Favorite part in a Queen song.

[QUOTE] [b]ludwigs wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]croatiafan wrote:[/b]
When the piano at the end of The Prophet's song fades into the introduction for Love of my life.[/QUOTE]
There is no piano in The Prophets Song. It's 2 guitars.....then after the loud crash an acoustic guitar and 2 toy koto parts [/QUOTE]


Oh PLEASE let this be an extensive Queenzone argument, I love to read people bicker about it all.

Personally CROATIANFAN, I agree with you. It sounds like a double take of an acoustic harmonic, or maybe even simply a strong note. The piano comes in on LOML. It IS f-ng beautiful though, aint it?


Could someone please wake up Roy Thomas Baker and ask him if there's a faded in or out piano note that was sent to the masters?

For years I never heard the "vibes/xylophone" at the end of "You're my Best Friend"... It took DTS remixing to bring it to light....how strange I thought. I'd been hearing that album for years. (Often playing along with it)

Three of my favourite parts: (These are not my three favourite parts, but rather three of them.)

1)Brian's vocal contribution to Keep Yourself Alive. It sounds like he has a cold, and so is a little weird, however it also makes it wonderful. Queen was always focused on perfection, however to feature Brian's imperfect voice went against this, and so is my favourite part of Keep Yourself Alive. :D

2)Roger's vocal contribution to The March of the Black Queen. Freddie had a voice that, during the 70's, was never particularly tough (unlike for example I Want It All), and for Roger to come in on TMOTBQ with his gruff voice made TMOTBQ, already a masterpiece, all the more sweeter.

3)The 'ready Freddie' from Crazy Little Thing Called Love. I just love that, I think it's a really nice moment.

Yeah, (track 13 from made in heaven)

The end of the bbc version of Spread Your Wings. I love it because you can feel all four get into the song real well.

Oh rock of ages, do not crumble. Love is breathing still.

I'm surprised no-one has said the flamenco part of Innuendo

Guitar solo in Killer Queen.

Just off the top of my head:

- The instrumental / guitar section of 'Scandal'

- The guitar solo in 'These Are the Days of our Lives'

The bridge in 'You and I' where suddenly it all goes into minor!

Masterfull!

I do quite like it when one of them pops up in a song being sung by someone else - Freddie in Sweet Sister, Roger in Black Queen etc...

Great thread! I recognise and really like just about all the bits of songs mentioned here.

For me its two bits of "Mother Love" that are incredible. Firstly Freddie singing "Momma please let me back inside". All about the safety of mother's womb.

And then right at the end of the song Freddie sings "I think I'm going back to the things I learned so well in my youth" - which of course are the first words he sung as Larry Lurex on Goin' Back (ie the b-side of "I Can Hear Music") which was written by Goffin and King and was made famous by Dusty Springfield. So maybe Freddie recorded the b-side first and those words were the first he sang on a published recording.

That's then followed by the sounds of Freddie's life on fast backwards reverse from the end all the way back to the start and the cry (of him? as) a baby and possibly even the womb before that. Wow!!

The transition between Death on Two Legs and Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon on A Night at the Opera.

[QUOTE] [b]Flash Jazz wrote:[/b]
I'm surprised no-one has said the flamenco part of Innuendo[/QUOTE]
I did.

The transition from Party to Khashoggi's Ship is also one of my favourites.

The vocal pileups!
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh explode!" from Don't Stop Me Now

"Make my way!" from Dragon Attack

Final extra "It's late" (s) from It's Late

"leave it for some hopeless lane" from Long Away

Many more.

"The transition from Party to Khashoggi's Ship is also one of my favourites."

Really? It has to be the clunkiest, clumsiest piece of production in the whole catalogue