Easter Eggs in Queen songs

theres also an extra vocal saying something at the end of was it all worth it when the timpani drum hits its final note......have a listen and try find out what they are saying....?

Holly2003 wrote: rhyeking wrote: I'm not sure if this counts, but here goes:

Need Your Lovin' Tonight: Under the first "Ooo, I need your lovin' tonight!" someone says "Let's go!"
There's more than that. I can hear a different background vocal, almost hidden in the mix. It seems to be a counter harmony,. Can;t make out the words though.
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It's either 'a counterpoint' or 'a harmony'. There's no such thing as a 'counter-harmony'.

It's the best phrase I can think of to describe what I'm hearing. English is a fluid and innovative language that allows this form of description, even if it isn't the exact musical term (which may or may not be the case - you are such a gimp I wouldn't trust your word on anything).

Yes, it's about mistakes partly, but it's also about hidden gems buried in the mix that you wouldn't hear unless you turned up the volume, or have an ear for detail.

One I heard just the other day, listen to She Makes Me around 1:12, there's definitely some sort of talking in the background, barely audible but it's there! It's more apparent on the old 1994 remasters than the latest ones.

The Prophet's Song - in the middle part a instrument joins in the cascade of vocals. I think it's John who accidentally touches one of his strings. It could be Brian's guitar equally well. It's hard to tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmsXqgHHEI

Listen carefully at around 4:17-4:18.

More of a mistake than an easter egg, though.

Rick, that isn't  an instrument error.
It is actually Fred quietly singing a note to 'get' his pitch for the next "Now I know" section. He sings a low F note after the "around, around" part which ends on E. Recording it as he hears the delays makes for quite a lot of things going on so I'm certain he sang this reference pitch ready to do the next part.

I agree about the word "Right!" in Liar and not Christ.

Anybody knows what is that strange little sound on 00:41 on Radio Ga Ga? I've always thought that should not be there...

Theres the mystery bit of white noise at the start of Melancholy Blues. And just before the vocal starts in Drowse there is what sounds like a 'beep' that couldnt be made by any of the instruments in the actual track, sort of an electronically generated sound...

Plus there are the few minutes of utter dirge between tracks 3 and 5 of Hot Space

;-)

mooghead wrote: Theres the mystery bit of white noise at the start of Melancholy Blues.

That's Freddie pushing down the sustain pedal on the piano ;)

Here's a great one 

3:19 into Doing Alright, when the heavy guitar comes in, you can hear the level abruptly drop after the second bar of the riff....it's almost as though they'd placed the fader slightly too high and realized so too late, but it was kept in the mix...you'd never hear that these days!

On the Queen at the Beeb version you can hear someone counting that guitar in

Mad The Swine. At 1:56-1:57 there's an occasional vocal or just a mix mistake in one of the channels.

Does anybody know what the beep sound is doing in 'I'm in love with my car' on Roger's line 'and the hubcaps all gleam' which is appeared on 00:30?

I don't have another example, but just a short thing to tell.
Sometimes things appear on the record that even the artists themselves don't know where they come from.
I remember when recording an album with my own group some years ago, and we listened right after recording, we all heard a strange kind-of 'sigh' or 'hiss' in the background. As we all played accordions and didn't use our voices, no one knew where it came from. (and still don't!)
We all liked that take the best, so we kept it in the final mix, and because it was a piece of Astor Piazzolla, who had died by then, we now refer to it as the sound as 'the ghost of Piazzolla'. :-)

I keep licking Queen LPs to at least get a hint of easter eggs, but all I'm getting is vinyl.