All dead, all dead by freddie mercury on the radio

Wonderful rendition of the song! Oh, and the expectation to hear it's premiere on BBCR2 was also a joy in itself.

Cheers,

Ogre-

Hey, I think think that the hybrid version is fine as a vehicle to promote the release and the video is just really effective...dare I say it, "Cute".

It certainly gives the song a different feel to me with Fred's voice. Sounds like a nice little outtake that has been saved and I'm glad they kept it raw.

this is pure ear candy for me. how many times have i heard this thinking how would it sound w Freddie on vocals. how many times!? only wished i waited to hear it when the box came to my door

now that i've heard it - he sang it in too low a key for his voice . I prefer Brian's vocal to this version - but will listen to this one many many many more times!

I've always thought, though, that the lyrics are too verbose and that (now) both Brian and Freddie are struggling to keep up with the backing track and squeeze all the words in. I find myself wanting it to swing and be nice and laid-back with how the backing track is paced but end up with a pseudo "Stone Cold Crazy".

Not too concerned about sound quality as only listening on a tinny phone, but this vocal just drips with passion and emotion.

Absolutely love it.

Greg Brooks explained at the convention that he found this track on a cassette in Brian's collection. They don't have a multitrack tape of it, so making into a finished song isn't really an option.

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[QUOTE] [b]splicksplack wrote:[/b]

They could have made a lovely finished track with this. Freddie's vocal is superb. It would have been a great new track.

Unfortunately they've purposefully spoilt that by not mixing it down with the backing vocals and not generally cleaning it up.

I don't see myself listening to a track with the vocal so aggressively forward in the mix and a load of hiss going on.

I can only assume that Brian does not want a real alternative version to compete with the original.

As beautiful as Freddie's vocal is this is just a studio curiosity.[/QUOTE]

Surely that's is the whole point - it IS a studio curiosity and that's what it's supposed to be..it's not meant to be a finished polished piece to rival the album version.

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[QUOTE] If All Dead has surfaced there could be others. Imagine Leaving Home Ain't Easy, Long Away or Rock It (all the way through).[/QUOTE]

Freddie did sing Rock It live, so there must be some decent recording of his vocals somewhere.

[QUOTE] [b]Jam Monkey wrote:[/b]

Greg Brooks explained at the convention that he found this track on a cassette in Brian's collection. They don't have a multitrack tape of it, so making into a finished song isn't really an option.

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^Didn't he say that about Sleeping on the Sidewalk rather than ADAD?

Planet Of The Apes moment at the end of the video!

[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]

"It was slighty detuned and a bit faster.
I have them both loaded as a multitrack but the Freddie version runs faster."

There is always some tit on hand with a sound editing programme and new material (or re releases) ready to point out flaws. You have impressed absolutely no one.[/QUOTE]


You only post to impress someone?
I am not, i was just stating that the speed and tuning was different.
That is because i wanted to mix the two versions together, sorry that i am not meeting your standards.And that you use this forum and your time to point out your dislikes about other people, little bit sad ain't it?

[QUOTE] [b]Jam Monkey wrote:[/b]

Greg Brooks explained at the convention that he found this track on a cassette in Brian's collection. They don't have a multitrack tape of it, so making into a finished song isn't really an option.

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Well, I'd take anything GB says with a pinch of salt (don't forget the is the man who reckons Tori Amos wrote a song about him, but Tori Amos's own accounts say something totally different about the song's origination). The man appears to exist in a toxic cloud of self-importance that is, in my opinion, detrimental to the legacy of the band that employ him. But hey, they're doing a bad enough job with it themselves so why bother about GB and his fantasies?

I think it stretches credibility that the only surviving copies of some of Freddie's vocals from an album recording session in 1977 (2 years on from Bohemian Rhapsody) would be on a cassette. Anyway, with today's technology it would be a relatively simple matter to extract that vocal and drop into one of the existing mixes with the required speed and pitch changes and cook up a bloody good version.

[QUOTE] [b]Golden Salmon wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Jam Monkey wrote:[/b]

Greg Brooks explained at the convention that he found this track on a cassette in Brian's collection. They don't have a multitrack tape of it, so making into a finished song isn't really an option.

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^Didn't he say that about Sleeping on the Sidewalk rather than ADAD?[/QUOTE]


Greg said at the start of his session that one track had come form a cassette and I'd quite naturally assumed it was the live one.
Maybe I was wrong and Jam Monkey picked up on something i didn't.
Easily done when you've got extraneous noise around you and sometimes miss hearing bits.

If this IS the case though, does that mean the 'x' number of recordings used to create SOTS are proper multitrack sounddesk recordings?
I'd have thought that they too would be from cassette unless the band purposely planned to release a live album - recording multitracks for EVERY concert would be expensive.

Great! Amazing! Incredibel intro! Freddie sings beautifully!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UdZeJ0gqUNs

Please check these instrumental with great FM backing vocals.

Maybe someone can use this with the new FM vocals.