100 Greatest Rock Vocal Albums

Wanted Dead Or Alive · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:30 am **Posts:** 3303

I don't know why think that, I always thought it was his best 70's album after ANATO...

Yousha · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:01 pm

I agree with Curio , put a kind of magic there, think thats the one that deserves to be there...

beside that, i like....i'd still say to boost up painkiller by a lot....

Wanted Dead Or Alive · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:30 am **Posts:** 3303

Agreed on Painkiller...

A Kind Of Magic could be a good choice too.
People started to underrate 70's Freddie here...it's not like he had no skills back then... I mean, no one ever did anything similar to his soft singing in those years...

Yousha · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:37 pm

soft singing=/= technically good singing necessarily.....

and depends on what you mean by soft singing......people like Art Garfunkel existed you know ..... Bridge over troubled water is just about as good as soft singing as Freddie's ever done....

also, Marvin Gaye was a great soft singer ...... such delicacy and subtlety in his voice....

Wanted Dead Or Alive · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:30 am **Posts:** 3303

Actually, most of Freddie's soft singing is hard...try singing Love Of My Life, the switching without sacrificing the tone is incredible.
I really don't think no one could ever pull of Love Of My Life, You take My Breath Away and Teo Torriate close to Freddie...

Curiosity · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:25 pm **Posts:** 1399

...Nobody except Gary Mullen

Yousha · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:51 pm

Wanted Dead Or Alive wrote:

Actually, most of Freddie's soft singing is hard...try singing Love Of My Life, the switching without sacrificing the tone is incredible.
I really don't think no one could ever pull of Love Of My Life, You take My Breath Away and Teo Torriate close to Freddie...

purely purely subjective my friend.....i often thought that beside his studio performance, his live ones were never upto mark.....he always did them mostly in straight chest, did not have this ethereal light timbre which he had in the studio one cause that was well controlled soft head voice switches to soft chest singing throughout, so Freddie himself couldnt do it live without sacrificing tone like you said.....hence live maybe not, but in the studio, there could be singers who could.....

I'm actually gonna record that right now, just to see how bad i sound, especially cause im not generally a soft singer :cool:

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11802

Yousha wrote:

soft singing=/= technically good singing necessarily.....

and depends on what you mean by soft singing......people like Art Garfunkel existed you know ..... Bridge over troubled water is just about as good as soft singing as Freddie's ever done....

also, Marvin Gaye was a great soft singer ...... such delicacy and subtlety in his voice....

Agreed, that song is just about untouchable as far as soft vocals go.

Wanted Dead Or Alive · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:30 am **Posts:** 3303

Yousha wrote:

Wanted Dead Or Alive wrote:

Actually, most of Freddie's soft singing is hard...try singing Love Of My Life, the switching without sacrificing the tone is incredible.
I really don't think no one could ever pull of Love Of My Life, You take My Breath Away and Teo Torriate close to Freddie...

purely purely subjective my friend.....i often thought that beside his studio performance, his live ones were never upto mark.....he always did them mostly in straight chest, did not have this ethereal light timbre which he had in the studio one cause that was well controlled soft head voice switches to soft chest singing throughout, so Freddie himself couldnt do it live without sacrificing tone like you said.....hence live maybe not, but in the studio, there could be singers who could.....

I'm actually gonna record that right now, just to see how bad i sound, especially cause im not generally a soft singer :cool:

Yes, I am talking about studio because we are considering studio albums here...esp the thing he always did those song in straight chest shows they were by no means easy to sing in their original form...

Gregsynthbootlegs · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:07 pm **Posts:** 577

I vote for AKOM!

Contains Mild Peril · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:24 am **Posts:** 203

Wanted Dead Or Alive wrote:

Actually, most of Freddie's soft singing is hard...try singing Love Of My Life, the switching without sacrificing the tone is incredible.
I really don't think no one could ever pull of Love Of My Life, You take My Breath Away and Teo Torriate close to Freddie...

Curiosity wrote:

...Nobody except Gary Mullen

For Love of my Life? No. Gary Mullen is the best Freddie impersonator I've heard, but on that song I don't think he comes close to Freddie's beautiful soft tone.

Victim Of Changes wrote:

Yousha wrote:

soft singing=/= technically good singing necessarily.....

and depends on what you mean by soft singing......people like Art Garfunkel existed you know ..... Bridge over troubled water is just about as good as soft singing as Freddie's ever done....

also, Marvin Gaye was a great soft singer ...... such delicacy and subtlety in his voice....

Agreed, that song is just about untouchable as far as soft vocals go.

Just about. Freddie Mercury and Art Garfunkel did those songs so perfectly I don't think even Morten Harket actually improved on them - and coming from me, that's very high praise. I wish I could find decent quality recordings of Morten's versions though: copies from early 1990s videotape tend to be pretty shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ZydOIirEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCHjHyMiXlY

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11802

Shall we continue on this?
Damn it's becoming a ghost town here....

Yousha · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:32 am

its becoming a place not obsessed with lists any more .... which i kinda like .....

and most of the focus is on technicality, which i dont like....

Timi · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:40 am

I can join the discussion.

Sherick · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:36 pm

Oceanborn - Tarja Turunen

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