the melancholy behind You Dont fool Me.

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

as it's established fact that all of the pitching, effects and phasing done on this track were done AFTER his death, then it's completely safe to say that the OP is imagining this "melancholy"[/QUOTE]

What a load of tosh! His vocals are pretty out front and clear to hear. It's not swamped in anything particular. Or to somehow delude us into thinking anything other than what is truly on show here, i.e. his raw emotional vocal.

Matt Z has some good points and tbh, this song is pretty clear. When I heard YDFM on my newer monitors (3 years on), the edits are a lot clearer vocal-wise. Even more so, are Freddie's actual vocals. By that, I mean the following...

Let's be frank about this, we've heard of the shape Freddie was in when recording the later stuff - the vodka, the propping up, tiredness, etc. But for me, YDFM is 2nd track (after Mother Love) where I really hear Freddie. It's quite raw. And it's something I never truly heard for many, many years.

Anyway, that's my two cents into the whole thing. Personally, I think we were hearing Freddie coming through on that one.

I also love the song. I'd love to know more about its construction. It manages to sound like a complete Freddie vocal, somehow.

[QUOTE] [b]Adam Baboolal wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

as it's established fact that all of the pitching, effects and phasing done on this track were done AFTER his death, then it's completely safe to say that the OP is imagining this "melancholy"[/QUOTE]
What a load of tosh! His vocals are pretty out front and clear to hear. It's not swamped in anything particular. Or to somehow delude us into thinking anything other than what is truly on show here, i.e. his raw emotional vocal.
Anyway, that's my two cents into the whole thing. Personally, I think we were hearing Freddie coming through on that one.[/QUOTE]

thanks for dissing my comments entirely.
righto - my observations were this:
1-20 seconds - almost vocal entirely adjusted
25-1:00 min - "you don't fool mes" adjusted in several different ways
1:02-1:20 again these "sounds" are meddled with
there's loads more on the end of individual lines...phasing/echos etc
second verse and chorus are much the same
if anyone on the planet sings "clean" like this then I'm father christmas - Freddie must be the only singer ever to have a natural echo/phasing he could invoke at will

perhaps you should clean the shit out of your ears - because the vocals are full of effects

be nice if you could retract your "tosh" comment now

Brenski, you've missed the point here. No-one here (including myself) said anything about there being no effects on his vocals. Or even the idea of editing of the vocals. If you don't know, I am someone who knows just how much editing goes into the end product of a song, i.e. lots!

And no, the "tosh" comment stands, as it relates to how you seem to think that the effects you mentioned, somehow created any melancholy. Rather than, you know, maybe that melancholy/feeling comes from Freddie's performance. Emoting is a powerful thing, which is why people use music as an outlet. And not just musicians either - I'm talking about writers that use music to adjust their mood to help write something. Or even film directors that play music to convey the right feeling to the actors in a scene. And in this case, Stelios felt something from Freddie's delivery on YDFM. Something that, in recent years, I have certainly felt

.

Adam

then YOU also missed my point. because whatever the OP might think - my ears tell me there is no melancholy in the singing of that song

now if someone had suggested
Nevermore, Somebody to Love, Bijou, Jealousy, Love of My Life or even (ahem) My Melancholy Blues, then i'd have accepted it...but this song does not have any melancholy about it.

but i'm backing out of this one now - before somebody calls me a "deaf c*nt"

Use all the crude words you want, dude. We all have opinions on things here. Maybe you should think about that and just agree to disagree rather than call the guy out by saying he's imagining it.

[QUOTE] [b]Adam Baboolal wrote:[/b]

And in this case, Stelios felt something from Freddie's delivery on YDFM. Something that, in recent years, I have certainly felt

.[/QUOTE]

Happy that someone elce can feel that too.

"He sounds like having a cold and with his spirits not exactly "up"."

It's called having AIDS.

[QUOTE] [b]Day dop wrote:[/b]

"He sounds like having a cold and with his spirits not exactly "up"."

It's called having AIDS.[/QUOTE]

Really? I thought he was having a bad day !

[QUOTE] [b]Ale Solan wrote:[/b] [/QUOTE] Ban this homophobe NOW