Too Much Love Will Kill You, Brian May Version

He gets it right, occasionally.  Simply put, he's done a few tracks that are good enough that he cannot be totally dismissed as a singer.  Once you reach that level of actually being better than some alleged 'singers', then I think you earn the right to keep giving it a go - shit or bust, as Robert Plant says.  Brian's only real crime here is that he isn't Freddie.

I still think The Call was a really bad idea, though...

I think its just brian singing. personally I always skip this track though, because I think Brian has a limited vocal range.
You can hear him straining his voice on the higher notes...Freddie's version is much better, you can tell that a proper singer is singing. Brian is the greatest guitarist, but he ain't no singer. I think he would be the first to acknowledge that. Roger is a better singer than Brian as well. Brian is ideal on backing vocals.

It's not Freddie's voice for sure. It's Brian's. He just sounds a bit like Freddie at that instant. I remember him sounding just like Freddie at some spot on the Kharkov concert.
Anyway, I've always prefered only Freddie's version because it's the best. I've heard so many people who have made Queen covers and still I haven't heard anyone sounding better than Freddie. Many years will pass and we'll never hear someone who can sound better than Freddie or even near his vocal level, because Freddie was the best singer of all time!
Brian is the best guitarist, but Freddie is the best singer and he sounds million times better than Brian, Roger, John (though we haven't heard him that properly), and all other singers in the world.
We've lost the best singer in the world and he will be missed forever...

You sound like a very dreary person.

That it is. Everybody can sound dreary while listening to this song and knowing that it had been recorded a few years before Freddie died (I'm talking about Freddie's version). I don't want to say that I did really sound dreary while was writing the above post, but yes, it makes feel dreary a bit.

its a sad song!!!  its SUPPOSED to make you feel dreary!  or at least wistful.... still love it though.

"I don't want to say that I did really sound dreary while was writing the above post, but yes, it makes feel dreary a bit. "

Well knock it off - there is a lot of music in the world and you've got a wax buildup in your brain if you think the world ended when Freddie died.  Every 10 or 20 years 'the music dies', but there's still good stuff around.  It is sheer laziness if you don't want to go looking for it.

PS.  Just don't looking for it on any Top 10's!

I really prefer Freddies' version to Brian's

I prefer The freddie Version on Made In Heaven.....The Brian Version starts off nicely, but once the chorus comes he sings out of his range, and once that happens it's all over for me.    Brian sings a nice ballad, but if a song is upbeat, or calls for a wide range of singing he'll sound silly. Usually doesn't work for him.  The freddie Version has great vocals, and is the better version IMO.  Overall,  the song is good, but don't consider it one of their best.

When Brian sang this at Freddie's tribute it was full of raw emotion and it was excellent and I prefer that to his album version, really like Freddie singing it as well though

I prefer Brian's version, he may not have as good a voice, but i think the arrangement is much better, also the multitracks at the beginning are superb, i'm assuming he used the 'Vocalist'?
Not a fan of BTTL, But i actually think 'Another World' is an excellent album, he sounds far better, his range, power and confidence are much better, and how could you NOT love a song like 'The Guv'nor'?

Guv'nor sounds like an 80's anachronism, at times I feel like I've accidentally put in the Bill & Ted soundtrack.  Bit too daggy for me.  But you're right; his singing was way improved on Another World.  Why Don't We Try Again holds its own against the work of many singers out there; it is a fine piece of work.

This song was quite popular in Norway back in the day. It was on a collection called "Absolute Music 6"...

Djdownsy wrote: I prefer Brian's version, he may not have as good a voice, but i think the arrangement is much better, also the multitracks at the beginning are superb, i'm assuming he used the 'Vocalist'?
Not a fan of BTTL, But i actually think 'Another World' is an excellent album, he sounds far better, his range, power and confidence are much better, and how could you NOT love a song like 'The Guv'nor'?

I don't like the guv'nor,  so There!....Can't stand the song......I agree another world vocally is much better than BTTL, but i still like the latter better.  the ballads are good on his solo albums for the most part....Another world is a good one, as is wilderness,

I have always liked BTTL better than AW, mostly because I think the songwriting on BTTL is better. But the biggest  beef I have with AW is that most of the songs on it had already been released in one form or other before the album ever came out - sometimes by 3 or 4 years. By the time AW was released in '98, I'd already heard nearly everything on it.