going to be painful to listen to.

  • oohhh just shut up!!! its just one note and nobody would ever REALLY notice and tom sang pretty well

    'cause the truth is that this could be one of the best covers of under pressure besides its my favorite cover of them

  • everyone who has tried to cover this song butchered it so far....im not saying that these bands are bad, its just this is out of their reach

  • be-a-utiful : o

  • queen is one of the best old rock bands ever!!!!!!!! love the song...

    just kinda sad vinila had to stel the beat...

    but hay, that proofs queen is awsom

  • Very, very, very good!

  • Very, very, very good!

  • wow, a lot of people are making remakes of this song...

    they did a pretty good job

  • I don't like this version because the singer is trying to copy Freddie's singing style, he should try something own. They bring nothing new.

  • TRYING TO IMITATE HIM!!!? Why because he has a similar range.If you're going to comment at least get a little bit of musical education behind you, you FUCKING MORON!!!

  • This is great! That is probably the best cover of any song I've heard. I don't think any rock singer can match Freddie vocally but this is freakin' good.

  • NOBODY???? Have you been living under a rock...???

  • mmm tom did such a good job trying to sound like mercuri that you cannot recognise his voice at all!

    Yes u can! nobody sounds like freddie, doesn´t metter how hard he try -.-

  • fue unas de las canciones que ma sme encanto de Queen y david bowie no creen y als voces increibles

  • ummm i see increibles and voices and queen..put them to gather and it sais queen has an incredable voice??? lol at least thats what i think ^_^

  • Great cover, almost as good as the original.... but by not repeating "this is our last dance" twice, they messed up my favourite part of the whole song.

  • Nicely done!

  • sswweeeeeet !!!!!!!!!!

    : ~) : )

  • mmm tom did such a good job trying to sound like mercuri that you cannot recognise his voice at all!

  • Omg..If you don't like this one try to listen to My Chemical Romance's Version of 'Under Pressure'..It's absolutly dreadful!!

    That is what I call killing a song!!

    I think Keane did a good job at this..but ofcorse It' not as good as the original version..duh! We're talkin' about QUEEN here! I have to say though, it was a very brave move.

  • yes well tom chaplin (lead singer) said he want to sound like freddie i think he did agood job dont you ?

  • well a band can do a cover and just that, they don't have to change anything, they know they didn't write the song. But to make sure the cover is good. In this case, it's damn good !! first of all it's brave to do a Queen cover,Tom is awesome here.

  • I really like this cover....it is a pretty difficult song and most importantly the feeling should take over and in this one it definetly does

  • I have never seen the point of doing a cover that sounds nearly exactly the same as the original. If it sounds like the origial, why even bother??

  • This is my favourite song of all time, and I actually don't mind it. I think it is a pretty good version!

  • damn it!!! Why!! why did they do this to that beautiful song!! T-T

  • Really good cover

  • awe-some

  • good cover

  • i only like the chorus

  • Impressive, good work!!

  • It's very good actually, but off course nobody can't sound as beautiful singing high like Mercury, not even Mika....

  • lol

  • Wow its so similar

  • no es por nada,pero creo que KEANE podria parecer si no lo supieras la viva voz de freddie mercury

  • JossStone<Keane<LiveKillers<MC­R&TheUsed<Queen&DavidBowie

  • MCR? Eh, I dunno about that, dude....

  • Not as good as Queen with Bowie, but WAY better than MCR's cover...

  • Holy shit what a great cover! Hard to even come close to the original but i think they did it without a doubt. Great job guys!

  • No doubt about it...definetly Tommy has the best voice on earth. Great cover!!!

  • nice cover version

  • I'm a big fan of Queen. This cover is very very good, that's impressive. Freddie you miss you, living in our hearts.

  • mejor vdeo, apesar de ser QUEEN el video me parece de lo ,mas original, es un grupo muy sobresaliente

  • this is in response to johnbed...i know you were complimenting keane, not running them down.....they ROCK! Tom Chaplin has the best voice i've heard in a very long time.

  • great cover ,its amazing thanks

  • brilliant cover i love the fact the singer is trying so hard to reach the top notes

  • yes the singer is tom chaplin he is amazing live at that bit too

  • I love Keane so much, their one of my favorite band. I love the original version of this but, their cover is so awesome!

  • who sang this origiannly loads of peeps copied it

  • Queen and David Bowie

  • C=

    Aw I love this cover

    2 of my 3 fav bands have done a cover of this song

    Keane is one of them

  • eeste cover me encanta

  • This is a brilliant cover.Well done Keane!

  • awesome !!!

  • im lost for words, this is absolutely amazing for a cover!

  • yes i know keane are just the best

  • love it its amazing and one of the best tracks on the cd

  • wow ive never heard such a good cover for one of queens songs! but its still not as good as the orginal =D

  • Very good cover, well done Keane

  • I love keane and this song

  • The best cover that I ever heard of this song, I like Keane ^^

  • obviously, not as good as the original.

    but its pretty good!

  • PRETTY GOOD!!!??? What are you fucking stupid ? you need to listen to it again and realize that there are singers today comperable and sorry to say that exceed your beloved freddie.

  • I think it's bedtime for you, John. Go sleep off your idiocy and come back when you realize that nobody is comparable to Freddie. This is a good version, but nobody can beat the original with Queen and David Bowie. It just isn't possible.

  • Exceed Freddie? You embarrass yourself.

  • Im probably gonna get flamed by all you Keane fans but i dont like this cover. Well, it is better than the My Chemical Romance version.

  • Great cover... I was expecting badness but this is good. best track off of the Established 1967 album!

  • Absolutely amazing cover! Of course nobody can't make it better than Queen and Bowie, but this is wonderful. Da da da -part is best :D And that picture, where is that little Tom and Tim. So cute ^^ Where did you, Roxleyrocks, get that "keane"-font? (Or do I have it in my computer, but I just can't find it...)

  • good cover xD

    but Queen & David version is better

  • que gran cover!!, me gusta :::under pressure::: in my head!!! la escucho todo el rato........me encantoooo..

  • love this!! x

  • question to roxleyrocks07: WHERE'd you get that pic at 1:33? I LOVE it when bands have a pic taken of them on the floor like that, and Keane--they make it look GOOD, especially as a trio. Just the lovely, talented 3 of them on the floor, hehe :D

  • when i first heard this and didn't knew it was from queen/bowie I was like:

    "wtf how could keane do this"

    because it very different from the other 2 albums lol xD

  • This is the first time I've heard this, nice one!

  • 660003 love that version fantastic thankyou

  • Brilliant video. And I love the cover. Tom has such an amazing voice!

  • if u like keane, then come look at my channel

  • thank you so much for posting this roxleyrocks07, great video. Cute job w/ the lyrics :D I love the 2nd pic w/ them in glasses. They look GREAT w/ shades. And yes Tom should really KEEP THAT HAIRCUT, I'M NOT KIDDING!!

  • oh dude, I highly suggest you reconsider. They did great on this song. And not cos I like Keane, they really did a good job. I think Queen and David would be pleased. I agree w/ Navy2442 that they're showing respect to the original artist, and this song was a great selection and Keane NAILED it :D

  • so you don't like this cover ?