QueenZone discussion #618110

Whisperer wrote: This is just a theory, so please dobn't kill me fo saying this ;-) If you listen to Mother Love and try to leave all the music out and only listen to Freddie singing, do you get the idea that the song in fact consists of two different songs (probably put together after Freddie's death)? No you will probably think say that BohRhap is one song and still sounds like that. Ok, but isn't it still possible that Freddie didn't have the strenght to finish the two written songs and Brian & co. could only had snippets of both to use while recording the music in 1994? According to my theory the songs are: 1. I don't want to sleep with you I don't need the passion too I don't want a stormy affair To make me feel my life is heading somewhere All I want is the comfort and care Just to know that my woman gives me sweet - Mother love I don't want to make no waves But you can give me all the love that I crave I can't take if you see me cry I long for peace before I die All I want to know that you're there You're gonna give me all your sweet - Mother love My body's aching, but I can't sleep My dreams are all the company I keep Got such a feeling as the sun goes down I'm coming home to my sweet - Mother love The last part is of course recorded and sung by Brian after Freddie's death. 2. I've walked too long in this lonely lane I've had enough of this same old game I'm a man of the world and they say I'm strong But my heart is heavy and my hope is gone Out in the city, in the cold world outside I don't want pity, just safe place to hide Mama please, let me back inside I know that many (Queen) songs have verses that differ from the rest, but still I don't think this is the case with Mother Love.

Wiley wrote: There's something else about that song. Someone else mentioned some time ago that he could hear Brian sing the first sylabe of the bridge instead of Freddie but that it was almost seamlessly integrated with Freddie's powerful vocals of the rest of the bridge. I mean the "I walked alone in this lonely lane" part. You could say that the "I..." part sounds a little different and it could be Brian. I know it was mentioned before but I'm just bringing it up again to see if someone else hears this aswell or if I'm being predisposed by what I've been told. :S What do you think?

Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: There's one moment on Happiness where Roger sounds just like Freddie, but I forget where it is! Someone help me out...!

Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote:

Wiley wrote: There's something else about that song. Someone else mentioned some time ago that he could hear Brian sing the first sylabe of the bridge instead of Freddie but that it was almost seamlessly integrated with Freddie's powerful vocals of the rest of the bridge. I mean the "I walked alone in this lonely lane" part. You could say that the "I..." part sounds a little different and it could be Brian. I know it was mentioned before but I'm just bringing it up again to see if someone else hears this aswell or if I'm being predisposed by what I've been told. :S What do you think?

Freddie and Brian have occasionally had moments of sounding similar, and I think this is just another one of those cases. But it's close!! There's one moment on Happiness where Roger sounds just like Freddie, but I forget where it is! Someone help me out...!

Serry... wrote:

Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: There's one moment on Happiness where Roger sounds just like Freddie, but I forget where it is! Someone help me out...!

For me it was Touch The Sky and this 'yeahhh' there - sounds like Freddie's

sbazb wrote: Anyway... as people have said above, and as Brian May has stated on occasion, the song is made up of many different takes of Freddie. They all belong to the same song though - Freddie was just so ill at this point he could only record in short snippets.

sbazb wrote: As other people have noticed, the bridge of the song seems to have been strengthened by adding in Brian's voice for certain syllables. One clear example of this is "I'VE had enough of this same old game"

sbazb wrote: Also in the bridge, the very last line "Mama please let me back inside" sounds as if it was recorded on a completely different day to the rest of the bridge. The overall sound quality and ambience is completely different to the rest of the bridge. It sounds very compressed. Another possibility is that the line was electronically pitch-shifted before being edited into the song.

sbazb wrote: ...if you look at the "Champions of the World" documentary, in the section about recording the "Made In Heaven" album, there are shots of the tracksheets for "Mother Love". One track definately says something about a half-tone shift on a vocal line and you can also see how each line of the bridge was recorded separately and listed on a separate track.

GaLiLe0 wrote: There is something I noticed about Mother Love. It's mentioned here before in some way. in this verse: I walked too long in this lonely lane >>I've<< had enough of this same old game Now every time I hear that "I've", I hear Rogers voice. Maybe it's overdubbed with Rogers voice to make it sound more powerful.. I don't know. Houdoe, GaLiLe0

NTL wrote: It is clearly Roger singing this and I dont see how anyone can argue that it is not.

GreatKingSam wrote: I'm not being funny or trying to sound rude or anything, but how the hell is it Brian or Roger? I really REALLY cannot hear it, have never thought it and... well, it's Freddie. Full stop.

sbazb wrote: the song is made up of many different takes of Freddie. They all belong to the same song though - Freddie was just so ill at this point he could only record in short snippets. Also in the bridge, the very last line "Mama please let me back inside" sounds as if it was recorded on a completely different day to the rest of the bridge.

GaLiLe0 wrote: Now every time I hear that "I've", I hear Rogers voice. Maybe it's overdubbed with Rogers voice to make it sound more powerful.. I don't know. Houdoe, GaLiLe0

Zebonka12 wrote: Come on, it's Freddie Mercury! He didn't need frickin' overdubs to strengthen his voice.

Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote:

Zebonka12 wrote: Come on, it's Freddie Mercury! He didn't need frickin' overdubs to strengthen his voice.

Even if it was a month or two before he died? I'm pretty sure it's Freddie, but there is a sense of Brian's voice in that one word in the song. But again, there have been many times where they have sounded like each other. For years, I thought it was Brian that sang Dear Friends.