[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]
I remember a thread here a long long time ago (in a Queenzone far far away) about stuff like that......one thing I always noticed was that theres a stray piano note or something in the middle of the acapella section of The Prophets song....[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it even gets repeated in the tape delay. A B ? getting caught up by Freddie's mic, perhaps somebody in the studio played a note to give him the key?
[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]
It is indeed a bad thing having "untrained" ears after taking classical piano and guitar lessons for 3/4 of your life. I must say I feel a little uncomfortable being spoken to like a musical novice here. But indeed, I've never listened to NIH with earphones looking for details. It's a rather trivial rock piece to me, a grab-a-beer-crank-up-the-volume-on-your-cheap-stereo sort of song. Guess it's slightly more layered than I thought, so thanks for the insight. [/QUOTE]
I'm in NO way trying to suggest you are any way less musically trained or inclined! That was NOT my intention.
My remark was aimed more at the 'general' listeners.
Maybe my 'sad' life of spending countless hours to pick out/notate/transcribe/replicate all this Queen stuff makes me a little - "Why can't x/y/z hear these notes??"
No offence intended at all. Maybe my wording wasn't correct? I tend to write on-the-fly....
Ah, thanks for clearing that up, probably a slight overreaction on my part. I am painfully aware of that there are many people who know Queen's songs much better than I do, and I admire you guys for it! :-)
[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]
I remember a thread here a long long time ago (in a Queenzone far far away) about stuff like that......one thing I always noticed was that theres a stray piano note or something in the middle of the acapella section of The Prophets song....[/QUOTE]
I posted then and I believe it was purely a 'vocal cue' for the next note. 'F' after the 'round'.
[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]
...I've never listened to NIH with earphones looking for details. It's a rather trivial rock piece to me, a grab-a-beer-crank-up-the-volume-on-your-cheap-stereo sort of song. Guess it's slightly more layered than I thought, so thanks for the insight. [/QUOTE]
Now I'm Here has lots of nice things going on. The piano rolling in in the instrumental section tops it off for me - just makes it sound that much nicer. The vocal harmonies are superb throughout - simple three part arrangements, but so punchy and melodic.
Tie Your Mother Down would probably take the spot of trivial rock piece in my mind - it's one of the only songs from one of Queen's great albums that I find boring. It's still a fine, energetic rock song, but just doesn't have the same intrigue, depth and creativity as everything else on A Day at the Races.
