Full Album Reaction: My Fairy King by Queen

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[dresden]

I highly recommend Roger's falsetto from the beginning to be used as alarm clock. I've never overslept thanks to his high notes 😂

[debramoore]

My Fairy King is in my top four Queen songs. I’m so excited you’re reacting to it. I have been binge listening to this song for awhile now! Amazing writing ✍️ Brian commented this was the first song that they noticed the piano skills that Freddie possessed. 🎹🎹 It’s also the song that Freddie made it clear his last name would be legally changed to Mercury!! My fav lyrics are “Someone, someone has drained the color from my wings .. Broken my fairy circle ring .. And shamed the king in all his pride .. Changed the winds & wronged the tides.. Mother Mercury”

[janetschulman]

What did they do to Freddie? They took the color from his wings. He cannot run and cannot hide. Mother Mercury help him.

[rubydazzler]

Until I heard this I never knew why Fred called Roger, the dog whistle. But his delightful screeching on here and him being a beast on the drums ....wow!

[lindsaycrellin]

Roger’s falsetto right at the beginning is amazing he has such an amazing voice x can’t wait for Liar next 😊

[ZENOBlAmusic]

Great reaction! My Fairy King is one of my favourite Queen songs, it is really the first big epic song Freddie Mercury wrote. I would say it is connected to The Great King Rat. During The Great King Rat, they are trying smear his reputation, there is a lot of propaganda against The Great King Rat. The Fairy King takes over, on papier he looks like the perfect king, but he is vain. Under his leadership the kingdom falls. Everything is forever changed and things will never be the same. Queen worked really hard on their harmonies. Freddie and Roger often sang the high harmonies together, they especially used Roger's falsetto in the first half of the 70's. Freddie and Roger had different sounding falsettos, Freddie's falsetto sounded very close to his own voice, whilst Roger had that loud, bright and resonant falsetto. Brain often sang harmonies in the middle. Freddie also often mostly did the lower harmonies as well, his voice sounded the best on low notes, sometimes Brian also did lower harmonies.

[grandtheftmanualv]

Loving this journey!
Been so long (so... long...) since I first heard these songs, it's wonderful to be reminded of how much they can blow a mind on first hearing!
Queen were truly masterful at the idea that music is like a liquid which flows and follows the contours of the ground.
The songs themselves are a very rich mix of feelings and expressions, to which the music adds layers and sweeps around the stories, beautifully following the contours like water!

Liar is coming next, all I'll say is... Be ready.

[kuntumhapsari]

Nothing is happier than waiting for Queen’s video upload 💕

[deboraclark]

No band took the chances Queen did with their music, especially in the early days, totally unique in every way.

[joesmith]

ITS AMAZING HOW U YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE FEELING WHAT I FELT YEARS A GO SAW QUEEN LIVE IN SYRACUSE NY, I SAID THEN THEY WHERE AHEAD OF THEIR TIME!

[bloodyhell]

They were very experimental in the early days, so much so that one critic remarked on their excellent use of "synthesizers", which promted them to add the note "No synthesizers were used on this record" on their later albums, at least until they actually started using them. Until then, all synthesizer like sounds were done with effects, guitars and tape manipulation.

[janetschulman]

They were just very poor kids when they made this. Just stealing some studio time at night. Miraculous.

[bluebell]

their first song to be played on radio

john Peel live sessions Feb 73 5 months before the album release but not released as asingle

Freddie wrote this includes ' mother mercury' then announced his stage name would be Mercury

[torybrown]

Holy FCK!! Roger's voice was so high back then. He BLEW ME AWAY!!

[lynnhoffmann]

Why is this happening? Because it’s Queen! 🎶🤗👏🏼

[ievabrice]

😂 hahaa awesome reaction 😂 it took me about 10-15 listens back in 1991 to understand what was going on 🤦‍♂️

[katabellioniguess]

Older queen songs pure without context plainly opens all these doors in your brain that you didn’t even know were there.

[kennethcamilleri]

This original album have no gaps between songs…it’s continuous…

[marvalstith]

That's Freddie doing lead vocals except for Roger's falsetto input. Roger, Brian and Freddie participate in the harmonies.

[torybrown]

Even though it was disco, all of you should check out the vocals in the song Roscoe Music by Kid Brother. Their high vocals are AMAZING!!