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In Need Your Lovin' Tonight there is a background vocal, very low in the mix, that seems almost like a harmony they tried and didn't like/use. Can anyone else hear it? You will need to use a proper stereo and headphones and not mp3 and crappy pc headphones.
"Queen is the only band in the world that can play so heavily that your nose bleeds, then offer a silk handkerchief to clean up with."
Hmm, at what particular moment in the song?
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Yeah, there's additional "never" after every "I said I never" line. Sounds really out of place, but I'd say it's there purposely.
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Yeah, always noticed that, maybe a happy accident.
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I can hear it with mp3 and crappy in-ears. I say it's intended. Nice little touch IMO, but should definitely be either higher or lower in the mix. If I'm not mistaken, it's Brian singing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s01a3fOHO24

0:22 - 0:23 never
0:27 oh yeah
0:43 - 0:44 never
0:55 ?
1:02 Let's go ?
1:12 - 1:13 oh yeah ?
1:16 ?
1:18 ?
1:29 - 1:30 ?
1:34 ?
1:37 Let's go
2:33 ?
the same place in the mix
Holly2003 wrote:

In Need Your Lovin' Tonight there is a background vocal, very low in the mix, that seems almost like a harmony they tried and didn't like/use. Can anyone else hear it? You will need to use a proper stereo and headphones and not mp3 and crappy pc headphones.


Why on earth would you need "proper" headphones as you call it? I even hear this through my laptop pc-speakers. It is amazing to see how many that actually think music disappears in a standard mp3-file.

And as others have commented: This was of course fully intentional by the band. :)

Basically blind em and deaf em in the first 10 minutes, and while they are recovering from that put in the less good songs
If it's the same place that I recall, it always sounded to me like

"I said I'd never ..."
(Background vocal) "oh no"
"Never be angry with you..."
damiandaj wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s01a3fOHO24

0:22 - 0:23 never
0:27 oh yeah
0:43 - 0:44 never
0:55 ?
1:02 Let's go ?
1:12 - 1:13 oh yeah ?
1:16 ?
1:18 ?
1:29 - 1:30 ?
1:34 ?
1:37 Let's go
2:33 ?
the same place in the mix


How can you miss 'No I Don't' after the line 'I don't wanna feel like a stranger' about 31 seconds
Just part of the song innit? A hint at the slightly 50s / doo wop feel of the album.

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