Pauls Voice

After countless plays of the new album, and thinking that Pauls voice sounds great on tracks like I Believe, Surfs Up.... and more, Does anyone think it sounds terrible on the chorus of Thru the Night and parts of Time to Shine? I hate being critical cos i think there's too many people knocking him, but sometimes its painful

Yes, I agree. The first two choruses in TTS do sound off key compared with the third chorus which sounds spot on. I don't know why this is. Incidentally, the TTN chorus is the only part of the album that really makes me cringe (naff lyrics also). Shame that, because the verse is really quite good.

But sounds like SHIT on Queen songs!!!.

Something that disappointed me about the album was that his voice was only put to good use on two songs, and those were ones we had before the album was even out.  I find that he has good moments throughout the album, but the only consistently good effort (at least, to my mind) is during Say It's Not True and C-Lebrity.  I'm not crazy about the songs themselves but that's where I think the best performances can be heard on the album.

It has been said over and over, Paul is a good singer, but can never create something that will Roger and Brian will bring back close to the original. Paul is a blues singer, meaning that he uses only a restricted range of his voice. Also the reason why he is acting at this level for so long. For Queen other singers like George Michael or Mika or Robbie Williams were no option, because then it would have been GM + Queen, Mika + Queen, RW + Queen. And our guyse are, perfectly right by the way, not made to play second violin.... And the album is a disaster. If you're in the bussiness for more than 40 years, you do have to come up with something better. Any 18-year old could have done a better job, over all.

Paul`s voice is great! I like it.

After going to the Nottingham gig last night, i hate to say it but, Paul really isn't suited to Queen. Numerous forgetting of words, no interaction, apart from when singing his own songs, i just find it so frustrating

At first I thought he did too much out of his voice, because he wasn't Freddie. But he's growing on me, but can't say he's just great... Yeah yeah yeah... I'm hung over and I'm on work on a Saturday......

I tried to photo the words on the autocue - only there during Queen songs and The Cosmos Rocks. It didn't come out, sadly. Of course on one or two songs WE sand the QUEEN way and he sang his way and it was a bit of a mess. :-(

I think that he's not like freddy to a certian point that it sounds not like he's copying him, but trying to be original,and sing old queen songs.
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It has been said over and over, Paul is a good singer, but can never create something that will Roger and Brian will bring back close to the original. Paul is a blues singer, meaning that he uses only a restricted range of his voice. Also the reason why he is acting at this level for so long. For Queen other singers like George Michael or Mika or Robbie Williams were no option, because then it would have been GM + Queen, Mika + Queen, RW + Queen. And our guyse are, perfectly right by the way, not made to play second violin.... And the album is a disaster. If you're in the bussiness for more than 40 years, you do have to come up with something better. Any 18-year old could have done a better job, over all.  [/QUOTE]
For God's sake BM & RT were not looking for "another FM" or get close to the original, that era is gone, dead & buried, why can't people just accept that!
RT is quoted as saying if nobody likes the new album,then sod it he does, and quite right too! He doesn't need an official stamp of approval from so called fans. He's too old and too long in the tooth to give a toss, plus another thing a series of sell out shows, proves his point
A whole new fanbase is discovering a new Queen, a band with a whole new dynamic, free to try new things, but not free I fear of the burden of the Mercury baggage.

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.... And the album is a disaster. If you're in the bussiness for more than 40 years, you do have to come up with something better. Any 18-year old could have done a better job, over all.  



 

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Whoa...I'd like to see "[i]any[/i]" 18-year-old even try to record, produce, mix, perform, and promote (there was a little promotion!) an album within the same class as The Cosmos Rocks.

Getting back onto the subject....... the autocue thing really bothers me as well.  After touring with the band for god knows how long last time around, Paul still needs an autocue for well known songs  that even a ten year old would know? Like i've said before, i hate moaning cos seeing Brian and Roger live is a dream come true, its just so bloody frustrating sometimes

Paul's voice is ok, but let's face it, if Roger and Brian could have robots of the band made (including Freddie) they would do that
Then they would send the robots out on tour

And people would fool themselves into thinking that they had seen Queen live