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The lyrics definitely needed some work but the melody is lovely. The instrumentation sounds essentially good on the Smile version because there are more guitar tracks for Brian to really show off with.

Spot on! I've always thought that, too.

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Maybe they'll put it on a special edition of NOTW in future.

@neiljones1938 I thing it is already on NOTW 40 years edition / compilation

@@Lawyeris Yes, you're right. I checked on amazon. 👍

um, maybe because it's just blues based and boring and not that unique sounding? Even Freddie can't make this sound good. Just not original.

@@TruthSurge I'd say not "just blues", but "EVEN the blues!" And I don't consider it as song based on boring and not that unique sounding. Otherwise even "We will rock you" you can describe in that way, as boring, simple, not unique. For me Feelings Feelings is very powerful, energetic, rocker tune, which differs from all other their songs, as usual. For me it is one of the best songs that wasn't put on the official album, for sure.

Absolutely. The first time Queen did anything in the studio was at De Lane Lea and John had already been with them a while by then. The only time before that Freddie had been in a studio was doing the covers of Goin’ Back and I Can Hear Music, his voice is noticeably completely different here.

It’s probably not intentional. Freddie gets quite a few of the lyrics wrong here. And I should point out that Silver Salmon is actually from ‘77 in the News of the World sessions.

@@TieYourLaurenDown hard to tell as Freddie sometimes made errors and other times made changes. Tim Staffell wrote Silver Salmon, so it goes back to the Smile days and Queen recorded it in '72. It was an unreleased track from the first Queen album. I never saw any reference to NOTW sessions other than the Queenvault site, which has some errors in it, but maybe it was.

@ it’s definitely from “News of the World”, it was recorded back to back with “Feelings/Now that I’m Here” (which was also erroneously rumoured to be from the “Queen” sessions). Roger’s got China symbols and rototomes on those tracks, which he didn’t get until 1976. If you listen to it after the speed has been corrected, Freddie’s voice is unmistakably too developed to be that early in their career. We also know that Queen were revisiting older songs at the point with “Now That I’m Here” developing into “Feelings, Feelings” and the finished version of “Sheer Heart Attack”. Edit: add “We are the Champions” to that list too, Freddie wrote an early version of it in 1975.

Well, the forums going back and forth on this, and there are many, all end the same way. No one really knows for sure. Lol. Anyway, I have what I think might be a boot of the Queen sessions that states they're from '72-'74. The first listed is labeled Queen l sessions and includes KYA, Liar, S & D, Silver Salmon & Polar Bear. Makes sense really. It's a single CD and also has Q 2 sessions 1973 and SHA 1974 as well. All grouped to to the year. People also can't seem to agree whether it's an early 70s Freddie voice or the mid to late 70s voice. To me his speaking and singing voice on this track sound like a young Freddie but I guess we could go on about it forever. I'm just glad we have it to listen to and we're all here because we love Queen. Thanks.

@ Freddie has a diaphonic voice crack on “Silver Salmon” which isn’t possible unless you have a physical abnormality of the vocal cords. Freddie didn’t develop nodules on his vocal cords until early 1975 during the “Sheer Heart Attack” tour. Also, the “Queen 1” physical box set has photos of tape reels and recording times for songs. “Silver Salmon” definitely can’t be from 1971 because the whole session at De Lane Lea is documented and it is incredibly unlikely for it to have come from the ‘72 Trident sessions. There is no evidence whatsoever that it comes from that point in time, there is a mountain of evidence saying it’s from 1977.

We don’t actually know when it was recorded. It could very well be from the Queen II sessions, maybe even from Sheer Heart Attack

Almost definitely not. April Lady was a song given to Smile by Mercury Records. It was written by Stanley Lucas, not by any member of the band. Queen prides themselves on only recording original material so the odds of them even thinking about doing that song are next to none. I wouldn’t be surprised if Freddie didn’t even know it existed.

No? Believe it or not people are actually allowed to have their own opinions. The harmonies on the Smile version are amazing, the instrumentation is more developed and Time and Brian’s duet gives it a lot of rich variety. Obviously Freddie is amazing but you don’t have to pretend he’s literally the only singer with any talent.

@ I see my comment from weeks ago bothered you. Let’s see if I can push it further. If it wasn’t for Freddie Mercury, you wouldn’t even know who Tim Staffell is.

Perhaps autotuned as well

​@@monitor4208There is no autotune here, this is not an official production. Read the description.

Yeah and I have the Japanese import of the Smile album. If I remember, only one song was in stereo . The rest mono. I prefer Staffel’s voice on that album.

@stumpusMaximus yes, Tim Staffel has a very good voice there.