Does Paul sing any Queen Songs Better than Freddie

[QUOTE]I think the FM Tribute concert proved just how good a singer Fred was,
with ony one or two artists doing decent cover versions and most
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Another proof that there's some sanity in QZ, at times.

You people must be tone deaf if you mention paul rodgers in the same breath as Freddie Mercury.
Rodgers voice has cracked more times than a greek dinner set, he is fu*king awful that is putting it mildly.
TYMD with PR, you're having a laugh he sounds like Lemmy PR and can't handle that song or any queen songs pre TCR  btw have you peops not noticed the key changes added in all Queen songs.
Brian + Roger play brilliantly as always, but please spare us the bullshit about Paul Rodgers.

Freddie the Best without question - No Contest! and no i am not a sycophant.

I don't like Paul's version of Break free,mainly the last part (everybody got to the break sometimes...). I think it's embarrasing.

I totally agree with YV about WATC. By the way (and this is nothing to do with Paul in particular) I don't like the way that the band now sings the chorus, they don't give the song power and emotion. I prefer the way that Freddie used to sing it, along with the powerfull backing vocals by Roger. In my opinion, the actual version is nearer to an "American Idol"  version type than a proper Queen one. Maybe the reason is that Fred was real champion.

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I totally disagree about WATC. For me it's a winner song, a fist-in-the-air "take that " song but Paul Rodgers turns it into a whining, male Mariah Carey type (why sing one note when I can sing seven) song which I loathe. For similar reasons I dislike the slow HTF version Brian introduced in 1998. One of the most powerful Queen rock songs turned into a depressive, whining loser song.





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Agree 100% :)

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Agree 300% ;)

First time I heard Paul, I was astonished - He sounded like man from the drinking bar near my appartments



But now, I like The Show Must Go On - Call Me Heretic#3 if you like



But, of course, I can't compare him with Freddie - even with Freddie's worst in mid-80 - He still was the god

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NO ONE can sing anything better than Freddie.. FACT![/QUOTE]


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Although I'm not a damned heretic I do like Paul's interpretation of some of Queen's back catalog. For Example:
-"Tie Your Mother Down"
-"Fat Bottomed Girls"
-"Teo Torriatte (Let Us All Cling Together)"
-"Hammer To Fall"
-"The Show Must Go On"

I know Freddie never sang "The Show Must Go On" live...but the way Paul sings it with Brian and Roger live is freakin' awesome. I'd love to hear him interpret stuff like "It's Late," or "Tear It Up," or "Sweet Lady."

"Dragon Attack" too...

I like his interpretations better than Freddie's on the aforementioned songs. Argue about who sang them better all you want...I don't think it's a fair thing to argue about for either Paul or Freddie.

I have to say thatI like IWTBF and TYMD sung by Paul. And One Vision sound great in Kharkov.

No.

I think another one bites the dust sounds better than the with freddie


I don't think that he sings radio gaga or a kind of magic better than freddie but, for me, truly better than roger, because I think roger can't sing these tunes, cause his voice is very special, he needs songs that are written for his voice like the ones he originally sang on the albums!

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I don't like Paul's version of Break free,mainly the last part (everybody got to the break sometimes...). I think it's embarrasing.

I totally agree with YV about WATC. By the way (and this is nothing to do with Paul in particular) I don't like the way that the band now sings the chorus, they don't give the song power and emotion. I prefer the way that Freddie used to sing it, along with the powerfull backing vocals by Roger. In my opinion, the actual version is nearer to an "American Idol"  version type than a proper Queen one. Maybe the reason is that Fred was real champion.
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Spot on.  Especially as WATC was such a 'Freddie song' too, I just can't get a grip on how it is now performed.  Just little things like Roger actually joining in on drums the verses too when this shouldn't be there seems to distill the atmosphere of the song as well.  I think that this song out of all the songs they do sounds the most like a band covering Queen, rather than Queen themselves playing it (which is something Roger has publicly stated he was keen to avoid).

I also agree with the comment on Paul's vocal endings where he tries to do a blues type scat thing as a finishing line on far to many songs.  I'm not slagging him for fun, but what on earth does he sound like when singing any 'ooo' type sounds, such as on the Cosmos Rocks album at the end of Say It's Not True', and also when trying to pronounce the word dream at the end of Surfs Up - kinda sounds like follow that 'draaeeaem' !!!!!!!

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NO ONE can sing anything better than Freddie.. FACT!

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Oh joy. Another fanatic.

Freddie was amazing. The legends say it all.. He created life on earth by sucking Mercury's cock in the heavens and spitting out the semen across the land. These were the actual seeds of life.

Paul could never do that.