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YES, IS A PROJECT "QUEEN" AND NOT "QUEEN+"
BUT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT BOX SET OF QUEEN + ON THE FUTURE
BUT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT BOX SET OF QUEEN + ON THE FUTURE
GT
Not to sound like an ass, but there's one problem with your logic already, and it can be found in collections 2 and 4:
Under Pressure
These are different versions and not the same track, so should legitimately be here.......like Now I'm Here is not the same as the live version and We Will Rock You is not the same as the live version.
Under Pressure
These are different versions and not the same track, so should legitimately be here.......like Now I'm Here is not the same as the live version and We Will Rock You is not the same as the live version.
inu-liger
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]GT wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
These are different versions and not the same track, so should legitimately be here.......like Now I'm Here is not the same as the live version and We Will Rock You is not the same as the live version. [/QUOTE] Did you just ignore the context of the inconsistency I was pointing out?
You said that this was to be a Queen only boxset, BUT what I was pointing out was that your logic is inconsistently flawed already right there with the fact that Under Pressure, which features David Bowie as a collaborator (and therefore shares the same basis as every other Queen + collaboration ever made!) appears on sets 2 and 4 in their original and remixed versions respectively, which automatically nullifies that logic of yours.
One more thing I should add: Whether you realize this too or not, but by saying that this is a "Queen only" project, you're also actually in a way encouraging a continuation of the Queen VS "Q+ isn't Queen" flamewars that have been ongoing for the last ten years, especially since the Q+PR project began in late 2004. There are a lot of us that are sick and tired of having this argument, quite honestly.
Vali
... and the winners are:
CD Single 1
1. The Miracle
2. Stone Cold Crazy (Live)
CD Single 2
1. Innuendo
2. Bijou
CD Single 3
1. I’m Going Slightly Mad
2. The Hitman
CD Single 4
1. Headlong
2. All God’s People
CD Single 5
1. The Show Must Go On
2. Queen Talks
CD Single 6
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
CD Single 7
1. Heaven For Everyone (Single Version)
2. It’s A Beautiful Day
CD Single 8
1. A Winter’s Tale
2. Rock In Rio Blues
CD Single 9
1. Too Much Love Will Kill You
2. I Was Born To Love You
CD Single 10
1. Let Me Live
2. We Will Rock You (Live)
3. We Are The Champions (Live)
CD Single 11
1. You Don’t Fool Me (Edit)
2. You Don’t Fool Me (Album Version)
CD Single 12
1. No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
2. We Will Rock You (The Rick Rubin ‘Ruined’ Remix)
3. The Prize (Instrumental Remix for ‘The Eye’)
CD Single 13
1. Under Pressure Rah Mix (Radio Edit)
2. Under Pressure (Mike Spencer Remix)
3. Under Pressure (Live At Knebworth)
so .... we are not getting Mad The Swine, Lost Opportunity nor any of the BBC tracks originally included in the Let Me Live single.
It´s strange, as we have 3 tracks on CD Singles 12 & 13 and I think the above mentioned tracks could have found room in any of the other CDs .....
It´s only my opinion, but I think omiting MTS and LO make this volume less appealing ...
CD Single 1
1. The Miracle
2. Stone Cold Crazy (Live)
CD Single 2
1. Innuendo
2. Bijou
CD Single 3
1. I’m Going Slightly Mad
2. The Hitman
CD Single 4
1. Headlong
2. All God’s People
CD Single 5
1. The Show Must Go On
2. Queen Talks
CD Single 6
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
CD Single 7
1. Heaven For Everyone (Single Version)
2. It’s A Beautiful Day
CD Single 8
1. A Winter’s Tale
2. Rock In Rio Blues
CD Single 9
1. Too Much Love Will Kill You
2. I Was Born To Love You
CD Single 10
1. Let Me Live
2. We Will Rock You (Live)
3. We Are The Champions (Live)
CD Single 11
1. You Don’t Fool Me (Edit)
2. You Don’t Fool Me (Album Version)
CD Single 12
1. No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
2. We Will Rock You (The Rick Rubin ‘Ruined’ Remix)
3. The Prize (Instrumental Remix for ‘The Eye’)
CD Single 13
1. Under Pressure Rah Mix (Radio Edit)
2. Under Pressure (Mike Spencer Remix)
3. Under Pressure (Live At Knebworth)
so .... we are not getting Mad The Swine, Lost Opportunity nor any of the BBC tracks originally included in the Let Me Live single.
It´s strange, as we have 3 tracks on CD Singles 12 & 13 and I think the above mentioned tracks could have found room in any of the other CDs .....
It´s only my opinion, but I think omiting MTS and LO make this volume less appealing ...
GT
Queen The Singles Collection Volume 4 – Final box set released October 18, 2010
The final volume in the massively impressive retrospective four box set, Queen: The Singles Collection 4, will be released October 18.
The closing chapter to the entire history of Queen’s worldwide singles releases, Volume 4 tracks the band’s output through the latter years of 1989 to 1999.
The 13 CD singles housed in this set complete the project to rediscover every one of Queen’s singles to have made the top 40 anywhere in the world, all replicated in faithful detail to their original form.
Together, the four volume set offers over 100 tracks chronicling Queen’s extraordinary journey through the world-wide singles charts: from the very first single Keep Yourself Alive in 1973, to the very last single in 1999.
And what a spectacular journey Queen made: no less than 14 out of the 16 A-sides in
this set achieved top 10 chart positions worldwide.
Added extras which are likely to be of particularly special interest are ‘Queen Talks’, (a collage of interview snippets from various band interviews randomly strung together for comical effect), live versions of Stone Cold Crazy recorded in London in 1974, and Rock In Rio Blues, a unique live concert recording from the ‘Rock In Rio’ festival in Brazil in 1985.
The ten years covered here, 1989-1999, follow an especially eventful period in the band’s history.
Queen began the period by delivering another No 1 album, ‘The Miracle’. It gave the band five UK chart singles of which the last to be released, the album title track which came in November 1989, opens this collection.
Now, living under the shadow of Freddie’s increasingly failing health and other personal turmoils, times for the band were beginning to look increasingly uncertain.
Yet, Queen remarkably found the means to reinforce their band unity – crediting the writing of all new songs to Queen rather than individual writers – and move forward to produce another strong album. By February 1991, under two years after the release of ‘The Miracle’, the band delivered their 14th and last band studio album made with Freddie, ‘Innuendo’.
Freddie’s health concerns had obviously spurred the band on to channel whatever time was left into one of their most creative and accomplished periods. Brian May said: “I think more than anything, ‘Innuendo’ shows evidence of the four of us consciously trying to use each other to the maximum and writing together.”
The title track became the band’s first No.1 single since Under Pressure a decade earlier, and was a grandiose masterwork of to rival Bohemian Rhapsody. Four further singles from the album followed, including the deliciously high camp, I’m Going Slightly Mad, and a song that was to become the one most often played in memory to Freddie, The Show Must Go On”, a song marked in history as the last released before Freddie’s death.
“In retrospect it’s easy to view almost all the lyrics in light of Freddie’s demise,” wrote Q journalist Neil Jeffries, “but ‘Innuendo’ is anything but maudlin. It stands as the most complete and archetypal over-the-top Queen album perhaps since ‘Night At The Opera’ itself. And Freddie sings his heart out.”
Freddie died later the same year, on November 24.
Freddie’s death robbed the world of one of its greatest showmen and musical talents, but
did not silence his voice.
In his final days, Freddie, despite being very ill, had continued writing and recording whenever he could manage to do so. In the following four years after his passing, Brian, John and Roger set about reassembling the material that Freddie had left behind, some of it only fragments of uncompleted songs, but they would also complete the recordings of finished songs such as the painfully telling A Winter’s Tale, the very last song Freddie wrote.
A Winter’s Tale was among ten tracks to make up Queen’s last studio based album, ‘Made In Heaven’, released in November 1995. Including a handful of live recordings and two hits compilations, it was Queen’s 20th album.
‘Made In Heaven’ showed Freddie in strong vocal form. Despite the obvious problematic conditions under which some of the material had been recorded, the album had a sense of celebration about it. Bookended with the ethereal It’s A Beautiful Day, the album had a warmth about it which over-rode any risk of this being a gloom-laden ‘tribute’ to the band’s former leader.
The album was launched with the single Heaven For Everyone, a song which had first appeared on Roger Taylor’s The Cross ‘Shove It’ album and to which in 1987 Freddie had contributed the vocal. This reworking of the track gave the band a No.2 single in the UK and a top ten single around the world. The album itself would top the charts across the world becoming one of their biggest selling albums.
Freddie’s swansong composition A Winter’s Tale provided a second hit single from the
album as a special seasonal Christmas release in December 1995.
Brian May’s Too Much Love Will Kill You, a song May had originally recorded himself on his 1992 ‘Back To the Light’ album, but here delivered by Freddie digging deep into his emotions, produced the album’s third top 20 hit , and earned Brian May and his co-writers an Ivor Novello award for both music and lyrics.
Another note of interest in this box set is the inclusion of two further double A-sided singles – the first was in Box 3. Too Much Love Will Kill You backed with Queen’s reworking of Freddie’s 1985 solo track I Was Born To Love You, which became a band No.1 hit in Japan in 2004, eight years after its original release. The other double-A is Let Me Live, with lead vocals shared by Freddie, Brian and Roger, which gave the band a top 10 single in the UK, backed with live versions of ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are The Champions’ from the ‘Live At Wembley ‘86’ album – a hit in Holland in 1992 and released as a single in its own right.
‘Made In Heaven’ eventually delivered the band five hit singles. The last, released a year after the album, in November 1996, was the album’s most playful track, You Don’t Fool Me – a hypnotic dance floor groove which became a massive Euro club hit. The track continues to be one of Queen’s most regularly remixed tracks, even today. The CD single included here pairs the single edit version with the original album version.
Going against the premise that the 4 box set compilation should not duplicate any song, an exception was made to include again in volume 4 Bohemian Rhapsody, included in this volume for the reason of historical context.
Here the track features as one side of the double-A sided single released in 1991 with These Are The Days Of Our Lives after Freddie’s death and issued as a charity single to raise funds to support HIV AIDS, the cause behind Freddie’s passing.
The single returned the band to No. 1 in the UK and throughout the world, and from the proceeds Queen donated a million pounds to the Terence Higgins Trust. The rest of the proceeds flowed to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the HIV AIDS charity set up by Queen in Freddie’s name, which continues to this day to support AIDS projects world-wide.
The remaining members of Queen returned to the studio to record together for one last time in 1997 for what would be their final band single: No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young.
The song had been written by Brian as a direct tribute to Freddie, inspired by the inauguration of the statue erected in is honour in Montreux, Switzerland, and Brian had recorded it as a solo track. However, Roger, on hearing the track, persuaded Brian that the song would make a worthy Queen recording, a collective tribute to Freddie. It remains the only Queen track ever released without Freddie. Released in the UK in January 1998 as a double A-side with Tie Your Mother Down, this single was also the flagship for the compilation album QUEEN ROCKS – a collection of the harder Queen rock tracks over the years.
This final recording re
The final volume in the massively impressive retrospective four box set, Queen: The Singles Collection 4, will be released October 18.
The closing chapter to the entire history of Queen’s worldwide singles releases, Volume 4 tracks the band’s output through the latter years of 1989 to 1999.
The 13 CD singles housed in this set complete the project to rediscover every one of Queen’s singles to have made the top 40 anywhere in the world, all replicated in faithful detail to their original form.
Together, the four volume set offers over 100 tracks chronicling Queen’s extraordinary journey through the world-wide singles charts: from the very first single Keep Yourself Alive in 1973, to the very last single in 1999.
And what a spectacular journey Queen made: no less than 14 out of the 16 A-sides in
this set achieved top 10 chart positions worldwide.
Added extras which are likely to be of particularly special interest are ‘Queen Talks’, (a collage of interview snippets from various band interviews randomly strung together for comical effect), live versions of Stone Cold Crazy recorded in London in 1974, and Rock In Rio Blues, a unique live concert recording from the ‘Rock In Rio’ festival in Brazil in 1985.
The ten years covered here, 1989-1999, follow an especially eventful period in the band’s history.
Queen began the period by delivering another No 1 album, ‘The Miracle’. It gave the band five UK chart singles of which the last to be released, the album title track which came in November 1989, opens this collection.
Now, living under the shadow of Freddie’s increasingly failing health and other personal turmoils, times for the band were beginning to look increasingly uncertain.
Yet, Queen remarkably found the means to reinforce their band unity – crediting the writing of all new songs to Queen rather than individual writers – and move forward to produce another strong album. By February 1991, under two years after the release of ‘The Miracle’, the band delivered their 14th and last band studio album made with Freddie, ‘Innuendo’.
Freddie’s health concerns had obviously spurred the band on to channel whatever time was left into one of their most creative and accomplished periods. Brian May said: “I think more than anything, ‘Innuendo’ shows evidence of the four of us consciously trying to use each other to the maximum and writing together.”
The title track became the band’s first No.1 single since Under Pressure a decade earlier, and was a grandiose masterwork of to rival Bohemian Rhapsody. Four further singles from the album followed, including the deliciously high camp, I’m Going Slightly Mad, and a song that was to become the one most often played in memory to Freddie, The Show Must Go On”, a song marked in history as the last released before Freddie’s death.
“In retrospect it’s easy to view almost all the lyrics in light of Freddie’s demise,” wrote Q journalist Neil Jeffries, “but ‘Innuendo’ is anything but maudlin. It stands as the most complete and archetypal over-the-top Queen album perhaps since ‘Night At The Opera’ itself. And Freddie sings his heart out.”
Freddie died later the same year, on November 24.
Freddie’s death robbed the world of one of its greatest showmen and musical talents, but
did not silence his voice.
In his final days, Freddie, despite being very ill, had continued writing and recording whenever he could manage to do so. In the following four years after his passing, Brian, John and Roger set about reassembling the material that Freddie had left behind, some of it only fragments of uncompleted songs, but they would also complete the recordings of finished songs such as the painfully telling A Winter’s Tale, the very last song Freddie wrote.
A Winter’s Tale was among ten tracks to make up Queen’s last studio based album, ‘Made In Heaven’, released in November 1995. Including a handful of live recordings and two hits compilations, it was Queen’s 20th album.
‘Made In Heaven’ showed Freddie in strong vocal form. Despite the obvious problematic conditions under which some of the material had been recorded, the album had a sense of celebration about it. Bookended with the ethereal It’s A Beautiful Day, the album had a warmth about it which over-rode any risk of this being a gloom-laden ‘tribute’ to the band’s former leader.
The album was launched with the single Heaven For Everyone, a song which had first appeared on Roger Taylor’s The Cross ‘Shove It’ album and to which in 1987 Freddie had contributed the vocal. This reworking of the track gave the band a No.2 single in the UK and a top ten single around the world. The album itself would top the charts across the world becoming one of their biggest selling albums.
Freddie’s swansong composition A Winter’s Tale provided a second hit single from the
album as a special seasonal Christmas release in December 1995.
Brian May’s Too Much Love Will Kill You, a song May had originally recorded himself on his 1992 ‘Back To the Light’ album, but here delivered by Freddie digging deep into his emotions, produced the album’s third top 20 hit , and earned Brian May and his co-writers an Ivor Novello award for both music and lyrics.
Another note of interest in this box set is the inclusion of two further double A-sided singles – the first was in Box 3. Too Much Love Will Kill You backed with Queen’s reworking of Freddie’s 1985 solo track I Was Born To Love You, which became a band No.1 hit in Japan in 2004, eight years after its original release. The other double-A is Let Me Live, with lead vocals shared by Freddie, Brian and Roger, which gave the band a top 10 single in the UK, backed with live versions of ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are The Champions’ from the ‘Live At Wembley ‘86’ album – a hit in Holland in 1992 and released as a single in its own right.
‘Made In Heaven’ eventually delivered the band five hit singles. The last, released a year after the album, in November 1996, was the album’s most playful track, You Don’t Fool Me – a hypnotic dance floor groove which became a massive Euro club hit. The track continues to be one of Queen’s most regularly remixed tracks, even today. The CD single included here pairs the single edit version with the original album version.
Going against the premise that the 4 box set compilation should not duplicate any song, an exception was made to include again in volume 4 Bohemian Rhapsody, included in this volume for the reason of historical context.
Here the track features as one side of the double-A sided single released in 1991 with These Are The Days Of Our Lives after Freddie’s death and issued as a charity single to raise funds to support HIV AIDS, the cause behind Freddie’s passing.
The single returned the band to No. 1 in the UK and throughout the world, and from the proceeds Queen donated a million pounds to the Terence Higgins Trust. The rest of the proceeds flowed to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the HIV AIDS charity set up by Queen in Freddie’s name, which continues to this day to support AIDS projects world-wide.
The remaining members of Queen returned to the studio to record together for one last time in 1997 for what would be their final band single: No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young.
The song had been written by Brian as a direct tribute to Freddie, inspired by the inauguration of the statue erected in is honour in Montreux, Switzerland, and Brian had recorded it as a solo track. However, Roger, on hearing the track, persuaded Brian that the song would make a worthy Queen recording, a collective tribute to Freddie. It remains the only Queen track ever released without Freddie. Released in the UK in January 1998 as a double A-side with Tie Your Mother Down, this single was also the flagship for the compilation album QUEEN ROCKS – a collection of the harder Queen rock tracks over the years.
This final recording re
Adam Unger (QueenVault.com)
And the losers are.. the rest of us... So after slightly defending this collection from the start; I really don't have a leg to stand on anymore. The lack of Mad The Swine, Lost Opportunity, and My Melancholy Blues (Live) is absolutely stupid.
Vali
Adam Unger (QueenVault.com) wrote: And the losers are.. the rest of us... So after slightly defending this collection from the start; I really don't have a leg to stand on anymore. The lack of Mad The Swine, Lost Opportunity, and My Melancholy Blues (Live) is absolutely stupid.
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I agree 100%, Adam
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I agree 100%, Adam
Voice of Reason 2018
You're right Adam.
I don't normally get to break news on this site - the funny thing is I was looking on CDwow for a Mexican Spanish phrasebook when I had a little look at Queen as well and saw the release.
Anyway - I ordered it straightaway (the book, not the singles collection).
I meant to tell you - I'm heading to Mexico on 1 October for my holidays! Hola todos mes amigos Mexicanos!
I don't normally get to break news on this site - the funny thing is I was looking on CDwow for a Mexican Spanish phrasebook when I had a little look at Queen as well and saw the release.
Anyway - I ordered it straightaway (the book, not the singles collection).
I meant to tell you - I'm heading to Mexico on 1 October for my holidays! Hola todos mes amigos Mexicanos!
Negative Creep
What a load of shit. And to think someone involved in this rubbish actually posts about it on here!
Adam Unger (QueenVault.com)
To be fair, who knows how much final say Gary or Greg had; I do not want this to be a personal slam on them at all. I talked to Greg on the phone about the singles boxes 2 or 3 years ago, offering some advice and some takes on what could be done. He was very nice and receptive to what I was saying; a great conversation really. I have had very minimal interaction with Gary, but he was always very nice as well. I do stand behind my opinion of the product however.
brians wig
So they've included "Queen Talks", but missed out two 'proper' B Sides: Mad The Swine & Lost Opportunity?
This just proves once and for all that whoever had the final say in these sets is a fucking idiot.
Yes I swore. Get over it.
This just proves once and for all that whoever had the final say in these sets is a fucking idiot.
Yes I swore. Get over it.
Mr. Bed Guy
I have the first three volumes, but I won´t buy this one!
It´s absolutely not interesting, no specials, no rarities and I´ve already got all the original 5´ singles...... like most of us (perhaps except The Miracle single CD)........
very very weak...........
It´s absolutely not interesting, no specials, no rarities and I´ve already got all the original 5´ singles...... like most of us (perhaps except The Miracle single CD)........
very very weak...........
pittrek
Sorry, double post
pittrek
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Vali wrote:[/QUOTENAME] ... and the winners are:
CD Single 1
1. The Miracle
2. Stone Cold Crazy (Live)
CD Single 2
1. Innuendo
2. Bijou
CD Single 3
1. I’m Going Slightly Mad
2. The Hitman
CD Single 4
1. Headlong
2. All God’s People
CD Single 5
1. The Show Must Go On
2. Queen Talks
CD Single 6
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
CD Single 7
1. Heaven For Everyone (Single Version)
2. It’s A Beautiful Day
CD Single 8
1. A Winter’s Tale
2. Rock In Rio Blues
CD Single 9
1. Too Much Love Will Kill You
2. I Was Born To Love You
CD Single 10
1. Let Me Live
2. We Will Rock You (Live)
3. We Are The Champions (Live)
CD Single 11
1. You Don’t Fool Me (Edit)
2. You Don’t Fool Me (Album Version)
CD Single 12
1. No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
2. We Will Rock You (The Rick Rubin ‘Ruined’ Remix)
3. The Prize (Instrumental Remix for ‘The Eye’)
CD Single 13
1. Under Pressure Rah Mix (Radio Edit)
2. Under Pressure (Mike Spencer Remix)
3. Under Pressure (Live At Knebworth)
so .... we are not getting Mad The Swine, Lost Opportunity nor any of the BBC tracks originally included in the Let Me Live single.
It´s strange, as we have 3 tracks on CD Singles 12 & 13 and I think the above mentioned tracks could have found room in any of the other CDs .....
It´s only my opinion, but I think omiting MTS and LO make this volume less appealing ... [/QUOTE]
Well if I check the original 7" singles, I would expect this :
CD 1
The Miracle
Stone Cold Crazy (live at the Rainbow)
CD 2
Innuendo
Bijou
CD 3
I'm Going Slightly Mad
The Hitman
CD 4
Headlong
All God's People
CD 5
The Show Must Go On
[b]Keep Yourself Alive[/b]
CD 6
Bohemian Rhapsody
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
CD 7
wasn't released as normal 7" single (at least according to Queenpedia, so if we take the 7" promo, we get
Heaven For Everyone (single edit)
[b]Heaven For Everyone[/b]
CD 8
A Winters Tale
[b]Thank God It's Christmas[/b]
CD 9
Too Much Love Will Kill You
[b]We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions[/b]
CD 10
Let Me Live
[b]Fat Bottomed Girls
Bicycle Race[/b]
CD 11
again no UK 7" single is known, so if we take e.g. the cassette single, we would get this
[b]You Don't Fool Me[/b]
[b]You Don't Fool Me (Dancing Divaz Club Mix)[/b]
For a complete list of released singles / song versions check this site : http://queenpedia.com/index.php?title=You_Don%27t_Fool_Me_remixes
CD 12
No-one but you (Only The Good Die Young)
We Will Rock You (Ruined by Rick Rubin)
[b]Tie Your Mother Down (single edit)[/b]
Gimme The Prize (instrumental remix)
CD 13
[b]Under Pressure (Rah Mix)
Bohemian Rhapsody[/b]
OK so WHERE'S THE LOGIC ?
It has been said numerous times, that these single collections will include "replicas" (sorry if it's an incorrect term) of the original UK 7" singles. Just for this one box, 8 of 13 CDs will have a DIFFERENT tracklist compared to the original 7" releases. I took the information from Queenpedia, so if the tracklists there are incorrect, not my fault.
I am SERIOUSLY trying to find the "internal logic" of these releases since the time that "vol. 1" was released, but I still fail to find some. Just when I think I got it, a new box comes out and ruins my nice theory :-) I still feel that the "internal logic" is to take some random 13 singles, change the tracks randomly, put them to a crappy box and try to find out why are they not selling well.
GT don't get me wrong, I have bought all 3 previous boxes and I WILL buy this one, but just for the feeling I have it complete. I'm not looking forward to it, I'm not "excited", as BB King said "the thrill is gone".
These singles SOUND GOOD and LOOK GOOD. But with a band like Queen, they're really below their standard.
CD Single 1
1. The Miracle
2. Stone Cold Crazy (Live)
CD Single 2
1. Innuendo
2. Bijou
CD Single 3
1. I’m Going Slightly Mad
2. The Hitman
CD Single 4
1. Headlong
2. All God’s People
CD Single 5
1. The Show Must Go On
2. Queen Talks
CD Single 6
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
CD Single 7
1. Heaven For Everyone (Single Version)
2. It’s A Beautiful Day
CD Single 8
1. A Winter’s Tale
2. Rock In Rio Blues
CD Single 9
1. Too Much Love Will Kill You
2. I Was Born To Love You
CD Single 10
1. Let Me Live
2. We Will Rock You (Live)
3. We Are The Champions (Live)
CD Single 11
1. You Don’t Fool Me (Edit)
2. You Don’t Fool Me (Album Version)
CD Single 12
1. No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
2. We Will Rock You (The Rick Rubin ‘Ruined’ Remix)
3. The Prize (Instrumental Remix for ‘The Eye’)
CD Single 13
1. Under Pressure Rah Mix (Radio Edit)
2. Under Pressure (Mike Spencer Remix)
3. Under Pressure (Live At Knebworth)
so .... we are not getting Mad The Swine, Lost Opportunity nor any of the BBC tracks originally included in the Let Me Live single.
It´s strange, as we have 3 tracks on CD Singles 12 & 13 and I think the above mentioned tracks could have found room in any of the other CDs .....
It´s only my opinion, but I think omiting MTS and LO make this volume less appealing ... [/QUOTE]
Well if I check the original 7" singles, I would expect this :
CD 1
The Miracle
Stone Cold Crazy (live at the Rainbow)
CD 2
Innuendo
Bijou
CD 3
I'm Going Slightly Mad
The Hitman
CD 4
Headlong
All God's People
CD 5
The Show Must Go On
[b]Keep Yourself Alive[/b]
CD 6
Bohemian Rhapsody
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
CD 7
wasn't released as normal 7" single (at least according to Queenpedia, so if we take the 7" promo, we get
Heaven For Everyone (single edit)
[b]Heaven For Everyone[/b]
CD 8
A Winters Tale
[b]Thank God It's Christmas[/b]
CD 9
Too Much Love Will Kill You
[b]We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions[/b]
CD 10
Let Me Live
[b]Fat Bottomed Girls
Bicycle Race[/b]
CD 11
again no UK 7" single is known, so if we take e.g. the cassette single, we would get this
[b]You Don't Fool Me[/b]
[b]You Don't Fool Me (Dancing Divaz Club Mix)[/b]
For a complete list of released singles / song versions check this site : http://queenpedia.com/index.php?title=You_Don%27t_Fool_Me_remixes
CD 12
No-one but you (Only The Good Die Young)
We Will Rock You (Ruined by Rick Rubin)
[b]Tie Your Mother Down (single edit)[/b]
Gimme The Prize (instrumental remix)
CD 13
[b]Under Pressure (Rah Mix)
Bohemian Rhapsody[/b]
OK so WHERE'S THE LOGIC ?
It has been said numerous times, that these single collections will include "replicas" (sorry if it's an incorrect term) of the original UK 7" singles. Just for this one box, 8 of 13 CDs will have a DIFFERENT tracklist compared to the original 7" releases. I took the information from Queenpedia, so if the tracklists there are incorrect, not my fault.
I am SERIOUSLY trying to find the "internal logic" of these releases since the time that "vol. 1" was released, but I still fail to find some. Just when I think I got it, a new box comes out and ruins my nice theory :-) I still feel that the "internal logic" is to take some random 13 singles, change the tracks randomly, put them to a crappy box and try to find out why are they not selling well.
GT don't get me wrong, I have bought all 3 previous boxes and I WILL buy this one, but just for the feeling I have it complete. I'm not looking forward to it, I'm not "excited", as BB King said "the thrill is gone".
These singles SOUND GOOD and LOOK GOOD. But with a band like Queen, they're really below their standard.