[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Maz wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Who says it's not up to par?[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=FF0033 face=symbol>Freddie wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Regor wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Regor wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Too much love will kill you:
Great song, had to be on there, and for the right reasons: after all, it started as a Queen-Track
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That is incorrect. Before ever being turned over to Queen 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' was written and recorded for Brian's solo project in 1988.[/QUOTE]
Did not know that. I already edited it in my post. Thanks for the info.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Regor wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Too much love will kill you:
Great song, had to be on there, and for the right reasons: after all, it started as a Queen-Track
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That is incorrect. Before ever being turned over to Queen 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' was written and recorded for Brian's solo project in 1988.[/QUOTE]
Did not know that. I already edited it in my post. Thanks for the info.
Nice review, but there are some mistakes:
> The song was written by Brian May and then further arranged by Freddie Mercury.
Actually, it's with music from Brian and lyrics by Freddie (there's a manuscript).
> Queen initially made a demo recording of 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' for a possible inclusion of it on 'The Miracle' album
Are you sure? Because it sounds like Brian + Freddie, not Queen. Same old story...
> The song was written by Brian May and then further arranged by Freddie Mercury.
Actually, it's with music from Brian and lyrics by Freddie (there's a manuscript).
> Queen initially made a demo recording of 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' for a possible inclusion of it on 'The Miracle' album
Are you sure? Because it sounds like Brian + Freddie, not Queen. Same old story...
I agree with your general opinions about the album, with only a couple of differences.
- I used to like the original Heaven for Everyone, especially the arrangement of the version sung by Roger. In my opinion, the MIH version is 'no fish-no meet'... it could have come out better if it was smoother (for instance, Brian's repeated 'bendings' in the "what people do to other souls" part is quite annoying).
- Too much love will kill you... such a great vocal performance and such a horrible arrangement. With such a beautiful song and Freddie's voice, the keyboard-pad sounds really awful, the drums arrangement is so flat that it could have been done better even with an automatic arranger.
I would have preferred it arranged with a real Strings section, a real piano, and a huge final with quite a more powerful general sound.
I mean... Made in Heaven and I was born to love you sounded really empowered... I don't really understand why they lost such an opportunity with Too much love will kill you.
This said, MIH is an honest album, and I'm really glad it's been released.
Roy.
ps.\\ another question to you all... why do you think they left aside other material? (just to give an example, Love making love; It's so you or songs like Face it Alone that - for what is rumored around - was already quite complete?
- I used to like the original Heaven for Everyone, especially the arrangement of the version sung by Roger. In my opinion, the MIH version is 'no fish-no meet'... it could have come out better if it was smoother (for instance, Brian's repeated 'bendings' in the "what people do to other souls" part is quite annoying).
- Too much love will kill you... such a great vocal performance and such a horrible arrangement. With such a beautiful song and Freddie's voice, the keyboard-pad sounds really awful, the drums arrangement is so flat that it could have been done better even with an automatic arranger.
I would have preferred it arranged with a real Strings section, a real piano, and a huge final with quite a more powerful general sound.
I mean... Made in Heaven and I was born to love you sounded really empowered... I don't really understand why they lost such an opportunity with Too much love will kill you.
This said, MIH is an honest album, and I'm really glad it's been released.
Roy.
ps.\\ another question to you all... why do you think they left aside other material? (just to give an example, Love making love; It's so you or songs like Face it Alone that - for what is rumored around - was already quite complete?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sebastian wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Nice review, but there are some mistakes:
> The song was written by Brian May and then further arranged by Freddie Mercury.
Actually, it's with music from Brian and lyrics by Freddie (there's a manuscript).
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It might be possible that when Freddie 'arranged' Brian's song he might have tweaked the lyrics here and there or changed it all. After all that wasn't too uncommon for Queen to do because quite often they'd mess around with each other's songs.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sebastian wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
> Queen initially made a demo recording of 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' for a possible inclusion of it on 'The Miracle' album
Are you sure? Because it sounds like Brian + Freddie, not Queen. Same old story... [/QUOTE]
I have no detailed information on who was there for the demo recording, but from my sources it simply says 'Queen' were there.
> The song was written by Brian May and then further arranged by Freddie Mercury.
Actually, it's with music from Brian and lyrics by Freddie (there's a manuscript).
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It might be possible that when Freddie 'arranged' Brian's song he might have tweaked the lyrics here and there or changed it all. After all that wasn't too uncommon for Queen to do because quite often they'd mess around with each other's songs.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sebastian wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
> Queen initially made a demo recording of 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' for a possible inclusion of it on 'The Miracle' album
Are you sure? Because it sounds like Brian + Freddie, not Queen. Same old story... [/QUOTE]
I have no detailed information on who was there for the demo recording, but from my sources it simply says 'Queen' were there.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=FF0033 face=symbol>Freddie wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Maz wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Who says it's not up to par?[/QUOTE]
You'll find people on this thread along with others on other various threads throughout Queenzone's history.[/QUOTE]
That would be me. I can't believe that people actually consider this more of a Queen album than Flash Gordon. Actually it's more similar to GH3.
And Track 13 and Yeah? I thought I had a defective CD for a while. No explanation in the liner notes either. Tribute to Freddie? Hmmm. I don't think so. Fake birds? Or at least a synthesized loop I think. Or maybe they just happened to be repeating the same "Bird phrase" over and over.
There's nothing wrong with the new tracks. I can even appreciate the half-baked Let Me Live because of its conditions being recorded.
But going back into the studio and "re-mixing" a new album? 4 years later? Oh, that's for Freddie. Right. Now I know these were Fred's closest associates, professionally, but they put their creative touches on Freddie's song. It no longer is the way he intended it... unless maybe someone was in contact with the immortal spirit of Freddie during mixdown saying, "no, I don't think that needs to be there on the bridge".
Freddie wanted his final recordings released. Great. And they did that. Did Freddie also want them to go in and totally re-work his "finished projects" as well? I don't think any artist would.
You'll find people on this thread along with others on other various threads throughout Queenzone's history.[/QUOTE]
That would be me. I can't believe that people actually consider this more of a Queen album than Flash Gordon. Actually it's more similar to GH3.
And Track 13 and Yeah? I thought I had a defective CD for a while. No explanation in the liner notes either. Tribute to Freddie? Hmmm. I don't think so. Fake birds? Or at least a synthesized loop I think. Or maybe they just happened to be repeating the same "Bird phrase" over and over.
There's nothing wrong with the new tracks. I can even appreciate the half-baked Let Me Live because of its conditions being recorded.
But going back into the studio and "re-mixing" a new album? 4 years later? Oh, that's for Freddie. Right. Now I know these were Fred's closest associates, professionally, but they put their creative touches on Freddie's song. It no longer is the way he intended it... unless maybe someone was in contact with the immortal spirit of Freddie during mixdown saying, "no, I don't think that needs to be there on the bridge".
Freddie wanted his final recordings released. Great. And they did that. Did Freddie also want them to go in and totally re-work his "finished projects" as well? I don't think any artist would.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Micrówave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Freddie wanted his final recordings released. Great. And they did that. Did Freddie also want them to go in and totally re-work his "finished projects" as well? I don't think any artist would.[/QUOTE]
Nobody knows what conversations Freddie had with the rest of the band. For all we know he may have given them his full blessing to reuse old songs of his.
To speculate as to what Freddie would have wanted is just a waste of time.
Freddie wanted his final recordings released. Great. And they did that. Did Freddie also want them to go in and totally re-work his "finished projects" as well? I don't think any artist would.[/QUOTE]
Nobody knows what conversations Freddie had with the rest of the band. For all we know he may have given them his full blessing to reuse old songs of his.
To speculate as to what Freddie would have wanted is just a waste of time.
I still blame them for not including Two Worlds Apart. As they tried to put it on an album 2 times before.. But abandoning the idea every single time.... Grr!
Are you sure about Deacy doing the orchestral bit in IABD? That seems a tad beyond him, but maybe. References?
great album, great review.
Good times. I miss another surprise like that in 1995...
Good times. I miss another surprise like that in 1995...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]drwinston wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Are you sure about Deacy doing the orchestral bit in IABD? That seems a tad beyond him, but maybe. References?[/QUOTE]
You can check out 'Queen Complete Works' which is one of my primary sources, and also one of the most reliable! I believe the author of the book, Georg Purvis, came by on this thread earlier. In that case I'd like to say great work, Mr. Purvis!!! It was worth every penny!
You can check out 'Queen Complete Works' which is one of my primary sources, and also one of the most reliable! I believe the author of the book, Georg Purvis, came by on this thread earlier. In that case I'd like to say great work, Mr. Purvis!!! It was worth every penny!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=FF0033 face=symbol>Freddie wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]drwinston wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Are you sure about Deacy doing the orchestral bit in IABD? That seems a tad beyond him, but maybe. References?[/QUOTE]
You can check out 'Queen Complete Works' which is one of my primary sources, and also one of the most reliable! I believe the author of the book, Georg Purvis, came by on this thread earlier. In that case I'd like to say great work, Mr. Purvis!!! It was worth every penny![/QUOTE]
I thought a lot of your initial review looked familiar... ;)
Thank you for your kind words, too! Glad you enjoyed it. Tell all yer friends!!
You can check out 'Queen Complete Works' which is one of my primary sources, and also one of the most reliable! I believe the author of the book, Georg Purvis, came by on this thread earlier. In that case I'd like to say great work, Mr. Purvis!!! It was worth every penny![/QUOTE]
I thought a lot of your initial review looked familiar... ;)
Thank you for your kind words, too! Glad you enjoyed it. Tell all yer friends!!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lester Burnham wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=FF0033 face=symbol>Freddie wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]drwinston wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Are you sure about Deacy doing the orchestral bit in IABD? That seems a tad beyond him, but maybe. References?[/QUOTE]
You can check out 'Queen Complete Works' which is one of my primary sources, and also one of the most reliable! I believe the author of the book, Georg Purvis, came by on this thread earlier. In that case I'd like to say great work, Mr. Purvis!!! It was worth every penny![/QUOTE]
I thought a lot of your initial review looked familiar... ;)
Thank you for your kind words, too! Glad you enjoyed it. Tell all yer friends!![/QUOTE]
You're very welcome and I've already spread the word. I mean it, though, I've read your book inside out and have enjoyed it immensely! It really is "the ultimate reference to the expansive career of Queen!"
You can check out 'Queen Complete Works' which is one of my primary sources, and also one of the most reliable! I believe the author of the book, Georg Purvis, came by on this thread earlier. In that case I'd like to say great work, Mr. Purvis!!! It was worth every penny![/QUOTE]
I thought a lot of your initial review looked familiar... ;)
Thank you for your kind words, too! Glad you enjoyed it. Tell all yer friends!![/QUOTE]
You're very welcome and I've already spread the word. I mean it, though, I've read your book inside out and have enjoyed it immensely! It really is "the ultimate reference to the expansive career of Queen!"