Freddie's best album, vocally?

A Kind Of Magic and The Miracle.

Tbh, without getting too deep to some of the (remarkable) posts above:

The Game
Barcelona
The Miracle

Having had thoughts about INNUENDO though, easily no 3 contender.

[QUOTE] [b]k-m wrote:[/b]

Tbh, without getting too deep to some of the (remarkable) posts above:

The Game
Barcelona
The Miracle

Having had thoughts about INNUENDO though, easily no 3 contender.[/QUOTE]innuendo is imo waaaaay better than The Miracle.

A Day At The Races to Jazz/The Game was his peak as a singer IMO. A voice with limitless dynamics.

Barcelona for me. Freddie was unbelievable on this album. This is human's voice at its peak. Freddie on Barcelona album >>> any opera singer (you can laugh :p)

Apart from that: Opera, Races, NOTW, Hot Space, Innuendo (actually everything between 1987 and 1990)

I think he sounds too strained on the Barcelona album, personally. Really good album overall though.

Best album vocally? Really depends on what you are looking for!

Dynamics/Creativity: A Night At The Opera/A Day At The Races - so many different shades of his voice are shown on those albums. There's soft singing, rock singing, so many different tones to his voice.

Power: A Kind Of Magic/Barcelona. Maybe not the best albums to listen to if you want Freddie singing in different styles or sounding "pretty," but his voice was at its most powerful on these albums. Barcelona is probably the better of the two overall.

Technique: Innuendo. While his illness affected his power and tone (he sounds really thin throughout the album - even a bit nasally), his technique was at its most developed. Freddie's mix voice was really balanced. Some really awesome singing on the album. His head voice was also in top form.

Yeah I'd say that sums it up nicely Greg. :)

Can't argue with that!

Greg nailed it for me

[QUOTE] [b]Gregsynth wrote:[/b]

Technique: Innuendo. While his illness affected his power and tone (he sounds really thin throughout the album - even a bit nasally), his technique was at its most developed. Freddie's mix voice was really balanced. Some really awesome singing on the album. His head voice was also in top form.[/QUOTE]

Agreed completely. I don't think there are many singers who could pull of the technical intricacies of, say, "Don't Try So Hard".

P.S.: You can hear the Don't Try So Hard demo. There you'll se how he managed to control that delicacy in a more rawer way. Even if it's a bit raw, it's so tremendous that somebody could do that, and be called a human being.

I'd have to go for:

Hot Space - jumping in to different genres left, right and center and never failing to be UTTERLY convincing.

Barcelona - the sheer fact that someone as respected as Montserrat allowed this to be released proves, definitively, that Freddie's voice was one of the finest ever captured.

Queen II - the innocent power of someone that knows they are absolutely destined for superstardom and leaving nothing in the locker by the end of Seven Seas Of Rhye.

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Barcelona - the sheer fact that someone as respected as Montserrat allowed this to be released proves, definitively, that Freddie's voice was one of the finest ever captured.[/QUOTE]

Exactly my thoughts. What's more Freddie wanted to do only one song. Is was Montserrat who insisted to record full album.

Of course Barcelona was brilliant. Not sure if Queen 1 was mentioned yet, but I think his voice was very good on that as well. Yea, his voice wasn't fully developed yet, but I like the youthful sound to his voice on My Fairy King and Doing alright. You could hear his voice getting stronger on songs like Great King Rat and Liar compared with his voice before Queen. I like his voice on those first 2 albums.