Favorite part in a Queen song.

Each to their own I guess. I just love it and have for years, whatever the technical merits of it are. For me it keeps the energy up high going from Party into Khashoggi's Ship.

Just on your point about different singers on songs, I do like the use of different vocalists too, be it within songs or on different songs on the same album. Although there seems to have been a lot less of Brian and Roger singing on later Queen albums. I can't even think of one line that Bri or Rog sings on Innuendo. Haven't heard the Roger version of Ride the Wild Wind though so I don't know if that would have been a good alternative to Freddie's vocal. Maybe just a verse from Rog would have been good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3annOoBu0

[QUOTE] [b]Heavenite wrote:[/b]
I can't even think of one line that Bri or Rog sings on Innuendo. Haven't heard the Roger version of Ride the Wild Wind though so I don't know if that would have been a good alternative to Freddie's vocal. Maybe just a verse from Rog would have been good.[/QUOTE]

But Roger DOES sing lines in Ride The Wild Wind. 'Push the envelope - don't sit on the fence' and 'Live life on the razor's edge'. I don't know if you overlooked that or just didn't consider it a line that he sang, which is fair enough because it's spoken.

mooghead wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3annOoBu0[/QUOTE]

Nice version Mooghead. Very enlightening. Thanks for that.

tomchristie22 wrote:
Heavenite wrote:
I can't even think of one line that Bri or Rog sings on Innuendo. Haven't heard the Roger version of Ride the Wild Wind though so I don't know if that would have been a good alternative to Freddie's vocal. Maybe just a verse from Rog would have been good.

But Roger DOES sing lines in Ride The Wild Wind. 'Push the envelope - don't sit on the fence' and 'Live life on the razor's edge'. I don't know if you overlooked that or just didn't consider it a line that he sang, which is fair enough because it's spoken.

Hi tom
You are right on both counts. I did overlook Roger's contribution to Ride the Wild Wind. However had I recalled it, I would have probably overlooked anyway because, as you say, it's spoken word. I can say that because I remember ignoring Roger's spoken word contributions on The Invisible Man when I was reviewing the contributions of other band members on later albums.

Roger's version sounds cool and a verse or a line or two might have added a bit more variety to the song and worked really well. Having said that, its great to hear Roger's version after all of these years and its not half bad in my opinion.

The best moment to me happened only once, when I saw the Kharkov video for the first time, when Brian played Bijou and Freddie appeared on the screen.

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

Except for the 2 songs themselves.

Hadn't heard that Roger version of Ride the Wild Wind yet. It's kickin'. I can see why they maybe didn't want to take any lead vocals on Freddie's last full album, and I'm not sure the drum groove at the start needed to go on for so long, but it's awesome to listen to.

Too many moments to pick one but some that always give me a lift are:

Oh Rock of Ages -- from Brighton Rock. The isolated multitrack version of this is awesome.

And also in Brighton Rock, the power chords Brian hits right after the Rock of Ages section. He plays them just behind (or ahead?) of Roger's beat. Simple stuff, but used to great effect. Sounds really heavy.

Fred singing the bridge on Sail Away Sweet Sister

The melodic acousitc guitar section in Save Me.

But of course no single moment in the Queen catalogue comes close to this bit of Rush's Tom Sawyer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA

at 2 mins 32 seconds in.

:)

The snare drum in Innuendo. I get goosebumps everytime.

The intro of Death On Two Legs. Beautiful.

The last verse in "Drowse", is also great!
The lyrics are so good, and he sings it in a cool way.

The guitar solo and the bass coda in Going Slightly Mad, the bass intro in Under Pressure, the flamenco section of Innuendo which then leads into Brian's solo (already mentioned on this thread), the guitar hook in the single version of Flash right before 'Gordon's alive!', the brass and woodwind bit in Seaside Rendezvous, the metal section of Doin' Alright, the drum machines on Rain Must Fall, the second verse of Mother Love (esp. the Red Special chord at 1:28 and Freddie belting that high note at 1:53), the piano entering on It's A Beautiful Day, the guitar solo on Soul Brother, the 'come back, come back to me' section of Millionaire Waltz before it gets heavy, the list goes on!

The guitar solo and the bass coda in Going Slightly Mad, the bass intro in Under Pressure, the flamenco section of Innuendo which then leads into Brian's solo (already mentioned on this thread), the guitar hook in the single version of Flash right before 'Gordon's alive!', the brass and woodwind bit in Seaside Rendezvous, the metal section of Doin' Alright, the drum machines on Rain Must Fall, the second verse of Mother Love (esp. the Red Special chord at 1:28 and Freddie belting that high note at 1:53), the piano entering on It's A Beautiful Day, the guitar solo on Soul Brother, the 'come back, come back to me' section of Millionaire Waltz before it gets heavy, the list goes on!

well whenever i bought a new queen lp, on the first spin i listened out in particular for brian's solos, so i guess they must be my favourite part of a queen song.
the other one are the vocal harmonies.

[QUOTE] [b]ITSM wrote:[/b]
The last verse in "Drowse", is also great!
The lyrics are so good, and he sings it in a cool way.[/QUOTE]

Drowse is my favourite song, means so much to me

John's bassline in Millionaire Waltz, it's amazing