Hold on... the backing vocals are 'do do do do do'! But yeah best bit of a tune I'm not massively bothered by. Very similar dynamic to the gear change in Teo Torriatte 'When I'm gone...'. Classic Queen as Alan Partridge would say as he raises both arms aloft to the receptionist.
LOVE the Ronson 'neeeeoooowwww into the guitar solo too.
¡wow! i almost had forgotten THAT gem of music. what a wonderful sound they do. and what positive and well sung lyrics it has.
thank you for re-discovering that song.
it was the peak of their creativity i'd long to say. so smooth and punchy at the same time.
Such a great song, in my opinion better than You're My Best Friend. Freddie thought so too! The harmonies in the bridge is not just a standout moment in the song but are among the best Queen ever did. I've just made a quick edit of the song featuring just the right channel though the whole thirty second extract is amazing, I love the bit from 0:14 to 0:19.
I think the A Day At The Races album have the best vocals Queen ever did on any album; all three sang well and this is song is a fine example of that.
As i said in an earlier thread "You & I" should have been a single after "Somebody to Love". John Deacon may have been quiet but he was a skilled songwriter.
God! wrote:
As i said in an earlier thread "You & I" should have been a single after "Somebody to Love". John Deacon may have been quiet but he was a skilled songwriter.
Or I quite like the idea of it being the first/lead track of Queen's First EP instead of Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy because then they would've had one track each on the EP.
It was a b side on a couple of international singles. Back in those days that would've meant good airings on pub jukeboxes. All part of the wonderful tapestry.
Here's the vocal harmonies in isolation that I recorded some years ago for my cover of this gem. (Using very, very cheap methods into Adobe Audition 1.5.)
There are lot of nice 'parts' in there. I'd suggest listening to this with headphones as they haven't really had a proper mix or much done in the way of fx etc....
Wasn't it 'Long Away' that Fred said he thought the harms were good/interesting...? link
But what this song shows how close Queen really were. To have those amazing vocals on a song which was written by the one who couldn't sing shows that they knew exactly what he wanted even though he couldn't demonstrate it himself.
Had anyone of you listened to the song in 1976? Because it was positively appreciated, even at that time of high expectations after ANATO.
It's not a hidden gem just because you didn't heard about it until 90s, 2000s or 2010s, when you had fallen in love with Queen post-mortem, my necrophile friends.
Yeah i loved "You & I " way back in 1976 and i thought it was a shame it never got played lived and just got burried alive!
Great piano from Freddie and a tasty guitar section from Brian.
calm the fuck down with this wishy washy song. there was a better song on that album: Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, that sounded just as gay.
Why releasing this as a single, when GOFLB was better and enough, before everyone starting to believe Queen was some kind of light, limp wristed band.
bucsateflon wrote:
calm the fuck down with this wishy washy song. there was a better song on that album: Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, that sounded just as gay.
Why releasing this as a single, when GOFLB was better and enough, before everyone starting to believe Queen was some kind of light, limp wristed band.
Chill man. They had many soft songs prior to that. Nevermore, Dear Friends, Lily of the Valley etc. etc.