Queen - Death On Two Legs (Only Vocals)

Queen - Death On Two Legs (Only Vocals)
Written by Freddie Mercury
A Night At The Opera - 1975

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

3:26 - This part is beyond fantastic. NOBODY beats Queen, they were phenomenal.

[@mixinsus2705]

1:04 start

[@Rama01.]

Stato

[@wynnie_margeaux]

You can feel Freddie's anger in his voice

[@cahilatv]

3:29 dammmmnn

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

Best vocals ever put down? YES

[@carrot_slayer_of_patatos]

Check ✅

[@CookieFXTM12]

the start of the News Of The World voice 1:44

[@TheMusicMaestro]

1:45 3:26 Best parts of the song

[@albertooha]

same

[@josephf426]

Bb4 and B4s are consistently amazing in this song and it’s overall a wonderful vocal from freddie. One of the few “vocal only” versions of any queen song that I really love listening to

[@PaulMappud]

Would tend to agree apart from the "Shark" being rather "dissonant", perhaps a "semitone" or two off... !

[@gpesalazar]

Espectacular oír cantar a Freddie con ese grave y esa fuerza y recordar que de igual manera la canto en vivo ES UN AGASAJO AUDITIVO

[@danielk.7221]

freddie's distortion is so satisfying dude, it sounds so vulgar and strong in this song (distortion really helps those harmonies blend as well, thanks roger)

[@Jbenoit-zu9ye]

nice rolling of the R at 1:09

[@PaulMappud]

He liked to roll a nice R's

[@hendrik5919]

@@PaulMappud his origin helped him

[@ShanesQueenSite]

Death on two legs is a great song - I love playing that intro on piano, it's amazing. I hope to place a tutorial on my KZbin channel on how to play this song at some stahe this year !

[@NS9213]

An old Beach Boy technique: Freddie "Double Tracks" alot of his lead vocals. Brian Wilson made an art out of that all thru the 60's.

[@RyleeStrange]

but if you notice, he only does it in certain parts. it's a really common producer's trick now. you have single voice during the verse or whatever, then when you wanna add some punch, emphasis to a certain lyric, or just get a bit bigger and more bombastic, you add in a couple doubles of the vocal line. and that's just on the lead vocals. queen had 3 singers. Freddie (the rough, meaty mid-range), Brian (the soft, low range), and Roger (the high piercing earsplitting range). By just some cosmic struck of luck those three voices met and obviously blended so well together. It just created this massive sound. Then on top of THAT, the would double the track many many times. Bohemian Rhapsody has 33 tracks of the 3 of them singing. Thus creating a 99 voice choir. Queen was one of the first great utilizers of the multi-tracking phenomenon. Brian Wilson had to have an entire orchestra and do it all LIVE. i highly suggest checking out 10cc and their song I'm Not in Love. The whole song is dozens of sampled vocal parts played on an early synthesizer. People used to mistake them for Queen all the time.

[@tomthompson5686]

Yeah, double tracking was used so often in fact that an Abby Road engineer invented ADT or automatic double tracking. That way a vocalist wouldn't have to manually record two slightly different vocal tracks to double his voice.

[@danielmacias2097]

You're wrong, was The Beatles, they made popular that

[@johngraham5996]

freddie was a big beach boys fan, along with hendrix and the beatles, it's no wonder they were such a great vocal band

[@stonedbeatle3003]

just savin this

[@seankeane1485]

Every time he says Mr Know-all I get chills

[@gokceralp]

Apparently they didn't use pop-filter! Freddie's "p"s are bursting and I like it! I'm gonna try it, recording a song without pop-filter.

[@brax26]

It would be very proactive of you to start where the vocals start instead of the long silent intros.

[@mmctucson2393]

But then if you're mixing, you have to figure out for yourself where the song syncs with instrumentals. !!!

[@carlbullaro7616]

Not if your a musician playing along

[@elchevyson8238]

@@carlbullaro7616 exactly

[@maxhorkheimer69420]

You suck my blood like a leech You break the law and you preach Screw my brain till it hurts You've taken all my money And you want more Misguided old mule with your pig headed rules With your narrow minded cronies Who are fools of the first division Death on two legs You're tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart of your own Kill joy bad guy big talking small fry You're just an old barrow boy Have you found a new toy to replace me? Can you face me? But now you can kiss my ass goodbye Feel good are you satisfied? Do you feel like suicide? (I think you should) Is your conscience all right Does it plague you at night? Do you feel good feel good? You talk like a big business tycoon You're just a hot air balloon So no one gives you a damn You're just an overgrown schoolboy Let me tan your hide A dog with disease You're the king of the 'sleaze' Put your money where your mouth is Mister know-all Was the fin on your back Part of the deal? (shark) Death on two legs You're tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart (you never did) of your own (right from the start) Insane you should be put inside You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride Should be made unemployed Then make yourself null and void Make me feel good I feel good

[@bruhlol1685]

You suck my blood like a leech You break the law and you breach Screw my brain till it hurts You've taken all my money and you want more Misguided old mule With your pig headed rules With your narrow minded cronies Who are fools of the first division Death on two legs You're tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart of your own Kill joy Bad guy Big talking Small fry You're just an old barrow boy Have you found a new toy to replace me? Can you face me? But now you can kiss My ass goodbye Feel good are you satisfied? Do you feel like suicide? I think you should Is your conscience all right Does it plague you at night? Do you feel good? Feel good? You talk like a big business tycoon You're just a hot air balloon So no one gives you a damn You're just an overgrown schoolboy Let me tan your hide A dog with disease You're the king of the 'sleaze' Put your money where your mouth is Mister know-all Was the fin on your back Part of the deal? (Shark) Death on two legs You're tearing me apart Death on two legs You've never had a heart (you never did) of your own (Right from the start) Insane you should be put inside You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride Should be made unemployed Then make yourself null and void Make me feel good, I feel good

[@matthew2490]

So cool

[@lucypaperkuts]

3:30 nmms las vocales de Brian

[@Rama01.]

1:45

[@emivelasco7424]

dale peperina

[@Rama01.]

@@emivelasco7424 Freddie se copio de peperina, pero el fue menos sutil

[@lpstinykitten7283]

My vs death.

[@markperinskiy]

No more likes because one more like will make the likes go up to the number of the devil.