Songs with different musical paths

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.

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.

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!

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!

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[b]flu wrote: [/b] Fight From Inside. No Freddie, no Brian, no John. All hail Roger![/QUOTE]

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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...

Definitely not real congas

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[b]MadTheSwine73 wrote: [/b] [QUOTE]

[b]flu wrote: [/b] Fight From Inside. No Freddie, no Brian, no John. All hail Roger! [/QUOTE]

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According to Sebastian's site, Brian does play guitar on it, for a small part. [/QUOTE]

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