My top 5 would be :
1) Alternetive footage/making of on These are the days of our lives. link
2) Freddie's last years - Queen - Days Of Our Lives Documentary-Ecpecially Roger failing to see Mercury fro the last time. link
3) It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise) Noone's gonna stop me now/ and the crescendo of musicianship given the... irreversible. I even used to find it overwhelming sometimes!
4) Mother Love
4) And of course The show must go on
The end of Mother Love.
The whole song is quite sentimental, but the final moments, after Brian finishes the last verse, are something else: that bit taken from the Wembley '86 concert, with Freddie playing with the crowd and his amazing "scream", together with the start of One Vision, then the bit from Going Back together with those pieces of every song sped up,and the baby crying in the end... It always sends shivers down my spine, even now when I'm only thinking about it.
By the way, only recently I noticed that you can actually hear the guitar riff of Tie Your Mother down at the start of those "sped up" bits of songs.
Red5Nige wrote:
The end of Mother Love.
The whole song is quite sentimental, but the final moments, after Brian finishes the last verse, are something else: that bit taken from the Wembley '86 concert, with Freddie playing with the crowd and his amazing "scream", together with the start of One Vision, then the bit from Going Back together with those pieces of every song sped up,and the baby crying in the end... It always sends shivers down my spine, even now when I'm only thinking about it.
Agree. I just hoped they found a less angry-irritating baby crying sound in the end.
Ending of TMLWKY (MIH version).
Save Me live in Montreal.
Ending of A Winter's Tale.
Don't Try So Hard (I also like the first chorus in the demo, how he goes down on 'hard' and the way he sings 'heart').
What gets me even more (in the album version) is the 'oh what a beautiful world', the guitar solo and the ending right after it.
Chief Mouse wrote:
Save Me live in Montreal.
Don't Try So Hard (I also like the first chorus in the demo, how he goes down on 'hard' and the way he sings 'heart').
1)OH, That slight "off-timing" in the second verse of Save Me live in Montreal...¨" the slate will soon be..be clear" . BRILLIANT MOMENT!
2)Don't Try So Hard demo, actually i never payed much attention but today i did.
Better then the final version.
Slighlty slowerer, with more of an atmoshere.
Also Freddie sounds more intimate and meaningfull especially in second verse. ( the change of dynimics on "screaming out your bloody orders/ hey but not too loud" is marvelous).
Finally leaving the second chorus without voice makes it more original and epic.
3) And may i add Face It Alone, in those special Queen moments. He is fucking singing " ti ri ra ra ra" and still gets me !!!
Talking about Montreal, I also like "I can't face this life alone" in 2nd chorus. It sounds so powerful. Also "I'll love you" before Brian's ending guitar solo (which is great by the way), it sounds sort of soothing, naive, I don't know how to call it, but that tone makes it sound really emotional. Remarkable how much Freddie was able to incorporate emotion in his voice & singing.
Brian singing the intro to Mustapha in '93.
Freddie's link
Brian's link
Hopefully this song stays uniquely Queen's. Hate to see a tribute artist try it.
FreddieCat wrote:
Brian singing the intro to Mustapha in '93.
Freddie's link
Brian's link
Hopefully this song stays uniquely Queen's. Hate to see a tribute artist try it.
I think Brian completely destroys Mustapha. This is a uniquely Freddie song, and requires Freddie's raw, huge, powerful voice. Just my opinion.
Most sentimental Queen moments:
1. Save Me live in Montreal.
2. Video-wise, Freddie's adorable smile at the end of the 'I'm going slightly mad' video, just after John's tie is snipped, and before John climbs the stairs backwards. That smile is so Freddie, and so lovely to see considering he was in the final weeks of his life.
3. White Queen live at the Rainbow.
4. Mother Love.
Slightly off topic, did anyone notice the look on the face of a girl in the audience at the end of Love of My life in Montreal? Around 3.54 on this clip? It is just so beautiful! link
FreddieCat wrote:
Slightly off topic, did anyone notice the look on the face of a girl in the audience at the end of Love of My life in Montreal? Around 3.54 on this clip? It is just so beautiful!
Yeah and I have been thinking about it as well. Beautiful, she seems like being in awe. I think it's a good thing that Saul Swimmer included this bit in the final cut.
noorie WROTE " Slightly off topic, did anyone notice the look on the face of a girl in the audience at the end of Love of My life in Montreal? Around 3.54 on this clip? It is just so beautiful!link "
Of course. She is like lost in the moment.
Also sooo funny on 1:15 when Freddie tells to Brian '' they don't know it" .
Apparently the sing alongs to Love of my life, were not as usual with that crowd but Freddie actually told that on the mic(!) so the audience might have heard him.
A bit impolite but extremely funny the way he goes out of character!