Impressive

[ironphoenix]

Ganked from zenten on G+, Panic! at the Disco covers "Bohemian Rhapsody"; I think they make it their own.

Ganked from goldsquare, An outstanding display of driving skill. The first little while is kind of ordinary, but then, a bit past the half-way mark, it gets incredible--the kind of thing one expects in CGI, not IRL.

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I am a very strong intellectual fan of Queen and Freddy Mercury - it doesn't help that at the event I am going to this weekend, we are singing Crazy Little Thing Called Love. (No: it doesn't translate well to barbershop, but it's still fascinating and challenging to sing well.)

That was a "Near Freddy" experience. Certainly better than the cover-band that Queen became once Freddy passed.

I'm not super-familiar with Panic! At The Disco, but I think I'll spend some time today cruising around YouTube and getting to know them.

One of the major challenges to covering Queen, is that Freddy had a near-symphonic range, and at every part of his range his voice was consistent and his own. The lead singer here has an enviable voice in his more comfortable ranges. But his falsetto loses some of his fascinating grit, and becomes pure tone. Wonderful: but once you learn to listen for such things, jarring.

(It's one of my many challenges in singing - my breaks/passagios are too prominent in the higher ranges, so I can't sing across those breaks - and when I get into falsetto, I'm learning how not to sound like a pure tone-generator. It's hard work.)

Thank you for sharing. I've been listening to an early Queen concert, from the early 70s, and if you know what I mean, Freddy then isn't what Freddy became, and this Panic! performance was sort of mid-way between the two.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

And thank you for the comment... you clearly know much more about Queen and about singing than I do!

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

How the driver keeps it upright for some of those near rolls, or rights it from the rolls... wow.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Indeed... breakdancing, in a truck.

[khall.livejournal.com]

Good cover, but...it seems flat. Like...when Freddie does it all the notes...have timbre and...internal power. When he does it...it's just a song, sorta. If that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZRJaW4fNVw

Not the best one, but...always thought that'd be a neat job.

K.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Tastes differ... I thought it was pretty solid.

As for the Saab team, bah, anyone who's driven in Montreal is used to doing all that! ;) I do want to learn how to do a J-turn someday... not sure I'd want to do that kind of driving as a living, but it'd be a fun hobby.