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Queen, You Take My Breath Away - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction 

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Lusciously expansive, tenderly intimate, this piece ebbs, flows, and shimmers at every turn - an exquisitely beautiful ballad! I wouldn’t have guessed that it was inspired Japanese pentatonic scales but, sure enough, the influence is in there!
Here’s the link to the original song by Queen:
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@kendallneason3645
@kendallneason3645 11 месяцев назад
I’ve waited for this one. I knew you’d adore it. It’s so beautiful! I adore watching you point out parts my untrained ears don’t hear. It makes me adore it even more. Brilliant analysis Amy thanks!
@ianbeale2527
@ianbeale2527 2 месяца назад
Takes me back to being a kid in the 1980's when I was buying all of Queen's back catalogue with every scrap of money I could get my hands on. My friends just didn't get it, preferring the latest pop music of the charts, dismissing my obsession with Queen as just that, an obsession. Here we are 40 years later and those friends , as am I, are all in their 50's. Guess what they listen too now ? It took time, but they finally get what I got all those years ago. Thank you for taking the time to break down this beautiful song. It proves to those only familiar with Queen's Greatest Hits, that there's far more to this band than just a few songs that were in the charts.
@stephenspagnoli8292
@stephenspagnoli8292 2 месяца назад
Same here Ian.Obsessed, friends not so much. I would leave Mercury lyrics attached to their windshield written from “The Book Of Freddie “ chapter and verse. Anyway, in 81 I took a Deadhead, Neil Young fan to Queen at MSG. She was blown away and we married eight years later. My friends are in their sixties now, the movie, BoRap and the ubiquitous nature of Queen music in our culture has brought them around. Now when I say “ There’s The Beatles and Queen, everyone else is fighting for third” they can argue
@MRFThorne
@MRFThorne 29 дней назад
Ha ha, yes, this was my experience as well - The Works got my completely hooked on Queen (though I was a synth kid as well). I sort of had a girlfriend who was also into Queen until one day she announced that she preferred Level 42 - she then had to go!🤣.
@bassvibasics479
@bassvibasics479 11 месяцев назад
I look forward to your reaction to both The Millionaire's Waltz and White Man. Two very different pieces, both brilliant.
@marciebulsaraorcutt
@marciebulsaraorcutt 11 месяцев назад
It is so fantastic that you’re methodically reacting to/analyzing these lesser-known Queen songs… This one is a masterpiece!
@nyobunknown6983
@nyobunknown6983 11 месяцев назад
As mentioned the live version is great as well.
@splitimage137.
@splitimage137. 11 месяцев назад
This song is one of my all time favorites. It's a must for my Love Songs Mixtape.
@fretlessfender
@fretlessfender 11 месяцев назад
One of Queens finest, trademark sound, choirs, dynamics it is all there! Your going to love this one Im sure!
@kendallneason3645
@kendallneason3645 11 месяцев назад
Now that you’ve heard the recording of this song please check out the live version at Hyde Park of just Freddie and the piano. Also recommend Millionaire Waltz.
@guidolitjens5796
@guidolitjens5796 11 месяцев назад
The millionaire Waltz u would like as well! Guaranteed! A Waltz in Rock? Yesssss
@Panda_man..
@Panda_man.. 11 месяцев назад
Agreed! I know shes going to love this song as well
@MrJvne
@MrJvne 3 месяца назад
This song always sheds me to tears. Nothing more to say apart absolute beauty... Oh, I almost forget this, as Freddie usually did in live, the Hyde Park version is slightly different but even more powerful emotionaly althought being more concise (no in & outro). The Earl's Court concert's performance (1977) is also very interesting as he varied a lot his vocal melodic lines and more tempi variations.
@AliT0555
@AliT0555 11 месяцев назад
I’m so happy you did this reaction. This piece is so beautiful. Roger Taylor said that Freddie was a human metronome. He always knew where he was on the beat. Interesting thing re your comment about Freddie’s vibrato, a group of scientists did a study of Freddie’s voice and found that Freddie indeed had a fast vibrato. Measured at 7.04 Hz, faster even than Pavarotti. Also, Freddie was able to use his ventricular folds, his “false vocal cords” creating unique subharmonics when he sang. I was always amazed at this piece. Especially when you consider this was pre-digital. I’m even more impressed after your analysis. Thank you.
@EmeraldWings90
@EmeraldWings90 11 месяцев назад
Part of the point was that Pavarotti and opera singers in general tend to have slow vibratos, so, it's not that he's faster even than pavarotti - it's not a speed race. It's that his vibrato is different because it's unusually fast, and fast vibrato is not even a goal generally, but it does sound good. Just different.
@ZENOBlAmusic
@ZENOBlAmusic 11 месяцев назад
Pavarotti had a pretty normal vibrato so it is not really a good comparison. However, in opera it is often big voiced dramatic tenors that have faster vibratos, not the light lyrical voices which Pavarotti had. So those scientists should rather have made a different comparison, but my guess is that they probably did not know much about opera. Enrique Caruso, Mario Del Monaco and Franco Corelli all had vibratos that was at 7hz and over. They are all tenors with big dramatic voices. The right vibrato adds expression to the voice.
@letsgomets002
@letsgomets002 11 месяцев назад
He's no opera singer please ,don't compare.
@AliT0555
@AliT0555 11 месяцев назад
Not comparing him to an opera singer. In fact, Freddie himself said he was not an opera singer. Just stating that he did, in fact, have a faster than normal vibrato and that is one of the qualities that made his voice unique.
@trixlee5102
@trixlee5102 11 месяцев назад
@@letsgomets002 Yep, it's very rare to see opera cross over with rock/pop (usually our ears don't like the sound of trained opera singing over rock/pop music), but Freddie was certainly not formally trained. He also likely damaged his vocal cords (he had nodules) like many rock singers trying to sing over the band at rehearsals early on in their career when they didn't have a proper sound system. The nodules would cause him problems from time to time during Queen's career when they were in the middle of a rigorous touring schedule, but he had an amazing ear for dropping notes to thirds or fifths live when he felt he couldn't hit the higher pitches. That said, he also learned how to practice/train his voice better later in his career. At one point in the 80s an interviewer asked him why he didn't take a lead role in a musical and he admitted that he didn't think he could hold up over such a rigorous schedule, but Freddie was always fairly humble talking about himself.
@headrushindi
@headrushindi 10 месяцев назад
I do not believe that anyone can listen to this band and mistake them for "Just another Pop Rock group" . It is absolutely apparent that they were Far More. I think they brought Class, structure, and classical virtuosity to the average Pop Rock Listener at the time. Though Many fans may not have known it , I think it was this education , being injected into their musical appreciation , that gave them something they didn't even know they needed . Something they weren't getting from the main stream Pop-Rock of the time. I do not know if Queen planned this, or if it was just a spectacular, chance pairing of just the right Musicians at just the right time in history. Whichever it was Just BRILLIANT.
@tomcorey5831
@tomcorey5831 6 месяцев назад
Great job. I’ve been obsessed with queens since 1975. This song takes my breath away.
@41Forethought
@41Forethought 11 месяцев назад
I love that you characterised YTMBA as "not square." I couldn't have said it any better. The subtle interplay of the melody, the voice, the timing, even the way Freddie strikes the piano keys, makes it unique and one of his finest (if not the finest) compositions. The delayed closing phrase reminds me of exhaling after holding one's breath... and then deeply inhaling. Perhaps that's because I often find myself holding my own breath while listening to this lovely song... it literally takes my breath away. Thank you once again, Amy, for your insight and empathy. You've made YTMBA even more meaningful and delightful for me.
@bouloan7576
@bouloan7576 5 месяцев назад
You take me to another world during one hour. Thanks a lot for this video. And love Freddie, love Queen!!
@catsara9114
@catsara9114 8 месяцев назад
I feel like this song has no genre, it is just beautiful music.
@simonk7937
@simonk7937 11 месяцев назад
Can't wait for this one ❤ This is definitely one of those tracks that you should react to both the studio and live version of ..
@allisonal
@allisonal 11 месяцев назад
5 minutes of beautiful music expanded into an hour of almost poetic analysis. Love this channel!
@DonnaleaSpencer
@DonnaleaSpencer 11 месяцев назад
This is such a pretty song. For a stripped down, hauntingly beautiful version, please find and watch Freddie's live premier of this song (before it was even recorded). "You Take My Breath Away - Live at Hyde Park 1976". You'll see Freddie and his piano. That is all he needed to create magic.
@79BlackRose
@79BlackRose 11 месяцев назад
The studio version is infinitely better. The live version was a practice basically.
@papercup2517
@papercup2517 11 месяцев назад
I absolutely agree, the stripped back version is utterly magical, and I prefer it to the more elaborate studio version. Of course, it's all a matter of individual taste, but sometimes less is more.
@LeeKennison
@LeeKennison 11 месяцев назад
Such a beautiful song and reaction/analysis by you Amy. Really happy you enjoyed it so much and that it made your playlist.
@ZENOBlAmusic
@ZENOBlAmusic 11 месяцев назад
Great analysis! Apart from Freddie's unique vibrato he also had an amazing tone to his voice, and I say this someone who also follows opera closely. Perhaps even more importantly he had expectational expression. You can have a very beautiful voice, but if you don't know how to express yourself and the emotions of the music then it will not help you that much.
@johnfallona4348
@johnfallona4348 11 месяцев назад
Freddy does ALL the voices in this, self multitrack
@patriciakent6728
@patriciakent6728 6 месяцев назад
I could say so much about your reactions, but I will say you're right out there with Freddie.Thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@jerkedevries
@jerkedevries 4 месяца назад
So right
@davidmacfarlane1763
@davidmacfarlane1763 11 месяцев назад
The video when Freddie debuted this is even more stunning. Much simpler. Freddie, Piano, emotion....
@simonheathcote4173
@simonheathcote4173 11 месяцев назад
Yes!
@richlisola1
@richlisola1 11 месяцев назад
Oh the studio version is much better. I must disagree
@davidmacfarlane1763
@davidmacfarlane1763 10 месяцев назад
To each their own. However Freddie feels the live version. Given the story behind the song, that is understandable @@richlisola1
@chrishainstock330
@chrishainstock330 5 месяцев назад
Where can I see this video
@bluebell3720
@bluebell3720 11 месяцев назад
If you only listen for yourself MUST ! watch his live just him and the piano so beautiful and emotional Which I find this looses a bit
@wmason1961
@wmason1961 9 месяцев назад
I love singing this to my wife in the car. The fact that she loves it when I sing to her is why I married her.
@jerkedevries
@jerkedevries 4 месяца назад
That’s nice!
@MRFThorne
@MRFThorne 29 дней назад
Lovely!
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 10 дней назад
🌷 I love this… I miss my lovely husband who is now in heaven
@mickgoddard
@mickgoddard 11 месяцев назад
Beautiful song, Freddie at his creative best..!
@chelz1972
@chelz1972 11 месяцев назад
Fred was a genius.
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 11 месяцев назад
Yes he was 🥰
@deboraclark5791
@deboraclark5791 11 месяцев назад
Your analysis is always so wonderful. I love Freddie's ballads. Freddie was a man who was filled with so much love and only wanted that love in return. He poured it out in his songs.
@Leo93087
@Leo93087 11 месяцев назад
Amy, you should listen to "The Millionaire Waltz" of Queen as well (studio version). This song is a brilliant combination of classic music, operetta and rock. The song has abrupt rhythmic, melodic and arrangement changes. Except Freddy Mercury's incredible vocal and his amazing piano skills, you'll hear Brian May's excellent guitar arrangement/orchestration and John Deacon's beautiful bass line. I'm sure, as a classical musician, you will like this song ♥
@pedroascensao1554
@pedroascensao1554 10 месяцев назад
Congratulations and Thank´s for the share. This is a Masterpiece . I suggest " My melancolyc Blues" from de 2News of the world album, from 1977.
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 11 месяцев назад
I love this song and have since the first time I heard it. I always feel as if I’m invading Freddie’s privacy … that somehow this song is only for him and one other person. Everything you showed me about this song made me see what I’ve always heard. Now I understand why the tiny time in between Freddie singing these lines make me almost uncomfortable as if I’m eavesdropping . When Freddie sings I I will find you… I always have goosebumps … even tho I know that line is coming. You said this song sounds other-worldly and that is exactly how I think of it every time I listen to it. So grateful for you Amy🌷 You are gifted and for me nothing is more wonderful than listening to a true musician explain music . You would really enjoy Freddie singing in Hyde Park 1976 in front of 200 hundred thousand people. When I watch it I feel it really does take my breath away because I think I don’t breath through the entire song. The audience is completely quiet also… have neither seen anything like it. ( the strange power of Freddie Mercury 🥰😂 )
@joeterp5615
@joeterp5615 11 месяцев назад
This reaction… takes my breath away! Your joy and appreciation and knowledge and wonderful musicality, communicated not just through your voice and words, but through flowing expressions and body movements and hand movement… take us with you for a wonderful ride through this amazing piece. This seems like what it might have been like to walk through the streets of Paris with Renoir as your guide - adding even more joy and appreciation to that already generated by the senses of the living, breathing, vibrant, flowing scenes of life along the way. You are a marvelous tour guide! ❤️😊 I never thought I could be so enthralled by an hour long video on a single song! Truly wonderful!
@DRRwine
@DRRwine 11 месяцев назад
I think I know how you'll think of this in the future. As I do: PERFECTION.
@MarkGeraghty
@MarkGeraghty 9 месяцев назад
I enjoyed your reaction. This song affects people differently. To me it feels melancholy and sad. A lost life. You might like "Teo Torriate" another Freddie Mercury composition from the same album, sung partly in Japanese with a real Japanese feeling. Just as beautiful as Take my Breath Away, but then he wrote so many beautiful songs.
@mariasanabria7981
@mariasanabria7981 9 месяцев назад
Teo Torriate was written by Brian May, dedicated to the Japanese public, and masterfully performed by Freddie Mercury.
@nick5728
@nick5728 9 месяцев назад
Been following you for months.. It's the first time I write a comment thou... BEST CHANNEL EVER KEEP IT UP GORGEOUS!
@aurorepinguet3115
@aurorepinguet3115 11 месяцев назад
Your analysis is so on point that I'm speachless. Thank you so much 💛❤️
@michaelt.b264
@michaelt.b264 11 месяцев назад
The order is simple: Take My Breath Away, pre-coitus. Love of my life, post-coitus
@neilloughran4437
@neilloughran4437 11 месяцев назад
My favourite Queen song. I learned piano 30 years ago by working out songs like this. Like you I never felt the strictly Japanese pentatonic as such... a lot of European classical elements with Chopin coming to the fore for me at least. I notice Freddie always had a penchant for F#dim7 as it appears on many of his songs... Also some more modern chords like Abmaj over Bb bass for example... such a classic! Thanks for making this song more known in the public consciousness as it is a bit of a hidden gem in the Queen catalogue.
@andreakormosnekacso4804
@andreakormosnekacso4804 11 месяцев назад
Freddie ensured us a small insight into his soul with one of the most beautiful love songs.
@georgeshinas8375
@georgeshinas8375 11 месяцев назад
Please check on the Hyde Park live performance of this song. Mercury's performance is out of this world.
@BigSky1
@BigSky1 11 месяцев назад
I was there.
@DropAnchor1978
@DropAnchor1978 11 месяцев назад
Sublime! This is one of Queen's most superb pieces. From the expressive and perfect vocals to the rubato on the piano, this performance is hauntingly gorgeous. Freddie's wonderful vocal intonation is exposed here without auto-tuning (Thank you, 1976!).
@VOID-bw5jc
@VOID-bw5jc 11 месяцев назад
What a wonderful and beautiful musical analysis. I love your reaction of QUEEN. You are an amazing person.
@babyfacemichael1
@babyfacemichael1 11 месяцев назад
The choral parts of this song are spectacular. Some songs you fall in love with, from the beginning, this is one of them. There are some stunning diamonds on `A Day at the Races` I don`t know which the Cullinan is ? You have other joys to come , knowing that is just delicious for us, your audience. I think that`s why reaction videos are so great, it takes us back to our first time , and just what a wonderful, beautiful moment that was.
@teaearlgrayh0t
@teaearlgrayh0t 10 месяцев назад
Only live version - Hyde Park 1976.
@nstrug
@nstrug 10 месяцев назад
There's great use of the 'Deacy Amp' in this - the cello-like sounds are Brian playing guitar through a little amplifier made for him by John Deacon out of parts found in a dumpster - the amp has a unique strings-like distortion/fuzz.
@Leo93087
@Leo93087 11 месяцев назад
This song is a real masterpiece!
@carlbaker7242
@carlbaker7242 11 месяцев назад
Your the first that I know to react to this song and oh how I appreciate it. You know I truly love this group so far back but I was worried about with my friends and family opinions would be because of me being African American . So I would listen with headphones only. As time past I said we are all different. Love me or hate this is my music and this is who i am!!! Thank you. Also I thought only Angles played the Harp.😇
@WindmillChef
@WindmillChef 11 месяцев назад
Thank you Amy, I again learned a ton in ways to listen further into this song or a song. No competition here, I think as far as Freddie Mercury or Queen's label is concerned you can listen to both songs to your heart's content. For me, at least one third of my music listening experiences are listening to a complete album and listening to them as a whole experience, as one experience and this song fits in the (very diverse) album. One thing that strikes me and it's a quintessential Mercury quality is that his hole mood, as he produces this song, is a tender or very sensitive mood, yet I sense a boldness, a blatant emotion and he sings with conviction, it strikes me as a unique combination. I imagine that in order to make a song like this, create it, write it, detail it and then produce it one has to be in a very balanced good state of mind, seems that if a certain emotion is burdening you, you're in agony, angered because Johnny ate your oatmeal for breakfast, overly sad for some reason, if you're burdened over something, you couldn't produce this, some delicacies of details would not be, something would throw this creation off kilter. This is just splendid work. Just my own thought.
@tonytjandra4798
@tonytjandra4798 11 месяцев назад
"My Melancholy Blues" was composed by Freddie Mercury. There are no backing vocals or guitar. Despite the title, the track is more related to jazz. Amy, wanna try a jazz song ? Thank's.
@neilloughran4437
@neilloughran4437 11 месяцев назад
next album.
@bighenry6633
@bighenry6633 10 месяцев назад
Freddie seems to bare his soul, let down his defences completely for his muse in this song, until he realises how vulnerable he has let himself become and pulls them back up right at the end, in a way that he doesn't in Love Of My Life.
@theLukedishwasher
@theLukedishwasher 10 месяцев назад
This was way before auto-tune entered the recording studios. What you hear is a multi-tracked pitch-perfect Freddie sounding other worldly au naturel. That’s because he was other worldly. No boundaries, no limits. I keep expecting him to come back and defy his own mortality. I wouldn’t put it past him.
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 8 месяцев назад
My fave comment on Freddie ever 😂
@coreywilliams923
@coreywilliams923 11 месяцев назад
Thanks for for this one guys. It's my favourite ballard of all time and means so much to me. Brian has said that when recording the harmonies, Freddie's voice was so perfect, it would phase with what he had already recorded. At some points he had to deliberately sing slightly off to get the full sound.
@clintonsmith5163
@clintonsmith5163 11 месяцев назад
Is it just me, or does Brian May's guitar sound like a cello in this song? That sad, melancholy tone fits the song perfectly.
@jukkakaitala4635
@jukkakaitala4635 11 месяцев назад
We who lived up our teenage years listening this kind of pop or rock music as fresh and new, we were so blessed really. It so difficult to understand when you compare to the hit list music nowadays. Mind blowing music, mind blowing lyrics. And the quality of the execution.
@GuimaraesDreamers
@GuimaraesDreamers 11 месяцев назад
Essa composição é tão linda, a performasse de Freddie no Hyde Park sempre me quebra
@jeffin8127
@jeffin8127 11 месяцев назад
I have always taken the false ending as representing someone who just poured their heart out to the one they are in love with and are now waiting for a response (pregnant with expectation). The real end was likely achieved by taking the vocal track and playing it backwards through a delay (echo) unit and recording it, then flipping that new tape around so it plays the vocal forwards again and splicing it to the end of the song. That was the easiest way in those days of getting the pre-delay to build into the original vocal line which appears at the very end.
@Liz.Green789
@Liz.Green789 11 месяцев назад
Freddie was such a wonderful pianist. I love how crisp and clear each note is. This is one I often think of when I think about his playing. It truly is a gorgeous song.
@Kobayashhi
@Kobayashhi 7 месяцев назад
What a wonderful piece. Freddy's genius at his peak. Loving your passion !
@lorijones9579
@lorijones9579 11 месяцев назад
I'm not 100% sure, but I think I heard an interview by Brian who said this song was 100% Freddie. He presented it to the rest of the group as as completely finished song. I love that they use the beginning of it in their concert tours, as an intro to Who Wants to Live Forever. It's beautiful. I just saw them in Nashville. It was a wonderful experience.
@bluebell3720
@bluebell3720 11 месяцев назад
He performed it live before theyd started their next album
@TheKeefed
@TheKeefed 11 месяцев назад
A wonderful piece of music. So glad I grew up in that period.
@terryhurley1
@terryhurley1 4 месяца назад
My favourite Freddie song
@LaserRockShow
@LaserRockShow 11 месяцев назад
aww ami this was so ❤❤❤ again! and you should listen to the hyde park version too, its amazing and i really like the piano ending here more than the studio version. you are right with his signature vocal fingerprint vibrato which frequency was higher than usual.
@tonytjandra4798
@tonytjandra4798 11 месяцев назад
My melancholy blues by Queen. Just info. Thank you.
@jerkedevries
@jerkedevries 4 месяца назад
Great track indeed
@simonheathcote4173
@simonheathcote4173 11 месяцев назад
The live version makes you weep with its tenderness.
@remastered-00-pl
@remastered-00-pl 6 месяцев назад
Freddie did ALL vocals for this M A S T E R P I E C E
@AllieSakwa
@AllieSakwa 11 месяцев назад
You've finally reviewed my favourite Queen song! I'm glad you loved it.
@patrickwhite4151
@patrickwhite4151 7 месяцев назад
Brian May said that Freddie didn't rate himself as a pianist
@ICRA95
@ICRA95 5 месяцев назад
they were not just a regular rock band for sure
@hollowslayed4979
@hollowslayed4979 11 месяцев назад
Wow, so happy you’re doing this track. It’s almost ethereal.
@solino2002andrea
@solino2002andrea 11 месяцев назад
Leaving aside this absolutely masterpiece (for a moment) the pentatonic scale you played, immediately recalled to my mind “ nine million bicycles” from Katie Melua whose intention was to recreate exactly a traditional Asian atmosphere. Anyway, this song reveals that they really experienced/understood what true love ❤️is, otherwise it would not be possible to write something like that.
@GinMae
@GinMae 11 месяцев назад
Thanks V-Rock! This is such a masterpiece... I'm glad you listened to the album version... the dynamics are fantastic... as well as harmonies and instrumentation! really appreciate your reaction! (p.s. I always notice that you can hear him taking his breaths! He didn't need to feature that.. I feel as though it was quite deliberate)
@diegoobrunisandman8143
@diegoobrunisandman8143 11 месяцев назад
Very good insight of this incredible song I suggest you listen to the live version at Hyde park 1976 I hope next song will be the millionaire’s waltz
@9ofdiamonds350
@9ofdiamonds350 11 месяцев назад
The flowing of elements, I knew you would get this song. Beautiful stuff!
@joanmayfield4791
@joanmayfield4791 10 месяцев назад
These guys were real musicians. Glad you are sharing your discoveries.
@davekite5690
@davekite5690 10 месяцев назад
'a little late catching this one - "beautiful".
@santiagolopez953
@santiagolopez953 Месяц назад
Freddie ❤
@Gavrev
@Gavrev 15 дней назад
I love this song.. an intense expression, you go all the way through it believing it to be an ode and confession, only to find it's that perfect someone he feels in his imagination. A DAY AT THE RACES has a few gems like this and I find it to be a calmer but very expressive and interesting a follow up album to its previous sibling. Interesting to learn that it's based on the Japanese pentatonic scale, particularly with respect to the last track on the album.
@FredrikSandstrom797
@FredrikSandstrom797 11 месяцев назад
A Day at the Races is, in my opinion, Queen's last truly excellent album. Now, there are great songs on all their albums, so you'll enjoy the rest of this journey for sure, but I think the first five really stand out. You need to revisit them at some point, especially Queen II, which is arguably their most interesting album.
@rodneygriffin7666
@rodneygriffin7666 11 месяцев назад
Love is wanting to be loved It's extremely hard to find this in a lifetime.. Be blessed and fortunate for those who have found love. Most people may never find that kind of experience. Pray for those who have open hearts who have little love left to sustain themselves. Those who deserve no pity, but deserve true love. Like every good human being deserves, and to who has none. None.
@jerkedevries
@jerkedevries 4 месяца назад
Thanks!
@eirintowne
@eirintowne 10 месяцев назад
Every time I hear that meolody, I picture walking around in Gion or somewhere similar, all immersed in this foreign and enchanting world, trying to take in all the impressions from all sensory input. Just when you start to feel the rythm of what is going on around you, when it starts making sense and your body starts to move to this new way of being you, your eye catches some incredibly beautiful person. This glimpse of perfection is so surprising, yet so absolutely perfect to express the aesthetic environment that you were just starting to get, that your whole body stops for a moment. Even your breath stops, and you are left hanging on top of all the gorgeousness ... until someone bumps into you, making you move to find your balance again, and by the time you look up again, all you see is the back of the person walking away from you. Perhaps you have just enough time to notice that the person is actually walking with a loved one, and that seems just as it should be, since you never had time to fall in love, just to get stopped in your tracks by some aspect of the person, and you are generous enough to recognize that it is a good thing for such beauty to be admired by someone else, too. You smile a little to yourself, reorient yourself in time and space, and start adapting your movements to the others around you again. It becomes almost second nature to you, strengthened by a delicious smell, or a flash of colour, and your entire being is thrilled to be part of this broad and deep cultural moment. Your you shifts a little, having grown almost imperceptively, and you feel like you're just about to break into a song like in a musical, so sure that the crowd around you would join in, and then... Another glimpse of that person, under a different light, and they look even more sublime! THIS is why your series is so immensely valuable to me, you take me far away in time and space, I become someone else with so much more knowledge for a while! Thank you, again!
@79BlackRose
@79BlackRose 11 месяцев назад
This is my favourite Queen ballad (from my favourite Queen album). It sounds exquisitely personal and intimate because he wrote it for his lover David Minns. This is the ultimate version where Freddie perfected what he previously demoed live.
@lanehewitt7685
@lanehewitt7685 10 месяцев назад
You're gonna love Teo Torriate.
@JK-ld8cd
@JK-ld8cd 11 месяцев назад
one of my favorites from Queen, from my all time favorite Album- A Day at the Races
@carlgroves8072
@carlgroves8072 11 месяцев назад
For all the emotional content of the lyrics, at no point does he say "I Love You" until the very last line. Why? Because it's only by the end of the piece that we, the listener, and the person being sung to, actually know what those words can mean!
@stephanybabson9787
@stephanybabson9787 4 месяца назад
I get a bit of Moonlight Sonata. And I think Beethoven would have liked this piece very much.
@bukeksiansu2112
@bukeksiansu2112 11 месяцев назад
I have never and will never get tired of listening to this beautiful song since I was a teen in 1982.
@mmanes100
@mmanes100 11 месяцев назад
Is it possible listen to this music and not to cry?
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 11 месяцев назад
Not for me
@andymccabe6712
@andymccabe6712 11 месяцев назад
.... completely...!!!!
@JohnHazelwood58
@JohnHazelwood58 11 месяцев назад
Ok, I confirm and will be true: I can't play the harp and never will! :( But I - me 13 back then - quoted part of the lyrics once to a girl I met at an youth event ... That's when I got my first kiss! *yeah ♥music-quotes are working! :) *LUV No joke! Imagine you at that young age and a boy takes you outside to talk with you and starts with: "look into my eyes and you'll see i am the only one..." . To defend myself: I was young! And I am german! It was my first event in the UK ever and I only had some english lessons at school! I wouldn't have come up with that by myself! But thanks I knew Queen already - she didn't knew them! *haha
@BigSky1
@BigSky1 11 месяцев назад
I saw them perform it in Hyde Park September 1976
@neilloughran4437
@neilloughran4437 11 месяцев назад
me too... on youtube though :D
@BigSky1
@BigSky1 11 месяцев назад
@@neilloughran4437 I can remember seeing Steve Hillage, a band called Supercharge and Kiki Dee who sang Don’t Go Breaking My Heart with a life size cut out of Elton on stage. I think Queen opened with Tie Your Mother Down.
@foxdenham
@foxdenham 11 месяцев назад
Yup. Beautiful indeed Amy ❤
@miroslavbraculj4325
@miroslavbraculj4325 5 месяцев назад
Dugo sam bio usamljen u mom doživljaju muzike Queen-a,ali ova dama je osetila najvrednije elemente te muzike koji je izdižu visoko od buntovnog i sirotinjskog roken rola.Drago mi je da prepoznaje najprefinjenije pesme koje su uglavnom i manje popularne.
@jerkedevries
@jerkedevries 4 месяца назад
Yes it is really great to hear these serious and fun reactions to Queen.; we are not alone
@DenyakotMoscow14
@DenyakotMoscow14 3 месяца назад
after your analysis I hear the song differently and it gives incredible pleasure. You are excellent!
@stvsmith1791
@stvsmith1791 11 месяцев назад
First time I ever heard this track was probably 10 yrs old and was even then struck with how special this song is. Fun fact - the Japanese word for diarrhea is "KAKAZUME". you're welcome
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 11 месяцев назад
😂
@jerkedevries
@jerkedevries 4 месяца назад
Right 😅
@ludivineformery5627
@ludivineformery5627 7 месяцев назад
Thank you for this super interesting, informative and professional reaction of what is probably my favorite love song ever! Best wishes from France
@thomasord8636
@thomasord8636 11 месяцев назад
Please listen to live in.hyde park version. Just Fred and piano. Beautiful.
@BigSky1
@BigSky1 11 месяцев назад
I was there. Sept, ‘76
@ederss7
@ederss7 8 месяцев назад
A masterclass of how to make harmonies.
@kleberveridianogoncalvesde6293
@kleberveridianogoncalvesde6293 11 месяцев назад
Beautiful!
@BarleyC
@BarleyC 11 месяцев назад
Oh yes!!! I’ve been hoping for and looking forward to a reaction to this one for so long!!! 👑
@BarleyC
@BarleyC 11 месяцев назад
Just watched - wonderful!
@cosmos586
@cosmos586 11 месяцев назад
Hi, I love your reaction to this special song. Freddy's voice is so sweet. I suggest you analyse "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" from the same album 😉. .
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