Question about Jazz Album

[QUOTE] [b]strangefrontier wrote:[/b]

The US Jazz press kit claims 4/5 tracks were discarded and that they could of easily have put out a double album of material. [/QUOTE]

This is interesting! So what happened to the discarded material ?

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[b]Sebastian wrote: [/b] It's not just his falsetto although that's obviously exceptional - but also his magnificent head voice, his raspiness, his timbre either high or low ... and his underrated work as a drummer and all-round percussionist.[/QUOTE]

Yup.

[QUOTE] [b]waunakonor wrote:[/b]

Jazz is their weakest '70s album overall, largely because of the production, but there are also a couple really weak songs that wouldn't have made it on a previous album. It's still mostly killer though.

But yeah, Leaving Home Ain't Easy is weird. I usually love Brian's depressed sentimental ballads, but that one just lays it on really heavy and there't not enough musical interest there to justify it.[/QUOTE]

I love that song. It's actually one of the few Queen songs that could pass for "singer songwriter" territory. It sounds very personal , not overly sentimental or emotionally overblown. Anyone who has left home in the way implied should be able to relate to it.

Not sure what's weird about leaving Home, it's a beautiful ballad. Roger, I like his voice, and in his 70's prime was an excellent Drummer, not a Neil Pert but still great. His songs as a lead vocalist was a mixed bag for me. Modern times, tenament funster were great. I'm love with my car and fight from the Inside were also good. Drowse was decent, but was my least favorite on Races. Prime Jive was good, but my favorite part was the intro sung by freddie and musically it was good. Would've been great if Freddie sang the full song IMO. Fun it, more of that jazz and loser in the end I never liked.

They were a bit scatty indeed. I think even Rog admitted they weren't great. He was a really capable songwriter when he applied himself, but sometimes it was more like he'd just offer fillers in order to have something to sing and/or some royalties.

Wasn't The Game supposed to have been a double too? I guess it's the standard thing for a band to record more songs than they can fit on an album and the PR mentions them which becomes 'it could've been a double!'

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Dislike All Dead All Dead with a passion.
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Whaaaaat? Why?

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

Wasn't The Game supposed to have been a double too? I guess it's the standard thing for a band to record more songs than they can fit on an album and the PR mentions them which becomes 'it could've been a double!'

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If it's true, it's very strange that in the end it was the shortest proper Queen album...

They should have put "Sandbox" in there. Sexiest piano riff evah. :D

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[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Dislike All Dead All Dead with a passion.
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Whaaaaat? Why?[/QUOTE]

Great song, but we all have different taste. I don't agree with the rumor The Game was originally a double album. It's one of the shortest albums they did. I think pretty highly of The album, but the 2nd side had some weaker moments, and was so short I have a hard time believing they had enough strong material for a double album

Perhaps the other disc's worth was all kinda shite material, hence it being dropped. Simple but logical.

So far, all of the so-called evidence for a planned double-album has come from people who weren't there, and none of the eye witnesses or people involved with the project (the band, the engineer, the technicians) has ever confirmed - to my knowledge- said rumour.

So an unsubstatiated rumour it remains to me... should sound evidence ever come to my attention claiming the contrary, I'll be happy to stand corrected, but until then, I remain sceptical.

All Dead All Dead: Never liked it - one of those songs that in my 30 plus years of listening to NOTW I've never even had a phase of liking it. I think the morbid wintery boring intro, the morbid wintery boring lyrics and the overall morbid wintery boring sound and feel just don't appeal. Straight after SHA too. Hard to follow what was, from almost my first listen, my favourite Queen song. I remember writing an essay about it at school aged 9.

SHA is your favourite song, and you dislike All Dead? This is seriously controversial stuff! :)

All Dead is one of the rare numbers where Brian's voice really works for me. He doesn't have to sing loud (that's where his voice becomes shrill and nasal) and his slightly wobbly glissandos work just fine in a sad song like this. Same with Mother Love - almost sounds like he's on the verge of crying.

I love all Dead and everything, but how is it controversial to like SHA better? At least SHA was semi popular in it's time, I actually talked with a few casual fans that mention SHA as one their favorites for it's high energy. Not my personal favorite, but it's a pretty kick ass song.