Freddie's best album, vocally?

As for Freddie`s thin voice on Innuendo, here`s a studio sheet from "Don`t try so hard", it was recorded in December 89`.
So it`s quite obvious that Freddie`s vocals / technique changed in that year. Assumingly his last takes for "The Miracle" were done in early 89`...so we`re talking about a very short period I guess.

Interesting pic. I'm guessing "You & Me" became "Bijou". Which, to keep this on track (pun intended), has a vocal that DOESN'T sound thin to me.

In case nobody mentioned, it's worth noting that [i]The Game [/i]was the first album made after Freddie began smoking. Of course, by then there were other factors that had begun to wear on his voice.

The Game was his last really great vocal album IMO. Sure, he hit strong notes on Hot Space, but his youthful crystal clear tone, that certain feel his intonation and phrasing had in the 70's were suddenly gone.

Can someone give an example of where freddies voice sounds "thin"? (song/section etc.)

To me he sounds thin in The Hitman, Headlong and These Are The Days Of Our Lives.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

The Game was his last really great vocal album IMO. Sure, he hit strong notes on Hot Space, but his youthful crystal clear tone, that certain feel his intonation and phrasing had in the 70's were suddenly gone.[/QUOTE]
^ this.

[QUOTE] [b]Chief Mouse wrote:[/b]

To me he sounds thin in The Hitman, Headlong and These Are The Days Of Our Lives.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. It's the whole album really. Others might call it something different to "thin" but there is something very different about his whole tone, especially when he's reaching for the higher notes. The wonderful Freddie richness isn't there, at least not as much. A good example is on A Winters Tale (next album I know but still...). Right from the start it sounds not quite like Freddie. He doesn't sound completely like himself. Oddly though, on Mother Love, the very last vocal he does sound great for the most part - but then most of that song is sung in a low register that didn't tax him the way, for example the chorus of TSMGO would have. It's all good, it's just a constant reminder that he was very ill at this point and it makes the music a little hard to listen to sometimes.

Hot Space is pretty amazing vocally. Ver versatile in terms of singing styles, too.

Any album Freddie sings on - is the best vocal album. :)

Hot Space (sessions). Songs like Under Pressure, Cool Cat, Soul Brother...holy shit!

True - the voice on Hot Space and The Game is beautiful.

I may have already replied elsewhere in this thread but, just in case, I thought his voice sounded at its very best on Jazz.

Granted, not my favorite album, but damn, to me he was really peaking there.

Yeah actually on Jazz he sounds excellent. Come to think of it there are very few times that he doesn't sound good on the studio albums. I'm hard pressed to think of a vocal performance that I don't like, except for some of Mr Bad Guy, which I think sounds a bit lacklustre, and somehow trying to be epic and failing - THAT SAID - again there are some absolutely epic moments in it. The vocal performance of Let's Turn It On (a song I really don't like) is astounding in places. I was born to love you is a beautiful vocal, but Made In Heaven is not. Love me like there's no tomorrow is not, but Mr Bad Guy is awesome.

These are just my opinions of course, feel free to flame them!

Barcelona for me....those sessions are just incredible.