my favorite is the 77-79 era, a very powerful voice
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Okay, maybe i'm getting my musical terms mixed up here. However, for instance the way Freddie sings some of lines in Killer Queen, compared to the record. How would somebody describe that? Singing the song in lower notes?
Supersonic_Man89 wrote:
Okay, maybe i'm getting my musical terms mixed up here. However, for instance the way Freddie sings some of lines in Killer Queen, compared to the record. How would somebody describe that? Singing the song in lower notes?
It's got a few different terms but common ones are "alternative melody," and "reharmonization."
Giacco 73 wrote:
Having said that I love Freddie voice in every era...
It was his precise choice.
I had a quote of Freddie which says:"I was also pleased with my voice.I like it husky.It's all the smoking.That's why I smoke-to get that husky voice."
Age,smoking,cocaine,partylife and a tecnique based on pure instinct skills led his voice to sound like it sounded in the 80's but..I really love it!Am I the only one!?
It was a dramatic change of image compared to the 70's but I love it way better.
I'm not into that much of the glam 70's look and I always loved his voice in every era but when I think of Freddie it come immediatly to mind his strong,powerful and huskier voice of the mid 80's along with his mustache!
I always felt one thing.In the 70's he sang with a beautiful and youthful voice,no doubt about it but he sang "slower" if you get my drift and talked very frequently between songs,which is fine for me.But during the 80's his vocal delivery seems to me like "speeded up",more faster,powerful,energetic and masculine like the change of look with jeans,T-shirt and Adidas shoes which I love way better than the 70's one.Maybe I'm in a minority...
I agree completely. 80-86 is my favourite live period of the band. 82 tour is the best in my opinion.
people on streets wrote:
Giacco 73 wrote:
Having said that I love Freddie voice in every era...
It was his precise choice.
I had a quote of Freddie which says:"I was also pleased with my voice.I like it husky.It's all the smoking.That's why I smoke-to get that husky voice."
Age,smoking,cocaine,partylife and a tecnique based on pure instinct skills led his voice to sound like it sounded in the 80's but..I really love it!Am I the only one!?
It was a dramatic change of image compared to the 70's but I love it way better.
I'm not into that much of the glam 70's look and I always loved his voice in every era but when I think of Freddie it come immediatly to mind his strong,powerful and huskier voice of the mid 80's along with his mustache!
I always felt one thing.In the 70's he sang with a beautiful and youthful voice,no doubt about it but he sang "slower" if you get my drift and talked very frequently between songs,which is fine for me.But during the 80's his vocal delivery seems to me like "speeded up",more faster,powerful,energetic and masculine like the change of look with jeans,T-shirt and Adidas shoes which I love way better than the 70's one.Maybe I'm in a minority...
I agree completely.
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Supersonic_Man89 wrote:
and I often wish I could hear his 1981 self sing Who Wants To Live Forever or It's A Hard Life.
indeed.
Yes I notice that I feel different in Freddie's voice between Keep yourself alive-Play the game and AOBTD-TSMGO
And I think his Ultimate Makeover make a change in his voice too
And I think his Ultimate Makeover make a change in his voice too
I think his voice did get better after he quit smoking though for the last two albums. He sings high tones for songs like DTSH.
Freddie's voice had a lovely purity to it in the 1970's which he moved away from in the 1980's. I love both eras of course but to me there is something so exciting in the sound of his voice after 1984. The power and the tone were just spellbinding. He did say in interviews somewhere that part of the reason he started smoking was to get that husky voice I'm talking about. I think it puts a little dirt into the voice although after a while you will sacrifice some range as the trade off. The Innuendo voice is still powerful - very powerful in fact but he's losing his tone by then due to his illness sadly. It's not because he gave up smoking. It's a reflection of his body's condition. Even Roger Taylor admitted in a recent interview that the voice was thinner throughout that last album due to illness. It had lost some of the wonderful personality that Freddie had always been able to infuse his singing with and for this reason they are my least favourite Freddie vocals to listen to.
^^ I remember reading a Hot Space Tour era interview of Freddie where he said that his higher range was already going down at that point. I think you can hear this when comparing the first part of the tour with the second part.