I was thinking about Spread Your Wings a few hours ago and realised 'hey, there are no backing vocals at all on that track'. My brain then went into overdrive about songs that have elements missing. Right now I can think of:
Spread Your Wings - no harmonies
Mother Love - no Red Special except that chord that opens the 2nd verse
Body Languagge - no guitar at all.. I think...
WWRY - no drums (and bass of course, but I put down drums because the 1-1-2 beat is done naturally)
If you think of songs where, for example, drums are completely absent and Roger's role is done by a drum machine, list it - of course, such tracks are bound to be criticised because of it.
Mother Love has the RS in the middle-eight too.
Body Language does have 0.5 seconds of guitar. It, however, lacks real bass and real drums, which is a first for a Queen lead single. The song, in the studio version, was virtually a solo thing from Freddie with 0.5 seconds of Brian thrown in near the end.
Break Free is also a first for a Queen single regarding the solo: it's a synth emulating a guitar sound, not an actual guitar.
In WWRY, the ''stomp, stomp'' was made overdubing the sound of foot in a wooden floor, and the ''clap'' os actually claping. They just overdub those sound too much times to count, just like the opera part in Bo Rhap
My contribution = the obvious
Good Company = no brass band, trumpets are faked with the mouth.
Jazz album - never mixed!! (miraculous!)
Staying Power - weird song features a horn arrangement recorded in NY? by Arif Mardin.
Toy Koto featured on Prophet's Song
Love Of My Life - features a harp (played almost one note at a time)
Can someone verify if TATDOOL relied exclusively on a programmed rhythm track? Doesn't sound like live congas...
flu wrote: Mmmm is true, the guitar were made by Brian and Roger... could be a Cosmos Rock song too
Surf's Up, School's Out - No thought given that the public would hear this %$*).
Warboys - departed musically from the demo and sounds worse.
alright.... a REAL ONE:
Bijou - takes a very different approach to usual song structure, uses guitar as the verse, vocal as the solo.
When Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar solo during the verse of Beat It instead of the chorus.
The weird quieter bit in GnR's Rocket Queen, which stills sounds awesome live.
Anything on the Darkness' first album. WTF's up with that falsetto? Amazing. Pity it all went pear shaped so soon.
Holly2003 wrote: When Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar solo during the verse of Beat It instead of the chorus.
The weird quieter bit in GnR's Rocket Queen, which stills sounds awesome live.
Anything on the Darkness' first album. WTF's up with that falsetto? Amazing. Pity it all went pear shaped so soon.
Weird.... this isn't a MJJ Forum, nor is it a GnF'nR's Forum... especially...not a Darkness forum.
Had a few to drink? ahh... I'm looking forward to a few tonight.
All in all... i think the poster meant on QUEEN ALBUMS *exclusively*
otherwise we'll wind up with a crash course in musical genres, zydecos and everything
I thought of another one: Liar - only song to have Deaky on backing vocal. Many QZ'ers may be sceptical and think I want to claim this widespread belief as fact, but I can prove it! Listen to the first 'all day long' during that section on Queen I, and then listen to Freddie and John's duet on the Rainbow performance. I swear, the 'all day long's at the Rainbow sound just as they would if you drenched in the studio track in echo.
'All day long' at the Rainbow also features Maylor. It proves nothing.
WWRY, ITLOTGR, SSOR and TT are more likely to feature John on BV. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.