best part of "Under Pressure"

credit to sing365.com for the transcription of the most moving scatting performance ever committed to record

bowie makes this song

relevent YouTube commentary:

423likeajewel (5 days ago) +2 Reply | Spam
2:22 - 2:32 OH MY GOD! WOW! THAT WAS *AMAZING*!!! dammit freddie what a singer!

edbn24 (5 days ago) +1 Reply | Spam
dam this songs great my favorite part is 2:05 to 2:20

JTLaser (1 week ago) +2 Reply | Spam
At 2:30 Freddie shows his range and what beauty a human voice is capable of. ( but only a very rare few!)

Gorecito (1 week ago) +1 Reply | Spam
2.22 is magic

number1canuck (2 weeks ago) +2 Reply | Spam
at :21 that girl looks like shes getting fucked

I'm a huge Mercury stan and not real big into Bowie, but I might have to vote for 2:54-3:32 just for how incredible and climactic it is

This song benefits from repeating itself over and over.

xxp i was just gonna say it's this one

2:54-3:32 ("'Cause love's such an old fashioned word...")

what's the deal with this video, why is it so perfect and why does it contain the exact frame featured on the cover of Walk AMong Us

nevermind, went for 2:37-2:54, which sets up that part while being really awesome in and of itself (xpost)

"It's the terror of knowing..." You have no IDEA on first listen that the song will change chords and direction like this.

My EMP paper this year went off on the greatness of 2:54-3:32's declaration of love as radicalizing, redemptive. I wound up reciting that last verse, my little incantation the only way I could figure to express my love for it and invoke its power. So, that one.

goddamn this song is incredible

you see, here's the difference: theirs goes "doon doon doon doon-doon-doon-doon." mine goes "doon doon doon doon-doon-doon doon *chik*"

Tom Scharpling sings along to Under Pressure

terror of knowing--chill inducing still

man what a great idea for a poll

Great poll, but gotta go with 2:54-3:32 cos that's the part I always anticipate the most and sing along to the loudest.

it's gotta be 2:22-2:37 ("Why - why - why ?...") for me - i just love it when Bowie rev's his voice up like that. wow!

er...revs.

2:54, but some dude's right, freddie's bit before sets it up perfectly.

wtf is giant scary voodoo alien spider at 3:03 from?

2:37-2:54 ("Can't we give ourselves one more chance...")

and in particular the repeated "give love give love give love"s as they fade into Bowie's reply that love's such an old-fashioned word. Mercury annoys me at various points in the first half of the song, e.g. the screamed "let me out"s. But the "give love"s are the song's best scat (out of many) and the fade/transition is glorious.

This might be one of the only Queen tracks I like enough to own.

(I don't, but..)

The best part is the totally black sleeve (apart from the artist and title info etc)

No 'photo', no image, no video, only the song. It stood purely on the quality of the track.

And wins.

0:00-0:30 ("Mm ba ba de...")

I love the opening, plus it signals the oncoming glory of the rest of the song.

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("'Cause love's such an old fashioned word...")

I think this is my favorite Queen song *and* my favorite Bowie song

Is it just me, or is this song structure really not all that revelatory? Unless you're really keen on distinguishing scat vocals, it just seems like verse-chorus-repeat-long coda to me. When I hear this song I think "amazing vocal riffing"/"awesome production"/"i am frozen in time," much less "can't believe they pulled that off with this song structure"

Point having been made, I went for ("Cause love's such and old fashioned word...")

I suppose that was the point of the other thread, but that wasn't really my point with this one, obviously there's a good amount of repetition in this song and its structure is more pop than, say, "Bohemian Rhapsody." I still think it's an absolute marvel of songwriting, though.

OK, word

interesting to hear what this song evolved out of and how different it is:

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

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yay!

surprised there weren't more votes for "turned away from it all like a blind man" though.