There's a bit towards the end of 'Someday Oneday', just as the instrumental to fade starts, where there seems to be an almighty crash in the background. sounds a bit like an electronic thunderclap. I've always wondered why on such a meticulously produced album they left that on.
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There's a bit towards the end of 'Someday Oneday', just as the instrumental to fade starts, where there seems to be an almighty crash in the background.
Yeah, I know exactly what you're referring to. I've always assumed it was just a little pick/finger/string scrape from Brian on his guitar just before he starts in on that solo - made to stand out more because of the heavy reverb and delay echo.
It's funny those odd little bits you hear in songs for so long that you just get used to them.
I don't think it's a glitch... well maybe. I just always heard something at the beginning of We Will Rock You. Around the first or second bar, if you turn the speaker way up, you can hear a voice make a sound, like, "aww". I don't know why such a sound would be purposefully put on the track so quietly. Does anyone else hear it?
I never realized how irritating the white noise at the beginning of Bo Rhap was until I got the new WWRY Greatest Hits disc...it says in the liner notes they finally got rid of it. I'm not sure if they did that with Somebody To Love too or not.
Just curious: Which part of FBG are you talking about? The guitar intro is supposed to come out of only one speaker...is there a part with vocals that is only coming out of one speaker too?
Just curious: Which part of FBG are you talking about? The guitar intro is supposed to come out of only one speaker...is there a part with vocals that is only coming out of one speaker too?
Well thats quite likely because it's not the first thing I've noticed. In the same concert, I noticed John has to dodge something that comes flying across the stage.
It looks like a banana. That concert had an absolutely mad crowd. They kept throwing hats on stage, and Freddie picked them up, wore them for about 10 seconds, and then threw them away again.
I want to see Freddie in all the hats :(
On mine the vocals are coming out of one speaker, or are rediculously quiet. Why are they like that anyway?
because in the "old days" things were actually produced for stereo effects. just listen to the vocal extravaganza in 'Prophet's Song'. somehow, someone got the "brilliant" (sarcasm) idea that things should sound exactly the same in both speakers. if that's the case, why on earth not just record it all in mono?
In FBG I find the lyrics so quiet I have to turn it up really loud, then turn it back down during the chorus. Now thats annoying...
In The Miracle,
at the beginning of the bass solo toward the end,
you can hear someone singing along with it.
Listen closely.
I also can't tell if there is someone counting along with the snaps at the end of Under Pressure
or if it is just some reverb thing.
Any ideas?
at the beginning of the bass solo toward the end,
you can hear someone singing along with it.
Listen closely.
I also can't tell if there is someone counting along with the snaps at the end of Under Pressure
or if it is just some reverb thing.
Any ideas?
Oh yes a permanent error: On Radio Ga-Ga at 4:32 in there is a slight pitch variation, probably a tape problem. It's on every version I've ever heard (even the single), and even though it seems small it has irritated me since 1984 :)
Wow, I thought I was the only person ever to notice this one!
Ooh, one other thing... in Made In Heaven, towards the end, right at the beginning of each quick B-E chord, there is a digital click evident to the sensitive ear. That kills the end of the song for me.
Always wondered why on the chorus repeat of Radio Ga-Ga, when Freddie sings 'Radio what's new', the second 'radio' is skipped and go on directly to 'someone still loves you'. This happens in every version of the song except in live versions. Does anybody know why is this?
Even though I have nothing to back this up with as I have never tried to play RGG,
but it sounds as if the flow of the music in a live setting is better when the second "Radio" is sung.
That's what I tell myself so I stop wondering.
but it sounds as if the flow of the music in a live setting is better when the second "Radio" is sung.
That's what I tell myself so I stop wondering.
I was just listening to Long Away last night, and in the last couple of seconds you can hear a tiny bit of piano from the beginning of The Millionaire Waltz. Maybe it's from being transferred from LP to CD? Or was it like that on the record?
On Mother Love it seems there is an error when Fred sings "All I want is to know that you're there".
When he says "All I want" in this sentence, it sounds in poor quality as if this was the only recording they could use.
When he says "All I want" in this sentence, it sounds in poor quality as if this was the only recording they could use.