New song by Queen
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Topic: New song by Queen
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Subject: New song by Queen
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 08:30
On http://www.queenonline.com/sayitsnottrue - queenonline there's a new song wrote by Paul Rogers for Nelson Mandela on World AIDS Day available to download for free. It's titled Say It's Not True. ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
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Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 12:36
I'll check it out, but not with high expectations. Thanks!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Barla/?chartstyle=LastfmMyspace">  
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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 23:57
| just downloaded it |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 11:05
| I wasn't overly impressed. I thought the guitar solo was good but didn't really care for the rest of the song. I'll have to give it a few more listens, maybe it'll grow on me. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 12:08
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Say it's not true, indeed. ------------- |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 12:30
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Those vocals are horribly, horribly over-processed - they really put me off. I was hoping that they'd drop the processing to make the song more "real" - that technique worked well for Cher's "Believe", but even the backing vox are processed.
Then the effects spread to everything else...
It just sounds like an over-produced wreck to me.
Say it's not true, indeed - it's definitely not right...
If you listen hard, you can just about make out that it really is May behind the axe.
Otherwise, below average.
 ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 12:32
| Yeah, not fussed about this track to be honest. Didn't like it much when I heard the acoustic version on that Queen and Paul Rodgers DVD; I found it a bit trite and sentimental. Now it's been given a faux 80s production job that (sledge)hammers home those feelings even more, IMHO. |
Posted By: Era V.
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 08:05
| Is that Paul at the beginning of the song? Almost sounds like it could be Roger. The solo's good...the intro isn't very nice and when the vocals kick in full on it's too R&B. |
Posted By: Hazlehurst
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 16:46
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I weren't a fan of this song at all. The lyrics held a message but I couldn't help but think how cheesy they were. You can tell Roger wrote it! I'm not overly impressed with the vocals neither. Paul Rodgers has great power yet a very limited style which really bores me after a while. The only positive of this song for me was the guitar solo. Long live Brian May. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 16:54
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Actually, I didn't mind the song too much, but I only have the version of the song on the Return of the Champions CD with Roger Taylor's vocals. I haven't heard the new remixed version. Does Paul sing the remixed version? A little cheesy at times, but I like it ok. Just don't expect Bohemian Rhapsody Mk. II.
By the way, it was written by Roger Taylor for Nelson Mandela, not by Paul Rodgers.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |