Easter Eggs in Queen songs

PTRACER 20.05.2011 07:27	No doubt there's been a thread on this before, this is about snippets of speech, duff notes and other snippets of audio etc. that made it into the final mix that probably shouldn't have. Some of them may have been intended, others not, but they left them in anyway. I've compiled a video of the ones I know of, can anyone think of any more? link Liar - 2:29 - Roger shouts "Christ!" while drumming White Queen - 3:35 - During the guitar solo, Roger is heard in the left channel shouting "Keep going!" Drowse - Outro - One of the more famous ones, where Roger says "Now who else do I like.....Brian May?" We Will Rock You - Intro beat - Freddie saying "Ahhhh", which might be the tail end of "One, two, three, fouuuuurrrrr" ? Sleepin' On The Sidewalk - Brian's laugh at the very end of the track If You Can't Beat Them - 2:40 - Sounds like one of the other tracks on the mastertape wasn't muted and something crept into the mix over the chorus during "Ohhh, you better do it cause it makes you feel good". Again, sounds like Freddie and it's only half a word, but it's louder than everything else at that moment.
rhyeking 20.05.2011 08:36	I'm not sure if this counts, but here goes: Need Your Lovin' Tonight: Under the first "Ooo, I need your lovin' tonight!" someone says "Let's go!"
Holly2003 20.05.2011 08:40	rhyeking wrote: I'm not sure if this counts, but here goes: Need Your Lovin' Tonight: Under the first "Ooo, I need your lovin' tonight!" someone says "Let's go!" There's more than that. I can hear a different background vocal, almost hidden in the mix. It seems to be a counter harmony,. Can;t make out the words though.
ITSM 20.05.2011 09:01	Teo Torriatte - someone's counting 1, 2, 3, 4 at the start. I heard that the first time a couple of years ago on a discman.
Fly away 20.05.2011 12:07	I always thought that there was a "thud" near the start of the last verse of "Las Palabras...": "This room is bare, this night is (thud) cold ..."
malicedoom 20.05.2011 13:40	The very end of The Show Must Go On. On the fade out - something happens to the vocals right before they fade out completely - almost as if someone hit a switch or something by mistake at the studio. The voices change to a weird, echo-type sound at the VERY end. Anyone ever noticed it?
rhyeking 20.05.2011 14:37	I noticed that, too. They jump up a key. I don't think it's a mistake, it's just the way the vocals were recorded.
rhyeking 20.05.2011 14:42	Not really hidden, but you may not notice at first, but John plays a neat little bass scale at the at the end of "Jealousy".
catqueen 20.05.2011 14:44	The video was great, but are all of those accidents? I mean i thought the Drowse bit was part of the lyrics? I hadn't heard the William the Conqueror bit, but i thought the rest of it was supposed to be there -- like he;s musing on it.
emrabt 20.05.2011 15:01	Assuming easter egg, in this case, means things we have never noticed: Not the song itself but In the video for headlong, Freddie is asleep on one of the shelves during a "SO STRONG" near the end. I mentioned this a few years ago, Zebonka said he told his cousin Freddie had died and they left him there.
dysan 20.05.2011 15:51	I think we need to be clear between ad libs and mistakes. I've always felt Queen we VERY clean in the studio. There is a fantastic list of Bowie mistakes - wrong fader up, effects coming too late, clear tape edits. etc.
Isle0fRed 20.05.2011 17:00	well appently John hits the wrong bass notes in Sleeping, however I cannot hear when it happens. simular thing to Freddie in '39, he sings or muffles his lyrics, but like sleeping i cannot spot it. At least it aint Hey Jude "Fucking Hell" at 2:58
MERQRY 20.05.2011 19:09	Liar - 2:29 - Roger shouts "Christ!" while drumming -------------------- For me He shouts "Right" not "Christ"
rhyeking 20.05.2011 22:01	No one said these were all accidents or mistakes, just stuff 'hidden' or not apparent from the casual listen. This is part of why I like instrumental versions, where the vocals are removed, as you get to hear the stuff buried underneath.
Bo Rhap 21.05.2011 03:01	I remember in the seventies i used to have a cassette of A Night At The Opera and i could swear that during Bohemian Rhapsody i could hear Freddie's foot going up and down on the piano's pedals.Especially near the start when he starts to play his piano.
pestgrid 21.05.2011 03:47	theres also an extra vocal saying something at the end of was it all worth it when the timpani drum hits its final note......have a listen and try find out what they are saying....?
thomasquinn 32989 21.05.2011 05:45	Holly2003 wrote: rhyeking wrote: I'm not sure if this counts, but here goes: Need Your Lovin' Tonight: Under the first "Ooo, I need your lovin' tonight!" someone says "Let's go!" There's more than that. I can hear a different background vocal, almost hidden in the mix. It seems to be a counter harmony,. Can;t make out the words though. ===== It's either 'a counterpoint' or 'a harmony'. There's no such thing as a 'counter-harmony'.
Holly2003 21.05.2011 06:23	It's the best phrase I can think of to describe what I'm hearing. English is a fluid and innovative language that allows this form of description, even if it isn't the exact musical term (which may or may not be the case - you are such a gimp I wouldn't trust your word on anything).
PTRACER 21.05.2011 06:39	Yes, it's about mistakes partly, but it's also about hidden gems buried in the mix that you wouldn't hear unless you turned up the volume, or have an ear for detail. One I heard just the other day, listen to She Makes Me around 1:12, there's definitely some sort of talking in the background, barely audible but it's there! It's more apparent on the old 1994 remasters than the latest ones.
Rick 21.05.2011 07:14	The Prophet's Song - in the middle part a instrument joins in the cascade of vocals. I think it's John who accidentally touches one of his strings. It could be Brian's guitar equally well. It's hard to tell. link Listen carefully at around 4:17-4:18. More of a mistake than an easter egg, though.
ludwigs 21.05.2011 07:55	Rick, that isn't an instrument error. It is actually Fred quietly singing a note to 'get' his pitch for the next "Now I know" section. He sings a low F note after the "around, around" part which ends on E. Recording it as he hears the delays makes for quite a lot of things going on so I'm certain he sang this reference pitch ready to do the next part. I agree about the word "Right!" in Liar and not Christ.
bruno_facio 21.05.2011 11:41	Anybody knows what is that strange little sound on 00:41 on Radio Ga Ga? I've always thought that should not be there...
mooghead 21.05.2011 16:08	Theres the mystery bit of white noise at the start of Melancholy Blues. And just before the vocal starts in Drowse there is what sounds like a 'beep' that couldnt be made by any of the instruments in the actual track, sort of an electronically generated sound... Plus there are the few minutes of utter dirge between tracks 3 and 5 of Hot Space ;-)
PTRACER 21.05.2011 16:13	mooghead wrote: Theres the mystery bit of white noise at the start of Melancholy Blues. That's Freddie pushing down the sustain pedal on the piano ;)
DaveyLane 22.05.2011 01:37	Here's a great one 3:19 into Doing Alright, when the heavy guitar comes in, you can hear the level abruptly drop after the second bar of the riff....it's almost as though they'd placed the fader slightly too high and realized so too late, but it was kept in the mix...you'd never hear that these days!
mooghead 22.05.2011 07:06	On the Queen at the Beeb version you can hear someone counting that guitar in
antiden 22.05.2011 09:27	Mad The Swine. At 1:56-1:57 there's an occasional vocal or just a mix mistake in one of the channels.
dive2063 22.05.2011 16:28	Does anybody know what the beep sound is doing in 'I'm in love with my car' on Roger's line 'and the hubcaps all gleam' which is appeared on 00:30?
JeroenG 24.05.2011 16:07	I don't have another example, but just a short thing to tell. Sometimes things appear on the record that even the artists themselves don't know where they come from. I remember when recording an album with my own group some years ago, and we listened right after recording, we all heard a strange kind-of 'sigh' or 'hiss' in the background. As we all played accordions and didn't use our voices, no one knew where it came from. (and still don't!) We all liked that take the best, so we kept it in the final mix, and because it was a piece of Astor Piazzolla, who had died by then, we now refer to it as the sound as 'the ghost of Piazzolla'. :-)
Thistle 24.05.2011 18:31	I keep licking Queen LPs to at least get a hint of easter eggs, but all I'm getting is vinyl.
paulosham 24.05.2011 21:43	I've looked for Queen song easter eggs for years but my local grocer has always told me that they don't exist. on a totally unrelated point, What is said in March Of The Black Queen; after Fred sings "She never dots her I's"? It's around the 5.30 mark.
br5946 18.06.2011 08:34	Most fans will know about the Janis Joplin-esque backing vocals on the banned version of Let Me Live. Queen say they got rid of all of those after Joplin's estate kicked up a fuss. Listen carefully on 4:17-4:19. It's kind of hard to hear on PC speakers but if you have a stereo which has a time counter, play the track on CD, crank up the volume, and fast forward to that point. You can very dinstinctly hear 'take another piece of my heart, now baby.' It looks like they didn't remove all the Joplin-esque vocals...!
emrabt 18.06.2011 09:56	Listen carefully on 4:17-4:19 =================== Another peice of my heart now Ba-BY. I can honestly say i've never noticed that before. for those that want to hear it's right before the last "oh yeah yeah" but after rogers "let me liiiiiiive". They must have turned just the volume slider down to get ride of those lines.
rhyeking 18.06.2011 18:23	br5946 wrote: Most fans will know about the Janis Joplin-esque backing vocals on the banned version of Let Me Live. Queen say they got rid of all of those after Joplin's estate kicked up a fuss. Listen carefully on 4:17-4:19. It's kind of hard to hear on PC speakers but if you have a stereo which has a time counter, play the track on CD, crank up the volume, and fast forward to that point. You can very dinstinctly hear 'take another piece of my heart, now baby.' It looks like they didn't remove all the Joplin-esque vocals...! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This rumor is a little off, I think. Janis Joplin's Estate would have no issue with the backing vocals for the following reasons: The song, "Piece Of My Heart," was written by Jerry Ragovoy & Bert Berns, not Joplin. It was first recorded by Erma Franklin, sister of Aretha, in 1967. Berns died that year, but Ragovoy is still very much alive. They own the copyright. Janis herself never recorded the single, she was the lead singer of the band Big Brother And The Holding Company, which is the version of the song everyone associates with her. This version is epic, to be sure, but it is cover. The sound recording for the BB & THC version is owned either them or their record company (it's one or the other) and that recording is protected, but not the lyrics and not the delivery. You can't copyright how you sing a song, just your recording of it (and if you release it, you need to pay the copyright holder and get permission). You can make an identical cover (or a completely different cover) of a song as long as you handle the copyright legally. The royalties of the song, by anyone, go to Berns (Estate) & Ragovoy, not Joplin and not BB&THC. As far as copyrighting the individual lyric "Take another little piece of my heart," given how similar-sounding many lyrics to many songs are (for example: Roger singing, "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are" which is a direct reference to the Disney song), I can't see that being an issue. If Queen actually believed there was an issue, someone ought to have done their homework. Personally, I don't think they had anything to worry about.
ITSM 20.06.2011 06:56	Rock in Rio '85 - Freddie forgot a line from "It's a Hard Life" and was just humming la-la-la... I like it!
ITSM 20.06.2011 07:00	The little *beep at the beginning of "Drowse". Nice song, by the way - great lyrics : )
mooghead 20.06.2011 13:46	"on a totally unrelated point, What is said in March Of The Black Queen; after Fred sings "She never dots her I's"? It's around the 5.30 mark." I have asked the same thing before.. apparently its 'she's our leader' which sounds right and is in context. In Now I'm Here it seems Freddie gets his timing wrong singing 'think I'll stay around', it goes.. 'Think I'll stay around... around... aroundaround... around...'
Djdownsy 20.06.2011 16:53	In Now I'm Here it seems Freddie gets his timing wrong singing 'think I'll stay around', it goes..'Think I'll stay around... around... aroundaround... around...' --------------------------------------------------------------------- I always notice that, for a while, i thought that my cd kept skipping.
Silken 05.07.2011 07:46	I noticed something in "Another one bites the dust" a couple of days ago. At around 0:37 (right after "the bullets rip") there's a grunt that is not easily heard in the mix, but is very clear when you listen to the vocals alone (in the file attached, it's at 0:42).
Djdownsy 10.07.2011 11:49	4:48 on 'Bohemian Rhapsody'...Roger hits his snare by accident.
mooghead 11.07.2011 14:47	I heard another one tonight, dont know how I've not heard it before coz its clear as day. In 'You and I' exactly on the 2 minute mark there is a sound in the background, like a 'shimmer' sound if that makes sense!? (I thought my mobile phone had received a text when I first heard it) Give it a listen, clearer through headphones.
mooghead 11.07.2011 14:47	Double post
Djdownsy 11.07.2011 19:53	All i can hear there is the bass guitar, but to be fair, thats the first time ive heard it so clear even.
mooghead 12.07.2011 15:55	Djdownsy wrote: All i can hear there is the bass guitar, but to be fair, thats the first time ive heard it so clear even. Nah.. theres a background noise... might be on 1.59!
pietrek 12.07.2011 17:36	I'm Going Slightly mad: - 3:10 dont know exactly what it is - Freddie (?) farts throughout the whole song :D If you listen carefully you'll hear it clearly at 3:14, after "im driving 3 wheels tese days"
AlexakaRosco 02.08.2011 10:18	2 dytsan: "There is a fantastic list of Bowie mistakes - wrong fader up, effects coming too late, clear tape edits. etc. " Can you please note a link to this list? Very interesting to learn about it ;) BTW, Bowie, as we know, prefered sometimes unclean, almost demolike versions to be released.Berlin Trilogy and Scary Monsters as good example.
mooghead 03.08.2011 11:41	This is the best 'mistakes' website on the net. Every Beatles song you know with anomalies to listen out for, will keep you entertained for hours link
catqueen 03.08.2011 15:52	mooghead wrote: This is the best 'mistakes' website on the net. Every Beatles song you know with anomalies to listen out for, will keep you entertained for hours link This link only brought me back to the same page in QZ
Djdownsy 03.08.2011 17:25	catqueen wrote: mooghead wrote: This is the best 'mistakes' website on the net. Every Beatles song you know with anomalies to listen out for, will keep you entertained for hours link This link only brought me back to the same page in QZ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hate when that happens. :/ When that happens me I have to type the whole thing in the address bar.
Karfan 13.08.2011 11:50	Fat Bottomed Girls - the beginning of the song,beetween the vocals you can hear the backing track coming out from their headphones , Dragon Attack - The same story ,during the verses - the backing track is audible.
mooghead 13.08.2011 13:10	"When that happens me I have to type the whole thing in the address bar. " Copy and paste dear. You can still hear the bassline very low down during the verses in Dragon Attack. As for FBG's there is no backing track at the beginning during the vocals?!
Karfan 13.08.2011 20:02	LIsten carefully ,put your headphones really loud ,You will be able to hear it. After "Are you gonna take me home tonight?" there is this silence but if you'll listen closely You will hear the backing track.And it's the same story in all of those "silent" bits.
liam 13.08.2011 22:19	Heard it! Sounds like Brians guitar definitely.
queenUSA 13.08.2011 22:28	From ADATR (2011 remaster) bonus tracks section: Tie Your Mother Down Backing Track - at the conclusion of the song you hear "thank you" (I think it's Freddie).
hauntofroulettedares 18.08.2011 23:36	emrabt wrote: Assuming easter egg, in this case, means things we have never noticed: Not the song itself but In the video for headlong, Freddie is asleep on one of the shelves during a "SO STRONG" near the end. I mentioned this a few years ago, Zebonka said he told his cousin Freddie had died and they left him there. HAHA...this Zebonka sounds like a funny guy!!!

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Easter Eggs in Queen songs