I was thinking about Spread Your Wings a few hours ago and realised 'hey, there are no backing vocals at all on that track'. My brain then went into overdrive about songs that have elements missing. Right now I can think of:
Spread Your Wings - no harmonies
Mother Love - no Red Special except that chord that opens the 2nd verse
Body Languagge - no guitar at all.. I think...
WWRY - no drums (and bass of course, but I put down drums because the 1-1-2 beat is done naturally)
If you think of songs where, for example, drums are completely absent and Roger's role is done by a drum machine, list it - of course, such tracks are bound to be criticised because of it.
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Mother Love has the RS in the middle-eight too.
Body Language does have 0.5 seconds of guitar. It, however, lacks real bass and real drums, which is a first for a Queen lead single. The song, in the studio version, was virtually a solo thing from Freddie with 0.5 seconds of Brian thrown in near the end.
Break Free is also a first for a Queen single regarding the solo: it's a synth emulating a guitar sound, not an actual guitar.
Body Language does have 0.5 seconds of guitar. It, however, lacks real bass and real drums, which is a first for a Queen lead single. The song, in the studio version, was virtually a solo thing from Freddie with 0.5 seconds of Brian thrown in near the end.
Break Free is also a first for a Queen single regarding the solo: it's a synth emulating a guitar sound, not an actual guitar.
Actually stomp-stomp-clap in WWRY was done with drumkit, Queen just used it in non-traditional way.
Another One Bites the Dust - No cymbals?
Hammer To Fall - No Zither
Breakthru - No Banjo
Need Your Loving Tonight - No Accordion
My Melancholy Blues - No Theremin WTF!
Breakthru - No Banjo
Need Your Loving Tonight - No Accordion
My Melancholy Blues - No Theremin WTF!
WWRY is not a drum kit.
In WWRY, the ''stomp, stomp'' was made overdubing the sound of foot in a wooden floor, and the ''clap'' os actually claping. They just overdub those sound too much times to count, just like the opera part in Bo Rhap
The Cosmos Rocks - No Freddie, no John :P
Procession predates TCR by more than three decades and is already no Freddie and no John.
Fight From Inside. No Freddie, no Brian, no John. All hail Roger!
flu wrote: Fight From Inside. No Freddie, no Brian, no John. All hail Roger!
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According to Sebastian's site, Brian does play guitar on it, for a small part.
My contribution = the obvious
Good Company = no brass band, trumpets are faked with the mouth.
Jazz album - never mixed!! (miraculous!)
Staying Power - weird song features a horn arrangement recorded in NY? by Arif Mardin.
Toy Koto featured on Prophet's Song
Love Of My Life - features a harp (played almost one note at a time)
Can someone verify if TATDOOL relied exclusively on a programmed rhythm track? Doesn't sound like live congas...
Good Company = no brass band, trumpets are faked with the mouth.
Jazz album - never mixed!! (miraculous!)
Staying Power - weird song features a horn arrangement recorded in NY? by Arif Mardin.
Toy Koto featured on Prophet's Song
Love Of My Life - features a harp (played almost one note at a time)
Can someone verify if TATDOOL relied exclusively on a programmed rhythm track? Doesn't sound like live congas...
Definitely not real congas
MadTheSwine73 wrote:
flu wrote: Fight From Inside. No Freddie, no Brian, no John. All hail Roger!
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According to Sebastian's site, Brian does play guitar on it, for a small part.
And obviously the album sleevenotes credit the guitars to both Rog and Bri.
Mmmm is true, the guitar were made by Brian and Roger... could be a Cosmos Rock song too