New album - omissions and repeats.

First of all I wanna say how excited I am about The Cosmos Rocks (although somewhat puzzled with the title.....awful). What does everybody think about Take Love not being on the new album? I've personally really been looking forward to a studio version of it. Think it'll be released as a B-side? Seems a shame that it's not on. In my opinion it's much stronger that Say It's Not True which is frankly drivel!! Which brings me to my next point....we've got two tracks on it which we've all heard, SINT....in several different formats.....you can't polish a turd guys....and Warboys from PR Live In Glasgow. Granted, the PR live version was a work in progress and a showcase for the young guitarist but frankly that was a pretty poor tune also. Which amazes me as to why Take Love isn't on the record. It's probably the best new tune so far from Q+PR that we've heard. I suppose I want to pick up the new album in a record shop and read the track listing and everything be new rather than thinking, 'oh, I've heard that' like I did when MIH came out in '95.
Finally, all I can say is that I'm so glad that they didn't release Runaway!!! We're they winding us up with that or what???
So, don't mean to sound negative, I can't wait for the album, I'm just interested in other opinions.
Over to you guys......

I can only assume that Take Love wasnt put on because they thought it got a lukewarm response. If you look at the video's uploaded here, the crowd reaction isnt exactly overwhelming imo. As for Runaway, it will be released in some format.

Granted, Take Love is a good tune. But, as stated before, the band probably made the assumption most fans wouldn't want it on the album. As for me, I'm quite glad they didn't include it on the album, because I already heard it. It leaves more room for *new* tracks. The same goes for The Call. On the contrary, I am pleased with the inclusion of C-lebrity and especially Say It's Not True. Because at least Say It's Not True has been reconstructed.

I'm not sure I understand you really Steven. We've only ever heard Take Love on Youtube (unless you were lucky enough to be there) whereas we've had to endure SINT on and off for years so really TL (studio) would be considered a 'newer' and more original product.

If I remeber well, they only played Take Love in the U.S. ... and for the videos I´ve seen, the crowd response there was the same with Take Love, with Dragon attack, AOBTD, Radio Ga Ga, etc ...

If they decided not to include Take Love in the album for the crowd response they obtained, I wish they had better checked these forums in order to get a precise opinion of what the fans think about this song.

Yes, but the die-hard fans aren't the only ones buying the album.

For anyone *but* the die-hard fans, it doesn't matter one bit which tracks they'd include, so long as there were a couple of singles amongst them. So why not include Take Love?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kirkpatrickuk wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I'm not sure I understand you really Steven. We've only ever heard Take Love on Youtube (unless you were lucky enough to be there) whereas we've had to endure SINT on and off for years so really TL (studio) would be considered a 'newer' and more original product.[/QUOTE]

I can understand why you might be confused.

The way I interpret this is that when we heard Say It's Not True for the first time we heard a simple yet meaningful piece of music. Later the song evolved into this powerful epic that absolutely thrilled me. Now, the reason as to why I wouldn't find Take Love *new*, is because the performances already sounded polished. I always thought that if they were to make a studio recording of the song it wouldn't sound all that much different, where as Say It's Not True evolved into a completely new beast. This is just my opinion. And believe me, I can understand why many of you want it to be on the album. But I just "couldn't care less." I find the other songs (SINT & C-lebrity) much more powerful and exciting. It's all just an opinion.

Note that the digital release of "The Cosmos Rocks" is slated to feature "bonus tracks". It's entirely possible that tracks such as "Runaway" and "Take Love" will be there.

"Take Love" studio verion and live version should be added as a bonus track to a re-release of "Return Of The Champions"...on Blu-Ray.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AlexRocks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]"Take Love" studio verion and live version should be added as a bonus track to a re-release of "Return Of The Champions"...on Blu-Ray.[/QUOTE]

You mean you're actually asking them to give us another rerelease with only vaguely interesting and rather thin extras!?!? Careful - theres people here who will castrate you for that!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Cwazy little thing wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AlexRocks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]"Take Love" studio verion and live version should be added as a bonus track to a re-release of "Return Of The Champions"...on Blu-Ray.[/QUOTE]

You mean you're actually asking them to give us another rerelease with only vaguely interesting and rather thin extras!?!? Careful - theres people here who will castrate you for that![/QUOTE]

I don't see the problem in it actually. I quite enjoy watching and listening to 'Return of the Champions'. On top of that, I never disliked the cover -- in fact, I like the fact they feature fans on the cover. It wouldn't be such a bad idea to upgrade it to Blu-Ray. Actually, I bet they'll eventually re-release all their DVDs. Because not too long from now DVDs will become the equivalent to VHS.

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damn

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mr Mercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I can only assume that Take Love wasnt put on because they thought it got a lukewarm response. If you look at the video's uploaded here, the crowd reaction isnt exactly overwhelming imo. As for Runaway, it will be released in some format.[/QUOTE]

I dunno.
The crowd response in this clip from Vegas is pretty dang strong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T7WaDoEUA0