Deep Cuts. Who Needs You?

WHy Tie Your mother down is not included neither GH nor Deep Cuts?

One of the most played alive song!!

rhyeking wrote: Did anyone else notice that "The March Of The Black Queen" and "Ogre Battle" are going to me stand-alone versions? I wonder if they'll simply fade out the album versions at the end or will go to the master tapes to get the clean recordings of the non-segued originals. 

I'm guessing "Tenement Funster," "Flick Out The Wrist" and "Lily Of The Valley" will be the full album versions, cross-fading as they normally do (rather than the isolated, stand-alone versions released as B-sides).
Rhyeking if you want to get a complete stand Alone version on Ogre Battle, you can replace the last kick and Cymbal on the song by  the begining of the song but reversed and ready!.....the end of the of the song is the long "fade in" begining, incluiding reverse instrumental part to Freddie's first verse voice.

Why is Keep Yourself Alive included? How is that a 'Deep Cut?'...They should have definitely replaced that with a John Deacon song, as someone else mentioned. The decisions they make sometimes are confounding.

Sometimes ?

Yes, I know the end of "Ogre Battle" was reversed for the beginning. If they use the non-segued master recording for Deep Cuts, it would be light years better than anything I could edit together.

Also, I made all the tracks as a playlist to see how long their total time was and it came to about 51 minutes. Give or take some extra seconds for the uncut versions of OB and MOTBQ, that's still not very long. For a point of comparison, the Innuendo album was about 53:39.

Glad I said that (the hell did my post go?)

Anyway - what songs have never had a commercial release in a Standalone version that were once part of a Segue?

Father to Son?  Ogre Battle (not counting BBC and Hollywood remixes)?  Fairy Feller?

White Queen (the EP version lacks the segue, but edits some of the opening guitar)
Nevermore (apart from the BBC version)
The Prophet's Song
Teo Torriatte (every release has some amount of the album outro present)
Party (not so much a segue so much as it gets cut off with "Khashoggi's Ship")

The following, for those unaware, were released as full stand-alone versions:

Funny How Love Is (Japanese 3" CD "The Seven Seas Of Rhye" Single)
Tenement Funster (Japanese 3" CD "Queen's 1st EP" Single)
Flick Of the Wrist (Dutch 7" Single AA-Side)
Lily Of The Valley (US-only 1975 "Keep Yourself Alive" Re-issue 7" Single)
Love Of My Life (Jewels II)

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"White Queen (the EP version lacks the segue, but edits some of the opening guitar)"

If you turn the volume up on the E.P. version you can faintly hear the last fading part of Father To Son.

"Lily Of The Valley (US-only 1975 "Keep Yourself Alive" Re-issue 7" Single)"

This isn't really a proper standalone version, it's just edited in to a part where the songs don't overlap.

"Love Of My Life (Jewels II)"

Again, you can faintly hear the last part of The Prophet's Song if you listen very closely at the start.

It's a real shame that they don't seem to make the extra effort to produce standalone versions.

Actually, the version of "Lily Of The Valley" on the KYA re-issue is the full stand-alone cut. It starts with the complete piano intro, normally heard underneath the "Baby, you've been had" at the end of "Flick Of The Wrist," but without any part of FOTW present. The copy I'm listening to comes from the 7" single, which I own. The full piano intro is not heard on the B-Side of "Now I'm Here," which is an edit of the album version, with the segue removed.

Here are details:
1975 KYA US Single Version: 4 counts of 4 beats before Freddie's first vocal appears (no segue)
1974 NIH UK Single Edit:  3 counts of 4 beats before Freddie's first vocal appears (segue edited off)
1974 SHA Album Version: 4 counts of 4 beats before Freddie's first vocal appears (with segue) 

I'll post my copy on YouTube if anyone's interested.

I would rather see Doing All Right instead of Good Company.  Tim Staffell deserves more royalties. 
The song is damn good too!

Regarding "White Queen," the version on my copy of the 7" "Queen's 1st EP" fades in at the end of Brian's opening guitar of the song. On the album, he sustains the opening note for about 25 seconds and it comes in underneath the "Joyful the sound..." repeating at the end as "Father To Son" fades out (over about 24 seconds). On the EP, we hear a non-segued 2 seconds or so as it fades in. There are no "Joyfuls..." during the fade in that I can hear. It sounds to me as if they didn't want to have the full 25 second sustained guitar note intro and rather just cut to the chase.

The Jewels II Version of "Love Of My Life" starts cleanly with the piano, where as the album version has Brian's last harsh pluck still present underneath it when the piano comes in. However, on the 3rd bar of the intro, Brian's toy koto is still present on the track (though that's the last we hear of it). I won't argue with anyone who claims the koto is still part of "The Prophet's Song," though for me that song ends on that harsh pluck at around 8:21.

There was a clear cut criteria for selecting the songs for the GH album.  In this case, we cannot see what criteria was used for the song selection.

rhyeking wrote: Actually, the version of "Lily Of The Valley" on the KYA re-issue is the full stand-alone cut. It starts with the complete piano intro, normally heard underneath the "Baby, you've been had" at the end of "Flick Of The Wrist," but without any part of FOTW present. The copy I'm listening to comes from the 7" single, which I own. The full piano intro is not heard on the B-Side of "Now I'm Here," which is an edit of the album version, with the segue removed.

Here are details:
1975 KYA US Single Version: 4 counts of 4 beats before Freddie's first vocal appears (no segue)
1974 NIH UK Single Edit:  3 counts of 4 beats before Freddie's first vocal appears (segue edited off)
1974 SHA Album Version: 4 counts of 4 beats before Freddie's first vocal appears (with segue) 

I'll post my copy on YouTube if anyone's interested.
Please do -- you're giving me exactly what I'm asking for, which is, obviously, not what Queen Productions are doing, but why am I surprised, etc.