Brian's voice

Sharron .G wrote:

Brian is by far and away most prominent on the harmonies of "Fat Bottom Girls".

Just take a listen, it sounds like all Brian.

cool reply shaz!! :)


in an interview brian said he didn'r have a good voice and he didn't like his voice live,,.
i do think brian sounds good on record, but i agree ya can hear him alot on hitman harmonies which is understandable as we all know why, i think freddies voice on hitman sounds incredible tho,

The reason why Queen have such good harmonies IS because of Brian.

> The reason why Queen have such good harmonies IS because of Brian.

I disagree. All three of them were capable of doing beautiful harmonies by themselves. I'm In Love With My Car is all Roger and sounds beautiful, as do Take My Breath Away (all Fred), Leaving Home (all Brian), All Dead (no Roger), No One But You (no Freddie) and My Fairy King (no Brian)

MaTiaSMaY wrote:

Brian's a great singer.

I can clearly hear Brian sing in:

Tie Your Mother Down
Breakthru
I Want It All (in the choruses)
Hammer To Fall
Son & Daughter
The Night Comes Down

and a whole lotta more

JOJ

And Good Company and '39 offcourse, however I'm not sure bout that.

I just watched the FM Tribute Concert with my mother and we both agreed that Brian doesn't sing, he whines. My personal opinion is that every single Brian song soounds better with Freddie on vocals. Another World for example is a very good song, but with Freddie on vocals it would have been amazing.

no waaaaay, Freddie sings a song, Brian delivers it

And as for the harmonies. I think they sounded best when Brian was involved. I don't like the sound of only Freddie very much. The harmonies are so wonderful and sweet in sound when Brian is there, no matter if it's only Brian, or Brian and Roger, or Brian and Freddie, or all 3

"The reason why Queen have such good harmonies IS because of Brian."

No - see, he introduced the idea to Queen, with his idea of having a broad block of guitar harmonies that sounded very clean. I imagine it wasn't much of a leap to do the same with vocals, especially since the Beatles did it so well. Beach Boys too.

Freddie (especially in the 70's) was capable of delivering such perfect overdubs, it'd be hard for me to say Brian was better at it. Brian May has a very emotional voice that's perfect for conveying emotion. But Freddie has that 'sound' (think of the backing vocals in Love of my Life). I dunno. They're great, otherwise I wouldn't listen to either of 'em.

isnt that the guitarist?

mercuryqueen wrote:

I sometimes have a hard time figuring out who is Freddie and who is Brian on some songs.

I found this especially true on the intro to Brian's version of "Too Much Love" on Back to the Light. To this day, I swear I hear one "Ooooh" in there that has to be Freddie. It's not credited, but it's possible Brian used a sample from the last recording days. If not, then I've been crediting Brian's falsetto sound to Freddie for a lot of years.

When it comes to falsetto, Brian's and Freddie's voices aren't "that" different if all they do is a "oh". In a longer part the difference would be noticeable (e.g. the ending of '39 "all your letters...")